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In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale’s rise to Web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age. Alexis Ohanian co-founded Reddit, a social-voting news website with geek allegiances, a small-town feel and

Philip Evans: How data will transform business How data will transform business: Philip Evans informs us on what the future of business looks like by giving us a quick primer on two long-standing theories in strategy — and explains why he thinks they are essentially invalid. BCG’s Philip Evans brazenly predicts the future of business

Rives: The Museum of Four in the Morning Beware: Rives has a contagious obsession with 4 a.m. At TED2007, the poet shared what was then a minor fixation with a time that kept popping up everywhere. After the talk, emails starting pouring in with an avalanche of hilarious references—from the cover of “Crochet Today!” magazine

Larry Page: Where’s Google going next? Onstage at TED2014, Charlie Rose interviews Google CEO Larry Page about his far-off vision for the company. It includes aerial bikeways and internet balloons … and then it gets even more interesting, as Page talks through the company’s recent acquisition of Deep Mind, an AI that is learning some

Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance — this is just the beginning Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without