Ted Talks—a collection of short video lectures that has a huge online audience—have been around long enough that the parodies can sometimes seem fresher. The Onion and last year’s blockbuster movie ...

Alison Gopnik says when small children are "getting into everything," they're actually conducting experiments that teach them more about their world. It's a view the child development expert, who ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) ― The prestigious TED gathering known for perspective-shifting presentations by the brilliant and famous is tailoring “ideas worth spreading” for a television audience. TED teamed ...

Crystal therapy. Egyptian psychoaromatherapy. Mind control. They sound like topics of the confused ramblings at your local new-age bookstore. But at the TEDx conference in Valencia, Spain, they’re ...

Go to TED.com, the popular home of 18-minute lectures on mind-bending topics, and you'll see this slogan: "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world." Riveting, sure. Remarkable, ...

Laurel Hall 101 was more crowded than on an exam day as dozens of students showed up to hear Tony Porter, activist, educator and TED Talk host, give a lecture on masculinity Monday night. With men and ...

The TED series of brainy, idea-mongering lectures became a phenomenon among the YouTube cognoscenti in recent years, and now the people behind the lecture series have unveiled a new app to keep the ...