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, ...

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 ...

My story has occasioned a healthy amount of reaction around the web, including from TED and Chris Anderson himself. First, the snark: Maura at The Awl (a commentary site run by ex-Gawkers) calls the ...

Jon Grinspan - Curator, political history, National Museum of American History Redpath lectures lasted well into the 20th-century (above, 1913), but when James Redpath started them in the late 1860s, ...

The TED Conference lectures are both educational and long. This quiz is neither of those things. House musician Jonathan Coulton pays homage to some famous "Teds" throughout history; all you need to ...

The Texas senator said he loves Aussies but Northern Territory Chief Minister Michael Gunner tells Cruz, "You sure as hell don't stand with Australia" Ted Cruz loves the Aussies. But do the Aussies ...