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, ...

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 ...

TED (Technology Entertainment and Design) lectures now are a big part of my day. As a retired senior seeking inspiration and meaning in my life to join the joy of spending more time with my husband, ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...