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 ...

Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft (MS); Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla; and Bono, leader of the rock band U2. They took to the stage of TED, known as the 'original' of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 (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, ...

From crop insurance to gender violence, neuroscience to colour-shifting deep sea creatures, TED run lectures on many aspects of life on earth. Based in New York, the first conference happened in ...