This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this stirring and eye-opening talk, Rex Hohlbein shows how we ca...

UPDATE: The GoFundMe has been closed and the money was delivered to him last week. Thank you to everyone who donated! For everyone asking, this was shot with...

Disasters happen every year. We can't always stop them from happening, but we can limit the scale of devastation. Here are 10 things you should know about di...

"If technology has changed everything, why hasn't diplomacy changed?" Adam explains why governments need to adjust foreign policy in an age of empowered indi...

Neuroscientist Greg Gage takes sophisticated equipment used to study the brain out of graduate-level labs and brings them to middle- and high-school classrooms (and, sometimes, to the TED stage.) Prepare to be amazed as he hooks up the Mimosa pudica, a plant whose leaves close when touched, and the Venus flytrap to an EKG to show us how plants use electrical signals to convey information, prompt movement and even count.

As the president & CEO of a non-profit, Teva Sienicki has experienced first-hand the devastating, cyclical nature of intergenerational poverty. In this inspi...

A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and "our response, frankly, has been pathetic." Betts studies forced migration, the imp...