What makes you… you? How did you get to be that way? Today we’re talking about social development, starting with the role of nature and nurture in influencin...

Watch a Better Shelter be assembled in less than 5 minutes - no additional tools required! Our mission is to develop and provide temporary shelters for the m...

Syrians have for a century welcomed over a million refugees from Armenia, Palestine, Iraq and other countries around the region. Now, thanks to a civil war w...

United Nations, 14 February 2014 - Rule of law is the basis for peace and security. In post-conflict environments reconciliation and stability require strong...

A brief look at disaster risk reduction (DRR) from our Regional Office in the Arab States (http://www.unisdr.org/arabstates)

Wikileaks reveals emails that show the depth of the corruption at the Clinton Foundation. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what y...

Bruce Feiler hat eine bahnbrechende Idee: "Agil" mit dem Stress des modernen Familienlebens umzugehen. Inspiriert durch die agile Softwareentwicklung macht F...

History is full of LGBT people who have made a difference. Hannah and Nicholas Ferroni tell you about five LGBT badasses from history. Let us know if you kno...

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.