Anita is an editor at Mashable, and founder of The Other Wave, a website that explores film and television from a diverse perspective. She navigates the evol...

Craig Calhoun, incoming Director of the London School of Economics (LSE) and President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), was at Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) on March 28 to talk about international responses to humanitarian emergencies. He will argue that while humanitarian responses have grown dramatically more prominent since the 1970s, this era of distinctive

Education for disaster preparedness can provide life-saving and life-sustaining information and skills that protect in particular children and young people d...

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TED...

During David's TEDxSaintThomas talk, entitled "Persevering Culture: The Importance of Remembering Where We Came From So That It May Guide and Inspire Our Fut...

http://www.ted.com Labor activist Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers' rights -- globalized industries where no single national body c...

TPP, NAFTA, GAAT, WTO -- the concepts that govern our global economy and international trade are confusing to say the least, but affect us all. And why is th...

While FinTech is revolutionizing the banking industry and giving millions of people access to financial services for the first time, new banking models are e...

The first moments, when it starts creeping into your mind that you MIGHT be gay, are awful, even more so if you don't know anyone that is openly gay to comfo...