In her talk “Redefining Service,” Elizabeth describes her experiences traveling with Maryland 4-H to Tanzania, where she facilitated workshops in leadership ...

What ever happened to letting "boys be boys?" Take these two cases: In one, a seven-year-old boy was sent home for nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun. In another, a teacher was so alarmed by a picture drawn by a student (of a sword fight), that the boy's parents were summoned in for a conference. In short, boys in America's schools are routinely punished for being active, competitive, and restless. In other words, boys can no longer be boys. Christina Hoff Sommers, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, explains how we can change this.

Series 2.1: POST-CONTEMPORARY Contemporary art, as the name says, is the art of its time: it belongs to the present in which it takes place. Moreover, that p...

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...

UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova answers crowdsourced questions for the Global Education and Skills Forum, 2014. Don't miss new Big Think videos! Subscri...

This documentary show the work that is done by Tanzania Street Children (TSC) Sports Academy in Mwanza, Tanzania. Funded and filmed by BT Sports - Supporters...

Why is chronic poverty tolerated in America? Is our economic system flawed? Through personal stories and insights, University of Alabama professor J. Palmer ...

Emily shares her story of being the daughter of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that resulted in the Virginia ban on same-sex marriages being overturned. Conqu...