View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brief-history-of-religion-in-art-ted-ed Before we began putting art into museums, art mostly served as the visu...

It's time to consider new pedagogies and the learning environment must consider that its students are to become useful adults in the world. Deborah Duncan is...

A scientific film with a 3D modeling made on the inner mechanisms of the brain implicated in the development of Alzheimer's disease. Available in English, Ge...

As the United Nations finds its peacekeeping missions stretched around the world, one major power is making a difference. China, a country that once criticiz...

Imagine the hottest day you've ever experienced. Now imagine it's six, 10 or 12 degrees hotter. According to climate researcher Alice Bows-Larkin, that's the...

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The Magazine Innovation Center at The University of Mississippi's Meek School of Journalism hosted the ACT 2 Experience last October. We asked 17 media exper...

In a robot lab at TEDGlobal, Raffaello D'Andrea demos his flying quadcopters: robots that think like athletes, solving physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. In a series of nifty demos, D'Andrea show drones that play catch, balance and make decisions together -- and watch out for an I-want-this-now demo of Kinect-controlled quads.

Private sector companies need to be proactive about identifying where they can play the most effective role in emergency preparedness and humanitarian response, says Deloitte Consulting LLP's Dr. Sally Stansfield in this video interview from the World Humanitarian Summit.