This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this short talk, Andrew Billings shares the idea that using spor...

Petra Bartosiewicz is a freelance writer living in New York City. Her forthcoming book, "The Best Terrorists We Could Find," is an investigation of terrorism...

Alaa Murabit's family moved from Canada to Libya when she was 15. Before, she’d felt equal to her brothers, but in this new environment she sensed big prohib...

About this event: http://www.imi.ox.ac.uk/projects/demig/2014-conference Douglas Massey presents his paper ‘International migration in theory and practice: A...

Jim Cathcart thought he would never make a difference. An average student from a working class family with no athletic or special skills, he expected an unre...

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.