As the president & CEO of a non-profit, Teva Sienicki has experienced first-hand the devastating, cyclical nature of intergenerational poverty. In this inspi...

Maliha Chishti speaks at a 2016 TEDx event in Toronto. Dr. Maliha Chishti is a researcher specializing in war and post-conflict peacebuilding. As the former ...

The idea of a "basic income" has a long intellectual pedigree, and the case for it is better than you might expect. Read more about the simplest plan to end ...

Attorney Stephen W. Manning is a founding partner of Immigrant Law Group PC and the founder and director of the Innovation Law Lab, a non-profit that combine...

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Artika R. Tyner shares her vision for reimagining education - it be...

The IMF Chief offers her unique insights on the economic impact of the refugee crisis, the future of Europe, and the outlook for the global economy. She shar...

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.

Effective local institutions are central to society's ability to respond to the impacts of climate change. Our capacity to adapt is dependent on a wide range...

Following 35 years on the faculty of Columbia University in New York, more than half of that time as Chair of the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, D...