What stops gay and transgender people from coming out at work? What can straight people do to make it easier? Brian McNaught explains why coming out is a bus...

The U.S. Institute of Peace in partnership with the Alliance for Peacebuilding co-sponsored an afternoon of events that explored innovation in peacebuilding,...

Tim Weninger, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Notre Dame, describes a study he conducted on reddit.com in whi...

This is the edited version of The Mathematics of Weight Loss presented by Ruben Meerman. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, ...

► The conflict in South Sudan has hit children the hardest. ► Across this young country, they are facing hunger, disease, violence and displacement. ►In part...

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.

*Uploaded for educational purposes* "All talk of rights, a philosopher once remarked, is 'nonsense on stilts' - and that was before anyone had dreamt up 'ani...

http://www.fao.org/sofa/gender The world cannot eliminate hunger without closing the gap between men and women in agriculture. With equal access to productiv...