When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they’re saying, listeners see them as more clear, competent, and ...

TED talks pose all sorts of challenges and opportunities for those of us in higher education. The quality of the freely available content gives lie to the notion that the best lectures occur within ...

The TED conference, the annual gathering in Vancouver that draws the famous, the rich, the smart, the connected and not a few over-achievers, opened Monday with a series of provocative lectures by 21 ...

The first university-wide TEDx event comes to the downtown campus this weekend. An acronym for Technology, Entertainment and Design, TED began in the early 1990s as an annual conference in California, ...

Seeking to redefine its place in a changing media landscape, TED — the New York-based nonprofit behind the globally ...

Some of the best 20-minute, relatively lo-fi conference lectures have gone viral around the web, racking up millions of views. The most popular ones cover brain science, education reform, empathy, ...

It's becoming an online rite of spring. Each year, the famous, the well-connected and the articulate gather at TED, an endearingly named conference in Long Beach, Calif., some inscrutable act of ...

Last night, I fell asleep while watching a compilation of TED lectures titled, Life Lessons and Confessions, on Netflix. The series had continued to play, even though I had dozed off. I woke up in the ...

Earlier this week, citizens of Vancouver awoke to a stunning bit of front-page news – their city had won the Olympics all over again. Or at least that's what landing the annual TED conference was ...