Bosons, bicycles and big data: 7 things I learned from TEDxCERN
There’s a place in Switzerland where scientists travel on bicycles through tunnels filled with atom-smashing tubes, where the first we...
The asocial side of social media: TED Book author Damon Brown on our “virtual shadows”
Are your endless tweets, status updates and Instagrams robbing you of enjoying what’s special about the moments you’re trying to share? Damo...
5 mnemonic devices for reading Chinese characters
To an outsider, the Chinese language “seems to be as impenetrable as the Great Wall of China,” says ShaoLan Hsueh in today’s talk, given at ...
Op-Ed: Moving beyond dropout statistics and toward solutions
By Patricia Harrison When I attended the taping of TED Talks Education last month at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, I knew I was witnessing ...
The story behind my new TED Talk: Giving teachers what they deserve
By Bill Gates I spend a lot of my time working to help improve America’s schools. I’m also a big fan of TED Talks. So when TED’s Chris Ander...
7 tech tools now available in the classroom, for better or worse
The analog-to-digital shift that has seen e-readers booting out books, smartphones trumping landlines and tablets making desktops look fuddy...
TEDsters in the news: Ron Finley dubbed ‘Appleseed with an Attitude,’ Malcolm London on his TED Talks Education poem
This weekend, we opened up the Style section of The New York Times to see a very familiar face — renegade gardener Ron Finley, whose t...
Why a good education benefits us all — even if you’re long past being a student
Timothy Bartik says that investing in early childhood education is not just good for the children involved — but for communities as a ...
A virtual field trip to CERN, via Google Glass
Take a bike ride down the 27-kilometer Large Hadron Collider — thanks to a lucky Google Glass winner, whose ride-along video premiered...