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George Takei Gives TED Talk On Why He Loves The Country That Betrayed Him: VIDEO
George Takei recently gave a TEDx talk in Kyoto Japan about being sent to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans as a child during World War II and how that experience shaped his perception of...
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Glenn Greenwald on Why You Should Care About Privacy, Even If You Think You...
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who broke the NSA Edward Snowden story last year, explains in a new TED talk video why we should all be concerned about privacy – even if you're "not doing anything you...
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The Art of Lying (and The Clues You Can Use to Spot It) – VIDEO
A new TED-Ed video on the tell-tale clues that can help you spot some of the 10 to 200 lies we hear each day. Watch, AFTER THE JUMP… The post The Art of Lying (and The Clues You Can Use to Spot It)...
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Panti Bliss Gets Standing Ovation for Fierce TED Talk on Homophobia: VIDEO
Panti Bliss, (aka Rory O'Neill) who made international headlines last February after an impassioned speech against homophobia on stage in Dublin went viral, was invited to do a TED talk on September...
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Woman Surprises Co-Workers, Comes Out In Emotional TED Talk: VIDEO
Morgana Bailey, a Human Resources professional, recently came out at TED@State Street London's talk, surprising her colleagues at the event who did not know she was a lesbian. Bailey even hid the...
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Musician Jennifer Knapp’s Powerful TEDx Talk on Coming Out as a LGBT Person...
Religion and the LGBT community have a…"contentious" relationship, to put it mildly. Musician Jennifer Knapp hosted at TEDx Talk at the University of Nevada to discuss this very issue through the...
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Monica Lewinsky Offers Powerful TED Talk on Her Public Humiliation and Fight...
Monica Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose affair with President Bill Clinton made her internationally famous overnight when its salacious details hit the internet in 1998, stepped into the...
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His Gay Dad and The Stonewall Riots Led This Man to a Calling and a $1...
What are the things you'd like to say to an important person in your life before they, or you, die? Thank you? I love you? Forgive me? I forgive you? Every year the $1 million TED Prize is awarded to...
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If You Think Your Job is Stressful, Listen to the Man Who Landed a Spacecraft...
Back in August the world watched in wonder as the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft made the first-ever rendezvous with a comet after an extraordinary mission which saw the probe go into and...
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This TED Talk on Spectacularly Awful City Flags is Here to Inspire the Inner...
100-percent of people care about flags, even if they don't think that they do. So says radio host Roman Mars, the producer of 99% Invisible (the highest-funded journalism Kickstarter project ever),...
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Why Do People Cheat? This Spellbinding TED Talk Offers a Wealth of Insight on...
You could hear a pin drop at this year's TED Conference in Vancouver as relationship therapist Esther Perel addressed a rapt audience on the topic of infidelity. "Why do we cheat? And why do happy...
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What Does Your Phone Company Have On You? – VIDEO
What does your phone company have on you? Malte Spitz wanted to find out and received 35,830 lines of code — "a detailed, nearly minute-by-minute account of half a year of his life." Watch his TED...
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‘The Onion’ Takes on the TED Conference: VIDEO
The Onion is set to take on the intellectual, creative think tank TED with its own set of "Onion Talks". Here's a preview, AFTER THE JUMP… [This post contains video, click to play]
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How ‘Power Posing’ Can Enhance Your Chances of Success: VIDEO
In a recently-posted TED Talk, social psychologist Amy Cuddy talks about how practicing 'power poses' can enhance your chances of success at dating, job interviews, and other challenging life...
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AIDS Ride Founder Dan Pallotta Gives Powerful TED Talk on Why Charitable...
Dan Pallotta, known for creating the multi-day charitable event industry which included the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Day events, received a standing ovation for his TED talk about how charity is...
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Sergey Brin Wants You to Use Google Glass Because Smartphones are...
Google founder Sergey Brin spoke at the 2013 TED conference about the company's upcoming Google Glass, in which a screen is strapped to your face via a wiry headpiece. He spent the first few minutes...
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Trans Scientist Critically Injured in Deer Attack
A freak animal encounter has left Kate Stone, a Cambridge research engineer and owner of U.K. tech company Novalia, in critical condition. Stone was attacked by a deer outside of a home in a small...
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Model Geena Rocero Comes Out As Trans During ‘First Trans TED Talk’: VIDEO
Model, activist and the founder of Gender Proud — a movement that aims to change the global perception of and conversation about transgender individuals — Geena Rocero recently came out in what’s...
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Gay Author Andrew Solomon’s Inspirational TED Talk On How To Endure...
In a TED talk entitled, “How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are,” Andrew Solomon — the openly gay author, philanthropist and activist best known for his 2002 Pulitzer-prize nominated...
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