In 2006 I spoke at TED about developing children's natural powers of creativity and imagination. Returning to TED in 2010 I wanted to focus on the need for a radical shift in education more generally.
Sir Ken Robinson says educating kids is "not like making motorcars." At TED, he spoke about how to improve the system.
Sir Ken Robinson says our education system works like a factory. It's based on models of mass production and conformity that actually prevent kids from finding their passions and succeeding, he said.
Sir Ken Robinson makes a case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity.
I spoke at TED in 2006, the year they started to put the talks online. I'm told that since then, the talk has been downloaded more than 3.5 million times in more than 200 countries. The number of people who've seen it may be 20 times that or more.
Just over a year ago, a U.S. staff sergeant in Iraq decided to practice his shooting skills. His target: the Quran, Islam's holiest book.
An extensive federal report released Monday concludes that roughly one in four of the 697,000 U.S. veterans of the 1990-91 Gulf War suffer from Gulf War illness.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen says a new report validates Gulf War illness and urges help for veterans.
The oldest of my three children started college this year, prompting me to flash forward to the day when my kids have all left home and the expenses of child rearing - from piano lessons to orthodontics, summer camp to undergrad tuition - are firmly behind me.
Jordanian authorities have detained an Iraqi woman accused of planning to be the fourth suicide bomber in last week's attacks in Amman that killed 57 people.
Seven Blackwater USA employees, all Americans, died Thursday in Iraq, the company said.
With U.S. casualties mounting and elections nearing, military intelligence experts agree -- Iraqi insurgents are as bold as ever. And their attacks are getting more sophisticated.
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One of the worst natural disasters of our time is also a key battleground for hearts and minds in the war on terror.
The numbers going into Falluja clearly favor U.S and Iraqi forces.
The sheared-off building, twisted metal, and high body count aren't the only familiar characteristics here. When terrorism experts see the carnage in Taba, Egypt, the immediate pattern of attack is telltale: simultaneous bombings, maximum casualties and a broader intent.
Battling a deadly insurgency on the ground in Iraq, U.S. officials are taking a harder line at the diplomatic table and applying significant pressure to a key Middle East power.
In the United States, the terrorism threat level has been raised to code orange, or high, for potential targets in the financial services sector of New York City, northern New Jersey and Washington, D.C.
Blackwater Security Consulting -- whose four employees were viciously killed and their corpses mutilated by a mob in Fallujah, Iraq -- is one of a growing number of private security contractors that are hiring veterans for jobs previously assigned to the military.
Pakistani forces have surrounded a man they believe is Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Pakistani government sources said. More than 200 al Qaeda fighters are trying to prevent his capture, the sources said.
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