(via TED) With humor and charm, mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón answers a question that’s wracked the brains of bored students the world over: What is math for? He shows the beauty of math as ...

If you have ever thought, "I'm not a math person," you aren't alone. Math anxiety can start for kids as early as first grade, and cognitive scientist Sian Beilock says that adult fMRI scans show that ...

Depending on your perspective, 2006 was either a really bad year for public speaking or the start of a world-changing transformation. In that year the famous TED conference began streaming 18-minute ...