Why College Degrees Matter in the Age of AI - EdSurge News
For the past few years, our nation has been flooded with headlines declaring the demise of the college degree. This trend was exacerbated by COVID-19, which accelerated a decline in college interest.
Why TED Summer School is the next step in Samya Gupta’s speaking journey
Xixi Wang
For over a decade, TED-Ed Student Talks has helped millions of students around the world find their voices, passion, and confidence.
Now, in partnership with the renowned organization Immerse Education, TED is taking that mission further with TED Summer School — a transformative two-week program for motivated students aged 15 to 18. Through core theory and practical sessions, guest speakers, and personal coaching from expert tutors, participants develop public speaking skills, storytelling mastery, and leadership abilities.
PR and SEO: How to Build More Authority Together (5 Steps)
PR and SEO used to be separate disciplines.
Now you can’t afford to keep them siloed.
Google and LLMs both rely on third-party signals — backlinks, brand mentions, expert commentary, and coverage in trusted publications — to decide which brands deserve visibility.
Surgeon General Advisory Wants Kids to Live ‘Beyond the Confines
The U.S. Surgeon General’s office issued a warning yesterday about the harms of extended uses of screens on children, raising concerns about its impact on academic performance, physical health and mental well-being.
chicken salad for celery enthusiasts
I’m not sure if this is a sign of hitting a certain age — like a sudden interest in bird feeders (check, and please tell me about yours), or beekeeping (well, in the TikTok sense, not sorry), and animated conversations on the best pillows (I hate mine) — but I’ve found over the last year that I have very strong opinions on chicken salad and the correct way to make it, which, naturally, is my way. I hope I’m in the right place to release them into the world.
How TED-Ed Student Talks builds essential skills in young people
Xixi Wang
In a world increasingly shaped by AI, the skills it can’t replicate — like communicating, collaborating, and connecting — are more valuable than ever.
The Future of Jobs Report (2025), published by the World Economic Forum, ranks skills like empathy, communication, and leadership among the most critical for the future workforce. Yet these skills are also some of the hardest to teach in a traditional classroom setting.
Will F1 go back to the future with V8 engines?
Formula 1 is in the midst of two parallel sets of engine discussions, both important for the future of the sport.
The more immediate one is to find a short and medium-term fix for some of the problems that have arisen with the new engines introduced this year.
Cocodona 250 ultramarathon: Rachel Entrekin smashes record fuelled by mashed potato and little sleep
The key to breaking a course record for a 250-mile ultramarathon?
Mashed potato, and 19 minutes' worth of sleep on the ground.
That is what fuelled Rachel Entrekin in her historic run at the Cocodona 250 in Arizona as the American won the overall race - men included - in a record-breaking time of 56 hours, nine minutes and 48 seconds.
How to Calculate Share of Voice (+ Why it Matters for SEO)
Your analytics dashboard tracks clicks, but it doesn’t convey the complete picture.
When a buyer reads an AI answer that mentions your competitor, or scrolls through a Reddit thread where your brand doesn’t appear, that’s lost visibility. And it won’t show up anywhere in your traffic data.
Sabastian Sawe: How Kenyan broke two-hour barrier to make history at London Marathon
Sabastian Sawe has always had a propensity to surprise.
Having never competed on the road, the Kenyan began the 2022 Seville half marathon as a pacemaker, proceeded to drop everybody within the first 10km, and carried on to claim victory in a course record time.