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talk_id,title,topics,description
1708,"Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all","['tedx', 'computers', 'entertainment', 'robots', 'technology', 'ai']","Trivia whiz Ken Jennings has made a career as a keeper of facts; he holds the longest winning streak in history on the US quiz show Jeopardy. But in 2011, he played a challenge match against IBM's supercomputer Watson -- and lost. With humor and humility, Jennings tells us how it felt to have a computer literally beat him at his own game, and makes the case for good old-fashioned human knowledge."
1608,A new mission for veterans -- disaster relief,"['tedx', 'disasterrelief', 'globalissues', 'military', 'naturaldisaster', 'suicide', 'ptsd']","After fighting overseas, 92 percent of American veterans say they want to continue their service. Meanwhile, one after another, natural disasters continue to wreak havoc worldwide. What do these two challenges have in common? In telling the story of his friend Clay Hunt, Jake Wood from Team Rubicon reveals how veterans can contribute to disaster response -- and regain their sense of purpose, community and self-worth."
2115,"A science award that makes you laugh, then think","['humor', 'science', 'technology', 'innovation']","As founder of the Ig Nobel awards, Marc Abrahams explores the world's most improbable research. In this thought-provoking (and occasionally side-splitting) talk, he tells stories of truly weird science -- and makes the case that silliness is critical to boosting public interest in science."
28518,What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?,"['innovation', 'business', 'creativity', 'leadership', 'work', 'motivation', 'success']","What does it take to build the fast, flexible, creative teams needed to challenge entrenched work culture? For transformation expert Martin Danoesastro, it all starts with one question: ""What are you willing to give up?"" He shares lessons learned from companies on both sides of the innovation wave on how to structure your organization so that people at all levels are empowered to make decisions fast and respond to change."
44204,3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it,"['start-up', 'leadership', 'business', 'entrepreneur', 'investment', 'intelligence', 'personalgrowth']","When venture investor Natalie Fratto is determining which start-up founder to support, she doesn't just look for intelligence or charisma; she looks for adaptability. In this insightful talk, Fratto shares three ways to measure your ""adaptability quotient"" -- and shows why your ability to respond to change really matters."
56,My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education,"['tedprize', 'art', 'cities', 'culture', 'design', 'environment', 'photography', 'pollution', 'socialchange']","Accepting his 2005 TED Prize, photographer Edward Burtynsky makes a wish: that his images -- stunning landscapes that document humanity's impact on the world -- help persuade millions to join a global conversation on sustainability."
3613,How to talk (and listen) to transgender people,"['activism', 'lgbt', 'culture', 'identity', 'socialchange', 'society', 'tedresidency', 'transgender']","Gender should be the least remarkable thing about someone, but transgender people are still too often misunderstood. To help those who are scared to ask questions or nervous about saying the wrong thing, Jackson Bird shares a few ways to think about trans issues. And in this funny, frank talk, he clears up a few misconceptions about pronouns, transitioning, bathrooms and more."
31466,How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods,"['tedfellows', 'urbanplanning', 'nature', 'community', 'sustainability', 'climatechange', 'design', 'architecture', 'cities', 'infrastructure', 'environment']","From London to Tokyo, climate change is causing cities to sink -- and our modern concrete infrastructure is making us even more vulnerable to severe flooding, says landscape architect and TED Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom. But what if we could design cities to help fight floods? In this inspiring talk, Voraakhom shows how she developed a massive park in Bangkok that can hold a million gallons of rainwater, calling for more climate change solutions that connect cities back to nature."
36659,A short history of trans people's long fight for equality,"['history', 'tedresidency', 'transgender', 'society', 'socialchange', 'inequality', 'activism', 'identity', 'lgbt', 'culture']","Transgender activist and TED Resident Samy Nour Younes shares the remarkable, centuries-old history of the trans community, filled with courageous stories,  inspiring triumphs -- and a fight for civil rights that's been raging for a long time. ""Imagine how the conversation would shift if we acknowledge just how long trans people have been demanding equality,"" he says."
15420,How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village,"['gender', 'activism', 'genderspectrum', 'genderequality', 'lgbt', 'humanity', 'identity', 'society', 'community', 'socialchange', 'transgender', 'tedfellows']","In a poetic, personal talk, TED Fellow Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile examines the connection between her modern queer lifestyle and her childhood upbringing in a rural village in Botswana. ""In a time where being brown, queer, African and seen as worthy of space means being everything but rural, I fear that we're erasing the very struggles that got us to where we are now,"" she says. ""Indigenizing my queerness means bridging the many exceptional parts of myself."""
11089,"The radical beauty of Africa, in portraits","['africa', 'art', 'beauty', 'creativity', 'photography', 'identity', 'personalgrowth', 'socialchange']","Throughout his colorful career and bodies of work, Iké Udé has found creative ways to reject the negative portrayal of Africans rampant in Western media. In this tour of his work, he shares evocative portraits that blend clothing, props and poses from many cultures at once into sharp takes on the varied, complex beauty of Africa."
2469,How to get back to work after a career break,"['business', 'economics', 'culture', 'personalgrowth', 'success', 'tedx', 'work', 'work-lifebalance']","If you've taken a career break and are now looking to return to the workforce, would you consider taking an internship? Career reentry expert Carol Fishman Cohen thinks you should. In this talk, hear about Cohen's own experience returning to work after a career break, her work championing the success of ""relaunchers"" and how employers are changing how they engage with return-to-work talent."
1885,My underwater robot,"['tedfellows', 'adventure', 'exploration', 'oceans', 'open-source', 'robots', 'technology', 'tedx']","David Lang is a maker who taught himself to become an amateur oceanographer -- or, he taught a robot to be one for him. In a charming talk Lang, a TED Fellow, shows how he and a network of ocean lovers teamed up to build open-sourced, low-cost underwater explorers."
2499,A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram,"['adventure', 'aging', 'beauty', 'communication', 'death', 'entertainment', 'exploration', 'humanity', 'future', 'literature', 'identity', 'relationships', 'performance', 'space', 'storytelling', 'universe', 'visualizations', 'sciencefiction']","Science fiction writer Monica Byrne imagines rich worlds populated with characters who defy our racial, social and gender stereotypes. In this performance, Byrne appears as a hologram named Pilar, transmitting a story of love and loss back to us from a near future when humans have colonized the universe. ""It's always funny what you think the future is going to be like versus what it turns out to be,"" she says."
1873,What doctors can learn from each other,"['health', 'healthcare', 'medicalresearch', 'publichealth']","Different hospitals produce different results on different procedures. Only, patients don’t know that data, making choosing a surgeon a high-stakes guessing game. Stefan Larsson looks at what happens when doctors measure and share their outcomes on hip replacement surgery, for example, to see which techniques are proving the most effective. Could health care get better -- and cheaper -- if doctors learn from each other in a continuous feedback loop?"
46597,Can we choose to fall out of love?,"['love', 'music', 'life', 'neuroscience', 'art', 'emotions', 'mind', 'relationships', 'vulnerability', 'brain', 'memory', 'rap', 'tedx']","What's the best way to get over heartbreak? Rapper and writer Dessa came up with an unconventional approach after a chance viewing of Helen Fisher's TED Talk about the brains of the lovestruck. In a wryly funny talk, she describes how she worked with a neuroscientist to try to get her brain to fall out of love with her ex -- and shares wisdom about romance that she gained along the way."
207,Treat design as art,"['art', 'culture', 'design', 'museums', 'graphicdesign']","Paola Antonelli, design curator at New York's Museum of Modern Art, wants to spread her appreciation of design -- in all shapes and forms -- around the world."
215,An illustrated journey through Rome,"['macarthurgrant', 'ancientworld', 'art', 'cities', 'communication', 'culture', 'design', 'humor', 'books']","David Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city."
1245,Open science now!,"['internet', 'tedx', 'collaboration', 'open-source', 'science', 'technology', 'crowdsourcing', 'data']",What if every scientist could share their data as easily as they tweet about their lunch? Michael Nielsen calls for scientists to embrace new tools for collaboration that will enable discoveries to happen at the speed of Twitter.
2448,"Teach girls bravery, not perfection","['children', 'computers', 'future', 'education', 'inequality', 'innovation', 'personalgrowth', 'motivation', 'potential', 'programming', 'socialchange', 'teaching', 'software', 'women', 'code']","We're raising our girls to be perfect, and we're raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code. Saujani has taken up the charge to socialize young girls to take risks and learn to program -- two skills they need to move society forward. To truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half of our population, she says. ""I need each of you to tell every young woman you know to be comfortable with imperfection."""
5458,Fashion has a pollution problem -- can biology fix it?,"['bacteria', 'creativity', 'biotech', 'design', 'biology', 'fashion', 'future', 'materials', 'innovation', 'nature', 'pollution', 'sustainability', 'science', 'technology', 'water']","Natsai Audrey Chieza is a designer on a mission -- to reduce pollution in the fashion industry while creating amazing new things to wear. In her lab, she noticed that the bacteria Streptomyces coelicolor makes a striking red-purple pigment, and now she's using it to develop bold, color-fast fabric dye that cuts down on water waste and chemical runoff, compared with traditional dyes. And she isn't alone in using synthetic biology to redefine our material future; think -- ""leather"" made from mushrooms and superstrong yarn made from spider-silk protein. We're not going to build the future with fossil fuels, Chieza says. We're going to build it with biology."
966,The quantified self,"['decision-making', 'design', 'health', 'medicine', 'psychology', 'statistics', 'technology']","At TED@Cannes, Gary Wolf gives a 5-min intro to an intriguing new pastime: using mobile apps and always-on gadgets to track and analyze your body, mood, diet, spending -- just about everything in daily life you can measure -- in gloriously geeky detail."
354,Human nature and the blank slate,"['brain', 'children', 'culture', 'language', 'philosophy', 'psychology', 'science', 'books']","Steven Pinker's book The Blank Slate argues that all humans are born with some innate traits. Here, Pinker talks about his thesis, and why some people found it incredibly upsetting."
10727,How we became sisters,"['play', 'friendship', 'spokenword', 'poetry', 'personalgrowth', 'humanity']","Poets Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy perform excerpts from their play ""Other Women,"" which is created and directed by Monica L. Williams. In a captivating journey, they weave together stories full of laughter, loyalty, tragedy and heartbreak, recalling the moments that made them sisters."
1989,What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers,"['future', 'humor', 'performance', 'theater']","Sarah Jones changes personas with the simplest of wardrobe swaps. In a laugh-out-loud improvisation, she invites 11 ""friends"" from the future on stage—from a fast-talking Latina to an outspoken police officer—to ask them questions supplied by the TED2014 audience."
49131,The danger of AI is weirder than you think,"['ai', 'technology', 'future', 'computers', 'algorithm', 'machinelearning']","The danger of artificial intelligence isn't that it's going to rebel against us, but that it's going to do exactly what we ask it to do, says AI researcher Janelle Shane. Sharing the weird, sometimes alarming antics of AI algorithms as they try to solve human problems -- like creating new ice cream flavors or recognizing cars on the road -- Shane shows why AI doesn't yet measure up to real brains."
8779,What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness,"['activism', 'children', 'community', 'compassion', 'communication', 'empathy', 'socialchange', 'death', 'society', 'humanity', 'violence']","On one awful night in 1995, Ples Felix's 14-year-old grandson murdered Azim Khamisa's son in a gang initiation fueled by drugs, alcohol and a false sense of belonging. The deadly encounter sent Khamisa and Felix down paths of deep meditation, to forgive and to be forgiven -- and in an act of bravery and reconciliation, the two men met and forged a lasting bond. Together, they've used their story as an outline for a better, more merciful society, where victims of tragedy can grow and heal. Prepare to be moved by their unimaginable story. ""Peace is possible,"" Khamisa says. ""How do I know that? Because I am at peace."""
260,Juggling as art ... and science,"['macarthurgrant', 'dance', 'entertainment', 'math', 'music', 'physics', 'sports']",Michael Moschen puts on a quietly mesmerizing show of juggling. Don't think juggling is an art? You might just change your mind after watching Moschen in motion.
826,Photos that changed the world,"['globalissues', 'media', 'photography', 'poverty', 'war']","Photographs do more than document history -- they make it. At TED University, Jonathan Klein of Getty Images shows some of the most iconic, and talks about what happens when a generation sees an image so powerful it can't look away -- or back."
2809,Don't feel sorry for refugees -- believe in them,"['children', 'globalissues', 'humanity', 'identity', 'immigration', 'refugees', 'socialchange']","""We have seen advances in every aspect of our lives -- except our humanity,"" says Luma Mufleh, a Jordanian immigrant and Muslim of Syrian descent who founded the first accredited school for refugees in the United States. Mufleh shares stories of hope and resilience, explaining how she's helping young people from war-torn countries navigate the difficult process of building new homes. Get inspired to make a personal difference in the lives of refugees with this powerful talk."
2522,3 reasons why we can win the fight against poverty,"['activism', 'africa', 'agriculture', 'community', 'food', 'future', 'globalissues', 'poverty', 'society', 'farming', 'globaldevelopment', 'innovation', 'audaciousproject']","Half of the world's poorest people have something in common: they're small farmers. In this eye-opening talk, social entrepreneur Andrew Youn shows how his group, One Acre Fund, is helping these farmers lift themselves out of poverty by delivering to them life-sustaining farm services that are already in use all over the world. Enter this talk believing we'll never be able to solve hunger and extreme poverty, and leave it with a new understanding of the scale of the world's biggest problems."
599,Playing with space and light,"['art', 'cities', 'design']","In the spectacular large-scale projects he's famous for (such as ""Waterfalls"" in New York harbor), Olafur Eliasson creates art from a palette of space, distance, color and light. This idea-packed talk begins with an experiment in the nature of perception."
1359,Crowdsource your health,"['tedx', 'health', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'publichealth', 'technology', 'exercise']","You can use your smartphone to find a local ATM, but what if you need a defibrillator? Lucien Engelen shows us online innovations that are changing the way we save lives, including a crowdsourced map of local AEDs."
1826,How reliable is your memory?,"['memory', 'psychology', 'science', 'crime', 'mind', 'cognitivescience', 'sight', 'brain', 'neuroscience', 'bioethics', 'medicalresearch', 'mentalhealth', 'morality']","Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus studies memories. More precisely, she studies false memories, when people either remember things that didn't happen or remember them differently from the way they really were. It's more common than you might think, and Loftus shares some startling stories and statistics --  and raises some important ethical questions."
197,Design and destiny,"['design', 'humanity', 'humor', 'philosophy', 'storytelling']","Designer Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides to show -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question ""Why design?"" Listen carefully for one perfect mantra for all of us, genius or not."
56629,The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts,"['globaldevelopment', 'development', 'socialchange', 'economics', 'policy']","If you: do laundry, are (or have been) pregnant, tidy up, shop for your household or do similar labor, then by GDP standards, you're unproductive. In this visionary talk, economist Marilyn Waring seeks to correct the failures of this narrow-minded system, detailing why we deserve a better way to measure growth that values not just our own livelihood but the planet's as well."
9930,The role of human emotions in science and research,"['creativity', 'emotions', 'innovation', 'science']","Do human emotions have a role to play in science and research? Material researcher Ilona Stengel suggests that instead of opposing each other, emotions and logic complement and reinforce each other. She shares a case study on how properly using emotions (like the empowering feeling of being dedicated to something meaningful) can boost teamwork and personal development -- and catalyze scientific breakthroughs and innovation."
802,The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil,"['brazil', 'activism', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'birds', 'globalissues', 'science', 'southamerica']","Biologist Juliana Machado Ferreira, a TED Senior Fellow, talks about her work helping to save birds and other animals stolen from the wild in Brazil. Once these animals are seized from smugglers, she asks, then what?"
1895,The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives,"['design', 'innovation']","We've made incredible advances in technology in recent years, but too often it seems only certain fortunate people can benefit. Engineer Krista Donaldson introduces the ReMotion knee, a prosthetic device for above-knee amputees, many of whom earn less than $4 a day. The design contains best-in-class technology and yet is far cheaper than other prosthetics on the market."
1922,A new equation for intelligence,"['tedx', 'intelligence', 'mind', 'physics', 'science', 'math', 'brain', 'neuroscience', 'cognitivescience', 'future', 'gaming', 'robots', 'machinelearning', 'ai', 'extraterrestriallife', 'cosmos', 'universe', 'engineering', 'software', 'programming']","Is there an equation for intelligence? Yes. It's F = T ∇ Sτ. In a fascinating and informative talk, physicist and computer scientist Alex Wissner-Gross explains what in the world that means."
14485,The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone,"['animals', 'biosphere', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'chemistry', 'climatechange', 'environment', 'future', 'nature', 'oceans', 'science', 'water', 'marinebiology', 'audaciousproject']","What will we find in the twilight zone: the vast, mysterious, virtually unexplored realm hundreds of meters below the ocean's surface? Heidi M. Sosik of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution wants to find out. In this wonder-filled talk, she shares her plan to investigate these uncharted waters, which may hold a million new species and 90 percent of the world's fish biomass, using submersible technology. What we discover there won't just astound us, Sosik says -- it will help us be better stewards of the world's oceans. (This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)"
2803,A celebration of natural hair,"['beauty', 'identity', 'fashion', 'inequality', 'race', 'socialchange', 'tedx', 'society', 'women']","Cheyenne Cochrane explores the role that hair texture has played in the history of being black in America -- from the heat straightening products of the post-Civil War era to the thousands of women today who have decided to stop chasing a conventional beauty standard and start embracing their natural hair. ""This is about more than a hairstyle,"" Cochrane says. ""It's about being brave enough not to fold under the pressure of others' expectations."""
17845,Can home cooking change the world?,"['tedenespaã±ol', 'southamerica', 'food', 'culture', 'socialchange', 'society', 'community']","When Gastón Acurio started his now world-famous restaurant Astrid & Gastón in the 1990s, no one suspected that he would elevate the Peruvian home-cooking he grew up with to haute cuisine. Nearly thirty years and a storied career later, the chef wants the rest of us to embrace our culinary roots and transform the world with the meals we prepare each day. (In Spanish with English subtitles)"
488,My obsession with objects and the stories they tell,"['animals', 'art', 'birds', 'creativity', 'entertainment', 'exploration', 'film', 'technology', 'bestoftheweb']","Adam Savage talks about his fascination with the dodo bird, and how it led him on a strange and surprising double quest. It's an entertaining adventure through the mind of a creative obsessive."
877,How to engineer a viral music video,"['tedx', 'engineering', 'entertainment', 'music', 'physics']","The band OK Go dreamed up the idea of a massive Rube Goldberg machine for their next music video -- and Adam Sadowsky's team was charged with building it. He tells the story of the effort and engineering behind their labyrinthine creation that quickly became the YouTube sensation ""This Too Shall Pass."""
54713,The health benefits of clowning around,"['humor', 'medicine', 'health', 'illness', 'empathy', 'life', 'healthcare', 'art', 'children', 'play']","As a medical clown, TED Resident Matthew A. Wilson takes the old adage that laughter is the best medicine very seriously. In this heartwarming talk, he shares glimpses of how clowning around can help patients (and medical staff) navigate stressful situations -- with no side effects."
16960,Do we really own our bodies?,"['identity', 'life', 'self', 'philosophy', 'biology', 'bioethics', 'tedx']","We tend to think of our corporeal selves as the one thing we hold complete dominion over. ""My body belongs to me"" has become a statement so banal that French ministers have the phrase tattooed on their arms. Philosopher Gaspard Koenig thinks we should stop taking ownership of our bodies for granted. In this funny, example-driven talk, Koenig delves into the myriad ways we lose agency over our mortal flesh to legal, moral and corporate authorities. (In French with English subtitles)"
938,Inside an Antarctic time machine,"['climatechange', 'news', 'science', 'antarctica']","Science columnist Lee Hotz describes a remarkable project at WAIS Divide, Antarctica, where a hardy team are drilling into ten-thousand-year-old ice to extract vital data on our changing climate."
1140,The hidden beauty of pollination,"['beauty', 'bees', 'evolution', 'film', 'garden', 'insects', 'life', 'nature', 'plants', 'botany', 'science']","Pollination: it's vital to life on Earth, but largely unseen by the human eye. Filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg shows us the intricate world of pollen and pollinators with gorgeous high-speed images from his film ""Wings of Life,"" inspired by the vanishing of one of nature's primary pollinators, the honeybee."
986,Tough truths about plastic pollution,"['consumerism', 'globalissues', 'green', 'missionblue', 'oceans', 'plastic', 'anthropocene']",Artist Dianna Cohen shares some tough truths about plastic pollution in the ocean and in our lives -- and some thoughts on how to free ourselves from the plastic gyre.
1891,The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death,"['tedx', 'culture', 'death', 'history', 'humanity', 'philosophy']","Philosopher Stephen Cave begins with a dark but compelling question: When did you first realize you were going to die? And even more interesting: Why do we humans so often resist the inevitability of death? Cave explores four narratives -- common across civilizations -- that we tell ourselves ""in order to help us manage the terror of death."""
29413,Ink made of air pollution,"['pollution', 'science', 'technology', 'design', 'environment', 'art', 'invention', 'anthropocene']","What if we could capture pollution in the air around us and turn it into something useful? Inventor Anirudh Sharma shares how he created AIR-INK, a deep black ink that's made from PM 2.5 pollution. See how he hacked together a clever way to capture these tiny particles -- and make the world just a little bit cleaner in the process."
1253,How economic inequality harms societies,"['culture', 'data', 'globalissues', 'inequality', 'money', 'socialchange', 'visualizations']","We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust."
2491,Adventures of an asteroid hunter,"['astronomy', 'asteroid', 'adventure', 'discovery', 'exploration', 'collaboration', 'globalissues', 'nasa', 'nature', 'physics', 'science', 'technology', 'solarsystem', 'tedfellows', 'universe', 'space', 'tedbooks']","TED Fellow Carrie Nugent is an asteroid hunter -- part of a group of scientists working to discover and catalog our oldest and most numerous cosmic neighbors. Why keep an eye out for asteroids? In this short, fact-filled talk, Nugent explains how their awesome impacts have shaped our planet, and how finding them at the right time could mean nothing less than saving life on Earth."
786,"In the Internet age, dance evolves ...","['collaboration', 'dance', 'entertainment', 'gaming', 'performance']","The LXD (the Legion of Extraordinary Dancers) electrify the TED stage with an emerging global street-dance culture, revved up by the Internet. Directed by Jon M. Chu, this astonishing troupe of dancers and musicians show off their superpowers."
2544,How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers,"['animals', 'biodiversity', 'biomechanics', 'biotech', 'biology', 'books', 'dna', 'collaboration', 'design', 'evolution', 'future', 'environment', 'genetics', 'innovation', 'life', 'materials', 'plants', 'nature', 'science', 'technology']","What do you get when you combine the strongest materials from the plant world with the most elastic ones from the insect kingdom? Super-performing materials that might transform ... everything. Nanobiotechnologist Oded Shoseyov walks us through examples of amazing materials found throughout nature, in everything from cat fleas to sequoia trees, and shows the creative ways his team is harnessing them in everything from sports shoes to medical implants."
103,How to truly listen,"['creativity', 'entertainment', 'livemusic', 'music', 'performance']","In this soaring demonstration, deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie illustrates how listening to music involves much more than simply letting sound waves hit your eardrums."
1336,Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish,"['culture', 'extremesports', 'fear', 'sports', 'success']","In the 1970s, Diana Nyad set long-distance swim records that are still unbroken. Thirty years later, at 60, she attempted her longest swim yet, from Cuba to Florida. In this funny, powerful talk at TEDMED, she talks about how to prepare mentally to achieve an extreme dream, and asks: What will YOU do with your wild, precious life?"
1699,My invention that made peace with lions,"['agriculture', 'biodiversity', 'technology']","In the Maasai community where Richard Turere lives with his family, cattle are all-important. But lion attacks were growing more frequent. In this short, inspiring talk, the young inventor shares the solar-powered solution he designed to safely scare the lions away."
1784,Meet global corruption's hidden players,"['business', 'corruption', 'energy', 'globalissues']","When the son of the president of a desperately poor country starts buying mansions and sportscars on an official monthly salary of $7,000, Charmian Gooch suggests, corruption is probably somewhere in the picture. In a blistering, eye-opening talk (with several specific examples), she details how global corruption trackers follow the money -- to some surprisingly familiar faces."
1520,Imaging at a trillion frames per second,"['innovation', 'invention', 'photography', 'technology']","Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see inside the body without X-rays."
54838,Why winning doesn't always equal success,"['success', 'sports', 'leadership', 'empathy', 'compassion', 'emotions', 'trust', 'humanity', 'society', 'socialchange', 'philosophy']","Valorie Kondos Field knows a lot about winning. As the longtime coach of the UCLA women's gymnastics team, she won championship after championship and has been widely acclaimed for her leadership. In this inspiring, brutally honest and, at times, gut-wrenching talk, she shares the secret to her success. Hint: it has nothing to do with ""winning."""
1598,Metal that breathes,"['tedx', 'architecture', 'art', 'climatechange', 'design', 'invention', 'materials', 'sustainability', 'technology']","Modern buildings with floor-to-ceiling windows give spectacular views, but they require a lot of energy to cool. Doris Kim Sung works with thermo-bimetals, smart materials that act more like human skin, dynamically and responsively, and can shade a room from sun and self-ventilate."
1187,Caring for engineered tissue,"['tedfellows', 'biology', 'biomimicry', 'biotech', 'science']","Tissue engineer and TED Fellow Nina Tandon is growing artificial hearts and bones. To do that, she needs new ways of caring for artificially grown cells -- techniques she's developed by the simple but powerful method of copying their natural environments."
2201,How our microbes make us who we are,"['tedbooks', 'biology', 'health']","Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and largely unexplored — role in our health. “The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you carry around in your genome,” he says. Find out why."
860,Why I'm a weekday vegetarian,"['culture', 'food', 'globalissues', 'green']","We all know the arguments that being vegetarian is better for the environment and for the animals -- but in a carnivorous culture, it can be hard to make the change. Graham Hill has a powerful, pragmatic suggestion: Be a weekday veg."
1011,Making law on the high seas,"['globalissues', 'law', 'missionblue', 'oceans', 'politics', 'science', 'globalcommons']","Kristina Gjerde studies the law of the high seas -- the 64 percent of our ocean that isn't protected by any national law at all. Gorgeous photos show the hidden worlds that Gjerde and other lawyers are working to protect from trawling and trash-dumping, through smart policymaking and a healthy dose of PR."
2413,Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up,"['activism', 'bigproblems', 'economics', 'democracy', 'business', 'finance', 'globalissues', 'investment', 'government', 'politics', 'europe', 'society', 'capitalism', 'money', 'unitedstates']","Have you wondered why politicians aren't what they used to be, why governments seem unable to solve real problems? Economist Yanis Varoufakis, the former Minister of Finance for Greece, says that it's because you can be in politics today but not be in power -- because real power now belongs to those who control the economy. He believes that the mega-rich and corporations are cannibalizing the political sphere, causing financial crisis. In this talk, hear his dream for a world in which capital and labor no longer struggle against each other, ""one that is simultaneously libertarian, Marxist and Keynesian."""
2001,The loves and lies of fireflies,"['biology', 'evolution', 'insects']","Biologist Sara Lewis has spent the past 20 years getting to the bottom of the magic and wonder of fireflies. In this charming talk, she tells us how and why the beetles produce their silent sparks, what happens when two fireflies have sex, and why one group of females is known as the firefly vampire. (It's not pretty.) Find out more astonishing facts about fireflies in Lewis' footnotes, below."
2664,Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet,"['business', 'code', 'collaboration', 'computers', 'design', 'data', 'discovery', 'history', 'innovation', 'invention', 'potential', 'math', 'productdesign', 'productivity', 'technology', 'tedx', 'work', 'visualizations']","Dan Bricklin changed the world forever when he codeveloped VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet and grandfather of programs you probably use every day like Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets. Join the software engineer and computing legend as he explores the tangled web of first jobs, daydreams and homework problems that led to his transformational invention."
718,Fusion is energy's future,"['alternativeenergy', 'climatechange', 'energy', 'environment', 'physics']","Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the fuel crisis. He explains why fusion will work -- and details the projects that he and many others have devoted their lives to, working against the clock to create a new source of energy."
1161,Wearing nothing new,"['consumerism', 'creativity', 'culture', 'design', 'fashion']","Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TEDActive but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It's a meditation on conscious consumption -- wrapped in a rainbow of color and creativity."
2470,Two reasons companies fail -- and how to avoid them,"['business', 'creativity', 'curiosity', 'goal-setting', 'motivation', 'innovation', 'potential', 'success', 'work', 'leadership']","Is it possible to run a company and reinvent it at the same time? For business strategist Knut Haanaes, the ability to innovate after becoming successful is the mark of a great organization. He shares insights on how to strike a balance between perfecting what we already know and exploring totally new ideas -- and lays out how to avoid two major strategy traps."
2364,Social services are broken. How we can fix them,"['bigproblems', 'community', 'socialchange']","When a family falls into crisis -- and it sometimes happens, thanks to unemployment, drugs, bad relationships and bad luck -- the social services system is supposed to step in and help them get back on track. As Hilary Cottam shows, in the UK a typical family in crisis can be eligible for services from more than 70 different agencies, but it's unlikely that any one of them can really make a difference. Cottam, a social entrepreneur herself, asks us to think about the ways we solve deep and complex social problems. How can we build supportive, enthusiastic relationships between those in need and those that provide help?"
8589,The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care,"['healthcare', 'illness', 'humanity', 'health', 'personalgrowth', 'society']","Once a cared-for patient and now a caregiver himself, Scott Williams highlights the invaluable role of informal caregivers -- those friends and relatives who, out of love, go the extra mile for patients in need. From personal care to advocacy to emotional support, unpaid caregivers form the invisible backbone of health and social systems all over the world, Williams says -- and without them, these systems would crumble. ""How can we make sure that their value to patients and society is recognized?"" he asks."
657,"Robots that ""show emotion""","['bodylanguage', 'demo', 'design', 'engineering', 'entertainment', 'robots', 'technology']","David Hanson's robot faces look and act like yours: They recognize and respond to emotion, and make expressions of their own. Here, an ""emotional"" live demo of the Einstein robot offers a peek at a future where robots truly mimic humans."
1927,The investment logic for sustainability,"['business', 'finance', 'investment', 'sustainability']","Sustainability is pretty clearly one of the world's most important goals; but what groups can really make environmental progress in leaps and bounds? Chris McKnett makes the case that it's large institutional investors. He shows how strong financial data isn't enough, and reveals why investors need to look at a company's environmental, social and governance structures, too."
495,Cool tricks your phone can do,"['culture', 'technology', 'bestoftheweb']","In this engaging talk from the EG'08 conference, New York Times tech columnist David Pogue rounds up some handy cell phone tools and services that can boost your productivity and lower your bills (and your blood pressure)."
2332,How to find work you love,"['tedx', 'business', 'entrepreneur', 'happiness', 'work', 'work-lifebalance']","Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you — and then getting started doing it."
101,Casting a spell on the cello,"['cello', 'entertainment', 'music', 'performance', 'vocals', 'livemusic']","Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She performs ""Farther than the Sun,"" backed by Thomas Dolby on keyboards."
416,A plea for bees,"['animals', 'bees', 'disease', 'food', 'insects', 'life', 'nature', 'bestoftheweb']","Bees are dying in droves. Why? Leading apiarist Dennis vanEngelsdorp looks at the gentle, misunderstood creature's important place in nature and the mystery behind its alarming disappearance."
1404,"Building blocks that blink, beep and teach","['tedfellows', 'creativity', 'education', 'technology', 'toy', 'code']","Imagine a set of electronics as easy to play with as Legos. TED Fellow Ayah Bdeir introduces littleBits, a set of simple, interchangeable blocks that make programming as simple and important a part of creativity as snapping blocks together."
2298,What my religion really says about women,"['gender', 'peace', 'religion', 'women']","Strong faith is a core part of Alaa Murabit's identity -- but when she moved from Canada to Libya as a young woman, she was surprised how the tenets of Islam were used to severely limit women's rights, independence and ability to lead. She wondered: Was this really religious doctrine? With humor, passion and a refreshingly rebellious spirt, she shares how she found examples of female leaders across the history of her faith — and how she speaks up for women using verses from the Koran."
12370,Why I choose humanism over faith,"['religion', 'africa', 'faith', 'society', 'humanity', 'community', 'collaboration']","As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention -- but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, cure disease, preserve the planet and turn situations of poverty into prosperity. In this bold talk, Igwe shares how humanism can free Africans from damaging superstitions and give them the power to rebuild the continent."
1835,Can technology solve our big problems?,"['nasa', 'astronomy', 'space', 'technology']","In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and what's happened? Are mobile apps all we have to show for ourselves? Journalist Jason Pontin looks closely at the challenges we face to using technology effectively ... for problems that really matter."
363,Lessons from past presidents,"['entertainment', 'history', 'politics', 'sports', 'storytelling', 'work-lifebalance']","Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin talks about what we can learn from American presidents, including Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson. Then she shares a moving memory of her own father, and of their shared love of baseball."
1730,"Your online life, permanent as a tattoo","['culture', 'security', 'socialmedia', 'technology']","What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we're only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal privacy. He shares insight from the ancient Greeks to help us deal with our new ""digital tattoos."""
724,The neurons that shaped civilization,"['biology', 'brain', 'cities', 'cognitivescience', 'evolution', 'science', 'neuroscience', 'india']","Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex social behaviors, some of which formed the foundations of human civilization as we know it."
72,Technology's long tail,"['business', 'culture', 'economics', 'entertainment', 'marketing', 'technology']","Chris Anderson, then the editor of Wired, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an established technology and, finally, becoming ubiquitous."
424,The hunt for General Tso,"['business', 'culture', 'exploration', 'food', 'globalissues', 'history', 'bestoftheweb']",Reporter Jennifer 8. Lee talks about her hunt for the origins of familiar Chinese-American dishes -- exploring the hidden spots where these two cultures have (so tastily) combined to form a new cuisine.
46582,Why governments should prioritize well-being,"['politics', 'socialchange', 'economics', 'leadership', 'society', 'future', 'policy', 'inequality']","In 2018, Scotland, Iceland and New Zealand established the network of Wellbeing Economy Governments to challenge the acceptance of GDP as the ultimate measure of a country's success. In this visionary talk, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon explains the far-reaching implications of a ""well-being economy"" -- which places factors like equal pay, childcare, mental health and access to green space at its heart -- and shows how this new focus could help build resolve to confront global challenges."
3617,Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage,"['tedfellows', 'art', 'film', 'culture', 'community', 'family', 'creativity', 'identity', 'music']","Kayla Briët creates art that explores identity and self-discovery -- and the fear that her culture may someday be forgotten. She shares how she found her creative voice and reclaimed the stories of her Dutch-Indonesian, Chinese and Native American heritage by infusing them into film and music time capsules."
1521,Finding the story inside the painting,"['entertainment', 'history', 'storytelling', 'art']","When Tracy Chevalier looks at paintings, she imagines the stories behind them: How did the painter meet his model? What would explain that look in her eye? Why is that man ... blushing? She shares three stories inspired by portraits, including the one that led to her best-selling novel ""Girl With a Pearl Earring."""
21976,How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant,"['animals', 'biology', 'disease', 'health', 'healthcare', 'future', 'humanbody', 'illness', 'science', 'innovation', 'technology', 'virus', 'dna', 'crispr']","For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to create a process for transplanting animal organs into humans, a theoretical dream that could help the hundreds of thousands of people in need of a lifesaving transplant. But the risks, specifically of transmitting the PERV virus from pigs to humans, have always been too great, stalling research -- until now. In a mind-blowing talk, geneticist Luhan Yang explains a breakthrough: using CRISPR, a technique for editing genes, she and her colleagues have created pigs that don't carry the virus, opening up the possibility of safely growing human-transplantable organs in pigs. Learn more about this cutting-edge science and how it could help solve the organ shortage crisis."
21803,How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains,"['science', 'technology', 'brain', 'humanbody', 'invention', 'cancer', 'future', 'neuroscience', 'medicalresearch', 'medicalimaging', 'computers', 'cognitivescience']","In a series of mind-bending demos, inventor Mary Lou Jepsen shows how we can use red light to see and potentially stimulate what's inside our bodies and brains. Taking us to the edge of optical physics, Jepsen unveils new technologies that utilize light and sound to track tumors, measure neural activity and could possibly replace the MRI machine with a cheaper, more efficient and wearable system."
1853,Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge,"['stringtheory', 'tedx', 'physics', 'science', 'universe', 'nanoscale', 'darkmatter', 'exploration', 'energy']","The biggest surprise of discovering the Higgs boson? That there were no surprises. Gian Giudice talks us through a problem in theoretical physics: what if the Higgs field exists in an ultra-dense state that could mean the collapse of all atomic matter? With wit and charm, Giudice outlines a grim fate -- and why we shouldn't start worrying just yet."
28429,3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview,"['tedx', 'climatechange', 'science', 'culture', 'psychology', 'mind', 'personality']","What shapes our perceptions (and misperceptions) about science? In an eye-opening talk, meteorologist J. Marshall Shepherd explains how confirmation bias, the Dunning-Kruger effect and cognitive dissonance impact what we think we know -- and shares ideas for how we can replace them with something much more powerful: knowledge."
2148,The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive,"['tedx', 'entertainment', 'film', 'storytelling', 'television']","You've heard about slow food. Now here's slow ... TV? In this very funny talk, Norwegian television producer Thomas Hellum shares how he and his team began to broadcast long, boring events, often live -- and found a rapt audience. Shows include a 7-hour train journey, an 18-hour fishing expedition and a 5.5-day ferry voyage along the coast of Norway. The results are both beautiful and fascinating. Really."
2770,"On tennis, love and motherhood","['sports', 'love', 'parenting', 'life', 'interview', 'race', 'gender', 'children', 'family', 'genderequality', 'journalism', 'media', 'personalgrowth', 'relationships', 'women', 'socialmedia']","Twenty-three Grand Slam titles later, tennis superstar Serena Williams sits down with journalist Gayle King to share a warm, mischievous conversation about her life, love, wins and losses -- starting with the story of how she accidentally shared her pregnancy news with the world."
647,Let's revive the Golden Rule,"['god', 'tedprize', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'religion', 'violence']","Weeks from the Charter for Compassion launch, Karen Armstrong looks at religion's role in the 21st century: Will its dogmas divide us? Or will it unite us for common good? She reviews the catalysts that can drive the world's faiths to rediscover the Golden Rule."
1353,Impossible photography,"['creativity', 'culture', 'photography', 'technology']","Erik Johansson creates realistic photos of impossible scenes -- capturing ideas, not moments. In this witty how-to, the Photoshop wizard describes the principles he uses to make these fantastical scenarios come to life, while keeping them visually plausible."
1725,10 top time-saving tech tips,"['culture', 'technology']","Tech columnist David Pogue shares 10 simple, clever tips for computer, web, smartphone and camera users. And yes, you may know a few of these already -- but there's probably at least one you don't."
1033,New data on the rise of women,"['culture', 'economics', 'education', 'feminism', 'globalissues', 'women', 'genderequality']","Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates. Do these trends, both US-centric and global, signal the ""end of men""? Probably not -- but they point toward an important societal shift worth deep discussion."
1838,New York's streets? Not so mean any more,"['architecture', 'cities', 'design', 'transportation', 'infrastructure']","In this funny and thought-provoking talk, Janette Sadik-Khan, transportation commissioner of New York City, shares projects that have reshaped street life in the 5 boroughs, including pedestrian zones in Times Square, high-performance buses and a 6,000-cycle-strong bike share. Her mantra: Do bold experiments that are cheap to try out."
41105,Sleep is your superpower,"['sleep', 'medicine', 'health', 'medicalresearch', 'biology', 'neuroscience', 'brain', 'mind', 'humanbody', 'science', 'memory']","Sleep is your life-support system and Mother Nature's best effort yet at immortality, says sleep scientist Matt Walker. In this deep dive into the science of slumber, Walker shares the wonderfully good things that happen when you get sleep -- and the alarmingly bad things that happen when you don't, for both your brain and body. Learn more about sleep's impact on your learning, memory, immune system and even your genetic code -- as well as some helpful tips for getting some shut-eye."
2487,Insightful human portraits made from data,"['algorithm', 'art', 'composing', 'computers', 'creativity', 'culture', 'identity', 'data', 'illusion', 'internet', 'media', 'map', 'performanceart', 'society', 'time', 'software', 'visualizations']","Artist R. Luke DuBois makes unique portraits of presidents, cities, himself and even Britney Spears using data and personality. In this talk, he shares nine projects -- from maps of the country built using information taken from millions of dating profiles to a gun that fires a blank every time a shooting is reported in New Orleans. His point: the way we use technology reflects on us and our culture, and we reduce others to data points at our own peril."
1492,Four principles for the open world,"['business', 'future', 'technology']","The recent generations have been bathed in connecting technology from birth, says futurist Don Tapscott, and as a result the world is transforming into one that is far more open and transparent. In this inspiring talk, he lists the four core principles that show how this open world can be a far better place."
50988,How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change,"['media', 'society', 'ai', 'science', 'machinelearning', 'empathy', 'socialchange', 'tedresidency']","What kinds of stories move us to act? To answer this question, creative technologist Heidi Boisvert is measuring how people's brains and bodies unconsciously respond to different media. She shows how she's using this data to determine the specific narrative ingredients that inspire empathy and justice -- and spark large-scale social change."
743,10 young Indian artists to watch,"['asia', 'art', 'design', 'future', 'india']","Collector Ravin Agrawal delivers a glowing introduction to 10 of India's most exciting young contemporary artists. Working in a variety of media, each draws on their local culture for inspiration."
1135,Turning trash into toys for learning,"['design', 'education', 'play', 'science', 'technology', 'toy', 'bestoftheweb']","At the INK Conference, Arvind Gupta shares simple yet stunning plans for turning trash into seriously entertaining, well-designed toys that kids can build themselves -- while learning basic principles of science and design."
2678,Our story of rape and reconciliation,"['activism', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'sexualviolence', 'humanity', 'identity', 'personalgrowth', 'socialchange', 'society', 'women', 'men']","In 1996, Thordis Elva shared a teenage romance with Tom Stranger, an exchange student from Australia. After a school dance, Tom raped Thordis, after which they parted ways for many years. In this extraordinary talk, Elva and Stranger move through a years-long chronology of shame and silence, and invite us to discuss the omnipresent global issue of sexual violence in a new, honest way. For a Q&A with the speakers, visit go.ted.com/thordisandtom."
2617,Your company's data could help end world hunger,"['bigproblems', 'humanity', 'data', 'collaboration', 'decision-making', 'society', 'communication', 'innovation', 'technology']","Your company might have donated money to help solve humanitarian issues, but you could have something even more useful to offer: your data. Mallory Freeman shows us how private sector companies can help make real progress on big problems -- from the refugee crisis to world hunger -- by donating untapped data and decision scientists. What might your company be able to contribute?"
3590,For the love of birds,"['africa', 'animals', 'beauty', 'ecology', 'biodiversity', 'nature', 'birds', 'sustainability']","From the glorious crested guinea fowl to the adulterous African jacana to vultures that can pick a zebra carcass clean in 30 minutes, Washington Wachira wants us all to get to know the marvelous species of birds that share the planet with us. If you're not already a fan of earth's feathermakers -- or concerned about their conservation -- you will be after you watch this delightful talk."
1974,"For parents, happiness is a very high bar","['culture', 'family', 'parenting']","The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming -- it's ""a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic,"" as writer Jennifer Senior puts it. Why is parenthood filled with so much anxiety? Because the goal of modern, middle-class parents -- to raise happy children -- is so elusive. In this honest talk, Senior offers some kinder and more achievable aims."
23088,3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking,"['community', 'activism', 'law', 'business', 'sexualviolence', 'society', 'socialchange', 'slavery', 'trafficking']","Sex buying doesn't just happen late at night on street corners in the shady part of town -- it also happens online, in the middle of the workday, using company equipment and resources. With this problem comes an opportunity, says attorney Nikki Clifton, because it means that the business community is in a unique position to educate and mobilize their employees to fight sex trafficking. In an honest talk, Clifton outlines how businesses can help, from setting clear policies to hiring survivors."
2158,"Go ahead, make up new words!","['tedyouth', 'communication', 'creativity', 'language']","In this fun, short talk from TEDYouth, lexicographer Erin McKean encourages — nay, cheerleads — her audience to create new words when the existing ones won’t quite do. She lists out 6 ways to make new words in English, from compounding to “verbing,” in order to make language better at expressing what we mean, and to create more ways for us to understand one another."
2835,What really motivates people to be honest in business,"['business', 'economics', 'corruption', 'motivation', 'finance', 'society', 'tedx']","Each year, one in seven large corporations commits fraud. Why? To find out, Alexander Wagner takes us inside the economics, ethics and psychology of doing the right thing. Join him for an introspective journey down the slippery slopes of deception as he helps us understand why people behave the way they do."
49359,What productive conflict can offer a workplace,"['work', 'policy', 'socialchange', 'future', 'communication', 'economics', 'tedfellows', 'culture', 'community', 'leadership']","Got an idea to make your workplace better? Labor organizer and TED Fellow Jess Kutch can show you how to put it into action. In this quick talk, she explains how ""productive conflict"" -- when people organize to challenge and change their work lives for the better -- can be beneficial for employees and employers alike.
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1282,The technology of storytelling,"['creativity', 'design', 'entertainment', 'storytelling', 'technology']","iPad storyteller Joe Sabia introduces us to Lothar Meggendorfer, who created a bold technology for storytelling: the pop-up book. Sabia shows how new technology has always helped us tell our own stories, from the walls of caves to his own onstage iPad."
1945,The birds and the bees are just the beginning,"['animals', 'biology', 'sex']","Think you know a thing or two about sex? Think again. In this fascinating talk, biologist Carin Bondar lays out the surprising science behind how animals get it on. (This talk describes explicit and aggressive sexual content.)"
2780,"Thoughts on humanity, fame and love","['aging', 'art', 'dance', 'communication', 'entertainment', 'family', 'happiness', 'future', 'movies', 'india', 'humanity', 'music', 'personalgrowth', 'technology', 'success', 'love']","""I sell dreams, and I peddle love to millions of people,"" says Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood's biggest star. In this charming, funny talk, Khan traces the arc of his life, showcases a few of his famous dance moves and shares hard-earned wisdom from a life spent in the spotlight."
13518,How Pakistani women are taking the internet back,"['tedfellows', 'genderequality', 'activism', 'internet', 'bullying', 'communication', 'women', 'computers', 'society', 'socialchange', 'middleeast']","TED Fellow Nighat Dad studies online harassment, especially as it relates to patriarchal cultures like the one in her small village in Pakistan. She tells the story of how she set up Pakistan's first cyber harassment helpline, offering support to women who face serious threats online. ""Safe access to the internet is access to knowledge, and knowledge is freedom,"" she says. ""When I fight for a woman's digital rights, I am fighting for equality."""
2595,4 reasons to learn a new language,"['communication', 'education', 'onlinevideo', 'language', 'worldcultures', 'personalgrowth', 'writing']","English is fast becoming the world's universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue."
2743,How to design a library that makes kids want to read ,"['design', 'library', 'education', 'tednyc', 'graphicdesign']","When Michael Bierut was tapped to design a logo for public school libraries, he had no idea that he was embarking on a years-long passion project. In this often hilarious talk, he recalls his obsessive quest to bring energy, learning, art and graphics into these magical spaces where school librarians can inspire new generations of readers and thinkers."
2663,"To solve old problems, study new species","['animals', 'biodiversity', 'beauty', 'biology', 'biomechanics', 'biosphere', 'creativity', 'education', 'discovery', 'curiosity', 'exploration', 'environment', 'innovation', 'illness', 'intelligence', 'medicalresearch', 'life', 'nature', 'medicine', 'neuroscience', 'oceans', 'physiology', 'science', 'tedx', 'marinebiology']","Nature is wonderfully abundant, diverse and mysterious -- but biological research today tends to focus on only seven species, including rats, chickens, fruit flies and us. We're studying an astonishingly narrow sliver of life, says biologist Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, and hoping it'll be enough to solve the oldest, most challenging problems in science, like cancer. In this visually captivating talk, Alvarado calls on us to interrogate the unknown and shows us the remarkable discoveries that surface when we do."
489,What is retro-futurism?,"['art', 'entertainment', 'humor', 'media', 'bestoftheweb']","Bruce McCall paints a retro-future that never happened -- full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, ""The Biggest Thing in All the World."" At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of his faux-nostalgic art."
2627,What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose,"['activism', 'gender', 'health', 'genderequality', 'healthcare', 'history', 'medicalresearch', 'illness', 'film', 'personalgrowth', 'medicine', 'pain', 'tedfellows', 'women', 'science']","Five years ago, TED Fellow Jennifer Brea became progressively ill with myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome, a debilitating illness that severely impairs normal activities and on bad days makes even the rustling of bed sheets unbearable. In this poignant talk, Brea describes the obstacles she's encountered in seeking treatment for her condition, whose root causes and physical effects we don't fully understand, as well as her mission to document through film the lives of patients that medicine struggles to treat."
2244,How to control someone else's arm with your brain,"['tedfellows', 'brain', 'demo', 'neuroscience', 'science', 'biotech', 'physiology', 'technology', 'biology']","Greg Gage is on a mission to make brain science accessible to all. In this fun, kind of creepy demo, the neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take away the free will of an audience member. It's not a parlor trick; it actually works. You have to see it to believe it."
41457,These bacteria eat plastic,"['bacteria', 'plastic', 'anthropocene', 'pollution', 'environment', 'science', 'sustainability', 'microbiology']","Humans produce 300 million tons of new plastic each year -- yet, despite our best efforts, less than 10 percent of it ends up being recycled. Is there a better way to deal with all this waste? Morgan Vague describes her research with microbiologist Jay Mellies on bacteria that have evolved the unexpected ability to eat plastic -- and how they could help us solve our growing pollution problem."
949,The child-driven education,"['children', 'education', 'technology', 'web', 'globaldevelopment', 'globalissues']","Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching."
2854,How your pictures can help reclaim lost history,"['ancientworld', 'archaeology', 'conservation', 'history', 'culture', 'museums', 'technology', 'tedx', 'war', 'terrorism', 'photography']","Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures -- your pictures -- to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After crowdsourcing photographs of destroyed monuments, museums and artifacts, Coughenour uses advanced technology called photogrammetry to create 3D reconstructions, preserving the memory of our global, shared, human heritage. Find out more about how you can help celebrate and safeguard history that's being lost."
3891,The secrets of spider venom,"['biology', 'science', 'tedx', 'insects', 'medicine', 'animals', 'medicalresearch', 'future', 'microbes', 'nature', 'microbiology']","Spider venom can stop your heart within minutes, cause unimaginable pain -- and potentially save your life, says zoologist Michel Dugon. With a live tarantula on his arm, Dugon explains the medical properties of their potent toxin and how it might be used to produce the next generation of antibiotics."
1630,How to separate fact and fiction online,"['internet', 'culture', 'journalism', 'onlinevideo']","By the end of this talk, there will be 864 more hours of video on YouTube and 2.5 million more photos on Facebook and Instagram. So how do we sort through the deluge? At the TEDSalon in London, Markham Nolan shares the investigative techniques he and his team use to verify information in real-time, to let you know if that Statue of Liberty image has been doctored or if that video leaked from Syria is legitimate."
2801,12 truths I learned from life and writing,"['aging', 'art', 'beauty', 'books', 'birds', 'communication', 'christianity', 'family', 'friendship', 'humanity', 'god', 'funny', 'love', 'personalgrowth', 'self', 'writing', 'society']","A few days before she turned 61, writer Anne Lamott decided to write down everything she knew for sure. She dives into the nuances of being a human who lives in a confusing, beautiful, emotional world, offering her characteristic life-affirming wisdom and humor on family, writing, the meaning of God, death and more."
92,The best stats you've ever seen,"['africa', 'asia', 'google', 'demo', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'health', 'statistics', 'globaldevelopment', 'visualizations', 'math']","You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called ""developing world."""
1373,The ocean's shifting baseline,"['data', 'oceans', 'science', 'missionblue', 'fish', 'climatechange', 'environment', 'ecology', 'animals', 'biodiversity', 'pollution', 'conservation', 'future', 'prediction', 'population', 'marinebiology']","The ocean has degraded within our lifetimes, as shown in the decreasing average size of fish. And yet, as Daniel Pauly shows us onstage at Mission Blue, each time the baseline drops, we call it the new ""normal."" At what point do we stop readjusting downward?"
1554,The voices of China's workers,"['asia', 'china', 'consumerism', 'culture', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'women']","In the ongoing debate about globalization, what's been missing is the voices of workers -- the millions of people who migrate to factories in China and other emerging countries to make goods sold all over the world. Reporter Leslie T. Chang sought out women who work in one of China's booming megacities, and tells their stories."
1371,Why videos go viral,"['tedyouth', 'entertainment', 'onlinevideo', 'socialmedia']","Kevin Allocca is YouTube's Head of Culture & Trends, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral."
36409,An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math,"['math', 'communication', 'visualizations', 'tedx', 'socialchange', 'society', 'inequality']","How do we make sense of a world that doesn't? By looking in unexpected places, says mathematician Eugenia Cheng. She explains how applying concepts from abstract mathematics to daily life can lead us to a deeper understanding of things like the root of anger and the function of privilege. Learn more about how this surprising tool can help us to empathize with each other."
49989,Revelations from a lifetime of dance,"['dance', 'performance', 'performanceart', 'art', 'entertainment']","""Dance can elevate our human experience beyond words,"" says Judith Jamison, artistic director emerita of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. In between performances of excerpts from Alvin Ailey's classic works ""Revelations"" and ""Cry,"" Jamison reflects on the enduring power of dance to transform history into art that thrills audiences around the world. (Performances by Solomon Dumas, Samantha Figgins and Constance Stamatiou)"
39584,How hip-hop helps us understand science,"['education', 'tedfellows', 'science', 'biology', 'life', 'race', 'sex']","In the early 1990s, a scandal rocked evolutionary biology: scientists discovered that songbirds -- once thought to be strictly monogamous -- engaged in what's politely called ""extra-pair copulation."" In this unforgettable biology lesson on animal infidelity, TED Fellow Danielle N. Lee shows how she uses hip-hop to teach science, leading the crowd in an updated version of Naughty by Nature's hit ""O.P.P."""
447,Fiddling in reel time,"['collaboration', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'music', 'piano', 'violin', 'livemusic', 'performance']","Natalie MacMaster and her musical partner Donnell Leahy play several tunes from the Cape Breton tradition -- a sprightly, soulful style of folk fiddling. It's an inspired collaboration that will have you clapping (and maybe dancing) along."
1267,A map of the brain,"['brain', 'disease', 'science', 'technology', 'genetics', 'neuroscience', 'molecularbiology', 'biotech', 'mentalhealth', 'physiology', 'medicalresearch', 'medicalimaging', 'cognitivescience', 'visualizations', 'dna']","How can we begin to understand the way the brain works? The same way we begin to understand a city: by making a map. In this visually stunning talk, Allan Jones shows how his team is mapping which genes are turned on in each tiny region, and how it all connects up."
28521,Why you should bring your whole self to work,"['work-lifebalance', 'personality', 'work', 'personalgrowth', 'business']","Dan Clay was worried about being dismissed as ""too gay"" at work, so he dialed down his personality. But then his alter ego, Carrie Dragshaw, went viral online. Here's what happened next."
1466,A new way to stop identity theft,"['tedx', 'security', 'self', 'technology']","Bartenders need to know your age, retailers need your PIN, but almost no one actually needs your name -- except for identity thieves. ID expert David Birch proposes a safer approach to personal identification -- a ""fractured"" approach -- that would almost never require your real name."
38072,An AI smartwatch that detects seizures,"['tedx', 'medicalresearch', 'ai', 'innovation', 'science', 'health', 'technology', 'healthcare']","Every year worldwide, more than 50,000 otherwise healthy people with epilepsy suddenly die -- a condition known as SUDEP. These deaths may be largely preventable, says AI researcher Rosalind Picard. Learn how Picard helped develop a cutting-edge smartwatch that can detect epileptic seizures as they occur and alert nearby loved ones in time to help."
1470,Mining minerals from seawater,"['tedfellows', 'mining', 'science', 'technology', 'water', 'oceans', 'bacteria', 'biology', 'chemistry', 'environment', 'sustainability', 'biotech', 'molecularbiology', 'innovation', 'naturalresources']","The world needs clean water, and more and more, we're pulling it from the oceans, desalinating it, and drinking it. But what to do with the salty brine left behind? In this intriguing short talk, TED Fellow Damian Palin proposes an idea: Mine it for other minerals we need, with the help of some collaborative metal-munching bacteria."
52490,How I use art to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans,"['art', 'pollution', 'creativity', 'culture', 'oceans', 'climatechange', 'community']","Alejandro Durán uses art to spotlight the ongoing destruction of our oceans' ecosystems. In this breathtaking talk, he shows how he meticulously organizes and reuses plastic waste from around the world that washes up on the Caribbean coast of Mexico -- everything from water bottles to prosthetic legs -- to create vivid, environmental artworks that may leave you mesmerized and shocked."
2733,A video game to cope with grief,"['art', 'children', 'communication', 'cancer', 'collaboration', 'humanity', 'death', 'technology', 'gaming', 'life', 'parenting', 'tednyc']","When Amy Green's young son was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor, she made up a bedtime story for his siblings to teach them about cancer. What resulted was a video game, ""That Dragon, Cancer,"" which takes players on a journey they can't win. In this beautiful talk about coping with loss, Green brings joy and play to tragedy. ""We made a game that's hard to play,"" she says, ""because the hardest moments of our lives change us more than any goal we could ever accomplish."""
2893,Why we need to pay attention to Chinese millennials,"['china', 'asia', 'economics', 'youth', 'business', 'consumerism']","If Chinese millenials were their own country, they would have the third largest population in the world, says Sebastian Guo. They are well-educated, super motivated and the largest emerging consumer demographic on the planet. So why is it that the business world is still obsessed with understanding American millenials? In his passionate and perspective-shifting talk, Guo says it time to think outside our western boundaries and focus eastward."
42702,Why we need darkness,"['pollution', 'globalissues', 'health', 'environment', 'activism']","A century ago, the starry night sky was clearly visible -- now, songbirds mistake city skylines for the rising sun. Why is the such big problem? Former park ranger Diane Knutson explains the resounding impact light pollution has on our safety, health and environment."
2772,How (and why) Russia hacked the US election,"['algorithm', 'communication', 'future', 'computers', 'government', 'data', 'intelligence', 'globalissues', 'policy', 'politics', 'society', 'technology', 'news', 'web', 'internet', 'hack', 'encryption']","Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace analyst Laura Galante describes in this alarming talk, the real target of anyone looking to influence geopolitics is dastardly simple: it's you."
428,Digging up dinosaurs,"['africa', 'animals', 'biology', 'dinosaurs', 'evolution', 'exploration', 'history', 'life', 'paleontology']","Strange landscapes, scorching heat and (sometimes) mad crocodiles await scientists seeking clues to evolution's genius. Paleontologist Paul Sereno talks about his surprising encounters with prehistory -- and a new way to help students join the adventure."
15112,"""Iyeza"" / ""Zabalaza""","['livemusic', 'music', 'performance', 'singer', 'vocals', 'entertainment']","Self-styled wild woman and rebel singer Thandiswa Mazwai rocks the TED stage with an electrifying performance of two songs: ""Iyeza"" and ""Zabalaza."""
44696,You are not alone in your loneliness,"['creativity', 'compassion', 'personalgrowth', 'writing', 'empathy', 'visualizations', 'art', 'humanity', 'community', 'relationships']","Being open and vulnerable with your loneliness, sadness and fear can help you find comfort and feel less alone, says writer and artist Jonny Sun. In an honest talk filled with his signature illustrations, Sun shares how telling stories about feeling like an outsider helped him tap into an unexpected community and find a tiny sliver of light in the darkness."
2825,"Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors","['robots', 'future', 'demo', 'technology', 'design']","That science fiction future where robots can do what people and animals do may be closer than you think. Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics, is developing advanced robots that can gallop like a cheetah, negotiate 10 inches of snow, walk upright on two legs and even open doors and deliver packages. Join Raibert for a live demo of SpotMini, a nimble robot that maps the space around it, handles objects, climbs stairs -- and could soon be helping you out around the house."
1549,"Design for people, not awards","['tedx', 'design', 'healthcare', 'productdesign']","Timothy Prestero thought he'd designed the perfect incubator for newborns in the developing world -- he even won awards for it. But he and his team learned a hard lesson when their incubator completely failed to catch on. Hear his hard-earned manifesto on the importance of designing for real-world use, not accolades."
772,The wireless future of medicine,"['disease', 'health', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'technology', 'tedmed']","Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important wireless devices in medicine's future -- all helping to keep more of us out of hospital beds."
171,An Iraq war movie crowd-sourced from soldiers,"['entertainment', 'film', 'globalissues', 'storytelling', 'technology', 'war']","Filmmaker Deborah Scranton talks about and shows clips from her documentary The War Tapes, which puts cameras in the hands of soldiers fighting in Iraq."
14608,A Parkland teacher's homework for us all,"['activism', 'unitedstates', 'guns', 'communication', 'community', 'culture', 'education', 'history', 'society', 'leadership', 'socialchange', 'violence']","Diane Wolk-Rogers teaches history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, site of a horrific school shooting on Valentine's Day 2018. How can we end this senseless violence? In a stirring talk, Wolk-Rogers offers three ways Americans can move forward to create more safety and responsibility around guns -- and invites people to come up with their own answers, too. Above all, she asks us to take a cue from the student activists at her school, survivors whose work for change has moved millions to action. ""They shouldn't have to do this on their own,"" Wolk-Rogers says. ""They're asking you to get involved."""
1654,Why domestic violence victims don't leave,"['culture', 'globalissues', 'love', 'relationships', 'violence', 'women']","Leslie Morgan Steiner was in ""crazy love"" -- that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. Steiner tells the story of her relationship, correcting misconceptions many people hold about victims of domestic violence, and explaining how we can all help break the silence. "
52396,Why I draw with robots,"['robots', 'art', 'beauty', 'humanity', 'creativity', 'future', 'technology', 'collaboration', 'culture']","What happens when humans and robots make art together? In this awe-inspiring talk, artist Sougwen Chung shows how she ""taught"" her artistic style to a machine -- and shares the results of their collaboration after making an unexpected discovery: robots make mistakes, too. ""Part of the beauty of human and machine systems is their inherent, shared fallibility,"" she says."
1003,The path to ending ethnic conflicts,"['africa', 'iraq', 'peace', 'violence', 'war']","Civil wars and ethnic conflicts have brought the world incredible suffering, but Stefan Wolff's figures show that, in the last 20 years, their number has steadily decreased. He extracts critical lessons from Northern Ireland, Liberia, Timor and more to show that leadership, diplomacy and institutional design are our three most effective weapons in waging peace."
161,The joy of lexicography,"['culture', 'education', 'entertainment', 'language', 'books']","Is the beloved paper dictionary doomed to extinction? In this infectiously exuberant talk, leading lexicographer Erin McKean looks at the many ways today's print dictionary is poised for transformation."
1478,The myth of the gay agenda,"['lgbt', 'tedx', 'gender', 'humor', 'inequality', 'love', 'sex', 'socialchange', 'genderequality']","In a funny talk with an urgent message, LZ Granderson points out the absurdity in the idea that there's a ""gay lifestyle,"" much less a ""gay agenda."" What's actually on his agenda? Being a good partner -- and being a good parent."
629,How I swam the North Pole,"['adventure', 'climatechange', 'science', 'sports']",Lewis Pugh talks about his record-breaking swim across the North Pole. He braved the icy waters (in a Speedo) to highlight the melting icecap. Watch for astonishing footage -- and some blunt commentary on the realities of supercold-water swims.
42629,An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection,"['conservation', 'audaciousproject', 'oceans', 'investment', 'economics', 'nature', 'environment', 'future']","Island and coastal nations need to protect their waters to keep the oceans healthy. But they often have lots of debt and aren't able to prioritize ocean conservation over other needs. The team at The Nature Conservancy sees a way to solve both problems at once: restructuring a nation's debt in exchange for its government's commitment to protect coastal areas. Learn more about how ""Blue Bonds for Conservation"" work -- and how you can help unlock billions of dollars for the oceans. This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change. (Voiced by Ladan Wise)"
1653,"Be an artist, right now!","['tedx', 'creativity', 'writing', 'art', 'spokenword']","Why do we ever stop playing and creating? With charm and humor, celebrated Korean author Young-ha Kim invokes the world's greatest artists to urge you to unleash your inner child -- the artist who wanted to play forever. "
738,All things are Moleeds,"['astronomy', 'comedy', 'humor', 'map', 'science']","In a presentation that can only be described as epic, comedian Charles Fleischer delivers a hysterical send-up of a time-honored TED theme: the map. Geometry, numbers, charts and stamp art also factor in (somehow), as he weaves together a unique theory of everything called ""Moleeds."""
399,The story behind the Mars Rovers,"['planets', 'design', 'exploration', 'physics', 'robots', 'science', 'space', 'technology', 'solarsystem', 'mars', 'bestoftheweb']","At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover project."
5480,How ancient technology inspired my award-winning inventions,"['science(hard)', 'technology', 'youth', 'history', 'invention']","Macinley Butson has won multiple awards for her inventions, including a device that improves protection from radiation during breast cancer treatment and a project enhancing the effectiveness of solar panels. In this talk, she shares how these forward-thinking endeavors were inspired by centuries-old technology, and how scientists need to shed their preconceptions about each other and their predecessors in order to do good work."
1688,The way we think about charity is dead wrong,"['business', 'culture', 'globalissues', 'philanthropy']","Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend -- not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let's change the way we think about changing the world."
2002,The smelly mystery of the human pheromone,"['tedx', 'animals', 'biology', 'smell']","Do our smells make us sexy? Popular science suggests yes — pheromones send chemical signals about sex and attraction from our armpits to potential mates. But, despite what you might have heard, there is no conclusive research confirming that humans have these smell molecules. In this eye-opening talk, zoologist Tristram Wyatt explains the fundamental flaws in current pheromone research, and shares his hope for a future that unlocks the fascinating, potentially life-saving knowledge tied up in our scent."
15274,Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers,"['humanity', 'pollution', 'climatechange', 'violence', 'war', 'data', 'democracy', 'history', 'peace', 'happiness', 'politics', 'society', 'statistics']","Was 2017 really the ""worst year ever,"" as some would have us believe? In his analysis of recent data on homicide, war, poverty, pollution and more, psychologist Steven Pinker finds that we're doing better now in every one of them when compared with 30 years ago. But progress isn't inevitable, and it doesn't mean everything gets better for everyone all the time, Pinker says. Instead, progress is problem-solving, and we should look at things like climate change and nuclear war as problems to be solved, not apocalypses in waiting. ""We will never have a perfect world, and it would be dangerous to seek one,"" he says. ""But there's no limit to the betterments we can attain if we continue to apply knowledge to enhance human flourishing."""
23515,What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit,"['activism', 'sexualviolence', 'socialchange', 'women', 'society', 'collaboration', 'crime', 'criminaljustice']","In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits -- some dating back to the 1980s -- were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police to store evidence. When this scandal was uncovered, prosecutor Kym Worthy set a plan into action to get justice for the thousands of victims affected. In this powerful, eye-opening talk, Worthy explains how her office helped develop an innovative program to track and test these kits -- and calls for a national effort to help solve the problem of stockpiled rape kits."
2109,The future of early cancer detection?,"['biotech', 'cancer', 'health', 'technology']","Along with a crew of technologists and scientists, Jorge Soto is developing a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for early signs of multiple forms of cancer. Onstage at TEDGlobal 2014, he demonstrates a working prototype of the mobile platform for the first time."
635,An inventory of the invisible,"['comedy', 'philosophy', 'science', 'humor']","Nature's mysteries meet tack-sharp wit in this hilarious, 10-minute mix of quips and fun lessons, as comedian, writer and TV man John Lloyd plucks at the substance of several things not seen."
13,"A master architect asks, Now what?","['architecture', 'business', 'creativity', 'culture', 'design', 'interview', 'invention']","In a wildly entertaining discussion with Richard Saul Wurman, architect Frank Gehry gives TEDsters his take on the power of failure, his recent buildings, and the all-important ""Then what?"" factor."
588,Life lessons through tinkering,"['children', 'education', 'innovation', 'invention', 'creativity', 'design']","Gever Tulley uses engaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School. When given tools, materials and guidance, these young imaginations run wild and creative problem-solving takes over to build unique boats, bridges and even a roller coaster!"
2405,This is what happens when you reply to spam email,"['comedy', 'curiosity', 'communication', 'humor', 'technology']","Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal."
941,What physics taught me about marketing,"['business', 'marketing', 'math', 'physics']","Physics and marketing don't seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton's second law, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of thermodynamics to explain the fundamental theories of branding."
660,The 4 ways sound affects us,"['birds', 'business', 'cities', 'entertainment', 'music']","Playing sound effects both pleasant and awful, Julian Treasure shows how sound affects us in four significant ways. Listen carefully for a shocking fact about noisy open-plan offices."
1721,The invisible man,"['china', 'globalissues', 'identity', 'photography', 'art']","Can a person disappear in plain sight? That's the question Liu Bolin's remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called ""The Invisible Man"" because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center — and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background."
2874,The boost students need to overcome obstacles,"['tedresidency', 'education', 'personalgrowth', 'sociology', 'success', 'teaching']","How can disadvantaged students succeed in school? For sociologist Anindya Kundu, grit and stick-to-itiveness aren't enough; students also need to develop their agency, or their capacity to overcome obstacles and navigate the system. He shares hopeful stories of students who have defied expectations in the face of personal, social and institutional challenges."
22799,"""Afterneath"" / ""Killing Me""","['piano', 'music', 'singer', 'livemusic', 'performance']","Luke Sital-Singh sings songs of love, longing and grief in this stirring performance of ""Afterneath"" and ""Killing Me."" ""These are the songs I just never tire of hearing and I never tire of writing, because they make me feel less alone,"" Sital-Singh says."
14484,What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases?,"['sight', 'blindness', 'medicine', 'medicalresearch', 'invention', 'publichealth', 'science', 'data', 'disease', 'humanity', 'society', 'audaciousproject']","Thousands of years ago, ancient Nubians drew pictures on tomb walls of a terrible disease that turns the eyelids inside out and causes blindness. This disease, trachoma, is still a scourge in many parts of the world today -- but it's also completely preventable, says Caroline Harper. Armed with data from a global mapping project, Harper's organization Sightsavers has a plan: to focus on countries where funding gaps stand in the way of eliminating the disease and ramp up efforts where the need is most severe. Learn more about their goal of consigning trachoma to the history books -- and how you can help. (This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)"
1547,Can democracy exist without trust?,"['europe', 'bigproblems', 'culture', 'democracy', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'protests']","It seems the more we know about how democracy works -- through government transparency, better media coverage, even new insights about our brains -- the less we trust democracy itself. Yet it's still, arguably, the best system of government available. As Ivan Krastev says, ""What went right is also what went wrong."" Can democracy survive?"
1843,The walkable city,"['cities', 'culture', 'design', 'transportation']","How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car -- which he calls ""a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device"" -- by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people."
2807,Why we need to imagine different futures,"['ai', 'cities', 'algorithm', 'climatechange', 'collaboration', 'exploration', 'communication', 'farming', 'future', 'globaldevelopment', 'globalissues', 'innovation', 'motivation', 'potential', 'humanity', 'pollution', 'socialchange', 'technology', 'society', 'visualizations', 'india']","Anab Jain brings the future to life, creating experiences where people can touch, see and feel the potential of the world we're creating. Do we want a world where intelligent machines patrol our streets, for instance, or where our genetic heritage determines our health care? Jain's projects show why it's important to fight for the world we want. Catch a glimpse of possible futures in this eye-opening talk."
893,A second opinion on developmental disorders,"['children', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology', 'neuroscience', 'india']","Developmental disorders in children are typically diagnosed by observing behavior, but Aditi Shankardass suggests we should be looking directly at brains. She explains how one EEG technique has revealed mistaken diagnoses and transformed children's lives."
1352,Where are the baby dinosaurs?,"['tedx', 'biology', 'dinosaurs', 'paleontology', 'science', 'history', 'animals', 'humor']","In a spellbinding talk, paleontologist Jack Horner tells the story of how iconoclastic thinking revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs."
552,A supercharged motorcycle design,"['cars', 'design', 'engineering', 'green', 'transportation']","Yves Béhar and Forrest North unveil Mission One, a sleek, powerful electric motorcycle. They share slides from distant (yet similar) childhoods that show how collaboration kick-started their friendship -- and shared dreams."
270,"The ""bottom billion""","['africa', 'activism', 'business', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'poverty', 'globaldevelopment', 'inequality']","Around the world right now, one billion people are trapped in poor or failing countries. How can we help them? Economist Paul Collier lays out a bold, compassionate plan for closing the gap between rich and poor."
52271,Management lessons from Chinese business and philosophy,"['business', 'leadership', 'culture', 'asia', 'decision-making', 'china', 'work', 'philosophy']","Business management in China is changing, says consultant Fang Ruan. Learn how Chinese entrepreneurs -- long guided by Confucianism's emphasis on authority and regulation -- are now looking to Taoist philosophy for a new, dynamic leadership style that believes things spontaneously transform and naturally achieve perfection when they're supported, not controlled."
1300,What happens when an NGO admits failure,"['tedx', 'engineering', 'globalissues', 'globaldevelopment']","International aid groups make the same mistakes over and over again. David Damberger analyzes his own engineering failure in India -- and calls for his friends in the development sector to publicly admit, scrutinize and learn from their missteps."
627,A leap from the edge of space,"['entertainment', 'film', 'space', 'sports', 'technology']","At his day job, Steve Truglia flips cars, walks through fire and falls out of buildings -- pushing technology to make stunts bigger, safer, more awesome. He talks us through his next stunt: the highest jump ever attempted, from the very edge of space."
1888,How to build with clay ... and community,"['africa', 'architecture', 'sustainability']","Diébédo Francis Kéré knew exactly what he wanted to do when he got his degree in architecture... He wanted to go home to Gando in Burkina Faso, to help his neighbors reap the benefit of his education. In this charming talk, Kéré shows off some of the beautiful structures he's helped to build in his small village in the years since then, including an award-winning primary school made from clay by the entire community."
54863,What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger,"['food', 'entrepreneur', 'technology', 'bigproblems', 'community', 'compassion', 'humanity', 'society', 'philanthropy', 'poverty']","In a world that's wasting more food than ever before, why do one in nine people still go to bed hungry each night? Social entrepreneur Jasmine Crowe calls for a radical transformation to our fight to end global hunger -- challenging us to rethink our routine approaches to addressing food insecurity and sharing how we can use technology to gather unused food and deliver it directly to people in need."
1983,"Success, failure and the drive to keep creating","['creativity', 'failure', 'success', 'writing']","Elizabeth Gilbert was once an ""unpublished diner waitress,"" devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' she found herself identifying strongly with her former self. With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorienting as failure and offers a simple -- though hard -- way to carry on, regardless of outcomes."
252,Your genes are not your fate,"['aging', 'genetics', 'health', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'science']","Dean Ornish shares new research that shows how adopting healthy lifestyle habits can affect a person at a genetic level. For instance, he says, when you live healthier, eat better, exercise, and love more, your brain cells actually increase."
453,Your elusive creative genius,"['creativity', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'poetry', 'work', 'writing', 'personality']","Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person ""being"" a genius, all of us ""have"" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk."
1920,How architectural innovations migrate across borders,"['architecture', 'cities', 'design', 'infrastructure']","As the world's cities undergo explosive growth, inequality is intensifying. Wealthy neighborhoods and impoverished slums grow side by side, the gap between them widening. In this eye-opening talk, architect Teddy Cruz asks us to rethink urban development from the bottom up. Sharing lessons from the slums of Tijuana, Cruz explores the creative intelligence of the city's residents and offers a fresh perspective on what we can learn from places of scarcity."
1707,"The emergence of ""4D printing""","['tedfellows', 'design', 'industrialdesign', 'technology']","3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the fourth dimension is time. This emerging technology will allow us to print objects that then reshape themselves or self-assemble over time. Think: a printed cube that folds before your eyes, or a printed pipe able to sense the need to expand or contract."
327,Close-up card magic with a twist,"['entertainment', 'humor', 'illusion', 'magic']","Like your uncle at a family party, the rumpled Swedish doctor Lennart Green says, ""Pick a card, any card."" But what he does with those cards is pure magic -- flabbergasting, lightning-fast, how-does-he-do-it? magic."
1566,A story about knots and surgeons,"['newyork', 'crime', 'medicine', 'storytelling', 'violence']","One day, Ed Gavagan was sitting on the subway, watching two young med students practicing their knots. And a powerful memory washed over him -- of one shocking moment that changed his life forever. An unforgettable story of crime, skill and gratitude."
164,What our language habits reveal,"['culture', 'language', 'psychology', 'socialscience']","In an exclusive preview of his book The Stuff of Thought, Steven Pinker looks at language and how it expresses what goes on in our minds -- and how the words we choose communicate much more than we realize."
32269,The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality,"['tedx', 'sex', 'science', 'culture', 'humanbody', 'society', 'women', 'relationships']","Is women's sexuality more complicated than men's? Well, not really, no, says author Sarah Barmak. In this frank, eye-opening talk, she shows how a flawed understanding of the female body has shaped this discussion for centuries. She debunks some age-old myths (you're welcome) and offers a richer definition of pleasure that gets closer to the simple truth about women's sexuality."
2711,Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer,"['brain', 'future', 'children', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'innovation', 'teaching', 'technology', 'education', 'tedx', 'surgery']","Critical care doctor Peter Weinstock shows how surgical teams are using a blend of Hollywood special effects and 3D printing to create amazingly lifelike reproductions of real patients -- so they can practice risky surgeries ahead of time. Think: ""Operate twice, cut once."" Glimpse the future of surgery in this forward-thinking talk."
10190,How teachers can help kids find their political voices,"['education', 'teaching', 'children', 'tedx', 'activism', 'community', 'identity', 'parenting', 'socialchange', 'society']","Social justice belongs in our schools, says educator Sydney Chaffee. In a bold talk, she shows how teaching students to engage in activism helps them build important academic and life skills -- and asks us to rethink how we can use education to help kids find their voices. ""Teaching will always be a political act,"" Chaffee says. ""We can't be afraid of our students' power. Their power will help them make tomorrow better."""
55,My wish: A global day of film,"['tedprize', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'film', 'globalissues', 'peace', 'socialchange', 'storytelling', 'art', 'movies']",Jehane Noujaim unveils her 2006 TED Prize wish: to bring the world together for one day a year through the power of film.
11337,What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?,"['architecture', 'collaboration', 'design', 'community', 'socialchange', 'society', 'urbanplanning']","Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right. In San Francisco, she's questioning the all too familiar story of gentrification: that poor people will be pushed out by development and progress. ""Why is it that we treat culture erasure and economic displacement as inevitable?"" she asks, calling on developers, architects and policymakers to instead ""make a commitment to build people's capacity to stay in their homes, to stay in their communities, to stay where they feel whole."""
1936,"What we can learn from galaxies far, far away","['tedyouth', 'astronomy', 'darkmatter', 'physics', 'science', 'space', 'universe', 'youth', 'energy']","In a fun, exciting talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at something unexpected in the sky: distant galaxy clusters. By studying the properties of the universe's largest pieces, says the Intel Science Fair award winner, we can learn quite a lot about scientific mysteries in our own world and galaxy."
60081,The intangible effects of walls,"['design', 'society', 'identity', 'socialchange', 'community', 'humanity', 'tedx']","More barriers exist now than at the end of World War II, says designer Alexandra Auer. And when you erect one wall, you unwittingly create a second -- an ""us"" versus ""them"" partition in the mind that compromises our collective safety. With intriguing results from her social design project focused on two elementary schools separated by a fence, Auer encourages us to dismantle our biases and regain perspective on all the things we have in common."
1305,An unexpected place of healing,"['tedx', 'aging', 'culture', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'self', 'storytelling']","When Ramona Pierson was 22, she was hit by a drunk driver and spent 18 months in a coma. In this talk, she tells the remarkable story of her recovery -- drawing on the collective skills and wisdom of a senior citizens' home."
1667,Use data to build better schools,"['data', 'education', 'globalissues', 'inequality', 'teaching']","How can we measure what makes a school system work? Andreas Schleicher walks us through the PISA test, a global measurement that ranks countries against one another -- then uses that same data to help schools improve. Watch to find out where your country stacks up, and learn the single factor that makes some systems outperform others."
549,10 things you didn't know about orgasm,"['culture', 'history', 'humor', 'science', 'sex', 'writing', 'books']","""Bonk"" author Mary Roach delves into obscure scientific research, some of it centuries old, to make 10 surprising claims about sexual climax, ranging from the bizarre to the hilarious. (This talk is aimed at adults. Viewer discretion advised.)"
346,A free digital library,"['design', 'entertainment', 'film', 'history', 'library', 'media', 'music', 'technology', 'web', 'books', 'bestoftheweb']","Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first."
590,The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames,"['children', 'creativity', 'design', 'film', 'productdesign']","The legendary design team Charles and Ray Eames made films, houses and classic midcentury modern furniture. Eames Demetrios, their grandson, shows rarely seen films and archival footage in a lively, loving tribute to their creative process."
24067,The science of attraction,"['health', 'psychology', 'science', 'self', 'relationships', 'sex', 'ted-ed', 'chemistry', 'animation', 'humanity', 'brain', 'humanbody', 'physiology']","Romantic chemistry is all about warm, gooey feelings that gush from the deepest depths of the heart...right? Not quite. Actually, the real boss behind attraction is your brain, which runs through a very quick, very complex series of calculations when assessing a potential partner. Dawn Maslar explores how our five senses contribute to this mating game, citing some pretty wild studies along the way. [Directed by TOGETHER, narrated by Addison Anderson]."
2457,The reporting system that sexual assault survivors want,"['activism', 'crime', 'bigproblems', 'design', 'innovation', 'interfacedesign', 'productdesign', 'tedfellows', 'violence', 'socialchange', 'women', 'software', 'sexualviolence']","We don't have to live in a world where 99 percent of rapists get away with it, says TED Fellow Jessica Ladd. With Callisto, a new platform for college students to confidentially report sexual assault, Ladd is helping survivors get the support and justice they deserve while respecting their privacy concerns. ""We can create a world where there's a real deterrent to violating the rights of another human being,"" she says."
946,The technology of the heart,"['brain', 'culture', 'happiness', 'religion', 'society', 'mindfulness']","His Holiness the Karmapa talks about how he was discovered to be the reincarnation of a revered figure in Tibetan Buddhism. In telling his story, he urges us to work on not just technology and design, but the technology and design of the heart. He is translated onstage by Tyler Dewar."
1902,How to build an information time machine,"['tedx', 'computers', 'history', 'library', 'map', 'technology', 'books']","Imagine if you could surf Facebook ... from the Middle Ages. Well, it may not be as far off as it sounds. In a fun and interesting talk, Frederic Kaplan shows off the Venice Time Machine, a project to digitize 80 kilometers of books to create a historical and geographical simulation of Venice across 1,000 years. "
976,The roots of plant intelligence,"['biology', 'collaboration', 'science', 'plants', 'botany']","Plants behave in some oddly intelligent ways: fighting predators, maximizing food opportunities ... But can we think of them as actually having a form of intelligence of their own? Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso presents intriguing evidence."
2729,An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillator,"['society', 'hearthealth', 'health', 'teaching', 'entertainment', 'tednyc']","If Yoda goes into cardiac arrest, will you know what to do? Artist and first-aid enthusiast Todd Scott breaks down what you need to know about using an automated external defibrillator, or AED -- in this galaxy and ones that are far, far away. Prepare to save the life of a Jedi, Chewbacca (he'll need a quick shave first) or someone else in need with some helpful pointers."
393,The science of scent,"['senses', 'beauty', 'happiness', 'materials', 'science', 'smell', 'technology']","What's the science behind a sublime perfume? With charm and precision, biophysicist Luca Turin explains the molecular makeup -- and the art -- of a scent."
2892,The magic of Khmer classical dance,"['tedfellows', 'beauty', 'creativity', 'art', 'dance', 'gender', 'identity', 'performanceart', 'performance']","For more than 1,000 years, Khmer dancers in Cambodia have been seen as living bridges between heaven and earth. In this graceful dance-talk hybrid, artist Prumsodun Ok -- founder of Cambodia's first all-male and gay-identified dance company -- details the rich history of Khmer classical dance and its current revival, playing the ancient and ageless role of artist as messenger."
1649,Kids need structure,"['tedx', 'children', 'culture', 'education', 'parenting', 'youth', 'teaching']","How can you help kids get a good start? In this heartfelt and personal talk, Colin Powell, the former U.S. Secretary of State, asks parents, friends and relatives to support children, starting before they even get to primary school, through community and a strong sense of responsibility."
1279,Being young and making an impact,"['tedx', 'activism', 'children', 'community', 'culture', 'globalissues', 'war', 'youth']","At 18, Natalie Warne's work with the Invisible Children movement made her a hero for young activists. She uses her inspiring story to remind us that no one is too young to change the world."
1184,Cooking as never seen before,"['creativity', 'design', 'entertainment', 'food', 'photography', 'technology', 'art']","Cookbook author (and geek) Nathan Myhrvold talks about his magisterial work, ""Modernist Cuisine"" -- and shares the secret of its cool photographic illustrations, which show cross-sections of food in the very act of being cooked."
2075,"An engineer's vision for tiny forests, everywhere","['tedfellows', 'engineering', 'garden', 'nature', 'open-source', 'trees', 'fungi']","A forest planted by humans, then left to nature's own devices, typically takes at least 100 years to mature. But what if we could make the process happen ten times faster? In this short talk, eco-entrepreneur (and TED Fellow) Shubhendu Sharma explains how to create a mini-forest ecosystem anywhere."
30297,Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer,"['environment', 'science', 'nature', 'climatechange', 'biosphere', 'socialchange', 'sustainability', 'society', 'policy', 'government', 'pollution', 'tedx']","The Montreal Protocol proved that the world could come together and take action on climate change. Thirty years after the world's most successful environmental treaty was signed, atmospheric scientist Sean Davis examines the world we avoided when we banned chlorofluorocarbons -- and shares lessons we can carry forward to address the climate crisis in our time."
14392,What's missing in the global debate over refugees,"['tedfellows', 'journalism', 'immigration', 'refugees', 'humanity', 'history', 'work', 'politics', 'government']","In the ongoing debate over refugees, we hear from everyone -- from politicians who pledge border controls to citizens who fear they'll lose their jobs -- everyone, that is, except migrants themselves. Why are they coming? Journalist and TED Fellow Yasin Kakande explains what compelled him and many others to flee their homelands, urging a more open discussion and a new perspective. Because humanity's story, he reminds us, is a story of migration: ""There are no restrictions that could ever be so rigorous to stop the wave of migration that has determined our human history,"" he says."
2195,"For these women, reading is a daring act","['islam', 'middleeast', 'tedfellows', 'education', 'feminism', 'photography', 'women']","In some parts of the world, half of the women lack basic reading and writing skills. The reasons vary, but in many cases, literacy isn't valued by fathers, husbands, even mothers. Photographer and TED Fellow Laura Boushnak traveled to countries including Yemen, Egypt and Tunisia to highlight brave women -- schoolgirls, political activists, 60-year-old moms -- who are fighting the statistics."
2163,Poetry that frees the soul,"['tedx', 'creativity', 'crime', 'language', 'poetry', 'prison', 'tedenespaã±ol']","""It's said that to be a poet, you have to go to hell and back."" Cristina Domenech teaches writing at an Argentinian prison, and she tells the moving story of helping incarcerated people express themselves, understand themselves — and glory in the freedom of language. Watch for a powerful reading from one of her students, an inmate, in front of an audience of 10,000. (In Spanish with English subtitles)"
728,The real danger lurking in the water,"['animals', 'biodiversity', 'environment', 'water', 'ecology', 'india']","The gharial and king cobra are two of India's most iconic reptiles, and they're endangered because of polluted waterways. Conservationist Romulus Whitaker shows rare footage of these magnificent animals and urges us to save the rivers that sustain their lives and our own."
24138,The language of lying,"['consciousness', 'history', 'sociology', 'psychology', 'education', 'language', 'ted-ed', 'animation', 'communication']","We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we've spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved unreliable. Is there a more direct approach? Noah Zandan uses some famous examples of lying to illustrate how we might use communications science to analyze the lies themselves. [Directed by Nadav Arbel, narrated by Noah Zandan]."
49114,How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases,"['farming', 'science', 'collaboration', 'dna', 'tedfellows', 'africa', 'food', 'community', 'technology']","Nearly 800 million people worldwide depend on cassava for survival -- but this critical food source is under attack by entirely preventable viruses, says computational biologist and TED Senior Fellow Laura Boykin. She takes us to the farms in East Africa where she's working with a diverse team of scientists to help farmers keep their crops healthy using a portable DNA lab and mini supercomputer that can identify viruses in hours, instead of months."
1125,A radical experiment in empathy,"['tedx', 'culture', 'empathy', 'globalissues', 'iraq', 'society', 'sociology', 'war']","Can two countries at war dare to empathize with one another? Step by methodical step, sociologist Sam Richards gives his audience an extraordinary challenge: to allow a group of (mainly) Americans to understand -- not approve of, but understand -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent. A powerful talk."
1474,We are all designers,"['design', 'humor', 'journalism']","Journalist John Hockenberry tells a personal story inspired by a pair of flashy wheels in a wheelchair-parts catalogue -- and how they showed him the value of designing a life of intent. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)"
1356,The toxic baby,"['animals', 'biology', 'children', 'film', 'plastic', 'science', 'sex', 'pregnancy', 'publichealth', 'scienceandart', 'pollution', 'cancer', 'chemistry', 'environment', 'health', 'ecology', 'activism', 'agriculture', 'sustainability']","Filmmaker Penelope Jagessar Chaffer was curious about the chemicals she was exposed to while pregnant: Could they affect her unborn child? So she asked scientist Tyrone Hayes to brief her on one he studied closely: atrazine, a herbicide used on corn. (Hayes, an expert on amphibians, is a critic of atrazine, which displays a disturbing effect on frog development.) Onstage together at TEDWomen, Hayes and Chaffer tell their story."
1121,Remaking my voice,"['community', 'culture', 'speech']","When film critic Roger Ebert lost his lower jaw to cancer, he lost the ability to eat and speak. But he did not lose his voice. In a moving talk from TED2011, Ebert and his wife, Chaz, with friends Dean Ornish and John Hunter, come together to tell his remarkable story."
2077,A neural portrait of the human mind,"['brain', 'neuroscience', 'visualizations']","Brain imaging pioneer Nancy Kanwisher, who uses fMRI scans to see activity in brain regions (often her own), shares what she and her colleagues have learned: The brain is made up of both highly specialized components and general-purpose ""machinery."" Another surprise: There's so much left to learn."
19992,What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media,"['socialmedia', 'politics', 'history', 'internet', 'journalism', 'technology', 'tedfellows']","History is written by the victors, as the saying goes -- but what would it look like if it was written by everyone? Journalist and TED Fellow Mikhail Zygar is on a mission to show us with Project1917, a ""social network for dead people"" that posts the real diaries and letters of more than 3,000 people who lived during the Russian Revolution. By showing the daily thoughts of the likes of Lenin, Trotsky and many less celebrated figures, the project sheds new light on history as it once was -- and as it could have been. Learn more about this digital retelling of the past as well as Zygar's latest project about the transformative year of 1968."
2104,How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era,"['government', 'open-source', 'politics', 'technology']","Pia Mancini and her colleagues want to upgrade democracy in Argentina and beyond. Through their open-source mobile platform they want to bring citizens inside the legislative process, and run candidates who will listen to what they say."
2142,Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world’s most dangerous places,"['activism', 'film', 'globalissues', 'onlinevideo', 'socialchange']","To see is to believe, says Oren Yakobovich — which is why he helps everyday people use hidden cameras to film dangerous situations of violence, political fraud and abuse. His organization, Videre, uncovers, verifies and publicizes human-rights abuses that the world needs to witness."
2702,A scientific approach to the paranormal,"['death', 'science', 'curiosity', 'fear', 'health', 'society', 'mind', 'sound', 'storytelling']","What's haunting Carrie Poppy? Is it ghosts or something worse? In this talk, the investigative journalist narrates her encounter with a spooky feeling you'll want to warn your friends about and explains why we need science to deal with paranormal activity. "
571,Learning from the gecko's tail,"['animals', 'biology', 'biomechanics', 'design', 'materials', 'robots', 'technology']","Biologist Robert Full studies the amazing gecko, with its supersticky feet and tenacious climbing skill. But high-speed footage reveals that the gecko's tail harbors perhaps the most surprising talents of all."
1851,Africa's next boom,"['africa', 'business', 'economics', 'globalissues']","The past decade has seen slow and steady economic growth across the continent of Africa. But economist Charles Robertson has a bold thesis: Africa's about to boom. He talks through a few of the indicators -- from rising education levels to expanded global investment (and not just from China) -- that lead him to predict rapid growth for a billion people, sooner than you may think."
10173,Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system,"['business', 'capitalism', 'economics', 'drones', 'innovation', 'politics', 'society', 'future']","Bhu Srinivasan researches the intersection of capitalism and technological progress. Instead of thinking about capitalism as a firm, unchanging ideology, he suggests that we should think of it as an operating system -- one that needs upgrades to keep up with innovation, like the impending take-off of drone delivery services. Learn more about the past and future of the free market (and a potential coming identity crisis for the United States' version of capitalism) with this quick, forward-thinking talk."
15536,A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal,"['medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'invention', 'health', 'science', 'innovation', 'technology', 'design']","Working out of her garage, Anushka Naiknaware designed a sensor that tracks wound healing, becoming the youngest winner (at age 13) of the Google Science Fair. Her clever invention addresses the global challenge of chronic wounds, which don't heal properly due to preexisting conditions like diabetes and account for billions in medical costs worldwide. Join Naiknaware as she explains how her ""smart bandage"" works -- and how she's sharing her story to inspire others to make a difference."
1919,"The world is one big dataset. Now, how to photograph it ...","['map', 'space', 'technology']","We're all familiar with satellite imagery, but what we might not know is that much of it is out of date. That's because satellites are big and expensive, so there aren't that many of them up in space. As he explains in this fascinating talk, Dan Berkenstock and his team came up with a different solution, designing a cheap, lightweight satellite with a radically new approach to photographing what's going on on Earth."
23089,A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable,"['health', 'healthcare', 'blindness', 'publichealth', 'sight', 'globalissues', 'technology', 'medicine', 'economics', 'tedfellows']","In 2011, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous developed a smartphone app that brings quality eye care to remote communities, helping people avoid losing their sight to curable or preventable conditions. Along the way, he noticed a problem: strict funding regulations meant that he could only operate on people with specific diseases, leaving many others without resources for treatment. In this passionate talk, Bastawrous calls for a new health care funding model that's flexible and ambitious -- to deliver better health to everyone, whatever their needs are."
896,How cognitive surplus will change the world,"['collaboration', 'community', 'culture', 'technology', 'wikipedia']","Clay Shirky looks at ""cognitive surplus"" -- the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. While we're busy editing Wikipedia, posting to Ushahidi (and yes, making LOLcats), we're building a better, more cooperative world."
29265,"The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain","['genetics', 'gender', 'genderequality', 'identity', 'genderspectrum', 'dna', 'activism', 'transgender', 'biology', 'technology', 'science', 'brain']","How exactly does gender work? It's not just about our chromosomes, says biologist Karissa Sanbonmatsu. In a visionary talk, she shares new discoveries from epigenetics, the emerging study of how DNA activity can permanently change based on social factors like trauma or diet. Learn how life experiences shape the way genes are expressed -- and what that means for our understanding of gender."
73,In praise of slowness,"['choice', 'culture', 'happiness', 'health', 'parenting', 'personalgrowth', 'potential', 'psychology', 'work-lifebalance']","Journalist Carl Honore believes the Western world's emphasis on speed erodes health, productivity and quality of life. But there's a backlash brewing, as everyday people start putting the brakes on their all-too-modern lives."
58010,How to make faster decisions,"['business', 'work', 'decision-making']","In a world of endless reviews and options, it's easy to become paralyzed by indecision. Investor and writer Patrick McGinnis shares the dangers of ""FOBO"" -- the fear of better options -- and how to overcome it."
1126,On being wrong,"['culture', 'failure']","Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? ""Wrongologist"" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility."
490,How to grow fresh air,"['architecture', 'cities', 'environment', 'garden', 'science', 'technology', 'plants']","Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air."
919,Superheroes inspired by Islam,"['islam', 'art', 'culture', 'peace']","In ""THE 99,"" Naif Al-Mutawa's new generation of comic book heroes fight more than crime -- they smash stereotypes and battle extremism. Named after the 99 attributes of Allah, his characters reinforce positive messages of Islam and cross cultures to create a new moral framework for confronting evil, even teaming up with the Justice League of America."
1041,3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship,"['tedx', 'business', 'cities', 'community', 'economics', 'green']",The future of green is local. Majora Carter tells three inspiring stories of people who are saving their own communities while saving the planet.
2193,Why we all need to practice emotional first aid,"['tedx', 'health', 'mentalhealth', 'psychology', 'self', 'mindfulness']","We'll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don't we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with common psychological-health issues on our own, says Guy Winch. But we don't have to. He makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, with the same diligence we take care of our bodies."
945,Let the environment guide our development,"['agriculture', 'cities', 'climatechange', 'environment', 'globalissues', 'anthropocene', 'globalcommons']","Human growth has strained the earth's resources, but as Johan Rockström reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine ""planetary boundaries"" that can guide us in protecting our planet's many overlapping ecosystems."
1226,The 6 killer apps of prosperity,"['business', 'culture', 'economics', 'globalissues']","Over the past few centuries, Western cultures have been very good at creating general prosperity for themselves. Historian Niall Ferguson asks: Why the West, and less so the rest? He suggests half a dozen big ideas from Western culture -- call them the 6 killer apps -- that promote wealth, stability and innovation. And in this new century, he says, these apps are all shareable."
13011,Passion for compassion,"['compassion', 'tedprize', 'collaboration', 'globalissues', 'cities', 'humanity']","With the Charter for Compassion, Karen Armstrong challenged the world to bring the Golden Rule to the center of life. Learn about how her vision inspired Greg Fischer -- the mayor of Louisville, Kentucky -- to lead the city in fascinating new directions."
973,Tagging tuna in the deep ocean,"['missionblue', 'oceans', 'science', 'technology']","Tuna are ocean athletes -- fast, far-ranging predators whose habits we're just beginning to understand. Marine biologist Barbara Block fits tuna with tracking tags (complete with transponders) that record unprecedented amounts of data about these gorgeous, threatened fish and the ocean habitats they move through."
2508,The beauty of being a misfit,"['failure', 'creativity', 'books', 'beauty', 'identity', 'humanity', 'personalgrowth', 'self', 'writing', 'tedbooks']","To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit. Author Lidia Yuknavitch shares her own wayward journey in an intimate recollection of patchwork stories about loss, shame and the slow process of self-acceptance. ""Even at the moment of your failure, you are beautiful,"" she says. ""You don't know it yet, but you have the ability to reinvent yourself endlessly. That's your beauty."""
2594,What reality are you creating for yourself?,"['brain', 'choice', 'fear', 'humanity', 'identity', 'motivation', 'personalgrowth', 'success', 'blindness']","Reality isn't something you perceive; it's something you create in your mind. Isaac Lidsky learned this profound lesson firsthand, when unexpected life circumstances yielded valuable insights. In this introspective, personal talk, he challenges us to let go of excuses, assumptions and fears, and accept the awesome responsibility of being the creators of our own reality."
1629,"A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar ...","['middleeast', 'tedx', 'comedy', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'humor', 'performance']","Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani takes to the TEDxSummit stage in Doha, Qatar to take on serious issues in the Middle East -- like how many kisses to give when saying “Hi,” and what not to say on an American airplane."
1820,Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it,"['crime', 'finance', 'technology']","How do you pick up a malicious online virus, the kind of malware that snoops on your data and taps your bank account? Often, it's through simple things you do each day without thinking twice. James Lyne reminds us that it's not only the NSA that's watching us, but ever-more-sophisticated cybercriminals, who exploit both weak code and trusting human nature."
935,Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?,"['iran', 'middleeast', 'comedy', 'entertainment', 'politics', 'humor']","A founding member of the Axis of Evil Comedy Tour, standup comic Maz Jobrani riffs on the challenges and conflicts of being Iranian-American -- ""like, part of me thinks I should have a nuclear program; the other part thinks I can't be trusted ..."""
562,Odes to vice and consequences,"['entertainment', 'history', 'literature', 'poetry', 'writing', 'books']","Media big shot Felix Dennis roars his fiery, funny, sometimes racy original poetry, revisiting haunting memories and hard-won battle scars from a madcap -- yet not too repentant -- life. Best enjoyed with a glass of wine."
23958,The Arctic vs. the Antarctic,"['animation', 'ted-ed', 'antarctica', 'education', 'glacier', 'climatechange', 'animals', 'oceans', 'science', 'biology', 'environment', 'sustainability']","How can you tell the two poles apart? Where are the penguins? What about the bears? The Arctic pole is located in the Northern Hemisphere within the deep Arctic Ocean, while the Antarctic pole is smack in the middle of the ice-covered Antarctica. Camille Seaman describes how enterprising people and organisms have found ways to reside around both poles despite the frigid temperatures. [Directed by Iuri Araújo & Guilherme Araújo, narrated by Michelle Snow]."
565,Eco-friendly drywall,"['architecture', 'business', 'demo', 'design', 'green', 'invention', 'technology']","Kevin Surace suggests we rethink basic construction materials -- such as the familiar wallboard -- to reduce the huge carbon footprint generated by the manufacturing and construction of our buildings. He introduces EcoRock, a clean, recyclable and energy-efficient drywall created by his team at Serious Materials."
674,The profound journey of compassion,"['charterforcompassion', 'compassion', 'globalissues', 'religion', 'self']","Swami Dayananda Saraswati unravels the parallel paths of personal development and attaining true compassion. He walks us through each step of self-realization, from helpless infancy to the fearless act of caring for others."
510,A theory of everything,"['cognitivescience', 'comedy', 'entertainment', 'humor', 'philosophy', 'science', 'technology']","Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain."
2094,Big data is better data,"['data', 'future', 'technology']","Self-driving cars were just the start. What's the future of big data-driven technology and design? In a thrilling science talk, Kenneth Cukier looks at what's next for machine learning -- and human knowledge."
42698,¿Cómo podríamos viajar más rápido que la velocidad de la luz?,"['physics', 'time', 'space', 'science', 'universe']","¿Sabes que la velocidad de la luz es tan rápida, que si el sol estallará ahorita, nadie se daría cuenta hasta dentro de 8 minutos? Miguel Alcubierre, un físico teórico, comparte y explica en esta iluminante charla algunas de las teorías de la física que nos ayudan a conceptualizar nuestro entendimiento del tiempo y del espacio."
2838,How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age ,"['business', 'art', 'creativity', 'entrepreneur', 'money', 'music']","It's been a weird 100 years for artists and creators, says musician and entrepreneur Jack Conte. The traditional ways we've turned art into money (like record sales) have been broken by the internet, leaving musicians, writers and artists wondering how to make a living. With Patreon, Conte has created a way for artists on the internet to get paid by their fans. Could payment platforms like this change what it means to be an artist in the digital age?"
10376,Why I train grandmothers to treat depression,"['collaboration', 'africa', 'communication', 'community', 'depression', 'compassion', 'empathy', 'humanity', 'innovation', 'illness', 'mentalhealth', 'socialchange', 'society', 'personalgrowth']","Dixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe -- for a population of more than 16 million. Realizing that his country would never be able to scale traditional methods of treating those with mental health issues, Chibanda helped to develop a beautiful solution powered by a limitless resource: grandmothers. In this extraordinary, inspirational talk, learn more about the friendship bench program, which trains grandmothers in evidence-based talk therapy and brings care, and hope, to those in need."
2781,3 principles for creating safer AI,"['ai', 'code', 'communication', 'algorithm', 'humanity', 'machinelearning', 'innovation', 'intelligence', 'choice', 'data', 'future', 'computers', 'programming', 'robots', 'technology', 'morality', 'science']","How can we harness the power of superintelligent AI while also preventing the catastrophe of robotic takeover? As we move closer toward creating all-knowing machines, AI pioneer Stuart Russell is working on something a bit different: robots with uncertainty. Hear his vision for human-compatible AI that can solve problems using common sense, altruism and other human values."
38297,A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing,"['tedfellows', 'technology', 'pollution', 'environment', 'anthropocene', 'science', 'sustainability', 'invention', 'climatechange', 'design']","How often do you think about the air you're breathing? Probably not enough, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Romain Lacombe. He introduces Flow: a personal air-quality tracker that fits in your hand and monitors pollution levels in real time. See how this device could help you track and understand pollution street by street, hour by hour -- and empower you to take action to improve your health."
1926,Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore,"['design', 'green', 'sustainability']","Most of us want to do the right thing when it comes to the environment. But things aren’t as simple as opting for the paper bag, says sustainability strategist Leyla Acaroglu. A bold call for us to let go of tightly-held green myths and think bigger in order to create systems and products that ease strain on the planet."
1779,The big-data revolution in health care,"['tedx', 'data', 'globalissues', 'health', 'technology']","Collecting global health data is an imperfect science: Workers tramp through villages to knock on doors and ask questions, write the answers on paper forms, then input the data -- and from this messy, gappy information, countries and NGOs need to make huge decisions. Data geek Joel Selanikio talks through the sea change in collecting health data in the past decade -- starting with the PalmPilot and Hotmail, and now moving into the cloud."
1755,How books can open your mind,"['creativity', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'library', 'literature', 'introvert']","What happens when a dream you've held since childhood ... doesn't come true? As Lisa Bu adjusted to a new life in the United States, she turned to books to expand her mind and create a new path for herself. She shares her unique approach to reading in this lovely, personal talk about the magic of books."
322,Watch me fold origami (blindfolded),"['cello', 'entertainment', 'music', 'origami', 'livemusic']","After Robert Lang's talk on origami at TED2008, Bruno Bowden stepped onstage with a challenge -- he would fold one of Lang's astonishingly complicated origami figures, blindfolded, in under 2 minutes. He's accompanied by the cellist Rufus Cappadocia."
1617,Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!,"['tedx', 'business', 'globalissues', 'globaldevelopment']","When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you're trying to help, and tap into their own entrepreneurial spirit. His advice on what works will help any entrepreneur."
2701,"""Rollercoaster""","['music', 'guitar', 'livemusic', 'performance', 'singer', 'entertainment']","Singer, songwriter and actress Sara Ramirez is a woman of many talents. Joined by Michael Pemberton on guitar, Ramirez sings of opportunity, wisdom and the highs and lows of life in this live performance of her song, ""Rollercoaster."""
21148,What archaeology and DNA can teach us about prehistoric migration,"['science(hard)', 'archaeology', 'history', 'biology', 'race']","In 2018, biomolecular archaeologist Ian Barnes' team at the Natural History Museum in London ascertained that Cheddar Man—the oldest near-complete human skeleton discovered in the British Isles—had dark skin and light eyes. Their findings challenged the views that many groups had long held about Britain's racial heritage. In this talk, Barnes describes how biomolecular archaeology is transforming the way we think about racial migration in prehistoric times."
32189,How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?,"['ai', 'machinelearning', 'education', 'computers', 'collaboration', 'technology', 'future', 'society', 'robots', 'innovation', 'work']","The path to skill around the globe has been the same for thousands of years: train under an expert and take on small, easy tasks before progressing to riskier, harder ones. But right now, we're handling AI in a way that blocks that path -- and sacrificing learning in our quest for productivity, says organizational ethnographer Matt Beane. What can be done? Beane shares a vision that flips the current story into one of distributed, machine-enhanced mentorship that takes full advantage of AI's amazing capabilities while enhancing our skills at the same time."
2813,Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power,"['democracy', 'government', 'journalism', 'immigration', 'politics', 'socialchange', 'tedenespaã±ol', 'writing']","You can kick Jorge Ramos out of your press conference (as Donald Trump infamously did in 2015), but you can never silence him. A reporter for more than 30 years, Ramos believes that a journalist's responsibility is to question and challenge those in power. In this compelling talk -- which earned him a standing ovation midway through -- Ramos explains why, in certain circumstances, he believes journalists must take sides. (In Spanish with English subtitles)"
43407,5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins,"['science', 'audaciousproject', 'future', 'biology', 'syntheticbiology', 'nature', 'technology', 'molecularbiology']","Proteins are remarkable molecular machines: they digest your food, fire your neurons, power your immune system and so much more. What if we could design new ones, with functions never before seen in nature? In this remarkable glimpse of the future, David Baker shares how his team at the Institute for Protein Design is creating entirely new proteins from scratch -- and shows how they could help us tackle five massive challenges facing humanity. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)"
1732,Our failing schools. Enough is enough!,"['business', 'children', 'education']","Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as they are now -- and it’s because we’re clinging to a business model that clearly doesn’t work. Education advocate Geoffrey Canada dares the system to look at the data, think about the customers and make systematic shifts in order to help greater numbers of kids excel."
20390,Your fingerprints reveal more than you think,"['forensics', 'crime', 'science', 'humanbody', 'technology', 'criminaljustice', 'molecularbiology']","Our fingerprints are what make us unique -- but they're also home to a world of information hidden in molecules that reveal our actions, lifestyles and routines. In this riveting talk, chemist Simona Francese shows how she studies these microscopic traces using mass spectrometry, a technology that analyzes fingerprints in previously impossible detail, and demonstrates how this cutting-edge forensic science can help police catch criminals. (Note: This talk contains descriptions of sexual violence.)"
8420,"Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist","['future', 'green', 'space', 'deextinction', 'humanity', 'environment', 'science']","Stewart Brand is a futurist, counterculturist and visionary with a very wide-ranging mind. In conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Brand discusses ... just about everything: human nature, bringing back the wooly mammoth, geoengineering, rewilding and science as organized skepticism -- plus the story of an acid trip on a San Francisco rooftop in the '60s that sparked a perspective-shifting idea. ""The story we're told is that we're the next meteor,"" Brand says, but ""things are capable of getting better."""
29688,Por qué deberíamos comer más bichos,"['globalissues', 'science', 'insects', 'food', 'sustainability']","Have you ever considered crickets, houseflies or grasshoppers for a dinner menu? In this fun and easily digestible talk, science educator Renata di Tullio makes a case for bugs as nutritious and sustainable food sources. "
50854,Hope and justice for women who've survived ISIS,"['middleeast', 'sexualviolence', 'crime', 'war', 'socialchange', 'violence', 'personalgrowth', 'women', 'tedmed']","Human rights protector Rabiaa El Garani shares the challenging, heartbreaking story of sexual violence committed against Yazidi women and girls in Iraq by ISIS -- and her work seeking justice for the survivors. ""These victims have been through unimaginable pain. But with a little help, they show how resilient they are,"" she says. ""It is an honor to bear witness; it is a privilege to seek justice."" (This talk contains mature content.)"
1378,We need to talk about an injustice,"['crime', 'culture', 'globalissues', 'inequality', 'law', 'race', 'criminaljustice', 'justicesystem']","In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson shares some hard truths about America's justice system, starting with a massive imbalance along racial lines: a third of the country's black male population has been incarcerated at some point in their lives. These issues, which are wrapped up in America's unexamined history, are rarely talked about with this level of candor, insight and persuasiveness."
2119,A flying camera ... on a leash,"['tedfellows', 'drones', 'photography', 'robots', 'technology']","Let's admit it: aerial photo drones and UAVs are a little creepy, and they come with big regulatory and safety problems. But aerial photos can be a powerful way of telling the truth about the world: the size of a protest, the spread of an oil spill, the wildlife hidden in a delta. Sergei Lupashin demos Fotokite, a nifty new way to see the world from on high, safely and under control."
1736,Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!,"['china', 'education', 'language']","For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be less difficult. ShaoLan walks through a simple lesson in recognizing the ideas behind the characters and their meaning -- building from a few simple forms to more complex concepts. Call it Chineasy."
957,Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now,"['evolution', 'humanity', 'personalgrowth', 'science', 'self']","In today's world, balancing school, work, kids and more, most of us can only hope for the recommended eight hours of sleep. Examining the science behind our body's internal clock, Jessa Gamble reveals the surprising and substantial program of rest we should be observing."
469,How Benjamin Button got his face,"['aging', 'business', 'entertainment', 'film', 'technology', 'animation']","Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions of Brad Pitt's face for ""The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."""
2379,My country will be underwater soon -- unless we work together,"['globalissues', 'oceans', 'missionblue', 'climatechange', 'science', 'environment', 'humanity', 'policy', 'pollution', 'bigproblems', 'socialchange', 'fish', 'future', 'naturaldisaster']","For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn't something to be debated, denied or legislated against -- it's an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific island nation may soon be underwater, thanks to rising sea levels. In a personal conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Kiribati President Anote Tong discusses his country's present climate catastrophe and its imperiled future. ""In order to deal with climate change, there's got to be sacrifice. There's got to be commitment,"" he says. ""We've got to tell people that the world has changed."""
19266,How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace,"['agriculture', 'farming', 'africa', 'socialchange', 'society', 'community', 'future', 'globalissues', 'humanity', 'innovation', 'potential', 'peace']","Africa's youth is coming of age rapidly, but job growth on the continent isn't keeping up. The result: financial insecurity and, in some cases, a turn towards insurgent groups. In a passionate talk, agricultural entrepreneur Kola Masha details his plan to bring leadership and investment to small farmers in Africa -- and employ a rising generation."
644,A third way to think about aid,"['africa', 'business', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'innovation', 'invention', 'poverty', 'women', 'globaldevelopment', 'philanthropy', 'inequality', 'markets']","The debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust ""charity"" against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jacqueline Novogratz proposes a middle way she calls patient capital, with promising examples of entrepreneurial innovation driving social change."
2716,Political common ground in a polarized United States,"['collaboration', 'communication', 'democracy', 'government', 'future', 'history', 'humanity', 'immigration', 'identity', 'inequality', 'infrastructure', 'journalism', 'policy', 'news', 'security', 'politics', 'socialmedia', 'socialchange', 'women', 'unitedstates', 'writing']","How can we bridge the gap between left and right to have a wiser, more connected political conversation? Journalist Gretchen Carlson and op-ed columnist David Brooks share insights on the tensions at the heart of American politics today -- and where we can find common ground. Followed by a rousing performance of ""America the Beautiful"" by Vy Higginsen's Gospel Choir of Harlem."
845,Toward a science of simplicity,"['chemistry', 'complexity', 'design', 'history', 'simplicity', 'technology']","Simplicity: We know it when we see it -- but what is it, exactly? In this funny, philosophical talk, George Whitesides chisels out an answer."
912,"Global population growth, box by box","['culture', 'data', 'demo', 'globalissues', 'poverty', 'prediction', 'presentation']",The world's population will grow to 9 billion over the next 50 years -- and only by raising the living standards of the poorest can we check population growth. This is the paradoxical answer that Hans Rosling unveils at TED@Cannes using colorful new data display technology (you'll see).
52270,"How online marketplaces can help local economies, not hurt them","['globaldevelopment', 'business', 'work', 'economics', 'entrepreneur', 'internet', 'markets', 'technology']","The growth of online marketplaces like Uber, Airbnb and Amazon can sometimes threaten local businesses such as taxis, hotels and retail shops by taking away jobs or reducing income to the community. But it doesn't have to be this way, says strategy consultant Amane Dannouni. Pointing to examples like Gojek (Indonesia's Uber for motorbikes) and Jumia (Africa's version of Amazon), he explains how some online marketplaces make deliberate trade-offs to include, rather than replace, existing players in local economies -- benefiting everyone in the long run."
1856,"Life in the ""digital now""","['communication', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'storytelling', 'technology']","One year ago, Abha Dawesar was living in blacked-out Manhattan post-Sandy, scrounging for power to connect. As a novelist, she was struck by this metaphor: Have our lives now become fixated on the drive to digitally connect, while we miss out on what's real?"
3595,We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads,"['machinelearning', 'ai', 'politics', 'algorithm', 'business', 'sociology', 'corruption', 'consumerism', 'data', 'economics', 'government', 'democracy', 'socialmedia', 'socialchange', 'society', 'technology']","We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says techno-sociologist Zeynep Tufekci. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response."
139,Tour Microsoft's Virtual Earth,"['design', 'map', 'microsoft', 'technology', 'virtualreality']","Microsoft's Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyper-real cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus."
300,Animate characters by evolving them,"['animals', 'biomechanics', 'demo', 'design', 'entertainment', 'gaming', 'technology', 'virtualreality', 'animation']","Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4."
1505,New ways to see music (with color! and fire!),"['creativity', 'music', 'visualizations']","Designer Jared Ficklin creates wild visualizations that let us see music, using color and even fire (a first for the TED stage) to analyze how sound makes us feel. He takes a brief digression to analyze the sound of a skatepark -- and how audio can clue us in to developing creativity."
1243,How beauty feels,"['senses', 'beauty', 'design', 'happiness', 'art']","A story, a work of art, a face, a designed object -- how do we tell that something is beautiful?  And why does it matter so much to us? Designer Richard Seymour explores our response to beauty and the surprising power of objects that exhibit it."
2870,What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish,"['ai', 'robots', 'fish', 'future', 'ants', 'science', 'intelligence', 'innovation', 'insects']","Science fiction visions of the future show us AI built to replicate our way of thinking -- but what if we modeled it instead on the other kinds of intelligence found in nature? Robotics engineer Radhika Nagpal studies the collective intelligence displayed by insects and fish schools, seeking to understand their rules of engagement. In a visionary talk, she presents her work creating artificial collective power and previews a future where swarms of robots work together to build flood barriers, pollinate crops, monitor coral reefs and form constellations of satellites."
2666,How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control,"['activism', 'bullying', 'communication', 'computers', 'feminism', 'gender', 'genderequality', 'globalissues', 'policy', 'potential', 'socialmedia', 'society', 'women', 'writing', 'internet', 'sexualviolence']","Enough with online hate speech, sexual harassment and threats of violence against women and marginalized groups. It's time to take the global crisis of online abuse seriously. In this searching, powerful talk, Ashley Judd recounts her ongoing experience of being terrorized on social media for her unwavering activism and calls on citizens of the internet, the tech community, law enforcement and legislators to recognize the offline harm of online harassment."
10358,The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet,"['tedx', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'community', 'relationships', 'personalgrowth']","We often find ourselves stuck in narrow social circles with similar people. What habits confine us, and how can we break them? Organizational psychologist Tanya Menon considers how we can be more intentional about expanding our social universes -- and how it can lead to new ideas and opportunities."
15290,The surprising science of alpha males,"['animals', 'biology', 'bodylanguage', 'primates', 'apes', 'communication', 'community', 'nature', 'science', 'politics', 'empathy', 'peace', 'biodiversity']","In this fascinating look at the ""alpha male,"" primatologist Frans de Waal explores the privileges and costs of power while drawing surprising parallels between how humans and primates choose their leaders. His research reveals some of the unexpected capacities of alpha males -- generosity, empathy, even peacekeeping -- and sheds light on the power struggles of human politicians. ""Someone who is big and strong and intimidates and insults everyone is not necessarily an alpha male,"" de Waal says."
1759,What will future jobs look like?,"['economics', 'robots', 'work']","Economist Andrew McAfee suggests that, yes, probably, droids will take our jobs -- or at least the kinds of jobs we know now. In this far-seeing talk, he thinks through what future jobs might look like, and how to educate coming generations to hold them."
5351,How to connect with depressed friends,"['health', 'tedx', 'communication', 'depression', 'compassion', 'humanity', 'friendship', 'personalgrowth', 'relationships']",Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller Bill Bernat has a few suggestions. Learn some dos and don'ts for talking to people living with depression -- and handle your next conversation with grace and maybe a bit of humor.
1093,How to keep rivers and streams flowing,"['tedx', 'business', 'environment', 'globalissues', 'innovation', 'nature', 'sustainability', 'water', 'rivers']","With streams and rivers drying up because of over-usage, Rob Harmon talks about a clever market mechanism to bring back the water. Farmers and beer companies find their fates intertwined in the century-old tale of Prickly Pear Creek."
2681,My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story,"['activism', 'bigproblems', 'brain', 'death', 'humanity', 'guns', 'mentalhealth', 'mind', 'pain', 'parenting', 'personality', 'society', 'socialchange', 'unitedstates', 'tedmed', 'violence']","Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and a teacher. She's spent years excavating every detail of her family life, trying to understand what she could have done to prevent her son's violence. In this difficult, jarring talk, Klebold explores the intersection between mental health and violence, advocating for parents and professionals to continue to examine the link between suicidal and homicidal thinking."
983,"Poverty, money -- and love","['business', 'entrepreneur', 'globalissues', 'poverty', 'socialchange', 'womeninbusiness']","What do you think of people in poverty? Maybe what Jessica Jackley once did: ""they"" need ""our"" help, in the form of a few coins in a jar. The co-founder of Kiva.org talks about how her attitude changed -- and how her work with microloans has brought new power to people who live on a few dollars a day."
2828,The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers,"['art', 'culture', 'creativity', 'design', 'humor', 'tednyc']","Meet Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker's art director. For the past 24 years, she's helped decide what appears on the magazine's famous cover, from the black-on-black depiction of the Twin Towers the week after 9/11 to a recent, Russia-influenced riff on the magazine's mascot, Eustace Tilley. In this visual retrospective, Mouly considers how a simple drawing can cut through the torrent of images that we see every day and elegantly capture the feeling (and the sensibility) of a moment in time."
1215,Can we make things that make themselves?,"['tedfellows', 'design', 'technology']","MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself together. It's a big concept at early stages; Tibbits shows us three in-the-lab projects that hint at what a self-assembling future might look like."
307,The brain in love,"['brain', 'cognitivescience', 'culture', 'literature', 'love', 'poetry', 'psychology', 'relationships', 'science', 'technology']","Why do we crave love so much, even to the point that we would die for it? To learn more about our very real, very physical need for romantic love, Helen Fisher and her research team took MRIs of people in love -- and people who had just been dumped."
1193,"Embracing otherness, embracing myself","['culture', 'entertainment', 'psychology', 'self', 'film']","Actor Thandie Newton tells the story of finding her ""otherness"" -- first, as a child growing up in two distinct cultures, and then as an actor playing with many different selves. A warm, wise talk, fresh from stage at TEDGlobal 2011."
2072,Why does the universe exist?,['philosophy'],Why is there something instead of nothing? In other words: Why does the universe exist (and why are we in it)? Philosopher and writer Jim Holt follows this question toward three possible answers. Or four. Or none.
685,The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology,"['demo', 'design', 'open-source', 'technology']","At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper ""laptop."" In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all."
450,A solar energy system that tracks the sun,"['energy', 'invention', 'solarenergy', 'technology', 'electricity']","Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, talks about his life as an inventor, starting with his high-school company selling solar energy plans and kits. Learn here about a groundbreaking system for solar cells -- and some questions we haven't yet solved."
487,Our buggy moral code,"['brain', 'culture', 'economics', 'evil', 'motivation', 'psychology', 'science', 'self', 'society']",Behavioral economist Dan Ariely studies the bugs in our moral code: the hidden reasons we think it's OK to cheat or steal (sometimes). Clever studies help make his point that we're predictably irrational -- and can be influenced in ways we can't grasp.
1288,How to stop torture,"['globalissues', 'law', 'politics', 'prison', 'war', 'criminaljustice', 'justicesystem']","Political prisoners aren't the only ones being tortured -- the vast majority of judicial torture happens in ordinary cases, even in 'functioning' legal systems. Social activist Karen Tse shows how we can, and should, stand up and end the use of routine torture."
997,E-voting without fraud,"['culture', 'democracy', 'design', 'globalissues', 'government', 'politics', 'technology']","David Bismark demos a new system for voting that contains a simple, verifiable way to prevent fraud and miscounting -- while keeping each person's vote secret."
1192,"Fighting viruses, defending the net","['internet', 'tedx', 'computers', 'crime', 'globalissues', 'technology', 'virus']","It's been 25 years since the first PC virus (Brain A) hit the net, and what was once an annoyance has become a sophisticated tool for crime and espionage. Computer security expert Mikko Hyppönen tells us how we can stop these new viruses from threatening the internet as we know it."
978,When bad engineering makes a natural disaster even worse,"['tedfellows', 'architecture', 'business', 'disasterrelief', 'globalissues', 'naturaldisaster', 'technology']","What did the world learn from the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti in 2010? That shoddy buildings and bad planning can make a terrible situation even worse. ""Haiti was not a natural disaster,"" says TED Fellow Peter Haas. ""It was a disaster of engineering."" The solution: Help builders on the ground get trained in modern engineering practices, so they can rebuild their country stronger, brick by brick."
2620,Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world,"['art', 'education', 'beauty', 'math', 'communication', 'music', 'nature', 'philosophy', 'universe', 'visualizations', 'tedx']","Unlock the mysteries and inner workings of the world through one of the most imaginative art forms ever -- mathematics -- with Roger Antonsen, as he explains how a slight change in perspective can reveal patterns, numbers and formulas as the gateways to empathy and understanding."
46598,What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea,"['humanrights', 'humanity', 'socialchange', 'asia', 'activism']","""North Korea is unimaginable,"" says human rights activist Yeonmi Park, who escaped the country at the age of 13. Sharing the harrowing story of her childhood, she reflects on the fragility of freedom -- and shows how change can be achieved even in the world's darkest places."
54394,Why I protest for climate justice,"['climatechange', 'environment', 'activism', 'sustainability', 'socialchange', 'protests', 'society', 'politics']","At age 81, actor and activist Jane Fonda is putting herself on the line for the planet -- literally. In a video interview with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Fonda speaks about getting arrested multiple times during Fire Drill Fridays, the weekly climate demonstrations she leads in Washington, DC -- and discusses why civil disobedience is becoming a new normal in the age of climate change."
1678,Build a School in the Cloud,"['tedprize', 'technology', 'code', 'education']","Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other -- using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Hear his inspiring vision for Self Organized Learning Environments."
1765,Imagine a European democracy without borders,"['europe', 'democracy', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'politics']","Greece has been the poster child for European economic crisis, but former Prime Minister George Papandreou wonders if it's just a preview of what's to come. “Our democracies,"" he says, ""are trapped by systems that are too big to fail, or more accurately, too big to control” -- while ""politicians like me have lost the trust of their peoples."" How to solve it? Have citizens re-engage more directly in a new democratic bargain."
2623,Easy DIY projects for kid engineers,"['children', 'education', 'computers', 'innovation', 'personalgrowth', 'design', 'programming', 'invention', 'engineering', 'technology', 'teaching', 'creativity', 'tedresidency']","TED Resident Fawn Qiu designs fun, low-cost projects that use familiar materials like paper and fabric to introduce engineering to kids. In this quick, clever talk, she shares how nontraditional workshops like hers can change the perception of technology and inspire students to participate in creating it."
235,The search for the true face of Leonardo,"['art', 'demo', 'design', 'entertainment', 'history', 'technology']",Mona Lisa is one of the best-known faces on the planet. But would you recognize an image of Leonardo da Vinci? Illustrator Siegfried Woldhek uses some thoughtful image-analysis techniques to find what he believes is the true face of Leonardo.
1104,Human exoskeletons -- for war and healing,"['design', 'disability', 'science', 'technology', 'bionics']","Eythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS -- robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200 pounds without tiring, or allow a wheelchair user to stand and walk. It's a powerful onstage demo, with implications for human potential of all kinds."
45838,What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy,"['tedfellows', 'storytelling', 'movies', 'china', 'film', 'socialchange', 'culture', 'society']","China's one-child policy ended in 2015, but we're just beginning to understand what it was like to live under the program, says TED Fellow and documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang. With footage from her film ""One Child Nation,"" she shares untold stories that reveal the policy's complex consequences and expose the creeping power of propaganda."
1829,What we don't understand about trust,"['tedx', 'globalissues', 'government', 'philosophy', 'trust']","Trust is on the decline, and we need to rebuild it. That's a commonly heard suggestion for making a better world ... but, says philosopher Onora O'Neill, we don't really understand what we're suggesting. She flips the question, showing us that our three most common ideas about trust are actually misdirected."
1982,Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time,"['astronomy', 'space', 'technology']","Satellite imaging has revolutionized our knowledge of the Earth, with detailed images of nearly every street corner readily available online. But Planet Labs' Will Marshall says we can do better and go faster -- by getting smaller. He introduces his tiny satellites -- no bigger than 10 by 10 by 30 centimeters -- that, when launched in a cluster, provide high-res images of the entire planet, updated daily."
1315,"1,000 TED Talks in six words","['tedx', 'statistics', 'visualizations']","Sebastian Wernicke thinks every TED Talk can be summarized in six words. In this talk, he shows how to do just that -- and less."
2378,The exhilarating peace of freediving,"['tedx', 'adventure', 'consciousness', 'exploration', 'extremesports', 'mind', 'mindfulness', 'meditation', 'oceans', 'peace']","In this breathtaking talk, world champion freediver Guillaume Néry takes us with him into the ocean's depths. Meter by meter, he explains the physical and emotional impact of water pressure, silence and holding your breath. His eloquent description of the underwater experience reveals the hidden poetry of freediving."
1846,Ingenious homes in unexpected places,"['cities', 'creativity', 'culture', 'design', 'photography']","In the center of Caracas, Venezuela, stands the 45-story ""Tower of David,"" an unfinished, abandoned skyscraper. But about eight years ago, people started moving in. Photographer Iwan Baan shows how people build homes in unlikely places, touring us through the family apartments of Torre David, a city on the water in Nigeria, and an underground village in China. Glorious images celebrate humanity's ability to survive and make a home -- anywhere."
2212,"There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help","['tedfellows', 'architecture', 'cities', 'death', 'design']","In this short, provocative talk, architect Alison Killing looks at buildings where death and dying happen -- cemeteries, hospitals, homes. The way we die is changing, and the way we build for dying ... well, maybe that should too. It's a surprisingly fascinating look at a hidden aspect of our cities, and our lives."
920,How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets,"['planets', 'astronomy', 'biology', 'extraterrestriallife', 'life', 'technology', 'universe', 'telescopes', 'astrobiology']","(NOTE: This talk was given in 2010, and this field of science has developed quickly since then. Read ""Criticisms & updates"" below for more details.) Astronomer Dimitar Sasselov and his colleagues search for Earth-like planets that may, someday, help us answer centuries-old questions about the origin and existence of biological life elsewhere (and on Earth). Preliminary results show that they have found 706 ""candidates"" -- some of which further research may prove to be planets with Earth-like geochemical characteristics."
2155,The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn,"['ai', 'algorithm', 'computers', 'health', 'intelligence', 'technology', 'machinelearning']","What happens when we teach a computer how to learn? Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep learning, a technique that can give computers the ability to learn Chinese, or to recognize objects in photos, or to help think through a medical diagnosis. (One deep learning tool, after watching hours of YouTube, taught itself the concept of ""cats."") Get caught up on a field that will change the way the computers around you behave ... sooner than you probably think."
39498,How Twitter needs to change,"['socialchange', 'socialmedia', 'internet', 'communication', 'culture', 'technology', 'democracy', 'entrepreneur']","Can Twitter be saved? In a wide-ranging conversation with TED's Chris Anderson and Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey discusses the future of the platform -- acknowledging problems with harassment and moderation and proposing some fundamental changes that he hopes will encourage healthy, respectful conversations. ""Are we actually delivering something that people value every single day?"" Dorsey asks."
1067,Are we born to run?,"['tedx', 'entertainment', 'health', 'journalism', 'science', 'sports']","Christopher McDougall explores the mysteries of the human desire to run. How did running help early humans survive -- and what urges from our ancient ancestors spur us on today? McDougall tells the story of the marathoner with a heart of gold, the unlikely ultra-runner, and the hidden tribe in Mexico that runs to live."
1915,Want to be an activist? Start with your toys,"['tedyouth', 'activism', 'toy', 'youth']","McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven -- because it was a toy for girls. So at age 13, Pope started an online petition for the American toy company Hasbro to change the pink-and-purple color scheme on the classic toy and incorporate boys into its TV marketing. In a heartening talk, Pope makes the case for gender-neutral toys and gives a rousing call to action to all kids who feel powerless."
5116,Lessons from a solar storm chaser,"['physics', 'space', 'tedfellows', 'science', 'sun', 'nature', 'nasa', 'solarsystem', 'universe']","Space physicist Miho Janvier studies solar storms: giant clouds of particles that escape from the Sun and can disrupt life on Earth (while also producing amazing auroras). How do you study the atmosphere on the Sun, which burns at temperatures of up to around 10 million degrees Kelvin? With math! Join the TED Fellow as she shares her work trying to better understand how the Sun affects us here on Earth."
32412,"How we can help the ""forgotten middle"" reach their full potential","['education', 'children', 'personalgrowth', 'motivation', 'success', 'potential']","You know the ""forgotten middle"": they're the students, coworkers and regular people who are often overlooked because they're seen as neither exceptional nor problematic. How can we empower them to reach their full potential? Sharing her work helping young people get to and through college, social activist Danielle R. Moss challenges us to think deeper about who deserves help and attention -- and shows us how to encourage those in the middle to dream big."
1742,Why we need strangeness,"['culture', 'data', 'sociology', 'technology']","In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we're barricading ourselves against strangeness -- people and ideas that don't fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already like and where we've already been. Maria Bezaitis makes a bold call for technology to deliver us to what and who we need, even if it's unfamiliar and strange."
35565,Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here's how to know,"['activism', 'protests', 'socialchange', 'democracy', 'africa', 'politics', 'leadership', 'corruption', 'society']","Farida Nabourema has dedicated her life to fighting the military regime in Togo, Africa's oldest autocracy. She's learned two truths along the way: no country is destined to be oppressed -- and no country is immune to dictatorship. But how can you tell if you're at risk before it happens? In a stirring talk, Nabourema shares the four key signs of a dictatorship, along with the secret to defiance for those living within an oppressive system."
2059,The danger of silence,"['poetry', 'socialchange', 'spokenword']","""We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't,"" says poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece from the heart, about finding the courage to speak up against ignorance and injustice."
1434,A 40-year plan for energy,"['alternativeenergy', 'energy', 'science', 'solarenergy', 'technology', 'windenergy', 'engineering', 'climatechange', 'invention', 'innovation', 'design', 'economics', 'business', 'green', 'future', 'materials', 'industrialdesign', 'environment', 'sustainability', 'naturalresources', 'electricity']","In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper, with no Act of Congress, led by business for profit. The key is integrating all four energy-using sectors—and four kinds of innovation."
820,My seven species of robot -- and how we created them,"['ai', 'tedx', 'engineering', 'robots', 'science', 'technology']","Meet seven all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- built by Dennis Hong's robotics team at RoMeLa, based at Virginia Tech. Watch to the end for the five creative secrets to his lab's success."
1782,Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?,"['children', 'entertainment', 'livemusic', 'music', 'performance', 'wunderkind']","All under the age of 16, brothers Jonny, Robbie and Tommy Mizzone are from New Jersey, a US state that's better known for the rock of Bruce Springsteen than the bluegrass of Earl Scruggs. Nonetheless, the siblings began performing bluegrass covers, as well as their own compositions, at a young age. Here, they play three dazzling songs in three different keys, passing the lead back and forth from fiddle to banjo to guitar."
1009,What a bike ride can teach you,"['tedx', 'children', 'education', 'leadership', 'motivation', 'personalgrowth', 'sports', 'storytelling']","Computer science professor Shimon Schocken is also an avid mountain biker. To share the life lessons he learned while riding, he began an outdoor program with Israel's juvenile inmates and was touched by both their intense difficulties and profound successes. Photographs by Raphael Rabinovitz."
2649,What will you tell your daughters about 2016?,"['children', 'death', 'genderequality', 'future', 'history', 'identity', 'humanity', 'inequality', 'parenting', 'media', 'performanceart', 'performance', 'poetry', 'socialmedia', 'socialchange', 'violence', 'women']","With words like shards of glass, Chinaka Hodge cuts open 2016 and lets 12 months of violence, grief, fear, shame, courage and hope spill out in this original poem about a year none of us will soon forget."
29185,3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do,"['politics', 'activism', 'government', 'community', 'identity', 'history', 'socialchange', 'society', 'inequality', 'poverty', 'unitedstates', 'leadership']","How you respond after setbacks is what defines your character. Stacey Abrams was the first black woman in the history of the United States to be nominated by a major party for governor -- she lost that hotly contested race, but as she says: the only choice is to move forward. In an electrifying talk, she shares the lessons she learned from her campaign for governor of Georgia, some advice on how to change the world -- and a few hints at her next steps. ""Be aggressive about your ambition,"" Abrams says."
38,The accelerating power of technology,"['biotech', 'business', 'culture', 'future', 'invention', 'robots', 'science', 'technology']","Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness."
2452,This country isn't just carbon neutral -- it's carbon negative,"['alternativeenergy', 'beauty', 'bigproblems', 'buddhism', 'climatechange', 'democracy', 'economics', 'environment', 'future', 'goal-setting', 'globalissues', 'government', 'green', 'humanity', 'happiness', 'innovation', 'nature', 'pollution', 'sustainability', 'worldcultures', 'trees', 'globaldevelopment', 'ecology']","Deep in the Himalayas, on the border between China and India, lies the Kingdom of Bhutan, which has pledged to remain carbon neutral for all time. In this illuminating talk, Bhutan's Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay shares his country's mission to put happiness before economic growth and set a world standard for environmental preservation."
60063,The Tower of Epiphany,"['ted-ed', 'animation', 'education', 'code', 'programming', 'math', 'computers', 'technology', 'engineering', 'internet']","This is episode 7 of our animated series ""Think Like A Coder."" This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson]. "
3579,Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air?,"['alternativeenergy', 'electricity', 'climatechange', 'engineering', 'entrepreneur', 'future', 'naturalresources', 'oceans', 'pollution', 'sustainability', 'science', 'technology', 'weather', 'globalcommons', 'anthropocene']","Could we cure climate change? Geoengineering researcher Tim Kruger wants to try. He shares one promising possibility: using natural gas to generate electricity in a way that takes carbon dioxide out of the air. Learn more -- both the potential and the risks -- about this controversial field that seeks creative, deliberate and large-scale intervention to stop the already catastrophic consequences of our warming planet."
13465,What it's like to be a transgender dad,"['tedx', 'genderspectrum', 'gender', 'parenting', 'socialchange', 'society', 'transgender']","LB Hannahs candidly shares the experience of parenting as a genderqueer individual -- and what it can teach us about authenticity and advocacy. ""Authenticity doesn't mean 'comfortable.' It means managing and negotiating the discomfort of everyday life,"" Hannahs says."
2668,Where is cybercrime really coming from?,"['crime', 'data', 'hack', 'computers']","Cybercrime netted a whopping $450 billion in profits last year, with 2 billion records lost or stolen worldwide. Security expert Caleb Barlow calls out the insufficiency of our current strategies to protect our data. His solution? We need to respond to cybercrime with the same collective effort as we apply to a health care crisis, sharing timely information on who is infected and how the disease is spreading. If we're not sharing, he says, then we're part of the problem."
1158,Making a car for blind drivers,"['senses', 'design', 'sight', 'technology', 'transportation', 'blindness']","Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is building a car for drivers who are blind. It's not a ""self-driving"" car, he's careful to note, but a car in which a non-sighted driver can determine speed, proximity and route -- and drive independently."
23,Fight injustice with raw video,"['activism', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'film', 'globalissues', 'music', 'socialchange', 'storytelling', 'art']",Musician and activist Peter Gabriel shares his very personal motivation for standing up for human rights with the watchdog group WITNESS -- and tells stories of citizen journalists in action.
1883,Let’s try emotional correctness,"['entertainment', 'journalism', 'media', 'news', 'politics']","It's time for liberals and conservatives to transcend their political differences and really listen to each other, says political pundit Sally Kohn. In this optimistic talk, Kohn shares what she learned as a progressive lesbian talking head on Fox News. It’s not about political correctness, she says, but rather, emotional correctness. (Contains profanity.)"
499,The jungle search for viruses,"['aids', 'africa', 'bacteria', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'disease', 'exploration', 'globalissues', 'health', 'microbiology', 'science']",Virus hunter Nathan Wolfe is outwitting the next pandemic by staying two steps ahead: discovering deadly new viruses where they first emerge -- passing from animals to humans among poor subsistence hunters in Africa -- before they claim millions of lives.
9986,This company pays kids to do their math homework,"['education', 'math', 'statistics', 'teaching']","Mohamad Jebara loves mathematics -- but he's concerned that too many students grow up thinking that this beautiful, rewarding subject is difficult and boring. His company is experimenting with a bold idea: paying students for completing weekly math homework. He explores the ethics of this model and how it's helping students -- and why learning math is crucial in the era of fake news."
36762,The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes,"['tedx', 'science', 'space', 'astronomy', 'technology', 'nature', 'discovery', 'solarsystem', 'planets', 'universe', 'nasa']","Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses -- through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. ""The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding,"" he says."
29775,"In the opioid crisis, here's what it takes to save a life","['leadership', 'addiction', 'personalgrowth', 'opioids', 'publichealth', 'narcotics', 'community', 'society', 'socialchange', 'disease', 'health']","As a fire chief and first responder, Jan Rader has spent her career saving lives. But when the opioid epidemic hit her town, she realized they needed to take a brand-new approach to life-saving. In this powerful, hopeful talk, Rader shows what it's like on the front lines of this crisis -- and how her community is taking an unusual new approach to treating substance-abuse disorder that starts with listening."
21645,"To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation","['children', 'socialchange', 'activism', 'tedresidency', 'race', 'family']","In this eye-opening talk about the impact of race and neighborhood on foster-care decisions, social worker Jessica Pryce shares a promising solution to help child welfare agencies make bias-free assessments about when to remove children from their families. ""Let's work together to build a system that wants to make families stronger instead of pulling them apart,"" Pryce says."
1943,"Can we all ""have it all""?","['inequality', 'men', 'policy', 'women', 'work', 'work-lifebalance', 'genderequality']","Public policy expert Anne-Marie Slaughter made waves with her 2012 article, ""Why women still can't have it all."" But really, is this only a question for women? Here Slaughter expands her ideas and explains why shifts in work culture, public policy and social mores can lead to more equality -- for men, women, all of us."
2247,How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison,"['crime', 'culture', 'inequality', 'prison', 'race', 'violence', 'criminaljustice', 'justicesystem']","In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison — sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, ""Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?"""
557,"Playing ""Pink Noise"" on guitar","['guitar', 'innovation', 'music', 'performance', 'singer']","Kaki King, the first female on Rolling Stone's ""guitar god"" list, rocks out to a full live set at TED2008, including her breakout single, ""Playing with Pink Noise."" Jaw-dropping virtuosity meets a guitar technique that truly stands out."
44259,"The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again","['food', 'creativity', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'entrepreneur', 'community', 'art', 'design']","""The hood is good,"" says Jon Gray of the Bronx, New York-based creative collective Ghetto Gastro. Working at the intersection of food, design and art, Gray and his team honor the soul and history of their community while applying their unbridled creativity and expansive imagination to unexpected, otherworldly collaborations. Learn more about how they're creating and investing in their home borough -- bringing the Bronx to the world and vice versa."
2445,Why your doctor should care about social justice,"['africa', 'bigproblems', 'aids', 'disease', 'government', 'globalissues', 'health', 'healthcare', 'inequality', 'illness', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'race', 'publichealth', 'socialchange', 'tedmed', 'virus', 'unitedstates']","In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's political and economic organizations, inequities that make marginalized people more vulnerable. These same structural problems exist in the United States today, and as New York City's Health Commissioner, Bassett is using every chance she has to rally support for health equity and speak out against racism. ""We don't have to have all the answers to call for change,"" she says. ""We just need courage."""
975,The best gift I ever survived,"['cancer', 'medicine', 'personalgrowth', 'storytelling']","Stacey Kramer offers a moving, personal, 3-minute parable that shows how an unwanted experience -- frightening, traumatic, costly -- can turn out to be a priceless gift."
2549,How to build a business that lasts 100 years,"['biology', 'future', 'innovation', 'business', 'leadership', 'potential', 'resources', 'productivity', 'success', 'work']","If you want to build a business that lasts, there may be no better place to look for inspiration than your own immune system. Join strategist Martin Reeves as he shares startling statistics about shrinking corporate life spans and explains how executives can apply six principles from living organisms to build resilient businesses that flourish in the face of change."
44040,What almost dying taught me about living,"['cancer', 'health', 'humanity', 'life', 'relationships', 'self', 'writing', 'death', 'personalgrowth']","""The hardest part of my cancer experience began once the cancer was gone,"" says author Suleika Jaouad. In this fierce, funny, wisdom-packed talk, she challenges us to think beyond the divide between ""sick"" and ""well,"" asking: How do you begin again and find meaning after life is interrupted?"
2685,How to practice safe sexting,"['sex', 'media', 'privacy', 'technology', 'encryption']","Sexting, like anything that's fun, runs its risks -- but a serious violation of privacy shouldn't be one of them. Amy Adele Hasinoff looks at problematic responses to sexting in mass media, law and education, offering practical solutions for how individuals and tech companies can protect sensitive (and, ahem, potentially scandalous) digital files."
2468,The most mysterious star in the universe,"['exploration', 'extraterrestriallife', 'nasa', 'nature', 'planets', 'astronomy', 'science', 'universe', 'technology', 'telescopes']","Something massive, with roughly 1,000 times the area of Earth, is blocking the light coming from a distant star known as KIC 8462852, and nobody is quite sure what it is. As astronomer Tabetha Boyajian investigated this perplexing celestial object, a colleague suggested something unusual: Could it be an alien-built megastructure? Such an extraordinary idea would require extraordinary evidence. In this talk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown."
45969,The fundamental right to seek asylum,"['refugees', 'government', 'society', 'immigration', 'policy', 'activism', 'socialchange', 'humanity', 'history', 'tedx']","Refugee and immigrants rights attorney Melanie Nezer shares an urgently needed historical perspective on the crisis at the southern US border, showing how citizens can hold their governments accountable for protecting the vulnerable. ""A country shows strength through compassion and pragmatism, not through force and through fear,"" she says."
2367,The coolest animal you know nothing about ... and how we can save it,"['animals', 'brazil', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'environment', 'tedfellows']","Although the tapir is one of the world's largest land mammals, the lives of these solitary, nocturnal creatures have remained a mystery. Known as ""the living fossil,"" the very same tapir that roams the forests and grasslands of South America today arrived on the evolutionary scene more than 5 million years ago. But threats from poachers, deforestation and pollution, especially in quickly industrializing Brazil, threaten this longevity. In this insightful talk, conservation biologist, tapir expert and TED Fellow Patrícia Medici shares her work with these amazing animals and challenges us with a question: Do we want to be responsible for their extinction?"
279,Turning powerful stats into art,"['art', 'beauty', 'business', 'culture', 'photography', 'plastic', 'statistics']",Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like the astonishing number of paper cups we use every single day.
2103,One more reason to get a good night's sleep,"['brain', 'mind', 'neuroscience', 'science', 'sleep', 'cognitivescience', 'mentalhealth', 'history', 'health', 'memory', 'medicalresearch']","The brain uses a quarter of the body's entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body's mass. So how does this unique organ receive and, perhaps more importantly, rid itself of vital nutrients? New research suggests it has to do with sleep."
46250,The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring,"['science', 'exploration', 'anthropology', 'paleontology', 'discovery', 'humanity', 'humanorigins', 'nature', 'biodiversity', 'war']","We're not doing frontline exploratory science in a huge portion of the world -- the places governments deem too hostile or disputed. What might we be missing because we're not looking? In this fearless, unexpectedly funny talk, paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi takes us on an expedition to the Yemeni island of Socotra -- one of the most biodiverse places on earth -- and makes the case for scientists to explore the unstable regions that could be home to incredible discoveries."
1453,The sea we've hardly seen,"['tedx', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'microbiology', 'oceans', 'science', 'nanoscale', 'environment', 'health', 'bacteria', 'disease', 'microbes', 'pollution', 'climatechange', 'innovation', 'biotech']","An average teaspoon of ocean water contains five million bacteria and fifty million viruses -- and yet we are just starting to discover how these ""invisible engineers"" control our ocean's chemistry. At TEDxMonterey, Melissa Garren sheds light on marine microbes that provide half the oxygen we breathe, maintain underwater ecosystems, and demonstrate surprising hunting skills. (Apologies for the small audio glitches in this video.)"
2567,We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights,"['communication', 'globalissues', 'internet', 'middleeast', 'privacy', 'protests', 'democracy', 'security', 'socialmedia', 'society', 'technology', 'terrorism', 'violence', 'war', 'web', 'surveillance', 'encryption']","Can we fight terror without destroying democracy? Internet freedom activist Rebecca MacKinnon thinks that we'll lose the battle against extremism and demagoguery if we censor the internet and press. In this critical talk, she calls for a doubling-down on strong encryption and appeals to governments to better protect, not silence, the journalists and activists fighting against extremists."
1607,Want to be happier? Stay in the moment,"['tedx', 'brain', 'happiness', 'psychology', 'software', 'mindfulness']","When are humans most happy? To gather data on this question, Matt Killingsworth built an app, Track Your Happiness, that let people report their feelings in real time. Among the surprising results: We're often happiest when we're lost in the moment. And the flip side: The more our mind wanders, the less happy we can be. "
2291,How a driverless car sees the road,"['cars', 'technology', 'transportation', 'driverlesscars']","Statistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. In 2015, Chris Urmson was head of Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove humans from the driver's seat. He shares fascinating footage that shows how the car sees the road and makes autonomous decisions about what to do next."
17909,How to build a thriving music scene in your city,"['music', 'livemusic', 'performance', 'entertainment', 'art', 'creativity', 'culture', 'cities', 'tedx']","How does a city become known as a ""music city""? Publicist Elizabeth Cawein explains how thriving music scenes make cities healthier and happier and shares ideas for bolstering your local music scene -- and showing off your city's talent to the world."
49433,This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life,"['science', 'evolution', 'humanorigins', 'geology', 'astrobiology', 'biodiversity', 'nature', 'discovery', 'tedx', 'environment', 'life']",Exactly when and where did life on Earth begin? Scientists have long thought that it emerged three billion years ago in the ocean -- until astrobiologist Tara Djokic and her team made an unexpected discovery in the western Australian desert. Learn how an ancient rock found near a hot volcanic pool is shifting our understanding of the origin-of-life puzzle.
52942,Como hablar con otros que piensan distinto,"['humanities', 'communication', 'collaboration', 'empathy', 'society']","¿Cómo hablas con alguien cuando su ideología le previene entender los hechos? Puedes celebrar el pluralismo de las ideas y escuchar con empatía, dice la docente y bióloga, la Dra. Guadalupe Nogués."
1488,Tour the solar system from home,"['planets', 'tedx', 'demo', 'exploration', 'science', 'software', 'space', 'technology', 'cosmos', 'visualizations', 'astronomy', 'moon', 'computers', 'nasa', 'solarsystem']","Want to navigate the solar system without having to buy a spacecraft? Jon Nguyen demos NASA JPL's ""Eyes on the Solar System"" -- free-to-use software for exploring the planets, moons, asteroids, and spacecraft that rotate around our sun in real-time."
59151,What happens when a Silicon Valley technologist works for the government,"['technology', 'data', 'government', 'infrastructure', 'privacy', 'computers', 'state-building', 'development']","What if the government ran more like Silicon Valley? Engineer Matt Cutts shares why he decided to leave Google (where he worked for nearly 17 years) for a career in the US government -- and makes the case that if you really want to make an impact, go where your help is needed most."
871,Re-examining the remix,"['internet', 'tedx', 'law', 'music', 'onlinevideo', 'technology', 'web']","Former ""young Republican"" Larry Lessig talks about what Democrats can learn about copyright from their opposite party, considered more conservative. A surprising lens on remix culture."
1774,Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?,"['health', 'healthcare', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'obesity', 'publichealth']","As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war."
2833,Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face,"['bacteria', 'biology', 'biomechanics', 'biotech', 'future', 'health', 'innovation', 'microbes', 'microbiology', 'nature', 'science', 'technology', 'fungi']","Behold the microscopic jungle in and around you: tiny organisms living on your cheeks, under your sofa and in the soil in your backyard. We have an adversarial relationship with these microbes -- we sanitize, exterminate and disinfect them -- but according to microbiologist Anne Madden, they're sources of new technologies and medicines waiting to be discovered. These microscopic alchemists aren't gross, Madden says -- they're the future."
977,What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola,"['tedx', 'business', 'globalissues', 'philanthropy', 'sanitation', 'globaldevelopment']","Melinda Gates makes a provocative case: What can nonprofits learn from mega-corporations like Coca-Cola, whose global network of marketers and distributors ensures that every remote village wants -- and can get -- an ice-cold Coke? Maybe this model could work for distributing health care, vaccinations, sanitation, even condoms ..."
1754,How behavioral science can lower your energy bill,"['behavioraleconomics', 'energy', 'psychology', 'electricity']","What's a proven way to lower your energy costs? Would you believe: learning what your neighbor pays. Alex Laskey shows how a quirk of human behavior can make us all better, wiser energy users, with lower bills to prove it."
74,The route to a sustainable future,"['alternativeenergy', 'business', 'cities', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'design', 'environment', 'globalissues', 'invention', 'sustainability']","Worldchanging.com founder Alex Steffen argues that reducing humanity’s ecological footprint is incredibly vital now, as the western consumer lifestyle spreads to developing countries."
1650,How movies teach manhood,"['tedx', 'culture', 'film', 'identity', 'men', 'parenting', 'movies']","When Colin Stokes' 3-year-old son caught a glimpse of ""Star Wars,"" he was instantly obsessed. But what messages did he absorb from the sci-fi classic? Stokes asks for more movies that send positive messages to boys: that cooperation is heroic, and respecting women is as manly as defeating the villain."
52194,Why do humans have a third eyelid?,"['animals', 'ted-ed', 'animation', 'education', 'evolution', 'science', 'humanorigins', 'history', 'physiology', 'humanbody', 'biology']","You know that little pink thing nestled in the corner of your eye? It's actually the remnant of a third eyelid. In humans, it's vestigial, meaning it no longer serves its original purpose. There are several other vestigial structures in the human body, quietly riding along from one of our ancestor species to the next. But why have they stuck around for so long? Dorsa Amir investigates. [Directed by Avi Ofer, narrated by Addison Anderson]."
25572,3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace,"['success', 'work', 'diversity', 'communication', 'community', 'leadership', 'socialchange', 'inequality', 'business', 'personalgrowth']","We're taught to believe that hard work and dedication will lead to success, but that's not always the case. Gender, race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation are among the many factors that affect our chances, says writer and advocate Melinda Epler, and it's up to each of us to be allies for those who face discrimination. In this actionable talk, Epler shares three ways to support people who are underrepresented in the workplace. ""There's no magic wand for correcting diversity and inclusion,"" she says. ""Change happens one person at a time, one act at a time, one word at a time."""
1823,Mapping ideas worth spreading,"['tedfellows', 'algorithm', 'complexity', 'data', 'technology']","What do 24,000 ideas look like? Ecologist Eric Berlow and physicist Sean Gourley apply algorithms to the entire archive of TEDx Talks, taking us on a stimulating visual tour to show how ideas connect globally."
2170,Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice,"['tedyouth', 'engineering', 'robots', 'technology']","By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they add rockets. See their jaw-dropping developments in micro-robotics, and hear about three ways we might use these little helpers in the future."
53601,The perks of being a pirate,"['storytelling', 'humor', 'disability', 'life', 'personalgrowth', 'creativity', 'tedx']","In this deeply charming and humorous talk, DJ and self-professed pirate Tom Nash meditates on how facing adversity due to disability invited patience, ambition and pragmatism into his life in enlightening, unexpected ways. ""We all have unique weaknesses,"" he says. ""If we're honest about what they are, we can learn how to best take advantage of them."""
2392,A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo,"['tedyouth', 'art', 'music', 'performance', 'family', 'entertainment', 'livemusic']","Nicole Paris was raised to be a beatboxer -- when she was young, her father, Ed Cage, used to beatbox her to sleep at night. Now the duo is known for their beatbox battles and jam sessions, which mix classic rap beats with electronic dance sounds. Prepare yourself for a bit of a hip-hop history lesson, and enjoy the show."
1354,Deaf in the military,"['tedx', 'disability', 'globalissues', 'military']","Keith Nolan always wanted to join the United States military. The challenge: he is Deaf, which is an automatic disqualification according to military rules. In this talk, he describes his fight to fight for his country. (In American Sign Language with real-time interpretation by Rita Alexander)"
2376,The future of news? Virtual reality,"['future', 'invention', 'innovation', 'news', 'media', 'visualizations', 'journalism', 'storytelling', 'virtualreality']","What if you could experience a story with your entire body, not just with your mind? Nonny de la Peña is working on a new form of journalism that combines traditional reporting with emerging virtual reality technology to put the audience inside the story. The result is an evocative experience that de la Peña hopes will help people understand the news in a brand new way."
2356,An Internet without screens might look like this,"['humanity', 'future', 'invention', 'happiness', 'tedx', 'technology', 'design']","Designer Tea Uglow is creating a future in which humanity's love for natural solutions and simple tools can coexist with our need for information and the devices that provide us with it. ""Reality is richer than screens,"" she says. ""We can have a happy place filled with the information we love that feels as natural as switching on lightbulb."""
2140,Why some people find exercise harder than others,"['tedx', 'decision-making', 'health', 'mind', 'psychology', 'motivation', 'exercise']","Why do some people struggle more than others to keep off the pounds? Social psychologist Emily Balcetis shows research that addresses one of the many factors: our vision. In an informative talk, she shows how when it comes to fitness, some people quite literally see the world differently -- and offers a surprisingly simple solution to overcome these differences."
12501,How quantum physics can make encryption stronger,"['data', 'encryption', 'physics', 'computers', 'future', 'innovation', 'science', 'invention', 'technology', 'quantumphysics']","As quantum computing matures, it's going to bring unimaginable increases in computational power along with it -- and the systems we use to protect our data (and our democratic processes) will become even more vulnerable. But there's still time to plan against the impending data apocalypse, says encryption expert Vikram Sharma. Learn more about how he's fighting quantum with quantum: designing security devices and programs that use the power of quantum physics to defend against the most sophisticated attacks."
48638,Fashion that celebrates all body types -- boldly and unapologetically,"['fashion', 'design', 'socialchange', 'art', 'gender', 'inclusion', 'humanbody', 'identity']","Fashion designers have the power to change culture -- and Becca McCharen-Tran is using her platform to expand the industry's narrow definition of beauty. Sharing highlights of her work, McCharen-Tran discusses the inspiration behind her norm-shattering designs and shows how she's celebrating beauty in all forms. ""I want the consumer to know that it's not your body that needs to change -- it's the clothes,"" she says."
1877,How societies can grow old better,"['aging', 'culture', 'socialchange']","There's an irony behind the latest efforts to extend human life: It's no picnic to be an old person in a youth-oriented society. Older people can become isolated, lacking meaningful work and low on funds. In this intriguing talk, Jared Diamond looks at how many different societies treat their elders -- some better, some worse -- and suggests we all take advantage of experience."
1439,From stigma to supermodel,"['tedx', 'beauty', 'fashion', 'globalissues', 'photography', 'race']","Rick Guidotti is a fashion photographer with a passion project: finding and sharing the beauty of kids with albinism and other conditions that affect their physical appearance -- and the way society treats them. At TEDxPhoenix, he shares some of their stories and the empowering effects of a little glamour as he redefines their beauty in a flash."
1639,A cinematic journey through visual effects,"['film', 'animation', 'history']","It's been 110 years since Georges Méliès sent a spaceship slamming into the eye of the man on the moon. So how far have visual effects come since then? Working closely with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Don Levy takes us on a visual journey through special effects, from the fakery of early technology to the seamless marvels of modern filmmaking."
2498,This tiny particle could roam your body to find tumors,"['medicalresearch', 'bigproblems', 'biotech', 'cancer', 'disease', 'future', 'health', 'healthcare', 'illness', 'life', 'innovation', 'medicine', 'potential', 'technology', 'science']","What if we could find cancerous tumors years before they can harm us -- without expensive screening facilities or even steady electricity? Physician, bioengineer and entrepreneur Sangeeta Bhatia leads a multidisciplinary lab that searches for novel ways to understand, diagnose and treat human disease. Her target: the two-thirds of deaths due to cancer that she says are fully preventable. With remarkable clarity, she breaks down complex nanoparticle science and shares her dream for a radical new cancer test that could save millions of lives."
2673,Help discover ancient ruins -- before it's too late,"['adventure', 'ancientworld', 'archaeology', 'bigproblems', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'community', 'algorithm', 'egypt', 'globalissues', 'humanity', 'humanorigins', 'middleeast', 'potential', 'science', 'society', 'southamerica', 'technology', 'tedprize', 'terrorism', 'violence', 'war', 'worldcultures']","Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth to uncover hidden ancient treasures buried beneath our feet. There's a lot to discover; in the Egyptian Delta alone, Parcak estimates we've excavated less than a thousandth of one percent of what's out there. Now, with the 2016 TED Prize and an infectious enthusiasm for archaeology, she's developed an online platform called GlobalXplorer that enables anyone with an internet connection to discover unknown sites and protect what remains of our shared human inheritance."
44,A philosophical quest for our biggest problems,"['biotech', 'culture', 'future', 'globalissues', 'happiness', 'philosophy', 'technology']",Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems.
2831,How I help free innocent people from prison,"['criminaljustice', 'inequality', 'law', 'socialchange', 'tedx', 'society', 'unitedstates', 'justicesystem']","Harvard Law professor Ronald Sullivan fights to free wrongfully convicted people from jail -- in fact, he has freed some 6,000 innocent people over the course of his career. He shares heartbreaking stories of how (and why) people end up being put in jail for something they didn't do, and the consequences in their lives and the lives of others. Watch this essential talk about the duty we all have to make the world a bit more fair every day, however we can."
267,Moving sculpture,"['art', 'design', 'engineering', 'entertainment', 'humor', 'philosophy']",Sculptor and engineer Arthur Ganson talks about his work -- kinetic art that explores deep philosophical ideas and is gee-whiz fun to look at.
2670,Buildings that blend nature and city,"['architecture', 'community', 'nature', 'cities', 'beauty', 'climatechange', 'environment', 'design', 'collaboration', 'humanity', 'future', 'innovation', 'infrastructure', 'macarthurgrant', 'socialchange', 'publicspaces', 'society']","A skyscraper that channels the breeze ... a building that creates community around a hearth ... Jeanne Gang uses architecture to build relationships. In this engaging tour of her work, Gang invites us into buildings large and small, from a surprising local community center to a landmark Chicago skyscraper. ""Through architecture, we can do much more than create buildings,"" she says. ""We can help steady this planet we all share."""
1645,Ethical riddles in HIV research,"['aids', 'tedx', 'globalissues', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'pharmaceuticals', 'hiv']","A woman in sub-Saharan Africa is part of a cutting-edge HIV clinical trial -- but she can't afford a bus ticket to her health clinic, let alone the life-saving antiretrovirals she'll need. Boghuma Kabisen Titanji asks an important question: How can researchers looking for a cure make sure they're not taking advantage of the people most affected by the pandemic?"
23723,Sex determination: More complicated than you thought,"['animation', 'sex', 'ted-ed', 'education', 'genetics', 'animals', 'gender', 'dna', 'humanbody']","From something as small and complex as a chromosome to something as seemingly simple as the weather, sex determination systems vary significantly across the animal kingdom. Biologist and teacher Aaron Reedy shows us the amazing differences between species when it comes to determination of gender. [Directed by Buzzco Associates, Inc., narrated by Aaron Reedy]."
2071,"Please, please, people. Let's put the 'awe' back in 'awesome'","['comedy', 'humor', 'language']","Which of the following is awesome: your lunch or the Great Pyramid of Giza? Comedian Jill Shargaa sounds a hilarious call for us to save the word ""awesome"" for things that truly inspire awe."
1523,Behind the Great Firewall of China,"['asia', 'china', 'globalissues', 'journalism', 'socialmedia', 'technology']","Michael Anti (aka Jing Zhao) has been blogging from China for 12 years. Despite the control the central government has over the Internet -- ""All the servers are in Beijing"" -- he says that hundreds of millions of microbloggers are in fact creating the first national public sphere in the country's history, and shifting the balance of power in unexpected ways."
2029,Why your worst deeds don’t define you,"['crime', 'culture', 'prison']","In 1991, Shaka Senghor shot and killed a man. He was, he says, ""a drug dealer with a quick temper and a semi-automatic pistol."" Jailed for second degree murder, that could very well have been the end of the story. But it wasn't. Instead, it was the beginning of a years-long journey to redemption, one with humbling and sobering lessons for us all."
37746,Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?,"['hearthealth', 'humanbody', 'humanity', 'biology', 'health', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'technology', 'tedx']",The heart is one of the least regenerative organs in the human body -- a big factor in making heart failure the number one killer worldwide. What if we could help heart muscle regenerate after injury? Physician and scientist Chuck Murry shares his groundbreaking research into using stem cells to grow new heart cells -- an exciting step towards realizing the awesome promise of stem cells as medicine.
211,TED's nonprofit transition,"['business', 'community', 'culture', 'globalissues', 'philanthropy', 'philosophy', 'technology']","Chris Anderson gave this talk in 2002, prior to taking over leadership of TED. Co-founder Richard Saul Wurman was leaving, and TED's future was in the balance. He seeks to persuade TEDsters that what was then a for-profit conference had a secure future as an idea-based nonprofit endeavor."
1069,How to make work-life balance work,"['tedx', 'business', 'culture', 'motivation', 'work', 'life', 'work-lifebalance']","Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity -- and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen."
2732,We should all be feminists,"['africa', 'children', 'communication', 'community', 'gender', 'humanity', 'feminism', 'genderequality', 'inequality', 'identity', 'literature', 'society', 'tedx', 'women', 'writing']","We teach girls that they can have ambition, but not too much ... to be successful, but not too successful, or they'll threaten men, says author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In this classic talk that started a worldwide conversation about feminism, Adichie asks that we begin to dream about and plan for a different, fairer world -- of happier men and women who are truer to themselves."
1431,How to use a paper towel,"['tedx', 'entertainment', 'green', 'hack', 'humor', 'materials', 'simplicity']","You use paper towels to dry your hands every day, but chances are, you're doing it wrong. In this enlightening and funny short talk, Joe Smith reveals the trick to perfect paper towel technique."
2667,Art made of the air we breathe,"['ancientworld', 'animals', 'anthropocene', 'biosphere', 'art', 'dinosaurs', 'demo', 'future', 'environment', 'history', 'globalissues', 'nature', 'life', 'pollution', 'performanceart', 'tedx']","Emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from distinct moments in Earth's history -- from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water air of the Great Dying to the heavy, toxic air of the future we're creating. By turning air into art, she invites us to know the invisible world around us. Breathe in the Earth's past and future in this imaginative, trippy talk."
388,A flight through the ocean,"['business', 'design', 'exploration', 'invention', 'oceans', 'technology', 'globalcommons']","Graham Hawkes takes us aboard his graceful, winged submarines to the depths of planet Ocean (a.k.a. ""Earth""). It's a deep blue world we landlubbers rarely see in 3D."
75,Why we should invest in a free press,"['business', 'culture', 'globalissues', 'investment', 'media', 'philanthropy']","A free press -- papers, magazines, radio, TV, blogs -- is the backbone of any true democracy (and a vital watchdog on business). Sasa Vucinic, a journalist from Belgrade, talks about his new fund, which supports media by selling ""free press bonds."""
54214,The profound power of an authentic apology,"['gender', 'sexualviolence', 'self', 'literature', 'socialchange', 'family', 'emotions', 'life', 'society', 'activism']","Genuine apology goes beyond remorse, says legendary playwright Eve Ensler. In this frank, wrenching talk, she shares how she transformed her own experience of abuse into wisdom on what wrongdoers can do and say to truly repent -- and offers a four-step roadmap to help begin the process. (This talk contains mature content.)"
2089,Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down,"['tedfellows', 'art', 'humor', 'photography']","Artist Uldus Bakhtiozina uses photographs to poke fun at societal norms in her native Russia. A glimpse into Russian youth culture and a short, fun reminder not to take ourselves too seriously."
1978,Embrace the near win,"['art', 'failure', 'motivation']","At her first museum job, art historian Sarah Lewis noticed something important about an artist she was studying: Not every artwork was a total masterpiece. She asks us to consider the role of the almost-failure, the near win, in our own lives. In our pursuit of success and mastery, is it actually our near wins that push us forward?"
1216,Compassion and the true meaning of empathy,"['buddhism', 'compassion', 'culture', 'death', 'globalissues']","Buddhist roshi Joan Halifax works with people at the last stage of life (in hospice and on death row). She shares what she's learned about compassion in the face of death and dying, and a deep insight into the nature of empathy."
1532,(Re)touching lives through photos,"['asia', 'culture', 'disasterrelief', 'memory', 'photography', 'storytelling']","In the wake of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, mixed into the wreckage were lost and damaged photos of families and loved ones. Photo retoucher Becci Manson, together with local volunteers and a global group of colleagues she recruited online, helped clean and fix them, restoring those memories to their owners."
1494,A tale of mental illness -- from the inside,"['brain', 'depression', 'healthcare', 'mentalhealth']","""Is it okay if I totally trash your office?"" It's a question Elyn Saks once asked her doctor, and it wasn't a joke. A legal scholar, in 2007 Saks came forward with her own story of schizophrenia, controlled by drugs and therapy but ever-present. In this powerful talk, she asks us to see people with mental illness clearly, honestly and compassionately."
1301,The hidden light of Afghanistan,"['tedfellows', 'design', 'globalissues', 'journalism', 'photography', 'storytelling', 'art']","Photographer Monika Bulaj shares powerful, intimate images of Afghanistan -- of home life, of ritual, of men and women. Behind the headlines, what does the world truly know about this place?"
26779,How kids can help design cities,"['children', 'tedx', 'youth', 'creativity', 'socialchange', 'urbanplanning', 'society']","Adults tend to think of kids as ""future citizens"" -- their ideas and opinions will matter someday, just not today. But kids make up a quarter of the population, so shouldn't they have a say in what the world they'll inherit will look like? Urban planner Mara Mintzer shares what happened when she and her team asked kids to help design a park in Boulder, Colorado -- and how it revealed an important blind spot in how we construct the built environment. ""If we aren't including children in our planning, who else aren't we including?"" Mintzer asks."
2652,Are you a giver or a taker?,"['anthropology', 'behavioraleconomics', 'business', 'collaboration', 'community', 'leadership', 'motivation', 'personalgrowth', 'personality', 'psychology', 'self', 'society', 'work']","In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant breaks down these personalities and offers simple strategies to promote a culture of generosity and keep self-serving employees from taking more than their share."
1866,Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling?,"['entertainment', 'gaming', 'performance']","What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that's what. At least, that's what happened when Jane McGonigal tried to teach TED to play her favorite game. Then again, when the game is ""massively multiplayer thumb-wrestling,"" what else would you expect?"
2556,"A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings","['beauty', 'art', 'community', 'egypt', 'middleeast', 'peace', 'sanitation', 'painting', 'society', 'tedfellows']","eL Seed fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti to paint colorful, swirling messages of hope and peace on buildings from Tunisia to Paris. The artist and TED Fellow shares the story of his most ambitious project yet: a mural painted across 50 buildings in Manshiyat Naser, a district of Cairo, Egypt, that can only be fully seen from a nearby mountain."
1752,Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA,"['art', 'design', 'gaming', 'museums']","When the Museum of Modern Art's senior curator of architecture and design announced the acquisition of 14 video games in 2012, ""all hell broke loose."" In this far-ranging, entertaining, and deeply insightful talk, Paola Antonelli explains why she's delighted to challenge preconceived ideas about art and galleries, and describes her burning wish to help establish a broader understanding of design."
45411,"How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy","['healthcare', 'women', 'biology', 'pregnancy', 'health', 'family', 'inequality', 'parenting', 'race', 'unitedstates', 'children', 'tedmed']","Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any developed country -- and 60 percent of them are preventable. With clarity and urgency, physician Elizabeth Howell explains the causes of maternal mortality and shares ways for hospitals and doctors to make pregnancy safer for women before, during and after childbirth."
24490,The genius of Marie Curie,"['design', 'health', 'history', 'publichealth', 'technology', 'invention', 'science', 'cancer', 'innovation', 'medicalresearch', 'women', 'feminism', 'medicine', 'chemistry', 'physics', 'disease', 'nobelprize', 'ted-ed', 'discovery', 'animation']","Marie Skłodowska Curie's revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. But what did she actually do? Shohini Ghose expounds on some of Marie Skłodowska Curie's most revolutionary discoveries. [Directed by Anna Nowakowska, narrated by Julianna Zarzycki, music by Matthias Runge]."
1490,Reinventing the encyclopedia game,"['internet', 'tedx', 'entertainment', 'science', 'web', 'wikipedia', 'future', 'insects', 'nature', 'life', 'humor']","Prompted by the Encyclopaedia Britannica ending its print publication, performance poet Rives resurrects a game from his childhood. Speaking at the TEDxSummit in Doha, Rives takes us on a charming tour through random (and less random) bits of human knowledge: from Chimborazo, the farthest point from the center of the Earth, to Ham the Astrochimp, the first chimpanzee in outer space."
2322,How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream,"['internet', 'business', 'crime', 'economics', 'privacy', 'shopping', 'socialmedia', 'encryption']",There's a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net.
2736,How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies,"['universe', 'astronomy', 'space', 'telescopes', 'discovery']","Our universe is strange, wonderful and vast, says astronomer Natasha Hurley-Walker. A spaceship can't carry you into its depths (yet) -- but a radio telescope can. In this mesmerizing talk, Hurley-Walker shows how she probes the mysteries of the universe using special technology that reveals light spectrums we can't see."
2683,What it's like to be a parent in a war zone,"['children', 'communication', 'community', 'disasterrelief', 'family', 'humanity', 'fear', 'parenting', 'middleeast', 'refugees', 'psychology', 'security', 'tedx', 'teaching', 'violence', 'vulnerability', 'war', 'syria']","How do parents protect their children and help them feel secure again when their homes are ripped apart by war? In this warm-hearted talk, psychologist Aala El-Khani shares her work supporting -- and learning from -- refugee families affected by the civil war in Syria. She asks: How can we help these loving parents give their kids the warm, secure parenting they most need?"
1413,How can technology transform the human body?,"['tedfellows', 'architecture', 'design', 'smell', 'technology', 'humanbody']","TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect -- she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunning talk, she shows her work, from clothes that recreate the body's insides for a music video with pop-star Robyn, to a pill that, when swallowed, lets you sweat perfume."
42931,How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it,"['biology', 'crispr', 'technology', 'science', 'bioethics', 'genetics', 'medicalresearch', 'invention', 'biotech', 'syntheticbiology', 'engineering', 'publichealth', 'innovation']","The world-changing promise of synthetic biology and gene editing has a dark side. In this far-seeing talk, author and entrepreneur Rob Reid reviews the risks of a world where more and more people have access to the tools and tech needed to create a doomsday bug that could wipe out humanity -- and suggests that it's time to take this danger seriously."
191,The habits of happiness,"['buddhism', 'god', 'brain', 'culture', 'faith', 'globalissues', 'happiness', 'peace', 'photography', 'religion', 'psychology', 'evolutionarypsychology', 'emotions', 'mindfulness']","What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment."
35353,How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution,"['anthropology', 'humanorigins', 'humanbody', 'humanity', 'science', 'paleontology', 'technology', 'evolution', 'biology', 'brain', 'history', 'tedx']","In 2013, a treasure trove of unusual fossils were uncovered in a cave in South Africa, and researchers soon realized: these were the remains of a new species of ancient humans. Paleoanthropologist Juliet Brophy takes us inside the discovery of Homo naledi, explaining how this mysterious ancestor is forcing us to rethink where we come from -- and what it means to be human."
2581,Why helmets don't prevent concussions -- and what might,"['biomechanics', 'design', 'health', 'brain', 'children', 'invention', 'medicalresearch', 'innovation', 'engineering', 'neuroscience', 'productdesign', 'mentalhealth', 'technology', 'science', 'tedx']","What is a concussion? Probably not what you think it is. In this talk from the cutting edge of research, bioengineer (and former football player) David Camarillo shows what really happens during a concussion -- and why standard sports helmets don't prevent it. Here's what the future of concussion prevention looks like."
8788,The surprising solution to ocean plastic,"['plastic', 'oceans', 'pollution', 'poverty', 'business', 'innovation']","Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's the ambitious goal of The Plastic Bank: a worldwide chain of stores where everything from school tuition to cooking fuel and more is available for purchase in exchange for plastic garbage -- which is then sorted, shredded and sold to brands who reuse ""social plastic"" in their products. Join David Katz to learn more about this step towards closing the loop in the circular economy. ""Preventing ocean plastic could be humanity's richest opportunity,"" Katz says.
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20779,My quest to defy gravity and fly,"['flight', 'performanceart', 'humanbody', 'extremesports', 'humanity', 'art']","Over the course of her fearless career, extreme action specialist Elizabeth Streb has pushed the limits of the human body. She's jumped through broken glass, toppled from great heights and built gizmos to provide a boost along the way. Backed by footage of her work, Streb reflects on her lifelong quest to defy gravity and fly the only way a human can -- by mastering the landing."
2255,The joy of surfing in ice-cold water,"['creativity', 'oceans', 'photography', 'travel', 'antarctica']","""Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit,"" says surf photographer Chris Burkard, as he explains his obsession with the coldest, choppiest, most isolated beaches on earth. With jawdropping photos and stories of places few humans have ever seen -- much less surfed -- he draws us into his ""personal crusade against the mundane."""
1743,"Hack a banana, make a keyboard!","['creativity', 'invention', 'technology', 'toy']","Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects."
13523,3 ways to make better decisions -- by thinking like a computer,"['computers', 'cognitivescience', 'decision-making', 'choice', 'tedx', 'technology', 'algorithm', 'brain', 'psychology']","If you ever struggle to make decisions, here's a talk for you. Cognitive scientist Tom Griffiths shows how we can apply the logic of computers to untangle tricky human problems, sharing three practical strategies for making better decisions -- on everything from finding a home to choosing which restaurant to go to tonight."
2572,Bring on the female superheroes!,"['art', 'children', 'communication', 'identity', 'entertainment', 'film', 'inequality', 'marketing', 'parenting', 'media', 'society', 'tedx', 'women', 'toy', 'movies']","Why is it so hard to find female superhero merchandise? In this passionate, sparkling talk, media studies scholar (and father of a Star Wars-obsessed daughter) Christopher Bell addresses the alarming lack of female superheroes in the toys and products marketed to kids -- and what it means for how we teach them about the world."
372,Design and the Elastic Mind,"['art', 'brain', 'design', 'museums', 'graphicdesign']",MOMA design curator Paola Antonelli previews the groundbreaking show Design and the Elastic Mind -- full of products and designs that reflect the way we think now.
670,"Symmetry, reality's riddle","['architecture', 'art', 'beauty', 'math', 'physics', 'universe']","The world turns on symmetry -- from the spin of subatomic particles to the dizzying beauty of an arabesque. But there's more to it than meets the eye. Here, Oxford mathematician Marcus du Sautoy offers a glimpse of the invisible numbers that marry all symmetrical objects."
1940,Government surveillance — this is just the beginning,"['internet', 'tedfellows', 'business', 'government', 'surveillance', 'encryption']","Privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian sees the landscape of government surveillance shifting beneath our feet, as an industry grows to support monitoring programs. Through private companies, he says, governments are buying technology with the capacity to break into computers, steal documents and monitor activity — without detection. This TED Fellow gives an unsettling look at what's to come."
43183,Architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders,"['tedfellows', 'design', 'architecture', 'innovation', 'beauty', 'creativity', 'society', 'history', 'culture']","How did ancient civilizations move massive stones to build Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Easter Island statues? In this quick, delightful talk, TED Fellow Brandon Clifford reveals some architectural secrets of the past and shows how we can use these ingenious techniques to build today. ""In an era where we design buildings to last 30, maybe 60 years, I would love to learn how to create something that could entertain for an eternity,"" he says."
9296,This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life,"['biodiversity', 'animals', 'biosphere', 'biology', 'microbiology', 'nature', 'oceans', 'science']","How deep into the Earth can we go and still find life? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd introduces us to deep-subsurface microbes: tiny organisms that live buried meters deep in ocean mud and have been on Earth since way before animals. Learn more about these mysterious microbes, which refuse to grow in the lab and seem to have a fundamentally different relationship with time and energy than we do."
1263,The right to understand,"['tedx', 'culture', 'design', 'language', 'law', 'simplicity']","Medical, legal, and financial documents should be easy to read, but too often they aren't. With spot-on (and funny) examples, Sandra Fisher Martins shows how overly complex language separates us from the information we need -- and three steps to change that. In Portuguese with English subtitles."
936,The game layer on top of the world,"['tedx', 'business', 'entertainment', 'entrepreneur', 'gaming', 'money', 'psychology']","In this far-seeing talk, Seth Priebatsch shows how game dynamics are reshaping the world -- from a classroom where students ""level up"" instead of being graded ,to a pervasive game called ""happy hour"" that you may already be playing. Get ready to meet the ""game layer,"" a pervasive net of behavior-steering game dynamics that will reshape education and commerce."
13247,The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment,"['tedmed', 'death', 'medicine', 'socialchange', 'community', 'publichealth', 'narcotics', 'addiction']","Why do we still think that drug use is a law-enforcement issue? Making drugs illegal does nothing to stop people from using them, says public health expert Mark Tyndall. So, what might work? Tyndall shares community-based research that shows how harm-reduction strategies, like safe-injection sites, are working to address the drug overdose crisis."
2262,What does my headscarf mean to you?,"['tedx', 'activism', 'culture', 'religion', 'women']","What do you think when you look at this speaker? Well, think again. (And then again.) In this funny, honest, empathetic talk, Yassmin Abdel-Magied challenges us to look beyond our initial perceptions, and to open doors to new ways of supporting others."
27608,Is civility a sham?,"['communication', 'politics', 'debate', 'humanity', 'identity', 'personalgrowth', 'socialchange', 'society', 'culture']","What exactly is civility, and what does it require? In a talk packed with historical insights, political theorist Teresa Bejan explains how civility has been used as both the foundation of tolerant societies and as a way for political partisans to silence and dismiss opposing views. Bejan suggests that we should instead try for ""mere civility"": the virtue of being able to disagree fundamentally with others without destroying the possibility of a common life tomorrow. (This talk contains mature language.)"
1579,Weaving narratives in museum galleries,"['art', 'museums']","As the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Thomas P. Campbell thinks deeply about curating—not just selecting art objects, but placing them in a setting where the public can learn their stories. With glorious images, he shows how his curation philosophy works for displaying medieval tapestries—and for the over-the-top fashion/art of Alexander McQueen. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)"
53059,7 beliefs that can silence women -- and how to unlearn them,"['gender', 'genderequality', 'women', 'socialchange', 'society', 'india', 'feminism', 'community', 'inequality']","In India (and many other countries), girls and women still find themselves silenced by traditional rules of politeness and restraint, says social scientist Deepa Narayan. In this frank talk, she identifies seven deeply entrenched norms that reinforce inequality -- and calls on men to help usher in change."
607,I believe we evolved from aquatic apes,"['apes', 'evolution', 'science']","(NOTE: Statements in this talk have been challenged by scientists working in this field. Read ""Criticisms & updates"" below for more details.) Elaine Morgan was a tenacious proponent of a theory that is not widely accepted. The aquatic ape hypothesis lays out the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea -- and her theory on why science doesn't take it seriously."
529,Lessons from the 1918 flu,"['vaccines', 'business', 'ebola', 'health', 'healthcare', 'history', 'technology']","In 2007, as the world worried about a possible avian flu epidemic, Laurie Garrett, author of ""The Coming Plague,"" gave this powerful talk to a small TED University audience. Her insights from past pandemics are suddenly more relevant than ever."
2035,The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare,"['tedx', 'security', 'software', 'technology', 'terrorism', 'war', 'code']","Chris Domas is a cybersecurity researcher, operating on what's become a new front of war, ""cyber."" In this engaging talk, he shows how researchers use pattern recognition and reverse engineering (and pull a few all-nighters) to understand a chunk of binary code whose purpose and contents they don't know."
2841,"How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives","['ai', 'collaboration', 'computers', 'intelligence', 'machinelearning', 'technology', 'productdesign']","How smart can our machines make us? Tom Gruber, co-creator of Siri, wants to make ""humanistic AI"" that augments and collaborates with us instead of competing with (or replacing) us. He shares his vision for a future where AI helps us achieve superhuman performance in perception, creativity and cognitive function -- from turbocharging our design skills to helping us remember everything we've ever read and the name of everyone we've ever met. ""We are in the middle of a renaissance in AI,"" Gruber says. ""Every time a machine gets smarter, we get smarter."""
23714,Why can't we see evidence of alien life?,"['education', 'ted-ed', 'space', 'planets', 'animation', 'bigbang', 'universe', 'exploration']","Stand by for an animated exploration of the famous Fermi Paradox. Given the vast number of planets in the universe, many much older than Earth, why haven't we yet seen obvious signs of alien life? The potential answers to this question are numerous and intriguing, alarming and hopeful. [Directed by Andrew Park, narrated by Chris Anderson]."
1597,The strange politics of disgust,"['tedx', 'brain', 'choice', 'cognitivescience', 'morality', 'politics', 'psychology', 'science', 'smell', 'sociology', 'history', 'sex', 'mind']","What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation between your sensitivity to disgusting cues -- a photo of feces, an unpleasant odor -- and your own moral or political conservatism."
1610,Why I love vultures,"['adventure', 'animals', 'biology', 'birds', 'nature', 'science', 'ecology', 'environment', 'bacteria', 'history', 'conservation', 'egypt', 'biodiversity', 'pollution', 'africa', 'windenergy']","As natural garbage collectors, vultures are vital to our ecosystem -- so why all the bad press? Why are so many in danger of extinction? Raptor biologist Munir Virani says we need to pay more attention to these unique and misunderstood creatures, to change our perception and save the vultures."
2847,"When workers own companies, the economy is more resilient","['business', 'capitalism', 'community', 'economics', 'entrepreneur', 'work', 'inequality', 'society', 'socialchange', 'tedx']","Another economic reality is possible -- one that values community, sustainability and resiliency instead of profit by any means necessary. Niki Okuk shares her case for cooperative economics and a vision for how working-class people can organize and own the businesses they work for, making decisions for themselves and enjoying the fruits of their labor."
2437,How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement,"['tedyouth', 'beauty', 'entertainment', 'materials', 'streetart', 'creativity', 'community', 'publicspaces']","Textile artist Magda Sayeg transforms urban landscapes into her own playground by decorating everyday objects with colorful knit and crochet works. These warm, fuzzy ""yarn bombs"" started small, with stop sign poles and fire hydrants in Sayeg's hometown, but soon people found a connection to the craft and spread it across the world. ""We all live in this fast-paced, digital world, but we still crave and desire something that's relatable,"" Sayeg says. ""Hidden power can be found in the most unassuming places, and we all possess skills that are just waiting to be discovered."""
45837,How we're helping local reporters turn important stories into national news,"['news', 'socialchange', 'work', 'media', 'journalism', 'society', 'india', 'tedfellows']","Local reporters are on the front lines of important stories, but their work often goes unnoticed by national and international news outlets. TED Fellow and journalist Gangadhar Patil is working to change that. In this quick talk, he shows how he's connecting grassroots reporters in India with major news outlets worldwide -- and helping elevate and expose stories that might never get covered otherwise."
26570,A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination,"['socialchange', 'work', 'society', 'memory', 'science', 'mind', 'crime', 'cognitivescience', 'brain', 'tedx']","How do you turn a memory, especially one of a traumatic event, into hard evidence of a crime? Julia Shaw is working on this challenge, combining tools from memory science and artificial intelligence to change how we report workplace harassment and bias. She shares three lessons to apply if you've been harassed or discriminated against -- and introduces Spot: a free, anonymous, online reporting tool that helps empower victims."
41224,Digital humans that look just like us,"['technology', 'emotions', 'film', 'animation', 'design', 'entertainment', 'visualizations', 'movies', 'art']","In an astonishing talk and tech demo, software researcher Doug Roble debuts ""DigiDoug"": a real-time, 3-D, digital rendering of his likeness that's accurate down to the scale of pores and wrinkles. Powered by an inertial motion capture suit, deep neural networks and enormous amounts of data, DigiDoug renders the real Doug's emotions (and even how his blood flows and eyelashes move) in striking detail. Learn more about how this exciting tech was built -- and its applications in movies, virtual assistants and beyond."
1634,"A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time","['children', 'parenting', 'photography']","A long time ago in New York City, Steve Addis stood on a corner holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms; his wife snapped a photo. The image has inspired an annual father-daughter ritual, where Addis and his daughter pose for the same picture, on the same corner, each year. Addis shares 15 treasured photographs from the series, and explores why this small, repeated ritual means so much."
1848,What will a future without secrets look like?,"['business', 'policy', 'privacy', 'socialmedia', 'technology']","The line between public and private has blurred in the past decade, both online and in real life, and Alessandro Acquisti is here to explain what this means and why it matters. In this thought-provoking, slightly chilling talk, he shares details of recent and ongoing research -- including a project that shows how easy it is to match a photograph of a stranger with their sensitive personal information."
15452,This simple test can help kids hear better,"['communication', 'health', 'healthcare', 'illness', 'hearing', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'publichealth', 'tedfellows', 'science', 'society', 'technology']","Children who live in rural areas can have a hard time getting to the doctor -- much less to an audiologist's clinic for expensive, complex tests to check their hearing. The result for too many kids is hearing loss caused by ear infections and other curable or preventable problems. That's why ear surgeon and TED Fellow Susan Emmett is working with 15 communities in rural Alaska to create a simple, low-cost test that only requires a cell phone. Learn more about her work and how it could change the lives of children who don't have access to hearing care."
1620,How to solve traffic jams,"['cars', 'transportation']","It's an unfortunate reality in nearly every major city—road congestion, especially during rush hours. Jonas Eliasson reveals how subtly nudging just a small percentage of drivers to stay off major roads can make traffic jams a thing of the past."
2797,Why glass towers are bad for city life -- and what we need instead,"['architecture', 'journalism', 'cities', 'beauty', 'community', 'publicspaces', 'materials', 'society', 'urbanplanning', 'tednyc']","There's a creepy transformation taking over our cities, says architecture critic Justin Davidson. From Houston, Texas to Guangzhou, China, shiny towers of concrete and steel covered with glass are cropping up like an invasive species. Rethink your city's anatomy as Davidson explains how the exteriors of building shape the urban experience -- and what we lose when architects stop using the full range of available materials."
42604,The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity,"['microbes', 'microbiology', 'science', 'nature', 'geology', 'biodiversity']","The ground beneath your feet is home to a massive, mysterious world of microbes -- some of which have been in the earth's crust for hundreds of thousands of years. What's it like down there? Take a trip to the volcanoes and hot springs of Costa Rica as microbiologist Karen Lloyd shines a light on these subterranean organisms and shows how they could have a profound impact on life up here."
2538,"""Redemption Song""","['music', 'performance', 'prison', 'piano', 'activism', 'bigproblems', 'criminaljustice', 'personalgrowth', 'culture', 'policy', 'socialchange', 'society', 'unitedstates', 'vocals', 'singer', 'livemusic', 'entertainment']","John Legend is on a mission to transform America's criminal justice system. Through his Free America campaign, he's encouraging rehabilitation and healing in our prisons, jails and detention centers -- and giving hope to those who want to create a better life after serving their time. With a spoken-word prelude from James Cavitt, an inmate at San Quentin State Prison, Legend treats us to his version of Bob Marley's ""Redemption Song."" ""Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom?"""
1557,Mental health for all by involving all,"['depression', 'globalissues', 'health', 'mentalhealth', 'publichealth']","Nearly 450 million people are affected by mental illness worldwide. In wealthy nations, just half receive appropriate care, but in developing countries, close to 90 percent go untreated because psychiatrists are in such short supply. Vikram Patel outlines a highly promising approach -- training members of communities to give mental health interventions, empowering ordinary people to care for others."
1068,"Poems of war, peace, women, power","['culture', 'globalissues', 'poetry', 'war', 'women', 'performance']","Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: ""What I Will"" and ""break (clustered)"" -- meditations on war and peace, on women and power. Wait for the astonishing line: ""Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded."""
1811,Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers,"['humor', 'math']","They're millions of digits long, and it takes an army of mathematicians and machines to hunt them down -- what's not to love about monster primes? Adam Spencer, comedian and lifelong math geek, shares his passion for these odd numbers, and for the mysterious magic of math."
32556,How peer educators can transform sex education,"['sex', 'gender', 'education', 'youth', 'relationships']","Where are teens supposed to learn about sex, asks student speaker Thea Holcomb. From alarmist imagery about sexually transmitted diseases? From the Internet and all its attendant judgment, bias and dysfunction? The answer, she suggests, lies with peer educators. In this talk, Holcomb explains why properly trained peer educators are the right people to disseminate both accurate information and healthy attitudes. As she says, ""When you get accurate, judgment-free information from your peers, you realize that sex ed doesn't have to be scary."""
2709,Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions,"['beauty', 'innovation', 'humanity', 'communication', 'invention', 'language', 'potential', 'society', 'writing', 'relationships', 'tedx', 'creativity', 'emotions']","John Koenig loves finding words that express our unarticulated feelings -- like ""lachesism,"" the hunger for disaster, and ""sonder,"" the realization that everyone else's lives are as complex and unknowable as our own. Here, he meditates on the meaning we assign to words and how these meanings latch onto us."
789,Take Turns,"['cities', 'culture', 'design', 'transportation']","Fifty percent of traffic accidents happen at intersections. Gary Lauder shares a brilliant and cheap idea for helping drivers move along smoothly: a new traffic sign that combines the properties of ""Stop"" and ""Yield."""
2464,The mind behind Linux,"['code', 'data', 'computers', 'communication', 'engineering', 'internet', 'invention', 'interview', 'programming', 'technology', 'web']","Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice -- first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management system used by developers worldwide. In a rare interview with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Torvalds discusses with remarkable openness the personality traits that prompted his unique philosophy of work, engineering and life. ""I am not a visionary, I'm an engineer,"" Torvalds says. ""I'm perfectly happy with all the people who are walking around and just staring at the clouds ... but I'm looking at the ground, and I want to fix the pothole that's right in front of me before I fall in."""
2005,How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are,"['lgbt', 'culture', 'depression', 'identity', 'pain', 'genderequality']","Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of adversity, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he's met in the years since. In a moving, heartfelt and at times downright funny talk, Solomon gives a powerful call to action to forge meaning from our biggest struggles."
29,The freakonomics of crack dealing,"['business', 'cities', 'culture', 'economics', 'race', 'narcotics']","""Freakonomics"" author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isn't lucrative: It pays below minimum wage. And your boss can kill you."
50853,What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics,"['disease', 'science', 'ebola', 'illness', 'health', 'biology', 'publichealth', 'medicine', 'vaccines', 'virus', 'pandemic', 'tedmed']","Could we anticipate the next big disease outbreak, stopping a virus like Ebola before it ever strikes? In this talk about frontline scientific research, ecologist Daniel Streicker takes us to the Amazon rainforest in Peru where he tracks the movement of vampire bats in order to forecast and prevent rabies outbreaks. By studying these disease patterns, Streicker shows how we could learn to cut off the next pandemic at its source."
889,Measuring what makes life worthwhile,"['buddhism', 'business', 'economics', 'happiness', 'money', 'psychology']","When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count."
1675,Agile programming -- for your family,"['children', 'culture', 'engineering', 'family', 'parenting', 'software', 'youth']","Bruce Feiler has a radical idea: To deal with the stress of modern family life, go agile. Inspired by agile software programming, Feiler introduces family practices which encourage flexibility, bottom-up idea flow, constant feedback and accountability. One surprising feature: Kids pick their own punishments."
2226,Are China and the US doomed to conflict?,"['asia', 'unitedstates', 'china', 'politics']","The former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd is also a longtime student of China, with a unique vantage point to watch its power rise in the past few decades. He asks whether the growing ambition of China will inevitably lead to conflict with other major powers -- and suggests another narrative."
2632,What will humans look like in 100 years?,"['aging', 'bacteria', 'biotech', 'bioethics', 'biology', 'brain', 'collaboration', 'chemistry', 'dna', 'engineering', 'evolution', 'future', 'genetics', 'humanity', 'innovation', 'invention', 'life', 'nature', 'neuroscience', 'physiology', 'science', 'society', 'technology', 'humanbody']","We can evolve bacteria, plants and animals -- futurist Juan Enriquez asks: Is it ethical to evolve the human body? In a visionary talk that ranges from medieval prosthetics to present day neuroengineering and genetics, Enriquez sorts out the ethics associated with evolving humans and imagines the ways we'll have to transform our own bodies if we hope to explore and live in places other than Earth."
1452,"Cheap, effective shelter for disaster relief","['tedx', 'design', 'disasterrelief', 'globalissues', 'naturaldisaster']","Michael McDaniel designed housing for disaster relief zones -- inexpensive, easy to transport, even beautiful – but found that no one was willing to build it. Persistent and obsessed, he decided to go it alone. At TEDxAustin, McDaniel show us his Exo Reaction Housing Solution, and asks us to prepare for the next natural disaster."
1857,Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.,"['adventure', 'disasterrelief', 'nuclearenergy']","Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And yet, a community of about 200 people live there -- almost all of them elderly women. These proud grandmas defied orders to relocate because their connection to their homeland and to their community are ""forces that rival even radiation."""
168,The search for humanity's roots,"['africa', 'anthropology', 'exploration', 'globalissues', 'humanorigins', 'humanity', 'paleontology', 'science']",Paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged looks for the roots of humanity in Ethiopia's badlands. Here he talks about finding the oldest skeleton of a humanoid child -- and how Africa holds the clues to our humanity.
52395,How India's local recyclers could solve plastic pollution,"['pollution', 'health', 'socialchange', 'plastic', 'india']","India has one of the world's highest rates of plastic recycling, thanks largely to an extensive network of informal recyclers known as ""kabadiwalas."" Entrepreneur Mani Vajipey discusses his work to organize their massive efforts into a collection system that could put India on the path to ending plastic pollution -- and show the rest of the world how to do it, too.
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900,A 3D atlas of the universe,"['art', 'astronomy', 'science', 'space', 'technology']","For the last 12 years, Carter Emmart has been coordinating the efforts of scientists, artists and programmers to build a complete 3D visualization of our known universe. He demos this stunning tour and explains how it's being shared with facilities around the world."
2179,"Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast","['business', 'collaboration', 'creativity', 'design', 'leadership']","Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated -- until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the process reveals unexpected truths about how we can solve our biggest, most complicated problems at work. Learn how to run this exercise yourself, and hear Wujec’s surprising insights from watching thousands of people draw toast."
2834,How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas,"['addiction', 'brain', 'cognitivescience', 'creativity', 'communication', 'entertainment', 'socialmedia', 'personalgrowth']","Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothing in particular? It's because when your body goes on autopilot, your brain gets busy forming new neural connections that connect ideas and solve problems. Learn to love being bored as Manoush Zomorodi explains the connection between spacing out and creativity."
2106,Why privacy matters,"['internet', 'government', 'intelligence', 'journalism', 'privacy', 'surveillance', 'encryption']","Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you're ""not doing anything you need to hide."""
2404,4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought,"['tedx', 'chemistry', 'climatechange', 'design', 'engineering', 'environment', 'future', 'globalissues', 'industrialdesign', 'innovation', 'publichealth', 'sustainability', 'urbanplanning', 'water', 'population', 'infrastructure']","As the world's climate patterns continue to shift unpredictably, places where drinking water was once abundant may soon find reservoirs dry and groundwater aquifers depleted. In this talk, civil and environmental engineer David Sedlak shares four practical solutions to the ongoing urban water crisis. His goal: to shift our water supply towards new, local sources of water and create a system that is capable of withstanding any of the challenges climate change may throw at us in the coming years."
20086,How do you define yourself?,"['personalgrowth', 'self', 'identity', 'humor', 'funny', 'life', 'motivation', 'goal-setting']","Born with a rare disorder that prevents her from gaining weight, Lizzie Velasquez has faced more negativity and bullying than most. Over time, she's developed a simple but effective coping mechanism. ""Tell me those negative things,"" she says. ""I'm gonna turn them around and use them as a ladder to climb up to my goals."" In this funny, personal talk, Lizzie shares her story – and the tools to help people reject hateful perspectives while embracing self-definition."
50,Happiness by design,"['art', 'design', 'happiness', 'typography', 'graphicdesign']",Graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister takes the audience on a whimsical journey through moments of his life that made him happy -- and notes how many of these moments have to do with good design.
54353,How virtual reality turns students into scientists,"['education', 'student', 'science', 'future', 'teaching', 'children', 'virtualreality', 'oceans', 'marinebiology']","Using low-cost virtual reality, education activist Jessica Ochoa Hendrix helps bring science to life in schools across the US. In this quick talk, she explains how a VR experience she developed invites students to explore underwater ecosystems as if they're marine biologists -- and envision themselves in other careers they might not have otherwise imagined."
658,Life lessons from an ad man,"['advertising', 'business', 'consumerism', 'creativity', 'economics', 'happiness', 'life', 'psychology']","Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider “real” value -- and his conclusion has interesting consequences for how we look at life."
41338,How I turned my Tourette's tics into art,"['art', 'health', 'personalgrowth', 'society', 'identity']","If you listen to visual artist Jess Thom speak, you'll notice she says the words ""hedgehog"" and ""biscuit"" -- a lot. Thom has Tourette's syndrome, but she doesn't let that stop her from finding humor in her condition and educating people about the disorder. In this funny talk, Thom busts common misconceptions about Tourette's and shows how she's turning her tics into toe-tapping works of art. "
1299,The world's smallest 3D printer,"['tedx', 'design', 'engineering', 'industrialdesign', 'technology']","What could you do with the world's smallest 3D printer? Klaus Stadlmann demos his tiny, affordable printer that could someday make customized hearing aids -- or sculptures smaller than a human hair."
894,LEGO for grownups,"['children', 'design', 'entertainment', 'entrepreneur', 'gaming', 'toy']","LEGO blocks: playtime mainstay for industrious kids, obsession for many (ahem!) mature adults. Hillel Cooperman takes us on a trip through the beloved bricks' colorful, sometimes oddball grownup subculture, featuring CAD, open-source robotics and a little adult behavior."
854,Glimpses of a pristine ocean,"['economics', 'fish', 'missionblue', 'oceans', 'science', 'marinebiology', 'coralreefs']","Enric Sala shares glorious images -- and surprising insights and data -- from some of the most pristine areas of the ocean. He shows how we can restore more of our oceans to this healthy, balanced state, and the powerful ecological and economic benefits of doing so."
623,Adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses,"['globalissues', 'health', 'healthcare', 'innovation', 'invention', 'productdesign', 'sight', 'globaldevelopment']","Josh Silver delivers his brilliantly simple solution for correcting vision at the lowest cost possible -- adjustable, liquid-filled lenses. At TEDGlobal 2009, he demos his affordable eyeglasses and reveals his global plan to distribute them to a billion people in need by 2020."
1092,The birth of a word,"['brain', 'children', 'language', 'time']","MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch ""gaaaa"" slowly turn into ""water."" Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn."
42464,"""To Make Use of Water""","['ted-ed', 'animation', 'poetry', 'immigration', 'writing']","This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, ""There's a Poem for That,"" which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by Safia Elhillo, directed by Jeffig Le Bars and Jérémie Balais, music by Jeffig Le Bars]."
2331,Why climate change is a threat to human rights,"['climatechange', 'globalissues', 'humanity', 'inequality', 'politics']","Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice."
11976,What I've learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad,"['tedx', 'parenting', 'children', 'creativity', 'family', 'humanity', 'identity', 'work-lifebalance', 'personalgrowth', 'socialchange', 'society']","Glen Henry got his superpowers through fatherhood. After leaving behind a job he hated and a manager he didn't get along with, he went to work for an equally demanding boss: his kids. He shares how he went from thinking he knew it all about being a stay-at-home parent to realizing he knew nothing at all -- and how he's now documenting what he's learned. "
1729,The silent drama of photography,"['brazil', 'activism', 'environment', 'globalissues', 'photography']","Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the human side of a global story that all too often involves death, destruction or decay. Here, he tells a deeply personal story of the craft that nearly killed him, and shows breathtaking images from his latest work, Genesis, which documents the world's forgotten people and places."
21017,The little risks you can take to increase your luck,"['business', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'success', 'personalgrowth']","Luck is rarely a lightning strike, isolated and dramatic -- it's much more like the wind, blowing constantly. Catching more of it is easy but not obvious. In this insightful talk, Stanford engineering school professor Tina Seelig shares three unexpected ways to increase your luck -- and your ability to see and seize opportunities."
2845,The era of blind faith in big data must end,"['algorithm', 'data', 'inequality', 'marketing', 'society', 'technology']","Algorithms decide who gets a loan, who gets a job interview, who gets insurance and much more -- but they don't automatically make things fair. Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil coined a term for algorithms that are secret, important and harmful: ""weapons of math destruction."" Learn more about the hidden agendas behind the formulas."
2530,"Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality","['communication', 'humanity', 'personality', 'identity', 'humor', 'self', 'psychology', 'introvert', 'tedbooks']","What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits -- sometimes because our culture demands it of us, and sometimes because we demand it of ourselves. Join Little as he dissects the surprising differences between introverts and extroverts and explains why your personality may be more malleable than you think."
1237,Finding life we can't imagine,"['tedx', 'bacteria', 'biology', 'evolution', 'life', 'science']","How do we search for alien life if it's nothing like the life that we know? Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research into artificial life -- self-replicating computer programs -- to find a signature, a ""biomarker,"" that is free of our preconceptions of what life is."
1964,Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done,"['activism', 'business', 'money', 'philanthropy']","In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates took a walk on the beach and made a big decision: to give their Microsoft wealth back to society. In conversation with Chris Anderson, the couple talks about their work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as their marriage, their children, their failures and the satisfaction of giving most of their money away."
1233,Filming democracy in Ghana,"['africa', 'democracy', 'entertainment', 'film', 'globalissues', 'politics']","Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Ghanaian filmmaker, came to Ghana in 2008 to film the national elections. What he saw there taught him new lessons about democracy -- and about himself."
1261,The real reason for brains,"['biology', 'brain', 'evolution', 'science', 'math', 'biomechanics', 'ai', 'engineering', 'robots', 'neuroscience', 'decision-making', 'consciousness', 'cognitivescience']","Neuroscientist Daniel Wolpert starts from a surprising premise: the brain evolved, not to think or feel, but to control movement. In this entertaining, data-rich talk he gives us a glimpse into how the brain creates the grace and agility of human motion."
2361,How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed,"['brain', 'health', 'mentalhealth', 'neuroscience', 'memory', 'cognitivescience', 'medicine']","You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded -- the pre-mortem. ""We all are going to fail now and then,"" he says. ""The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be."""
59801,How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration,"['time', 'space', 'nasa', 'exploration', 'tedx', 'universe']","Ask any deep space navigator like Jill Seubert what makes steering a spacecraft difficult, and they'll tell you it's all about the timing; a split-second can decide a mission's success or failure. So what do you do when a spacecraft is bad at telling time? You get it a clock -- an atomic clock, to be precise. Let Seubert whisk you away with the revolutionary potential of a future where you could receive stellar, GPS-like directions -- no matter where you are in the universe."
2593,What you need to know about CRISPR,"['biology', 'biomechanics', 'biotech', 'curiosity', 'disease', 'dna', 'engineering', 'future', 'genetics', 'innovation', 'nature', 'molecularbiology', 'nanoscale', 'potential', 'science', 'technology', 'virus', 'crispr']","Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genome-editing technology CRISPR has made extraordinary questions like these legitimate -- but how does it work? Scientist and community lab advocate Ellen Jorgensen is on a mission to explain the myths and realities of CRISPR, hype-free, to the non-scientists among us."
594,A next-gen cure for killer infections,"['biology', 'chemistry', 'disease', 'health', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology']","(NOTE: This talk was given in 2009, and this field of science has developed quickly since then. Read ""Criticisms & updates"" below for more details.) Drug-resistant bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winning chemist Kary Mullis, who watched a friend die when powerful antibiotics failed, unveils a radical new cure that shows extraordinary promise."
1212,Beware conflicts of interest,"['cognitivescience', 'economics', 'medicalresearch', 'science', 'technology']","In this short talk, psychologist Dan Ariely tells two personal stories that explore scientific conflict of interest: How the pursuit of knowledge and insight can be affected, consciously or not, by shortsighted personal goals. When we're thinking about the big questions, he reminds us, let's be aware of our all-too-human brains."
23736,Calculating the odds of intelligent alien life,"['animation', 'space', 'ted-ed', 'education', 'planets', 'science', 'universe', 'math']","Could there be intelligent life on other planets? This question has piqued imagination and curiosity for decades. Explore the answer with the Drake Equation -- a mathematical formula that calculates the possibility of undiscovered life. [Directed by Jeremiah Dickey, narrated by Jill Tarter]."
35497,An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall,"['immigration', 'politics', 'society', 'architecture', 'humanity', 'socialchange', 'art', 'community', 'unitedstates']","What is a border? It's a line on a map, a place where cultures mix and merge in beautiful, sometimes violent and occasionally ridiculous ways. And a border wall? An overly simplistic response to that complexity, says architect Ronald Rael. In a moving, visual talk, Rael reimagines the physical barrier that divides the United States and Mexico -- sharing satirical, serious works of art inspired by the borderlands and showing us the border we don't see in the news. ""There are not two sides defined by a wall. This is one landscape, divided,"" Rael says."
61302,What the world can learn from China's response to the coronavirus,"['tedconnects', 'virus', 'coronavirus', 'china', 'asia', 'communication', 'society', 'journalism']","From Hong Kong, South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu tracks China's response to the coronavirus pandemic -- from the initial outbreak in Wuhan to the shutdown of Hubei province and the containment measures taken across its major cities. Sharing insights into how the culture in places like Hong Kong and South Korea contributed to fast action against the virus, Liu identifies lessons people across the world can use to stop its spread. (This virtual conversation is part of the TED Connects series, hosted by head of TED Chris Anderson and current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers. Recorded March 25, 2020)"
1331,The beautiful math behind the world's ugliest music,"['tedx', 'entertainment', 'math', 'music', 'science', 'scienceandart', 'algorithm', 'composing', 'collaboration']","Scott Rickard set out to engineer the ugliest possible piece of music, devoid of repetition, using a mathematical concept known as the Costas Array. In this surprisingly entertaining talk, he shares the math behind musical beauty ... and its opposite."
2141,What the people of the Amazon know that you don't,"['medicine', 'worldcultures', 'rivers', 'indigenouspeoples']","""The greatest and most endangered species in the Amazon rainforest is not the jaguar or the harpy eagle,"" says Mark Plotkin, ""It's the isolated and uncontacted tribes."" In an energetic and sobering talk, the ethnobotanist brings us into the world of the forest's indigenous tribes and the incredible medicinal plants that their shamans use to heal. He outlines the challenges and perils that are endangering them — and their wisdom — and urges us to protect this irreplaceable repository of knowledge."
2524,The secret to effective nonviolent resistance,"['collaboration', 'bigproblems', 'globalissues', 'communication', 'community', 'humanity', 'military', 'protests', 'society', 'security', 'terrorism', 'violence', 'war', 'nonviolence']","We're not going to end violence by telling people that it's morally wrong, says Jamila Raqib, executive director of the Albert Einstein Institution. Instead, we must find alternative ways to conduct conflict that are equally powerful and effective. Raqib promotes nonviolent resistance to people living under tyranny -- and there's a lot more to it than street protests. She shares encouraging examples of creative strategies that have led to change around the world and a message of hope for a future without armed conflict. ""The greatest hope for humanity lies not in condemning violence but in making violence obsolete,"" Raqib says."
2799,Why you should define your fears instead of your goals,"['choice', 'goal-setting', 'fear', 'life', 'humanity', 'personalgrowth', 'success', 'work-lifebalance', 'work']","The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls ""fear-setting."" Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive in high-stress environments and separate what you can control from what you cannot."
947,Keep your goals to yourself,"['goal-setting', 'motivation', 'personalgrowth', 'self', 'storytelling', 'success', 'psychology']","After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them."
6553,"""Good"" and ""bad"" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves","['children', 'disability', 'family', 'humanity', 'parenting', 'personalgrowth', 'society', 'love']","Heather Lanier's daughter Fiona has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a genetic condition that results in developmental delays -- but that doesn't make her tragic, angelic or any of the other stereotypes about kids like her. In this talk about the beautiful, complicated, joyful and hard journey of raising a rare girl, Lanier questions our assumptions about what makes a life ""good"" or ""bad,"" challenging us to stop fixating on solutions for whatever we deem not normal, and instead to take life as it comes."
2354,How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA,"['genetics', 'philosophy', 'science', 'medicine', 'bioethics', 'dna', 'future', 'virus', 'syntheticbiology', 'molecularbiology', 'innovation', 'engineering', 'biotech', 'medicalresearch', 'health', 'technology', 'software', 'crispr']","Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases ... but could also be used to create so-called ""designer babies."" Doudna reviews how CRISPR-Cas9 works -- and asks the scientific community to pause and discuss the ethics of this new tool."
182,The illustrated woman,"['art', 'children', 'culture', 'design', 'entertainment', 'happiness']","Author and illustrator Maira Kalman talks about her life and work, from her covers for The New Yorker to her books for children and grown-ups. She is as wonderful, as wise and as deliciously off-kilter in person as she is on paper."
1623,Why global jihad is losing,"['egypt', 'tedx', 'culture', 'faith', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'religion', 'terrorism', 'war']","Throughout the history of Islam, says journalist Bobby Ghosh, there have been two sides to jihad: one, internal, a personal struggle to be better, the other external. A small minority has appropriated the second meaning, using it as an excuse for deadly global violence against ""the West."" Ghosh suggests it's time to reclaim the word."
6477,How augmented reality could change the future of surgery,"['augmentedreality', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'health', 'computers', 'innovation', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology', 'surgery']","If you're undergoing surgery, you want the best surgical team to collaborate on your case, no matter where they are. Surgeon and entrepreneur Nadine Hachach-Haram is developing a new system that helps surgeons operate together and train one another on new techniques -- from remote locations using low-cost augmented reality tools. Watch the system in action as she joins a surgeon in Minnesota performing a knee surgery, live on her laptop from the TED stage in New Orleans. As Hachach-Haram says: ""Through simple, everyday devices that we take for granted, we can really do miraculous things."" (This talk contains graphic images of surgery.)"
248,How the news distorts our worldview,"['google', 'business', 'economics', 'entertainment', 'globalissues', 'media', 'news']","Alisa Miller, head of Public Radio International, talks about why -- though we want to know more about the world than ever -- the media is actually showing us less. Eye-opening stats and graphs."
1905,Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper,"['vaccines', 'biology', 'health', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology', 'publichealth', 'healthcare', 'disease', 'bioethics', 'medicalresearch', 'innovation', 'nanoscale', 'demo', 'microbiology', 'pharmaceuticals', 'productdesign', 'biotech', 'illness', 'future']","One hundred sixty years after the invention of the needle and syringe, we're still using them to deliver vaccines; it's time to evolve. Biomedical engineer Mark Kendall demos the Nanopatch, a one-centimeter-by-one-centimeter square vaccine that can be applied painlessly to the skin. He shows how this tiny piece of silicon can overcome four major shortcomings of the modern needle and syringe, at a fraction of the cost."
918,Why the world needs WikiLeaks,"['communication', 'globalissues', 'iraq', 'military', 'news', 'technology', 'surveillance']",The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how WikiLeaks operates and what drives their mission. The interview includes graphic footage of a US airstrike in Baghdad.
2136,How autism freed me to be myself,"['autismspectrumdisorder', 'activism', 'disability', 'mind', 'youth']","“People are so afraid of variety that they try to fit everything into a tiny little box with a specific label,” says 16-year-old Rosie King, who is bold, brash and autistic. She wants to know: Why is everyone so worried about being normal? She sounds a clarion call for every kid, parent, teacher and person to celebrate uniqueness. It’s a soaring testament to the potential of human diversity."
614,Biomimicry in action,"['biodiversity', 'biology', 'biomimicry', 'biotech', 'creativity', 'design', 'innovation', 'invention', 'nature']","Janine Benyus has a message for inventors: When solving a design problem, look to nature first. There you'll find inspired designs for making things waterproof, aerodynamic, solar-powered and more. Here she reveals dozens of new products that take their cue from nature with spectacular results."
1567,Demand a fair trade cell phone,"['africa', 'tedx', 'technology', 'war', 'communication', 'materials']","Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Drawing on his personal story, activist and refugee Bandi Mbubi gives a stirring call to action. "
1994,How sampling transformed music,"['music', 'performance', 'livemusic', 'entertainment']","Sampling isn't about ""hijacking nostalgia wholesale,"" says Mark Ronson. It's about inserting yourself into the narrative of a song while also pushing that story forward. In this mind-blowingly original talk, watch the DJ scramble 15 TED Talks into an audio-visual omelette, and trace the evolution of ""La Di Da Di,"" Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick's 1984 hit that has been reimagined for every generation since."
1542,Fighting with nonviolence,"['tedx', 'activism', 'globalissues', 'peace', 'terrorism', 'violence', 'war']","How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations and individuals -- to fight extreme force without using force in return. To answer the question of why and how nonviolence works, she evokes historical heroes -- Aung San Suu Kyi, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- and the personal philosophies that powered their peaceful protests."
551,Could a Saturn moon harbor life?,"['planets', 'astronomy', 'exploration', 'life', 'science', 'space', 'technology', 'solarsystem']","Carolyn Porco shares exciting new findings from the Cassini spacecraft's recent sweep of one of Saturn's moons, Enceladus. Samples gathered from the moon's icy geysers hint that an ocean under its surface could harbor life."
21752,Let's get honest about our money problems,"['money', 'finance', 'life', 'self', 'tedx', 'work', 'socialchange']","Struggling to budget and manage finances is common -- but talking honestly and openly about it isn't. Why do we hide our problems around money? In this thoughtful, personal talk, author Tammy Lally encourages us to break free of ""money shame"" and shows us how to stop equating our bank accounts with our self-worth."
46575,How to use family dinner to teach politics,"['politics', 'children', 'socialchange', 'women', 'society', 'culture', 'democracy', 'parenting', 'middleeast', 'activism']","Everyone should participate in decision-making and politics -- and it starts at home, says activist Hajer Sharief. She introduces a simple yet transformative idea: that parents can teach their children about political agency by giving them a say in how their households are run, in the form of candid family meetings where everyone can express their opinions, negotiate and compromise. ""We need to teach people that political, national and global affairs are as relevant to them as personal and family affairs,"" she says. ""Can you really afford not to be interested or not participate in politics?"""
2787,Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them,"['algorithm', 'computers', 'data', 'future', 'intelligence', 'innovation', 'potential', 'robots', 'socialchange', 'technology', 'ai']","We must face our fears if we want to get the most out of technology -- and we must conquer those fears if we want to get the best out of humanity, says Garry Kasparov. One of the greatest chess players in history, Kasparov lost a memorable match to IBM supercomputer Deep Blue in 1997. Now he shares his vision for a future where intelligent machines help us turn our grandest dreams into reality."
43755,Can dogs sniff out malaria?,"['health', 'publichealth', 'animals', 'smell', 'disease']","Each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world die of malaria. Aided by a demo from Freya the malaria-sniffing dog, infectious disease researcher James Logan describes the role of scent in the spread of malaria and explains how dogs can help break that cycle. "
1996,"How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is)","['tedx', 'business', 'crime', 'finance', 'law']","William Black is a former bank regulator who’s seen firsthand how banking systems can be used to commit fraud — and how “liar's loans” and other tricky tactics led to the 2008 US banking crisis that threatened the international economy. In this engaging talk, Black, now an academic, reveals the best way to rob a bank — from the inside."
1712,The Philosophical Breakfast Club,"['history', 'science', 'storytelling', 'technology', 'scienceandart', 'philosophy', 'innovation', 'culture', 'physics', 'activism', 'computers', 'math']","In 1812, four men at Cambridge University met for breakfast. What began as an impassioned meal grew into a new scientific revolution, in which these men -- who called themselves “natural philosophers” until they later coined “scientist” -- introduced four major principles into scientific inquiry. Historian and philosopher Laura Snyder tells their intriguing story."
1537,A thousand times no,"['egypt', 'middleeast', 'tedfellows', 'protests', 'worldcultures', 'art']","Art historian Bahia Shehab has long been fascinated with the Arabic script for 'no.' When revolution swept through Egypt in 2011, she began spraying the image in the streets saying no to dictators, no to military rule and no to violence."
26918,How an algorithm can fight election bias so every vote counts,"['politics', 'socialchange', 'activism', 'technology', 'democracy']","Ever have the sneaking suspicion your vote doesn't really matter? Software engineer Brian Olson has designed a powerful algorithm that transforms gerrymandered districts into vibrant, perfectly impartial state maps so that every vote counts. "
2007,How augmented reality will change sports ... and build empathy,"['sports', 'technology', 'virtualreality']","Chris Kluwe wants to look into the future of sports and think about how technology will help not just players and coaches, but fans. Here the former NFL punter envisions a future in which augmented reality will help people experience sports as if they are directly on the field -- and maybe even help them see others in a new light, too."
10,The killer American diet that's sweeping the planet,"['culture', 'disease', 'food', 'globalissues', 'health', 'healthcare', 'obesity', 'science']",Forget the latest disease in the news: Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it’s mostly preventable. Dr. Dean Ornish explains how changing our eating habits can save lives.
1283,Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.,"['tedx', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'compassion', 'culture', 'photography']","Nature’s beauty can be fleeting -- but not through Louie Schwartzberg’s lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast, serves as a meditation on being grateful for every day."
1776,Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon,"['design', 'humor', 'art', 'comedy']","The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed ""humor analyst"" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the ""idea drawings"" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why."
1715,In search of the man who broke my neck,"['anthropology', 'disability', 'storytelling', 'writing']","When Joshua Prager was 19, a devastating bus accident left him a hemiplegic. He returned to Israel twenty years later to find the driver who turned his world upside down. In this mesmerizing tale of their meeting, Prager probes deep questions of nature, nurture, self-deception and identity."
2479,The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen,"['communication', 'storytelling', 'journalism', 'composing', 'language', 'writing', 'grammar']","""Copy editing for The New Yorker is like playing shortstop for a Major League Baseball team -- every little movement gets picked over by the critics,"" says Mary Norris, who has played the position for more than thirty years. In that time, she's gotten a reputation for sternness and for being a ""comma maniac,"" but this is unfounded, she says. Above all, her work is aimed at one thing: making authors look good. Explore The New Yorker's distinctive style with the person who knows it best in this charming talk."
24509,Will the ocean ever run out of fish?,"['design', 'health', 'publichealth', 'technology', 'oceans', 'fish', 'climatechange', 'agriculture', 'economics', 'culture', 'food', 'animation', 'education', 'ted-ed']","When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat and patiently reeling in the day's catch. But modern industrial fishing -- the kind that stocks our grocery shelves -- looks more like warfare. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet explain overfishing and its effects on ecosystems, food security, jobs, economies, and coastal cultures. [Directed by Anton Bogaty, narrated by Pen-Pen Chen]. "
24922,Why the hospital of the future will be your own home,"['healthcare', 'health', 'future', 'publichealth', 'innovation', 'technology', 'disease']","Nobody likes going to the hospital, whether it's because of the logistical challenges of getting there, the astronomical costs of procedures or the alarming risks of complications like antibiotic-resistant bacteria. But what if we could get the lifesaving care provided by hospitals in our own homes? Health care futurist Niels van Namen shows how advances in technology are making home care a cheaper, safer and more accessible alternative to hospital stays."
1330,How to make choosing easier,"['business', 'choice', 'culture', 'decision-making', 'marketing']","We all want customized experiences and products -- but when faced with 700 options, consumers freeze up. With fascinating new research, Sheena Iyengar demonstrates how businesses (and others) can improve the experience of choosing."
433,The art and craft of bread,"['art', 'chemistry', 'food', 'life', 'love', 'science', 'bestoftheweb']","Batch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat and yeast, starch and heat) that give us our daily bread. Try not to eat a slice."
1865,How an obese town lost a million pounds,"['cities', 'health', 'obesity']","Oklahoma City is a midsized town that had a big problem: It was among the most obese towns in America. Mayor Mick Cornett realized that, to make his city a great place to work and live, it had to become healthier too. In this charming talk, he walks us through the interlocking changes that helped OKC drop a collective million pounds (450,000 kilos)."
2570,The era of personal DNA testing is here,"['biology', 'cancer', 'biotech', 'agriculture', 'disease', 'dna', 'farming', 'forensics', 'future', 'innovation', 'molecularbiology', 'nature', 'science', 'technology', 'vaccines']","From improving vaccines to modifying crops to solving crimes, DNA technology has transformed our world. Now, for the first time in history, anyone can experiment with DNA at home, in their kitchen, using a device smaller than a shoebox. We are living in a personal DNA revolution, says biotech entrepreneur Sebastian Kraves, where the secrets buried in DNA are yours to find."
2860,Our treatment of HIV has advanced. Why hasn't the stigma changed?,"['hiv', 'disease', 'tedx', 'activism', 'humanity', 'humanbody', 'health']","The treatment of HIV has significantly advanced over the past three decades -- why hasn't our perception of people with the disease advanced along with it? After being diagnosed with HIV, Arik Hartmann chose to live transparently, being open about his status, in an effort to educate people. In this candid, personal talk, he shares what it's like to live with HIV -- and calls on us to dismiss our misconceptions about the disease."
2363,How I teach kids to love science,"['education', 'environment', 'design', 'collaboration', 'green', 'globalissues', 'invention', 'innovation', 'oceans', 'water', 'tedfellows']","At the Harbour School in Hong Kong, TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada teaches citizen science and invention to the next generation of environmentalists. He's moved his classroom into an industrial mega-space where imaginative kids work with wood, metal, chemistry, biology, optics and, occasionally, power tools to create solutions to the threats facing the world's oceans. There, he instills a universal lesson that his own parents taught him at a young age: ""You can make a mess, but you have to clean up after yourself."""
62627,An ode to living on Earth,"['planets', 'art', 'poetry', 'life', 'love', 'empathy', 'humanity', 'personalgrowth', 'visualizations', 'creativity', 'community']","If you had to explain to a newborn what it means to be a human being living on Earth in the 21st century, what would you say? Visual artist Oliver Jeffers put his answer in a letter to his son, sharing pearls of wisdom on existence and the diversity of life. He offers observations of the ""beautiful, fragile drama of human civilization"" in this poetic talk paired with his original illustrations and animations."
131,Rethink the desktop with BumpTop,"['demo', 'interfacedesign', 'software', 'technology']","Anand Agarawala presents BumpTop, a user interface that takes the usual desktop metaphor to a glorious, 3-D extreme, transforming file navigation into a freewheeling playground of crumpled documents and clipping-covered ""walls."""
1102,"Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans","['tedfellows', 'animals', 'culture', 'play', 'science']","With never-before-seen video, primatologist Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (a TED Fellow) shows how bonobo ape society learns from constantly playing -- solo, with friends, even as a prelude to sex. Indeed, play appears to be the bonobos' key to problem-solving and avoiding conflict. If it works for our close cousins, why not for us?"
714,How to make a splash in social media,"['internet', 'animals', 'business', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'entrepreneur', 'oceans', 'web']","In a funny, rapid-fire 4 minutes, Alexis Ohanian of Reddit tells the real-life fable of one humpback whale's rise to web stardom. The lesson of Mister Splashy Pants is a shoo-in classic for meme-makers and marketers in the Facebook age."
1612,The future of lying,"['tedx', 'communication', 'technology']","Who hasn’t sent a text message saying “I’m on my way” when it wasn’t true or fudged the truth a touch in their online dating profile? But Jeff Hancock doesn’t believe that the anonymity of the internet encourages dishonesty. In fact, he says the searchability and permanence of information online may even keep us honest."
2160,Why you should care about whale poo,"['tedfellows', 'biology', 'nature', 'oceans', 'marinebiology']","Whales have a surprising and important job, says marine biologist Asha de Vos: these massive creatures are ecosystem engineers, keeping the oceans healthy and stable by ... well, by pooping, for a start. Learn from de Vos, a TED Fellow, about the undervalued work that whales do to help maintain the stability and health of our seas -- and our planet."
1918,How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped),"['gender', 'violence', 'women']","When Esta Soler lobbied for a bill outlawing domestic violence in 1984, one politician called it the ""Take the Fun Out of Marriage Act."" ""If only I had Twitter then,"" she mused. In this sweeping, optimistic talk, Soler charts 30 years of tactics and technologies -- from the Polaroid camera to social media -- that led to a 64% drop in domestic violence in the U.S."
2650,The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons,"['collaboration', 'fear', 'government', 'globalissues', 'history', 'humanity', 'nuclearenergy', 'nuclearweapons', 'technology', 'peace', 'security', 'terrorism', 'violence', 'war']","Today nine nations collectively control more than 15,000 nuclear weapons, each hundreds of times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We don't need more nuclear weapons; we need a new generation to face the unfinished challenge of disarmament started decades ago. Nuclear reformer Erika Gregory calls on today's rising leaders -- those born in a time without Cold War fears and duck-and-cover training -- to pursue an ambitious goal: ridding the world of nuclear weapons by 2045."
535,What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?,"['alternativeenergy', 'climatechange', 'energy', 'environment', 'presentation', 'science', 'technology', 'ecology', 'sustainability', 'naturalresources']","At TED2009, Al Gore presents updated slides from around the globe to make the case that worrying climate trends are even worse than scientists predicted, and to make clear his stance on ""clean coal."""
35764,How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza,"['technology', 'invention', 'solarenergy', 'energy', 'materials', 'war', 'sustainability', 'design', 'engineering', 'architecture']",Majd Mashharawi was walking through her war-torn neighborhood in Gaza when an idea flashed in her mind: What if she could take the rubble and transform it into building materials? See how she designed a brick made out of ashes that's helping people rebuild their homes -- and learn about her new project: bringing solar-powered energy to families living in darkness.
744,Growing new organs,"['biology', 'health', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology']","Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that ""prints"" human tissue."
1900,Why dieting doesn't usually work,"['health', 'neuroscience', 'obesity', 'mindfulness']","In the US, 80% of girls have been on a diet by the time they're 10 years old. In this honest, raw talk, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt uses her personal story to frame an important lesson about how our brains manage our bodies, as she explores the science behind why dieting not only doesn't work, but is likely to do more harm than good. She suggests ideas for how to live a less diet-obsessed life, intuitively."
2383,How new technology helps blind people explore the world,"['communication', 'ai', 'demo', 'future', 'invention', 'innovation', 'interfacedesign', 'open-source', 'sight', 'technology', 'data', 'blindness']","How can technology help improve our quality of life? How can we navigate the world without using the sense of vision? Inventor and IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa, who's been blind since the age of fourteen, is working on answering these questions. In a charming demo, she shows off some new technology that's helping blind people explore the world ever more independently ... because, she suggests, when we design for greater accessibility, everyone benefits."
148,The  4 a.m. mystery,"['entertainment', 'poetry', 'spokenword']","Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning."
1628,The dance of the dung beetle,"['tedx', 'animals', 'insects', 'science', 'biodiversity', 'biology', 'ecology', 'sight']","A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet it shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source -- animal excrement -- home. How? It all comes down to a dance. "
94,Let's teach religion -- all religion -- in schools,"['god', 'atheism', 'brain', 'cognitivescience', 'consciousness', 'evolution', 'philosophy', 'religion']","Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes on The Purpose-Driven Life, disputing its claim that, to be moral, one must deny evolution."
9982,What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy?,"['health', 'healthcare', 'economics', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine']",What if we incentivized doctors to keep us healthy instead of paying them only when we're already sick? Matthias Müllenbeck explains how this radical shift from a sick care system to a true health care system could save us from unnecessary costs and risky procedures -- and keep us healthier for longer.
1858,What I discovered in New York City  trash,"['anthropology', 'business', 'culture', 'sanitation']","New York City residents produce 11,000 tons of garbage every day. Every day! This astonishing statistic is just one of the reasons Robin Nagle started a research project with the city's Department of Sanitation. She walked the routes, operated mechanical brooms, even drove a garbage truck herself--all so she could answer a simple-sounding but complicated question: who cleans up after us?"
27383,How to disagree productively and find common ground,"['collaboration', 'business', 'personalgrowth', 'communication', 'socialchange', 'politics', 'society']","Some days, it feels like the only thing we can agree on is that we can't agree -- on anything. Drawing on her background as a world debate champion, Julia Dhar offers three techniques to reshape the way we talk to each other so we can start disagreeing productively and finding common ground -- over family dinners, during work meetings and in our national conversations."
2060,Why ordinary people need to understand power,"['democracy', 'policy', 'politics']","Far too many Americans are illiterate in power — what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As a result, those few who do understand power wield disproportionate influence over everyone else. ""We need to make civics sexy again,"" says civics educator Eric Liu. ""As sexy as it was during the American Revolution or the Civil Rights Movement."""
2374,The chilling aftershock of a brush with death,"['tedx', 'death', 'military', 'globalissues', 'pain', 'iraq', 'mind', 'psychology', 'violence', 'war', 'ptsd']","In April 2003, just as American troops began rolling into Baghdad, a shell smashed into the building author and war correspondent Jean-Paul Mari was reporting from. There he had a face-to-face encounter with death, beginning his acquaintance with a phantom that has haunted those who have risked their lives on battlefields since ancient times. ""What is this thing that can kill you without leaving any visible scars?"" Mari asks. We know it as post-traumatic stress disorder -- or, as Mari describes it, an experience with the void of death. In this probing talk, he searches for answers to questions about mortality and psychosis and in the aftermath of horror and trauma."
991,Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products,"['business', 'design', 'economics', 'industrialdesign', 'technology', 'india']","Engineer RA Mashelkar shares three stories of ultra-low-cost design from India that use bottom-up rethinking, and some clever engineering, to bring expensive products (cars, prosthetics) into the realm of the possible for everyone."
13834,War and what comes after,"['family', 'africa', 'refugees', 'humanity', 'society']","Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when the Rwandan Civil War forced her and her sister to flee their home in Kigali, leaving their parents and everything they knew behind. In this deeply personal talk, she tells the story of how she became a refugee, living in camps in seven countries over the next six years -- and how she's tried to make sense of what came after."
1881,Invest in social change,"['business', 'economics', 'socialchange', 'justicesystem']","Here's a stat worth knowing: In the UK, 63% of men who finish short-term prison sentences are back inside within a year for another crime. Helping them stay outside involves job training, classes, therapy. And it would pay off handsomely -- but the government can't find the funds. Toby Eccles shares an imaginative idea for how to change that: the Social Impact Bond. It's an unusual bond that helps fund initiatives with a social goal through private money -- with the government paying back the investors (with interest) if the initiatives work."
471,A dive into the reef's Twilight Zone,"['biodiversity', 'exploration', 'fear', 'fish', 'oceans', 'science', 'technology', 'marinebiology']","In this illuminating talk, Richard Pyle shows us thriving life on the cliffs of coral reefs and groundbreaking diving technologies he has pioneered to explore it. He and his team risk everything to reveal the secrets of undiscovered species."
2294,The math behind basketball's wildest moves,"['math', 'sports', 'technology', 'visualizations']","Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key plays of the game, to help coaches and players combine intuition with new data. Bonus: What they're learning could help us understand how humans move everywhere."
36416,Where did the Moon come from? A new theory,"['planets', 'universe', 'moon', 'science', 'technology', 'chemistry', 'data', 'solarsystem', 'nature', 'space', 'macarthurgrant']","The Earth and Moon are like identical twins, made up of the exact same materials -- which is really strange, since no other celestial bodies we know of share this kind of chemical relationship. What's responsible for this special connection? Looking for an answer, planetary scientist and MacArthur ""Genius"" Sarah T. Stewart discovered a new kind of astronomical object -- a synestia -- and a new way to solve the mystery of the Moon's origin."
54,My wish: A call for open-source architecture,"['activism', 'architecture', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'design', 'disasterrelief', 'globalissues', 'invention', 'open-source', 'philanthropy']","Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design."
1477,Archaeology from space,"['egypt', 'tedfellows', 'exploration', 'history', 'science', 'space', 'technology', 'ancientworld', 'africa', 'collaboration', 'innovation', 'anthropology', 'computers', 'nasa', 'geology', 'archaeology']","In this short talk, TED Fellow Sarah Parcak introduces the field of ""space archaeology"" -- using satellite images to search for clues to the lost sites of past civilizations."
3631,Activism needs introverts,"['activism', 'community', 'art', 'creativity', 'socialchange', 'society', 'tedx', 'introvert']","For the introverts among us, traditional forms activism like marches, protests and door-to-door canvassing can be intimidating and stressful. Take it from Sarah Corbett, a former professional campaigner and self-proclaimed introvert. She introduces us to ""craftivism,"" a quieter form of activism that uses handicrafts as a way to get people to slow down and think deeply about the issues they're facing, all while engaging the public more gently. Who says an embroidered handkerchief can't change the world?"
43333,The political power of being a good neighbor,"['politics', 'activism', 'socialchange', 'government', 'society', 'community', 'history', 'leadership', 'inequality', 'poverty', 'unitedstates']","Michael Tubbs is the youngest mayor in American history to represent a city with more than 100,000 people -- and his policies are sparking national conversations. In this rousing talk, he shares how growing up amid poverty and violence in Stockton, California shaped his bold vision for change and his commitment to govern as a neighbor, not a politician. ""When we see someone different from us, they should not reflect our fears, our anxieties, our insecurities,"" he says. ""We should see our common humanity."""
1064,Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!,"['architecture', 'biology', 'cities', 'design']","Landscape architect Kate Orff sees the oyster as an agent of urban change. Bundled into beds and sunk into city rivers, oysters slurp up pollution and make legendarily dirty waters clean -- thus driving even more innovation in ""oyster-tecture."" Orff shares her vision for an urban landscape that links nature and humanity for mutual benefit."
70,8 secrets of success,"['business', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'happiness', 'psychology', 'success', 'work']",Why do people succeed? Is it because they're smart? Or are they just lucky? Neither. Analyst Richard St. John condenses years of interviews into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success.
1430,Texting that saves lives,"['activism', 'bullying', 'culture', 'globalissues', 'health', 'youth']","When Nancy Lublin started texting teenagers to help with her social advocacy organization, what she found was shocking -- they started texting back about their own problems, from bullying to depression to abuse. So she's setting up a text-only crisis line, and the results might be even more important than she expected."
40636,Everything around you can become a computer,"['technology', 'invention', 'future', 'engineering', 'interfacedesign', 'design', 'internet', 'computers', 'programming', 'collaboration', 'creativity', 'potential', 'productdesign', 'demo']","Designer Ivan Poupyrev wants to integrate technology into everyday objects to make them more useful and fun -- like a jacket you can use to answer phone calls or a houseplant you can play like a keyboard. In a talk and tech demo, he lays out his vision for a physical world that's more deeply connected to the internet and shows how, with a little collaboration, we can get there. Unveiled in this talk: Poupyrev announces that his newest device, Jacquard, is now publicly available for all designers to use."
2604,We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers,"['behavioraleconomics', 'business', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'community', 'data', 'economics', 'innovation', 'money', 'potential', 'society', 'technology', 'trust', 'blockchain', 'cryptocurrency']","Something profound is changing our concept of trust, says Rachel Botsman. While we used to place our trust in institutions like governments and banks, today we increasingly rely on others, often strangers, on platforms like Airbnb and Uber and through technologies like the blockchain. This new era of trust could bring with it a more transparent, inclusive and accountable society -- if we get it right. Who do you trust?"
2434,Dive into an ocean photographer's world,"['adventure', 'biodiversity', 'beauty', 'animals', 'curiosity', 'conservation', 'environment', 'fish', 'exploration', 'globalissues', 'future', 'nature', 'missionblue', 'photography', 'sustainability', 'water', 'oceans', 'scienceandart', 'ecology', 'marinebiology']","Somersaulting manta rays, dashing dolphins, swarming schools of fish and munching sharks inhabit a world beneath the ocean's surface that few get a chance to see. Conservation photographer Thomas Peschak visits incredible seascapes around the world, and his photos reveal these hidden ecosystems. ""You can't love something and become a champion for it if you don't know it exists,"" he says. Join Peschak in a new, immersive TED Talk format as he shares his stunning work and his dream for a future of respectful coexistence with the ocean."
811,"And now, the real news","['future', 'globalissues', 'media', 'news', 'science']","How many of today's headlines will matter in 100 years? 1000? Kirk Citron's ""Long News"" project collects stories that not only matter today, but will resonate for decades -- even centuries -- to come. At TED2010, he highlights recent headlines with the potential to shape our future."
1763,Photos from a storm chaser,"['tedfellows', 'entertainment', 'nature', 'photography', 'weather']","Photographer Camille Seaman has been chasing storms for 5 years. In this talk she shows stunning, surreal photos of the heavens in tumult."
1252,Art made of storms,"['tedfellows', 'art', 'data', 'visualizations', 'weather']",Artist Nathalie Miebach takes weather data from massive storms and turns it into complex sculptures that embody the forces of nature and time. These sculptures then become musical scores for a string quartet to play.
27622,Confessions of a recovering micromanager,"['work', 'trust', 'success', 'happiness', 'business', 'motivation', 'leadership', 'personalgrowth', 'potential']","Think about the most tired you've ever been at work. It probably wasn't when you stayed late or came home from a road trip -- chances are it was when you had someone looking over your shoulder, watching your each and every move. ""If we know that micromanagement isn't really effective, why do we do it?"" asks entrepreneur Chieh Huang. In a funny talk packed with wisdom and humility, Huang shares the cure for micromanagement madness -- and how to foster innovation and happiness at work."
126,Swim with the giant sunfish,"['animals', 'biodiversity', 'climatechange', 'environment', 'fish', 'globalissues', 'oceans', 'science', 'technology', 'marinebiology']","Marine biologist Tierney Thys asks us to step into the water to visit the world of the Mola mola, or giant ocean sunfish. Basking, eating jellyfish and getting massages, this behemoth offers clues to life in the open sea."
1805,For argument's sake,"['tedx', 'culture', 'language', 'philosophy']","Why do we argue? To out-reason our opponents, prove them wrong, and, most of all, to win! Right? Philosopher Daniel H. Cohen shows how our most common form of argument -- a war in which one person must win and the other must lose -- misses out on the real benefits of engaging in active disagreement."
2618,How the US should use its superpower status,"['business', 'china', 'asia', 'democracy', 'africa', 'europe', 'foreignpolicy', 'globalissues', 'globaldevelopment', 'government', 'iraq', 'law', 'iran', 'middleeast', 'money', 'military', 'motivation', 'newyork', 'security', 'politics', 'society', 'southamerica', 'war', 'tedx', 'syria']","Americanization and globalization have basically been the same thing for the last several generations. But the US's view of the world -- and the world's view of the US -- is changing. In a fast-paced tour of the current state of international politics, Ian Bremmer discusses the challenges of a world where no single country or alliance can meet the challenges of global leadership and asks if the US is ready to lead by example, not by force."
52062,What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better,"['immigration', 'policy', 'refugees', 'law', 'government', 'socialchange', 'society', 'justicesystem']","At the US-Mexico border, policies of prolonged detention and family separation have made seeking asylum in the United States difficult and dangerous. In this raw and heartfelt talk, immigration attorney Erika Pinheiro offers a glimpse into her daily work on both sides of the border and shares some of the stories behind the statistics -- including her own story of being detained and separated from her son. It's a clear-eyed call to remember the humanity that's impacted by policy -- and a warning: ""History shows us that the first population to be vilified and stripped of their rights is rarely the last,"" she says."
49435,How community-led conservation can save wildlife,"['africa', 'conservation', 'animals', 'science', 'biodiversity', 'tedfellows', 'environment']","Conservationist and TED Fellow Moreangels Mbizah studied the famous Cecil the lion until he was shot by a trophy hunter in 2015. She wonders how things could've gone differently, asking: ""What if the community that lived next to Cecil was involved in protecting him?"" In a quick talk, Mbizah shares the state of conservation in her home of Zimbabwe -- and why she thinks that communities living with wildlife are the ones best positioned to help them."
618,The puzzle of motivation,"['brain', 'business', 'creativity', 'motivation', 'science', 'socialchange', 'work']","Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward."
1124,"Transplant cells, not organs","['business', 'technology', 'surgery', 'bestoftheweb']","Pioneering surgeon Susan Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia. But a moral concern with transplants (where do donor livers come from ...) led her to look further, and to ask: Could we be transplanting cells, not whole organs? At the INK Conference, she talks through her new research, discovering healing cells in some surprising places."
1220,Does democracy stifle economic growth?,"['asia', 'culture', 'democracy', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'india']","Economist Yasheng Huang compares China to India, and asks how China's authoritarian rule contributed to its astonishing economic growth -- leading to a big question: Is democracy actually holding India back? Huang's answer may surprise you."
2016,What the gay rights movement learned from the civil rights movement,"['lgbt', 'activism', 'film', 'inequality', 'race', 'genderequality']","As a member of both the African American and LGBT communities, filmmaker Yoruba Richen is fascinated with the overlaps and tensions between the gay rights and the civil rights movements. She explores how the two struggles intertwine and propel each other forward — and, in an unmissable argument, she dispels a myth about their points of conflict. A powerful reminder that we all have a stake in equality."
1514,Sometimes it's good to give up the driver's seat,"['tedx', 'business', 'cancer', 'choice', 'decision-making', 'healthcare']","Over the years, research has shown a counterintuitive fact about human nature: Sometimes, having too much choice makes us less happy. This may even be true when it comes to medical treatment. Baba Shiv shares a fascinating study that measures why choice opens the door to doubt, and suggests that ceding control -- especially on life-or-death decisions -- may be the best thing for us."
48854,A free world needs satire,"['democracy', 'art', 'news', 'socialmedia', 'media', 'humor', 'journalism']","We need humor like we need the air we breathe, says editorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte. In a talk illustrated with highlights from a career spent skewering everything from dictators and ideologues to selfies and social media mobs, Chappatte makes a resounding, often hilarious case for the necessity of satire. ""Political cartoons were born with democracy, and they are challenged when freedom is,"" he says."
1793,DJ decks made of ... paper,"['design', 'entertainment', 'materials', 'technology']","""I love paper, and I love technology,"" says physicist and former sheep herder Kate Stone, who's spent the past decade working to unite the two. Her experiments combine regular paper with conductive inks and tiny circuit boards to offer a unique, magical experience. To date, applications include a newspaper embedded with audio and video, posters that display energy usage in real time, and the extremely nifty paper drumkit and set of DJ decks she demonstrates onstage."
30295,"The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts","['art', 'mind', 'design', 'complexity', 'entertainment', 'creativity']","Welcome to the strange, deviously difficult and incredibly joyful world of puzzle hunts. Follow along as Alex Rosenthal lifts the veil on one of the world's most complex puzzle hunts, the MIT Mystery Hunt -- and reveals how puzzles can be found in the most unexpected places. (Hint: see if you can spot the puzzle hidden in this TED Talk.)"
1954,"My daughter, Malala","['education', 'family', 'feminism', 'globalissues', 'women']","Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth that many don't want to hear: Women and men deserve equal opportunities for education, autonomy, an independent identity. He tells stories from his own life and the life of his daughter, Malala, who was shot by the Taliban in 2012 simply for daring to go to school. ""Why is my daughter so strong?"" Yousafzai asks. ""Because I didn't clip her wings."""
2705,How I'm fighting bias in algorithms,"['activism', 'algorithm', 'ai', 'code', 'data', 'identity', 'inequality', 'productdesign', 'innovation', 'programming', 'software', 'tedx', 'technology', 'race']","MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial analysis software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't detect her face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to identify a broad range of skin tones and facial structures. Now she's on a mission to fight bias in machine learning, a phenomenon she calls the ""coded gaze."" It's an eye-opening talk about the need for accountability in coding ... as algorithms take over more and more aspects of our lives."
15531,How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource,"['science', 'technology', 'climatechange', 'universe', 'sustainability', 'energy', 'electricity', 'physics']","What if we could use the cold darkness of outer space to cool buildings on earth? In this mind-blowing talk, physicist Aaswath Raman details the technology he's developing to harness ""night-sky cooling"" -- a natural phenomenon where infrared light escapes earth and heads to space, carrying heat along with it -- which could dramatically reduce the energy used by our cooling systems (and the pollution they cause). Learn more about how this approach could lead us towards a future where we intelligently tap into the energy of the universe."
1599,How open data is changing international aid,"['globalissues', 'globaldevelopment', 'open-source', 'data', 'economics']",How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it? Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank Institute lays out three guidelines to help relief efforts make the most impact -- while curbing corruption. One key: connecting the players who are working to change broken systems with the data they need.
1054,Addicted to risk,"['activism', 'business', 'culture', 'economics', 'science', 'socialchange']","Days before this talk, journalist Naomi Klein was on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, looking at the catastrophic results of BP's risky pursuit of oil. Our societies have become addicted to extreme risk in finding new energy, new financial instruments and more ... and too often, we're left to clean up a mess afterward. Klein's question: What's the backup plan?"
501,Can design save newspapers?,"['business', 'creativity', 'culture', 'design', 'media', 'typography']","Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might."
21033,Why I fight for the education of refugee girls (like me),"['globalissues', 'refugees', 'education', 'teaching', 'community', 'children', 'socialchange', 'peace', 'tedx']","After fleeing war-torn South Sudan as a child, Mary Maker found security and hope in the school at Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp. Now a teacher of young refugees herself, she sees education as an essential tool for rebuilding lives -- and empowering a generation of girls who are too often denied entrance into the classroom. ""For the child of war, an education can turn their tears of loss into a passion for peace,"" Maker says."
1384,Why you will fail to have a great career,"['tedx', 'business', 'failure', 'goal-setting', 'happiness', 'success']","In this funny and blunt talk, Larry Smith pulls no punches when he calls out the absurd excuses people invent when they fail to pursue their passions."
1815,How to make stress your friend,"['bodylanguage', 'health', 'psychology', 'mindfulness']","Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others."
2048,What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime,"['art', 'biology', 'science', 'microbiology', 'microbes', 'biomimicry', 'visualizations', 'scienceandart', 'collaboration', '3dprinting', 'biotech', 'bacteria', 'crowdsourcing']","Inspired by biological design and self-organizing systems, artist Heather Barnett co-creates with physarum polycephalum, a eukaryotic microorganism that lives in cool, moist areas. What can people learn from the semi-intelligent slime mold? Watch this talk to find out."
1147,Building the Seed Cathedral,"['architecture', 'creativity', 'design', 'scienceandart', 'biomimicry']","A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station ... And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light."
1446,Beethoven the businessman,"['tedx', 'business', 'history', 'music']","The revolution that made music more marketable, more personal and easier to pirate began ... at the dawn of the 19th century. José Bowen outlines how new printing technology and an improved piano gave rise to the first music industry."
2292,The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world,"['economics', 'environment', 'oceans']","What do you learn when you sail around the world on your own? When solo sailor Ellen MacArthur circled the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she came back with new insight into the way the world works, as a place of interlocking cycles and finite resources, where the decisions we make today affect what's left for tomorrow. She proposes a bold new way to see the world's economic systems: not as linear, but as circular, where everything comes around."
1281,"Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot","['creativity', 'design', 'engineering', 'robots', 'technology']","Engineering student Péter Fankhauser demonstrates Rezero, a robot that balances on a ball. Designed and built by students, Rezero is the first ballbot made to move quickly and gracefully -- and even dance. (Could the Star Wars sphere droid be real? Watch this and judge.)"
407,Do the green thing,"['business', 'climatechange', 'design', 'entertainment', 'globalissues', 'humor', 'media', 'sex']",Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.
23862,The beginning of the universe for beginners,"['technology', 'science', 'space', 'universe', 'ted-ed', 'animation']","How did the universe begin -- and how is it expanding? CERN physicist Tom Whyntie shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat energy and activity of the first few seconds of our universe from right after the Big Bang. [Directed by Dan Abdo and Jason Patterson, narrated by R.J. Glass]."
1898,I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one,"['comedy', 'entertainment', 'women', 'humor']","""I have cerebral palsy. I shake all the time,"" Maysoon Zayid announces at the beginning of this exhilarating, hilarious talk. (Really, it's hilarious.) ""I'm like Shakira meets Muhammad Ali."" With grace and wit, the Arab-American comedian takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her adventures as an actress, stand-up comic, philanthropist and advocate for the disabled."
1372,A census of the ocean,"['biology', 'collaboration', 'fish', 'oceans', 'photography', 'marinebiology', 'globalcommons']",Oceanographer Paul Snelgrove shares the results of a ten-year project with one goal: to take a census of all the life in the oceans. He shares amazing photos of some of the surprising finds of the Census of Marine Life.
1906,So we leaned in ... now what?,"['feminism', 'leadership', 'women', 'womeninbusiness', 'work', 'genderequality']","Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 -- because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business. Millions of views (and a best-selling book) later, the Facebook COO talks with the woman who pushed her to give that first talk, Pat Mitchell. Sandberg opens up about the reaction to her idea, and explores the ways that women still struggle with success."
844,Why I'm rowing across the Pacific,"['adventure', 'entertainment', 'globalissues', 'goal-setting', 'oceans']","Five years ago, Roz Savage quit her high-powered London job to become an ocean rower. She's crossed the Atlantic solo, and just started the third leg of a Pacific solo row, the first for a woman. Why does she do it? Hear her reasons, both deeply personal and urgently activist."
2679,How to get better at the things you care about,"['education', 'intelligence', 'goal-setting', 'mindfulness', 'performance', 'motivation', 'personalgrowth', 'self', 'tedx', 'teaching', 'work-lifebalance', 'psychology']","Working hard but not improving? You're not alone. Eduardo Briceño reveals a simple way to think about getting better at the things you do, whether that's work, parenting or creative hobbies. And he shares some useful techniques so you can keep learning and always feel like you're moving forward."
1575,What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe,"['cancer', 'medicine', 'science', 'pharmaceuticals', 'medicalresearch', 'data', 'activism', 'corruption', 'health', 'healthcare', 'illness', 'publichealth']","When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world -- except much of the time, negative or inconclusive findings go unreported, leaving doctors and researchers in the dark. In this impassioned talk, Ben Goldacre explains why these unreported instances of negative data are especially misleading and dangerous."
717,A new way to fight corruption,"['asia', 'tedfellows', 'crime', 'entrepreneur', 'potential', 'poverty', 'socialchange', 'society', 'india']","Shaffi Mather explains why he left his first career to become a social entrepreneur, providing life-saving transportation with his company 1298 for Ambulance. Now, he has a new idea and plans to begin a company to fight the booming business of corruption in public service, eliminating it one bribe at a time."
1695,"The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ...","['energy', 'entrepreneur', 'exploration', 'innovation', 'solarenergy', 'space', 'technology', 'transportation', 'electricity']","Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket."
1194,How algorithms shape our world,"['complexity', 'computers', 'socialchange', 'technology']","We live in a world run by algorithms, computer programs that make decisions or solve problems for us. In this riveting, funny talk, Kevin Slavin shows how modern algorithms determine stock prices, espionage tactics, even the movies you watch. But, he asks: If we depend on complex algorithms to manage our daily decisions -- when do we start to lose control?"
35767,"Empower a girl, transform a community","['education', 'children', 'africa', 'women', 'parenting', 'teaching', 'socialchange', 'feminism', 'genderequality', 'inequality', 'activism']","Kakenya Ntaiya turned her dream of getting an education into a movement to empower vulnerable girls and bring an end to harmful traditional practices in Kenya. Meet two students at the Kakenya Center for Excellence, a school where girls can live and study safely -- and uplift their community along the way. ""When you empower a girl, you transform a community,"" Ntaiya says."
2346,The future of flying robots,"['tedx', 'agriculture', 'computers', 'design', 'engineering', 'robots', 'science', 'technology', 'biomimicry', 'drones', 'machinelearning', 'flight', 'demo', 'insects', 'innovation', 'bees', 'farming', 'garden', 'plants']","At his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar and his team have created autonomous aerial robots inspired by honeybees. Their latest breakthrough: Precision Farming, in which swarms of robots map, reconstruct and analyze every plant and piece of fruit in an orchard, providing vital information to farmers that can help improve yields and make water management smarter."
771,Four ways to fix a broken legal system,"['business', 'design', 'healthcare', 'law']","The land of the free has become a legal minefield, says Philip K. Howard -- especially for teachers and doctors, whose work has been paralyzed by fear of suits. What's the answer? A lawyer himself, Howard has four propositions for simplifying US law."
2560,How Africa can keep rising,"['africa', 'business', 'collaboration', 'economics', 'education', 'future', 'globaldevelopment', 'globalissues', 'government', 'goal-setting', 'investment', 'naturalresources', 'policy', 'potential', 'society', 'technology', 'mobility', 'war', 'women']","African growth is a trend, not a fluke, says economist and former Finance Minister of Nigeria Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala. In this refreshingly candid and straightforward talk, Okonjo-Iweala describes the positive progress on the continent and outlines eight challenges African nations still need to address in order to create a better future."
2529,"When we design for disability, we all benefit","['collaboration', 'communication', 'design', 'disability', 'innovation', 'personalgrowth', 'senses', 'society', 'tedx']","""I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received,"" says Elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she knows that being Deaf gives her a unique way of experiencing and reframing the world -- a perspective that could solve some of our largest problems. As she says: ""When we design for disability first, you often stumble upon solutions that are better than those when we design for the norm."""
2454,Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's,"['creativity', 'empathy', 'curiosity', 'design', 'family', 'illusion', 'invention', 'india', 'mobility', 'productdesign', 'innovation', 'motivation', 'tedx', 'simplicity']","Simple solutions are often best, even when dealing with something as complicated as Parkinson's. In this inspiring talk, Mileha Soneji shares accessible designs that make the everyday tasks of those living with Parkinson's a bit easier. ""Technology is not always it,"" she says. ""What we need are human-centered solutions."""
2480,The inside story of the Paris climate agreement,"['alternativeenergy', 'climatechange', 'bigproblems', 'collaboration', 'environment', 'future', 'ebola', 'goal-setting', 'globalissues', 'government', 'green', 'history', 'humanity', 'law', 'innovation', 'leadership', 'motivation', 'nature', 'pollution', 'potential', 'population', 'security', 'socialchange', 'society', 'technology', 'solarenergy', 'globaldevelopment']","What would you do if your job was to save the planet? When Christiana Figueres was tapped by the UN to lead the Paris climate conference (COP 21) in December 2015, she reacted the way many people would: she thought it would be impossible to bring the leaders of 195 countries into agreement on how to slow climate change. Find out how she turned her skepticism into optimism -- and helped the world achieve the most important climate agreement in history."
1091,"Beware online ""filter bubbles""","['culture', 'globalissues', 'journalism', 'politics', 'technology']","As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended consequence: We get trapped in a ""filter bubble"" and don't get exposed to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad for us and bad for democracy."
12350,How the jump rope got its rhythm,"['play', 'design', 'history', 'music']","""Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster..."" Hip-hop owes a lot of the queens of double dutch. Ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt takes us on a tour of the fascinating history of the jump rope."
1524,The art of creating awe,"['creativity', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'film', 'history', 'art', 'movies']","Rob Legato creates movie effects so good they (sometimes) trump the real thing. In this warm and funny talk, he shares his vision for enhancing reality on-screen in movies like Apollo 13, Titanic and Hugo."
26946,The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't,"['globalissues', 'policy', 'statistics', 'economics', 'globaldevelopment', 'future', 'health', 'poverty', 'goal-setting', 'inequality', 'society', 'data']","""We are living in a world that is tantalizingly close to ensuring that no one need die of hunger or malaria or diarrhea,"" says economist Michael Green. To help spur progress, back in 2015 the United Nations drew up a set of 17 goals around important factors like health, education and equality. In this data-packed talk, Green shares his analysis on the steps each country has (or hasn't) made toward these Sustainable Development Goals -- and offers new ideas on what needs to change so we can achieve them."
967,I am my connectome,"['brain', 'mind', 'science', 'technology']","Sebastian Seung is mapping a massively ambitious new model of the brain that focuses on the connections between each neuron. He calls it our ""connectome,"" and it's as individual as our genome -- and understanding it could open a new way to understand our brains and our minds."
51698,The business case for working with your toughest critics,"['business', 'sustainability', 'collaboration', 'socialchange', 'society', 'work', 'leadership']","As a ""corporate suit"" (his words) and former VP of sustainability at McDonald's, Bob Langert works with companies and their strongest critics to find solutions that are good for both business and society. In this actionable talk, he shares stories from the decades-long transition into corporate sustainability at McDonald's -- including his work with unlikely partners like the Environmental Defense Fund and Temple Grandin -- and shows why your adversaries can sometimes be your best allies."
60752,"Go ahead, dream about the future","['sciencefiction', 'future', 'creativity', 'society', 'writing', 'storytelling']","""You don't predict the future -- you imagine the future,"" says sci-fi writer Charlie Jane Anders. In a talk that's part dream, part research-based extrapolation, she takes us on a wild, speculative tour of the delights and challenges the future may hold -- and shows how dreaming up weird, futuristic possibilities empowers us to construct a better tomorrow."
55027,The beautiful balance between courage and fear,"['fear', 'personalgrowth', 'health', 'life', 'humanity', 'storytelling', 'self']","After being diagnosed with a rare genetic condition that deteriorates muscle, Cara E. Yar Khan was told she'd have to limit her career ambitions and dial down her dreams. She ignored that advice and instead continued to pursue her biggest ambitions. In this powerful, moving talk, she shares her philosophy for working on the projects that matter to her most -- while letting courage and fear coexist. Watch for heart-stopping, vertigo-inducing footage of a trip that shows her living her theory to the full."
1387,Deep ocean mysteries and wonders,"['ted-ed', 'biology', 'deextinction', 'exploration', 'science', 'oceans', 'submarine', 'environment', 'ecology', 'marinebiology']","In the deepest, darkest parts of the oceans are ecosystems with more diversity than a tropical rainforest. Taking us on a voyage into the ocean -- from the deepest trenches to the remains of Titanic -- marine biologist David Gallo explores the wonder and beauty of marine life."
1218,Making matter come alive,"['biology', 'life', 'nanoscale', 'science', 'marinebiology']","Before life existed on Earth, there was just matter, inorganic dead ""stuff."" How improbable is it that life arose? And -- could it use a different type of chemistry? Using an elegant definition of life (anything that can evolve), chemist Lee Cronin is exploring this question by attempting to create a fully inorganic cell using a ""Lego kit"" of inorganic molecules -- no carbon -- that can assemble, replicate and compete."
1756,"Love, no matter what","['children', 'culture', 'disability', 'family', 'love', 'mentalhealth']","What is it like to raise a child who's different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents -- asking them: What's the line between unconditional love and unconditional acceptance?"
1346,Back to the future (of 1994),"['future', 'science', 'technology', 'math', 'history', 'life', 'humanorigins', 'genetics', 'molecularbiology', 'evolution', 'computers', 'innovation', 'dna', 'programming', 'engineering']","From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the very evolution of life itself.  The presentation techniques he uses may look dated, but the ideas are as relevant as ever."
2321,How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done,"['leadership', 'productivity', 'work']","Modern work -- from waiting tables to crunching numbers to designing products -- is about solving brand-new problems every day, flexibly and collaboratively. But as Yves Morieux shows in this insightful talk, too often, an overload of rules, processes and metrics keeps us from doing our best work together. Meet the new frontier of productivity: cooperation."
1718,Txtng is killing language. JK!!!,"['culture', 'language', 'sociology', 'technology']","Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there’s much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, and it’s all good news."
2525,How better tech could protect us from distraction,"['choice', 'communication', 'design', 'interfacedesign', 'future', 'innovation', 'potential', 'motivation', 'productdesign', 'socialmedia', 'technology', 'web', 'internet']","How often does technology interrupt us from what we really mean to be doing? At work and at play, we spend a startling amount of time distracted by pings and pop-ups -- instead of helping us spend our time well, it often feels like our tech is stealing it away from us. Design thinker Tristan Harris offers thoughtful new ideas for technology that creates more meaningful interaction. He asks: ""What does the future of technology look like when you're designing for the deepest human values?"""
1751,Bring back the woolly mammoth!,"['tedx', 'animals', 'anthropology', 'deextinction', 'evolution']","It’s the dream of kids all around the world to see giant beasts walk the Earth again. Could -- and should -- that dream be realized? Hendrik Poinar talks about the next big thing: the quest to engineer a creature that looks very much like our furry friend, the woolly mammoth. The first step, to sequence the woolly genome, is nearly complete. And it’s huge."
392,Tales of creativity and play,"['art', 'creativity', 'design', 'education', 'play', 'toy', 'bestoftheweb']","At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't)."
2261,How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent,"['faith', 'peace', 'socialchange', 'violence', 'youth', 'narcotics', 'crime']","An architect of the ""Boston miracle,"" Rev. Jeffrey Brown started out as a bewildered young pastor watching his Boston neighborhood fall apart around him, as drugs and gang violence took hold of the kids on the streets. The first step to recovery: Listen to those kids, don't just preach to them, and help them reduce violence in their own neighborhoods. It's a powerful talk about listening to make change."
1977,My life in typefaces,"['design', 'industrialdesign', 'typography', 'graphicdesign']","Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you'll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books -- remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font."
28438,How to break bad management habits before they reach the next generation of leaders,"['work', 'trust', 'happiness', 'success', 'business', 'leadership', 'potential', 'personalgrowth', 'collaboration', 'communication']","Companies are counting on their future leaders to manage with more speed, flexibility and trust than ever before. But how can middle managers climb the corporate ladder while also challenging the way things have always been done? Leadership expert Elizabeth Lyle offers a new approach to breaking the rules while you're on your way up, sharing creative ways organizations can give middle managers the space and coaching they need to start leading differently."
62748,A global pandemic calls for global solutions,"['coronavirus', 'pandemic', 'epidemiology', 'virus', 'bigproblems', 'globalissues', 'collaboration', 'science']","Examining the facts and figures of the coronavirus outbreak, epidemiologist Larry Brilliant evaluates the global response in a candid interview with head of TED Chris Anderson. Brilliant lays out a clear plan to end the pandemic -- and shows why, to achieve it, we'll have to work together across political and geographical divides. ""This is not the zombie apocalypse; this is not a mass extinction event,"" he says. ""We need to be the best version of ourselves."" (Recorded April 22, 2020)"
916,Listening to global voices,"['communication', 'globalissues', 'language', 'news', 'technology', 'web']","Sure, the web connects the globe, but most of us end up hearing mainly from people just like ourselves. Blogger and technologist Ethan Zuckerman wants to help share the stories of the whole wide world. He talks about clever strategies to open up your Twitter world and read the news in languages you don't even know."
1745,Why Google Glass?,"['culture', 'design', 'interfacedesign', 'technology']","It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer, codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up."
51105,How to save a language from extinction,"['language', 'community', 'indigenouspeoples', 'culture', 'humanity', 'worldcultures', 'tedresidency']","As many as 3,000 languages could disappear within the next 80 years, all but silencing entire cultures. In this quick talk, language activist Daniel Bögre Udell shows how people around the world are finding new ways to revive ancestral languages and rebuild their traditions -- and encourages us all to investigate the tongues of our ancestors. ""Reclaiming your language and embracing your culture is a powerful way to be yourself,"" he says."
250,Where does creativity hide?,"['culture', 'entertainment', 'storytelling', 'writing']","Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved."
1568,"Biohacking -- you can do it, too","['biology', 'biotech', 'community', 'science', 'technology', 'bioethics', 'crowdsourcing', 'molecularbiology', 'dna', 'genetics', 'code', 'open-source', 'syntheticbiology', 'collaboration', 'journalism', 'media', 'future', 'innovation', 'engineering', 'invention', 'microbiology', 'art', 'scienceandart', 'entrepreneur']","We have personal computing -- why not personal biotech? That's the question biologist Ellen Jorgensen and her colleagues asked themselves before opening Genspace, a nonprofit DIY bio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology. Far from being a sinister Frankenstein's lab (as some imagined it), Genspace offers a long list of fun, creative and practical uses for DIY bio."
50638,How we're using dogs to sniff out malaria,"['tedx', 'science', 'smell', 'animals', 'biology', 'illness', 'disease']","What if we could diagnose some of the world's deadliest diseases by the smells our bodies give off? In a fascinating talk and live demo, biologist James Logan introduces Freya, a malaria-sniffing dog, to show how we can harness the awesome powers of animal scent to detect chemical signatures associated with infection -- and change the way we diagnose disease."
1489,India's invisible innovation,"['tedx', 'business', 'globalissues', 'india', 'innovation']","Can India become a global hub for innovation? Nirmalya Kumar thinks it already has. He details four types of ""invisible innovation"" coming out of India and explains why companies that used to just outsource manufacturing jobs are starting to move top management positions overseas, too."
50755,The Resistance,"['animation', 'ted-ed', 'education', 'code', 'programming', 'robots', 'computers', 'robot']","This is episode 2 of our animated series ""Think Like A Coder."" This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson]."
1058,Silicon-based comedy,"['ai', 'comedy', 'entertainment', 'robots', 'science', 'technology', 'humor']","In this first-of-its-kind demo, Heather Knight introduces Data, a robotic stand-up comedian that does much more than rattle off one-liners -- it gathers audience feedback (using software co-developed with Scott Satkin and Varun Ramakrishna at CMU) and tunes its act as the crowd responds. Is this thing on?"
1153,How we'll stop polio for good,"['vaccines', 'disease', 'globalissues', 'health', 'science']","Polio is almost completely eradicated. But as Bruce Aylward says: Almost isn't good enough with a disease this terrifying. Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended polio in most of the world -- and to snuff it out everywhere, forever."
9989,Fashion that celebrates African strength and spirit,"['tedfellows', 'africa', 'art', 'beauty', 'creativity', 'fashion', 'design', 'history', 'humanity', 'identity', 'socialchange', 'society']","""To be African is to be inspired by culture and to be filled with undying hope for the future,"" says designer and TED Fellow Walé Oyéjidé. With his label Ikiré Jones (you'll see their work in Marvel's ""Black Panther""), he uses classic design to showcase the elegance and grace of often-marginalized groups, in beautifully cut clothing that tells a story."
1792,The orchestra in my mouth,"['tedx', 'creativity', 'livemusic', 'music', 'entertainment']","In a highly entertaining performance, beatboxer Tom Thum slings beats, comedy and a mouthful of instrumental impersonations into 11 minutes of creativity and fun that will make you smile."
21768,Una nueva manera de hablar del fracaso en los negocios,"['business', 'entrepreneur', 'failure', 'communication', 'personalgrowth']","¿Qué pasa con los negocios que fracasan? En esta charla práctica, la autora y emprendedora Leticia Gasca llama a todos los emprendedores a compartir sus historias de los proyectos que no funcionaron. Para mejorar el desarrollo de los negocios, propone que reemplacemos la moda de ""fracasar rápido"" por la nueva idea de ""fracasar conscientemente""."
41917,Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy,"['tedx', 'evolutionarypsychology', 'evolution', 'psychology', 'science', 'emotions', 'mentalhealth']","Anger researcher Ryan Martin draws from a career studying what makes people mad to explain some of the cognitive processes behind anger -- and why a healthy dose of it can actually be useful. ""Your anger exists in you ... because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, an evolutionary advantage,"" he says. ""[It's] a powerful and healthy force in your life."""
121,The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs,"['alternativeenergy', 'architecture', 'cars', 'cities', 'consumerism', 'culture', 'design', 'energy', 'transportation']","In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about."
56527,Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system,"['medicine', 'business', 'healthcare', 'bigproblems', 'economics', 'unitedstates', 'publichealth']","Between 2006 and 2016, the number of drug patents granted in the United States doubled -- but not because there was an explosion in invention or innovation. Drug companies have learned how to game the system, accumulating patents not for new medicines but for small changes to existing ones, which allows them to build monopolies, block competition and drive prices up. Health justice lawyer Priti Krishtel sheds light on how we've lost sight of the patent system's original intent -- and offers five reforms for a redesign that would serve the public and save lives."
1320,Award-winning teenage science in action,"['tedx', 'cancer', 'medicine', 'pollution', 'science', 'youth', 'chemistry', 'health', 'food', 'code']","In 2011 three young women swept the top prizes of the first Google Science Fair. Lauren Hodge, Shree Bose and Naomi Shah describe their extraordinary projects -- and their route to a passion for science."
766,Augmented-reality maps,"['cities', 'design', 'map', 'technology', 'virtualreality']","In a demo that drew gasps at TED2010, Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos new augmented-reality mapping technology from Microsoft."
2139,How to protect fast-growing cities from failing,"['cities', 'globalissues', 'violence', 'war', 'youth', 'infrastructure']","Worldwide, violence is on the decline, but in the crowded cities of the global south — cities like Aleppo, Bamako and Caracas — violence is actually accelerating, fueled by the drug trade, mass unemployment and civil unrest. Security researcher Robert Muggah turns our attention toward these ""fragile cities,"" super-fast-growing places where infrastructure is weak and government often ineffective. He shows us the four big risks we face, and offers a way to change course."
53583,What a digital government looks like,"['government', 'state-building', 'innovation', 'technology', 'socialchange', 'data', 'society', 'development', 'privacy']","What if you never had to fill out paperwork again? In Estonia, this is a reality: citizens conduct nearly all public services online, from starting a business to voting from their laptops, thanks to the nation's ambitious post-Soviet digital transformation known as ""e-Estonia."" One of the program's experts, Anna Piperal, explains the key design principles that power the country's ""e-government"" -- and shows why the rest of the world should follow suit to eradicate outdated bureaucracy and regain citizens' trust."
2811,"How we can face the future without fear, together","['community', 'fear', 'future', 'globalissues', 'humanity', 'peace', 'personalgrowth', 'politics', 'socialchange', 'religion']","It's a fateful moment in history. We've seen divisive elections, divided societies and the growth of extremism -- all fueled by anxiety and uncertainty. ""Is there something we can do, each of us, to be able to face the future without fear?"" asks Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. In this electrifying talk, the spiritual leader gives us three specific ways we can move from the politics of ""me"" to the politics of ""all of us, together."""
1950,Here's how we take back the Internet,"['internet', 'journalism', 'law', 'surveillance', 'encryption']","Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. ""Your rights matter,"" he says, ""because you never know when you're going to need them."" Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee."
2552,My love letter to cosplay,"['adventure', 'art', 'beauty', 'communication', 'collaboration', 'community', 'design', 'humor', 'entertainment', 'identity', 'materials', 'personality', 'performance', 'storytelling', 'creativity']","Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes -- from a childhood space helmet made of an ice cream tub to a No-Face costume he wore to Comic-Con -- Savage explores the world of cosplay and the meaning it creates for its community. ""We're connecting with something important inside of us,"" he says. ""The costumes are how we reveal ourselves to each other."""
2465,How a start-up in the White House is changing business as usual,"['bigproblems', 'healthcare', 'future', 'government', 'internet', 'innovation', 'potential', 'technology', 'society', 'programming', 'code']","Haley Van Dyck is transforming the way America delivers critical services to everyday people. At the United States Digital Service, Van Dyck and her team are using lessons learned by Silicon Valley and the private sector to improve services for veterans, immigrants, the disabled and others, creating a more awesome government along the way. ""We don't care about politics,"" she says. ""We care about making government work better, because it's the only one we've got."""
1664,Take back your city with paint,"['europe', 'tedx', 'art', 'cities', 'community', 'globalissues', 'government', 'urbanplanning']","Make a city beautiful, curb corruption. Edi Rama took this deceptively simple path as mayor of Tirana, Albania, where he instilled pride in his citizens by transforming public spaces with colorful designs."
44266,The world's first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system,"['space', 'environment', 'exploration', 'communication', 'science', 'technology', 'tedfellows']","""Most of what we send into outer space never comes back,"" says astrodynamicist and TED Fellow Moriba Jah. In this forward-thinking talk, Jah describes the space highways orbiting earth and how they're mostly populated by space junk. Learn more about his quest to develop and scale the world's first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system -- and how it could help solve the debris problem in near-earth space."
1609,"How to ""sketch"" with electronics","['tedyouth', 'art', 'design', 'engineering', 'innovation', 'invention', 'play', 'toy', 'youth']","Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive -- or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like paper and pen. In this talk from TEDYouth 2011, Buechley shows some of her charming designs, like a paper piano you can sketch and then play."
1377,The power of introverts,"['business', 'culture', 'psychology', 'introvert']","In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated."
58446,This is your brain on air pollution,"['health', 'pollution', 'environment', 'brain', 'science', 'globalissues', 'humanbody', 'biosphere']","Air pollution knows no borders -- even in your own body, says public health expert María Neira. In this startling talk, she describes how the microscopic particles and chemicals you breathe affect all your major organs (including your brain) and calls on both the public and those in power to take action to stop the sources of pollution."
575,How social media can make history,"['communication', 'culture', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'socialchange', 'socialmedia', 'technology']","While news from Iran streams to the world, Clay Shirky shows how Facebook, Twitter and TXTs help citizens in repressive regimes to report on real news, bypassing censors (however briefly). The end of top-down control of news is changing the nature of politics."
1338,"Know thyself, with a brain scanner","['tedx', 'neuroscience', 'psychology', 'science', 'technology', 'mindfulness']","Imagine playing a video game controlled by your mind. Now imagine that game also teaches you about your own patterns of stress, relaxation and focus. Ariel Garten shows how looking at our own brain activity gives new meaning to the ancient dictum ""know thyself."""
2265,The surprisingly logical minds of babies,"['brain', 'children', 'cognitivescience', 'mind', 'science', 'youth', 'physiology', 'behavioraleconomics', 'education', 'data']","How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well before they can talk."
2592,Can we build AI without losing control over it?,"['brain', 'ai', 'choice', 'history', 'future', 'humanity', 'innovation', 'intelligence', 'invention', 'mind', 'machinelearning', 'neuroscience', 'potential', 'robots', 'science', 'technology', 'society']","Scared of superintelligent AI? You should be, says neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris -- and not just in some theoretical way. We're going to build superhuman machines, says Harris, but we haven't yet grappled with the problems associated with creating something that may treat us the way we treat ants."
40949,Could a tattoo help you stay healthy?,"['tedx', 'technology', 'potential', 'science', 'medicalresearch', 'humanbody', 'health', 'innovation', 'future', 'biology']",Can we make tattoos both beautiful and functional? Nanotechnologist Carson Bruns shares his work creating high-tech tattoos that react to their environment -- like color-changing ink that can tell you when you're getting a sunburn -- and shows exciting ways they can deliver real-time information about our health.
15275,"Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge","['discovery', 'science', 'failure', 'education', 'socialchange', 'society', 'government']","""You do not mess with something so fundamental, so precious, as science,"" says Kirsty Duncan, Canada's first Minister of Science. In a heartfelt, inspiring talk about pushing boundaries, she makes the case that researchers must be free to present uncomfortable truths and challenge the thinking of the day -- and that we all have a duty to speak up when we see science being stifled or suppressed."
2882,How a video game might help us build better cities,"['design', 'infrastructure', 'future', 'cities', 'publicspaces', 'society', 'software', 'play', 'urbanplanning']","With more than half of the world population living in cities, one thing is undeniable: we are an urban species. Part game, part urban planning sketching tool, ""Cities: Skylines"" encourages people to use their creativity and self-expression to rethink the cities of tomorrow. Designer Karoliina Korppoo takes us on a tour through some extraordinary places users have created, from futuristic fantasy cities to remarkably realistic landscapes. What does your dream city look like?"
26915,"How to let go of being a ""good"" person -- and become a better person","['psychology', 'morality', 'science', 'cognitivescience', 'brain', 'decision-making', 'self', 'personalgrowth']","What if your attachment to being a ""good"" person is holding you back from actually becoming a better person? In this accessible talk, social psychologist Dolly Chugh explains the puzzling psychology of ethical behavior -- like why it's hard to spot your biases and acknowledge mistakes -- and shows how the path to becoming better starts with owning your mistakes. ""In every other part of our lives, we give ourselves room to grow -- except in this one, where it matters most,"" Chugh says."
2326,How fear drives American politics,"['foreignpolicy', 'unitedstates', 'democracy', 'fear', 'globalissues', 'government', 'politics', 'security', 'terrorism', 'war', 'tedbooks']","Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful ignorance. Journalist David Rothkopf lays out a few of the major issues that US leadership is failing to address -- from cybercrime to world-shaking new tech to the reality of modern total war -- and calls for a new vision that sets fear aside."
2775,A summer school kids actually want to attend,"['children', 'inequality', 'education', 'personalgrowth', 'socialchange', 'teaching', 'society', 'tedfellows']","In the US, most kids have a very long summer break, during which they forget an awful lot of what they learned during the school year. This ""summer slump"" affects kids from low-income neighborhoods most, setting them back almost three months. TED Fellow Karim Abouelnaga has a plan to reverse this learning loss. Learn how he's helping kids improve their chances for a brighter future."
1758,Could we speak the language of dolphins?,"['animals', 'biology', 'communication', 'language', 'oceans', 'science', 'brain', 'neuroscience', 'speech', 'cognitivescience', 'intelligence', 'computers']","For 28 years, Denise Herzing has spent five months each summer living with a pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins, following three generations of family relationships and behaviors. It's clear they are communicating with one another -- but is it language? Could humans use it too? She shares a fascinating new experiment to test this idea."
46526,Why the world needs sharks,"['globalissues', 'conservation', 'fish', 'oceans', 'biosphere']","In this eye-opening talk, conservationist Ocean Ramsey explains why sharks -- highly intelligent marvels of evolution -- are actually an essential part of the ocean's ecosystem."
2243,What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?,"['ai', 'future', 'philosophy', 'technology', 'machinelearning']","Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds -- within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as ""smart"" as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, it will overtake us: ""Machine intelligence is the last invention that humanity will ever need to make."" A philosopher and technologist, Bostrom asks us to think hard about the world we're building right now, driven by thinking machines. Will our smart machines help to preserve humanity and our values -- or will they have values of their own?"
1298,There are no mistakes on the bandstand,"['culture', 'entertainment', 'jazz', 'music', 'livemusic']","What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don't react to them appropriately."
2131,Hidden music rituals around the world,"['film', 'livemusic', 'music', 'creativity', 'travel', 'jazz', 'entertainment']","Vincent Moon travels the world with a backpack and a camera, filming astonishing music and ritual the world rarely sees -- from a powerful Sufi ritual in Chechnya to an ayahuasca journey in Peru. He hopes his films can help people see their own cultures in a new way, to make young people say: ""Whoa, my grandfather is as cool as Beyoncé."" Followed by a mesmerizing performance by jazz icon Naná Vasconcelos."
1335,A primer on 3D printing,"['business', 'design', 'technology', '3dprinting', 'manufacturing']","2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things -- including intricate objects once impossible to create."
2295,A warrior’s cry against child marriage,"['children', 'globalissues', 'violence', 'women']","Memory Banda’s life took a divergent path from her sister’s. When her sister reached puberty, she was sent to a traditional “initiation camp” that teaches girls “how to sexually please a man.” She got pregnant there — at age 11. Banda, however, refused to go. Instead, she organized others and asked her community’s leader to issue a bylaw that no girl should be forced to marry before turning 18. She pushed on to the national level … with incredible results for girls across Malawi."
56535,The Artists,"['animation', 'ted-ed', 'education', 'engineering', 'code', 'science', 'computers', 'programming']","This is episode 5 of our animated series ""Think Like A Coder."" This 10-episode narrative follows a girl, Ethic, and her robot companion, Hedge, as they attempt to save the world. The two embark on a quest to collect three artifacts and must solve their way through a series of programming puzzles. [Directed by Kozmonot Animation Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson]."
2637,4 larger-than-life lessons from soap operas,"['personalgrowth', 'television', 'storytelling', 'business']","Soap operas and telenovelas may be (ahem) overdramatic, but as Kate Adams shows us, their exaggerated stories and characters often cast light on the problems of real life. In this sparkling, funny talk, Adams, a former assistant casting director for ""As the World Turns,"" shares four lessons for life and business that we can learn from melodramas."
783,Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?,"['data', 'demo', 'interfacedesign', 'technology', 'web']","Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and  the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing."
901,"Don't build your home, grow it!","['tedfellows', 'architecture', 'design', 'environment', 'urbanplanning']","TED Fellow and urban designer Mitchell Joachim presents his vision for sustainable, organic architecture: eco-friendly abodes grown from plants and -- wait for it -- meat."
1112,"Listen, learn ... then lead","['culture', 'globalissues', 'iraq', 'leadership', 'peace', 'war']",Four-star general Stanley McChrystal shares what he learned about leadership over his decades in the military. How can you build a sense of shared purpose among people of many ages and skill sets? By listening and learning -- and addressing the possibility of failure.
59155,How women are revolutionizing Rwanda,"['genderequality', 'publichealth', 'education', 'africa', 'inequality', 'women', 'community', 'activism', 'socialchange']","In 1996, Agnes Binagwaho returned home to Rwanda in the aftermath of its genocide. She considered leaving amid the overwhelming devastation, but women in her community motivated her to stay and help rebuild -- and she's glad she did. In an inspiring talk, Binagwaho reflects on her work as Rwanda's former Minister of Health and discusses her new women's education initiative for the country, which strives to create one of the greatest levels of gender equality worldwide."
2293,Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse ,"['globalissues', 'inequality', 'peace', 'women', 'sexualviolence']","With his signature resolve, former US President Jimmy Carter dives into three unexpected reasons why the mistreatment of women and girls continues in so many manifestations in so many parts of the world, both developed and developing. The final reason he gives? ""In general, men don't give a damn."""
11871,The best way to help is often just to listen,"['mentalhealth', 'tedmed', 'society', 'depression', 'aging', 'friendship', 'personalgrowth', 'communication']","A 24-hour helpline in the UK known as Samaritans helped Sophie Andrews become a survivor of abuse rather than a victim. Now she's paying the favor back as the founder of The Silver Line, a helpline that supports lonely and isolated older people. In a powerful, personal talk, she shares why the simple act of listening (instead of giving advice) is often the best way to help someone in need."
619,A demo of wireless electricity,"['engineering', 'entrepreneur', 'future', 'science', 'technology', 'infrastructure', 'electricity']","Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT's breakthrough version, WiTricity -- a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker."
22701,A new way to think about the transition to motherhood,"['children', 'biology', 'health', 'parenting', 'humanity', 'women', 'science', 'psychology', 'pregnancy', 'mentalhealth', 'tedresidency']","When a baby is born, so is a mother -- but the natural (and sometimes unsteady) process of transition to motherhood is often silenced by shame or misdiagnosed as postpartum depression. In this quick, informative talk, reproductive psychiatrist Alexandra Sacks breaks down the emotional tug-of-war of becoming a new mother -- and shares a term that could help describe it: matrescence."
41333,How I define beauty,"['life', 'beauty', 'identity', 'personalgrowth', 'society']","Model and activist Winnie Harlow says she finds beauty in everything, from photos on Instagram to the sheen on a shiny bald head. In this short talk, she explains how living with vitiligo helped her reject societal standards of beauty and define it on her own terms."
32555,A case for cliteracy,"['sex', 'science', 'society', 'gender', 'art']","How is it possible that we landed on the moon before we figured out the anatomy of the clitoris? This is one of many questions artist Sophia Wallace poses in this thought-provoking talk about the complexity and misrepresentation of women's bodies and sexuality. Using her mixed-media installation ""Cliteracy"" as an example, she demonstrates how art and education can work together to change this. As she says, ""My dream is to radically change the way we think about bodies so that everyone's body is respected."""
2245,Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it),"['tedfellows', 'bacteria', 'biology', 'cancer', 'health']","Liver cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to detect, but synthetic biologist Tal Danino had a left-field thought: What if we could create a probiotic, edible bacteria that was ""programmed"" to find liver tumors? His insight exploits something we're just beginning to understand about bacteria: their power of quorum sensing, or doing something together once they reach critical mass. Danino, a TED Fellow, explains how quorum sensing works -- and how clever bacteria working together could someday change cancer treatment."
53580,"To help solve global problems, look to developing countries","['development', 'medicine', 'markets', 'africa', 'innovation', 'food', 'entrepreneur', 'globalissues']","To address the problem of counterfeit goods, African entrepreneurs like Bright Simons have come up with innovative and effective ways to confirm products are genuine. Now he asks: Why aren't these solutions everywhere? From password-protected medicines to digitally certified crops, Simons demonstrates the power of local ideas -- and calls on the rest of the world to listen up."
2798,What happens in your brain when you pay attention?,"['ai', 'brain', 'algorithm', 'cognitivescience', 'machinelearning', 'mentalhealth', 'technology', 'neuroscience', 'mindfulness']","Attention isn't just about what we focus on -- it's also about what our brains filter out. By investigating patterns in the brain as people try to focus, computational neuroscientist Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar hopes to build computer models that can be used to treat ADHD and help those who have lost the ability to communicate. Hear more about this exciting science in this brief, fascinating talk."
53297,The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far,"['darkmatter', 'universe', 'physics', 'bigbang', 'astronomy', 'space', 'energy', 'science', 'technology']","Roughly 85 percent of mass in the universe is ""dark matter"" -- mysterious material that can't be directly observed but has an immense influence on the cosmos. What exactly is this strange stuff, and what does it have to do with our existence? Astrophysicist Risa Wechsler explores why dark matter may be the key to understanding how the universe formed -- and shares how physicists in labs around the world are coming up with creative ways to study it."
17275,Why theater is essential to democracy,"['art', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'community', 'creativity', 'democracy', 'history', 'performanceart', 'politics', 'society', 'socialchange', 'theater', 'unitedstates']","Truth comes from the collision of different ideas, and theater plays an essential role in showing us that truth, says legendary artistic director Oskar Eustis. In this powerful talk, Eustis outlines his plan to reach (and listen to) people in places across the US where the theater, like many other institutions, has turned its back -- like the deindustrialized Rust Belt. ""Our job is to try to hold up a vision to America that shows not only who all of us are individually, but that welds us back into the commonality that we need to be,"" Eustis says. ""That's what the theater is supposed to do."""
1182,Building a park in the sky,"['activism', 'cities', 'culture', 'publicspaces', 'architecture']","New York was planning to tear down the High Line, an abandoned elevated railroad in Manhattan, when Robert Hammond and a few friends suggested: Why not make it a park? He shares how it happened in this tale of local cultural activism."
1221,Hire the hackers!,"['internet', 'computers', 'crime', 'globalissues', 'technology']","Despite multibillion-dollar investments in cybersecurity, one of its root problems has been largely ignored: who are the people who write malicious code? Underworld investigator Misha Glenny profiles several convicted coders from around the world and reaches a startling conclusion."
55342,¿Como será el cine del futuro?,"['technology', 'film', 'movies', 'entertainment', 'media']","Desde las películas western, hasta las cintas de terror, comedia o romance, la tecnología inmersiva y las filmaciones en 360 grados transformaran como se hacen las películas del siglo XXI. Diego Prilusky, el director de Intel Studio, comparte su trabajo innovador el cual promete desarrollar una nueva próxima fase del cine."
31630,A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity,"['creativity', 'mind', 'success', 'productivity', 'motivation', 'work', 'personalgrowth']","What can we learn from the world's most enduringly creative people? They ""slow-motion multitask,"" actively juggling multiple projects and moving between topics as the mood strikes -- without feeling hurried. Author Tim Harford shares how innovators like Einstein, Darwin, Twyla Tharp and Michael Crichton found their inspiration and productivity through cross-training their minds."
606,Art that looks back at you,"['art', 'creativity', 'design', 'poetry', 'software', 'technology']","Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer."
2037,Can prejudice ever be a good thing?,"['behavioraleconomics', 'mind', 'psychology']","We often think of bias and prejudice as rooted in ignorance. But as psychologist Paul Bloom seeks to show, prejudice is often natural, rational ... even moral. The key, says Bloom, is to understand how our own biases work -- so we can take control when they go wrong."
2896,What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea,"['china', 'compassion', 'fear', 'humanity', 'journalism', 'politics', 'asia', 'tedx', 'unitedstates']","In March 2009, North Korean soldiers captured journalist Euna Lee and her colleague Laura Ling while they were shooting a documentary on the border with China. The courts sentenced them to 12 years of hard labor, but American diplomats eventually negotiated their release. In this surprising, deeply human talk, Lee shares her experience living as the enemy in a detention center for 140 days -- and the tiny gestures of humanity from her guards that sustained her."
921,A headset that reads your brainwaves,"['brain', 'computers', 'design', 'entertainment', 'interfacedesign', 'mind', 'technology']","Tan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-reaching applications."
33885,How education helped me rewrite my life,"['education', 'india', 'children', 'personalgrowth', 'potential', 'future', 'society', 'socialchange', 'activism', 'community', 'women']","There's no greater freedom than finding your purpose, says education advocate Ashweetha Shetty. Born to a poor family in rural India, Shetty didn't let the social norms of her community stifle her dreams and silence her voice. In this personal talk, she shares how she found self-worth through education -- and how she's working to empower other rural youth to explore their potential. ""All of us are born into a reality that we blindly accept -- until something awakens us and a new world opens up,"" Shetty says."
767,Innovating to zero!,"['business', 'energy', 'globalissues', 'invention', 'science', 'technology', 'electricity']","At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for ""miracles"" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050."
646,Designers -- think big!,"['art', 'business', 'design', 'green', 'history', 'productdesign', 'graphicdesign']","Tim Brown says the design profession has a bigger role to play than just creating nifty, fashionable little objects. He calls for a shift to local, collaborative, participatory ""design thinking"" -- starting with the example of 19th-century design thinker Isambard Kingdom Brunel."
2721,How early life experience is written into DNA,"['animals', 'biomechanics', 'biology', 'children', 'disease', 'cancer', 'dna', 'health', 'genetics', 'medicine', 'pregnancy', 'life', 'nature', 'primates', 'tedx', 'science']","Moshe Szyf is a pioneer in the field of epigenetics, the study of how living things reprogram their genome in response to social factors like stress and lack of food. His research suggests that biochemical signals passed from mothers to offspring tell the child what kind of world they're going to live in, changing the expression of genes. ""DNA isn't just a sequence of letters; it's not just a script."" Szyf says. ""DNA is a dynamic movie in which our experiences are being written."""
1472,A new way to diagnose autism,"['autismspectrumdisorder', 'tedx', 'cognitivescience', 'mentalhealth', 'psychology', 'science', 'medicine', 'medicalresearch', 'disability', 'brain', 'biology', 'health', 'children', 'neuroscience', 'monkeys', 'mind', 'publichealth', 'genetics', 'empathy']","Early diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder can improve the lives of everyone affected, but the complex network of causes make it incredibly difficult to predict. At TEDxPeachtree, Ami Klin describes a new early detection method that uses eye-tracking technologies to gauge babies' social engagement skills and reliably measure their risk of developing autism."
2842,The secret to living longer may be your social life,"['aging', 'brain', 'community', 'family', 'friendship', 'society', 'health', 'psychology']","The Italian island of Sardinia has more than six times as many centenarians as the mainland and ten times as many as North America. Why? According to psychologist Susan Pinker, it's not a sunny disposition or a low-fat, gluten-free diet that keeps the islanders healthy -- it's their emphasis on close personal relationships and face-to-face interactions. Learn more about super longevity as Pinker explains what it takes to live to 100 and beyond."
587,Teach statistics before calculus!,"['economics', 'education', 'math', 'statistics']","Someone always asks the math teacher, ""Am I going to use calculus in real life?"" And for most of us, says Arthur Benjamin, the answer is no. He offers a bold proposal on how to make math education relevant in the digital age."
1672,A girl who demanded school,"['africa', 'tedx', 'activism', 'education', 'feminism', 'women', 'globaldevelopment']","Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo a traditional Maasai rite of passage, female circumcision, if he would let her go to high school. Ntaiya tells the fearless story of continuing on to college, and of working with her village elders to build a school for girls in her community, changing the destiny of 125 young women."
582,The psychology of time,"['brain', 'business', 'happiness', 'mind', 'psychology', 'science']","Psychologist Philip Zimbardo says happiness and success are rooted in a trait most of us disregard: the way we orient toward the past, present and future. He suggests we calibrate our outlook on time as a first step to improving our lives."
2724,"Know your worth, and then ask for it","['behavioraleconomics', 'business', 'finance', 'economics', 'entrepreneur', 'goal-setting', 'personalgrowth', 'society', 'inequality', 'genderequality', 'tedx', 'women', 'work', 'womeninbusiness']","Your boss probably isn't paying you what you're worth -- instead, they're paying you what they think you're worth. Take the time to learn how to shape their thinking. Pricing consultant Casey Brown shares helpful stories and learnings that can help you better communicate your value and get paid for your excellence."
1306,My subversive (garden) plot,"['tedx', 'culture', 'food', 'garden', 'globalissues', 'sustainability']","A vegetable garden can do more than save you money -- it can save the world. In this talk, Roger Doiron shows how gardens can re-localize our food and feed our growing population."
8530,What commercialization is doing to cannabis,"['business', 'criminaljustice', 'health', 'society', 'publichealth', 'tedx']","In 2012, Colorado legalized cannabis and added to what has fast become a multibillion-dollar global industry for all things weed-related: from vape pens to brownies and beyond. But to say that we've legalized marijuana is subtly misleading -- what we've really done is commercialized THC, says educator Ben Cort, and that's led to products that are unnaturally potent. In an eye-opening talk, Cort examines the often unseen impacts of the commercial cannabis industry -- and calls on us to question those who are getting rich off of it."
2228,How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine,"['entertainment', 'film', 'humanity', 'innovation', 'storytelling', 'technology', 'virtualreality']","Chris Milk uses cutting edge technology to produce astonishing films that delight and enchant. But for Milk, the human story is the driving force behind everything he does. In this short, charming talk, he shows some of his collaborations with musicians including Kanye West and Arcade Fire, and describes his latest, mind-bending experiments with virtual reality. (This talk was part of a session at TED2015 guest-curated by Pop-Up Magazine: popupmagazine.com or @popupmag on Twitter.)"
2209,A love poem for lonely prime numbers,"['humor', 'math', 'poetry', 'spokenword']","Performance poet (and math student) Harry Baker spins a love poem about his favorite kind of numbers -- the lonely, love-lorn prime. Stay on for two more lively, inspiring poems from this charming performer."
2602,Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles,"['art', 'beauty', 'creativity', 'dance', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'gender', 'performance', 'identity', 'performanceart', 'socialchange', 'tedx', 'society']","Tango, waltz, foxtrot ... these classic ballroom dances quietly perpetuate an outdated idea: that the man always leads and the woman always follows. That's an idea worth changing, say Trevor Copp and Jeff Fox, as they demonstrate their ""Liquid Lead"" dance technique along with fellow dancer Alida Esmail. Watch as Copp and Fox captivate and command the stage while boldly deconstructing and transforming the art of ballroom dance."
464,The El Sistema music revolution,"['conducting', 'culture', 'education', 'entertainment', 'music', 'philanthropy', 'poverty']",José Antonio Abreu is the charismatic founder of a youth orchestra system that has transformed thousands of kids' lives in Venezuela. He shares his amazing story and unveils a TED Prize wish that could have a big impact in the US and beyond.
1442,"Unseen footage, untamed nature","['animals', 'film', 'nature', 'science', 'scienceandart', 'art', 'adventure', 'biodiversity', 'exploration', 'biology', 'life', 'travel', 'cosmos', 'environment', 'photography']","At TED2012, filmmaker Karen Bass shares some of the astonishing nature footage she's shot for the BBC and National Geographic -- including brand-new, previously unseen footage of the tube-lipped nectar bat, who feeds in a rather unusual way ..."
1727,My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors,"['innovation', 'nuclearenergy', 'physics', 'science', 'technology', 'youth', 'alternativeenergy', 'chemistry', 'invention', 'energy', 'engineering', 'sustainability', 'future', 'space', 'electricity']","Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic: fission. Wilson, who has won backing to create a company to realize his vision, explains why he's so excited about his innovative design for small modular fission reactors -- and why it could be the next big step in solving the global energy crisis."
1150,How to tie your shoes,"['culture', 'demo', 'entertainment']","Terry Moore found out he'd been tying his shoes the wrong way his whole life. In the spirit of TED, he takes the stage to share a better way."
1673,Three myths about corruption,"['tedx', 'corruption', 'crime', 'economics', 'government', 'protests']","Trinidad and Tobago amassed great wealth in the 1970s thanks to oil -- but 2 out of every 3 dollars earmarked for development ended up wasted or stolen. This fact has haunted Afra Raymond for 30 years. Shining a flashlight on a continued history of government corruption, Raymond gives us a reframing of financial crime."
819,The emotion behind invention,"['design', 'health', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'prosthetics', 'technology', 'war']","Soldiers who've lost limbs in service face a daily struggle unimaginable to most of us. At TEDMED, Dean Kamen talks about the profound people and stories that motivated his work to give parts of their lives back with his design for a remarkable prosthetic arm."
50657,A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border,"['refugees', 'society', 'community', 'immigration', 'socialchange', 'unitedstates', 'policy', 'history', 'humanity']","In this powerful, personal talk, author and academic Juan Enriquez shares stories from inside the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border, bringing this often-abstract debate back down to earth -- and showing what you can do every day to create a sense of belonging for immigrants. ""This isn't about kids and borders,"" he says. ""It's about us. This is about who we are, who we the people are, as a nation and as individuals."""
2330,Falling in love is the easy part,"['tedx', 'love', 'media', 'writing']","Did you know you can fall in love with anyone just by asking them 36 questions? Mandy Len Catron tried this experiment, it worked, and she wrote a viral article about it (that your mom probably sent you). But ... is that real love? Did it last? And what's the difference between falling in love and staying in love?"
634,3 warp-speed architecture tales,"['architecture', 'cities', 'creativity', 'design', 'environment', 'green']","Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy -- and creating stunning views."
36415,Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school,"['children', 'education', 'parenting', 'teaching', 'emotions', 'creativity']","To get young kids to thrive in school, we need to do more than teach them how to read and write -- we need to teach them how to manage their emotions, says educator Olympia Della Flora. In this practical talk, she shares creative tactics she used to help struggling, sometimes disruptive students -- things like stopping for brain breaks, singing songs and even doing yoga poses -- all with her existing budget and resources. ""Small changes make huge differences, and it's possible to start right now ... You simply need smarter ways to think about using what you have, where you have it,"" she says."
2883,Lessons from the longest study on human development,"['children', 'communication', 'education', 'economics', 'humanity', 'happiness', 'life', 'journalism', 'parenting', 'personalgrowth', 'science', 'relationships', 'data', 'aging']","For the past 70 years, scientists in Britain have been studying thousands of children through their lives to find out why some end up happy and healthy while others struggle. It's the longest-running study of human development in the world, and it's produced some of the best-studied people on the planet while changing the way we live, learn and parent. Reviewing this remarkable research, science journalist Helen Pearson shares some important findings and simple truths about life and good parenting."
52752,The search for our solar system's ninth planet,"['astronomy', 'planets', 'solarsystem', 'science', 'space', 'discovery', 'asteroid', 'cosmos']","Could the strange orbits of small, distant objects in our solar system lead us to a big discovery? Planetary astronomer Mike Brown proposes the existence of a new, giant planet lurking in the far reaches of our solar system -- and shows us how traces of its presence might already be staring us in the face."
21802,How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace,"['communication', 'community', 'work', 'humanity', 'race', 'socialchange', 'leadership', 'society', 'inequality', 'unitedstates']","Imagine a workplace where people of all colors and races are able to climb every rung of the corporate ladder -- and where the lessons we learn about diversity at work actually transform the things we do, think and say outside the office. How do we get there? In this candid talk, inclusion advocate Janet Stovall shares a three-part action plan for creating workplaces where people feel safe and expected to be their unassimilated, authentic selves."
2074,How our stories cross over,"['tedx', 'children', 'culture', 'family', 'history', 'identity', 'parenting', 'society', 'storytelling']","Colin Grant has spent a lifetime navigating the emotional landscape between his father’s world and his own. Born in England to Jamaican parents, Grant draws on stories of shared experience within his immigrant community -- and reflects on how he found forgiveness for a father who rejected him."
24725,The key to a better malaria vaccine,"['vaccines', 'africa', 'health', 'science', 'medicine', 'medicalresearch', 'technology', 'tedfellows', 'publichealth', 'innovation', 'disease']","The malaria vaccine was invented more than a century ago -- yet each year, hundreds of thousands of people still die from the disease. How can we improve this vital vaccine? In this informative talk, immunologist and TED Fellow Faith Osier shows how she's combining cutting-edge technology with century-old insights in the hopes of creating a new vaccine that eradicates malaria once and for all."
1716,My journey to yo-yo mastery,"['dance', 'entertainment', 'performance', 'toy']","Remember the days you struggled just to make a yo-yo spin, and if you were really fancy, to “walk the dog”? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Japanese yo-yo world champion BLACK tells the inspiring story of finding his life's passion, and gives an awesome performance that will make you want to pull your yo-yo back out of the closet."
1410,"Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is.","['creativity', 'design', 'humor', 'literature']","Chip Kidd doesn't judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book -- and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In this deeply felt (and deeply hilarious) talk, he shares the art and the philosophy behind his cover designs. (This talk is from The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)"
585,You are the future of philanthropy,"['activism', 'community', 'globalissues', 'philanthropy', 'potential']","In this uplifting talk, Katherine Fulton sketches the new future of philanthropy -- one where collaboration and innovation allow regular people to do big things, even when money is scarce. Giving five practical examples of crowd-driven philanthropy, she calls for a new generation of citizen leaders."
1433,A new museum wing ... in a giant bubble,"['architecture', 'cities', 'creativity', 'museums']","How do you make a great public space inside a not-so-great building? Liz Diller shares the story of imagining a welcoming, lighthearted -- even, dare we say it, sexy -- addition to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)"
13587,My philosophy for a happy life,"['life', 'happiness', 'personalgrowth', 'self', 'motivation']","Born with a rare genetic disorder called progeria, Sam Berns knew he'd be facing more obstacles in life than most. This didn't stop him from taking charge of his own happiness. In this moving and inspirational talk, Berns lays out the three principles of the personal philosophy that allowed him to do so. "
2531,What can we learn from shortcuts?,"['architecture', 'cities', 'community', 'environment', 'design', 'productdesign', 'potential', 'society', 'publicspaces', 'urbanplanning']","How do you build a product people really want? Allow consumers to be a part of the process. ""Empathy for what your customers want is probably the biggest leading indicator of business success,"" says designer Tom Hulme. In this short talk, Hulme lays out three insightful examples of the intersection of design and user experience, where people have developed their own desire paths out of necessity. Once you know how to spot them, you'll start noticing them everywhere."
312,The new era of positive psychology,"['brain', 'education', 'happiness', 'psychology', 'science', 'technology', 'personality', 'introvert', 'evolutionarypsychology', 'emotions']","Martin Seligman talks about psychology -- as a field of study and as it works one-on-one with each patient and each practitioner. As it moves beyond a focus on disease, what can modern psychology help us to become?"
1332,Plant fuels that could power a jet,"['tedx', 'science', 'sustainability', 'technology', 'green', 'engineering', 'alternativeenergy', 'energy', 'biotech', 'environment', 'innovation', 'future', 'climatechange', 'oceans', 'ecology', 'nature', 'solarenergy', 'plants', 'syntheticbiology', 'naturalresources']","Algae plus salt water equals ... fuel? At TEDxNASA@SiliconValley, Bilal Bomani reveals a self-sustaining ecosystem that produces biofuels -- without wasting arable land or fresh water."
695,Asia's rise -- how and when,"['asia', 'economics', 'health', 'india', 'statistics', 'technology', 'visualizations']","Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic force. At TEDIndia, he graphs global economic growth since 1858 and predicts the exact date that India and China will outstrip the US."
1210,Finding planets around other stars,"['tedfellows', 'exploration', 'science', 'technology', 'universe', 'telescopes', 'sun']","How do we find planets -- even habitable planets -- around other stars? By looking for tiny dimming as a planet passes in front of its sun, TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz and the Kepler mission have found some 1,200 potential new planetary systems. With new techniques, they may even find ones with the right conditions for life."
60914,Indigenous knowledge meets science to solve climate change,"['indigenouspeoples', 'climatechange', 'science', 'environment', 'nature', 'activism']","To tackle a problem as large as climate change, we need both science and Indigenous wisdom, says environmental activist Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim. In this engaging talk, she shares how her nomadic community in Chad is working closely with scientists to restore endangered ecosystems -- and offers lessons on how to create more resilient communities."
49046,Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment,"['globalissues', 'investment', 'development', 'socialchange', 'corruption', 'africa', 'business', 'poverty', 'innovation']","Traditional thinking on corruption goes like this: if you put good laws in place and enforce them well, then economic development increases and corruption falls. In reality, we have the equation backwards, says innovation researcher Efosa Ojomo. In this compelling talk, he offers new thinking on how we could potentially eliminate corruption worldwide by focusing on one thing: scarcity. ""Societies don't develop because they've reduced corruption,"" he says. ""They're able to reduce corruption because they've developed."""
2527,The birth of virtual reality as an art form,"['beauty', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'composing', 'entertainment', 'film', 'future', 'innovation', 'media', 'technology', 'virtualreality', 'visualizations', 'art']","Chris Milk uses innovative technologies to make personal, interactive, human stories. Accompanied by Joshua Roman on cello and McKenzie Stubbert on piano, Milk traces his relationship to music and art -- from the first moment he remembers putting on headphones to his current work creating breakthrough virtual reality projects. VR is the last medium for storytelling, he says, because it closes the gap between audience and storyteller. To illustrate, he brought the TED audience together in the world's largest collective VR experience. Join them and take part in this interactive talk by getting a Google Cardboard and downloading the experience at with.in/TED."
1396,The single biggest health threat women face,"['tedx', 'health', 'hearthealth', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'science', 'women', 'publichealth', 'politics', 'activism', 'physiology', 'medicalimaging', 'illness', 'healthcare', 'biology', 'disease']","Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed)."
1934,A word game to communicate in any language,"['disability', 'language', 'speech', 'technology']","While working with kids who have trouble speaking, Ajit Narayanan sketched out a way to think about language in pictures, to relate words and concepts in ""maps."" The idea now powers the FreeSpeech app, which can help nonverbal people communicate."
38913,What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes,"['health', 'science', 'medicalresearch', 'children', 'addiction', 'publichealth', 'humanbody']","E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults -- from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin explains what you're actually inhaling when you vape (hint: it's definitely not water vapor) and explores the disturbing marketing tactics being used to target kids. ""Our health, the health of our children and our future generations is far too valuable to let it go up in smoke -- or even in aerosol,"" she says. "
1297,Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts,"['healthcare', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology', 'biotech', 'engineering', 'sound', 'neuroscience', 'future', 'innovation', 'physics', 'medicalimaging']","Imagine having a surgery with no knives involved. At TEDMED, Yoav Medan shares a technique that uses MRI to find trouble spots and focused ultrasound to treat such issues as brain lesions, uterine fibroids and several kinds of cancerous growths."
1200,5 ways to listen better,"['culture', 'sound', 'socialchange']","In our louder and louder world, says sound expert Julian Treasure, ""We are losing our listening."" In this short, fascinating talk, Treasure shares five ways to re-tune your ears for conscious listening -- to other people and the world around you."
3596,Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa,"['creativity', 'africa', 'adventure', 'sciencefiction', 'future', 'writing', 'identity', 'society']","""My science fiction has different ancestors -- African ones,"" says writer Nnedi Okorafor. In between excerpts from her ""Binti"" series and her novel ""Lagoon,"" Okorafor discusses the inspiration and roots of her work -- and how she opens strange doors through her Afrofuturist writing."
112,Why would God create a tsunami?,"['god', 'culture', 'disasterrelief', 'globalissues', 'naturaldisaster', 'philosophy', 'religion']","In the days following the tragic South Asian tsunami of 2004, the Rev. Tom Honey pondered the question, ""How could a loving God have done this?"" Here is his answer."
1268,6 ways to save the internet,"['internet', 'tedx', 'business', 'future', 'investment', 'technology']","The next big shift is now, and it's not what you think: Facebook is the new Windows; Google must be sacrificed. Tech investor Roger McNamee presents 6 bold ways to prepare for the next internet."
2358,A boat carrying 500 refugees sunk at sea. The story of two survivors,"['tedx', 'globalissues', 'government', 'immigration', 'humanity', 'middleeast', 'policy', 'poverty', 'society', 'socialchange', 'trafficking', 'war', 'syria']","Aboard an overloaded ship carrying more than 500 refugees, a young woman becomes an unlikely hero. This single, powerful story, told by Melissa Fleming of the UN's refugee agency, gives a human face to the sheer numbers of human beings trying to escape to better lives ... as the refugee ships keep coming ..."
149,How to get (a new) hip,"['culture', 'healthcare', 'marketing', 'medicine']",When Allison Hunt found out that she needed a new hip -- and that Canada’s national health care system would require her to spend nearly 2 years on a waiting list (and in pain) -- she took matters into her own hands.
1458,Beats that defy boxes,"['entertainment', 'humor', 'livemusic', 'music', 'performance', 'poetry', 'comedy']",Reggie Watts' beats defy boxes. Unplug your logic board and watch as he blends poetry and crosses musical genres in this larger-than-life performance.
23806,You are your microbes,"['science', 'ted-ed', 'health', 'animation', 'humanbody']","From the microbes in our stomachs to the ones on our teeth we are homes to millions of unique and diverse communities which help our bodies function. Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin emphasize the importance of understanding the many organisms that make up each and every organism. [Directed by Celine Keller and Paula Spagnoletti, narrated by Jessica Green]."
1952,The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk,"['culture', 'globalissues', 'government', 'law', 'surveillance', 'encryption']","After a surprise appearance by Edward Snowden at TED2014, Chris Anderson said: ""If the NSA wants to respond, please do."" And yes, they did. Appearing by video, NSA deputy director Richard Ledgett answers Anderson's questions about the balance between security and protecting privacy."
2034,How to speak so that people want to listen,"['culture', 'sound', 'speech']","Have you ever felt like you're talking, but nobody is listening? Here's Julian Treasure to help. In this useful talk, the sound expert demonstrates the how-to's of powerful speaking -- from some handy vocal exercises to tips on how to speak with empathy. A talk that might help the world sound more beautiful."
2691,The racial politics of time,"['criminaljustice', 'culture', 'history', 'humanity', 'identity', 'inequality', 'race', 'socialchange', 'society', 'unitedstates', 'time']","Cultural theorist Brittney Cooper examines racism through the lens of time, showing us how historically it has been stolen from people of color, resulting in lost moments of joy and connection, lost years of healthy quality of life and the delay of progress. A candid, thought-provoking take on history and race that may make you reconsider your understanding of time, and your place in it."
56901,How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans,"['farming', 'animals', 'humanity', 'africa', 'sustainability']","Imagine waking in the middle of the night to an elephant ripping the roof from your house in search of food. This is a reality in some communities in Africa where, as wild spaces shrink, people and elephants are competing for space and resources like never before. In this engaging talk, zoologist Lucy King shares her solution to the rising conflict: fences made from beehives that keep elephants at bay while also helping farmers establish new livelihoods."
2614,Your smartphone is a civil rights issue,"['activism', 'choice', 'communication', 'computers', 'data', 'government', 'hack', 'internet', 'security', 'society', 'surveillance', 'technology', 'tedfellows', 'encryption']","The smartphone you use reflects more than just personal taste ... it could determine how closely you can be tracked, too. Privacy expert and TED Fellow Christopher Soghoian details a glaring difference between the encryption used on Apple and Android devices and urges us to pay attention to a growing digital security divide. ""If the only people who can protect themselves from the gaze of the government are the rich and powerful, that's a problem,"" he says. ""It's not just a cybersecurity problem -- it's a civil rights problem."""
5072,How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit,"['agriculture', 'community', 'culture', 'cities', 'garden', 'publichealth', 'farming', 'society', 'food', 'personalgrowth', 'urban']","There's something amazing growing in the city of Detroit: healthy, accessible, delicious, fresh food. In a spirited talk, fearless farmer Devita Davison explains how features of Detroit's decay actually make it an ideal spot for urban agriculture. Join Davison for a walk through neighborhoods in transformation as she shares stories of opportunity and hope. ""These aren't plots of land where we're just growing tomatoes and carrots,"" Davison says. ""We're building social cohesion as well as providing healthy, fresh food."""
60310,What it's really like to have autism,"['autism', 'socialchange', 'autismspectrumdisorder', 'community', 'diversity', 'humanity', 'ted-ed', 'inclusion']","""Autism is not a disease; it's just another way of thinking,"" says Ethan Lisi. Offering a glimpse into the way he experiences the world, Lisi breaks down misleading stereotypes about autism, shares insights into common behaviors like stimming and masking and promotes a more inclusive understanding of the spectrum."
2101,New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century,"['economics', 'globalissues', 'inequality']","French economist Thomas Piketty caused a sensation in early 2014 with his book on a simple, brutal formula explaining economic inequality: r > g (meaning that return on capital is generally higher than economic growth). Here, he talks through the massive data set that led him to conclude: Economic inequality is not new, but it is getting worse, with radical possible impacts."
358,Politics and religion are technologies,"['culture', 'democracy', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'religion', 'socialchange', 'society', 'war']","Noah Feldman makes a searing case that both politics and religion -- whatever their differences -- are similar technologies, designed to efficiently connect and manage any group of people."
29521,What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century,"['democracy', 'community', 'politics', 'society', 'unitedstates', 'technology', 'socialchange', 'government']","The American election system is complicated, to say the least -- but voting is one of the most tangible ways that each of us can shape our communities. How can we make the system more modern, inclusive and secure? Civic engagement champion Tiana Epps-Johnson shares what's needed to bring voting in the US into the 21st century -- and to get every person to the polls."
2603,Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds,"['creativity', 'humanity', 'mentalhealth', 'illness', 'pain', 'mind', 'visualizations', 'violence', 'war', 'ptsd', 'tedmed', 'depression', 'art']","Trauma silences its victims, says creative arts therapist Melissa Walker, but art can help those suffering from the psychological wounds of war begin to open up and heal. In this inspiring talk, Walker describes how mask-making, in particular, allows afflicted servicemen and women reveal what haunts them -- and, finally, start to let it go."
1880,Want to be happy? Be grateful,"['culture', 'faith', 'happiness', 'mindfulness']","The one thing all humans have in common is that each of us wants to be happy, says Brother David Steindl-Rast, a monk and interfaith scholar. And happiness, he suggests, is born from gratitude. An inspiring lesson in slowing down, looking where you're going, and above all, being grateful."
2488,Why I put myself in danger to tell the stories of Gaza,"['choice', 'communication', 'journalism', 'fear', 'media', 'poverty', 'film', 'security', 'violence', 'war', 'women']","When Ameera Harouda hears the sounds of bombs or shells, she heads straight towards them. ""I want to be there first because these stories should be told,"" says Gaza's first female ""fixer,"" a role that allows her to guide journalists into chaotic, war zone scenarios in her home country, which she still loves despite its terrible situation. Find out what motivates Harouda to give a voice to Gaza's human suffering in this unforgettable talk."
578,How cults rewire the brain,"['god', 'activism', 'faith', 'meme', 'religion']","Diane Benscoter spent five years as a ""Moonie."" She shares an insider's perspective on the mind of a cult member, and proposes a new way to think about today's most troubling conflicts and extremist movements."
2512,How barbershops can keep men healthy,"['medicine', 'medicalresearch', 'community', 'race', 'health', 'healthcare', 'hearthealth', 'activism', 'potential', 'men', 'publichealth', 'trust']","The barbershop can be a safe haven for black men, a place for honest conversation and trust -- and, as physician Joseph Ravenell suggests, a good place to bring up tough topics about health. He's turning the barbershop into a place to talk about medical problems that statistically affect black men more often and more seriously, like high blood pressure. It's a new approach to problem solving with broad applications. ""What is your barbershop?"" he asks. ""Where is that place for you where people affected by a unique problem can meet a unique solution?"""
1753,Violence against women -- it's a men's issue,"['tedx', 'feminism', 'men', 'violence', 'women', 'genderequality', 'sexualviolence']","Domestic violence and sexual abuse are often called ""women's issues."" But in this bold, blunt talk, Jackson Katz points out that these are intrinsically men's issues -- and shows how these violent behaviors are tied to definitions of manhood. A clarion call for us all -- women and men -- to call out unacceptable behavior and be leaders of change."
21039,How I went from child refugee to international model,"['globalissues', 'fashion', 'refugees', 'tedx', 'identity', 'society', 'community', 'humanity', 'culture']",Halima Aden made history when she became the first hijab-wearing model on the cover of Vogue magazine. Now she returns to Kenya's Kakuma Refugee Camp -- where she was born and lived until the age of seven -- to share an inspiring message about what she's learned on the path from child refugee to international model.
2725,The conversation we're not having about digital child abuse,"['activism', 'children', 'communication', 'family', 'computers', 'parenting', 'socialchange', 'society', 'sexualviolence', 'technology', 'tedx', 'internet', 'tedenespaã±ol']","We need to talk to kids about the risks they face online, says information security expert Sebastián Bortnik. In this talk, Bortnik discusses the issue of ""grooming"" -- the sexual predation of children by adults on the internet -- and outlines the conversations we need to start having about technology to keep our kids safe. (In Spanish with English subtitles)"
2520,"The Chinese zodiac, explained","['china', 'economics', 'entrepreneur', 'family', 'worldcultures', 'education', 'identity']","A quarter of the world's population cares a lot about the Chinese zodiac. Even if you don't believe in it, you'd be wise to know how it works, says technologist and entrepreneur ShaoLan Hseuh. In this fun, informative talk, ShaoLan shares some tips for understanding the ancient tradition and describes how it's believed to influence your personality, career, marriage prospects and how you'll do in a given year. What does your sign say about you?"
2440,Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future,"['beauty', 'creativity', 'demo', 'drones', 'design', 'future', 'invention', 'technology', 'flight']","When you hear the word ""drone,"" you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aesthetic value? Autonomous systems expert Raffaello D'Andrea develops flying machines, and his latest projects are pushing the boundaries of autonomous flight -- from a flying wing that can hover and recover from disturbance to an eight-propeller craft that's ambivalent to orientation ... to a swarm of tiny coordinated micro-quadcopters. Prepare to be dazzled by a dreamy, swirling array of flying machines as they dance like fireflies above the TED stage."
28164,The story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero,"['creativity', 'humor', 'humanity', 'lgbt', 'self', 'identity', 'storytelling', 'culture', 'art', 'women', 'writing', 'race', 'society']","With Marvel's ""America Chavez,"" Gabby Rivera wrote a new kind of superhero -- one who can punch portals into other dimensions while also embracing her gentle, goofy, soft side. In a funny, personal talk, Rivera shares how her own childhood as a queer Puerto Rican in the Bronx informed this new narrative -- and shows images from the comic book that reveal what happens when a superhero embraces her humanity. As she says: ""That myth of having to go it alone and be tough is not serving us."""
664,1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe,"['design', 'health', 'medicine', 'sanitation', 'science', 'technology', 'globaldevelopment', 'vaccines', 'biotech']","Reuse of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts, photos and hidden-camera footage. He shares his solution: a low-cost syringe that can't be used twice."
25671,"How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes","['nature', 'adventure', 'exploration', 'storytelling', 'personalgrowth', 'extremesports']","Imagine being by yourself in the dead center of a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without a rope to catch you if you fall. For professional rock climber Alex Honnold, this dizzying scene marked the culmination of a decade-long dream. In a hair-raising talk, he tells the story of how he summited Yosemite's El Capitan, completing one of the most dangerous free solo climbs ever."
222,The Jill and Julia Show,"['collaboration', 'entertainment', 'guitar', 'humor', 'singer', 'storytelling', 'comedy']","Two TED favorites, Jill Sobule and Julia Sweeney, team up for a delightful set that mixes witty songwriting with a little bit of social commentary."
42946,My life as a work of art,"['creativity', 'art', 'design', 'culture', 'fashion', 'identity', 'beauty']","Daniel Lismore's closet is probably a bit different than yours -- his clothes are constructed out of materials ranging from beer cans and plastic crystals to diamonds, royal silks and 2,000-year-old Roman rings. In this striking talk, Lismore shares the vision behind his elaborate ensembles and explores what it's like to live life as a work of art. ""Everyone is capable of creating their own masterpiece,"" he says. ""You should try it sometime."""
1344,The happy secret to better work,"['tedx', 'business', 'happiness', 'psychology', 'science', 'brain', 'mind', 'cognitivescience', 'sociology', 'depression', 'mentalhealth', 'health', 'motivation', 'innovation', 'work', 'productivity', 'socialchange']","We believe we should work hard in order to be happy, but could we be thinking about things backwards? In this fast-moving and very funny talk, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that, actually, happiness inspires us to be more productive."
2654,How we explore unanswered questions in physics,"['collaboration', 'darkmatter', 'discovery', 'future', 'data', 'innovation', 'motivation', 'engineering', 'nature', 'physics', 'history', 'science', 'nobelprize', 'universe', 'tedx', 'exploration', 'quantumphysics']","James Beacham looks for answers to the most important open questions of physics using the biggest science experiment ever mounted, CERN's Large Hadron Collider. In this fun and accessible talk about how science happens, Beacham takes us on a journey through extra-spatial dimensions in search of undiscovered fundamental particles (and an explanation for the mysteries of gravity) and details the drive to keep exploring."
842,"Radical women, embracing tradition","['culture', 'feminism', 'socialchange', 'women', 'india']",Investing in women can unlock infinite potential around the globe. But how can women walk the line between Western-style empowerment and traditional culture? Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women talks about three encounters with powerful women who fight to make the world better -- while preserving the traditions that sustain them.
2186,Math is forever,"['tedx', 'humor', 'math', 'tedenespaã±ol', 'science']","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 the backbone of science — and shows that theorems, not diamonds, are forever. In Spanish, with English subtitles."
12302,"For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over","['tedmed', 'africa', 'disease', 'ebola', 'virus', 'fear', 'illness', 'medicine', 'health', 'healthcare']","In 2014, as a newly trained physician, Soka Moses took on one of the toughest jobs in the world: treating highly contagious patients at the height of Liberia's Ebola outbreak. In this intense, emotional talk, he details what he saw on the frontlines of the crisis -- and reveals the challenges and stigma that thousands of survivors still face."
17850,Por qué necesitamos proteger el alta mar,"['environment', 'economics', 'biosphere', 'nature', 'oceans', 'fish', 'future', 'water', 'globalcommons', 'tedenespaã±ol']","Estamos pescando más rápido que la capacidad de los peces de repoblar los mares, convirtiendo a nuestros océanos en zonas muertas. Pero el ecologista marino Enric Sala tiene un plan radical para salvar a los océanos y al mismo tiempo potenciar la industria pesquera. Él propone crear una reserva marina gigante que cubriría dos tercios de la superficie de los océanos y restauraría los beneficios ecológicos, económicos y sociales del mar."
1085,My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out,"['tedprize', 'activism', 'community', 'photography', 'art']","French street artist JR uses his camera to show the world its true face, by pasting photos of the human face across massive canvases. At TED2011, he makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out."
1293,How many lives can you live?,"['tedx', 'entertainment', 'poetry', 'spokenword', 'performance', 'performanceart', 'storytelling']","Spoken-word poet Sarah Kay was stunned to find she couldn't be a princess, ballerina and astronaut all in one lifetime. In this talk, she delivers two powerful poems that show us how we can live other lives. Sarah is also the host of TED's podcast ""Sincerely, X."" You can listen on the Luminary podcast app at luminary.link/ted."
1191,See Yemen through my eyes,"['communication', 'globalissues', 'journalism', 'war', 'women']","As political turmoil in Yemen continues, the editor of the Yemen Times, Nadia Al-Sakkaf, talks at TEDGlobal with host Pat Mitchell. Al-Sakkaf's independent, English-language paper is vital for sharing news -- and for sharing a new vision of Yemen and of that country's women as equal partners in work and change."
41455,How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others,"['personalgrowth', 'community', 'potential', 'communication', 'society']","""Confidence is the necessary spark before everything that follows,"" says educator and activist Brittany Packnett. In an inspiring talk, she shares three ways to crack the code of confidence -- and her dream for a world where revolutionary confidence helps turn our most ambitious dreams into reality."
13012,Community health heroes,"['globalissues', 'collaboration', 'technology', 'disease', 'healthcare', 'health', 'africa', 'tedprize', 'humanity', 'medicine', 'society', 'illness']","Raj Panjabi has a bold idea: to recruit and train an army of community health workers to bring medical care to the billion people around the world who lack access to it. See how technology is transforming things for health workers like Serena and Prince -- and how TED's just-launched initiative, the Audacious Project, is amplifying their impact. Learn more at AudaciousProject.org."
887,Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs,"['tedx', 'business', 'children', 'education', 'entrepreneur', 'money', 'teaching']","Bored in school, failing classes, at odds with peers: This child might be an entrepreneur, says Cameron Herold. In his talk, he makes the case for parenting and education that helps would-be entrepreneurs flourish -- as kids and as adults."
2849,You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse,"['beauty', 'astronomy', 'nature', 'science', 'solarsystem', 'tedx', 'universe', 'moon', 'sun']","On August 21, 2017, the moon's shadow raced from Oregon to South Carolina in what some consider to be the most awe-inspiring spectacle in all of nature: a total solar eclipse. Umbraphile David Baron chases these rare events across the globe, and in this ode to the bliss of seeing the solar corona, he explains why you owe it to yourself to witness one, too."
984,The brain in your gut,"['biology', 'food', 'science', 'technology']","Did you know you have functioning neurons in your intestines -- about a hundred million of them? Food scientist Heribert Watzke tells us about the ""hidden brain"" in our gut and the surprising things it makes us feel."
5162,How China is changing the future of shopping,"['china', 'business', 'innovation', 'mobility', 'socialchange', 'future', 'society', 'technology', 'internet', 'shopping']","China is a huge laboratory of innovation, says retail expert Angela Wang, and in this lab, everything takes place on people's phones. Five hundred million Chinese consumers -- the equivalent of the combined populations of the US, UK and Germany -- regularly make purchases via mobile platforms, even in brick-and-mortar stores. What will this transformation mean for the future of shopping? Learn more about the new business-as-usual, where everything is ultra-convenient, ultra-flexible and ultra-social."
37382,"""East Virginia"" / ""John Brown's Dream""","['music', 'livemusic', 'vocals', 'performance', 'history']","In a mesmerizing set, musician Nora Brown breathes new life into two old-time banjo tunes: ""East Virginia"" and ""John Brown's Dream."" An evocative performance paired with a quick history of the banjo's evolution."
2611,"""St. James Infirmary Blues""","['art', 'music', 'livemusic', 'performance', 'singer', 'vocals', 'entertainment']","Singer Rhiannon Giddens joins international music collective Silk Road Ensemble to perform ""St. James Infirmary Blues,"" spiking the American folk song that Louis Armstrong popularized in the 1920s with Romani influence and mischievous energy."
828,The tradeoffs of building green,"['business', 'culture', 'green', 'technology', 'electricity']","In a short, funny, data-packed talk at TED U, Catherine Mohr walks through all the geeky decisions she made when building a green new house -- looking at real energy numbers, not hype. What choices matter most? Not the ones you think."
31,How architecture can connect us,"['architecture', 'cities', 'culture', 'design', 'invention']","Architect Thom Mayne has never been one to take the easy option, and this whistle-stop tour of the buildings he's created makes you glad for it. These are big ideas cast in material form."
2694,The data behind Hollywood's sexism,"['activism', 'art', 'business', 'communication', 'film', 'data', 'inequality', 'movies', 'women', 'society', 'socialchange', 'entertainment']","Where are all the women and girls in film? Social scientist Stacy Smith analyzes how the media underrepresents and portrays women -- and the potentially destructive effects those portrayals have on viewers. She shares hard data behind gender bias in Hollywood, where on-screen males outnumber females three to one (and behind-the-camera workers fare even worse.)"
1484,What's your 200-year plan?,"['tedx', 'art', 'entertainment', 'goal-setting', 'life', 'socialmedia', 'storytelling', 'technology']","You might have a 5-year plan, but what about a 200-year plan? Artist Raghava KK has set his eyes on an ultra-long-term horizon; at TEDxSummit, he shows how it helps guide today's choices and tomorrow's goals -- and encourages you to make your own 200-year plan too."
16159,Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it,"['algorithm', 'ai', 'biotech', 'democracy', 'future', 'government', 'history', 'humanity', 'leadership', 'politics', 'socialchange', 'society', 'technology']","In a profound talk about technology and power, author and historian Yuval Noah Harari explains the important difference between fascism and nationalism -- and what the consolidation of our data means for the future of democracy. Appearing as a hologram live from Tel Aviv, Harari warns that the greatest danger that now faces liberal democracy is that the revolution in information technology will make dictatorships more efficient and capable of control. ""The enemies of liberal democracy hack our feelings of fear and hate and vanity, and then use these feelings to polarize and destroy,"" Harari says. ""It is the responsibility of all of us to get to know our weaknesses and make sure they don't become weapons."" (Followed by a brief conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson)"
159,Aid for Africa? No thanks.,"['africa', 'business', 'globalissues', 'investment', 'philanthropy', 'technology', 'globaldevelopment']","In this provocative talk, journalist Andrew Mwenda asks us to reframe the ""African question"" -- to look beyond the media's stories of poverty, civil war and helplessness and see the opportunities for creating wealth and happiness throughout the continent."
2695,Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide,"['bigproblems', 'climatechange', 'collaboration', 'democracy', 'future', 'economics', 'globaldevelopment', 'globalissues', 'history', 'humanity', 'identity', 'government', 'humanorigins', 'intelligence', 'media', 'news', 'politics', 'socialchange', 'society', 'technology', 'violence', 'war']","How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yuval Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media -- even our notion of what humanity is for. This is the first of a series of TED Dialogues, seeking a thoughtful response to escalating political divisiveness. Make time (just over an hour) for this fascinating discussion between Harari and TED curator Chris Anderson."
2327,This tennis icon paved the way for women in sports,"['lgbt', 'feminism', 'inequality', 'interview', 'socialchange', 'sports', 'women', 'genderequality']","Tennis legend Billie Jean King isn't just a pioneer of women's tennis -- she's a pioneer for women getting paid. In this freewheeling conversation, she talks about identity, the role of sports in social justice and the famous Battle of the Sexes match against Bobby Riggs."
2686,How racism harms pregnant women -- and what can help,"['activism', 'children', 'community', 'communication', 'family', 'health', 'healthcare', 'humanity', 'inequality', 'illness', 'medicine', 'medicalresearch', 'parenting', 'race', 'society', 'socialchange', 'women', 'pregnancy']","Racism is making people sick -- especially black women and babies, says Miriam Zoila Pérez. The doula turned journalist explores the relationship between race, class and illness and tells us about a radically compassionate prenatal care program that can buffer pregnant women from the stress that people of color face every day."
1422,How I beat a patent troll,"['business', 'entrepreneur', 'law']","Drew Curtis, the founder of fark.com, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company that had a patent, ""...for the creation and distribution of news releases via email."" Along the way he shares some nutty statistics about the growing legal problem of frivolous patents."
13588,Plus-size? More like my size,"['women', 'socialchange', 'fashion', 'self', 'beauty', 'identity', 'health']","When Ashley Graham first started her modeling career, she was followed everywhere by a label she hates: ""plus-size model."" Defying such regressive pigeonholing, she explains how she stopped devaluing herself and reclaimed her body as her own. "
218,The untouchable music of the theremin,"['livemusic', 'music', 'performance', 'technology']","Virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin performs and discusses her theremin, the not-just-for-sci-fi electronic instrument that is played without being touched. Songs include ""Autumn Leaves,"" ""Lush Life"" and David Mash’s ""Listen, Words Are Gone."""
1248,Learning from a barefoot movement,"['culture', 'education', 'globalissues', 'india', 'invention', 'women', 'globaldevelopment']","In Rajasthan, India, an extraordinary school teaches rural women and men -- many of them illiterate -- to become solar engineers, artisans, dentists and doctors in their own villages. It's called the Barefoot College, and its founder, Bunker Roy, explains how it works."
2203,What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone,"['climatechange', 'environment', 'technology', 'trees']","The sounds of the rainforest include: the chirps of birds, the buzz of cicadas, the banter of gibbons. But in the background is the almost-always present sound of a chainsaw, from illegal loggers. Engineer Topher White shares a simple, scalable way to stop this brutal deforestation — that starts with your old cell phone."
2518,What's so sexy about math?,"['collaboration', 'education', 'history', 'innovation', 'intelligence', 'math', 'statistics', 'nature', 'visualizations']","Hidden truths permeate our world; they're inaccessible to our senses, but math allows us to go beyond our intuition to uncover their mysteries. In this survey of mathematical breakthroughs, Fields Medal winner Cédric Villani speaks to the thrill of discovery and details the sometimes perplexing life of a mathematician. ""Beautiful mathematical explanations are not only for our pleasure,"" he says. ""They change our vision of the world."""
1790,The art of bow-making,"['asia', 'culture', 'demo', 'invention']","Dong Woo Jang has an unusual after school hobby. Jang, who was 15 when he gave the talk, tells the story of how living in the concrete jungle of Seoul inspired him to build the perfect bow. Watch him demo one of his beautiful hand-crafted archer's bows."
2046,A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery,"['surgery', 'engineering', 'invention', 'medicine', 'productdesign']","Surgeons are required every day to puncture human skin before procedures — with the risk of damaging what's on the other side. In a fascinating talk, find out how mechanical engineer Nikolai Begg is using physics to update an important medical device, called the trocar, and improve one of the most dangerous moments in many common surgeries."
2843,Let's end ageism,"['aging', 'humanity', 'inequality', 'identity', 'personalgrowth', 'socialchange', 'society']","It's not the passage of time that makes it so hard to get older. It's ageism, a prejudice that pits us against our future selves -- and each other. Ashton Applewhite urges us to dismantle the dread and mobilize against the last socially acceptable prejudice. ""Aging is not a problem to be fixed or a disease to be cured,"" she says. ""It is a natural, powerful, lifelong process that unites us all."""
2612,Enough with the fear of fat,"['activism', 'art', 'beauty', 'creativity', 'culture', 'fear', 'humanity', 'obesity', 'identity', 'performanceart', 'photography', 'socialchange', 'self', 'society', 'tedx']","In a society obsessed with body image and marked by a fear of fat, Kelli Jean Drinkwater engages in radical body politics through art. She confronts the public's perception of bigger bodies by bringing them into spaces that were once off limits -- from fashion runways to the Sydney Festival -- and entices all of us to look again and rethink our biases. ""Unapologetic fat bodies can blow people's minds,"" she says."
1992,The military case for sharing knowledge,"['collaboration', 'iraq', 'military', 'war', 'surveillance']","When General Stanley McChrystal started fighting al Qaeda in 2003, information and secrets were the lifeblood of his operations. But as the unconventional battle waged on, he began to think that the culture of keeping important information classified was misguided and actually counterproductive. In a short but powerful talk McChrystal makes the case for actively sharing knowledge."
1071,Mother and daughter doctor-heroes,"['community', 'globalissues', 'health', 'medicine', 'science', 'women']","They've been called the ""saints of Somalia."" Doctor Hawa Abdi and her daughter Deqo Mohamed discuss their medical clinic in Somalia, where -- in the face of civil war and open oppression of women -- they've built a hospital, a school and a community of peace."
1684,How we found the giant squid,"['oceans', 'submarine', 'technology', 'marinebiology', 'adventure', 'science']",Humankind has been looking for the giant squid (Architeuthis) since we first started taking pictures underwater. But the elusive deep-sea predator could never be caught on film. Oceanographer and inventor Edith Widder shares the key insight -- and the teamwork -- that helped to capture the squid on film for the first time.
537,We need to feed the whole world,"['business', 'food', 'globalissues', 'industrialdesign', 'consumerism', 'agriculture', 'globaldevelopment', 'sustainability', 'activism']","Louise Fresco shows us why we should celebrate mass-produced, supermarket-style white bread. She says environmentally sound mass production will feed the world, yet leave a role for small bakeries and traditional methods."
604,Wiring a web for global good,"['europe', 'collaboration', 'communication', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'politics', 'technology']","We're at a unique moment in history, says UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown: we can use today's interconnectedness to develop our shared global ethic -- and work together to confront the challenges of poverty, security, climate change and the economy."
24392,Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy?,"['design', 'engineering', 'technology', 'ted-ed', 'humanity', 'animation', 'space', 'universe']","Could human civilization eventually spread across the whole Milky Way galaxy? Could we move beyond our small, blue planet to establish colonies in the multitude of star systems out there? These questions are pretty daunting, but their (theoretical) answers were actually put forth decades ago. Roey Tzezana describes the conceptual von Neumann machine. [Directed by Eoin Duffy, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Wesley Slover]."
1795,Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.,"['advertising', 'business', 'marketing', 'money', 'trust', 'blockchain', 'cryptocurrency']","Currency -- the bills and coins you carry in your wallet and in your bank account -- is founded on marketing, on the belief that banks and governments are trustworthy. Now, Paul Kemp-Robertson walks us through a new generation of currency, supported by that same marketing ... but on behalf of a private brand. From Nike Sweat Points to bottles of Tide (which are finding an unexpected use in illegal markets), meet the non-bank future of currencies."
41570,The next global agricultural revolution,"['tedfellows', 'food', 'sustainability', 'business', 'environment', 'agriculture', 'innovation', 'future']","Conventional meat production causes harm to our environment and presents risks to global health, but people aren't going to eat less meat unless we give them alternatives that cost the same (or less) and that taste the same (or better). In an eye-opening talk, food innovator and TED Fellow Bruce Friedrich shows the plant- and cell-based products that could soon transform the global meat industry -- and your dinner plate."
2147,"A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light","['dance', 'music', 'performance']","Choreographer Aakash Odedra is dyslexic and has always felt that his best expression comes through movement. “Murmur” is his ode to that experience, teaming up with co-creators Lewis Major and Ars Electronica Futurelab. Watch him spin his way through the center of a storm, as pages of books take flight all around him."
1821,The art of misdirection,"['crime', 'entertainment']","Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious demonstration, Robbins samples the buffet of the TEDGlobal 2013 audience, showing how the flaws in our perception make it possible to swipe a wallet and leave it on its owner’s shoulder while they remain clueless."
1767,A Saudi woman who dared to drive,"['islam', 'middleeast', 'cars', 'culture', 'feminism', 'globalissues', 'women']","There's no actual law against women driving in Saudi Arabia. But it's forbidden. Two years ago, Manal al-Sharif decided to encourage women to drive by doing so -- and filming herself for YouTube. Hear her story of what happened next."
116,Dangerous memes,"['culture', 'faith', 'meme', 'philosophy', 'religion']","Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes -- concepts that are literally alive."
2273,An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz,"['entertainment', 'jazz', 'livemusic', 'music', 'performance']","Raised listening to his dad's old records, Joey Alexander plays a brand of sharp, modern piano jazz that you likely wouldn't expect to hear from a pre-teenager. Listen as the 11-year-old delights the TED crowd with his very special performance of a Thelonious Monk classic."
586,My trek to the South Pole,"['globalissues', 'antarctica']",Extreme runner Ray Zahab shares an enthusiastic account of his record-breaking trek on foot to the South Pole -- a 33-day sprint through the snow.
9687,How architecture can create dignity for all,"['architecture', 'community', 'collaboration', 'socialchange', 'creativity', 'design', 'publicspaces', 'genderequality', 'society']","If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long bathroom lines again. Lines like these are representative of a more serious issue, Cary says: the lack of diversity in design that leads to thoughtless, compassionless spaces. Design has a unique ability to dignify and make people feel valued, respected, honored and seen -- but the flip side is also true. Cary calls for architects and designers to expand their ranks and commit to serving the public good, not just the privileged few. ""Well-designed spaces are not just a matter of taste or a questions of aesthetics,"" he says. ""They literally shape our ideas about who we are in the world and what we deserve."" And we all deserve better."
642,How I harnessed the wind,"['africa', 'creativity', 'energy', 'invention', 'poverty']","At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of invention that changed his life."
1303,Put a value on nature!,"['business', 'economics', 'finance', 'globalissues', 'green']","Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their true value: would it make us more careful about what we use and what we waste? Think of Pavan Sukhdev as nature's banker -- assessing the value of the Earth's assets. Eye-opening charts will make you think differently about the cost of air, water, trees ..."
1144,Building a museum of museums on the web,"['art', 'design', 'technology']","Imagine being able to see artwork in the greatest museums around the world without leaving your chair. Driven by his passion for art, Amit Sood tells the story of how he developed Art Project to let people do just that."
1363,Look up for a change,"['tedfellows', 'tedx', 'environment', 'globalissues', 'science', 'space', 'nasa', 'pollution', 'planets', 'activism', 'technology', 'universe']",How often do you see the true beauty of the night sky? TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz shows how light pollution is ruining the extraordinary -- and often ignored -- experience of seeing directly into space.
1005,Making global labor fair,"['bigproblems', 'business', 'globalissues', 'inequality', 'law', 'work']",FLA head Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers' rights -- globalized industries where no single national body can keep workers safe and protected. How can we keep our global supply chains honest? Van Heerden makes the business case for fair labor.
1903,To hear this music you have to be there. Literally,"['tedfellows', 'entertainment', 'music', 'technology']","In this lovely talk, TED Fellow Ryan Holladay shares his experiment with ""location-aware music."" This programming and musical feat involves hundreds of geotagged segments of sounds that only play when a listener is physically nearby, creating a magical sense of presence."
209,"Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope","['macarthurgrant', 'activism', 'children', 'cities', 'culture', 'philanthropy', 'livemusic']","Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships."
2435,10 ways to have a better conversation,"['communication', 'interview', 'personalgrowth', 'tedx', 'language']","When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations -- and that most of us don't converse very well. Celeste Headlee has worked as a radio host for decades, and she knows the ingredients of a great conversation: Honesty, brevity, clarity and a healthy amount of listening. In this insightful talk, she shares 10 useful rules for having better conversations. ""Go out, talk to people, listen to people,"" she says. ""And, most importantly, be prepared to be amazed."""
512,A new ecosystem for electric cars,"['alternativeenergy', 'business', 'cars', 'energy', 'globalissues', 'green', 'technology', 'infrastructure']","Forget about the hybrid auto -- Shai Agassi says it's electric cars or bust if we want to impact emissions. His company, Better Place, has a radical plan to take entire countries oil-free by 2020."
44202,A vision for the future of Sierra Leone,"['africa', 'politics', 'government', 'democracy', 'education', 'socialchange', 'society', 'leadership']","When Julius Maada Bio first seized political power in Sierra Leone in 1996, he did so to improve the lives of its citizens. But he soon realized that for democracy to flourish, its foundation needs to be built on the will of the people. After arranging an election, he voluntarily gave up power and left Africa. Twenty years later, after being democratically elected president of Sierra Leone, he reflects on the slow path to democracy, the importance of education for all and his focus on helping young Sierra Leoneans thrive."
1496,A vision of crimes in the future,"['internet', 'crime', 'future', 'globalissues', 'law', 'open-source', 'security', 'technology', 'terrorism', 'violence', 'surveillance']","The world is becoming increasingly open, and that has implications both bright and dangerous. Marc Goodman paints a portrait of a grave future, in which technology's rapid development could allow crime to take a turn for the worse."
1791,The rise of the new global super-rich,"['business', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'inequality', 'money']","Technology is advancing in leaps and bounds -- and so is economic inequality, says writer Chrystia Freeland. In an impassioned talk, she charts the rise of a new class of plutocrats (those who are extremely powerful because they are extremely wealthy), and suggests that globalization and new technology are actually fueling, rather than closing, the global income gap. Freeland lays out three problems with plutocracy … and one glimmer of hope."
50856,How changing your story can change your life,"['psychology', 'self', 'writing', 'storytelling', 'personalgrowth', 'communication', 'identity']","Stories help you make sense of your life -- but when these narratives are incomplete or misleading, they can keep you stuck instead of providing clarity. In an actionable talk, psychotherapist and advice columnist Lori Gottlieb shows how to break free from the stories you've been telling yourself by becoming your own editor and rewriting your narrative from a different point of view."
2020,Why science demands a leap into the unknown,"['creativity', 'science', 'theater', 'scienceandart', 'teaching', 'socialchange', 'medicalresearch']","While studying for his PhD in physics, Uri Alon thought he was a failure because all his research paths led to dead ends. But, with the help of improv theater, he came to realize that there could be joy in getting lost. A call for scientists to stop thinking of research as a direct line from question to answer, but as something more creative. It's a message that will resonate, no matter what your field."
1095,The sound the universe makes,"['darkmatter', 'science', 'universe']","We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding soundwalk through the universe."
57606,Parasitic worms hold back human progress. Here's how we can end them,"['disease', 'africa', 'humanity', 'future', 'audaciousproject', 'bigproblems', 'health', 'illness', 'publichealth']","Parasitic worms date back thousands of years, causing diseases that limit human potential. But today, effective treatment against them requires just a few pills, taken once or twice a year. With 1.7 billion people at risk of infection, Ellen Agler and her team at the END Fund are imagining a world without disease caused by worms. Learn about how they're seeking to lower treatment costs, amplify prevention, support governments and nurture local leadership. This ambitious plan is a part of The Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change. (Voiced by Ama Adi-Dako)"
1757,"How I named, shamed and jailed","['africa', 'corruption', 'crime', 'globalissues', 'journalism']",Journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has broken dozens of stories of corruption and organized crime all over Ghana -- without ever revealing his identity. In this talk (in which his face remains hidden) Anas shows grisly footage from some of his investigations and demonstrates the importance of facing injustice.
37,The birth of Wikipedia,"['business', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'invention', 'media', 'open-source', 'technology', 'wikipedia']","Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled ""a ragtag band of volunteers,"" gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia."
1559,Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city,"['tedx', 'architecture', 'cities', 'design', 'future', 'technology', 'urbanplanning', 'infrastructure']","How can we fit more people into cities without overcrowding? Kent Larson shows off folding cars, quick-change apartments and other innovations that could make the city of the future work a lot like a small village of the past."
1965,Teach teachers how to create magic,"['education', 'science', 'teaching', 'socialchange', 'religion', 'presentation', 'storytelling', 'magic', 'innovation']","What do rap shows, barbershop banter and Sunday services have in common? As Christopher Emdin says, they all hold the secret magic to enthrall and teach at the same time — and it's a skill we often don't teach to educators. A longtime teacher himself, now a science advocate and cofounder of Science Genius B.A.T.T.L.E.S. with the GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan, Emdin offers a vision to make the classroom come alive."
2858,What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?,"['computers', 'ai', 'future', 'economics', 'humanity', 'intelligence', 'mind', 'innovation', 'society', 'science', 'technology', 'robots']","Meet the ""ems"" -- machines that emulate human brains and can think, feel and work just like the brains they're copied from. Futurist and social scientist Robin Hanson describes a possible future when ems take over the global economy, running on superfast computers and copying themselves to multitask, leaving humans with only one choice: to retire, forever. Glimpse a strange future as Hanson describes what could happen if robots ruled the earth."
52673,How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it,"['future', 'technology', 'machinelearning', 'ai', 'vulnerability', 'life', 'philosophy', 'humanity', 'society']","Humanity is on its way to creating a ""black ball"": a technological breakthrough that could destroy us all, says philosopher Nick Bostrom. In this incisive, surprisingly light-hearted conversation with Head of TED Chris Anderson, Bostrom outlines the vulnerabilities we could face if (or when) our inventions spiral beyond our control -- and explores how we can prevent our future demise."
46594,A global initiative to end violence against children,"['globalissues', 'children', 'youth', 'activism', 'socialchange', 'violence']","Each year, one billion children experience violence at home, at school, online or in their communities, says child safety advocate Howard Taylor. The problem is social, economic, political -- and urgent. In an eye-opening talk, Taylor shows why we have an unprecedented opportunity right now to end violence against children and create a better future for every child."
1349,How your brain tells you where you are,"['brain', 'cognitivescience', 'exploration', 'neuroscience', 'science', 'physiology', 'biology', 'algorithm', 'biotech']","How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural mechanisms that map the space around us, and how they link to memory and imagination."
2737,How fake news does real harm,"['africa', 'communication', 'community', 'humanity', 'globalissues', 'journalism', 'socialchange', 'society', 'terrorism', 'trafficking', 'writing']","On April 14, 2014, the terrorist organization Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls from the town of Chibok, Nigeria. Around the world, the crime became epitomized by the slogan #BringBackOurGirls -- but in Nigeria, government officials called the crime a hoax, confusing and delaying efforts to rescue the girls. In this powerful talk, journalist Stephanie Busari points to the Chibok tragedy to explain the deadly danger of fake news and what we can do to stop it."
25029,Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it,"['entrepreneur', 'africa', 'womeninbusiness', 'business', 'globalissues', 'economics', 'globaldevelopment', 'investment', 'future']","Many African countries are poor for a simple reason, says entrepreneur Magatte Wade: governments have created far too many obstacles to starting and running a business. In this passionate talk, Wade breaks down the challenges of doing business on the continent and offers some solutions of her own -- while calling on leaders to do their part, too."
2199,How we found the worst place to park in New York City -- using big data,"['newyork', 'tedx', 'cities', 'data', 'statistics', 'technology', 'infrastructure']","City agencies have access to a wealth of data and statistics reflecting every part of urban life. But as data analyst Ben Wellington suggests in this entertaining talk, sometimes they just don't know what to do with it. He shows how a combination of unexpected questions and smart data crunching can produce strangely useful insights, and shares tips on how to release large sets of data so that anyone can use them."
17238,How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential,"['bionics', 'design', 'future', 'humanbody', 'humanity', 'prosthetics', 'nature', 'science', 'technology']","Humans will soon have new bodies that forever blur the line between the natural and synthetic worlds, says bionics designer Hugh Herr. In an unforgettable talk, he details ""NeuroEmbodied Design,"" a methodology for creating cyborg function that he's developing at the MIT Media Lab, and shows us a future where we've augmented our bodies in a way that will redefine human potential -- and, maybe, turn us into superheroes. ""During the twilight years of this century, I believe humans will be unrecognizable in morphology and dynamics from what we are today,"" Herr says. ""Humanity will take flight and soar."""
1713,Let's talk crap. Seriously.,"['bigproblems', 'globalissues', 'health', 'sanitation', 'smell', 'water']","It's 2013, yet 2.5 billion people in the world have no access to a basic sanitary toilet. And when there's no loo, where do you poo? In the street, probably near your water and food sources -- causing untold death and disease from contamination. Get ready for a blunt, funny, powerful talk from journalist Rose George about a once-unmentionable problem."
176,A flight on solar wings,"['alternativeenergy', 'business', 'design', 'drones', 'energy', 'flight', 'invention', 'technology', 'solarenergy']","Paul MacCready -- aircraft designer, environmentalist, and lifelong lover of flight -- talks about his long career."
3363,Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre,"['tedfellows', 'africa', 'journalism', 'corruption', 'war']","A war zone can pass for a mostly peaceful place when no one is watching, says investigative journalist and TED Fellow Anjan Sundaram. In this short, incisive talk, he takes us inside the conflict in the Central African Republic, where he saw the methodical preparation for ethnic cleansing, and shares a lesson about why it's important to bear witness to other people's suffering. ""Ignored people in all our communities tell us something important about who we are,"" Sundaram says. ""A witness can become precious, and their gaze most necessary, when violence passes silently, unseen and unheard."""
1962,"It's TED, the Musical","['dance', 'genetics', 'music', 'humor', 'livemusic', 'entertainment']","Do you have a TED Talk inside, just bursting to come out? Take this tongue-in-cheek musical journey to ""Give Your Talk."" A musical love letter to our speakers -- written, directed and performed by the TED staff."
26257,How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean,"['drones', 'oceans', 'alternativeenergy', 'exploration', 'science', 'nature', 'fish', 'biosphere', 'environment', 'tedx', 'weather']","Our oceans are unexplored and undersampled -- today, we still know more about other planets than our own. How can we get to a better understanding of this vast, important ecosystem? Explorer Sebastien de Halleux shares how a new fleet of wind- and solar-powered drones is collecting data at sea in unprecedented detail, revealing insights into things like global weather and the health of fish stocks. Learn more about what a better grasp of the ocean could mean for us back on land."
2276,"How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard","['education', 'leadership', 'poverty', 'teaching']","On Linda Cliatt-Wayman's first day as principal at a failing high school in North Philadelphia, she was determined to lay down the law. But she soon realized the job was more complex than she thought. With palpable passion, she shares the three principles that helped her turn around three schools labeled ""low-performing and persistently dangerous."" Her fearless determination to lead -- and to love the students, no matter what -- is a model for leaders in all fields."
2039,"How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)","['business', 'culture', 'design', 'technology', 'graphicdesign']","Facebook's ""like"" and ""share"" buttons are seen 22 billion times a day, making them some of the most-viewed design elements ever created. Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook's director of product design, outlines three rules for design at such a massive scale—one so big that the tiniest of tweaks can cause global outrage, but also so large that the subtlest of improvements can positively impact the lives of many."
9033,Could fish social networks help us save coral reefs?,"['tedfellows', 'animals', 'anthropocene', 'biology', 'biosphere', 'communication', 'fish', 'environment', 'nature', 'science', 'sustainability', 'oceans', 'coralreefs']","Mike Gil spies on fish: using novel multi-camera systems and computer vision technology, the TED Fellow and his colleagues explore how coral reef fish behave, socialize and affect their ecosystems. Learn more about how fish of different species communicate via social networks -- and what disrupting these networks might mean to the delicate ecology of reefs, which help feed millions of us and support the global economy."
1636,Israel and Iran: A love story?,"['iran', 'middleeast', 'tedx', 'design', 'globalissues', 'peace']","When war between Israel and Iran seemed imminent, Israeli graphic designer Ronny Edry shared a poster on Facebook of himself and his daughter with a bold message: ""Iranians ... we [heart] you."" Other Israelis quickly created their own posters with the same message -- and Iranians responded in kind. The simple act of communication inspired surprising Facebook communities like ""Israel loves Iran,"" ""Iran loves Israel"" and even ""Palestine loves Israel."""
41,One Laptop per Child,"['children', 'design', 'education', 'entrepreneur', 'globalissues', 'philanthropy', 'socialchange', 'technology']","Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the ""$100 laptop."""
663,Lead like the great conductors,"['business', 'conducting', 'leadership', 'music', 'psychology', 'society']","An orchestra conductor faces the ultimate leadership challenge: creating perfect harmony without saying a word. In this charming talk, Itay Talgam demonstrates the unique styles of six great 20th-century conductors, illustrating crucial lessons for all leaders."
1889,My glacier cave discoveries,"['exploration', 'tedyouth']","Snow Dragon. Pure Imagination. Frozen Minotaur. These are the names Eddy Cartaya and his climbing partner Brent McGregor gave three glacier caves that they were the first to explore. As the Sandy Glacier slowly slides down Mount Hood in Oregon, the caves and tunnels inside it morph annually thanks to warm water from above and warm air from below. At TEDYouth, Cartaya takes us inside these magical spaces where the ice glows in bright blues and greens, and where artifacts rain from the ceiling."
761,A new strategy in the war on cancer,"['cancer', 'health', 'healthcare', 'medicine', 'technology']","Too often, cancer treatments have a short-sighted focus on individual cells, says David Agus. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to diagnose and treat the whole body."
2427,The case for fish farming,"['biodiversity', 'bigproblems', 'consumerism', 'business', 'environment', 'fish', 'food', 'globalissues', 'missionblue', 'innovation', 'oceans', 'sustainability', 'ecology']","We're headed towards a global food crisis: Nearly 3 billion people depend on the ocean for food, and at our current rate we already take more fish from the ocean than it can naturally replace. In this fact-packed, eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and conservationist Mike Velings proposes a solution: Aquaculture, or fish farming. ""We must start using the ocean as farmers instead of hunters,"" he says, echoing Jacques Cousteau. ""The day will come where people will demand farmed fish on their plates that's farmed well and farmed healthy -- and refuse anything less."""
210,An unusual glimpse at celebrity,"['art', 'culture', 'entertainment', 'photography']","By making photographs that seem to show our favorite celebs (Diana, Elton John) doing what we really, secretly, want to see them doing, Alison Jackson explores our desire to get personal with celebs. Contains graphic images."
19175,The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it,"['publichealth', 'community', 'socialchange', 'society', 'health', 'medicine', 'opioids', 'tedx']","The United States accounts for five percent of the world's population but consumes almost 70 percent of the total global opioid supply, creating an epidemic that has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths each year. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? In this personal talk, Travis Rieder recounts the painful, often-hidden struggle of opioid withdrawal and reveals how doctors who are quick to prescribe (and overprescribe) opioids aren't equipped with the tools to eventually get people off the meds."
46595,Emergency medicine for our climate fever,"['science', 'climatechange', 'oceans', 'sustainability', 'technology', 'environment', 'pollution', 'engineering', 'anthropocene']","As we recklessly warm the planet by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, some industrial emissions also produce particles that reflect sunshine back into space, putting a check on global warming that we're only starting to understand. Climate activist Kelly Wanser asks: Can we engineer ways to harness this effect and further reduce warming? Learn more about the promises and risks of ""cloud brightening"" -- and how it could help restore our climate to health."
2056,Own your body's data,"['tedx', 'data', 'health', 'hearthealth', 'statistics', 'humanbody']","The new breed of high-tech self-monitors (measuring heartrate, sleep, steps per day) might seem targeted at competitive athletes. But Talithia Williams, a statistician, makes a compelling case that all of us should be measuring and recording simple data about our bodies every day — because our own data can reveal much more than even our doctors may know."
1379,The clues to a great story,"['entertainment', 'film', 'storytelling', 'animation', 'art']","Filmmaker Andrew Stanton (""Toy Story,"" ""WALL-E"") shares what he knows about storytelling -- starting at the end and working back to the beginning. Contains graphic language ... (Note: this talk is not available for download.)"
1588,The secret lives of paintings,"['art', 'science', 'technology', 'scienceandart', 'visualizations', 'biotech', 'culture', 'history', 'collaboration', 'exploration', 'conservation', 'painting']","Art history is far from set in stone. Engineer Maurizio Seracini spent 30 years searching for Leonardo da Vinci's lost fresco ""The Battle of Anghiari,"" and in the process discovered that many paintings have layers of history hidden underneath. Should they be part of the viewing experience too?"
2000,The Museum of Four in the Morning,"['entertainment', 'humor', 'onlinevideo', 'spokenword', 'storytelling']","Beware: Rives has a contagious obsession with 4 a.m. At TED2007, the poet shared what was then a minor fixation with a time that kept popping up everywhere. After the talk, emails starting pouring in with an avalanche of hilarious references—from the cover of ""Crochet Today!"" magazine to the opening scene of ""The Metamorphosis."" A lyrical peek into his Museum of Four in the Morning, which overflows with treasures."
1348,Let's bridge the digital divide!,"['tedx', 'globalissues', 'poverty', 'technology']","Five billion people can't use the internet. Aleph Molinari empowers digitally excluded people, by giving them access to computers and sharing the know-how to use them."
876,Why we need the explorers,"['curiosity', 'economics', 'globalissues', 'innovation', 'physics', 'science', 'space']","In tough economic times, our exploratory science programs -- from space probes to the LHC -- are first to suffer budget cuts. Brian Cox explains how curiosity-driven science pays for itself, powering innovation and a profound appreciation of our existence."
2251,"Magical houses, made of bamboo","['architecture', 'design', 'sustainability']","You've never seen buildings like this. The stunning bamboo homes built by Elora Hardy and her team in Bali twist, curve and surprise at every turn. They defy convention because the bamboo itself is so enigmatic. No two poles of bamboo are alike, so every home, bridge and bathroom is exquisitely unique. In this beautiful, immersive talk, she shares the potential of bamboo, as both a sustainable resource and a spark for the imagination. ""We have had to invent our own rules,"" she says."
1397,"Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor","['energy', 'science', 'technology', 'youth', 'nuclearenergy', 'physics', 'alternativeenergy', 'invention', 'innovation', 'chemistry', 'future']","Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of those: When he was 14, he built a working fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 17, he takes the TED stage at short notice to tell (the short version of) his story."
1310,The battle between your present and future self,"['behavioraleconomics', 'business', 'culture', 'decision-making', 'economics', 'finance', 'self']","Every day, we make decisions that have good or bad consequences for our future selves. (Can I skip flossing just this one time?) Daniel Goldstein makes tools that help us imagine ourselves over time, so that we make smart choices for Future Us."
2070,How to live passionately—no matter your age,"['aging', 'storytelling']","Author Isabel Allende is 71. Yes, she has a few wrinkles—but she has incredible perspective too. In this candid talk, meant for viewers of all ages, she talks about her fears as she gets older and shares how she plans to keep on living passionately."
566,A plug for smart power outlets,"['architecture', 'children', 'design', 'energy', 'technology', 'electricity']","John La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The invention, Safeplug, promises to prevent deadly accidents like house fires -- and to conserve energy."
35,How we discovered DNA,"['dna', 'culture', 'genetics', 'history', 'invention', 'science', 'storytelling', 'technology']","Nobel laureate James Watson opens TED2005 with the frank and funny story of how he and his research partner, Francis Crick, discovered the structure of DNA."
584,New rules for rebuilding a broken nation,"['globalissues', 'money', 'politics', 'poverty', 'state-building']","Long conflict can wreck a country, leaving behind poverty and chaos. But what's the right way to help war-torn countries rebuild? At TED@State, Paul Collier explains the problems with current post-conflict aid plans, and suggests 3 ideas for a better approach."
702,The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting,"['architecture', 'design', 'environment', 'history', 'india', 'innovation', 'photography', 'sustainability', 'water', 'rivers']","With wisdom and wit, Anupam Mishra talks about the amazing feats of engineering built centuries ago by the people of India's Golden Desert to harvest water. These ancient aqueducts and stepwells are still used today -- and are often superior to modern water megaprojects."
2285,The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief,"['health', 'healthcare', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'science', 'pain', 'pharmaceuticals', 'history', 'storytelling', 'scienceandart', 'empathy', 'socialchange']","For the longest time, doctors basically ignored the most basic and frustrating part of being sick -- pain. In this lyrical, informative talk, Latif Nasser tells the extraordinary story of wrestler and doctor John J. Bonica, who persuaded the medical profession to take pain seriously -- and transformed the lives of millions."
2497,The dream we haven't dared to dream,"['activism', 'communication', 'community', 'bigproblems', 'collaboration', 'empathy', 'identity', 'personalgrowth', 'potential', 'self', 'socialchange', 'society', 'technology']","What are your dreams? Better yet, what are your broken dreams? Dan Pallotta dreams of a time when we are as excited, curious and scientific about the development of our humanity as we are about the development of our technology. ""What we fear most is that we will be denied the opportunity to fulfill our true potential,"" Pallotta says. ""Imagine living in a world where we simply recognize that deep, existential fear in one another -- and love one another boldly because we know that to be human is to live with that fear."""
26073,Why we have an emotional connection to robots,"['robots', 'emotions', 'society', 'humanity', 'future', 'design', 'innovation', 'technology']","We're far from developing robots that feel emotions, but we already have feelings towards them, says robot ethicist Kate Darling, and an instinct like that can have consequences. Learn more about how we're biologically hardwired to project intent and life onto machines -- and how it might help us better understand ourselves."
2449,Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it,"['bigproblems', 'disasterrelief', 'economics', 'europe', 'fear', 'failure', 'future', 'globalissues', 'government', 'middleeast', 'policy', 'potential', 'security', 'socialchange', 'refugees', 'syria']","A million refugees arrived in Europe this year, says Alexander Betts, and ""our response, frankly, has been pathetic."" Betts studies forced migration, the impossible choice for families between the camps, urban poverty and dangerous illegal journeys to safety. In this insightful talk, he offers four ways to change the way we treat refugees, so they can make an immediate contribution to their new homes. ""There's nothing inevitable about refugees being a cost,"" Betts says. ""They're human beings with skills, talents, aspirations, with the ability to make contributions -- if we let them."""
1839,Iran and Israel: Peace is possible,"['foreignpolicy', 'iran', 'middleeast', 'globalissues', 'government', 'peace', 'politics']","Iran and Israel: two nations with tense relations that seem existentially at odds. But for all their antagonistic rhetoric, there is a recent hidden history of collaboration, even friendship. In an informative talk, Trita Parsi shows how an unlikely strategic alliance in the past could mean peace in the future for these two feuding countries."
55544,Why can't we talk about periods?,"['society', 'women', 'biology', 'healthcare', 'health', 'medicine', 'feminism', 'science', 'humanbody', 'socialchange', 'publichealth', 'sex']","""It shouldn't be an act of feminism to know how your body works,"" says gynecologist and author Jen Gunter. In this revelatory talk, she explains how menstrual shame silences and represses -- and leads to the spread of harmful misinformation and the mismanagement of pain. Declaring the era of the menstrual taboos over, she delivers a clear, much-needed lesson on the once-mysterious mechanics of the uterus."
33924,The age of genetic wonder,"['tedx', 'genetics', 'crispr', 'medicalresearch', 'nature', 'life', 'science', 'biology', 'technology', 'invention', 'bioethics', 'dna', 'syntheticbiology', 'biotech']","Gene-editing tools like CRISPR enable us to program life at its most fundamental level. But this raises some pressing questions: If we can generate new species from scratch, what should we build? Should we redesign humanity as we know it? Juan Enriquez forecasts the possible futures of genetic editing, exploring the immense uncertainty and opportunity of this next frontier."
233,My wish: Once Upon a School,"['tedprize', 'activism', 'children', 'collaboration', 'culture', 'design', 'education', 'entertainment', 'globalissues', 'writing', 'teaching']","Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks  the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around the world to open"
167,10 ways the world could end,"['climatechange', 'future', 'globalissues', 'humanity', 'space', 'technology', 'solarsystem', 'science', 'asteroid']",How might the human race end? Stephen Petranek lays out 10 terrible options and the science behind them. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle collider gone wild?
59862,What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health,"['neuroscience', 'brain', 'psychology', 'mentalhealth', 'science', 'medicalresearch']","Neuroscientist Kay M. Tye investigates how your brain gives rise to complex emotional states like depression, anxiety or loneliness. From the cutting edge of science, she shares her latest findings -- including the development of a tool that uses light to activate specific neurons and create dramatic behavioral changes in mice. Learn how these discoveries could change the way you think about your mind -- and possibly uncover effective treatments for mental disorders."
2481,"""Space Oddity""","['livemusic', 'music', 'performance', 'singer', 'vocals', 'guitar', 'tedfellows', 'entertainment']","Singer Amanda Palmer pays tribute to the inimitable David Bowie with a cover of ""Space Oddity."" She's joined onstage by Jherek Bischoff, TED Fellow Usman Riaz and, no, your eyes are not deceiving you, none other than former Vice President Al Gore."
18094,Four billion years of evolution in six minutes,"['evolution', 'biology', 'ancientworld', 'biodiversity', 'animals', 'apes', 'fish', 'life', 'nature', 'science', 'tedfellows', 'environment', 'time']","Did humans evolve from monkeys or from fish? In this enlightening talk, ichthyologist and TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty dispels some hardwired myths about evolution, encouraging us to remember that we're a small part of a complex, four-billion-year process -- and not the end of the line. ""We're not the goal of evolution,"" Chakrabarty says. ""Think of us all as young leaves on this ancient and gigantic tree of life -- connected by invisible branches not just to each other, but to our extinct relatives and our evolutionary ancestors."""
21584,How art can shape America's conversation about freedom,"['art', 'socialchange', 'humanity', 'society', 'culture', 'unitedstates', 'politics']","In this quick talk, visual artist Dread Scott tells the story of one of his most transgressive art installations, which drew national attention for its controversial use of the American flag and led to a landmark First Amendment case in the US Supreme Court."
1328,Three types of online attack,"['internet', 'tedx', 'crime', 'data', 'politics', 'technology', 'surveillance', 'encryption']","Cybercrime expert Mikko Hypponen talks us through three types of online attack on our privacy and data -- and only two are considered crimes. ""Do we blindly trust any future government? Because any right we give away, we give away for good."""
28318,"How ""baby bonds"" could help close the wealth gap","['economics', 'inequality', 'money', 'socialchange', 'society', 'government', 'globaldevelopment', 'poverty', 'globalissues', 'future', 'policy']","Hard work, resilience and grit lead to success, right? This narrative pervades the way we think, says economist Darrick Hamilton, but the truth is that our chances at economic security have less to do with what we do and more to do with the wealth position we're born into. Enter ""baby bonds"": trust accounts of up to $60,000 for every newborn, calibrated to the wealth of their family. Learn how this bold proposal could help us reduce inequality -- and give every child personal seed money for important things like going to college, buying a home or starting a business. ""Without capital, inequality is locked in,"" Hamilton says. ""When it comes to economic security, wealth is both the beginning and the end."""
20310,What are the most important moral problems of our time?,"['globalissues', 'philosophy', 'future', 'society', 'socialchange', 'philanthropy', 'morality']","Of all the problems facing humanity, which should we focus on solving first? In a compelling talk about how to make the world better, moral philosopher Will MacAskill provides a framework for answering this question based on the philosophy of ""effective altruism"" -- and shares ideas for taking on three pressing global issues."
2514,"A smarter, more precise way to think about public health","['africa', 'communication', 'disease', 'future', 'bigproblems', 'health', 'globalissues', 'hiv', 'healthcare', 'inequality', 'illness', 'innovation', 'medicalresearch', 'medicine', 'parenting', 'publichealth']","Sue Desmond-Hellmann is using precision public health -- an approach that incorporates big data, consumer monitoring, gene sequencing and other innovative tools -- to solve the world's most difficult medical problems. It's already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to address alarming infant mortality rates all over the world. The goal: to save lives by bringing the right interventions to the right populations at the right time."
2583,How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment,"['activism', 'climatechange', 'alternativeenergy', 'energy', 'environment', 'globalissues', 'fear', 'globaldevelopment', 'green', 'government', 'innovation', 'infrastructure', 'naturalresources', 'investment', 'nuclearenergy', 'policy', 'nuclearweapons', 'socialchange', 'pollution', 'society', 'technology', 'electricity']","""We're not in a clean energy revolution; we're in a clean energy crisis,"" says climate policy expert Michael Shellenberger. His surprising solution: nuclear. In this passionate talk, he explains why it's time to overcome longstanding fears of the technology, and why he and other environmentalists believe it's past time to embrace nuclear as a viable and desirable source of clean power."
709,How low-cost eye care can be world-class,"['design', 'health', 'healthcare', 'humanity', 'medicine', 'publichealth', 'sight', 'technology']","India's revolutionary Aravind Eye Care System has given sight to millions. Thulasiraj Ravilla looks at the ingenious approach that drives its treatment costs down and quality up, and why its methods should trigger a re-think of all human services."
2682,4 ways to make a city more walkable,"['architecture', 'cars', 'cities', 'collaboration', 'community', 'design', 'engineering', 'infrastructure', 'potential', 'innovation', 'publicspaces', 'society', 'urbanplanning', 'tedx', 'urban']","Freedom from cars, freedom from sprawl, freedom to walk your city! City planner Jeff Speck shares his ""general theory of walkability"" -- four planning principles to transform sprawling cities of six-lane highways and 600-foot blocks into safe, walkable oases full of bike lanes and tree-lined streets."
518,9 life lessons from rock climbing,"['adventure', 'entertainment', 'environment', 'nature']","In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too."
1931,Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?,"['culture', 'relationships', 'sex']","An idea permeates our modern view of relationships: that men and women have always paired off in sexually exclusive relationships. But before the dawn of agriculture, humans may actually have been quite promiscuous. Author Christopher Ryan walks us through the controversial evidence that human beings are sexual omnivores by nature, in hopes that a more nuanced understanding may put an end to discrimination, shame and the kind of unrealistic expectations that kill relationships."
32557,The science of sex,"['science', 'gender', 'love', 'sex', 'relationships', 'neuroscience']","How much do you really know about the science of sex? Not enough, suggests science communicator Pere Estupinyà. In this fun and educational talk, he describes his own journey into the realm of sexology and its fascinating recent discoveries while making the case that a healthy sex life is contingent on an open mind. In Spanish with subtitles."
1621,A broken body isn't a broken person,"['tedx', 'bodylanguage', 'health', 'healthcare', 'identity', 'storytelling', 'humanbody']","Cross-country skier Janine Shepherd hoped for an Olympic medal -- until she was hit by a truck during a training bike ride. She shares a powerful story about the human potential for recovery. Her message: you are not your body, and giving up old dreams can allow new ones to soar."
53740,How to turn off work thoughts during your free time,"['work', 'work-lifebalance', 'happiness', 'time', 'choice', 'goal-setting', 'personalgrowth']","Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow's tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work."
1047,"A test that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you","['business', 'cancer', 'medicine', 'science', 'technology']","Working with a team of physicists, Dr. Deborah Rhodes developed a new tool for tumor detection that's 3 times as effective as traditional mammograms for women with dense breast tissue. The life-saving implications are stunning. So why haven't we heard of it? Rhodes shares the story behind the tool's creation, and the web of politics and economics that keep it from mainstream use."
1622,"Forget multitasking, try monotasking","['culture', 'design', 'humor', 'productdesign', 'technology']","People don't just cook anymore -- they're cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just made. Designer Paolo Cardini questions the efficiency of our multitasking world and makes the case for -- gasp -- ""monotasking."""
2031,Two poems about what dogs think (probably),"['animals', 'creativity', 'death', 'love', 'poetry']","What must our dogs be thinking when they look at us? Poet Billy Collins imagines the inner lives of two very different companions. It’s a charming short talk, perfect for taking a break and dreaming …"
1445,3 new ways to kill mosquitoes,"['tedx', 'globalissues', 'health', 'insects', 'medicine']","We can use a mosquito's own instincts against her. In a rather unforgettable presentation, Bart Knols demos the imaginative solutions his team is developing to fight malaria -- including Limburger cheese and a deadly pill."
1933,Why good hackers make good citizens,"['cities', 'software', 'urbanplanning']","Hacking is about more than mischief-making or political subversion. As Catherine Bracy describes in this spirited talk, it can be just as much a force for good as it is for evil. She spins through some inspiring civically-minded projects in Honolulu, Oakland and Mexico City — and makes a compelling case that we all have what it takes to get involved."
1385,The cockroach beatbox,"['tedfellows', 'ted-ed', 'brain', 'life', 'neuroscience', 'science', 'technology', 'biology', 'physiology', 'insects', 'nature', 'sound', 'humor']","By dissecting a cockroach ... yes, live on stage ... TED Fellow and neuroscientist Greg Gage shows how brains receive and deliver electric impulses -- and how legs can respond. This talk comes from the TED-Ed project."
940,The political chemistry of oil,"['tedx', 'disasterrelief', 'energy', 'environment', 'green', 'oil', 'sustainability']","Speaking one month after the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Lisa Margonelli shows how drilling moratoriums and executive ousters make for good theater, but distract us from the issue at heart: our unrestrained oil consumption. She shares her bold plan to wean America off oil -- by confronting consumers with its real cost."
328,Dog-friendly dog training,"['animals', 'brain', 'children', 'psychology', 'bestoftheweb']","Speaking at the 2007 EG conference, trainer Ian Dunbar asks us to see the world through the eyes of our beloved dogs. By knowing our pets' perspective, we can build their love and trust. It's a message that resonates well beyond the animal world."
926,Wiring an interactive ocean,"['missionblue', 'oceans', 'poetry', 'science', 'technology', 'globalcommons']",Oceanographer John Delaney is leading the team that is building an underwater network of high-def cameras and sensors that will turn our ocean into a global interactive lab -- sparking an explosion of rich data about the world below.