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  1. What we learned from 5 million books
  2. High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
  3. To solve the world's biggest problems, invest in women and girls
  4. How language transformed humanity
  5. Can beauty open our hearts to difficult conversations?
  6. HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy

New year, new you

  1. Embrace your raw, strange magic
  2. Try something new for 30 days
  3. The profound power of an authentic apology
  4. How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others
  5. Why winning doesn't always equal success
  6. Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

Discussed on tedcircles.com

  1. How to use family dinner to teach politics
  2. How generational stereotypes hold us back at work
  3. Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change
  4. How to be a good ancestor
  5. 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
  6. The search for "aha!" moments

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Keep fighting racism

  1. Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally
  2. The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist
  3. The lie that invented racism
  4. How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it
  5. Scenes from a Black trans life
  6. How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing

How to deal with difficult emotions

  1. How grief helped me become a better caregiver
  2. Why we should all try therapy
  3. The benefits of expressing your emotions (constructively)
  4. How to connect with depressed friends
  5. Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy
  6. How to tame your wandering mind

Editor's Picks

  1. How to revive your belief in democracy
  2. Why is colonialism (still) romanticized?
  3. Why people fall for misinformation
  4. How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it
  5. How caffeine and alcohol affect your sleep
  6. This decade calls for Earthshots to repair our planet

Take a (smart) break

  1. Why should you listen to Vivaldi's "Four Seasons"?
  2. The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface
  3. Zen kōans: unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain
  4. Architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders
  5. The fascinating physics of everyday life
  6. Who was the world's first author?

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. You are not alone in your loneliness
  2. A magical mantra for nurturing a blissful life
  3. Let's get honest about our money problems
  4. How forgiveness can create a more just legal system
  5. The profound power of an authentic apology
  6. Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved

About TED

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