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John C. Mather

How the James Webb Space Telescope will unfold the universe

8 minutes 47 seconds
Kathryn Kolbert

The end of Roe v. Wade -- and what comes next for reproductive freedom

16 minutes 51 seconds
Cordae

How a "Hi Level" mindset helps you realize your potential

12 minutes 43 seconds
Yuval Noah Harari

The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown

10 minutes 25 seconds
Gina Gutierrez

The relationship between sex and imagination

9 minutes 6 seconds
Bevy Smith

How to discover your authentic self -- at any age

15 minutes 9 seconds
Tom Oxley

A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text

12 minutes 41 seconds
Bryce Dallas Howard

How to preserve your private life in the age of social media

9 minutes 52 seconds
Bill Gates

We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic

14 minutes 47 seconds
Mary Ziegler, Loretta J. Ross, Erika Bachiochi, Joshua Prager

The future of US reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade

1 hour 2 minutes 47 seconds
Julieanna L. Richardson

The mission to safeguard Black history in the US

15 minutes 13 seconds
Agnes Larsson

The awesome potential of many metaverses

12 minutes 34 seconds
Alexis Nikole Nelson

A flavorful field guide to foraging

12 minutes 26 seconds
Tzeporah Berman

The bad math of the fossil fuel industry

13 minutes 20 seconds
Allyson Felix

An Olympic champion's mindset for overcoming fear

9 minutes 17 seconds
Bektour Iskender

The crime-fighting power of cross-border investigative journalism

9 minutes 18 seconds
Zoya Lytvyn

Ukraine's fight to keep educating its children

7 minutes
Garry Kasparov

Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil

15 minutes 2 seconds
Melissa J. Moore

How mRNA medicine will change the world

18 minutes 3 seconds
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Eleni Myrivili

A 3-part plan to take on extreme heat waves

14 minutes 34 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Platon

Stories of photographing monumental people -- from Michelle Obama to Stephen Hawking

18 minutes 31 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Andrea Driessen

The profound power of gratitude and "living eulogies"

12 minutes 43 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Parag Khanna

Where on Earth will people live in the future?

18 minutes 46 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Zahra Biabani

The eco-creators helping the climate through social media

9 minutes 30 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

How we could solve the dark matter mystery

14 minutes 55 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Samir Ibrahim, MyVerse and Kristen Warren

How hip-hop can make climate action cool

8 minutes 39 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Jim VandeHei

How to write less but say more

15 minutes 6 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Safi Rauf

My 105 days in Taliban prison -- and a call to aid Afghanistan

10 minutes 25 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Michael Schur

How ethics can help you make better decisions

11 minutes 30 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Thomas Heatherwick

The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings

15 minutes 33 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Olga Kitaina

How to alter the perception of mental health care in Russia

5 minutes 37 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Alison Killing

How data-driven journalism illuminates patterns of injustice

12 minutes 43 seconds
Posted Jul 2022
Olivia Lazard

The blind spots of the green energy transition

18 minutes 1 second
Posted Jun 2022
Ali Noorani

The humans at the center of the US immigration debate

12 minutes 3 seconds
Posted Jun 2022
Jane Zelikova

Why healthy soil matters now more than ever

10 minutes 2 seconds
Posted Jun 2022
Gillian Tett

An invitation to reexamine your familiar world

12 minutes 54 seconds
Posted Jun 2022
JR

Why art is a tool for hope

16 minutes 47 seconds
Posted Jun 2022
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Joshua Prager

Wisdom from great writers on every year of life

5 minutes 52 seconds
Dan Dennett

The illusion of consciousness

21 minutes 34 seconds
Zak Ebrahim

I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace.

9 minutes
Mike Cannon-Brookes

How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit

13 minutes 33 seconds
Elizabeth Gilbert

Success, failure and the drive to keep creating

7 minutes 4 seconds
Mark Bezos

A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter

3 minutes 50 seconds
Ric Elias

3 things I learned while my plane crashed

4 minutes 45 seconds
Yaël Eisenstat

Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy

13 minutes 20 seconds
Susan David

How to be your best self in times of crisis

45 minutes 53 seconds
Rosie King

How autism freed me to be myself

5 minutes 59 seconds
Elizabeth Lesser

Take "the Other" to lunch

10 minutes 51 seconds
Dan Ariely

Beware conflicts of interest

5 minutes 18 seconds
Taiye Selasi

Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local

15 minutes 54 seconds
Lidia Yuknavitch

The beauty of being a misfit

12 minutes 48 seconds
Kathryn Schulz

Don't regret regret

16 minutes 34 seconds
Steven Pinker

What our language habits reveal

17 minutes 15 seconds
Arianna Huffington

How to succeed? Get more sleep

3 minutes 53 seconds

The hidden tapes that saved a piece of history

It’s 1988 and in Hargeisa, staff at the city’s radio station are packing cassettes into a secret underground bunker. What's on them? A slice of Somalia’s heritage, to remain for years in an underground room -- until now.

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Countdown: Take action on climate

James Irungu Mwangi

Africa's great carbon valley -- and how to end energy poverty

14 minutes 16 seconds
Tzeporah Berman

The bad math of the fossil fuel industry

13 minutes 20 seconds
Yuval Noah Harari

The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown

10 minutes 25 seconds
Vera Songwe

The African swamp protecting Earth's environment

6 minutes 55 seconds
Ryah Whalen

3 ways to make flying more climate-friendly

9 minutes 17 seconds
Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah

The tragedy of air pollution -- and an urgent demand for clean air

8 minutes 11 seconds
Ozawa Bineshi Albert

Climate action needs new frontline leadership

13 minutes 58 seconds
Olivia Lazard

The blind spots of the green energy transition

18 minutes 1 second
Nonette Royo

Why Indigenous forest guardianship is crucial to climate action

8 minutes 57 seconds
Solitaire Townsend

Are ad agencies, PR firms and lobbyists destroying the climate?

9 minutes 44 seconds
Dan Jørgensen

How wind energy could power Earth ... 18 times over

10 minutes 57 seconds
Selina Neirok Leem

Climate change isn't a distant threat -- it's our reality

6 minutes 10 seconds
Ermias Kebreab

What seaweed and cow burps have to do with climate change

9 minutes 9 seconds
Sathya Raghu Mokkapati

The "greenhouse-in-a-box" empowering farmers in India

8 minutes 39 seconds
Rachel Kyte

Sustainable cooling that doesn't warm the planet

10 minutes 28 seconds
Maria Gallucci

The carbonless fuel that could change how we ship goods

7 minutes 27 seconds
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Understanding Ukraine

Zoya Lytvyn

Ukraine's fight to keep educating its children

7 minutes
Garry Kasparov

Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil

15 minutes 2 seconds
Yuval Noah Harari

The war in Ukraine could change everything

49 minutes 37 seconds
Ian Bremmer

War in Ukraine -- and what it means for the world order

49 minutes 12 seconds
Emma Belcher

Nuclear threat and the war in Ukraine

11 minutes 42 seconds
Aala El-Khani

What it's like to be a parent in a war zone

14 minutes 6 seconds
Benedetta Berti and Evelien Borgman

What does it mean to be a refugee?

5 minutes 27 seconds
R. Alan Brooks

When the world is burning, is art a waste of time?

12 minutes 34 seconds
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

How to be fearless in the face of authoritarianism

5 minutes 34 seconds
Olga Yurkova

Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire

5 minutes 6 seconds
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TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

Brendan Constantine

The Opposites Game

4 minutes 25 seconds
Courtney Stephens

A brief history of melancholy

5 minutes 14 seconds
Jonathan Smith

Does trickle-down economics actually work?

4 minutes 20 seconds
Nick Pizzo

The physics of surfing

4 minutes 20 seconds
Joelle Rabow Maletis

The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder

4 minutes 55 seconds
Mia Nacamulli

Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut?

5 minutes 4 seconds
Anees Bahji

Why are eating disorders so hard to treat?

4 minutes 32 seconds
Diana Sierra Becerra

The rebel radio that brought down a war criminal

5 minutes 39 seconds
Fabio Pacucci

Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole?

4 minutes 43 seconds
Emma Bryce

Why do we itch?

4 minutes 29 seconds
Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi

The mathematical secrets of Pascal's triangle

4 minutes 34 seconds
Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler

What "Machiavellian" really means

4 minutes 51 seconds
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Heard on TED Radio Hour

Danielle Citron

How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy

13 minutes 7 seconds
Andrew Marantz

Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists

14 minutes 26 seconds
Joy Buolamwini

How I'm fighting bias in algorithms

8 minutes 34 seconds
Jill Heinerth

The mysterious world of underwater caves

6 minutes 39 seconds
Katrina Spade

When I die, recompose me

12 minutes 47 seconds
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

A climate change solution that's right under our feet

13 minutes 32 seconds
Nizar Ibrahim

How we unearthed the Spinosaurus

5 minutes 52 seconds
Carolyn Freiwald

The hidden history found in your teeth

10 minutes 39 seconds
Isabel Wilkerson

The Great Migration and the power of a single decision

17 minutes 45 seconds
Maeve Higgins

Why the "good immigrant" is a bad narrative

9 minutes 48 seconds
Celeste Headlee

10 ways to have a better conversation

11 minutes 20 seconds
Jacob Collier

A one-man musical phenomenon

15 minutes 4 seconds
Yana Buhrer Tavanier

How to recover from activism burnout

7 minutes 46 seconds
Stuart Duncan

How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism

10 minutes 46 seconds
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Keep your brain healthy

Daniel Levitin

How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

12 minutes 10 seconds
Judson Brewer

A simple way to break a bad habit

9 minutes 14 seconds
Anita Collins

How playing an instrument benefits your brain

4 minutes 29 seconds
Jocelyne Bloch

The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help

11 minutes 25 seconds
Guy Winch

Why we all need to practice emotional first aid

17 minutes 14 seconds
Mia Nacamulli

The benefits of a bilingual brain

4 minutes 48 seconds
Lisa Genova

How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK

22 minutes 16 seconds
Sophie Scott

Why we laugh

16 minutes 55 seconds
Wendy Suzuki

The brain-changing benefits of exercise

12 minutes 53 seconds
Mia Nacamulli

How the food you eat affects your brain

4 minutes 37 seconds
Matt Walker

Sleep is your superpower

19 minutes 8 seconds
Dan Gartenberg

The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it

6 minutes 27 seconds
Sam Kass

Want kids to learn well? Feed them well

11 minutes 58 seconds
Nikki Webber Allen

Don't suffer from your depression in silence

6 minutes 25 seconds
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Work smarter with TED@Work

Morra Aarons-Mele

3 steps to stop remote work burnout

4 minutes 9 seconds
Douglas Rushkoff

How to be "Team Human" in the digital future

12 minutes 13 seconds
Debbie Lovich

3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right

12 minutes 4 seconds
Margaret Heffernan

The human skills we need in an unpredictable world

15 minutes 43 seconds
Patty McCord

4 lessons the pandemic taught us about work, life and balance

7 minutes 40 seconds
Linda Hill

How to manage for collective creativity

17 minutes 7 seconds
Martin Danoesastro

What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?

13 minutes 2 seconds
Jodi-Ann Burey

The myth of bringing your full, authentic self to work

15 minutes 22 seconds
Betsy Kauffman

4 tips to kickstart honest conversations at work

9 minutes 18 seconds
Shawn Achor

The happy secret to better work

12 minutes 3 seconds
Charlie Jane Anders

Go ahead, dream about the future

11 minutes 45 seconds
Tim Harford

Trial, error and the God complex

17 minutes 49 seconds
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Meet the TED Audio Collective

Far Flung

Oberammergau

47 minutes 30 seconds
How to Be a Better Human

How to challenge conventional wisdom -- and change any industry

27 minutes 29 seconds
The TED Interview

How to turn grit into a lifelong habit | Angela Duckworth

1 hour 12 seconds
TED Audio Collective

Introducing Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

2 minutes 10 seconds
WorkLife with Adam Grant

The real reason you procrastinate

36 minutes 22 seconds
Conversations with People Who Hate Me

The Trans Ban

31 minutes 53 seconds
WorkLife with Adam Grant

The Daily Show's secret to creativity

33 minutes 44 seconds
TED Business

How we can actually pay people enough -- with Paypal CEO Dan Schulman

20 minutes 42 seconds
TEDx SHORTS

What your sleep patterns say about your relationship

9 minutes 20 seconds
ZigZag

A stock market for social justice

38 minutes 59 seconds
Design Matters

Brené Brown

50 minutes 51 seconds

About TED

TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.