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  2. LaToya Ruby Frazier A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
    A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
  3. Emma Belcher 3 questions we should ask about nuclear weapons
    3 questions we should ask about nuclear weapons

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  1. Why you should bring your whole self to work
  2. Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
  3. What moral decisions should driverless cars make?
  4. Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people
  5. A provocative way to finance the fight against climate change
  6. Why we need to rethink capitalism

Editors' picks

  1. What I learned from 100 days of rejection
  2. How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
  3. Are the Illuminati real?
  4. A love story for the coral reef crisis
  5. Our immigration conversation is broken -- here's how to have a better one
  6. Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work?

TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

  1. How does laser eye surgery work?
  2. Why sitting is bad for you
  3. Notes of a native son: the world according to James Baldwin
  4. How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
  5. A brie(f) history of cheese
  6. The myth of Loki and the master builder

Explore playlists

A TEDx guide to parenting

  1. Why most parenting advice is wrong
  2. How the Industrial Revolution changed childhood
  3. Why we need to stop stigmatizing mothers who do sex work
  4. What I've learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad
  5. What it's like to be a transgender dad
  6. How technology can reconnect parents and kids

Celebrating the gender spectrum

  1. A short history of trans people's long fight for equality
  2. The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain
  3. How to talk (and listen) to transgender people
  4. A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
  5. Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms
  6. A queer vision of love and marriage

Small thing, big idea — Designs that changed the world

  1. How the progress bar keeps you sane
  2. Why the pencil is perfect
  3. The 3,000-year history of the hoodie
  4. How the jump rope got its rhythm
  5. The genius of the London Tube Map
  6. The hidden ways stairs shape your life

Steer your career

  1. How to find work you love
  2. Why some of us don't have one true calling
  3. Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience
  4. Know your worth, and then ask for it
  5. How to speak up for yourself
  6. How to build (and rebuild) trust

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. What the discovery of gravitational waves means
  2. My stroke of insight
  3. The search for planets beyond our solar system
  4. What is so special about the human brain?
  5. A neural portrait of the human mind
  6. How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies

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.