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Tzeporah Berman

The global treaty to phase out fossil fuels

13 minutes 34 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Jenna C. Lester

The first step towards more inclusive dermatology

5 minutes 40 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Hrishikesh Hirway

What you discover when you really listen

15 minutes 13 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Monica Araya

The billion-dollar campaign to electrify transport

11 minutes 30 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Melati Wijsen

A roadmap for young changemakers

8 minutes 2 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Cindy Solomon

5 tips for dealing with meeting overload

5 minutes 8 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Steven Johnson

How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century

13 minutes 49 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Charlotte Degot

A more accurate way to calculate emissions

9 minutes 25 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Mads Tang-Christensen

The brain science of obesity

9 minutes 49 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Kayvon Tehranian

How NFTs are building the internet of the future

9 minutes 37 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Amber Hikes

Want to truly succeed? Lift others up while you climb

5 minutes 33 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Lizzo

The Black history of twerking -- and how it taught me self-love

13 minutes 50 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Olivia Affuso

3 ways community creates a healthy life

9 minutes 9 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Karoli Hindriks

Why the passport needs an upgrade

10 minutes 10 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Rebecca Galemba

How employers steal from workers -- and get away with it

9 minutes 38 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Ashley Whillans

3 rules for better work-life balance

5 minutes 6 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Nabiha Saklayen

Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells?

10 minutes 30 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Wendy MacNaughton

The art of paying attention

13 minutes 19 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
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Latif Nasser

The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief

13 minutes 51 seconds
Alec Soth and Stacey Baker

This is what enduring love looks like

10 minutes 18 seconds
Andrew Dent

To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift

10 minutes 34 seconds
Frank Warren

Half a million secrets

11 minutes 24 seconds
George Blair-West

3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce

11 minutes 13 seconds
Valarie Kaur

3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage

22 minutes 12 seconds
William Kamkwamba

How I built a windmill

4 minutes 12 seconds
Gordon Brown

Global ethic vs. national interest

17 minutes 10 seconds
Nancy Kanwisher

A neural portrait of the human mind

17 minutes 40 seconds
David Kelley

How to build your creative confidence

11 minutes 46 seconds
Michael Sandel

The tyranny of merit

8 minutes 47 seconds
Eric Liu

Why ordinary people need to understand power

17 minutes 15 seconds
William Kamkwamba

How I harnessed the wind

5 minutes 59 seconds
David Kelley

Human-centered design

17 minutes
Nitish Padmanaban

Autofocusing reading glasses of the future

6 minutes 51 seconds
VS Ramachandran

3 clues to understanding your brain

23 minutes 34 seconds
Rutger Bregman

Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash

14 minutes 58 seconds
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Boost your team's productivity

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Patrick Lencioni

Are you an ideal team player?

14 minutes 38 seconds
Jim Tamm

First step to collaboration? Don't be so defensive!

15 minutes 17 seconds
Natalie Fratto

3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it

6 minutes 31 seconds
Leah Georges

How generational stereotypes hold us back at work

11 minutes 35 seconds
Diane Allen

How to find "flow" (and lose yourself in it)

13 minutes 3 seconds
monday.com

Relief to recovery

3 minutes 4 seconds
Amy Edmondson

How to turn a group of strangers into a team

13 minutes 7 seconds

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Christiana Figueres

The case for stubborn optimism on climate

7 minutes 56 seconds
Tali Sharot

The optimism bias

17 minutes 40 seconds
Shameran Abed

4 steps to ending extreme poverty

7 minutes 9 seconds
Manoush Zomorodi

How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas

16 minutes 13 seconds
Steven Pinker

Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers

18 minutes 32 seconds
Ethan Hawke

Give yourself permission to be creative

9 minutes 16 seconds
Christopher Robichaud

How I used Dungeons & Dragons to teach ethics

18 minutes 25 seconds
Theaster Gates

How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art

16 minutes 52 seconds
Julia Galef

Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong

11 minutes 37 seconds
Robert Sapolsky

The biology of our best and worst selves

15 minutes 51 seconds
Chetan Bhatt

Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are

19 minutes 16 seconds
Laurie Santos

A monkey economy as irrational as ours

19 minutes 45 seconds
Betty Hart

How compassion could save your strained relationships

11 minutes 3 seconds
Julia Dhar

How to disagree productively and find common ground

14 minutes 56 seconds
Jonas Gahr Støre

In defense of dialogue

14 minutes 58 seconds
Isabel Behncke

Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans

7 minutes 1 second
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TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

Brian A. Pavlac

What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials

5 minutes 10 seconds
Keith Eggener

The fascinating history of cemeteries

5 minutes 13 seconds
Scott Peeples

Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?

4 minutes 53 seconds
Dan Adams

A brief history of goths

5 minutes 16 seconds
Silvia Moreno-García

Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft

4 minutes 31 seconds
Mel Rosenberg

What causes cavities?

4 minutes 45 seconds
Ami Angelowicz

The terrors of sleep paralysis

4 minutes 34 seconds
Dan Finkel

Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle?

3 minutes 33 seconds
Brian A. Pavlac

Ugly History: Witch Hunts

5 minutes 5 seconds
Nicole Avena

How sugar affects the brain

4 minutes 48 seconds
Alex Gendler

Why should you read "Crime and Punishment"?

4 minutes 25 seconds
Gerd Gigerenzer

Why do people fear the wrong things?

4 minutes 21 seconds
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Editor's Picks

Lizzo

The Black history of twerking -- and how it taught me self-love

13 minutes 50 seconds
Nicole Maines

The trans story includes you

13 minutes 16 seconds
Adam Grant

How to stop languishing and start finding flow

16 minutes
Nancy N. Chen

The inaccurate link between body ideals and health

9 minutes 34 seconds
Wendy MacNaughton

The art of paying attention

13 minutes 19 seconds
Liam Young

Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

9 minutes 52 seconds
Jamie C. Beard

The untapped energy source that could power the planet

15 minutes 6 seconds
Olivia Affuso

3 ways community creates a healthy life

9 minutes 9 seconds
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Secrets to understanding life

John Doerr

Why the secret to success is setting the right goals

11 minutes 51 seconds
Tanya Menon

The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet

14 minutes 6 seconds
Roger Antonsen

Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world

17 minutes 4 seconds
Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard

The secret language of trees

4 minutes 18 seconds
Susan Pinker

The secret to living longer may be your social life

16 minutes 2 seconds
Phil Plait

The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes

11 minutes 8 seconds
Shawn Achor

The happy secret to better work

12 minutes 20 seconds
Esther Perel

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

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Tony Fadell

The first secret of design is ... noticing

16 minutes 41 seconds
Chris Anderson

TED's secret to great public speaking

7 minutes 55 seconds
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Flow, the secret to happiness

18 minutes 55 seconds
Molly Winter

The taboo secret to better health

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Richard St. John

8 secrets of success

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Food for thought

Sean Sherman

Why aren't there more Native American restaurants?

18 minutes 7 seconds
Aparna Pallavi

What foods did your ancestors love?

14 minutes 40 seconds
Germán Santillán

A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition

5 minutes 58 seconds
Jen Gunter

A cleanse won't detox your body -- but here's what will

4 minutes 42 seconds
Jonathan J. O'Sullivan and Grace E. Cunningham

Which type of milk is best for you?

5 minutes 5 seconds
Cedric Habiyaremye

How quinoa can help combat hunger and malnutrition

6 minutes 42 seconds
Amanda Little

Climate change is becoming a problem you can taste

12 minutes 16 seconds
Eric Sannerud

Without farmers, you'd be hungry, naked and sober

9 minutes 1 second
Carolyn Freiwald

The hidden history found in your teeth

10 minutes 49 seconds
Paola Antonelli

Why pasta comes in all shapes and sizes

3 minutes 23 seconds
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Meet the TED Audio Collective

WorkLife with Adam Grant

The real reason you procrastinate

36 minutes 22 seconds
Far Flung

An Indigenous Mixtape from Lima, Peru

46 minutes 18 seconds
The TED Interview

Michael Tubbs on politics as a force for good

50 minutes 57 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
Conversations with People Who Hate Me

The Trans Ban

31 minutes 53 seconds
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Heard on TED Radio Hour

Shari Davis

What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds?

10 minutes 28 seconds
Eli Pariser

What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?

17 minutes 6 seconds
Jimmy Wales

The birth of Wikipedia

20 minutes 1 second
Matthew Mazzotta

Playful, wondrous public spaces built for community and possibility

4 minutes 49 seconds
Emily Quinn

The way we think about biological sex is wrong

14 minutes 1 second
Molly Webster

The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"

13 minutes 34 seconds
Lisa Mosconi

How menopause affects the brain

13 minutes 4 seconds
Karissa Sanbonmatsu

The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain

12 minutes 52 seconds
Michael Murphy

Architecture that's built to heal

15 minutes 38 seconds
David Byrne

How architecture helped music evolve

16 minutes
Es Devlin

Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology

16 minutes 52 seconds
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How do you build a sacred space?

12 minutes 46 seconds

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