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Newest Talks

  1. How work kept me going during my cancer treatment
  2. What I've learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad
  3. A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom
  4. Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers
  5. War and what comes after
  6. SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes

Trending

  1. How to use data to make a hit TV show
  2. Why we need to imagine different futures
  3. Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair
  4. When to take a stand -- and when to let it go
  5. How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
  6. The surprising math of cities and corporations

recommended today

  1. How to keep rivers and streams flowing
  2. The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
  3. How I brought a river, and my city, back to life
  4. Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!
  5. The boiling river of the Amazon
  6. How to make filthy water drinkable

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Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. Forget the pecking order at work
  2. The way we think about work is broken
  3. What makes us feel good about our work?
  4. Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
  5. For more wonder, rewild the world
  6. Life in Biosphere 2

TEDx fan favorites

  1. My philosophy for a happy life
  2. How to stop screwing yourself over
  3. What makes you special?
  4. Why you should quit social media
  5. Plus-size? More like my size
  6. Why people believe they can't draw

TED-Ed lessons: feed your curiosity

  1. A simple way to tell insects apart
  2. Why do cats act so weird?
  3. The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it)
  4. The science of skin color
  5. How playing an instrument benefits your brain
  6. What would happen if you didn't sleep?

lifelong learning

  1. The life-long learner
  2. How to get better at the things you care about
  3. 12 truths I learned from life and writing
  4. Why some of us don't have one true calling
  5. We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure
  6. Life's third act

and now ... a few bad ideas

  1. 3 ways to spot a bad statistic
  2. Battling bad science
  3. Why people believe weird things
  4. On being wrong
  5. Why we make bad decisions
  6. What I learned from 100 days of rejection

be an activist. start now

  1. The antidote to apathy
  2. Activism needs introverts
  3. How to make peace? Get angry
  4. Courage is contagious
  5. How protest is redefining democracy around the world
  6. How the US government spies on people who protest -- including you

deep space science

  1. How to take a picture of a black hole
  2. The hunt for a supermassive black hole
  3. How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
  4. The sound the universe makes
  5. Is our universe the only universe?
  6. Let's look for life in the outer solar system

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.