Newest Talks

  1. Heidi Larson Rumors, trust and vaccines
    Rumors, trust and vaccines
  2. Dallas Taylor What silence can teach you about sound
    What silence can teach you about sound
  3. Matt Walker How sleep affects your emotions
    How sleep affects your emotions

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  1. My year of living biblically
  2. How healthy living nearly killed me
  3. Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong
  4. A 30-year history of the future
  5. How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes
  6. The most Martian place on Earth

Sleeping with science

  1. A walk through the stages of sleep
  2. How caffeine and alcohol affect your sleep
  3. Hacking your memory -- with sleep
  4. What's the connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease?
  5. How sleep affects your emotions
  6. Innovations in sleep

Fight racism

  1. Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally
  2. The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist
  3. Scenes from a Black trans life
  4. A blueprint for reparations in the US
  5. Racism has a cost for everyone
  6. The path to ending systemic racism in the US

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TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

  1. What would happen if you didn't sleep?
  2. The greatest mathematician that never lived
  3. What is bipolar disorder?
  4. What makes TB the world's most infectious killer?
  5. The genius of Marie Curie
  6. How does laser eye surgery work?

Editors' picks

  1. How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany
  2. Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them
  3. What do all languages have in common?
  4. How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person
  5. What yoga does to your body and brain
  6. Stop being a bystander in your own life

Justice by (re)design

  1. Why immigration prisons aren't the answer
  2. The dangers of algorithmic justice
  3. Designing for justice
  4. Community-powered criminal justice reform
  5. The case for restorative justice in juvenile courts
  6. The injustice of "policing for profit" -- and how to end it

Keep your brain healthy

  1. The brain-changing benefits of exercise
  2. Sleep is your superpower
  3. What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's
  4. Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
  5. The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it
  6. Why we laugh

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. You are not alone in your loneliness
  2. The secret to living longer may be your social life
  3. How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)
  4. What almost dying taught me about living
  5. What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
  6. What reading slowly taught me about writing

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.