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Hongqiao Liu

Can China achieve its ambitious climate pledges?

9 minutes 17 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Mona Chalabi

Do 9 out of 10 dentists really recommend that toothpaste?

2 minutes 41 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Kim Scott and Trier Bryant

How to reduce bias in your workplace

5 minutes 48 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Debbie Lovich

3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right

12 minutes 13 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Tanya Berger-Wolf

How your nature photos can help protect wild animals

9 minutes 25 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Chris Bennett

A close-to-home solution for accessible childcare

9 minutes 2 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Mona Chalabi

What makes a friendship last?

3 minutes 36 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Solomon Goldstein-Rose

How much clean electricity do we really need?

9 minutes 46 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Isha Datar

How we could eat real meat without harming animals

12 minutes 40 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Mona Chalabi

How long does it take to get over a breakup?

3 minutes 35 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
Shu Matsuo Post

Why paternity leave benefits everyone

5 minutes 44 seconds
Posted Oct 2021
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
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Trending

Anna Babel

Who counts as a speaker of a language?

10 minutes 55 seconds
Amy C. Edmondson

How to lead in a crisis

4 minutes 34 seconds
Nirupa Rao

An illustrated kingdom of real, fantastical plants

8 minutes 54 seconds
Michele Wucker

Why we ignore obvious problems -- and how to act on them

10 minutes 5 seconds
Sophie Rose

How COVID-19 human challenge trials work -- and why I volunteered

6 minutes 34 seconds
Talithia Williams

Own your body's data

17 minutes 3 seconds
Jennifer Wilcox

A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

14 minutes 15 seconds
Moshe Safdie

How to reinvent the apartment building

5 minutes 46 seconds
Paco de Leon

The secret to being a successful freelancer

3 minutes 52 seconds
Al Gore

The new urgency of climate change

56 minutes 45 seconds
Laura Rovner

What happens to people in solitary confinement

12 minutes 7 seconds
Mandë Holford

The power of venom -- and how it could one day save your life

9 minutes 16 seconds
Emily Levesque

A stellar history of modern astronomy

15 minutes 20 seconds
Nora McInerny

We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it

15 minutes 5 seconds
Sharon Weinberger

Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech

11 minutes 23 seconds
A.J. Jacobs

My year of living biblically

17 minutes 40 seconds
Meera Vijayann

Find your voice against gender violence

13 minutes 58 seconds
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An essential guide to start-up success

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Bill Gross

The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed

6 minutes 40 seconds
Dame Vivian Hunt

How businesses can serve everyone, not just shareholders

13 minutes 53 seconds
Ashwini Anburajan

How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital

6 minutes 38 seconds
Anu Puusa

The case for co-ops, the invisible giant of the economy

11 minutes 45 seconds
Amane Dannouni

How online marketplaces can help local economies, not hurt them

12 minutes 27 seconds
The Hartford

The small business hustle

2 minutes 58 seconds
Sylvain Duranton

How humans and AI can work together to create better businesses

14 minutes 10 seconds
Martin Reeves

How to build a business that lasts 100 years

14 minutes 54 seconds
Ray Dalio

How to build a company where the best ideas win

16 minutes 33 seconds
Marcos Aguiar

7 tools for building a business people trust

12 minutes 44 seconds
Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper

The best career path isn't always a straight line

9 minutes 27 seconds

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Discussed on tedcircles.com

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

Anil Seth

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality

17 minutes 1 second
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

19 minutes 10 seconds
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

12 minutes 21 seconds
Richard St. John

8 secrets of success

3 minutes 30 seconds

Join us October 30 for the Countdown Global Livestream

Watch the Countdown Global Livestream, an empowering call to action on climate change, live Saturday, October 30, 2021 at 12pm ET at YouTube.com/TED

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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
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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
Siamak Hariri

How do you build a sacred space?

12 minutes 46 seconds

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