The little risks you can take to increase your luck
Tina Seelig / Educator
The danger of silence

TED Talk: A short, powerful piece about finding the courage to speak up against ignorance and injustice

The truth about lying

Playlist: Learn why people lie — and how to spot the truth

Newest Talks

  1. The little risks you can take to increase your luck
  2. How teachers can help kids find their political voices
  3. How AI can save our humanity
  4. You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it)
  5. You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies
  6. Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them

Trending

  1. Smash fear, learn anything
  2. How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard
  3. Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
  4. Why global jihad is losing
  5. Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
  6. The boost students need to overcome obstacles

Recommended today

  1. How to make hard choices
  2. The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico
  3. How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art
  4. Greening the ghetto
  5. The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care
  6. The economic injustice of plastic

Explore playlists

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. How much does a video weigh?
  2. Why we should trust scientists
  3. A call to reinvent liberal arts education
  4. Medical miracle on Everest
  5. What Bernie Madoff couldn't steal from me
  6. A boat carrying 500 refugees sunk at sea. The story of two survivors

TED-Ed lessons: feed your curiosity

  1. What would happen if you didn't sleep?
  2. Why does your voice change as you get older?
  3. Did ancient Troy really exist?
  4. How can you change someone's mind?
  5. The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman
  6. A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor

What is genius?

  1. The untapped genius that could change science for the better
  2. The linguistic genius of babies
  3. Your elusive creative genius
  4. The deadly genius of drug cartels
  5. The emergent genius of ant colonies
  6. The gentle genius of bonobos

Explore philosophy

  1. Philosophy in prison
  2. How do you explain consciousness?
  3. How to make hard choices
  4. A kinder, gentler philosophy of success
  5. Why does the universe exist?
  6. For argument's sake

Our brains: predictably irrational

  1. Why people believe weird things
  2. The optimism bias
  3. Beware conflicts of interest
  4. The paradox of choice
  5. The art of choosing
  6. The riddle of experience vs. memory

Powerful art activism

  1. Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth
  2. Turning powerful stats into art
  3. Art made of the air we breathe
  4. How art gives shape to cultural change
  5. A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
  6. Enough with the fear of fat

Be a better photographer

  1. Photographing the landscape of oil
  2. America's native prisoners of war
  3. The story of life in photographs
  4. Photographs of secret sites
  5. How photography connects us
  6. How your pictures can help reclaim lost history

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.