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Newest Talks

Alex Smith

An NFL quarterback on overcoming setbacks and self-doubt

14 minutes 9 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Nicole Maines

The trans story includes you

13 minutes 16 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Nancy N. Chen

The inaccurate link between body ideals and health

9 minutes 34 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Alicia Chong Rodriguez

A smart bra for better heart health

5 minutes 59 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Katie Mack

Life-altering questions about the end of the universe

15 minutes 37 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Stephanie Kelton

The big myth of government deficits

13 minutes 59 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Chen Qiufan

A sci-fi vision of life in 2041

8 minutes 2 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Adam Grant

How to stop languishing and start finding flow

16 minutes
Posted Sep 2021
Susan Graham

A new way to restore Earth's biodiversity -- from the air

2 minutes 22 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Climate Action Tracker

The state of the climate crisis in 2021

5 minutes 32 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Germán Santillán

A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition

5 minutes 58 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Steven Sharp Nelson

How music can help you find peace after loss

13 minutes 59 seconds
Posted Aug 2021
Freeman H. Shen

A future with fewer cars

6 minutes 57 seconds
Posted Aug 2021
Amir Nizar Zuabi

Walk with Little Amal, a theatrical journey celebrating the refugee experience

9 minutes 28 seconds
Posted Aug 2021
Kevin J. Krizek

How COVID-19 reshaped US cities

9 minutes 41 seconds
Posted Aug 2021
Ma Jun

An interactive map to track (and end) pollution in China

11 minutes 51 seconds
Posted Aug 2021
Jim Chuchu

Why are stolen African artifacts still in Western museums?

5 minutes 1 second
Posted Aug 2021
Clara Sousa-Silva

The fingerprints of life beyond Earth

7 minutes 58 seconds
Posted Aug 2021
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Jen Gunter

Can you actually boost your immune system? Here's the truth

5 minutes 6 seconds
Jen Gunter

Why healthy bones are about so much more than milk

3 minutes 35 seconds
Michele L. Sullivan

Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness

11 minutes 55 seconds
Jen Gunter

What's normal anxiety -- and what's an anxiety disorder?

5 minutes 10 seconds
Jen Gunter

What really happens to your body during menopause

5 minutes 2 seconds
Jen Gunter

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

4 minutes 42 seconds
Jen Gunter

Why you shouldn't worry about pooping once a day

4 minutes 11 seconds
Elizabeth Lesser

Say your truths and seek them in others

15 minutes 44 seconds
Joshua Prager

In search of the man who broke my neck

18 minutes 30 seconds
Russell Wilson

My secret to staying focused under pressure

6 minutes 11 seconds
Lux Narayan

What I learned from 2,000 obituaries

6 minutes 8 seconds
Jen Gunter

Why you don't need 8 glasses of water a day

4 minutes 21 seconds
Alberto Cairo

There are no scraps of men

19 minutes 2 seconds
Ebony Roberts and Shaka Senghor

How to co-parent as allies, not adversaries

14 minutes 7 seconds
Anna Piperal

What a digital government looks like

13 minutes 53 seconds
Matt Trombley

The beauty and complexity of finding common ground

14 minutes
Danielle Allen

An ethical plan for ending the pandemic and restarting the economy

50 minutes 7 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
Amy Edmondson

How to turn a group of strangers into a team

13 minutes 7 seconds

3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer

Sharing insights from his work on hits like "Hamilton" and "Dear Evan Hansen," David Korins offers a three-step process to start designing and creating the world you want to live in

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Discussed on tedcircles.com

Manoush Zomorodi

How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas

16 minutes 13 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
Talithia Williams

Own your body's data

17 minutes 3 seconds
Aimee Mullins

My 12 pairs of legs

9 minutes 58 seconds
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars

15 minutes 34 seconds
D-L Stewart

Scenes from a Black trans life

15 minutes 19 seconds
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TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja

History's deadliest king

5 minutes 38 seconds
Armand D'Angour

The ancient origins of the Olympics

3 minutes 4 seconds
Robert Chang

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

5 minutes 39 seconds
Richard Coffin

What causes an economic recession?

4 minutes 48 seconds
Stefan Al

Could we build a wooden skyscraper?

4 minutes 37 seconds
Michael S.A. Graziano

How close are we to uploading our minds?

4 minutes 46 seconds
Lukas Rieppel

The most notorious scientific feud in history

5 minutes 13 seconds
Emma Bryce

How does the immune system work?

5 minutes 8 seconds
Iseult Gillespie

How one person saved over 2,000 children from the Nazis

5 minutes 37 seconds
Eden Girma

The mysterious life and death of Rasputin

4 minutes 52 seconds
Luis Zambrano

These salamanders snack on each other (but don't die)

5 minutes 2 seconds
Ron Shaneyfelt

Is space trying to kill us?

3 minutes 16 seconds
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Know your body? Think again

Jen Gunter

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

4 minutes 42 seconds
Jen Gunter

Why you don't need 8 glasses of water a day

4 minutes 21 seconds
Jen Gunter

Why you shouldn't worry about pooping once a day

4 minutes 11 seconds
Jen Gunter

What really happens to your body during menopause

5 minutes 2 seconds
Jen Gunter

Can you actually boost your immune system? Here's the truth

5 minutes 6 seconds
Jen Gunter

5 skin health myths to stop believing now

5 minutes 50 seconds
Jen Gunter

What's normal anxiety -- and what's an anxiety disorder?

5 minutes 10 seconds
Jen Gunter

Why healthy bones are about so much more than milk

3 minutes 35 seconds
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For food lovers

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
Sean Sherman

Why aren't there more Native American restaurants?

18 minutes 7 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

Expand your circle, connect with people across the world

How do you tap into your imagination? Throughout September, we explore this question in face-to-face, small group conversations through TED Circles

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Editor's Picks

Lucy Hone

3 secrets of resilient people

16 minutes 5 seconds
Molly Wright

How every child can thrive by five

7 minutes 38 seconds
Jim Chuchu

Why are stolen African artifacts still in Western museums?

5 minutes 1 second
Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci

Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution

24 minutes 50 seconds
Miracle Jones

The radical, revolutionary resilience of Black joy

11 minutes 43 seconds
Dominic Price

What's your happiness score?

14 minutes 46 seconds
Loretta J. Ross

Don't call people out -- call them in

14 minutes 14 seconds
Ma Jun

An interactive map to track (and end) pollution in China

11 minutes 51 seconds
Yuko Munakata

The science behind how parents affect child development

17 minutes 7 seconds
Alexander MacDonald

How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight

13 minutes 15 seconds
Meg Jay

Essential questions to ask your future self

10 minutes 16 seconds
Dan Pallotta

The way we think about charity is dead wrong

18 minutes 54 seconds
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Keep your brain healthy

Daniel Levitin

How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

12 minutes 20 seconds
Guy Winch

Why we all need to practice emotional first aid

17 minutes 24 seconds
Lisa Genova

How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK

22 minutes 25 seconds
Sophie Scott

Why we laugh

17 minutes 4 seconds
Wendy Suzuki

The brain-changing benefits of exercise

13 minutes 2 seconds
Mia Nacamulli

How the food you eat affects your brain

4 minutes 37 seconds
Matt Walker

Sleep is your superpower

19 minutes 18 seconds
Judson Brewer

A simple way to break a bad habit

9 minutes 24 seconds
Dan Gartenberg

The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it

6 minutes 37 seconds
Jocelyne Bloch

The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help

11 minutes 34 seconds
Sam Kass

Want kids to learn well? Feed them well

12 minutes 8 seconds
Nikki Webber Allen

Don't suffer from your depression in silence

6 minutes 35 seconds
Mia Nacamulli

The benefits of a bilingual brain

4 minutes 48 seconds
Anita Collins

How playing an instrument benefits your brain

4 minutes 29 seconds
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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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