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Happy Father's Day! Let's celebrate some sweet dads

Playlist: Beautiful talks by wonderful fathers and the children who love them

Newest Talks

  1. Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
  2. How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village
  3. The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots
  4. How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI
  5. What we'll learn about the brain in the next century
  6. The journey through loss and grief

Trending

  1. A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo
  2. The battle between your present and future self
  3. How to use a paper towel
  4. The lost art of letter-writing
  5. Enough with the fear of fat
  6. How to tie your shoes

Recommended today

  1. Nature is everywhere -- we just need to learn to see it
  2. How to grow a forest in your backyard
  3. A plant's-eye view
  4. How to grow fresh air
  5. For more wonder, rewild the world
  6. The world's oldest living things

Explore playlists

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. A broken body isn't a broken person
  2. Confessions of a bad feminist
  3. Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local
  4. How to talk (and listen) to transgender people
  5. How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for
  6. How the teddy bear taught us compassion

TED-Ed lessons: feed your curiosity

  1. Can you solve the giant cat army riddle?
  2. What causes insomnia?
  3. The Irish myth of the Giant's Causeway
  4. What is bipolar disorder?
  5. A simple way to tell insects apart
  6. The benefits of a bilingual brain

across the political spectrum

  1. America's forgotten working class
  2. A conservative's plea: Let's work together
  3. Political common ground in a polarized United States
  4. How our friendship survives our opposing politics
  5. The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
  6. Political change with pen and paper

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

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

Your digital privacy: global perspectives from TEDx

  1. How data brokers sell your identity
  2. Why we must protect the digital rights of children
  3. The surveillance device you carry around all day
  4. Using corporate data to improve our lives
  5. Do we really own our bodies?
  6. Your social media "likes" expose more than you think

A little bit sexy

  1. 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
  2. What we learn from insects' sex lives
  3. Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
  4. The birds and the bees are just the beginning
  5. How a dead duck changed my life
  6. The loves and lies of fireflies

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