Newest Talks

  1. Andri Snær Magnason On time and water
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  2. Kedra Newsom Reeves How to reduce the wealth gap between Black and white Americans
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  3. Roman Krznaric How to be a good ancestor
    How to be a good ancestor

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  1. You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them
  2. To learn is to be free
  3. The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure
  4. Prepare for a good end of life
  5. How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life
  6. Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it

Highlights from Countdown

  1. Fossil fuel companies know how to stop global warming. Why don't they?
  2. The city planting a million trees in two years
  3. India's historic opportunity to industrialize using clean energy
  4. The case for stubborn optimism on climate
  5. The 15-minute city
  6. How to be a good ancestor

Discussed on tedcircles.com

  1. How to shift your mindset and choose your future
  2. Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
  3. The link between climate change, health and poverty
  4. How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming
  5. How to get better at the things you care about
  6. Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail

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Fight racism

  1. Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally
  2. How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it
  3. The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist
  4. The lie that invented racism
  5. Scenes from a Black trans life
  6. How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing

Lessons on schooling

  1. The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen
  2. Why schools should teach for the real world
  3. How schools should respond to COVID-19
  4. How game design can help schooling
  5. The case for reforming STEM education
  6. The real story of Rosa Parks -- and why we need to confront myths about Black history

Editors' picks

  1. How repaying loans with social service transforms communities
  2. An honest look at the personal finance crisis
  3. There's no such thing as not voting
  4. What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?
  5. Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy
  6. How bones make blood

Viruses & vaccines

  1. 5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet
  2. COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here's how to fix it
  3. Can light stop the coronavirus?
  4. How the pandemic will shape the near future
  5. New ways to understand life in a pandemic
  6. The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved
  2. Why rumors about vaccines spread -- and how to rebuild trust
  3. Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
  4. How to shift your mindset and choose your future
  5. The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"
  6. A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

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.