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Wendy MacNaughton

How drawing invites authentic connection

13 minutes 19 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Ryan Phelan

The genetic rescue of Earth's endangered species

15 minutes 44 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Richard Wilkinson

The link between inequality and anxiety

8 minutes 30 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Liam Young

Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future

9 minutes 52 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
Jamie C. Beard

The untapped energy source that could power the planet

15 minutes 6 seconds
Posted Sep 2021
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
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Zaria Forman

Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth

7 minutes 14 seconds
Melanie Nezer

The fundamental right to seek asylum

10 minutes 55 seconds
Jon Lowenstein

Family, hope and resilience on the migrant trail

13 minutes 51 seconds
Ajit Narayanan

A word game to communicate in any language

15 minutes 43 seconds
Chieh Huang

How to know if it's time to change careers

4 minutes 15 seconds
Patrick McGinnis

How to make faster decisions

4 minutes 54 seconds
Shantell Martin

How drawing can set you free

7 minutes 47 seconds
Camille Seaman

Haunting photos of polar ice

4 minutes 11 seconds
Cédric Villani

What's so sexy about math?

16 minutes 23 seconds
Christine Sun Kim

The enchanting music of sign language

15 minutes 17 seconds
Rayma Suprani

Dictators hate political cartoons -- so I keep drawing them

16 minutes 42 seconds
LaToya Ruby Frazier

A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

11 minutes 49 seconds
Matthew O'Reilly

“Am I dying?” The honest answer.

5 minutes 33 seconds
Jon Ronson

When online shaming goes too far

17 minutes 11 seconds
Matt Walker

A walk through the stages of sleep

4 minutes 47 seconds
Elizabeth Blackburn

The science of cells that never get old

18 minutes 46 seconds
Ipsita Dasgupta

To challenge the status quo, find a "co-conspirator"

11 minutes 3 seconds
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Innovate for collaboration and success

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Amy Edmondson

How to turn a group of strangers into a team

13 minutes 7 seconds
Antoine Gourévitch

What is deep tech? A look at how it could shape the future

10 minutes 59 seconds
Matt Langione

The promise of quantum computers

12 minutes 9 seconds
Rocío Lorenzo

How diversity makes teams more innovative

11 minutes 5 seconds
Michele Wucker

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

10 minutes 5 seconds
Joan C. Williams

Why corporate diversity programs fail -- and how small tweaks can have big impact

14 minutes 43 seconds
Rodin Lyasoff

How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel

8 minutes 8 seconds
Sebastien de Halleux

How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean

12 minutes 41 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

Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne

How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly

4 minutes 48 seconds
Alex Gendler

Can you solve the famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle?

4 minutes 27 seconds
Dan Sayers

The secret society of the Great Dismal Swamp

5 minutes 8 seconds
William D. Desmond

The philosophy of cynicism

5 minutes 9 seconds
Kayla Mandel Sheets

You could have a secret twin (but not the way you think)

4 minutes 4 seconds
Marcus du Sautoy

The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem

5 minutes
Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson

Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer?

5 minutes 36 seconds
Jeff Dekofsky

The Infinite Hotel Paradox

5 minutes 46 seconds
James A. Smith

The method that can "prove" almost anything

4 minutes 52 seconds
Hyunsoo Joshua No

How does chemotherapy work?

5 minutes 5 seconds
Pekka Hämäläinen

The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire

5 minutes 39 seconds
Catharine Young

How memories form and how we lose them

4 minutes 4 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

Björn Ulvaeus

How music streaming transformed songwriting

18 minutes 16 seconds
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
Ma Jun

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

11 minutes 51 seconds
Loretta J. Ross

Don't call people out -- call them in

14 minutes 14 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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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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