Newest Talks

  1. Daniel Alexander Jones You will surprise yourself (and other pearls of wisdom)
    You will surprise yourself (and other pearls of wisdom)
  2. Heidi Larson Rumors, trust and vaccines
    Rumors, trust and vaccines
  3. Dallas Taylor What silence can teach you about sound
    What silence can teach you about sound

Trending

  1. Love letters to strangers
  2. HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy
  3. How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics
  4. How craving attention makes you less creative
  5. Things I've learned in my life so far
  6. How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison

Sleeping with science

  1. A walk through the stages of sleep
  2. How caffeine and alcohol affect your sleep
  3. Hacking your memory -- with sleep
  4. What's the connection between sleep and Alzheimer's disease?
  5. How sleep affects your emotions
  6. Innovations in sleep

Discussed on tedcircles.com

  1. There's more to life than being happy
  2. What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
  3. We need to address the real roots of racial violence
  4. The disarming case to act right now on climate change
  5. How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
  6. The language of being human

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Viruses & vaccines

  1. How the pandemic will shape the near future
  2. New ways to understand life in a pandemic
  3. The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing
  4. The trials, tribulations and timeline of a COVID-19 vaccine
  5. How fast can a vaccine be made?
  6. When is a pandemic over?

TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

  1. What would happen if you didn't sleep?
  2. The greatest mathematician that never lived
  3. What is bipolar disorder?
  4. What makes TB the world's most infectious killer?
  5. The genius of Marie Curie
  6. How does laser eye surgery work?

Editors' picks

  1. How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany
  2. Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them
  3. What do all languages have in common?
  4. How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person
  5. What yoga does to your body and brain
  6. Stop being a bystander in your own life

Justice by (re)design

  1. Why immigration prisons aren't the answer
  2. The dangers of algorithmic justice
  3. Designing for justice
  4. Community-powered criminal justice reform
  5. The case for restorative justice in juvenile courts
  6. The injustice of "policing for profit" -- and how to end it

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. You are not alone in your loneliness
  2. The secret to living longer may be your social life
  3. How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)
  4. What almost dying taught me about living
  5. What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
  6. What reading slowly taught me about writing

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.