Newest Talks

  1. Angelicque White What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate
    What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate
  2. Marilyn Waring The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts
    The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really counts
  3. Erin Sullivan Does photographing a moment steal the experience from you?
    Does photographing a moment steal the experience from you?

Trending

  1. What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you
  2. What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith
  3. Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now
  4. Why glass towers are bad for city life -- and what we need instead
  5. Your words may predict your future mental health
  6. You smell with your body, not just your nose

Editors' picks

  1. How to turn off work thoughts during your free time
  2. The urgency of intersectionality
  3. History's "worst" nun
  4. In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?
  5. A few ways to fix a government
  6. How jails extort the poor

TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

  1. How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines)
  2. The myth behind the Chinese zodiac
  3. The mysterious life and death of Rasputin
  4. How memories form and how we lose them
  5. How statistics can be misleading
  6. Why do we dream?

Explore playlists

What should I do with my life?

  1. Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
  2. Why some of us don't have one true calling
  3. The power of believing that you can improve
  4. Your elusive creative genius
  5. How great leaders inspire action
  6. Why you will fail to have a great career

Time for a hobby?

  1. Trash or historical artifact?
  2. How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage
  3. Why we collect things
  4. What birdspotting can teach us about conservation
  5. How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time
  6. The joys of amateur aviation

Take a (smart) break

  1. A brief history of alcohol
  2. What it's like to live on the International Space Station
  3. The physics of surfing
  4. Why you should shop at your local farmers market
  5. The profound power of an authentic apology
  6. How does chemotherapy work?

Get thrifty

  1. To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift
  2. Ink made of air pollution
  3. How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza
  4. Creative houses from reclaimed stuff
  5. When I die, recompose me
  6. A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. No one should die because they live too far from a doctor
  2. What ping-pong taught me about life
  3. How music makes me a better neuroscientist
  4. Why your doctor should care about social justice
  5. What the discovery of gravitational waves means
  6. The shocking danger of mountaintop removal -- and why it must end

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.