Newest Talks

  1. Priscilla Pemu A personal health coach for those living with chronic diseases
    A personal health coach for those living with chronic diseases
  2. Stuart Oda Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture?
    Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture?
  3. Adam Garske How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world
    How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world

Trending

  1. How many lives can you live?
  2. Why you should make useless things
  3. Where is cybercrime really coming from?
  4. Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it
  5. The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver
  6. Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science

Editors' picks

  1. In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?
  2. A few ways to fix a government
  3. The agony of trying to unsubscribe
  4. What time is it on Mars?
  5. My journey from Marine to actor
  6. The urgency of intersectionality

TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

  1. What causes headaches?
  2. A brief history of alcohol
  3. The left brain vs. right brain myth
  4. How to stay calm under pressure
  5. How to choose your news
  6. The science of symmetry

Explore playlists

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?

New year, new you

  1. Embrace your raw, strange magic
  2. Try something new for 30 days
  3. The profound power of an authentic apology
  4. How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others
  5. Why winning doesn't always equal success
  6. Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

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

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.