Your fingerprints reveal more than you think
Simona Francese / Analytical chemist
How to get better at the things you care about

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How to redefine what success means to you

Playlist: Readjust your expectations with these novel, refreshing perspectives on what it means to “win” and “lose”

Newest Talks

  1. Your fingerprints reveal more than you think
  2. "Rebelosis" / "Rebel Rock" / "Rebel on That Level"
  3. 3 ways to make better decisions -- by thinking like a computer
  4. How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant
  5. How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic
  6. What are the most important moral problems of our time?

Trending

  1. Every city needs healthy honey bees
  2. Adventures of an asteroid hunter
  3. A plea for bees
  4. Why bees are disappearing
  5. Should you be able to patent a human gene?
  6. How beauty feels

Recommended today

  1. How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
  2. Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
  3. The mind behind Linux
  4. How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
  5. How to step up in the face of disaster
  6. A new mission for veterans -- disaster relief

Explore playlists

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. How to make choosing easier
  2. Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce
  3. How to make hard choices
  4. Are we in control of our own decisions?
  5. The journey through loss and grief
  6. How I made friends with reality

TED-Ed lessons: feed your curiosity

  1. What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?
  2. How do cigarettes affect the body?
  3. Is there any truth to the King Arthur legends?
  4. Can you solve the rebel supplies riddle?
  5. What is the universe expanding into?
  6. The surprising link between stress and memory

House & home: ideas from TEDx

  1. I hate McMansions -- and you should too
  2. America's most invisible communities -- mobile home parks
  3. Should teachers get free housing?
  4. Home renters are powerless. Here's how to fix that
  5. How prefab homes can transform affordable housing
  6. Home is where the art is

what's it like to be a baby?

  1. What do babies think?
  2. The linguistic genius of babies
  3. The surprisingly logical minds of babies
  4. A warm embrace that saves lives
  5. In our baby's illness, a life lesson
  6. What we don't know about mother's milk

What is genius?

  1. Your elusive creative genius
  2. The linguistic genius of babies
  3. The untapped genius that could change science for the better
  4. The deadly genius of drug cartels
  5. The emergent genius of ant colonies
  6. The gentle genius of bonobos

live your best life

  1. 12 truths I learned from life and writing
  2. The life-long learner
  3. Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
  4. Things I've learned in my life so far
  5. The danger of a single story
  6. What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness

Is it all a hallucination?

  1. What causes hallucinations?
  2. What hallucination reveals about our minds
  3. Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
  4. The illusion of consciousness
  5. How computers are learning to be creative
  6. How I held my breath for 17 minutes

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.