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Playlist: These talks drive home why practice makes perfect

Want to create more? Why you should make play a part of your process

TED Talk: How some of the most transformative ideas and technologies (like the computer) emerged from the strange delight of play

Newest Talks

  1. The work that makes all other work possible
  2. A lesson on looking
  3. How to motivate people to do good for others
  4. 3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do
  5. Confessions of a recovering micromanager
  6. Me Too is a movement, not a moment

Trending

  1. Building uniqueness
  2. In praise of slowness
  3. Prepare for a good end of life
  4. Life's third act
  5. A playful solution to the housing crisis
  6. Your social media "likes" expose more than you think

Recommended today

  1. Where is home?
  2. One second every day
  3. Embrace the near win
  4. What a world without prisons could look like
  5. Gene editing can now change an entire species -- forever
  6. How we'll fight the next deadly virus

Explore playlists

TED-Ed lessons: feed your curiosity

  1. The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"
  2. The benefits of a bilingual brain
  3. What causes insomnia?
  4. Why elephants never forget
  5. The psychology of narcissism
  6. What would happen if you didn't sleep?

Open source, open world

  1. How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
  2. The year open data went worldwide
  3. Discover the next mobile economy
  4. The mind behind Linux
  5. Massive-scale online collaboration
  6. The art of asking

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
  2. The global food waste scandal
  3. Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!
  4. The surprising solution to ocean plastic
  5. Wearing nothing new
  6. The unheard story of David and Goliath

A little bit sexy

  1. 10 things you didn't know about orgasm
  2. What we learn from insects' sex lives
  3. Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
  4. The birds and the bees are just the beginning
  5. How a dead duck changed my life
  6. The loves and lies of fireflies

Our brains: predictably irrational

  1. The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
  2. Homeopathy, quackery and fraud
  3. Why people believe weird things
  4. The optimism bias
  5. Beware conflicts of interest
  6. The paradox of choice

Sustainable consumption: Ideas from TEDx

  1. How I make paint from poison
  2. Plastic pollution, our toilets and us
  3. How I hunt natural gas leaks with Google Street View cars
  4. How ugly, unloved food can change the world
  5. The four things you need to know about the energy you use
  6. Why we should end animal agriculture

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.