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  2. Sydney Jensen How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?
    How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?
  3. Cady Coleman What it's like to live on the International Space Station
    What it's like to live on the International Space Station

Trending

  1. How to use family dinner to teach politics
  2. The magic of the placebo
  3. Why you should make useless things
  4. One second every day
  5. Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects
  6. The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives

Editors' picks

  1. The real relationship between your age and your chance of success
  2. The power to think ahead in a reckless age
  3. This is what democracy looks like
  4. What I learned from 100 days of rejection
  5. How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
  6. Our immigration conversation is broken -- here's how to have a better one

Craft your curiosity

  1. The case for curiosity-driven research
  2. Human-centered design
  3. The surprising science of happiness
  4. The revolutionary power of diverse thought
  5. Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology
  6. Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch

Explore playlists

A TEDx guide to parenting

  1. Why most parenting advice is wrong
  2. How the Industrial Revolution changed childhood
  3. Why we need to stop stigmatizing mothers who do sex work
  4. What I've learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad
  5. What it's like to be a transgender dad
  6. How technology can reconnect parents and kids

Celebrating the gender spectrum

  1. A short history of trans people's long fight for equality
  2. The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain
  3. How to talk (and listen) to transgender people
  4. A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
  5. Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms
  6. A queer vision of love and marriage

Take a (smart) break

  1. Make love, not porn
  2. What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy
  3. How do viruses jump from animals to humans?
  4. What causes an economic recession?
  5. How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
  6. The dust bunnies that built our planet

Small thing, big idea — Designs that changed the world

  1. How the progress bar keeps you sane
  2. Why the pencil is perfect
  3. The 3,000-year history of the hoodie
  4. How the jump rope got its rhythm
  5. The genius of the London Tube Map
  6. The hidden ways stairs shape your life

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. What the discovery of gravitational waves means
  2. My stroke of insight
  3. The search for planets beyond our solar system
  4. What is so special about the human brain?
  5. A neural portrait of the human mind
  6. How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies

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.