Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague
Nadjia Yousif / Technology mentor
How passion becomes purpose

Playlist: Be inspired to find the work you love to do with these TED Talks full of passion and zeal

What your smart devices know (and share) about you

TED Talk: Once your smart devices can talk to you, who else are they talking to? (This talk contains mature language.)

Newest Talks

  1. Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague
  2. 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
  3. How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids
  4. The work that makes all other work possible
  5. A lesson on looking
  6. How to motivate people to do good for others

Trending

  1. Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
  2. Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them
  3. Cooking as never seen before
  4. Growing evidence of brain plasticity
  5. How I'm working for change inside my church
  6. 3 principles for creating safer AI

Recommended today

  1. How protest is redefining democracy around the world
  2. How to manage for collective creativity
  3. Where is home?
  4. One second every day
  5. Embrace the near win
  6. What a world without prisons could look like

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.