Newest Talks

  1. Joseph Gordon-Levitt How craving attention makes you less creative
    How craving attention makes you less creative
  2. Sara Valencia Botto When do kids start to care about other people's opinions?
    When do kids start to care about other people's opinions?
  3. Marc Bamuthi Joseph "You Have the Rite"
    "You Have the Rite"

Trending

  1. The best way to help is often just to listen
  2. DNA folding, in detail
  3. Visualizing the wonder of a living cell
  4. Augmented-reality maps
  5. How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
  6. The future of storytelling

Editors' picks

  1. The nerd's guide to learning everything online
  2. A simple way to break a bad habit
  3. Why noise is bad for your health -- and what you can do about it
  4. A librarian's case against overdue book fines
  5. How revenge porn turns lives upside down
  6. The little risks you can take to increase your luck

Keep your brain healthy

  1. The brain-changing benefits of exercise
  2. Sleep is your superpower
  3. The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help
  4. Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
  5. How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it
  6. How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

Explore playlists

TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

  1. The surprising link between stress and memory
  2. Why should you read "Kafka on the Shore"?
  3. Are we running out of clean water?
  4. How rollercoasters affect your body
  5. The "End of History" Illusion
  6. The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. Simple hacks for life with Parkinson's
  2. Want kids to learn well? Feed them well
  3. Why school should start later for teens
  4. The simple power of hand-washing
  5. The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
  6. Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy

Hit these high notes with TEDx

  1. How to build a thriving music scene in your city
  2. The benefits of music education
  3. How music makes me a better neuroscientist
  4. How one city became a music capital
  5. How technology can democratize music
  6. La música de las ideas

Modern myths, debunked

  1. Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
  2. 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
  3. Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why
  4. Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy
  5. The virginity fraud
  6. Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore

How ideas spread

  1. When ideas have sex
  2. Mapping ideas worth spreading
  3. How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement
  4. What makes something go viral?
  5. Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge
  6. How young Africans found a voice on Twitter

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.