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5 talks to watch when your beliefs are being challenged

Playlist: What to do when your beliefs and understanding of the world have been challenged, unraveled or even destroyed

Newest Talks

  1. We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer
  2. What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet?
  3. How I became an entrepreneur at 66
  4. The revolutionary power of diverse thought
  5. 3 fears about screen time for kids -- and why they're not true
  6. Why jobs of the future won't feel like work

Trending

  1. The untapped genius that could change science for the better
  2. How to land on a comet
  3. How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
  4. Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
  5. What's left to explore?
  6. The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B

Recommended today

  1. How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history
  2. The Panama Papers exposed a huge global problem. What's next?
  3. Meet global corruption's hidden players
  4. My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business
  5. Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power
  6. How to seek truth in the era of fake news

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Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
  2. A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory.
  3. How reliable is your memory?
  4. What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
  5. How to step up in the face of disaster
  6. Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win

Getting things done

  1. Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
  2. Why work doesn't happen at work
  3. Try something new for 30 days
  4. How to get better at the things you care about
  5. Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
  6. The puzzle of motivation

What is behavioral economics?

  1. Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow
  2. The battle between your present and future self
  3. The optimism bias
  4. Does money make you mean?
  5. Could your language affect your ability to save money?
  6. The riddle of experience vs. memory

How to talk with people you don't agree with

  1. How our friendship survives our opposing politics
  2. A conservative's plea: Let's work together
  3. Why aren't we more compassionate?
  4. We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open up
  5. Take "the Other" to lunch
  6. How to have better political conversations

The right to protest

  1. The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest
  2. A thousand times no
  3. How to topple a dictator
  4. We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights
  5. The secret to effective nonviolent resistance
  6. The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring

Life-changing educators

  1. How to learn? From mistakes
  2. Every kid needs a champion
  3. A teacher growing green in the South Bronx
  4. How to raise successful kids -- without over-parenting
  5. 3 rules to spark learning
  6. How state budgets are breaking US schools

learn from women leaders

  1. So we leaned in ... now what?
  2. What it takes to be a great leader
  3. Inspiring a life of immersion
  4. The career advice you probably didn’t get
  5. Forget the pecking order at work
  6. Learning from leadership's missing manual

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.