Newest Talks

  1. Uri Alon A COVID-19 "exit" strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy
    A COVID-19 "exit" strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy
  2. Kristine Tompkins Let's make the world wild again
    Let's make the world wild again
  3. Charles P. Smith Actionable solutions to support the mental health of US veterans
    Actionable solutions to support the mental health of US veterans

Trending

  1. Looking past limits
  2. Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist
  3. A test that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you
  4. Why genetic research must be more diverse
  5. A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager
  6. The career advice you probably didn’t get

Viruses & vaccines

  1. How do ventilators work?
  2. How do virus tests actually work?
  3. What is a coronavirus?
  4. Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer?
  5. How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic
  6. How health workers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

TED-Ed animations: Feed your curiosity

  1. How does alcohol make you drunk?
  2. A day in the life of an Aztec midwife
  3. How sugar affects the brain
  4. What is depression?
  5. This sea creature breathes through its butt
  6. The tale of the doctor who defied Death

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Keep your brain healthy

  1. Sleep is your superpower
  2. The brain-changing benefits of exercise
  3. What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's
  4. Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
  5. The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it
  6. Why we laugh

Editors' picks

  1. How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health
  2. Why architects need to use their ears
  3. How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age
  4. What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith
  5. A brief history of plural word...s
  6. The past, present and future of nicotine addiction

Brain thaw with TED Fellows

  1. The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers
  2. How to recover from activism burnout
  3. Why we need more (real) science in fiction
  4. A historical musical that examines black identity in the 1901 World's Fair
  5. How can we control the coronavirus pandemic?
  6. What productive conflict can offer a workplace

How to deal with difficult emotions

  1. How grief helped me become a better caregiver
  2. Why we should all try therapy
  3. The benefits of expressing your emotions (constructively)
  4. How to connect with depressed friends
  5. Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy
  6. How to tame your wandering mind

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. You are not alone in your loneliness
  2. The secret to living longer may be your social life
  3. How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)
  4. What almost dying taught me about living
  5. What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
  6. What reading slowly taught me about writing

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.