How I made friends with reality
Emily Levine / Philosopher-comic
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The shadow realities of everyday life

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Newest Talks

  1. How I made friends with reality
  2. Comics belong in the classroom
  3. How to start a conversation about suicide
  4. How to turn a group of strangers into a team
  5. The shocking danger of mountaintop removal -- and why it must end
  6. What it's like to be the child of immigrants

Trending

  1. A test for Parkinson's with a phone call
  2. How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
  3. La conversación que no estamos teniendo sobre abuso digital infantil
  4. A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager
  5. India's invisible innovation
  6. The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest

recommended today

  1. How we'll fight the next deadly virus
  2. The next outbreak? We're not ready
  3. Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war
  4. The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all
  5. For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over
  6. Lessons from the 1918 flu

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Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
  2. How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
  3. How to tame your wandering mind
  4. How we need to remake the internet
  5. How better tech could protect us from distraction
  6. A Parkland teacher's homework for us all

Your digital privacy: global perspectives from TEDx

  1. How data brokers sell your identity
  2. Why we must protect the digital rights of children
  3. The surveillance device you carry around all day
  4. Using corporate data to improve our lives
  5. Do we really own our bodies?
  6. Your social media "likes" expose more than you think

TED-Ed lessons: feed your curiosity

  1. Why do cats act so weird?
  2. How playing an instrument benefits your brain
  3. What would happen if you didn't sleep?
  4. A simple way to tell insects apart
  5. The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it)
  6. The science of skin color

Listen up!

  1. How to truly listen
  2. The 4 ways sound affects us
  3. Making sound visible through cymatics
  4. I listen to color
  5. See invisible motion, hear silent sounds
  6. Everything you hear on film is a lie

lifelong learning

  1. The life-long learner
  2. How to get better at the things you care about
  3. 12 truths I learned from life and writing
  4. Why some of us don't have one true calling
  5. We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure
  6. Life's third act

deep space science

  1. How to take a picture of a black hole
  2. The hunt for a supermassive black hole
  3. How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
  4. The sound the universe makes
  5. Is our universe the only universe?
  6. Let's look for life in the outer solar system

be an activist. start now

  1. The antidote to apathy
  2. Activism needs introverts
  3. How to make peace? Get angry
  4. Courage is contagious
  5. How protest is redefining democracy around the world
  6. How the US government spies on people who protest -- including you

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.