Playlist

Most popular TED Talks of 2017

What a year! These 14 talks challenged our perceptions of love, happiness, what the future will hold ... and, um, the very nature of reality itself.

Elon Musk

The future we're building -- and boring

Anjan Chatterjee

How your brain decides what is beautiful

Megan Phelps-Roper

I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left

Shah Rukh Khan

Thoughts on humanity, fame and love

Anil Seth

Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality

Emily Esfahani Smith

There's more to life than being happy

Joseph Redmon

How computers learn to recognize objects instantly

Adam Grant

Are you a giver or a taker?

Giulia Enders

The surprisingly charming science of your gut

Adam Alter

Why our screens make us less happy

Zeynep Tufekci

We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads