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What does inequality do to our bodies and minds? A social psychologist and an epidemiologist discuss

What do a disease-fighting epidemiologist (retired) and an up-and-coming social psychologist have in common? They're both fascinated by the unseen social problems hidden behind the word "inequality."  Beyond the lack of access to money and power -- what does inequality do to us as human beings? Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson (TED Talk: ...
Posted August 6, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/what-does-inequality-do-to-our-bodies-and-minds-a-social-psychologist-and-an-epidemiologist-discuss

How to unlock your family history

The Great Thanksgiving Listen aims to capture the stories of a generation of elders over one weekend. But really, these great questions from StoryCorps are useful every day. “Imagine if you were able to sit and listen to your great-great-grandparent and get to know them,” says Dave Isay of StoryCorps. That’s the premise behind StoryCorps’ Great...
Posted November 5, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/how-to-unlock-your-family-history

Should emotions be taught in schools?

Our unresolved, unacknowledged feelings can lead us into anxiety, arguments and worse. Some educators believe it’s time to give our kids emotional instruction along with their ABCs. Who taught you how to identify and manage your emotions, how to recognize them when they arose and navigate your way through them? For many adults, the answer is: N...
Posted February 10, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/should-emotions-be-taught-in-schools

5 ways to be a better human at the zoo

Your job: Be interesting. Researcher and author Laurel Braitman explains. Let me be clear: I don't like zoos. Looking at captive animals depresses me. They often seem a little glazed over, busy pacing in tight figure eights, eating their own poop or using it to fingerpaint the walls of their enclosures. They’re also prone to depression and the ...
Posted October 29, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/5-ways-to-be-a-better-human-at-the-zoo

The puzzle of aging: Elizabeth Blackburn speaks at TED2017

For Nobel Prize-winning biologist Elizabeth Blackburn, it all began with pond scum. She was curious about chromosomes, and specifically the caps at the ends of chromosomes, known as telomeres, and pond scum provided an ample supply for her research. Her curiosity sent her on a journey that shed light on one of humanity's biggest, and oldest, q...
Posted April 27, 2017
https://blog.ted.com/2017/04/27/the-puzzle-of-aging-elizabeth-blackburn-speaks-at-ted2017

TED@Unilever imagines a brighter future. Inspiring words from this event

From healthy food projects to public health campaigns, TED@Unilever highlighted ideas to inspire leaders at every level. At this TED Institute event, which showcased speakers from both inside and outside the wellness company, the focus was on what corporations and individuals can do to initiate change. Below, some words from each of the T...
Posted September 18, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/09/18/inspiring-words-from-ted-at-unilever

Smart ways to handle snark and trolls on social media

As a TV meteorologist, Emily Sutton has been on the receiving end of negative comments for a decade. Here’s how she deals with them. Every weekday for the month of January, TED Ideas is publishing a new post in a series called “How to Be a Better Human,” containing a helpful piece of advice from a speaker in the TED community. To see all the po...
Posted January 17, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/smart-ways-to-handle-snark-and-trolls-on-social-media

The afterlife of ideas: A TED-ED Club at Middletown High School South takes action

A pillar stands in the main hallway of Middletown High School South in New Jersey, with a whiteboard on either side of it. In front of these boards, students line up and excitedly uncap markers to write, of all things, thank-yous. Some only write one or two words; others pen sprawling paragraphs. While so much high school news coverage focus...
Posted January 15, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/01/15/a-ted-ed-club-at-middletown-high-school-south-takes-action

A personal playlist from Shah Rukh Khan: 8 unforgettable TED Talks

Just in time for the second season of TED Talks India, Bollywood actor, producer and series host Shah Rukh Khan selects 8 talks that have inspired him and tells us why. Nearly two years ago, TED launched its first-ever TV series in India: TED Talks India: Nayi Soch (New Thinking). Filmed in Hindi, hosted by actor and producer Shah Rukh Khan, an...
Posted November 8, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/a-personal-playlist-from-shah-rukh-khan-8-unforgettable-ted-talks

Empathy paradise: Students at a Jewish Day School reflect on Zak Ebrahim’s experience growing up with an extremist Muslim father

With Rosh Hashanah fast approaching, Sara Beth Berman of the Davis Academy in Atlanta, Georgia, wanted to create a lesson for the school’s middle school students around the ideas of empathy and forgiveness. “In the month preceding the Jewish New Year, we talk a lot about how to forgive, how to accept forgiveness, and how do you want to be...
Posted September 23, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/09/23/students-at-a-jewish-day-school-reflect-on-zak-ebrahims-experience

This is what happened when we posted Monica Lewinsky's TED Talk

As TED’s social media editor, I have seen a lot of nasty comments. I’ve seen grown men and women deride a 14-year-old girl for her choice of dress. I’ve seen them say they're revolted by a beautiful transgender woman. On every talk about race, I’ve seen a slew of racist comments. But none have ever been as bad as the comments we got when we publ...
Posted March 27, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/want-to-help-prevent-online-bullying-comment-on-facebook

How color helps a movie tell its story

There’s no Academy Award for Best Color -- yet -- but this less-celebrated element of filmmaking is used to propel and convey the plot. Here’s how. A sunny, hopeful yellow. An introspective turquoise. An arresting, violent red. When you see a color in a film, what you see is no accident -- filmmakers carefully compose each frame and make color ...
Posted April 5, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/how-color-helps-a-movie-tell-its-story

The US presidency has become an impossible job. Here are three intriguing ideas to fix it.

Americans expect their president to be equal parts CEO, diplomat-in-chief, commander of armed forces, party leader and motivational figure. Perhaps it’s time to rethink the presidency itself, suggests historian Jeremi Suri. In its extremes of power and responsibility, the US presidency is probably the most talked about and least understood offi...
Posted October 19, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/the-us-presidency-has-become-an-impossible-job-here-are-three-intriguing-ideas-to-fix-it

The power of empathy: How tolerance transformed two lives wrecked by terrorism

Zak Ebrahim is the son of a terrorist. Phyllis Rodriguez lost her son on 9/11. In an inspiring conversation, the two share their personal histories of lives devastated by violence -- and rebuilt by tolerance. Zak Ebrahim’s father was convicted of plotting the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Phyllis Rodriguez’s son, Greg, worked in t...
Posted September 11, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/the-power-of-empathy-how-tolerance-transformed-two-lives-wrecked-by-terrorism

Worlds far and near, of the past and of the future: A recap of Session 1 of TEDYouth 2014

By Cynthia Betubiza, Ella Dawson and Kate Torgovnick May Session 1 of TEDYouth 2014 brought us to many worlds imagined. From a look at other planets that could be like Earth, to an introduction to a mysterious dinosaur bigger than T. rex, to a beet-tastic vision for the future of food, this morning's speakers brought wonder, passion and a...
Posted November 15, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/11/15/a-recap-of-session-one-of-tedyouth-2014

Wayfinders: Notes from Session 6 of TEDWomen 2019

The final session of TEDWomen 2019 is here! We can't believe it; we won't believe. But, if we must close out these three incredible days, it's good we did it by hearing from a diverse range of "wayfinders" -- incredible women who are using their wisdom and insight to light the way forward, tackle global problems and find the right balance of...
Posted December 6, 2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/12/06/wayfinders-notes-from-session-6-of-tedwomen-2019

It’s not politics or religion separating humans from each other; it’s shame

But there’s good news: the internet can help us dissolve these feelings and create new bonds of solidarity, says media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Once, after delivering a lecture at Berkeley in the 1960s, a psychologist took questions from the audience. A young woman stood up to explain that she understood the deep connection between people and...
Posted February 26, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/its-not-politics-or-religion-separating-humans-from-each-other-its-shame

Sound artist Jason Sweeney on life in Adelaide, Australia

Musician and sound artist Jason Sweeney lives and works in Adelaide; he describes it as "a prototype for what a developed city in the western world could be like." Here, he tells Alison Prato about life in his city. As a teenager, Jason Sweeney was bullied. It was the mid-1980s, and he was one of hundreds of students at the Urrbrae Agricultur...
Posted September 20, 2013
https://ideas.ted.com/my-quiet-city-sound-artist-jason-sweeney-on-life-in-adelaide-australia

My City: sound artist Jason Sweeney on life in Adelaide

Jason Sweeney lives and works in Adelaide, Australia, a city he describes as "a prototype for what a developed city in the western world could be like." Here, he describes his life in the city. Also, see and hear his favorite Adelaideian spots in the photoessay by Kristin Alford, accompanied by audio snippets of the same places recorded by Sween...
Posted September 26, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/09/26/my-quiet-city-sound-artist-jason-sweeney-on-life-in-adelaide-australia

Crisis Text Line has counseled teens through nearly 2 million problems. Here’s how this idea got its start.

Teenagers love to text—their thumbs pound out an average of 3,339 texts per month. Crisis Text Line turns this into a way to help teens through their hardest times: family issues, stress or suicidal thoughts. Trained counselors text back and forth with advice and resources—and, in the process, collect (anonymous) data that could lead to bett...
Posted May 6, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/05/06/crisis-text-line-nears-2-million-messages-answered

How to be more hopeful

8 TED speakers show you how to nudge your mind toward the sunny side We all go through times when we see the world through cloudy-colored glasses. Times when it’s tempting to just climb into bed -- or bathtub -- and hide out, maybe for up to a month. Fortunately for your loved ones, your livelihood and your life, we’ve gathered together eight t...
Posted April 3, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/how-to-be-more-hopeful

On raising kids who are more than “hoop jumpers”: A teenage TED speaker’s mom on how she encourages her sons to innovate

Jane Andraka has raised two remarkable sons. Luke, age 20, is studying electrical engineering at Virginia Tech. “He was always tinkering and taking things apart — wondering how they worked, wondering how they could be made better. He had ideas coming out of his brain like a firehose,” she says. Meanwhile, Jack, age 18, is a teen innovator an...
Posted April 13, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/04/13/a-teenage-ted-speakers-mom-on-how-she-encourages-her-sons-to-innovate

Truth meets dare: Our curators on the speakers and themes of TED2015

At the end of TED2015, curator Chris Anderson and content director Kelly Stoetzel want people to walk away feeling like “they’ve had with their worldview challenged in a productive, satisfying way.” For this conference, whose theme is “Truth and Dare,” they’ve crafted a speaker lineup that ranges from neuroscientists to machine-learning e...
Posted February 18, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/02/18/our-curators-on-the-speakers-and-themes-of-ted2015

Autistic people are not failed versions of “normal.” They’re different, not less

When people with developmental disabilities have the support they need to thrive, everyone benefits. In a speech at the United Nations on April 1, Steve Silberman made the case that it's past time we all learned to honor neurodiversity. An edited version of his text follows. We are living at a very exciting time -- a time of great hope for auti...
Posted April 4, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/autistic-people-are-not-failed-versions-of-normal-theyre-different-not-less

Do you work with a jerk? Here are 6 things you can do

Even in the best workplaces, rude coworkers may occasionally appear. But you don’t need to smile and suffer in silence, says management researcher Christine Porath. Oh, coworkers. We spend intense amounts of our waking lives with them, but while we voluntarily chose to be with some of these people, many of them are strangers foisted upon us. ...
Posted April 5, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/do-you-work-with-a-jerk-here-are-6-things-you-can-do

Photo gallery: What it’s like to be a mother in prison 

Photographer Eman Mohammed captures the daily lives of incarcerated women and their children at one of the United States’ rare residential parenting programs. Eman Mohammed was just 19 when she began covering her native Gaza for a Bethlehem-based news agency. She spent more than a dozen years navigating violence and gunfire -- and sexism and ha...
Posted May 10, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/photo-gallery-what-its-like-to-be-a-mother-in-prison

The TED2015 speaker lineup revealed

The phrase “truth or dare” is a false binary -- facing the truth often requires daring action, and vice versa. That’s why, at TED2015: Truth and Dare, the two go hand-in-hand. TED2015 happens March 16-20 in Vancouver and Whistler, and we dare to think this will be the most provocative, invigorating, mind-shifting TED yet. The 58 speakers on o...
Posted February 3, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/02/03/the-ted2015-speaker-lineup-revealed

The teachers who inspired us, and even changed the trajectories of our lives

Rita Pierson is the kind of teacher you wish you had. An educator for 40 years, she is funny, sharp and simply has a way with words -- so much so that today’s talk feels a bit like a sermon. In this talk, Pierson shares the secret to teaching students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds -- make personal connections with them. ...
Posted May 3, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/05/03/the-teachers-who-inspired-us-and-even-changed-the-trajectories-of-our-lives

How we can help end domestic violence

Esta Soler helped pass the Violence Against Women Act, 20 years ago. Leslie Morgan Steiner had just left an abusive husband at the time, and now tells her story widely. They talk about the NFL, the hashtags #WhyIStayed and #WhyILeft, and what we can all do to end domestic violence. Esta Soler and Leslie Morgan Steiner know exactly how to ...
Posted September 12, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/on-whyistayed-and-the-violence-against-women-act-20-years-later

How much should we worry about future crimes? A Q&A with Marc Goodman

Marc Goodman studies how to prevent future crimes -- not in the Minority Report sense, but by thinking about the ways that current and imagined technologies could be used to commit crimes. At TEDGlobal 2012 he gave a talk on some of the ways this could play out -- showing examples of how drug cartels and terrorists could (and already do) use...
Posted August 3, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/08/03/how-much-should-we-worry-about-future-crimes-a-qa-with-marc-goodman
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