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Football helmets don’t protect against concussion -- and we’re not sure what does

Biomedical engineer David Camarillo reveals how much scientists still don't know about concussion and the brain. The word “concussion” evokes more fear than ever, and there’s definitely some evidence to support those fears. We know a repeated history of concussion can lead to chronic changes in the brain’s function and structure, resulting in e...
Posted February 2, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/football-helmets-dont-protect-against-concussion-and-were-not-sure-what-does

Books to get you ready for TED2015

Counting the days ’til TED2015? Yeah: we are, too. Before the conference begins on March 16, dive into a great book written by one of our speakers. Books from speakers in Session 1, “Opening Gambit” National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear, by David Rothkopf. The foreign policy specialist examines the way U.S. leaders have ...
Posted February 24, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/02/24/books-to-get-you-ready-for-ted2015

9 great talks to watch for Video Games Day

Gamers, unite! Today, July 8, is officially known as Video Games Day. Whether you lose hours to your Xbox or stay glued to your smart phone to play, today is dedicated to all those games that rile you up and drive you crazy. These days, the most riveting video games use motion sensors, animation and artificial intelligence --  technologies that ...
Posted July 8, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/07/08/9-great-talks-to-watch-for-video-games-day

Announcing the lineup for TEDxWomen, coming up in Washington, D.C.

Few people see the world in simple black-and-white terms -- instead, most of us, women and men alike, experience a wide spectrum of color, a world of differing viewpoints and nuance. This year's TEDxWomen, themed “The Space Between,” will explores the gradiation of the world around us. The event will feature six sessions: “Poverty and Plenty...
Posted November 19, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/11/19/announcing-the-lineup-for-tedxwomen-coming-up-in-washington-d-c

Gallery: How these powerful masks are helping combat veterans heal

Art therapist Melissa Walker uses masks to allow service members with traumatic brain injuries to express their deepest emotions and experiences, helping them and their loved ones heal. Most people wear masks to obscure or change their identities. But through a unique art therapy program, veterans are using them to reveal truths -- often painfu...
Posted November 11, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-how-these-powerful-masks-are-helping-combat-veterans-heal

Books to get you ready for TED2014

TED2014, our 30th anniversary conference, is less than a month away! If you’re counting the days like we are, get a head start by reading some of the insightful and compelling books by the groundbreaking thinkers who will speak in Vancouver. Books from speakers in Session 1, “Liftoff” Being Digital, by Nicholas Negroponte. This 1995 bests...
Posted February 22, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/02/22/books-to-get-you-ready-for-ted2014

Nuclear fission reactors, Africa's Einsteins and the healing power of nature: A recap of "Beauty and the Brain," All-Stars Session 2 at TED2014

By Liz Jacobs and Thu-Huong Ha   Our brains work in mysterious ways. They make us laugh, they make us cry, and sometimes, they make us 19-year old geniuses. The 11 speakers in this All-Stars session specialize in areas of the brain as diverse as personality, trauma and gender, but they all agree: Our minds matter. Below, read a deta...
Posted March 18, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/nuclear-fission-reactors-africas-einsteins-and-the-healing-power-of-nature-a-recap-of-beauty-and-the-brain-all-stars-session-2-at-ted2014

The real 10 most fascinating people of 2014, from StoryCorps

Last week, I saw Barbara Walters' list of "The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2014." It included interesting thinkers like Elon Musk (watch his TED Talk) and George R.R. Martin (the author of Game of Thrones), along with crowd-pleasers like Taylor Swift and Oprah. But reading this list of almost exclusively marquee names made me think about s...
Posted December 22, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/12/22/the-real-10-most-fascinating-people-of-2014-from-storycorps-dave-isay

How one scientist is working to reach people in vegetative states

How many unresponsive patients actually have some consciousness of what’s occurring around them? Possibly up to 20 percent, according to neuroscientist Adrian Owen, who is determined to give them a voice. In groundbreaking research, neuroscientist Adrian Owen (TEDxUWO Talk: The quest for consciousness) has found that a significant number of peo...
Posted September 14, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/how-one-scientist-is-working-to-reach-people-in-vegetative-states

Hey, that paralyzed rat just walked upstairs: Gregoire Courtine at TEDGlobal 2013

Grégoire Courtine is the head of the Center for Neuroprosthetics and Brain Mind Institute of the Life Science School at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL). He starts his TED Talk with a story of a mentor of his, the late Christopher Reeve, who spent the last years of his life in a wheelchair after a paralyzing spinal c...
Posted June 12, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/12/hey-that-paralyzed-rat-just-walked-upstairs-gregoire-courtine-at-tedglobal-2013

The story of an impossible kick: Miguel Nicolelis live at TEDGlobal 2014

This summer, the country that perfected soccer proved it’s just as formidable a foe off the pitch as it is on. On the first day of the 2014 World Cup, 29-year-old Juliano Pinto, paralyzed from his chest to his toes, did the seemingly impossible: He gave the opening kick just by thinking. Eighteen months earlier, Brazilian neuroscientist M...
Posted October 8, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/10/08/the-story-of-an-impossible-kick-miguel-nicolelis-live-at-tedglobal-2014

In case you missed it: Some highlights of day 2 at TEDGlobal 2013: Think Again

The second day of mainstage talks at TEDGlobal 2013 offered four densely packed sessions full of the possibility for natural, geopolitical, social and artistic change, both improvised and well-considered -- and more than one magic moment. Here are just a few of the best. Brain soup. Suzana Herculano-Houzel figured out how to count the num...
Posted June 12, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/12/in-case-you-missed-it-some-highlights-of-day-2-at-tedglobal-2013-think-again

A promising first step for those with spinal cord injury: Further reading on electrical stimulation and how it’s helped rats (and one human!) walk again

Grégoire Courtine and the scientists in his lab helped a paralyzed rat learn to walk again, voluntarily, through a treatment that combined drugs, electrical stimulation of the lower spinal cord, the support of a robotic arm and a little bit of chocolate. When their study appeared in the June 2012 issue of Science, it sparked a lot of excitem...
Posted November 6, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/11/06/a-promising-first-step-for-those-with-spinal-cord-injury-further-reading-on-electrical-stimulation-and-how-its-helped-rats-and-one-human-walk-again

You’re a beautiful crowd! 7 moments of audience participation from TED

There are certain perils to watching a TED Talk live from the audience – occasionally you’ll be asked a stumper of a philosophical question or made the brunt of a speaker’s joke. Then again, you might be given seven and a half extra minutes to live, so it’s really a toss-up. In these talks, pulled from a range of TED and TEDGlobals, watch for au...
Posted February 20, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/02/20/youre-a-beautiful-crowd-7-moments-of-audience-participation-from-ted

Better, stronger, tougher: Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly at TED 2014

In January 2011, US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head in an attack on her entourage at a constituent meeting near Tucson. Six people died and thirteen others were injured. She survived, and her recovery has been a remarkable story. At TED2014 she took the stage with her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, for a Q&A with the head of...
Posted March 21, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/21/better-stronger-tougher-gabby-giffords-and-mark-kelly-at-ted-2014

A speed reader shares 3 tricks to help anyone read faster

By spotting and changing a few bad habits, you can easily increase your reading speed without missing out on detail, says Jordan Harry. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TED community. To see all the posts, go here. Have you ever wished that yo...
Posted April 1, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/a-speed-reader-shares-3-tricks-to-help-anyone-read-faster

Try these two smart techniques to help you master your emotions

By more clearly identifying our feelings or by recategorizing them, we can reduce suffering (yes!) and increase well-being, says neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett. “He’s an angry person”; “I’m a very anxious person.” We’ve all made statements like these. They point towards the belief that emotions are hardwired in our brains or automatically ...
Posted June 21, 2018
https://ideas.ted.com/try-these-two-smart-techniques-to-help-you-master-your-emotions

Coming to your nose: Scent playlists that could boost your well-being

A new technology aspires to harness the powerful human sense of smell to enhance our daily lives.  Someday this approach might even be used to benefit our health. How is this possible? Step one: Just inhale. We’re living in a playlist world, with many of us curating soundtracks to get us through life’s daily ups and downs, such as a tough commu...
Posted June 14, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/coming-to-your-nose-scent-playlists-that-could-boost-your-well-being

Why changing how we view pain can help us address the opioid crisis

Too many of us, too often, think of pain as something that needs to be eliminated, at any cost. But we -- doctors, patients, drug makers, and all of us -- can be part of a much-needed shift that  questions this attitude, says bioethicist Travis Rieder. Travis Rieder’s journey down the rabbit hole of opioid dependence began with his motorcycle a...
Posted June 19, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/why-changing-how-we-view-pain-is-the-key-to-addressing-the-opioid-crisis

What will sports look like in the future?

If you’ve ever seen grainy old sports footage—for example, a boxing match from the late 1800s, a Princeton/Yale game from 1903, or Babe Ruth’s famous home run from 1932—you probably noticed how different the game looks compared to its modern counterpart. The equipment looks clunky, the uniforms impossibly baggy. Even the bodies of the players lo...
Posted March 7, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/what-will-sports-look-like-in-the-future-three-ted-experts-discuss

Why I document the often violent and traumatic daily lives of others: Fellows Friday with photographer Jon Lowenstein

Social violence in Guatemala, Mexican and Central American migrant communities in the United States, the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake, children with cerebral malaria in Uganda -- for the past decade, photographer Jon Lowenstein has been documenting the often violent and traumatic daily lives of individuals and communities living at the ...
Posted December 6, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/12/06/q-and-a-with-photographer-jon-lowenstein

A troupe of Rwandan drummers, odes to grandmas and laughing at cerebral palsy: A recap of TEDWomen 2013, Session 3

By Kate Torgovnick, Helen Walters and Emily McManus Session 3 of TEDWomen begins with an empty stage. And then: the noise of drumming breaks through the quiet as four women, draped in shiny blue cloth with gold bands around their foreheads, march onstage carrying with them large, wooden drums. They place them on the red carpet and begin a...
Posted December 5, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/12/05/tedwomen-2013-session-3

Radical reframe: The surprising talks in Session 6 of TED2015

"We need a different view of the world," says Chris Anderson, the host of Session 6: Radical Reframe, on the Wednesday morning of TED2015. Enjoy these recaps of the speaker in this session, who might just flip your thinking on things you thought you knew — from antibiotics to papayas. New metaphors, not new medicines. We often think that ...
Posted March 18, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/18/radical-reframe-the-surprising-talks-in-session-6-of-ted2015

Do you judge your own body? Here's how to view it with love, not shame

Too many of us struggle to achieve a body ideal that’s just not obtainable by humans. It’s time to redefine what’s good, healthy and attractive on our own terms, say writers (and sisters) Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski. The Bikini Industrial Complex. That’s our name for the $100 billion cluster of businesses that profit by setting an unachiev...
Posted March 28, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/if-youre-unhappy-with-your-body-just-repeat-after-us-you-are-the-new-hotness

Why our understanding of obesity and diabetes may be wrong: A Q&A with surgeon Peter Attia

Surgeon Peter Attia sees a disconcerting paradox at work when it comes to our health: while people are talking about eating healthily and exercising perhaps more than ever, we’re seeing no reduction in the rates of obesity and diabetes. As it stands, more than 8% of Americans are diabetic and an additional 26% are pre-diabetic -- which represe...
Posted June 25, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/06/25/why-our-understanding-of-obesity-and-diabetes-may-be-wrong-a-qa-with-surgeon-peter-attia

Why (some) parents don't vaccinate

The many-headed dragon of public anger has a mouthful of fire for parents who don't vaccinate. But such scolding misses the mark, alienating caring parents who just want their kids to be safe. When measles broke out at California’s Disneyland in 2015, sickening nearly 150 people across seven states and spreading to Mexico and Canada, the online...
Posted June 14, 2016
https://ideas.ted.com/why-some-parents-dont-vaccinate

Fellows Friday with Robert Gupta

LA Philharmonic violinist Robert Gupta performs for the homeless and mentally ill. In this interview, he discusses his experiences with the awesome healing power of music. Interactive Fellows Friday Feature: Join the conversation by answering Fellows’ weekly questions via Facebook. This week, Robert asks: With the advent of amazing onli...
Posted September 2, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/09/02/fellows-friday-with-robert-gupta

Ingenuity starts with a spark: The talks of TED@IBM

From artists to scientists, mothers, mathematicians and business visionaries, people in every corner of the world are dreaming up solutions to our most pressing problems. Whether tackling war and peace or the principles of machine learning, ingenuity starts with one thing: a spark. And regardless of where the spark takes hold, inspiration...
Posted November 16, 2016
https://blog.ted.com/2016/11/16/ingenuity-starts-with-a-spark-the-talks-of-tedibm

Everything you know about hyenas is wrong -- these animals are fierce, social and incredibly smart

Don’t be misled by the cringing creatures seen in The Lion King. From their biology to their social structure, spotted hyenas are complex creatures like none other on earth, explains author and conservationist Lucy Cooke. In the animal world, the hyena has been censured by more scandalous untruths than even the sloth. They are considered nature...
Posted May 29, 2019
https://ideas.ted.com/everything-you-know-about-hyenas-is-wrong-these-animals-are-fierce-social-and-incredibly-smart

Your holiday reading list: 58 books recommended by TED speakers

From tech to self-help via poetry, fiction and graphic novels, here are the books you need to read. What’s the one book you're always thrilled to discover that someone else has read? We posed that question to TED speakers -- and, well, they geeked out, offering us a list of hidden gems that wouldn’t typically crop up on a holiday shopping list....
Posted December 7, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/your-holiday-reading-list-58-books-recommended-by-ted-speakers
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