The TED Interview Chanda Prescod-Weinstein connects history to the stars July 7, 2022 [00:00:00] Steven Johnson: Hi everyone. Welcome to the TED interview. I'm Steven Johnson. If you look back over the past few centuries, it's clear we've solved many of the major mysteries in science. I mean, we've sequenced the human genome and split the atom....

Written by the educators who created The Edge of Knowledge, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Particle physicists are nothing if not ambitious. And the aim of particle physics is to understand what everything's ...

How to Be a Better Human Why love –and therapy– means going in a direction you don’t yet know (w/ Dr. Orna Guralnik) February 13, 2023 [00:00:00] Chris Duffy: You are listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy. I am fascinated by other people's relationships, specifically their marriages and their dating lives. It's mind...

How to Be a Better Human Julissa Arce on why success isn’t worth her assimilation March 20, 2023 [00:00:00] Chris Duffy: You are listening to How to Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy. One of the trickiest parts about success and chasing success is that everyone has a different definition in their mind, and sometimes when we get the ...

Written by the educators who created Reworking the Western Diet, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Sweet and salty, meaty and mega-sized: Introducing the Western diet If you live in a Western culture, chances ar...

Written by the educators who created Mapping and Manipulating the Brain, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Here is this mass of jelly, three-pound mass of jelly you can hold in the palm of your hand, and it can ...

Written by the educators who created Ecofying Cities, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Right now, our economy operates as Paul Hawken said, "by stealing the future, selling it in the present and calling it GDP....

Ideas Big Enough to Change the World Oxford, UK July 12-15, 2005 Dear TEDizens, Welcome to Oxford, and to an important and exciting new chapter in the TED story! TEDGlobal is designed to be like TED but with an even stronger focus on really big world-changing ideas: memes and dreams from the intersecting worlds of science, architecture, techn...

Written by the educators who created Rethinking Cancer, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. In its World Cancer Report 2014, the World Health Organization made a staggering prediction: it expects the number of ne...

Written by the educator who created What Makes Us Human?, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in his field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. As a biological anthropologist, I never liked drawing sharp distinctions between human and non-human. Such boundaries ma...

TED Translators are volunteers who subtitle TED Talks to help disseminate knowledge, research and big ideas across languages and borders. History The idea of translating TED Talks came about by popular demand. Passionate viewers around the world started asking if they could translate talks in order to share their favorite ideas and impressive re...

Written by the educators who created Climate Change, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. The greenhouse effect has been detected, and it is changing our climate now. James Hansen, June 24, 1988 The drought that cr...

How to Be a Better Human How labor unions create worker power (w/ Margaret Levi) (Transcript) October 31, 2022 [00:00:00] Chris Duffy: You're listening to How To Be a Better Human. I'm your host, Chris Duffy. Of the many strange things about being a comedian, one of the biggest is how being paid works. I can perform the exact same jokes and ge...

The TED Interview Steven Johnson wants to know how enlightenment happens June 23, 2022 [00:00:00] Chris Anderson: Well, hello there. Uh, welcome to The TED Interview. This is Chris Anderson. Now then, uh, this episode may start out sounding a bit like bad news, but it really, it really isn't. By the time it's over, it's going to sound like ver...

Written by the educators who created Cyber-Influence and Power, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technolog...

WorkLife with Adam Grant Leadership lessons from Zelenskyy and Putin Transcript March 29, 2022 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Today’s episode is a rich and timely conversation about leadership. I want to thank our sponsors LinkedIn, Morgan Stanley, ServiceNow, and UKG for making it possible. Our focus today is on what ...

The TED Interview How do we fix the restaurant tipping system? with Saru Jayaraman August 25, 2022 [00:00:00] Steven Johnson: Welcome to the TED Interview. I'm your host, Steven Johnson. For most Americans, it's almost second nature. You eat a meal at a restaurant, get the bill, do a little mental math, and add a tip for the server. But that se...

Good Sport The Past and Future of Gender in Sport March 22, 2023 [00:00:00] Jody Avirgan: Did you know it’s been 50 years since Title IX passed in the United States? Or that in 2022, the US Soccer Federation announced that players on the men’s and women’s teams would get equal pay for the first time in history? What about this one: this year–2...

Written by the educators who created The Deep Ocean, a brief look at the key facts, tough questions and big ideas in their field. Begin this TED Study with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean. Arthur C. Clarke Planet Ocean In the late 1960s,...

From the curator of Understanding Happiness, a brief look at the key facts, the tough questions and the big ideas in his field. Begin this TED Studies subject with a fascinating read that gives context and clarity to the material. An introduction to happiness A few years ago I stumbled upon a question I found both shocking and exhilarating: Supp...

The TED Interview Garry Kasparov on chess, technology, and democracy July 14, 2022 [00:00:00] Steven Johnson: This is the TED interview and I'm Steven Johnson. It was late in 1989, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. Garry Kasparov was 26 years old, just a few years into his reign as a world chess champion. And he was invited to sit down...

How to Be a Better Human How to Find the Comedy in A Messed-Up World (with Maeve Higgins) (Transcript) July 4, 2022 [00:00:00] Chris Duffy: You’re listening to How to Be a Better Human. I’m your host Chris Duffy and today on the show we’re talking about comedy and immigration. Now, those are two topics that you probably don't think go together...

Good Sport Pardon the Interruption… But Did Sports Debate Shows Change the World? February 15, 2023 [00:00:07] Jody Avirgan: Katie, if I'm doing this, what should my body language be? [00:00:12] Katie Nolan: Aggressive, confident, engaging. Um, you, you wanna talk with your hands a lot. [00:00:19] Jody Avirgan: I called up my friend Kati...

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant The psychology of human delusions with filmmaker Adam McKay (Transcript) November 8, 2022 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking: my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to...

Good Sport How to Survive a Losing Team March 15, 2023 [00:00:00] Jody Avirgan: Some of the deepest thoughts I've ever had, biggest emotions, have been in a post-game team circle, especially after a loss. Sitting on the grass exhausted, slowly taking off the cleats, trying not to look your teammates in the eye, or you might just start crying. S...

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant Life, the universe, and everything with Nobel laureate physicist Saul Perlmutter October 18, 2022 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking, my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating p...

How to Be a Better Human Monday, July 4, 2022 Chris Duffy: You’re listening to How to Be a Better Human. I’m your host Chris Duffy and today we’re talking about comedy and….immigration. Two topics that you might not necessarily think go together! But today’s guest, comedian and author Maeve Higgins moved from Ireland to the U.S. and has made a c...

As an organizational psychologist, Adam Grant believes that great minds don’t think alike; they challenge each other to think differently. In his new show, he has lively discussions and debates with some of the world’s most interesting thinkers, creators, achievers, and leaders—from Lin-Manuel Miranda to Brené Brown to Mark Cuban, and Olympic me...

The TED Interview Juliet Schor wants a four-day work week August 4, 2022 [00:00:00] Steven Johnson: Welcome to the TED Interview. I'm Steven Johnson. One of the defining properties of a global pandemic, beyond the life and death struggles with disease itself, is the fact that it disrupts so many of the routines of everyday life. Usually, we're ...

How to Be a Better Human How to let go of being a "good" person (with Dolly Chugh) (Transcript) August 15, 2022 Chris Duffy: I’m your host Chris Duffy, and this is How to Be A Better Human. In today’s episode, we’re going to dive a little bit deeper into the whole premise of this show. If you’ve been listening for a while, you’ve probably heard...