We're thrilled to announce that TEDTalks are now available on Dailymotion -- one of Europe's most popular video sites -- with subtitles in English, French, Spanish, German, Turkish, Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese where available. Dailymotion's TED channel features curated playlists of great talks on music, news & politics, med...

Tzeporah Berman is the Chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative and the international program director of Stand.Earth.

Driven by his curiosity, Julian Burschka is combining multiple technical disciplines with strong business acumen to drive innovation and enable new technological advancements.

A mountain separating two lakes. A room papered floor to ceiling with bridal satins. The lid of an immense snuffbox. These seemingly unrelated images take us on a tour of a sperm whale's head in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Though the book features pirates, typhoons, high-speed chases, and giant squid, it's anything but a conventional seafarin...

Luisa Neubauer is a climate activist, author and leader of the "Fridays For Future" school strike movement.

About this event: "There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche, one of the greatest known philosophers of the 19th century. These words flow very well into our theme for the year, 'Perspective'. It is critical to expose yourself to new environments, and to then have a new outlook on life. This is key to any successful life. Understanding th...

About this event: To think that things can stay as they are is an illusion. To think that they are OK as they are is also an illusion BUT…. at TEDxMünster we are not deluded as we plan our next live event for 18 Sept 2021! New team members and partners are on board. With the theme In Transit, we want to look at change in the way we live: in cities, communities, ...

Giulia Enders is working to reveal how our gut is at the core of who we are.

By showing people how to look closely at painting, sculpture and photography, Amy Herman helps them hone their visual intelligence to recognize the most pertinent and useful information as well as recognize biases that impede decision making.

Herman Narula builds new technology for the online games and virtual worlds that will massively impact the way we live, socialize and entertain each other.

What ideas captured people's attention and took off the quickest? Here are the talks that intrigued and inspired in 2021.

A short history of the warfare tactic that crushes cities but not morale: or, a study in the paradoxes of technological dystopianism. The first time a city was bombed from the air was in 1849, some fifty years before the Wright brothers made their pioneering flight on a North Carolina beach. Forces from the Austrian Empire were besieging Venice...

About this event: Bradford has long been a lab for social innovation – from the formation of the Independent Labour Party and Titus Salt’s worker’s village in the 1800s, to William Forster’s work on the first national education legislation, the first schools to offer free meals to children and the first UNESCO City Of Film. With waves of Irish, German, South Asi...

About this event: Aesthetics was first put forward by Baumgarten, a German philosopher. "Aesthetics" is complex. It can be applied to all aspects of our life, such as music, mathematics, physics, biology, psychology and so on. Have you ever noticed the mathematical aesthetics of the golden ratio in architecture, music around you? Have you ever known the inherent...

Ole Scheeren designs buildings that generate both functional and social spaces.

Today, several US-based internet communities -- including 4chan (watch Christopher "moot" Poole's TED Talk), Mozilla (watch Gary Kovacs' talk), Fark (Drew Curtis has given a TED Talk too), and Reddit (Alexis Ohanian has given a talk and created a TED playlist) -- are rallying against NSA surveillance of the internet, as revealed by a whistle...

Krista Tippett hosts the national public radio program "On Being," which takes up the great, animating questions of human life: What does it mean to be human? And how do we want to live?

2012 World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker has travelled the world off the strength of his way with words. He combines the nerdiness of being a math student with the hopefulness of being a human.

As a formulation scientist, Li Wei Tan is constantly finding ways to understand why something works and why it doesn't.

In 1943, Irena Sendler and Janina Grabowska froze when they heard Gestapo pounding on the front door. Knowing she was minutes from arrest, Irena tossed Janina her most dangerous possession: a glass jar containing the names of over 2,000 Jewish children she'd smuggled to safety from the Warsaw Ghetto. Who was this courageous woman? Iseult Gillesp...

By Krystian Aparta They say that children learn languages the best. But that doesn't mean that adults should give up. We asked some of the polyglots in TED’s Open Translation Project to share their secrets to mastering a foreign language. Their best strategies distill into seven basic principles: Get real. Decide on a simple, attainable g...

As the TED team travels around the world hosting salons in 14 cities, we're collecting great local stories. Here's a quick report from TED@Vancouver, held June 1, 2012 at the Roundhouse Community Centre, and locally hosted by TED staff Janet and Katherine McCartney. Above, check out the excited Katie Zeppieri at her first TED event, with ...

The TED Android app has long let you watch more than 1,500 TED Talks, with subtitles in 102* languages. But with the launch of version 2.0 today, our award-winning app is now localized in 20 languages -- from Spanish to Swedish, Chinese to Czech, Arabic to Korean. This means that fans in more than 100 countries will be able to browse and sea...

As the Biopharma director for licensing and business development at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, Matthias Müllenbeck is responsible for leading strategic partnering initiatives in the field of oncology and immuno-oncology.

"I write sci-fi novels, because if I wrote a white paper nobody would read it," Daniel Suarez told a panel of translators at TEDGlobal 2013. The science fiction author and drone activist was taking questions during his Skype Open Translation session, in which he described a dystopic--and all too believable--future dominated by autonomous let...

Simona Abdallah plays Arabic percussion, primarily the Darbuka, a goblet-shaped drum. She has broken through traditional expectations to enjoy international success.

Yves Béhar is a designer, entrepreneur and avid surfer whose principles for good design have been deeply influential across the field.

Sometimes, things get a little buried in our archive of 3,000+ TED Talks. Check out some great ones, unearthed for your viewing pleasure.

Wolfgang Kessling and his team at Transsolar designed the solar cooling and comfort concepts that helped Qatar win the bid for the 2022 football World Cup.

Philosopher Thomas Pogge wants to ensure medications get to those who need it most. He has published on a wide range of subjects such as global justice and human rights.