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Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness

Writer and designer Graham Hill asks: Can having less stuff, in less room, lead to more happiness? He makes the case for taking up less space, and lays out three rules for editing your life.
https://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_less_stuff_more_happiness

Rahaf Harfoush: How burnout makes us less creative

Our obsession with productivity -- to-do lists, life hacks, morning routines -- is making us less productive, says digital anthropologist Rahaf Harfoush. She explains why we need to redesign our workday around creativity -- not just efficiency.
https://www.ted.com/talks/rahaf_harfoush_how_burnout_makes_us_less_creative

Jim VandeHei: How to write less but say more

As the saying goes, less is more. The same goes for words. Listen as Politico and Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei shares what he's learned leading two media companies -- and how to radically rethink the way you write to keep people's attention in a distracted digital world.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jim_vandehei_how_to_write_less_but_say_more

Adam Alter: Why our screens make us less happy

What are our screens and devices doing to us? Psychologist Adam Alter studies how much time screens steal from us and how they're getting away with it. He shares why all those hours you spend staring at your smartphone, tablet or computer might be making you miserable -- and what you can do about it.
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_alter_why_our_screens_make_us_less_happy

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten more than his fair share of attention from his acting career. But as social media exploded over the past decade, he got addicted like the rest of us -- trying to gain followers and likes only to be left feeling inadequate and less creative. In a refreshingly honest talk, he explores how the attention-driven model ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/joseph_gordon_levitt_how_craving_attention_makes_you_less_creative

Jan Denecker: How to do more with less in healthcare

As medicine advances, so does the complexity and price of healthcare. For inspiration on ways to keep healthcare affordable, Jan Denecker shares three simple, yet effective innovations from the developing world, where constraints on resources have caused the healthcare industry to adopt a mentality of doing more with less.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jan_denecker_how_to_do_more_with_less_in_healthcare

Priyanka Jain: How to make applying for jobs less painful

Finding a job used to start with submitting your résumé to a million listings and never hearing back from most of them. But more and more companies are using tech-forward methods to identify candidates. If AI is the future of hiring, what does that mean for you? Technologist Priyanka Jain gives a look at this new hiring landscape.
https://www.ted.com/talks/priyanka_jain_how_to_make_applying_for_jobs_less_painful

Dana Kanze: The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding

Women own 39 percent of all businesses in the US, but female entrepreneurs get only two percent of venture funding. What's causing this gap? Dana Kanze shares research suggesting that it might be the types of questions start-up founders get asked when they're invited to pitch. Whether you're starting a new business or just having a conversation,...
https://www.ted.com/talks/dana_kanze_the_real_reason_female_entrepreneurs_get_less_funding

Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice

Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.
https://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_the_paradox_of_choice

Kristie Ebi: How climate change could make our food less nutritious

Rising carbon levels in the atmosphere can make plants grow faster, but there's another hidden consequence: they rob plants of the nutrients and vitamins we need to survive. In a talk about global food security, epidemiologist Kristie Ebi explores the potentially massive health consequences of this growing nutrition crisis -- and explores the st...
https://www.ted.com/talks/kristie_ebi_how_climate_change_could_make_our_food_less_nutritious

Lizzo: The Black history of twerking -- and how it taught me self-love

Twerking is mainstream now ... but do you know where it came from? Superstar Lizzo traces booty shaking to a traditional West African dance and tells how Black women across generations kept the rhythm alive, from blues and jazz singers to modern rap and hip-hop performers. With her characteristic energy, she shares how twerking empowered her to ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lizzo_the_black_history_of_twerking_and_how_it_taught_me_self_love

Inhi Cho Suh: How to achieve more quality hospital care (with less noise)

Every day, a typical hospital patient generates 150 million data points setting off over 1,300 alarms, 90% of which are never acted upon. Can we eliminate the incessant noise and also improve the quality of care? Inhi Cho Suh explains that by applying big data analytics, algorithms can inform medical personnel more successfully -- and more quietly.
https://www.ted.com/talks/inhi_cho_suh_how_to_achieve_more_quality_hospital_care_with_less_noise

Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away

Sara Menker quit a career in commodities trading to figure out how the global value chain of agriculture works. Her discoveries have led to some startling predictions: "We could have a tipping point in global food and agriculture if surging demand surpasses the agricultural system's structural capacity to produce food," she says. "People could s...
https://www.ted.com/talks/sara_menker_a_global_food_crisis_may_be_less_than_a_decade_away

Wendy De La Rosa: 3 psychological tricks to help you save money

We all want to save more money -- but overall, people today are doing less and less of it. Behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa studies how everyday people make decisions to improve their financial well-being. What she's found can help you painlessly make the commitment to save more and spend less.
https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_de_la_rosa_3_psychological_tricks_to_help_you_save_money

Iseult Gillespie: How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O'Keeffe

Feeling disconnected from creating art within classical conventions, artist Georgia O'Keeffe began experimenting with abstract drawings that defied easy classification. Using the shapes and rhythms of nature to capture her internal world, these experiments became the cornerstone of the movement known as American Modernism. Iseult Gillespie explo...
https://www.ted.com/talks/iseult_gillespie_how_to_see_more_and_care_less_the_art_of_georgia_o_keeffe

Wendy De La Rosa: 10 steps to boost your financial health -- that you can do in a day

You take vacation days, sick days and mental health days; now it's time to add a financial health day to that list! What to do on it? Behavioral psychologist Wendy De La Rosa shares 10 simple steps you can take to spend less, save more -- and stress less.
https://www.ted.com/talks/wendy_de_la_rosa_10_steps_to_boost_your_financial_health_that_you_can_do_in_a_day

Lucy Clayton: The true power of a good outfit

In this thought-provoking talk, writer and podcaster Lucy Clayton examines the power of ordinary people in extraordinary outfits and describes how we can repurpose fashion in service of political expression.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_clayton_the_true_power_of_a_good_outfit

Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist

"I dream of a world where geography classes teach about the climate crisis as this one great challenge that was won by people like you and me," says climate activist Luisa Neubauer. With Greta Thunberg, Neubauer helped initiate "Fridays For Future," the momentous international school strike movement that protests the lack of action on the climat...
https://www.ted.com/talks/luisa_neubauer_why_you_should_be_a_climate_activist

Lisa Dyson: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food

We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people -- but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be a key to reinventing how we grow food.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_dyson_a_forgotten_space_age_technology_could_change_how_we_grow_food

Lisa Nip: How humans could evolve to survive in space

If we hope to one day leave Earth and explore the universe, our bodies are going to have to get a lot better at surviving the harsh conditions of space. Using synthetic biology, Lisa Nip hopes to harness special powers from microbes on Earth -- such as the ability to withstand radiation -- to make humans more fit for exploring space. "We're appr...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_nip_how_humans_could_evolve_to_survive_in_space

Garrett Lisi: An 8-dimensional model of the universe

Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a controversial new model of the universe that -- just maybe -- answers all the big questions. If nothing else, it's the most beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary particles and forces you've ever seen.
https://www.ted.com/talks/garrett_lisi_an_8_dimensional_model_of_the_universe

Lisa Mosconi: How menopause affects the brain

Many of the symptoms of menopause -- hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, memory lapses, depression and anxiety -- start in the brain. How exactly does menopause impact cognitive health? Sharing groundbreaking findings from her research, neuroscientist Lisa Mosconi reveals how decreasing hormonal levels affect brain aging -- and shares simple li...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_mosconi_how_menopause_affects_the_brain

Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?

TED Fellow Lucy McRae is a body architect -- she imagines ways to merge biology and technology in our own bodies. In this visually stunning talk, she shows her work, from clothes that recreate the body's insides for a music video with pop-star Robyn, to a pill that, when swallowed, lets you sweat perfume.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_mcrae_how_can_technology_transform_the_human_body

Louise Leakey: A dig for humanity's origins

Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors.
https://www.ted.com/talks/louise_leakey_a_dig_for_humanity_s_origins

Liz Diller: A new museum wing ... in a giant bubble

How do you make a great public space inside a not-so-great building? Liz Diller shares the story of imagining a welcoming, lighthearted -- even, dare we say it, sexy -- addition to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC. (From The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.)
https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_diller_a_new_museum_wing_in_a_giant_bubble

Lisa Winer: Can you solve the virus riddle?

Your research team has found a prehistoric virus preserved in the permafrost and isolated it for study. After a late night working, you're just closing up the lab when a sudden earthquake hits and breaks all the sample vials. Will you be able to destroy the virus before the vents open and unleash a deadly airborne plague? Lisa Winer shows how. [...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_winer_can_you_solve_the_virus_riddle

Lucy King: How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans

Imagine waking in the middle of the night to an elephant ripping the roof from your house in search of food. This is a reality in some communities in Africa where, as wild spaces shrink, people and elephants are competing for space and resources like never before. In this engaging talk, zoologist Lucy King shares her solution to the rising confl...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_king_how_bees_can_keep_the_peace_between_elephants_and_humans

Louise Fresco: We need to feed the whole world

Louise Fresco shows us why we should celebrate mass-produced, supermarket-style white bread. She says environmentally sound mass production will feed the world, yet leave a role for small bakeries and traditional methods.
https://www.ted.com/talks/louise_fresco_we_need_to_feed_the_whole_world

Lucy Kalanithi: What makes life worth living in the face of death

In this deeply moving talk, Lucy Kalanithi reflects on life and purpose, sharing the story of her late husband, Paul, a young neurosurgeon who turned to writing after his terminal cancer diagnosis. "Engaging in the full range of experience -- living and dying, love and loss -- is what we get to do," Kalanithi says. "Being human doesn't happen de...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_kalanithi_what_makes_life_worth_living_in_the_face_of_death

Liza Donnelly: Drawing on humor for change

New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly shares a portfolio of her wise and funny cartoons about modern life -- and talks about how humor can empower women to change the rules.
https://www.ted.com/talks/liza_donnelly_drawing_on_humor_for_change
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