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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

David Cameron: The next age of government

The leader of Britain's Conservative Party says we're entering a new era -- where governments themselves have less power (and less money) and people empowered by technology have more. Tapping into new ideas on behavioral economics, he explores how these trends could be turned into smarter policy.
https://www.ted.com/talks/david_cameron_the_next_age_of_government

Liz Powers: A new way to define self-worth

When working with homeless and disabled artists, the refrain that social entrepreneur Liz Powers hears most often is: "I don't want a handout, I want an opportunity." In this talk, Powers explores the concept of "Joblifting," a way to create chances for people by focusing on their talents rather than their circumstances.
https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_powers_a_new_way_to_define_self_worth

Liz Diller: The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture

In this engrossing EG talk, architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R's more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.
https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_diller_the_blur_building_and_other_tech_empowered_architecture

Liz Coleman: A call to reinvent liberal arts education

Bennington president Liz Coleman delivers a call-to-arms for radical reform in higher education. Bucking the trend to push students toward increasingly narrow areas of study, she proposes a truly cross-disciplinary education -- one that dynamically combines all areas of study to address the great problems of our day.
https://www.ted.com/talks/liz_coleman_a_call_to_reinvent_liberal_arts_education

LZ Granderson: The myth of the gay agenda

In a funny talk with an urgent message, LZ Granderson points out the absurdity in the idea that there's a "gay lifestyle," much less a "gay agenda." What's actually on his agenda? Being a good partner -- and being a good parent.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lz_granderson_the_myth_of_the_gay_agenda

Lucy Marcil: Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms

More than 90 percent of children in the US see a doctor at least once a year, which means countless hours spent in waiting rooms for parents. What if those hours could be used for something productive -- like saving money? Through her organization StreetCred, pediatrician and TED Fellow Lucy Marcil is offering free tax prep to parents right in t...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_marcil_why_doctors_are_offering_free_tax_prep_in_their_waiting_rooms

Lucy Hone: The three secrets of resilient people

To most people in the field, resilience research is a calling, an academic interest or maybe even just a buzzword. For resilient expert Lucy Hone, it turned out to be an essential survival skill. In this powerful and personal talk, she shares the three strategies that got her through an unimaginable tragedy and—in doing so—offers profound insigh...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_hone_the_three_secrets_of_resilient_people

Lisa Godwin: How teachers can help students navigate trauma

"To make a difference in the life of a child ... I made the commitment to tell my personal story," says educator Lisa Godwin. In this moving talk, she shares her experience of overcoming childhood trauma with the quiet, unwavering support of a teacher and school counselor -- and shows how educators can help students and families navigate hardshi...
https://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_godwin_how_teachers_can_help_students_navigate_trauma

Lucy Hone: 3 secrets of resilient people

Everyone experiences loss, but how do you cope with the tough moments that follow? Resilience researcher Lucy Hone shares three hard-won strategies for developing the capacity to brave adversity, overcome struggle and face whatever may come head-on with fortitude and grace.
https://www.ted.com/talks/lucy_hone_3_secrets_of_resilient_people

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
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