Even though many of us likely imagine that slavery is a relic of the ancient past, the practice is alive and well. Since 2009, photographer Lisa Kristine has been documenting those caught up in the barbaric trade. Her images are shocking, powerful, in-your-face. Yet they are also dignified portraits of those with no choice. "No matter how dire, ...

We -- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson -- are climate experts who focus on solutions, leadership and building community. We are a natural and a social scientist, a Northerner and a Southerner. We’re also both lifelong interdisciplinarians in love with words and the cofounders of The All We Can Save Project, in support of women...

About this event: TEDxPCC was held at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center on Saturday, November 23rd 2013. The event was a gathering of leading thinkers and doers. During the full day immersion, presenters gave their “talk of their lifetime,” and shared their moving, innovative, and thought-provoking ideas. Between sessions the audience had opportunities to mi...

The stars of your favorite TED Talks have been busy over the past week. Below, a few newsy highlights. Inside the mind of a murderer. What makes murderers do what they do? A BBC piece revealed that some murderers have reduced activity in their prefrontal cortex, which controls emotional impulses, and over-activity in their amygdala, which gen...

WorkLife with Adam Grant Tuesday, July 27, 2021 DeMar DeRozan: So all star weekend in Los Angeles. I was a part of all star team, a starter on the team actually. Adam Grant: This is NBA player DeMar DeRozan. DeMar DeRozan: And it had just been a tough couple of weeks leading into the all-star weekend. And I was just looking forward to it, j...

Two days before TEDGlobal 2012, Will True found himself on a train, trekking across Scotland on a mission. See, one of six cases sent by our video team from New York City to Edinburgh for the conference was stuck in Scottish customs. Its contents: hundreds of terabytes of high-speed hard drives. TED Talks are filmed on digital video camer...

At TED2019, as we explored concepts, research findings and insights bigger than us (you see what we did there?), these conference shorts cleansed our mental palettes between TED Talks and helped playfully introduce sessions throughout the week. Enjoy these hand-picked videos from curators CC Hutten and Jonathan Wells that capture the kaleidos...

WorkLife with Adam Grant Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey, WorkLifers. We'll be back with season four next month. In the meantime, this is the first of four new episodes of our Taken for Granted series. Merve Emre: Hi. I am Merve Emre. I am an associate professor of English at the University of Oxford, and a regular contributor to The New ...

Relationships take work, but there's good news: Researchers, writers and podcasters have already done some of the heavy lifting in exploring how we can connect with the people in our lives. Marriage and family researcher Carol Bruess shares a list of her favorite relationship books and podcasts. It may or may not be true that one of my go-to gi...

Looking for a few great talks to inspire you for a great year ahead? TED's content+editorial team staffers pick their favorites -- including some don't-miss talks you might have passed by in this busy year. To spark your curiosity ...  Fawn Qiu: Easy DIY projects for kid engineers Don't you hate it when an operating-system upgrade means...

ReThinking with Adam Grant John Green Wants You to Pay Attention to Your Attention June 22, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Welcome back to Taken for Granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. I’m an organizational psychologist. My job is to think again about how we work, lead, and live. Today, I’m talking to one of my...

In 2006, Harold Ford called his friend Mellody Hobson, to tell her that he was running for US Senate in Tennessee and that he needed some national press. Hobson, an investor, in turn called a friend at a major media organization and organized a lunch. But when Hobson and Ford arrived at the lunch, they were taken to a back room. Then they we...

Teen reporters Sadie Cruz and Nia Ashley conducted lots of interviews with speakers at the TEDYouth conference on November 17. Their Q&As will run on the TED Blog over the next few weeks. Below, an interview conducted by Nia. The Flight Director of the Mars Curiosity Mission, Bobak Ferdowsi, is best known for landing a two-ton rover o...

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, May 11, 2022 Katie: My favorite smell is wet sagebrush. James: Grilled cheese that is directly off of the skillet. Kohji: The smell of being in Japan. Poncie: Tomato plants. When you pinch off the suckers to help them grow better. Coco: That humidity smell of like a mix of plants and water an...

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 Adam Grant (AG): Hey WorkLifers, it’s Adam Grant. Welcome back to Taken for Granted, my podcast with the TED Audio Collective. I’m an organizational psychologist, and this series is about rethinking assumptions we often take for granted about how we work, lead, and live. Today’s guest is one of Time’s most influential ...

WorkLife with Adam Grant Tuesday, May 3, 2021 Hey WorkLifers-- and ArmCherries. For today’s bonus episode, we have a very special guest: Dax Shepard. I’ve known Dax since 2019-- I admire his intellectual curiosity, his vulnerability, and of course his humor. I think we’re friends, although every conversation we’ve ever had has been recorded for ...

Seduction happens in many forms. The speakers in this session highlight unexpected twists on the topic — a romance of dueling banjos, the allure of insects, and our ever-widening definition of love. Short recaps of the talks in this session... What we learn from insect sex. "You could have an insect-of-the-month calendar and not have to r...

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 ...

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, July 6, 2022 Diane Russo Cheng : My name is Diane Russo Cheng. I'm in my mid thirties, I am a filmmaker and a photographer. Dr. Jen Gunter: When Diane was 12, she learned she had scoliosis…and she started seeing a chiropractor a couple years later. Diane Russo Cheng: They would take x-rays and when ...

Re:Thinking with Adam Grant Merve Emre on Emotional Intelligence as Corporate Control June 8, 2021 Adam Grant: Hey, WorkLifers. We'll be back with season four next month. In the meantime, this is the first of four new episodes of our Taken for Granted series. Merve Emre: Hi. I am Merve Emre. I am an associate professor of English at the Univer...

If you happened upon a small park in Nasiriyah, Iraq, last June 28, you would have noticed a group of 15 people, fast asleep, with blue hard hats and orange vests nearby. This group was not homeless, nor staging some kind of occupation. They were volunteers from Iraq Builders who had traveled more than 350 kilometers to repair the badly dama...

From age 6 through age 11, Shabana Basij-Rasikh risked her life to go to school. The Taliban had banned girls in Afghanistan from studying at universities and other educational institutions and, thus, Basij-Rasikh dressed as a boy, posing as an escort for her older sister. Together, the two would place their books in grocery bags and sneak off t...

Astrophysicist, educator, and humanitarian Hakeem Oluseyi trounced race and class to become an important contributor to computer technology and space research. Back on Earth, he's doing all he can to give young and underfunded scientists a chance to reach for the stars. Yours is an extraordinary story. You grew up impoverished -- moving frequ...

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter Wednesday, July 7, 2021 Dr. Jen Gunter: Before we get to the episode, a quick favor. We're doing a listener survey to figure out how we can keep making the podcast better. We'd love your thoughts. So if you have a few minutes, please take the survey at SurveyNerds.com/BodyStuff. That's SurveyNerds.com/BodyStuff — ...

Tuesday morning in the former East Berlin, the midcentury Kosmos cinema hummed with new ideas on business, technology and self, at an event called TED@BCG. The event was produced by TED Institute, a project that embeds within organizations and companies to help employees develop their ideas. Six hundred TEDsters, BCG'ers and guests filled th...

Session 3 of TED2016 examines the ‘i’ words: Imagination. Invention. Ingenuity. Hosted by TED Fellows Jedidah Isler and José Gómez-Márquez, this session is all about speakers who’ve taken the spark of inspiration and put it into action. Recaps of the talks in Session 3, in chronological order. A new way of “seeing.” Early in her career...

Roy Amara’s classic quote goes: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” In today’s talk from TED2013, Rodney Brooks invokes this law to talk about robots. While people panic about robots taking their jobs over the course of the next few years, the focus should be ...

The event: TED Salon: "Rethink," hosted by TED business curator Corey Hajim and TED tech curator Alex Moura When and where: Thursday, June 6, 2019, at the TED World Theater in New York City The partner: Brightline Initiative, with Brightline executive director Ricardo Vargas warming up the audience with opening remarks Music: Dark p...

This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. For the first time in modern history, we have five generations interacting at work. The veterans, born between 1922 and 1943, are known as the Greatest Gene...

Nathalie Miebach, TEDGlobal Fellow, artist, speaking at TED University during TEDGlobal 2011, July 12, 2011. Photo: James Duncan Davidson / TED Jeremy Moon, "Anything Can Be Prototyped": "Creativity is the life force of the universe," says Jeremy Moon, the CEO and founder of Icebreaker Clothing, "and my passion is unlocking the creativity...