Zachariah Mampilly is an expert on the politics of both violent and non-violent resistance.

Bandi Mbubi would like to make sure that you are using a fair trade cell phone.

Canku One Star promotes living a healthier lifestyle via song and dance.

As a writer on animal cognition and emotion, Barbara J. King seeks to motivate us all to be kinder to the animals we share the planet with.

Swinging from Hollywood blockbusters to sensitive indie films, Thandiwe Newton brings thoughtfulness and delicate beauty to her work.

Kaki King combines jaw-dropping guitar work with dreamy, searching songwriting.

Rosie King challenges stereotypes of people with autism and contextualizes the issue by asking us, “Why be normal?”

Candy Chang creates art that prompts people to think about their secrets, wishes and hopes -- and then share them. She is a TED Senior Fellow.

Dr. Bronwyn King on a mission to save a billion lives -- from tobacco, the greatest preventable cause of premature death.

Eugenia Cheng devotes her life to mathematics, the piano and helping people.

Sougwen 愫君 Chung is an artist and researcher whose work explores the dynamics between humans and systems.

Musician Emily King is living proof that if you want to change your mind (and your art), the best thing you can do is change your scenery.

Erika Cheung was one of the key whistleblowers in the Theranos scandal.

HIV is a serious problem in the DR Congo, and aid agencies have flooded the country with free and cheap condoms. But few people are using them. Why? "Reformed marketer" Amy Lockwood offers a surprising answer that upends a traditional model of philanthropy. (Some NSFW images.) (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2011, July 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Durat...

As a gay couple in San Francisco, Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols had a relatively easy time living the way they wanted. But outside the bubble of the Bay Area, what was life like for people still lacking basic rights? They set off on a world tour in search of "Supergays," LGBT people who were doing something extraordinary in the world. In 15 countr...

What ideas captured people's attention and took off the quickest in 2020? Here are the talks that intrigued and propelled us to the end of this world-shifting year.

Dinosaurs once roamed the Earth. What were they like, why did they disappear, and what can we learn from them?

5 writers share deft musings and observations pulled from the pages of their own work, fellow wordsmiths and the world around them.

We're lied to 10 to 200 times a day, and tell a lie ourselves an average of 1 to 2 times in the same period. These talks will help you understand why — and will make you better at sussing out the truth.

In her reporting and writing, Leslie T. Chang explores the lives of workers in China, focusing on the experience of women.

Billie Jean King won 39 Grand Slam titles during her tennis career, and has long been a pioneer for equality and social justice.

To those who feel like they don't belong: there is beauty in being a misfit.

Dear current and future daughters ...

Explore the emotional landscape of life and identify those hard to define feelings with these fascinating talks.

Whether you love to swim, run, ski, shoot hoops or play cricket, these talks will make you wish you had a foam finger to hoist in the air.

An illuminating, if not slightly chilling, exploration of what makes a psychopath.

These surprising, slightly psychedelic talks are better than staring at a blacklight poster.

Death is a topic that is relevant to us all, and yet it simply isn’t pleasant to talk about. These speakers offer subtle reframes to help us face this fact of life more thoughtfully and with greater compassion.

These TED Talks will help you conjure up massive amounts of gratitude.

Samantha Nutt envisions a world where no child knows war.