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

Ursula von der Leyen believes that green and digital transformations hold the key to Europe's future prosperity and resilience.

A fascination with clean lines, modern materials and tiny houses made Christopher C. Deam the perfect designer to rethink the Airstream trailer right down to its aluminum skin.

Leo Igwe works to end a variety of human rights violations that are rooted in superstition, including witchcraft accusations, anti-gay hate, caste discrimination and ritual killing.

Melissa Fleming of the UN's Refugee Agency shares some ways to help refugees right now. When a million refugees showed up in Europe this past year, the world began to take notice of a problem that has been steadily growing before our eyes. Ten years ago, 38 million people had been driven from their homes because of war or persecution; right now...

About this event: The Big Picture Live from Berlin, Germany In this TEDxChange, we’ll take a step back and apply new perspectives to big picture issues. Why, as a global society, should we continue to invest in overseas development? How can we work across borders and political boundaries to bring about positive change? And what returns can we expect on our ...

The open-source programming world has a lot to teach democracy, says Clay Shirky. In this fascinating talk from TEDGlobal 2012, Shirky harkens back to the early days of the printing press. At the time, a group of “natural philosophers” (who would later adopt the term “scientists”) called the Invisible College realized that the press could...

What captured our imaginations and sparked hope for a better tomorrow? As we close out 2021, here's a wide-ranging list of the talks that stood out and stayed with us this year, selected by the editorial team at TED.

Going to an outdoor event during the steamy months of summer generally involves packing a miniature fan and slathering yourself in sunscreen, as most venues do little to shade attendees in the cheap seats. This is something Wolfgang Kessling, of the German climate engineering firm Transsolar, would like to change. In a talk at the TEDxSummit in ...

For the first time at TEDGlobal, a small group of TED Translators came together to present ideas and talk about the future of the Open Translation Project. Discussions centered around how to better collaborate, communicate and capture knowledge amongst the TED translator community, as well as playing subtitled TEDTalks in schools and engagin...

Known as "Captain Organic," Ross Lovegrove embraces nature as the inspiration for his "fat-free" design. Each object he creates -- be it bottle, chair, staircase or car -- is reduced to its essential elements. His pieces offer minimal forms of maximum beauty.

Computer programmer John Graham-Cumming keeps geek history alive by raising awareness for its heroes and their inventions.

Angélique Parisot-Potter traces her sense of justice to her father, a 260-pound wrestler who told her that no matter your size, you must look out for others.

Diana Adams is a leading international lawyer and activist for underserved families.

Chloé Valdary developed "The Theory of Enchantment," a social emotional learning (SEL) program that helps educators transform their students' lives.

The TED-Ed Lesson “The case of the missing fractals” isn’t just an introduction to the intricate and beautiful world of fractal geometry; it’s also a fully-realized film noir short complete with plot, drama and a smattering of ridiculous puns. This cinematic creation is the product of a TED-Ed dream team, with writing by veteran TED-Ed Educat...

With simple lines and pointed jokes that skewer injustice, Patrick Chappatte's editorial cartoons view the tragic, the farcical and the absurd through a lens of unfettered humor.

By Krystian Aparta, as told to Kate Torgovnick Silesian is a Slavic language spoken by about 500,000 people in a region of Poland known as Silesia. Because the region had been home to a large German population until World War II, and because it neighbors the Czech Republic, it consists largely of German and Czech vocabulary. But while it’...

Designers have dreamed about creating a refreshable, affordable full-page Braille display, and a team at the University of Michigan has found an ingenious solution in bubbles. That’s right, bubbles. Imagine you’re reading this article on an electronic device -- but one that has a huge catch. The device can show you only five or six words at a t...

Featured image: Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, who first developed the theory explaining the process of nuclear fission. Theoretical physicist (and TED Fellow) Shohini Ghose has two great passions: physics, and advocating for gender equity in the sciences. “There are still relatively few women in physics – and the higher up the ladder in ac...

Transparency isn’t just a nice-to-do for businesses. It’s essential, says Charmian Gooch, the anti-corruption crusader who accepted the TED Prize tonight. On the TED2014 stage, Gooch revealed her wish for the world. “My wish is for us to know who owns and controls companies, so that they can no longer be used anonymously against the public g...

Sarah Jones is an actor and monologuist who comes on stage to explain her own diverse background. "I grew up in a family that was multi-everything, black and white, Caribbean, Irish American, German American, there was Dominican music playing from the stereo, Christians and Jews (that's a long story)." But then, before we quite know what's hap...

Jarreth Merz' new film, "An African Election," follows the 2008 presidential elections in Ghana from start to finish.

Juliet Schor is rethinking our approach to work — and making the case for a four-day work week.

A TED Talk might contain a brilliant idea, but if it’s only available in English, well, it can only go so far. That's why the TED Translator program encourages thousands of volunteer translators worldwide to subtitle TED Talks in more than 100 languages. So far, they've created 90,000 subtitled talks! Now we've completely rebuilt the TED ...

What do the social networks look like in your city or country? Dave Troy (TED Talk: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations) crunches data to see places not as neighborhoods, but as relationships between people. With his PeopleMaps project, he groups people by whom they follow and talk to on Twitter, then works with loca...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson In Reid Hoffman, we've already welcomed the start-up whisperer. Now here's the "book whisperer", or, as Chip Kidd describes himself, he's a "book designer, page turner, dog eared place holder, notes in the margins taker, ink sniffer." And with a wiggle of his hips, Kidd's off to tell us about devoting 25 years...

Svante Pääbo explores human genetic evolution by analyzing DNA extracted from ancient sources, including mummies, an Ice Age hunter and the bone fragments of Neanderthals.

Nabiha Saklayen is the CEO and cofounder of Cellino, where she works to make personalized cell therapies accessible for all.

Born and raised in Majuro, the capital atoll of the Marshall Islands, Selina Neirok Leem was the youngest delegate at the COP21 conference that adopted the Paris Agreement.