Confidence and joy in your own body are the keys to healthy intimacy, says educator and author Emily Nagoski. Every weekday for the month of January, TED Ideas is publishing a new post in a series called “How to Be a Better Human,” containing a helpful piece of advice from a speaker in the TED community. To see all the posts in the series, clic...

Not every conversation with a climate denier has to lead to raised voices and hurt feelings. Here’s how to do it constructively. “Climate change has become one of the taboo topics -- like sex, politics and religion -- that doesn’t get talked about at the Thanksgiving table,” says Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale Program on Climate Chan...

How long have you been staring at a screen? Chances are this is not the beginning of your day on your mobile device or computer -- and it’s very unlikely to be the end of it. You reading this blog post is only a moment in your digital day, nestled among Facebook updates, Twitter posts, Tumblr reblogs, YouTube videos and, of course, more arti...

TED Studies, created in collaboration with Wiley, are curated video collections — supplemented by rich educational materials — for students, educators and self-guided learners. In Visualizing Data, TED speakers shake up statistics with elegant, dynamic representations that make mountains of data comprehensible — and even exciting. Learn how to v...

About this event: Join TEDx University of Pittsburgh for our second Salon. New this year, Salons will be a series of events meant to foster conversation around ideas worth spreading. Who: Sara Goodkind is Associate Professor of Social Work, Sociology, and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research focuses on marginali...

It’s time to ensure that no American has to worry about where they and their families will sleep tonight, says housing consultant James Stockard. There’s a lot of talk these days about how we can make America great again, with politicians, academics and journalists looking for the answers in areas that include increased defense spending, infras...

Digital minimalist Cal Newport shows how you can turn off the information firehose and follow current events on your own terms. Are you ready to join the attention resistance? In 2010, a trio of Germans with backgrounds in sociology, technology and market research posted a document titled “Das Slow Media Manifest” (the English translation is “T...

About this event: In 2014 the name is TEDxGdynia "TODAY.TOMORROW.CITY". Living in the city nowadays allows to observe the changes of the city, of the community. There are a few paths because on the one hand people are getting closer again trying to balance their leisure and work time and on the other hand the technology is almost everywhere and it's essential to...

I’ll never forget the first images of Sebastião Salgado’s that I ever saw. At the time, I was just getting into photography, and his images of the mines of Serra Pelada struck me as otherworldly, possessing a power that I had never seen in a photo before (or, if I’m honest, since). In the twenty years that I’ve been photographing, his work has...

Deepen your understanding of Reworking the Western Diet with these carefully crafted educational exercises that let you get the most out of this TED Studies subject. Activity 1 There's not one universally accepted definition of "sustainable consumption." Based on what you've learned in Reworking the Western Diet, how would you define the term? W...

About this event: 2 TED Talks. 2 Live Speakers. 4 Topics. 1 Theme – Only Connect! Mark Sturgell, Leadership Coach – Connecting Circumstance with Success Kristi Palmer, Professor of Sociology and Psychology– Mental Illness and Connection TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in...

Sociologist Jill Suitor studies the truth about moms and their kids -- and the surprising effects that parental favoritism can have on us. If you want to start a fight in a multi-child family, try throwing out the question “Who is Mom’s favorite?” While most mothers will insist they love their children equally, many kids will say that Mom has a...

TED2017 begins on Monday in Vancouver, Canada, and will explore the theme “The Future You.” If the future you is anything like the future us, you are likely curled up in a big cushy chair right now, devouring the contents of a book that flips your thinking. Below, some reading suggestions from the speaker program. Read, enjoy and stay tuned ...

About this event: Our Salon is a PUB-like Drop-in event with discussion about a selected theme after an introduction and normally replay of TED Talk(s) with related contents. Introduction and chairing the discussion this time by Emeila Strid, She has an interdisciplinary education with sociology, philosophy and (mainly) psychology from Linköping University and is...

Is it possible to define, measure and even increase how wise a person is? Psychiatrist Dilip Jeste is attempting to answer those questions. To assess our health, we weigh ourselves, measure our blood pressure, and check our cholesterol. But one scientist is trying to figure out the connection between our well-being and something much more diffi...

About this event: With as much uncertainty as we see in our world, there are certain things that seem - well - certain. Law enforcement officers are always tough and strong, you can easily form a new habit in just 30 days, and artificial intelligence will, like the movies have warned us, destroy us all one day. Certain, right? THINK AGAIN. Operating with absol...

About this event: Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for… It’s time to announce the first edition of TEDxTrinityCollegeDublin! On the 27th of March, our nine distinguished speakers will present a range of thought-provoking, inspiring talks based on the theme “Place your bets”. Driven by the complexity of decision-making in all spheres of life, we have comb...

TEDGlobal 2014 will be held in Rio de Janeiro from October 5 through 10. With a speaker program that ranges from a nomadic filmmaker to a Buddhist monk, from a technologist changing the way we detect cancer to a chef who’s preserving the culinary heritage of Brazil, the conference promises to flip our thinking many times over. We spoke to curato...

About this event: Bahria University's First TEDx event. An event worth sharing with ideas worth spreading! An event that was appreciated by each of its attendee. From brilliant speakers to understanding audience, TEDXBahriaUKarachi had been a soul inspiring event for everyone. Our speakers tunred out to be role models for our audience. We had on board: Ms....

About this event: The beginning of 2011 was full of negative news: terroristic explosion at the airport Domodedovo (Moscow), civil activities in Tunisia, Egypt after the beginning of the war in Libya and the earthquake in Japan that fallow to the brake of nuclear reactor and about 13 thousands of victims. That’s why we decided to discuss the nature of fears and t...

Musician, ethnomusicologist, author, and social media maven -- Kyra Gaunt (see her TEDxChisinau talk here) won’t limit herself to one way of thinking. Using a variety of media, she works nonstop to help humanity see our own remarkable unity in diversity. Your work encompasses scholarship, musical performance, educational theory, race, gender,...

Linguist and psychologist Steven Pinker's talk at the end of TED2018 Session 1 argued enthusiastically that humanity has, as a whole, made remarkable progress toward prosperity, peace and happiness — backing up his assertions with charts that showed an optimistic trajectory. But is that the whole story? A roundtable of TED Fellows — includin...

About this event: When TEDxSwarthmore got underway on Sat., March 31, the 500-or-so students, faculty and staff members, alumni, parents, and other visitors that flocked into the Lang Performing Arts Center on Saturday, March 31, expected to be wowed. After all, this was Swarthmore's version of the acclaimed TED Conference, an annual meeting in Long Beach, Calif....

Crystal Giants by Giovanni Badino This book shows clearly how the reality of nature can go far beyond human imagination. Badino and the explorers of La Venta bring the reader on the exploration of one of the most astonishing places of the world, the Giant Crystal Cave of Naica, discovered in a silver mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, in 2000. This und...

About this event: Join us for the TEDxKingLincolnBronzevilleSalon! Coffee + Conversation + Community May 4th 10:30am-12:30pm The Lincoln Cafe 740 E Long St, Columbus, OH 43203 Featured guest: Ekundayo Igeleke What is a TEDx Salon? Ever seen a TEDx video and wished you could ask the speaker questions? Now you can! Salon events are small monthly gathers of com...

About this event: This session — themed In Search of Happiness — is curated by TEDxTheHague regulars Johan Olie (46) and Bruce Siemens (19). Inspired by Sebastian Wernicke, featured in our February session, Johan and Bruce set out to create an ideal TED talk using the tedPAD. Off course, as these things go, the process brought them elsewhere. Wernicke found...

Is a private Facebook group the 2017 version of the all-men’s golf getaway? What’s the difference between being “a good man” and “a real man”? In an honest and eye-opening conversation, Baby Boomer Michael Kimmel and his Generation Z son, Zachary, share their experiences of masculinity. Michael Kimmel (TED Talk: Why gender equality is good for ...

There’s something so cool about finding a new podcast to love -- each little download opens a door to new ideas, new jokes, new ways of seeing the world. Working at TED, as you might guess, many of us have strong opinions about this. Beyond the podcasts we all love: This American Life, Radiolab, The Moth, Serial, and of course our own TED Ra...

About this event: A student contest From February to September 2010, we will host a student contest on Education, Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the 21st Century: we target students from different fields of study who possess the necessary vision and passion to implement a pattern breaking change in the way of thinking and doing entrepreneurship, education a...

About this event: My event was about young people with different perspectives and appropriate results. Iunia Pasca is a Romanian traveler who dreamt of exotic and far away realms from early childhood. On hearing about her "journey" through life and places such as Asia, South America and almost all of Europe, people can`t help but asking the seemingly simple que...