Wofford College president Bernie Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong learning.

Technologist and futurist Bill Joy talks about several big worries for humanity -- and several big hopes in the fields of health, education and future tech.

Lorrie Faith Cranor studied thousands of real passwords to figure out the surprising, very common mistakes that users -- and secured sites -- make to compromise security. And how, you may ask, did she study thousands of real passwords without compromising the security of any users? That's a story in itself. It's secret data worth knowing, especi...

Amy Webb was having no luck with online dating. The dates she liked didn't write her back, and her own profile attracted crickets (and worse). So, as any fan of data would do: she started making a spreadsheet. Hear the story of how she went on to hack her online dating life -- with frustrating, funny and life-changing results.

Mathematician Steven Strogatz shows how flocks of creatures (like birds, fireflies and fish) manage to synchronize and act as a unit -- when no one's giving orders. The powerful tendency extends into the realm of objects, too.

The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug that saved her own daughter's life). Meanwhile she is working to preserve the consciousness of the woman she loves in a digital file ... and a companion robot. In an onstage conversation w...

What is AI, really? Jeff Dean, the head of Google's AI efforts, explains the underlying technology that enables artificial intelligence to do all sorts of things, from understanding language to diagnosing disease -- and presents a roadmap for building better, more responsible systems that have a deeper understanding of the world. (Followed by a ...

Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philanthropic Google Foundation, and the company's dedication to innovation and employee happiness.

Too often, cancer treatments have a short-sighted focus on individual cells, says David Agus. He suggests a new, cross-disciplinary approach, using atypical drugs, computer modeling and protein analysis to diagnose and treat the whole body.

Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient's bedside.

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people learn. With Coursera (cofounded by Andrew Ng), each keystroke, quiz, peer-to-peer discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unprecedented pool of data on how knowledge is processed.

Karen DeSalvo, the chief health officer at Google, explains the partnership between big tech and public health in slowing the spread of COVID-19 -- and discusses a new contact tracing technology recently rolled out by Google and Apple that aims to ease the burden on health workers and provide scientists critical time to create a vaccine. (This v...

How do we make sense of today's political divisions? In a wide-ranging conversation full of insight, historian Yuval Harari places our current turmoil in a broader context, against the ongoing disruption of our technology, climate, media -- even our notion of what humanity is for. This is the first of a series of TED Dialogues, seeking a thought...

At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn't).

Designers spend their days dreaming up better products and better worlds, and you can use their thinking to re-envision your own life, says design professor Bill Burnett. He shares five tips to try, whether you're at the start of your career or contemplating your next act.

In this absorbing look at emerging media and tech history, Peter Hirshberg shares some crucial lessons from Silicon Valley and explains why the web is so much more than "better TV."

The single most important thing for avoiding a climate disaster is cutting carbon pollution from the current 51 billion tons per year to zero, says philanthropist and technologist Bill Gates. Introducing the concept of the "green premium" -- the higher price of zero-emission products like electric cars, artificial meat or sustainable aviation fu...

The coronavirus brought much of the world to a standstill, dropping carbon emissions by five percent. Al Gore says keeping those rates down is now up to us. In this illuminating interview, he discusses how the steadily declining cost of wind and solar energy will transform manufacturing, transportation and agriculture, offer a cheaper alternativ...

As COVID-19 continues to spread, the world is facing two existential threats at once: a public health emergency and an economic crisis. Political theorist Danielle Allen describes how we can ethically and democratically address both problems by scaling up "smart testing," which would track positive cases with peer-to-peer software on people's ce...

If you're feeling anxious or fearful during the coronavirus pandemic, you're not alone. Offering hope and understanding, author Elizabeth Gilbert reflects on how to stay present, accept grief when it comes and trust in the strength of the human spirit. "Resilience is our shared genetic inheritance," she says. (This virtual conversation is part o...

What's on Elon Musk's mind? In conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson, Musk details how the radical new innovations he's working on -- Tesla's intelligent humanoid robot Optimus, SpaceX's otherworldly Starship and Neuralink's brain-machine interfaces, among others -- could help maximize the lifespan of humanity and create a world where goo...

Many of us have experienced multiple cultures, but how many of us are truly global citizens? In her talk, 18-year-old EunJung Choi will share her journey of gaining an understanding of different cultures and how it influenced her life and perspectives. It will also give hope to those who feel incapable of being global citizens because of lack of...

We need a ruler who is interested in various fields and can develop culture as well as freedom of speech and open expression.

In my talk, I focus on the links between man and nature and discuss their intricacy.

Bisiklet sürmek hayata benzer aslında, pedalları çevirmeye devam ettiğin müddetçe ilerlersin. Ne zaman pedalları çevirmeyi bıraktın, yavaşlarsın, dengeni kaybedersin ve düşersin. "Boş ver kupayı, dün çok güzel düştün." Bazen sonuçlar aslında o kadar da önemli değildir, önemli olan sizin o yolda bıraktığınız izdir.

Engin Grantepe TEDxBahcesehirUniversitySalon konuşmasında kendi hikayesini ve hayatı nasıl yaşadığını anlatıyor.

1969 Yılında Sakarya’ da doğdu. 1990 yılında İstanbul Üniversitesi Devlet Konservatuarı Tiyatro Bölümüne girdi. Öğrencilik yıllarında Dormen Tiyatrosunda, “Şahane Züğürtler”, “Hastalık Hastası”, “Neredeyse Kadın”, “Beşten Yediye”,“Sevgilime Göz Kulak Ol”, “Alo Arkadaş”, “Bit Yeniği”, “Kare As” ve“Zafer Madalyası” adlı oyunlarda rol aldı. Konserv...

In this emotional and heartfelt conversation, Eunjung Chai (pen name: Seh-lynn) talks about women empowerment, building peace and reunification between South and North Koreans, focusing on how such concepts relate to a more sustainable world. She shares the story of her book, Deux Coréennes, which reveals how two women, different on the surface,...

Ashraf Engineer is an award-winning media and strategic communication veteran. In a media career spanning nearly two decades, he was part of or led the newsrooms of Mid Day, The Bombay Times, The Maharashtra Herald and The Hindustan Times. In 2011, he was in Afghanistan as part of a UNAID project to train first-generation Afghan journalists. He ...

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