Clear, compelling talks on big issues facing the global economy.

Maya Beiser commissions and performs radical new work for the cello.

About this event: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference - Robert Frost These line...

Are schools killing creativity? What makes a great leader? How can I find happiness? These 25 talks are the ones that you and your fellow TED fans just can't stop sharing.

Brother David Steindl-Rast, a Benedictine monk, meditates and writes on "the gentle power" of gratefulness.

In her warm, glorious voice, Eddi Reader sings thoughtful songs about love, longing and introspection.

About this event: Talk 1: Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online Talk 2: Robert Palmer: The Panama Papers exposed a huge global problem. What's next?

Dan Pallotta is on a focused mission to change the way the donating public things about giving.

Eve Abrams makes radio stories, mostly about her adopted hometown, New Orleans.

Jill Heinerth explores underwater caves deep inside the earth.

Can music be a medical instrument? In a moving talk from TEDMed, Robert Gupta reveals that it certainly can be. He gives as an example the work of neuroscientist Gottfried Schlaug, one of the pioneers of melodic intonation therapy. Schlaug noticed that, while stroke victims with aphasia could not utter a sentence, they could still sing the l...

Lili Haydn brings fresh energy and a collaborative spirit to the violin.

About this event: TEDxRobertCollege is an independently organized event that aims to bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At our TEDxRobertCollege event, TEDTalks video and live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. TEDxRobertCollege will be held at the Robert College Theater on April 12, 2012 at 4:00 ...

Colin Camerer is a leading behavioral economist who studies the psychological and neural bases of choice and strategic decision-making.

As an AI researcher and specialist on digital assets, Jennifer Zhu Scott has her finger on the pulse of technologies that are poised to change our economies and our lives.

Kym Loren Worthy is the prosecutor of Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detroit.

Could US economic growth be over? That's the provocative question that economist Robert J. Gordon begins with. And it's a big question. He points to travel: In 1900 travel was via the open buggy, at 1% the speed of sound. Sixty years later we travelled at 80% of the speed of sound in a Boeing 707. And since then, at a consumer level, we haven'...

A pioneer in ocean exploration, David Gallo is an enthusiastic ambassador between the sea and those of us on dry land.

Researcher Matt Killingsworth designs studies that gather data on happiness. One takeaway? "A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy Mind."

TED Curator Chris Anderson opened this morning's first session, Progress Enigma, with a provocative question: What is the future of work? He asked the audience: According to your worldview, is the growth of innovation accelerating? Not surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of the audience answered yes. But is the answer so simple? Economis...

Robert Sapolsky is "your basic confused human when it comes to violence." He's for gun control but loves shooting people in laser tag. He doesn't believe in the death penalty but has specific fantasies about how he would kill Hitler. He's also a neuroscientist who studies stress and its effects in primates. So, naturally, he wanted to figure...

In 2004, Ben Saunders became the youngest person ever to ski solo to the North Pole. In 2013, he set out on another record-breaking expedition, this time to retrace Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the South Pole on foot.

Lily Tomlin has been honored by the Kennedy Center and awarded the Mark Twain Prize -- and she's still making vital, hilarious comedy.

A pioneer in network science, Albert-László Barabási uncovers the hidden order behind complex systems.

Last week, TED speakers Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson joined us for a live, one-hour debate on the future of the US economy.  It was a furious hour of typing, with both speakers contributing just over 1,500 words in response to a wide variety of user questions.  A few highlights: Ryan Zeigler asks: Mr. Brynjolfsson, you stated in your ...

"In System D, this is a store," says Robert Neuwirth as he shows a photo of a woman sitting on a plank beside a canal in Makoko in Lagos, a booming shantytown built on stilts over the water. It's a place where "there are no streets where there are stores to shop, and so the shop comes to you." Another example of business synergy, global busi...

Robert Legato's life is about perception. He is a two-time Oscar winner for his visual effects magic, and in this spectacularly visual talk he dissects some of his most famous effects, showing how they use the brain's processes to create the effect of reality. Apollo 13 Working on this, he discovered something about how our brains work...

Darrick Hamilton crafts and implements innovative routes and policies that break down social hierarchy and move society towards greater equity, inclusion and civic participation.

"Philosopher diva" Nora York is an adventurous singer-songwriter with a drive to explore the human condition.

About this event: Robert Frost may have intended irony, but his poem popularized "the road less traveled" for a good reason: it sums up an ideology that encourages ordinary people to turn pioneers, practicalists to become dreamers, and conformists to pursue originality.