Luisa Neubauer is a climate activist, author and co-organizer of the "Fridays For Future" climate strike movement.

Okong'o Kinyanjui helps queer Africans mobilize, share resources and build meaningful connections with each other.

As the year 1905 began, Albert Einstein faced life as a "failed" academic. Yet within the next twelve months, he would publish four extraordinary papers, each on a different topic, that were destined to radically transform our understanding of the universe. Larry Lagerstrom details these four groundbreaking papers. [Directed by Oxbow Creative, n...

Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right back up -- and grow up to be brave women. Learn how to spark a little productive risk-taking and raise confident girls with stories and advice from firefighter, paraglider and all-around adventurer Caroline Paul.

Through groundbreaking research and the lens of her own autism, Temple Grandin brings startling insight into two worlds.

Ali Noorani has traveled the world listening to the stories of migrants -- along with the stories of those who welcome them and those who fear them.

Kitra Cahana doesn’t really live anywhere. The photojournalist has been on the road since she was young, the oldest in a family of five with parents who often traveled for months on end. Says the TED Fellow by phone (appropriately, from the road), “It engrained in me the notion that I can live anywhere, that there are no borders.” It was natu...

About this event: What are you afraid of? At some point in our lives, we all have experienced fear. Fear of failure, loss, change, uncertainty and rejection. Fear is a human instinct, but embracing fear is a super human ability. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears. Imagine how the world would look if we all took a step back...

These are some of the TED Talks that had you looking at the world differently by the time the credits rolled (in no specific order).

Beau Lotto seeks to pull aside the curtain of why we see what we do in order to create the possibility and agency in deciding what to perceive next.

About this event: Belief & disbelief, fears & superstitions: Let's trigger thoughts, engage in conversation and be fortunate in a fascinating evening for the few lucky ones only. What is a TEDxFlandersSalon by the TEDxFlanders women team ? It’s a unique small scale gathering that allows the TEDx conversation to continue, in person, and that i...

About this event: Join us for screenings of 3 TED talks: David Rothkopf's "How Fear Drives American Politics", Karen Thompson Walker's "What Fear Can Teach Us", and Tim Ferriss's "Smash Fear, Learn Anything." A lively moderated discussion will follow each TED talk. Don't be afraid to join us and share your opinions!

Individuals who have shaped society and culture in homes around the world and on the big screen.

The Year In Ideas 2015.

Elizabeth Gilbert shares 11 ways to think smartly about creativity. Creativity is a tricky word. Consultants peddle it, brands promise it, we all strive for it, often without really knowing quite what "it" really is. Put simply, there's a lot of snake oil around creativity. But now here's author Elizabeth Gilbert (TED Talk, Your elusive creativ...

About this event: What’s your biggest fear? For some it’s spiders. For others it’s public speaking. For a vast majority of us, it’s the fear of failure. TEDxSDSU will explore this uncomfortable topic of fear through the inspiring and compelling stories of our speakers. This event seeks to dissect the science of fear and alter the way the audience views and handle...

Through his lab at the California Institute of Technology, David Anderson seeks to find the neural underpinnings of emotions like fear, anxiety and anger.

About this event: Fear is the oldest of human emotions; it allowed us to evolve into the planet’s dominant species and survive when predators were a genuine threat. Now, in the modern world, is there still a place for fear? We fear failure, the unknown, the other and even ourselves. Without help, our fears spiral and overwhelm. Now imagine a world free from fea...

In 2002, Ingrid Betancourt was campaigning to become president of Colombia when she was kidnapped by guerillas. She was held in the jungle for six years. With fear her constant companion, she learned how to use it and grow. The first time I felt fear I was 41 years old. People have always said I was brave. When I was little, I'd climb the highe...

At her first museum job, art historian Sarah Lewis noticed something important about an artist she was studying: Not every artwork was a total masterpiece. She asks us to consider the role of the almost-failure, the near win, in our own lives. In our pursuit of success and mastery, is it actually our near wins that push us forward?

About this event: What makes a great community? Is it the people, the culture, the businesses, the entertainment or the fresh air? Maybe it's the ability to take several pieces of that community and make them fit together like a fantastic puzzle. But what happens when your relationships--personal, business and/or professional are plagued by fear. The fear of ...

Photo: James Duncan Davidson Paul Gilding starts his TEDTalk with four words that say almost everything: "The Earth is full." It's a terrifying concept. Have we really strained, mined and otherwise depleted the planet's resources to the point where social collapse is inevitable? Gilding believes we have, and he launches into a defense of ...

If you went to a grocery store in April, you probably saw anxious shoppers pushing carts filled with cans of beans or toilet paper -- and you might’ve even felt the urge to panic buy, too. Psychologist Susan David says that’s because humans are social creatures and our emotions and actions are deeply influenced by other people. During uncerta...

Waddling along the parched Australian earth, a female platypus is searching for fresh water. Over the past year, a severe drought turned rivers and streams to mere trickles. She barely survived and was unable to reproduce. Could the next year bring a change in luck? Gilad Bino traces a year in the life of a platypus, and explores the unique adap...

The author of "Eat, Pray, Love," Elizabeth Gilbert has thought long and hard about some big topics. Her fascinations: genius, creativity and how we get in our own way when it comes to both.

Brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor studied her own stroke as it happened -- and has become a powerful voice for how we can choose to replace our stress, fear and anxiety with feelings of joy and deep inner peace.

About this event: Saturday, September 21 from 5 to 9 pm Macky Auditorium Concert Hall (285 University Ave, Boulder 80309) on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus.

About this event: Fear Less – the TEDxJacksonville 2016 conference – will bring talented speakers and musical guests to the stage on Saturday, October 22, at the historic Florida Theatre. It’s said that mankind’s oldest and strongest emotion is fear. But to live fully – to risk boldly and embrace new challenges – requires that we learn to face fear and be free...

About this event: Do you ever find life is like the description on the back of a shampoo bottle? “Apply. Rinse. Repeat.” Human beings love routine. We love what we know; we love our systems, our everyday, our favorite places, our habitual stops along our everyday paths from A to Z. Our planned vacations, our weekend escapes, our coffee shops, our nights out with ...

How do parents protect their children and help them feel secure again when their homes are ripped apart by war? In this warm-hearted talk, psychologist Aala El-Khani shares her work supporting -- and learning from -- refugee families affected by the civil war in Syria. She asks: How can we help these loving parents give their kids the warm, secu...