Ze Frank has been involved in online comedy, web toys and virtually shared experiences for the past 20 years as an influencer, performer, executive and mischief maker.

In this intimate talk filmed at TED's offices, energy innovator Amory Lovins shows how to get the US off oil and coal by 2050, $5 trillion cheaper, with no Act of Congress, led by business for profit. The key is integrating all four energy-using sectors—and four kinds of innovation.

About this event: Imagine being in a room full of inquisitive people beaming with positive vibes and inspiration to do something. This is what TEDxIIUI is all about. A gathering of like-minded individuals with one goal in minds; to put up against all their fears. Now, the next step comes in your head, how do we fight our fears? The answer is glib and simple, th...

About this event: Fear is the mind killer, but Science is the mind liberator.

About this event: On April 14th, TEDxFoggyBottom will feature the innovative ideas of our community’s risk-takers and unconventional change-makers. With our 2018 theme of "Fear Itself," we aim to re-examine the concept of fear by presenting talks and performances that cast it in different lights: as a hindrance, a motivator, a biological response, a source of ent...

"These are the times that try men's souls, and they're trying ours now," begins Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, quoting Thomas Paine, in an electrifying talk about how we can face the future without fear if we face it together. It's a fateful moment in history. We've seen divisive elections, divided societies and a growth of extremism -- all o...

About this event: TEDxAustin is proud to bring TED’s movement of “ideas worth spreading” to a city brimming with its own “ideas worth sharing”. Austin is a thriving hub of extraordinary thinkers and doers -- people who initiate and ignite imaginative and innovative ideas, collaborating and connecting to lead the world forward. We design and create a thoughtful ex...

At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up.

Violinist Sirena Huang gives a technically brilliant and emotionally nuanced performance. In a charming interlude, the 11-year-old praises the timeless design of her instrument.

In the 1800s, around 50,000 brown bears -- or grizzlies -- roamed much of the Western United States. Today, those bears can be seen in less than 2 percent of their former range. TED-Ed Educator David Laskin uses NASA satellites to track the shifting, interrelated patterns of today's grizzlies and the plants they live among. In the lesson, ...

A professor and entertainer, Dannagal G. Young studies the impact of modern media on social and political discourse -- and delivers her findings in unexpectedly performative ways.

Dr. Leana Wen is Baltimore City's Health Commissioner.

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Photographer Lisa Kristine travels the world documenting the unbearably harsh realities of modern-day slavery. She shares hauntingly beautiful images -- miners in the Congo, bricklayers in Nepal -- that illuminate the plight of the 27 million souls enslaved worldwide.

Meet the “motion microscope,” a video-processing tool that plays up tiny changes in motion and color impossible to see with the naked eye. Video researcher Michael Rubinstein plays us clip after jaw-dropping clip showing how this tech can track an individual’s pulse and heartbeat simply from a piece of footage. Watch him re-create a conversation...

Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she loves to work. "When I am hard at work, when I am deep in it, there is no other feeling," she says. She has a name for this feeling: The hum. The hum is a drug, the hum is music, the hum is G...

Philip K. Howard is the founder of Common Good, a drive to overhaul the US legal system. His new book is "Try Common Sense."

Most 12-year-olds love playing videogames -- but Thomas Suarez taught himself how to create them. After developing iPhone apps like "Bustin Jeiber," a whack-a-mole game, he is now using his skills to help other kids become developers.

MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte takes you on a journey through the last 30 years of tech. The consummate predictor highlights interfaces and innovations he foresaw in the 1970s and 1980s that were scoffed at then but are ubiquitous today. And he leaves you with one last (absurd? brilliant?) prediction for the coming 30 years.

In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt legendarily spared the life of a black bear -- and prompted a plush toy craze for so-called "teddy bears." Writer Jon Mooallem digs into this toy story and asks us to consider how the tales we tell about wild animals have real consequences for a species' chance of survival -- and the natural world at large.

The hoodie is a lot more than just a comfy sweatshirt. Design curator Paola Antonelli takes us through its history.

"Lies are more engaging online than truth," says former CIA analyst, diplomat and Facebook employee Yaël Eisenstat. "As long as [social media] algorithms' goals are to keep us engaged, they will feed us the poison that plays to our worst instincts and human weaknesses." In this bold talk, Eisenstat explores how social media companies like Facebo...

By Marianna Torgovnick It’s the story that inspired Moby Dick. In 1819, the crewmembers of the whaleship Essex watched in horror as their boat was struck by a sperm whale and began to flood. Forced into small boats with little food or water, they had three options: they could head to the nearest land, the Marquesas Islands, believed to be po...

Representing the Scottish indie-folk scene, fiddler Hannah Fisher and guitarist Sorren Maclean perform two beautiful, transportive songs -- and call attention to the dire need for marine conservation.

About this event: Come join us for this TEDx viewing party. Our theme for the night is FEAR. All are welcome. Refreshments will be provided. Tickets and reservations are not required.

About this event: From the external pressures, internal struggles, what causes action? What actions do we, as high school students choose to take and not take? Through what lens can we comprehend all of the positive, negative, and neutral pressures driving us to action?

The same resolutions every year -- get more sleep, eat healthier -- we know the drill. Let these talks inspire you to keep with those goals and perhaps add a few more to your list too.

Ingrid Betancourt was a presidential candidate in Colombia in 2002 when she was kidnapped by guerilla rebels. After six years in captivity and a high-profile rescue, she now writes about what she learned about fear, forgiveness and the divine.

The author of "The Perfect Storm" and the director of the documentaries "Restrepo" and "Korengal," Sebastian Junger tells non-fiction stories with grit and emotion.

Known for her compassionate work with the terminally ill, Joan Halifax is a driving force of socially engaged Buddhism.