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Playlist: Unheard and forgotten stories (5 talks)

Fascinating, little-known stories about some of the biggest happenings in history.
Curated by TED · 5 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/unheard_and_forgotten_stories

Playlist: Secrets to understanding life (10 talks)

From work and happiness, to love and success (and everything else in between), these talks offer insights on some of life's biggest secrets.
Curated by TED · 10 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/secrets_to_understanding_life

Playlist: The rise of Africa’s next generation (5 talks)

What’s the biggest influence on Africa’s future? Its youth. Join the conversation with Africa’s present leaders who seek to inspire and empower the generations of leaders to come.
Curated by TED · 5 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/the_rise_of_africa_s_next_gene

Robert Muggah: The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions

With fantastic new maps that show interactive, visual representations of urban fragility, Robert Muggah articulates an ancient but resurging idea: cities shouldn't just be the center of economics -- they should also be the foundation of our political lives. Looking around the world, from Syria to Singapore to Seoul and beyond, Muggah submits six...
https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_muggah_the_biggest_risks_facing_cities_and_some_solutions

Nick Bostrom: A philosophical quest for our biggest problems

Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems.
https://www.ted.com/talks/nick_bostrom_a_philosophical_quest_for_our_biggest_problems

Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face

Surprising, but true: More women now die of heart disease than men, yet cardiovascular research has long focused on men. Pioneering doctor C. Noel Bairey Merz shares what we know and don't know about women's heart health -- including the remarkably different symptoms women present during a heart attack (and why they're often missed).
https://www.ted.com/talks/noel_bairey_merz_the_single_biggest_health_threat_women_face

Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed

Bill Gross has founded a lot of start-ups, and incubated many others -- and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his own and other people's, and ranked each company on five key factors. He found one factor that stands out from the others -- and surprised even him.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_start_ups_succeed

Jim Al-Khalili: How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions

How does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved. Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely strange world of quantum biology, where something Einstein once called "spooky action at a distance" helps birds navigate, and quantum effects might explain the origin of life itself.
https://www.ted.com/talks/jim_al_khalili_how_quantum_biology_might_explain_life_s_biggest_questions

TED-Ed: The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery

As of 2020, the world's biggest lithium-ion battery is hooked up to the Southern California power grid and can provide enough power for about 250,000 homes. But it's actually not the biggest battery in the world: a pair of lakes are. How can lakes be a battery? Explore how inventors are rethinking what a battery can be, and how these surprising ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/ted_ed_the_world_s_biggest_battery_looks_nothing_like_a_battery

Gerard Ryle: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history

Gerard Ryle led the international team that divulged the Panama Papers, the 11.5 million leaked documents from 40 years of activity of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca that have offered an unprecedented glimpse into the scope and methods of the secretive world of offshore finance. Hear the story behind the biggest collaborative journalism...
https://www.ted.com/talks/gerard_ryle_how_the_panama_papers_journalists_broke_the_biggest_leak_in_history

Sahil Sethi: Can 0.7% of corporate profits fund the world's biggest problems?

The United Nations has set a goal to free the world from hunger, poverty and HIV related deaths. But where does the money come from? Conscious capitalist Sahil Sethi identifies a sector resource-rich enough to make the UN's ambitious goals a reality: the corporate world. By donating .7% of their annual profits to the UN goals, he believes corpor...
https://www.ted.com/talks/sahil_sethi_can_0_7_of_corporate_profits_fund_the_world_s_biggest_problems

Musimbi Kanyoro: To solve the world's biggest problems, invest in women and girls

As CEO of the Global Fund for Women, Musimbi Kanyoro works to support women and their ideas so they can expand and grow. She introduces us to the Maragoli concept of "isirika" -- a pragmatic way of life that embraces the mutual responsibility to care for one another -- something she sees women practicing all over the world. And she calls for tho...
https://www.ted.com/talks/musimbi_kanyoro_to_solve_the_world_s_biggest_problems_invest_in_women_and_girls

Playlist: All about the heart (5 talks)

Get to know your heart a bit better with insightful talks on this powerful, life-sustaining organ.
Curated by TED · 5 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/all_about_the_heart

Playlist: Talks to kickstart your next career (4 talks)

These talks will inspire a professional renaissance and give you the courage to start along a new career path.
Curated by TED · 4 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/talks_to_kickstart_your_next_career

Playlist: How to invest in social good (8 talks)

Great, practical advice on ways to responsibly invest (time, money, and even your company's data) for the good of our global society.
Curated by TED · 8 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/how_to_invest_in_social_good

Courtney E. Martin: The new American Dream

For the first time in history, the majority of American parents don't think their kids will be better off than they were. This shouldn't be a cause for alarm, says journalist Courtney E. Martin. Rather, it's an opportunity to define a new approach to work and family that emphasizes community and creativity. "The biggest danger is not failing to ...
https://www.ted.com/talks/courtney_e_martin_the_new_american_dream

Playlist: Why we need brave journalists (9 talks)

Eight reporters who've been arrested, shot at and threatened talk about why they continue to report in dangerous war zones, prisons, protest sites -- because otherwise, these stories will go untold.
Curated by TED · 9 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/why_we_need_brave_journalists

Robin Chase: The idea behind Zipcar (and what comes next)

Robin Chase founded Zipcar, the world’s biggest car-sharing business. That was one of her smaller ideas. Here she travels much farther, contemplating road-pricing schemes that will shake up our driving habits and a mesh network vast as the Interstate.
https://www.ted.com/talks/robin_chase_the_idea_behind_zipcar_and_what_comes_next

Gianluca Ambrosetti: A local, sustainable solution to the energy crisis

Sometimes the solutions to our biggest challenges don't have to be gigantic investments. Gianluca Ambrosetti describes a solar generator made of mostly everyday materials like mirrors, concrete, and aluminum foil that might actually change the way the world functions today.
https://www.ted.com/talks/gianluca_ambrosetti_a_local_sustainable_solution_to_the_energy_crisis

Seth Berkley: The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they're made at all

It seems like we wait for a disastrous disease outbreak before we get serious about making a vaccine for it. Seth Berkley lays out the market realities and unbalanced risks behind why we aren't making vaccines for the world's biggest diseases.
https://www.ted.com/talks/seth_berkley_the_troubling_reason_why_vaccines_are_made_too_late_if_they_re_made_at_all

Clint Smith: "Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by Clint Smith, directed by Niv Sekar, music by Stephen LaRosa].
https://www.ted.com/talks/clint_smith_ode_to_the_only_black_kid_in_the_class

Brian Cox: CERN's supercollider

"Rock-star physicist" Brian Cox talks about his work on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. Discussing the biggest of big science in an engaging, accessible way, Cox brings us along on a tour of the massive project.
https://www.ted.com/talks/brian_cox_cern_s_supercollider

Denice Frohman: "Accents"

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by Denice Frohman, directed by KAPWA / Robertino Zambrano, music by Bamm Bamm Wolfgang].
https://www.ted.com/talks/denice_frohman_accents

Bruce McCall: What is retro-futurism?

Bruce McCall paints a retro-future that never happened -- full of flying cars, polo-playing tanks and the RMS Tyrannic, "The Biggest Thing in All the World." At Serious Play '08, he narrates a brisk and funny slideshow of his faux-nostalgic art.
https://www.ted.com/talks/bruce_mccall_what_is_retro_futurism

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz: "Three Months After"

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, directed by Naghmeh Farzaneh, music by Adam Larison].
https://www.ted.com/talks/cristin_o_keefe_aptowicz_three_months_after

Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow

It's easy to imagine saving money next week, but how about right now? Generally, we want to spend it. Economist Shlomo Benartzi says this is one of the biggest obstacles to saving enough for retirement, and asks: How do we turn this behavioral challenge into a behavioral solution?
https://www.ted.com/talks/shlomo_benartzi_saving_for_tomorrow_tomorrow

Aracelis Girmay: "For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card"

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by Aracelis Girmay, directed by Jordan Bruner, music by Stephen LaRosa].
https://www.ted.com/talks/aracelis_girmay_for_estefani_third_grade_who_made_me_a_card

William Butler Yeats: "The Second Coming"

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by William Butler Yeats, directed by Eoin Duffy, music by Cypher Audio].
https://www.ted.com/talks/william_butler_yeats_the_second_coming

Emma Lazarus: "New Colossus"

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by Emma Lazarus, directed by Eoin Duffy, music by Sono Sanctus].
https://www.ted.com/talks/emma_lazarus_new_colossus

Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken"

This animation is part of the TED-Ed series, "There's a Poem for That," which features animated interpretations of poems both old and new that give language to some of life's biggest feelings. [Poem by Robert Frost, directed by Ellen Su, music by Stephen LaRosa].
https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_frost_the_road_not_taken
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