TED Talks

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11:51

Kate Darling

Why we have an emotional connection to robots

Posted Oct 2018

12:13

David Lang

Let's protect the oceans like national parks

Posted Oct 2018

6:38

Ashwini Anburajan

How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital

Posted Oct 2018

18:30

Hany Farid

The dangers of algorithmic justice

Posted Oct 2018

5:31

DeAndrea Salvador

How we can make energy more affordable for low-income families

Posted Oct 2018

4:46

Kim Preshoff

What's a smartphone made of?

Posted Oct 2018

5:57

Tommy McCall

The simple genius of a good graphic

Posted Sep 2018

4:57

Kaitlyn Sadtler

How we could teach our bodies to heal faster

Posted Sep 2018

11:36

Niels van Namen

Why the hospital of the future will be your own home

Posted Sep 2018

10:05

Simona Francese

Your fingerprints reveal more than you think

Posted Sep 2018

11:47

Tom Griffiths

3 ways to make better decisions — by thinking like a computer

Posted Sep 2018

13:40

Luhan Yang

How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant

Posted Sep 2018

4:07

Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet

Will the ocean ever run out of fish?

Posted Sep 2018

4:49

Brandon Rodriguez

The power of creative constraints

Posted Sep 2018

11:15

Andrew Bastawrous

A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable

Posted Sep 2018

8:29

Pierre Barreau

How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life

Posted Sep 2018

19:22

Mark Pollock and Simone George

A love letter to realism in a time of grief

Posted Sep 2018

8:33

Fred Krupp

Let's launch a satellite to track a threatening greenhouse gas

Posted Sep 2018

12:19

Yale Fox

Home renters are powerless. Here's how to fix that

Posted Sep 2018

17:22

Steve McCarroll

How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain

Posted Sep 2018

12:18

Angel Hsu

How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change

Posted Aug 2018

16:50

Mary Lou Jepsen

How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains

Posted Aug 2018

14:17

DK Osseo-Asare

What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation

Posted Aug 2018

14:49

Kai-Fu Lee

How AI can save our humanity

Posted Aug 2018

17:34

Ranveer Chandra

Data-driven farming could transform agriculture

Posted Jul 2018

7:15

Supasorn Suwajanakorn

Fake videos of real people — and how to spot them

Posted Jul 2018

4:59

Pratik Shah

How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease

Posted Jul 2018

8:21

Laura Caccia

The avant-garde frontier of code poetry

Posted Jul 2018

4:49

Mikhail Zygar

What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media

Posted Jul 2018

9:05

Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu

What your smart devices know (and share) about you

Posted Jul 2018

9:41

Julia Shaw

How memory science can help fight harassment

Posted Jul 2018

6:13

Will Marshall

The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface

Posted Jul 2018

4:41

José Américano N L F de Freitas

How exactly does binary code work?

Posted Jul 2018

13:17

Dina Katabi

A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls)

Posted Jul 2018

15:08

Dan Gibson

How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

Posted Jul 2018

12:41

Gary Liu

The rapid growth of the Chinese internet — and where it's headed

Posted Jul 2018