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19:27

Countdown Summit

What to expect from COP26

Posted Oct 2021
10:10

Karoli Hindriks

Why the passport needs an upgrade

Posted Sep 2021
13:59

Stephanie Kelton

The big myth of government deficits

Posted Sep 2021
4:38

Jonathan Smith

How do governments create money out of thin air?

Posted Jul 2021
5:39

Robert Chang

The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Posted Jul 2021
4:46

Meg Jacobs

What few people know about the program that "saved" America

Posted Jun 2021
5:15

Alex Gendler

Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal

Posted Apr 2021
5:20

Joseph Goffman

Whatever happened to acid rain?

Posted Apr 2021
4:49

TED-Ed

Why good ideas get trapped in the valley of death — and how to rescue them

Posted Apr 2021
10:19

Amber McReynolds

An election system that puts voters (not politicians) first

Posted Mar 2021
5:57

Lisa Krause

Who were Las Mariposas, and why were they murdered?

Posted Mar 2021
4:28

Karen L. Cox

Debunking the myth of the Lost Cause: A lie embedded in American history

Posted Feb 2021
4:57

Moriba Jah

What if every satellite suddenly disappeared?

Posted Feb 2021
14:08

Max Rashbrooke

3 ways to upgrade democracy for the 21st century

Posted Jan 2021
11:23

Sharon Weinberger

Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech

Posted Dec 2020
4:43

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

The city planting a million trees in two years

Posted Nov 2020
10:28

María Teresa Kumar

How the new generation of Latinx voters could change US elections

Posted Nov 2020
5:20

Sophie Howe

Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it

Posted Nov 2020
5:42

John Soluri

The dark history of bananas

Posted Nov 2020
15:58

Nisha Anand

The radical act of choosing common ground

Posted Nov 2020
4:44

Claire Wardle

Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)?

Posted Oct 2020
4:06

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the fallacy that started a witch hunt?

Posted Oct 2020
16:25

Van Jones

What if a US presidential candidate refuses to concede after an election?

Posted Oct 2020
5:17

António Guterres

The race to a zero-emission world starts now

Posted Oct 2020
5:48

Ursula von der Leyen

Europe's plan to become the first carbon-neutral continent

Posted Oct 2020
10:12

Monica Araya

How cities are detoxing transportation

Posted Oct 2020
5h 40m

TED

Countdown Global Launch 2020

Posted Oct 2020
6:54

Cassie Flynn

A game that lets you decide how to tackle the climate crisis

Posted Oct 2020
11:43

Jessy Kate Schingler

Civilization on the Moon — and what it means for life on Earth

Posted Oct 2020
4:53

Elyse Cox

Who owns the "wilderness"?

Posted Oct 2020
6:10

Camilo Ramirez

The problem with the U.S. bail system

Posted Sep 2020
10:00

Colombe Cahen-Salvador

A global movement to solve global problems

Posted Sep 2020
6:02

Takis S. Pappas

The rise of modern populism

Posted Aug 2020
23:46

John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson

The fight for civil rights and freedom

Posted Jul 2020
10:28

Shari Davis

What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds?

Posted Jul 2020
4:54

Rod Phillips

What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol

Posted Jul 2020