TED Talks

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5:21

Iseult Gillespie

Savitri and Satyavan: The legend of the princess who outwitted Death

Posted Jan 2021

12:49

Alan Smith

Why you should love statistics

Posted Jan 2017

4:46

A.J. Jacobs

The life cycle of a cup of coffee

Posted Jan 2021

4:04

Catharine Young

How memories form and how we lose them

Posted Sep 2015

6:03

Dustin Tahmahkera

The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire

Posted Jul 2020

4:01

Lars Brownworth

The city of walls: Constantinople

Posted Oct 2012

4:09

Philip Freeman

A day in the life of a Celtic Druid

Posted Sep 2019

5:03

Angel Chang

The wildly complex anatomy of a sneaker

Posted Apr 2020

13:55

Kirsty Duncan

Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge

Posted May 2018

10:49

Carolyn Freiwald

The hidden history found in your teeth

Posted Feb 2021

18:19

Casey Gerald

The gospel of doubt

Posted Mar 2016

20:59

Sugata Mitra

Kids can teach themselves

Posted Aug 2008

5:40

Johnny Lee

Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks

Posted Apr 2008

3:19

Alex Gendler

The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions

Posted Mar 2020

17:06

Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra

El Sistema's top youth orchestra

Posted Feb 2009

6:54

Christopher Emdin

Teach teachers how to create magic

Posted Apr 2014

11:10

Aditi Gupta

A taboo-free way to talk about periods

Posted Apr 2016

17:04

Roger Antonsen

Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world

Posted Nov 2016

12:45

Monique W. Morris

Why Black girls are targeted for punishment at school — and how to change that

Posted Jan 2019

5:35

Jeff Dekofsky

The most colorful gemstones on Earth

Posted Dec 2020

23:42

Martin Seligman

The new era of positive psychology

Posted Jul 2008

3:55

Craig A. Kohn

What are stem cells?

Posted Sep 2013

5:22

Amy Adkins

Why do we dream?

Posted Dec 2015

4:40

Alexandra Minna Stern and Natalie Lira

The movement that inspired the Holocaust

Posted Mar 2022

5:43

Susan Freitas and Darren Parker

How does this all-female species reproduce?

Posted Apr 2023

5:25

Laurence Hurst

Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?

Posted Sep 2020

5:37

James Tanton

Can you survive the creation of the universe by solving this riddle?

Posted Feb 2022

5:12

Keenan Norris

One of the most "dangerous" men in American history

Posted Feb 2023

4:46

Meg Jacobs

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

Posted Jun 2021

4:40

Birte Kristiansen and Petra Sijpesteijn

A day in the Islamic Golden Age

Posted Mar 2023

14:59

Brian Cox

CERN's supercollider

Posted Apr 2008

5:32

Dan Kwartler

How fast can a vaccine be made?

Posted Jun 2020

11:20

Chris Nowinski

Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE

Posted Mar 2018

5:50

TED-Ed

Can the economy grow forever?

Posted Aug 2022

3:51

Elizabeth Cox

The benefits of daydreaming

Posted Sep 2022

5:42

Antonio Cataldo

What would happen if you lost your sense of touch?

Posted Mar 2023