TED Talks

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4:29

Viann Nguyen-Feng

4 signs of emotional abuse

Posted Mar 2022

5:25

George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

Ethical dilemma: The burger murders

Posted Aug 2020

5:17

Marc Fagelson

What's that ringing in your ears?

Posted Aug 2020

6:36

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet

Posted Jul 2020

7:05

Karim Abouelnaga

A summer school kids actually want to attend

Posted May 2017

4:19

Laura Wright

Why should you read "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy?

Posted Sep 2019

4:29

Soraya Field Fiorio

A day in the life of an ancient Babylonian business mogul

Posted Jan 2021

11:00

Melati and Isabel Wijsen

Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali

Posted Jan 2016

17:10

Judith Heumann

Our fight for disability rights — and why we're not done yet

Posted Mar 2018

26:42

Stuart Brown

Play is more than just fun

Posted Mar 2009

5:02

Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl

Iceland's superpowered underground volcanoes

Posted Jul 2021

4:49

Brandon Rodriguez

The power of creative constraints

Posted Sep 2018

5:16

Anees Bahji

What is schizophrenia?

Posted Mar 2020

4:34

Chip Berlet

Are the Illuminati real?

Posted Oct 2019

5:36

Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet

Meet the microbes that could eat your trash

Posted Jul 2022

4:43

Liesbeth Demuyser

What causes yeast infections, and how do you get rid of them?

Posted Jul 2022

4:55

TED-Ed

The world's biggest battery looks nothing like a battery

Posted Feb 2021

5:36

Krishna Sudhir

What yoga does to your body and brain

Posted Jun 2020

12:42

His Holiness Pope Francis

Our moral imperative to act on climate change — and 3 steps we can take

Posted Oct 2020

3:51

Elizabeth Waters

The left brain vs. right brain myth

Posted Sep 2018

16:13

Karina Galperin

Should we simplify spelling?

Posted Mar 2017

5:20

Sophie Howe

Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it

Posted Nov 2020

12:08

Sam Kass

Want kids to learn well? Feed them well

Posted Jan 2017

5:31

Anees Bahji

How do steroids affect your muscles— and the rest of your body?

Posted Nov 2020

4:31

Luka Seamus Wright and Imogen Ellen Napper

Which bag should you use?

Posted Nov 2020

4:44

Claire Wardle

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

Posted Oct 2020

5:36

Alex Rosenthal and Pall Thordarson

Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer?

Posted May 2020

5:27

TED-Ed

What happens if an engineered virus escapes the lab?

Posted Mar 2023

5:03

Dan Kwartler

What causes insomnia?

Posted Jun 2018

4:55

Fabio Pacucci

The battle that formed the universe

Posted Jun 2023

4:33

Andrey Vyshedskiy

The neuroscience of imagination

Posted Dec 2016

4:45

Soraya Field Fiorio

The murder of ancient Alexandria's greatest scholar

Posted Aug 2019

5:14

Jay Van Bavel

Do politics make us irrational?

Posted Feb 2020

9:48

Cesar Harada

How I teach kids to love science

Posted Oct 2015

5:40

Hélène Morlon and Anna Papadopoulou

How we can detect pretty much anything

Posted Aug 2021

5:09

Fabio Pacucci

Newton's three-body problem explained

Posted Aug 2020