TED Talks

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4:15

Dorsa Amir

Why do humans have a third eyelid?

Posted Nov 2019

16:03

Victoria Pratt

How judges can show respect

Posted Nov 2017

8:05

Channing Gerard Joseph

How Black queer culture shaped history

Posted Feb 2023

6:04

Micah Eames

How to come out at work, about anything

Posted Nov 2020

10:35

Tracee Ellis Ross

A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom

Posted Apr 2018

10:28

María Teresa Kumar

How the new generation of Latinx voters could change US elections

Posted Nov 2020

12:33

Kaustav Dey

How fashion helps us express who we are — and what we stand for

Posted Mar 2018

14:04

Susannah Temko

What it means to be intersex

Posted Aug 2020

8:59

Doris Kim Sung

Metal that breathes

Posted Oct 2012

18:48

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Lessons from past presidents

Posted Oct 2008

5:10

Sarah E. Tracy

What is MSG, and is it actually bad for you?

Posted Sep 2021

9:08

Ananya Grover

A campaign for period positivity

Posted Mar 2020

11:28

Roxane Gay

Confessions of a bad feminist

Posted Jun 2015

13:49

Mary Bassett

Why your doctor should care about social justice

Posted Feb 2016

13:39

Dame Stephanie Shirley

Why do ambitious women have flat heads?

Posted Mar 2015

14:00

Matt Trombley

The beauty and complexity of finding common ground

Posted Jun 2020

11:55

Charlie Jane Anders

Go ahead, dream about the future

Posted Mar 2020

16:04

Ben Cort

What commercialization is doing to cannabis

Posted Sep 2018

15:44

Stacy Smith

The data behind Hollywood's sexism

Posted Feb 2017

15:16

Emily Nagoski

The truth about unwanted arousal

Posted May 2018

17:09

Emily Nagoski

The keys to a happier, healthier sex life

Posted Jul 2018

14:26

Steven Petrow

3 ways to practice civility

Posted Feb 2019

16:12

Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers

How to fix two of the most broken systems in the US

Posted Feb 2022

17:48

Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer

The toxic baby

Posted Feb 2012

13:34

Molly Webster

The weird history of the "sex chromosomes"

Posted Mar 2020

24:50

Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci

Meet the scientist couple driving an mRNA vaccine revolution

Posted Aug 2021

5:43

Susan Freitas and Darren Parker

How does this all-female species reproduce?

Posted Apr 2023

5:36

Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet

Meet the microbes that could eat your trash

Posted Jul 2022

19:14

Elizabeth Pisani

Sex, drugs and HIV — let's get rational

Posted Apr 2010

5:39

Tierney Thys and Plankton Chronicles Project

The secret life of plankton

Posted Apr 2012

14:42

Johann Hari

Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong

Posted Jul 2015

23:27

Andrew Solomon

Love, no matter what

Posted Jun 2013

17:06

Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra

El Sistema's top youth orchestra

Posted Feb 2009

51:14

Ibram X. Kendi

The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist

Posted Jun 2020