TED Talks

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3:07

Countdown

What is COP26?

Posted Oct 2021

4:58

Francisca Mutapi

Africans should lead on health care solutions for Africa

Posted Dec 2021

4:47

Dan Kwartler

Why should you read "Dune" by Frank Herbert?

Posted Dec 2019

4:37

Gil Winch

How we can use the hiring process to bring out the best in people

Posted Nov 2020

4:00

Amanda Mattes

Kabuki: The people's dramatic art

Posted Sep 2013

4:40

Birte Kristiansen and Petra Sijpesteijn

A day in the Islamic Golden Age

Posted Mar 2023

23:46

John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson

The fight for civil rights and freedom

Posted Jul 2020

4:34

Chip Berlet

Are the Illuminati real?

Posted Oct 2019

5:06

Constantine N. Vaporis

A day in the life of a teenage samurai

Posted Jun 2020

11:03

Scott Summit

Beautiful artificial limbs

Posted Mar 2012

5:25

George Siedel and Christine Ladwig

Ethical dilemma: The burger murders

Posted Aug 2020

9:06

Hetain Patel

Who am I? Think again

Posted Oct 2013

4:25

Jill Dash

Why should you read "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding?

Posted Dec 2019

4:32

Theresa A. Yugar

History's "worst" nun

Posted Nov 2019

4:19

Sanford Biggers

An artist's unflinching look at racial violence

Posted May 2016

5:02

Lillian Faderman

Harvey Milk's radical vision of equality

Posted Mar 2019

5:46

Alex Gendler

How the world's tallest skyscraper was built

Posted Apr 2021

4:49

Matt Porter and Margaret Hamilton

NASA's first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton

Posted Mar 2020

13:21

Tim Ferriss

Why you should define your fears instead of your goals

Posted Jun 2017

6:46

Daniel Bögre Udell

How to save a language from extinction

Posted Nov 2019

5:07

Lisa Janae Bacon

The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary

Posted Feb 2020

5:40

Johnny Lee

Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks

Posted Apr 2008

16:07

Ananda Shankar Jayant

Fighting cancer with dance

Posted Jun 2010

16:52

Frans de Waal

Moral behavior in animals

Posted Apr 2012

21:48

Dan Dennett

The illusion of consciousness

Posted Apr 2007

18:36

Dan Pink

The puzzle of motivation

Posted Aug 2009

14:00

David Epstein

Why specializing early doesn't always mean career success

Posted Sep 2020

8:34

Tania Douglas

To design better tech, understand context

Posted May 2018

9:48

Jon Gray

The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again

Posted Jun 2019

10:38

Prumsodun Ok

The magic of Khmer classical dance

Posted Oct 2017

8:30

Sougwen Chung

Why I draw with robots

Posted Nov 2019

18:44

David Brooks

The social animal

Posted Mar 2011

16:51

Rebecca Saxe

How we read each other's minds

Posted Sep 2009

8:14

Elliot Krane

The mystery of chronic pain

Posted May 2011

9:30

James Geary

Metaphorically speaking

Posted Dec 2009

8:37

Xiye Bastida

If you adults won't save the world, we will

Posted Sep 2020