TED Talks

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10:44

George Steinmetz

Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair

Posted Jan 2018 Rated Fascinating, Beautiful

9:20

Nnedi Okorafor

Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa

Posted Nov 2017 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

7:08

Richard Browning

How I built a jet suit

Posted Jun 2017 Rated Inspiring, Ingenious

6:06

Carrie Nugent

Adventures of an asteroid hunter

Posted Mar 2017 Rated Informative, Fascinating

12:41

Caroline Paul

To raise brave girls, encourage adventure

Posted Mar 2017 Rated Inspiring, Courageous

13:47

Nagin Cox

What time is it on Mars?

Posted Feb 2017 Rated Informative, Fascinating

21:48

Sarah Parcak

Help discover ancient ruins — before it's too late

Posted Jan 2017 Rated Inspiring, Informative

15:31

Jia Jiang

What I learned from 100 days of rejection

Posted Dec 2016 Rated Inspiring, Funny

7:25

Steven Johnson

The playful wonderland behind great inventions

Posted Nov 2016 Rated Informative, Fascinating

10:05

Pico Iyer

The beauty of what we'll never know

Posted Oct 2016 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

4:29

Rainn Wilson

Ideas worth dating

Posted Oct 2016 Rated Funny, Ingenious

6:59

Sarah Parcak

Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations — with satellites

Posted Aug 2016 Rated Fascinating, Inspiring

13:07

Adam Savage

My love letter to cosplay

Posted Jul 2016 Rated Funny, Beautiful

7:14

Zaria Forman

Drawings that show the beauty and fragility of Earth

Posted May 2016 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

12:38

Monica Byrne

A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram

Posted May 2016 Rated Beautiful, Fascinating

15:49

Kenneth Lacovara

Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe

Posted Apr 2016 Rated Inspiring, Informative

11:21

Laura Robinson

The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor

Posted Mar 2016 Rated Informative, Beautiful

10:10

Thomas Peschak

Dive into an ocean photographer's world

Posted Feb 2016 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

15:49

Andrés Ruzo

The boiling river of the Amazon

Posted Feb 2016 Rated Inspiring, Fascinating

13:54

David Gruber

Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures

Posted Jan 2016 Rated Fascinating, Informative

6:49

Jill Heinerth

The mysterious world of underwater caves

Posted Jan 2016 Rated Fascinating, Informative

19:10

Guillaume Néry

The exhilarating peace of freediving

Posted Dec 2015 Rated Fascinating, Inspiring

14:37

Francesco Sauro

Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science

Posted Oct 2015 Rated Fascinating, Beautiful

14:28

Alan Eustace

I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it

Posted Sep 2015 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

9:26

Dawn Landes

A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane

Posted May 2015 Rated Fascinating, Inspiring

6:02

Nizar Ibrahim

How we unearthed the Spinosaurus

Posted Apr 2015 Rated Informative, Fascinating

17:04

Ben Saunders

To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life

Posted Dec 2014 Rated Inspiring, Courageous

10:47

Fabien Cousteau

What I learned from spending 31 days underwater

Posted Oct 2014 Rated Fascinating, Beautiful

18:22

Chris Hadfield

What I learned from going blind in space

Posted Mar 2014 Rated Inspiring, Fascinating

4:28

David Lang

My underwater robot

Posted Dec 2013 Rated Inspiring, Ingenious

8:51

Holly Morris

Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.

Posted Oct 2013 Rated Informative, Fascinating

8:38

Edith Widder

How we found the giant squid

Posted Mar 2013 Rated Fascinating, Informative

6:41

Munir Virani

Why I love vultures

Posted Nov 2012 Rated Informative, Persuasive

10:08

Karen Bass

Unseen footage, untamed nature

Posted May 2012 Rated Beautiful, Fascinating

18:12

Mike deGruy

Hooked by an octopus

Posted Feb 2012 Rated Inspiring, Fascinating

14:48

Yves Rossy

Fly with the Jetman

Posted Nov 2011 Rated Fascinating, Courageous

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