TED Talks

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5:10

Karlos Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio

When did slavery actually end in the United States?

Posted Feb 2023

8:05

Channing Gerard Joseph

How Black queer culture shaped history

Posted Feb 2023

9:49

Luisa Neubauer

The fairy tales of the fossil fuel industry — and a better climate story

Posted Jan 2023

14:45

Melaku Belay

The ecstasy of Eskista, an ancient Ethiopian dance

Posted Jan 2023

6:12

Vivian Jiang

Mao Zedong's infamous mango cult

Posted Jan 2023

5:52

Frank Cogliano

History vs. Thomas Jefferson

Posted Jan 2023

5:07

Marc Adam Hertzman and Flavio dos Santos Gomes

The kingdom hidden in Brazil

Posted Dec 2022

5:33

Stephanie Honchell Smith

The Taj Mahal: A monument to eternal love

Posted Dec 2022

5:14

TED-Ed

Why plague doctors wore beaked masks

Posted Nov 2022

0:00

Kate Fagan

Why people love watching sports

Posted Nov 2022

5:32

Soraya Field Fiorio

How did they build the Great Pyramid of Giza?

Posted Oct 2022

6:07

Bree Jones

How to revitalize a neighborhood — without gentrification

Posted Sep 2022

14:56

Dean R. Lomax

A giant Jurassic sea dragon, unearthed

Posted Sep 2022

18:21

Jeanette Winterson

Is humanity smart enough to survive itself?

Posted Aug 2022

4:36

Charita Gainey

How Phillis Wheatley captured the attention of the world

Posted Aug 2022

4:52

Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen

The rise and fall of the medieval Islamic Empire

Posted Aug 2022

5:24

Noah Charney

Can you guess what's wrong with these paintings?

Posted Aug 2022

5:04

Ilan Stavans

A brief history of Spanish

Posted Aug 2022

17:24

David Wengrow

A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality

Posted Jul 2022

4:39

Lyla Latif

The true cost of gold

Posted Jul 2022

18:43

Parag Khanna

Where on Earth will people live in the future?

Posted Jul 2022

5:33

Olga Kitaina

How to alter the perception of mental health care in Russia

Posted Jul 2022

4:41

Miranda Brown

A brief history of dumplings

Posted Jun 2022

15:10

Julieanna L. Richardson

The mission to safeguard Black history in the US

Posted Jun 2022

5:30

Allison Leigh

Artemisia Gentileschi: The woman behind the paintings

Posted Jun 2022

6:00

Elizabeth Cox

Can you outsmart the college admissions fallacy?

Posted Jun 2022

5:02

Henri Picciotto

Can you solve the fortress riddle?

Posted May 2022

1h 2m

Mary Ziegler, Loretta J. Ross, Erika Bachiochi, Joshua Prager

The future of US reproductive rights after Roe v. Wade

Posted May 2022

6:14

Timothy Williams

Ugly History: Cambodian Genocide

Posted May 2022

5:39

Diana Sierra Becerra

The rebel radio that brought down a war criminal

Posted May 2022

4:39

Kayla Wolf

The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history

Posted May 2022

14:46

Bill Gates

We can make COVID-19 the last pandemic

Posted Apr 2022

4:49

Christopher M. Moreman

The dark history of zombies

Posted Apr 2022

14:58

Garry Kasparov

Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evil

Posted Apr 2022

5:35

Stephanie Honchell Smith

History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror

Posted Apr 2022

4:51

Fabio Pacucci

Why the Sun could crash your internet

Posted Apr 2022