TED Talks

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5:21

Isadora Kosofsky

Intimate photos of a senior love triangle

Posted Sep 2018 Rated Fascinating, Informative

6:13

Will Marshall

The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface

Posted Jul 2018 Rated Informative, Fascinating

13:23

Iké Udé

The radical beauty of Africa, in portraits

Posted Mar 2018 Rated Beautiful, Fascinating

10:44

George Steinmetz

Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair

Posted Jan 2018 Rated Fascinating, Beautiful

11:41

Anna Rosling Rönnlund

See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income

Posted Jan 2018 Rated Informative, Fascinating

7:57

Touria El Glaoui

Inside Africa's thriving art scene

Posted Jan 2018 Rated Informative, Inspiring

10:34

Deborah Willis and Hank Willis Thomas

A mother and son united by love and art

Posted Dec 2017 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

7:19

Uldus Bakhtiozina

Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be

Posted Oct 2017 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

7:48

Levon Biss

Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects

Posted Oct 2017 Rated Beautiful, Fascinating

12:05

Benjamin Grant

What it feels like to see Earth from space

Posted Sep 2017 Rated Informative, Inspiring

11:57

Chance Coughenour

How your pictures can help reclaim lost history

Posted Aug 2017 Rated Inspiring, Ingenious

12:20

Kelli Jean Drinkwater

Enough with the fear of fat

Posted Oct 2016 Rated Inspiring, Courageous

11:36

Laura Boushnak

The deadly legacy of cluster bombs

Posted Aug 2016 Rated Informative, Courageous

12:36

Stephen Wilkes

The passing of time, caught in a single photo

Posted Jun 2016 Rated Beautiful, Fascinating

11:27

Angélica Dass

The beauty of human skin in every color

Posted Mar 2016 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

10:10

Thomas Peschak

Dive into an ocean photographer's world

Posted Feb 2016 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

13:54

David Gruber

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

Posted Jan 2016 Rated Fascinating, Informative

14:37

Francesco Sauro

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

Posted Oct 2015 Rated Fascinating, Beautiful

19:15

Mac Stone

Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades

Posted Sep 2015 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

10:18

Stacey Baker and Alec Soth

This is what enduring love looks like

Posted Jul 2015 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

5:03

LaToya Ruby Frazier

A visual history of inequality in industrial America

Posted Jun 2015 Rated Informative, Courageous

17:18

Jimmy Nelson

Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people

Posted May 2015 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

9:42

Chris Burkard

The joy of surfing in ice-cold water

Posted May 2015 Rated Inspiring, Fascinating

6:06

Anand Varma

The first 21 days of a bee's life

Posted May 2015 Rated Informative, Fascinating

10:37

Barat Ali Batoor

My desperate journey with a human smuggler

Posted Apr 2015 Rated Courageous, Informative

7:20

Boniface Mwangi

The day I stood up alone

Posted Apr 2015 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

17:58

Fei-Fei Li

How we're teaching computers to understand pictures

Posted Mar 2015 Rated Inspiring, Informative

5:05

Laura Boushnak

For these women, reading is a daring act

Posted Feb 2015 Rated Inspiring, Informative

13:18

Michael Rubinstein

See invisible motion, hear silent sounds

Posted Dec 2014 Rated Ingenious, Fascinating

6:05

Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution

Posted Dec 2014 Rated Beautiful, Courageous

3:30

Frans Lanting

Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom

Posted Oct 2014 Rated Beautiful, Inspiring

6:23

Sergei Lupashin

A flying camera ... on a leash

Posted Oct 2014 Rated Informative, Fascinating

12:38

Kitra Cahana

My father, locked in his body but soaring free

Posted Oct 2014 Rated Inspiring, Beautiful

4:12

Eman Mohammed

The courage to tell a hidden story

Posted Sep 2014 Rated Courageous, Inspiring

4:03

Uldus Bakhtiozina

Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down

Posted Sep 2014 Rated Funny, Beautiful

4:32

Ziyah Gafić

Everyday objects, tragic histories

Posted Aug 2014 Rated Informative, Inspiring

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