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Newest Talks

  1. The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't
  2. How kids can help design cities
  3. How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
  4. Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail
  5. The case for curiosity-driven research
  6. A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination

Trending

  1. What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country
  2. My friend Richard Feynman
  3. Fractals and the art of roughness
  4. What doctors can learn from each other
  5. Claim your "manspace"
  6. How not to be ignorant about the world

Recommended today

  1. Why ordinary people need to understand power
  2. Let's prepare for our new climate
  3. The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system
  4. Why some of us don't have one true calling
  5. How shocking events can spark positive change
  6. Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed

Explore playlists

TED-Ed lessons: feed your curiosity

  1. Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle?
  2. How big is infinity?
  3. How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
  4. Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas?
  5. What causes heartburn?
  6. The fascinating history of cemeteries

Heard on TED Radio Hour

  1. How we can eat our landscapes
  2. What's wrong with what we eat
  3. Why not eat insects?
  4. What if we ended the injustice of bail?
  5. A political party for women's equality
  6. I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one

what's up with US politics? perspectives from TEDX events

  1. America's pursuit of happiness and why it's gone wrong
  2. Why the District of Columbia should get an equal right to vote
  3. Why we need to put politics in its place
  4. How to fight prejudice through policy conversations
  5. How an algorithm can fight election bias so every vote counts
  6. We won't fix American politics until we talk about class -- here's why

What should I do with my life?

  1. Why you will fail to have a great career
  2. How great leaders inspire action
  3. Why some of us don't have one true calling
  4. How to find work you love
  5. Before I die I want to ...
  6. Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

surprising ideas about economics

  1. Why we need to rethink capitalism
  2. A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
  3. Does money make you mean?
  4. Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
  5. Capitalism will eat democracy -- unless we speak up
  6. A monkey economy as irrational as ours

take a tech break

  1. We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
  2. A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology
  3. How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
  4. Your social media "likes" expose more than you think
  5. The era of blind faith in big data must end
  6. What moral decisions should driverless cars make?

bipartisan ideas

  1. A Republican mayor's plan to replace partisanship with policy
  2. The Housing First approach to homelessness
  3. A clean energy proposal -- race to the top!
  4. A climate solution where all sides can win
  5. American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how
  6. How our friendship survives our opposing politics

About TED

TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 110 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.