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TEDTalks
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- "A Bird Made of Birds"
- "Accents"
- "Afterneath" / "Killing Me"
- "All the World's a Stage"
- "Autopilote" / "Pumper"
- "Being Human" / "Awakening"
- "Chasms"
- "Circular Escape"
- "Dead Romance"
- "Drottning Kristina"
- "East Virginia" / "John Brown's Dream"
- "Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved
- "First Kiss"
- "Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves
- "Healthcare Anthem of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany"
- "Interpassion" / "Ba$$in
- "It All Starts With One" / "You Light My Fire"
- "Iyeza" / "Zabalaza"
- "My Fine Reward"
- "My Man" / "Bohanna" / "We Dance"
- "My mama" / "BLACK BANANA"
- "Natural Woman" and "Johnny and Donna"
- "New Colossus"
- "New Second Line"
- "Not About Me"
- "Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class"
- "Part II. The Journey Through Time" / "Ruslan and Lyudmila"
- "Rebelosis" / "Rebel Rock" / "Rebel on That Level"
- "Ruise�nor" / "No Hay Vuelta Atr�as"
- "Stumbling towards intimacy": : An improvised TED Talk
- "The Coming Out Beauty" / "419 sq ft"
- "The Last Serenade"
- "The Nutritionist"
- "The Opposites Game"
- "The Rich Man's House" / "Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed on Freedom)"
- "The Road Not Taken"
- "The Sacred Art of the Ori"
- "The Second Coming"
- "The Singularity"
- "Three Months After"
- "To Make Use of Water"
- "Top Knot Turn Up" / "Bad Habits"
- "Tumba La Nyama" / "Mulema"
- "Val�e" / "River"
- "We Are the Halluci Nation"
- "White"
- "Wild Women"
- "You Found Me"
- "You Have the Rite"
- "You Never Can Tell" / "Over the Mountain, Across the Sea"
- 10 things to know before you pitch a VC for money
- 100 solutions to reverse global warming
- 12 truths I learned from life and writing
- 15 ways to avert a climate crisis
- 18 minutes with an agile mind
- 2008 TED Prize wish : Charter for Compassion
- 2008 TED Prize wish : Once Upon a School
- 2008 TED Prize wish : an African Einstein
- 3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem
- 3 fears about screen time for kids -- and why they're not true
- 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
- 3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage
- 3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion
- 3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer
- 3 myths about the future of work (and why they're not true)
- 3 principles for creating safer AI
- 3 psychological tricks to help you save money
- 3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do
- 3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings
- 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water
- 3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking
- 3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace
- 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce
- 3 ways to make better decisions -- by thinking like a computer
- 3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it
- 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term
- 3 ways to practice civility
- 4 questions you should always ask your doctor
- 4 ways to improve the lives of the "bottom billion"
- 4 ways to make a city more walkable
- 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins
- 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do
- 5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world
- 5 ways to share math with kids
- 6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth
- 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- 7 common questions about workplace romance
- 7 principles for building better cities
- 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for
- 9/11 healing : the mothers who found forgiveness, friendship
- A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer
- A (not so) scientific experiment on laughter
- A 20-year tale of hope : How we re-grew a rainforest
- A 3-minute story of mixed emoticons
- A 4-minute medley on the music wars
- A Parkland teacher's homework for us all
- A Republican mayor's plan to replace partisanship with policy
- A TED speaker's worst nightmare
- A beautiful new theory of everything
- A black man goes undercover in the alt-right
- A bold idea to replace politicians
- A bold plan for mass adoption of electric cars
- A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India
- A bold plan to house 100 million people
- A brie(f) history of cheese
- A brief digression on matters of lost time
- A brief history of cannibalism
- A brief history of chess
- A brief history of dogs
- A brief history of violence
- A call for a moral revival
- A case for cliteracy
- A celebration of natural hair
- A climate change solution that's right under our feet
- A climate solution where all sides can win
- A comic send-up of TED2006
- A crash course in organic chemistry
- A dance to honor Mother Earth
- A day in the life of a Cossack warrior
- A day in the life of a Mongolian queen
- A day in the life of an ancient Celtic Druid
- A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor
- A different way to think about creative genius
- A digital library, free to the world
- A doctor's case for medical marijuana
- A forgotten ancient grain that could help Africa prosper
- A free world needs satire
- A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology
- A girl, a photograph, a homecoming
- A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome
- A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
- A global initiative to end violence against children
- A grassroots healthcare revolution in Africa
- A guided tour of the Ghost Map
- A happy song about global warming
- A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
- A hero of the Congo Basin forest
- A human-robot dance duet
- A journey to the center of your mind
- A juror's reflections on the death penalty
- A lesson on looking
- A librarian's case against overdue book fines
- A library of human imagination
- A life of fascinations
- A life-saving device that detects silent heart attacks
- A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes
- A love letter to realism in a time of grief
- A love story about the power of art as organizing
- A lyrical bridge between past, present and future
- A makerspace for everyone
- A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination
- A millennial's proposal for a happy multigenerational workplace
- A mockingbird remix of TED2006
- A mother and son united by love and art
- A mother and son's photographic journey through dementia
- A musical sensation from Venezuela
- A needle in countless haystacks: Finding habitable worlds
- A new class of drug that could prevent depression and PTSD
- A new model of microfinance for Africa, and beyond
- A new vision for refrigeration
- A new way to define self-worth
- A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable
- A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten
- A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls)
- A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
- A new way to think about inheritance
- A new way to think about the transition to motherhood
- A new weapon in the fight against superbugs
- A one-man musical phenomenon
- A parable for Kenya
- A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing
- A personal story about farming and the future of agriculture
- A playful solution to the housing crisis
- A powerful idea about teaching ideas
- A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity
- A practical way to help the homeless find work and safety
- A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
- A printable, flexible, organic solar cell
- A pro wrestler's guide to confidence
- A rallying cry for office shorts
- A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe
- A rite of passage for late life
- A robot that eats pollution
- A robot that flies like a bird
- A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram
- A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
- A secular, scientific rebuttal to Rick Warren
- A sense of humor about Afghanistan? Artist Aman Mojadidi shows how
- A short history of trans people's long fight for equality
- A simple birth kit for mothers in the developing world
- A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early
- A simple trick to improve positive thinking
- A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs
- A solution to gun violence found in US history
- A summer school kids actually want to attend
- A surprising idea for "solving" climate change
- A surprising parable of foie gras
- A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
- A vehicle built in Africa, for Africa
- A video game to cope with grief
- A vision for the future of Sierra Leone
- A whistleblower you haven't heard
- A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom
- A world without waste
- A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam
- AJ Jacobs : How healthy living nearly killed me
- AJ Jacobs : the world's largest family reunion - we're all invited!
- Aakash Odedra : a dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light
- Aaron Huey : America's native prisoners of war
- Aaron Koblin : Artfully visualizing our humanity
- Aaron O'Connell : Making sense of a visible quantum object
- Abe Davis : New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties
- Abha Dawesar : Life in the "digital now."
- Abigail Marsh : Why some people are more altruistic than others. How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
- Abigail Washburn : Building US-China relations ... by banjo
- Abraham Verghese : a doctor's touch
- Academic research is publicly funded -- why isn't it publicly available?
- Achenyo Idachaba : How I turned a deadly plant into a thriving business
- Activism needs introverts
- Adam Davidson : What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff
- Adam Driver : My journey from Marine to actor
- Adam Galinsky : How to speak up for yourself
- Adam Garone : Healthier men, one moustache at a time
- Adam Grant : Are you a giver or a taker?
- Adam Ostrow : After your final status update
- Adam Sadowsky engineers a viral music video
- Adam Savage : How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
- Adam Savage : My love letter to cosplay
- Adam Spencer : Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
- Adam de la Zerda : We can start winning the war against cancer
- Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one.
- Adora Svitak : What adults can learn from kids
- Adventures of an interplanetary architect
- Afra Raymond : Three myths about corruption
- Africa as an investment
- African fractals, in buildings and braids
- Ahn Trio : a modern take on piano, violin, cello
- Aimee Mullins : the opportunity of adversity
- Ajit Narayanan : a word game to communicate in any language
- Al Gore : the case for optimism on climate change
- Al Gore warns on latest climate trends
- Al Vernacchio : Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one ..
- Alaa Murabit : What my religion really says about women
- Alain de Botton : Atheism 2.0
- Alain de Botton : a kinder, gentler philosophy of success
- Alan Eustace : I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it
- Alan Siegel : Let's simplify legal jargon!
- Alan Smith : Why you should love statistics
- Alanna Shaikh : How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
- Alastair Parvin : Architecture for the people by the people
- Alberto Cairo : There are no scraps of men
- Alec Soth and Stacey Baker : This is what enduring love looks like
- Alejandro Aravena : My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process
- Alejandro S�anchez Alvarado : To solve old problems, study new species
- Aleph Molinari : Let's bridge the digital divide!
- Alessandra Orofino : It's our city. Let's fix it
- Alessandro Acquisti : Why privacy matters
- Alex Kipman : a futuristic vision of the age of holograms
- Alex Laskey : How behavioral science can lower your energy bill
- Alex Steffen : the shareable future of cities
- Alex Tabarrok on how ideas trump crises
- Alex Wissner-Gross : a new equation for intelligence
- Alexa Meade : Your body is my canvas
- Alexander Betts : Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it
- Alexander Betts : Why Brexit happened -- and what to do next
- Alexander Tsiaras : Conception to birth -- visualized
- Alexis Ohanian : How to make a splash in social media
- Ali Carr-Chellman : Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
- Alice Bows-Larkin : Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt
- Alice Dreger : Is anatomy destiny?
- Alice Goffman : How we're priming some kids for college [U+2014] and others for prison
- Alice Rawsthorn : Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers
- Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Mia Birdsong : an interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
- Alison Gopnik : What do babies think?
- Alison Killing : There[U+2019] a better way to die, and architecture can help
- Alison Killing : What happens when a city runs out of room for its dead
- Alix Generous : How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger's
- All the Answers and "Tembererana"
- Allan Adams : What the discovery of gravitational waves means
- Allan Adams : the discovery that could rewrite physics
- Allan Jones : a map of the brain
- Allan Savory : How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
- Alwar Balasubramaniam : Art of substance and absence
- Alyson McGregor : Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women
- Alyssa Monks : How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection
- Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform
- Amanda Bennett : We need a heroic narrative for death
- Amanda Burden : How public spaces make cities work
- Amanda Palmer : the art of asking
- Amber Case : We are all cyborgs now
- Ameenah Gurib-Fakim : Humble plants that hide surprising secrets
- America's most invisible communities -- mobile home parks
- America's pursuit of happiness and why it's gone wrong
- American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how
- Ami Klin : a new way to diagnose autism
- Amit Sood : Building a museum of museums on the web
- Amit Sood : Every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable
- Amory Lovins : a 40-year plan for energy
- Amos Winter : the cheap all-terrain wheelchair
- Amy Cuddy : Your body language shapes who you are
- Amy Lockwood : Selling condoms in the Congo
- Amy Purdy : Living beyond limits
- Amy Webb : How I hacked online dating
- An AI smartwatch that detects seizures
- An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall
- An artist's unflinching look at racial violence
- An astronaut's story of curiosity, perspective and change
- An economic case for protecting the planet
- An entertainment icon on living a life of meaning
- An honest look at the personal finance crisis
- An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection
- An ingenious solution for aid in disaster zones
- An inside tour of the world's biggest supercollider
- An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillator
- An interview with Mauritius's first female president
- An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine
- An introduction to genomics
- An open-source database to create "guardian angel" AI
- An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math
- An unsung hero of the civil rights movement
- An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole"
- Anand Giridharadas : a letter to all who have lost in this era
- Anand Giridharadas : a tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided
- Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance
- Anant Agarwal : Why massive open online courses (still) matter
- Anas Aremeyaw Anas : How I named, shamed and jailed
- Anastasia Taylor-Lind : Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution
- Ancient Rome's most notorious doctor
- Anders Fjellberg : Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories
- Anders Ynnerman : Visualizing the medical data explosion
- Andras Forgacs : Leather and meat without killing animals
- Andrea Ghez : the hunt for a supermassive black hole
- Andreas Raptopoulos : No roads? There's a drone for that
- Andreas Schleicher : Use data to build better schools
- Andres Lozano : Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off
- Andrew Bastawrous : Get your next eye exam on a smartphone
- Andrew Bird's one-man orchestra of the imagination
- Andrew Blum : What is the Internet, really?
- Andrew Connolly : What's the next window into our universe?
- Andrew Fitzgerald : Adventures in Twitter fiction
- Andrew McAfee : Are droids taking our jobs?
- Andrew McAfee : What will future jobs look like?
- Andrew Pelling : This scientist makes ears out of apples
- Andrew Solomon : Depression, the secret we share
- Andrew Solomon : How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
- Andrew Solomon : Love, no matter what
- Andrew Stanton : the clues to a great story
- Andr�es Ruzo : How I found a mythical boiling river in the Amazon
- Andy Puddicombe : All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
- Andy Yen : Think your email's private? Think again
- Angela Belcher : Using nature to grow batteries
- Angela Lee Duckworth : the key to success? Grit
- Angela Patton : a father-daughter dance ... in prison
- Angelo Vermeulen : How to go to space, without having to go to space
- Ang�elica Dass : the beauty of human skin in every color
- Anil Ananthaswamy : What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
- Anil Gupta : India's hidden hotbeds of invention
- Anjali Tripathi : Why Earth may someday look like Mars
- AnnMarie Thomas : Hands-on science with squishy circuits
- Anna Mracek Dietrich : a plane you can drive
- Anne Milgram : Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime
- Anne-Marie Slaughter : Can we all "have it all"?
- Annette Heuser : the 3 agencies with the power to make or break economies
- Annie Lennox : Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist
- Annie Murphy Paul : What we learn before we're born
- Anote Tong : My country will be underwater soon - unless we work together
- Anthony Atala : Printing a human kidney
- Anthony Atala on growing new organs
- Anthony Goldbloom : the jobs we'll lose to machines -- and the ones we won't
- Antonio Damasio : the quest to understand consciousness
- Antonio Donato Nobre : the magic of the Amazon: A river that flows invisibly all around us
- Antonio Guterres : Refugees have the right to be protected
- Antony Gormley : Sculpted space, within and without
- Anupam Mishra : the ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
- Aomawa Shields : How we'll find life on other planets
- Aparna Rao : Art that craves your attention
- Aparna Rao : High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
- Apollo Robbins : the art of misdirection
- Architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders
- Architecture is a special effects machine
- Are our cultural narratives killing sharks?
- Are there universal expressions of emotion?
- Are we running out of clean water?
- Are you technically fit to parent?
- Arianna Huffington : How to succeed? Get more sleep
- Aris Venetikidis : Making sense of maps
- Art that brings words to life
- Arthur Benjamin : the magic of Fibonacci numbers
- Arthur Benjamin's formula for changing math education
- Arthur Potts Dawson : a vision for sustainable restaurants
- Arunachalam Muruganantham : How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
- Arvind Gupta : Turning trash into toys for learning
- Ash Beckham : We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open up
- Ash Beckham : When to take a stand - and when to let it go
- Asha de Vos : Why you should care about whale poo
- Asher Hasan's message of peace from Pakistan
- Ashley Judd : How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control
- Asking big questions about the universe
- Aspen Baker : a better way to talk about abortion
- Atul Gawande : How do we heal medicine?
- Auke Ijspeert : a robot that runs and swims like a salamander
- Auret van Heerden : Making global labor fair
- Avi Reichental : What's next in 3D printing
- Avi Rubin : All your devices can be hacked
- Award-winning teen-age science in action
- Ayah Bdeir : Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
- Aziz Abu Sarah : For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?
- Aziza Chaouni : How I brought a river, and my city, back to life
- B.E.A.T. NYC performs at TED@StateStreet
- BJ Miller : What really matters at the end of life
- BLACK : My journey to yo-yo mastery
- Baba Shiv : Sometimes it's good to give up the driver's seat
- Bahia Shehab : a thousand times no
- Barat Ali Batoor : My desperate journey with a human smuggler
- Barbara Block : Tagging tuna in the deep ocean
- Barbara Natterson-Horowitz : What veterinarians know that physicians don't
- Barry Schwartz : Using our practical wisdom
- Barry Schwartz : the way we think about work is broken
- Bart Knols : Cheese, dogs, and pills to end malaria
- Bart Weetjens : How I taught rats to sniff out land mines
- Barton Seaver : Sustainable seafood? Let's get smart
- Bassam Tariq : the beauty and diversity of Muslim life
- Bastian Schaefer : a 3D-printed jumbo jet?
- Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water
- Beardyman : the polyphonic me
- Beats that break barriers
- Beau Lotto + Amy O'Toole : Science is for everyone, kids included
- Beau Lotto : Optical illusions show how we see
- Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions
- Beauty and truth in physics
- Becci Manson : (Re)touching lives through photos
- Becky Blanton : the year I was homeless
- Becoming Buddha -- on the Web
- Beeban Kidron : the shared wonder of film
- Behind the lies of Holocaust denial
- Bel Pesce : 5 ways to kill your dreams
- Ben Ambridge : 10 myths about psychology, debunked
- Ben Cameron : the true power of the performing arts
- Ben Goldacre : Battling bad science
- Ben Goldacre : What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe
- Ben Kacyra : Ancient wonders captured in 3D
- Ben Saunders : To the South Pole and back - the hardest 105 days of my life
- Ben Saunders : Why bother leaving the house?
- Ben Wellington : How we found the worst place to park in New York City [U+2014] using big data
- Benedetta Berti : the surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power
- Benjamin Barber : Why mayors should rule the world
- Benoit Mandelbrot : Fractals and the art of roughness
- Bernie Krause : the voice of the natural world
- Bertrand Piccard's solar-powered adventure
- Beth Noveck : Demand a more open-source government
- Beverly + Dereck Joubert : Life lessons from big cats
- Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of Homo evolutis
- Bilal Bomani : Plant fuels that could power a jet
- Bill Davenhall : Your health depends on where you live
- Bill Doyle : Treating cancer with electric fields
- Bill Ford : a future beyond traffic gridlock
- Bill Gates : How state budgets are breaking US schools
- Bill Gates : the next outbreak? We're not ready
- Bill Gates on energy : Innovating to zero!
- Bill Gross : the single biggest reason why startups succeed
- Bill T. Jones : the dancer, the singer, the cellist ... and a moment of creative magic
- Bill and Melinda Gates : Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done
- Billie Jean King : This tennis icon paved the way for women in sports
- Billy Collins : Everyday moments, caught in time
- Billy Collins : Two poems about what dogs think (probably)
- Birke Baehr : What's wrong with our food system
- Bjarke Ingels : 3 warp-speed architecture tales
- Bjarke Ingels : Hedonistic sustainability
- Black Men Ski
- Black life at the intersection of birth and death
- Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos augmented-reality maps
- Blaise Ag�uera y Arcas : How computers are learning to be creative
- Blue Room
- Boaz Almog "levitates" a superconductor
- Bob Mankoff : Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
- Bobby Ghosh : Why global jihad is losing
- Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with music
- Boghuma Kabisen Titanji : Ethical riddles in HIV research
- Boniface Mwangi : the day I stood up alone
- Bono : the good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)
- Boyd Varty : What I learned from Nelson Mandela
- Bran Ferren : To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering
- Breath, music, passion
- Brenda Brathwaite : Gaming for understanding
- Brene Brown : the power of vulnerability
- Bren�e Brown : Listening to shame
- Brian Cox : What went wrong at the LHC
- Brian Cox : Why we need the explorers
- Brian Dettmer : Old books reborn as art
- Brian Goldman : Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
- Brian Greene : Is our universe the only universe?
- Brian Little : Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
- Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory -- and horror
- Bridges should be beautiful
- Bring out your inner filmmaker
- Bringing One Laptop per Child to Colombia : TED in the Field
- Bringing world-class health care to the poorest
- Britta Riley : a garden in my apartment
- Brittney Cooper : the racial politics of time
- Bruce Aylward : How we'll stop polio for good
- Bruce Aylward : Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war
- Bruce Feiler : Agile programming -- for your family
- Bruce Feiler : the council of dads
- Bruce Schneier : the security mirage
- Bruno Maisonnier : Dance, tiny robots!
- Bruno Torturra : Got a smartphone? Start broadcasting
- Bryan Stevenson : We need to talk about an injustice
- Building a commodities market in Ethiopia
- Building a family tree for all humanity
- Building on the green agenda
- BumpTop desktop is a beautiful mess
- Bunker Roy : Learning from a barefoot movement
- Busted! The sneaky moves of anti-social smartphone users
- B�eatrice Coron : Stories cut from paper