• : 1984
  • : 2474
  • : 10
  • YouTube
  • Daily
  • Documentary Talk show

.

2015
2015x1
Asha de Vos: Why you should care about whale poo
Episode overview
05, 2015
Whales have a surprising and important job, says marine biologist Asha de Vos: these massive creatures are ecosystem engineers, keeping the oceans healthy and stable by ... well, by .. show full overview
2015x2
Daniele Quercia: Happy maps
Episode overview
06, 2015
Mapping apps help us find the fastest route to where we’re going. But what if we’d rather wander? Researcher Daniele Quercia demos “happy maps” that take into account not only the route you want to take, but how you want to feel along the way.
2015x3
Aziz Abu Sarah: For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?
Episode overview
07, 2015
Aziz Abu Sarah is a Palestinian activist with an unusual approach to peace-keeping: Be a tourist. The TED Fellow shows how simple interactions with people in different cultures can erode .. show full overview
2015x4
Fredy Peccerelli: A forensic anthropologist who brings closure for the "disappeared"
Episode overview
08, 2015
In Guatemala’s 36-year conflict, 200,000 civilians were killed — and more than 40,000 were never identified. Pioneering forensic anthropologist Fredy Peccerelli and his team use DNA, .. show full overview
2015x5
Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests
Episode overview
09, 2015
"Save the rainforest” is an environmental slogan as old as time — but Tasso Azevedo catches us up on how the fight is actually going these days. Spurred by the jaw-dropping losses of the .. show full overview
2015x6
Navi Radjou: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits
Episode overview
12, 2015
Navi Radjou has spent years studying "jugaad," also known as frugal innovation. Pioneered by entrepreneurs in emerging markets who figured out how to get spectacular value from limited .. show full overview
2015x7
Robert Swan: Let's save the last pristine continent
Episode overview
13, 2015
2041 will be a pivotal year for our planet. That year will mark the end of a 50-year agreement to keep Antarctica, the Earth’s last pristine continent, free of exploitation. Explorer .. show full overview
2015x8
Robert Muggah: How to protect fast-growing cities from failing
Episode overview
15, 2015
Worldwide, violence is on the decline, but in the crowded cities of the global south — cities like Aleppo, Bamako and Caracas — violence is actually accelerating, fueled by the drug .. show full overview
2015x9
Cristina Domenech: Poetry that frees the soul
Episode overview
16, 2015
“It’s said that to be a poet, you have to go to hell and back.” Cristina Domenech teaches writing at an Argentinian prison, and she tells the moving story of helping incarcerated people .. show full overview
2015x10
Matthieu Ricard: How to let altruism be your guide
Episode overview
21, 2015
What is altruism? Put simply, it's the wish that other people may be happy. And, says Matthieu Ricard, a happiness researcher and a Buddhist monk, altruism is also a great lens for .. show full overview
2015x11
Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
Episode overview
22, 2015
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies … and then they .. show full overview
2015x12
Joe Madiath: Better toilets, better life
Episode overview
23, 2015
In rural India, the lack of toilets creates a big, stinking problem. It leads to poor quality water, one of the leading causes of disease in India, and has a disproportionately negative .. show full overview
2015x13
Morgana Bailey: The danger of hiding who you are
Episode overview
24, 2015
Morgana Bailey has been hiding her true self for 16 years. In a brave talk, she utters four words that might not seem like a big deal to some, but to her have been paralyzing. Why speak .. show full overview
2015x14
Miguel Nicolelis: Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it
Episode overview
27, 2015
You may remember neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis — he built the brain-controlled exoskeleton that allowed a paralyzed man to kick the first ball of the 2014 World Cup. What’s he working .. show full overview
2015x15
Severine Autesserre: To solve mass violence, look to locals
Episode overview
28, 2015
Severine Autesserre studies the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is in the middle of the deadliest conflict since World War II; it's been called "the largest ongoing humanitarian .. show full overview
2015x16
Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment
Episode overview
30, 2015
Khadija Gbla grew up caught between two definitions of what it means to be an “empowered woman.” While her Sierra Leonean mother thought that circumsizing her — and thus stifling her .. show full overview
2015x17
Bassam Tariq: The beauty and diversity of Muslim life
Episode overview
31, 2015
Bassam Tariq is a blogger, a filmmaker, and a halal butcher — but one thread unites his work: His joy in the diversity, the humanness of our individual experiences. In this charming .. show full overview
2015x18
Zeynep Tufekci: Online social change: easy to organize, hard to win
Episode overview
02, 2015
Today, a single email can launch a worldwide movement. But as sociologist Zeynep Tufekci suggests, even though online activism is easy to grow, it often doesn't last. Why? She compares .. show full overview
2015x19
Bruce Aylward: Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war
Episode overview
03, 2015
“Ebola threatens everything that makes us human,” says Bruce Aylward of the World Health Organization. And when the Ebola epidemic exploded in 2014, it caused a worldwide panic. But .. show full overview
2015x20
Ben Ambridge: 10 myths about psychology, debunked
Episode overview
04, 2015
How much of what you think about your brain is actually wrong? In this whistlestop tour of dis-proved science, Ben Ambridge walks through 10 popular ideas about psychology that have been .. show full overview
2015x21
Tom Wujec: Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast
Episode overview
05, 2015
Making toast doesn’t sound very complicated — until someone asks you to draw the process, step by step. Tom Wujec loves asking people and teams to draw how they make toast, because the .. show full overview
2015x22
Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as art
Episode overview
06, 2015
What do you do with an outdated encyclopedia in the information age? With X-Acto knives and an eye for a good remix, artist Brian Dettmer makes beautiful, unexpected sculptures that breathe new life into old books.
2015x23
Jaap de Roode: How butterflies self-medicate
Episode overview
09, 2015
Just like us, the monarch butterfly sometimes gets sick thanks to a nasty parasite. But biologist Jaap de Roode noticed something interesting about the butterflies he was studying — .. show full overview
2015x24
Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules
Episode overview
10, 2015
What if your job didn’t control your life? Brazilian CEO Ricardo Semler practices a radical form of corporate democracy, rethinking everything from board meetings to how workers report .. show full overview
2015x25
Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
Episode overview
12, 2015
60% of people with dementia wander off, an issue that can prove hugely stressful for both patients and caregivers. In this charming talk, hear how teen inventor Kenneth Shinozuka came up .. show full overview
2015x26
Hannah Fry: The mathematics of love
Episode overview
13, 2015
Finding the right mate is no cakewalk — but is it even mathematically likely? In a charming talk, mathematician Hannah Fry shows patterns in how we look for love, and gives her top three tips (verified by math!) for finding that special someone.
2015x27
Guy Winch: Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
Episode overview
16, 2015
We'll go to the doctor when we feel flu-ish or a nagging pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Too many of us deal with .. show full overview
2015x28
Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Episode overview
17, 2015
Childhood trauma isn’t something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and parents struggling with mental .. show full overview
2015x29
Laura Boushnak: For these women, reading is a daring act
Episode overview
18, 2015
In some parts of the world, half of the women lack basic reading and writing skills. The reasons vary, but in many cases, literacy isn't valued by fathers, husbands, even mothers. .. show full overview
2015x30
Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
Episode overview
19, 2015
"We will start inhabiting outer space," says Angelo Vermeulen, crew commander of a NASA-funded Mars simulation. "It might take 50 years or it might take 500 years, but it’s going to .. show full overview
2015x31
James A. White Sr.: The little problem I had renting a house
Episode overview
20, 2015
Fifty-three years ago, James A. White Sr. joined the US Air Force. But as an African American man, he had to go to shocking lengths to find a place for his young family to live nearby. .. show full overview
2015x32
Rob Knight: How our microbes make us who we are
Episode overview
23, 2015
Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and largely unexplored — role in our health. .. show full overview
2015x33
Khalida Brohi: How I work to protect women from honor killings
Episode overview
24, 2015
Nearly 1000 "honor" killings are reported in Pakistan each year, murders by a family member for behavior deemed "shameful," such as a relationship outside of marriage. When Khalida Brohi .. show full overview
2015x34
Romina Libster: The power of herd immunity
Episode overview
25, 2015
How do vaccines prevent disease — even among people too young to get vaccinated? It's a concept called "herd immunity," and it relies on a critical mass of people getting their shots to .. show full overview
2015x35
Ben Wellington: How we found the worst place to park in New York City -- using big data
Episode overview
26, 2015
City agencies have access to a wealth of data and statistics reflecting every part of urban life. But as data analyst Ben Wellington suggests in this entertaining talk, sometimes they .. show full overview
2015x36
Helder Guimarães: A magical search for a coincidence
Episode overview
27, 2015
Small coincidences. They happen all the time and yet, they pass us by because we are not looking for them. In a delightfully subtle trick, magician Helder Guimarães demonstrates with a deck of cards, a dollar bill and a stuffed giraffe.
2015x37
Jon Gosier: The problem with "trickle-down techonomics"
Episode overview
02, 2015
Hooray for technology! It makes everything better for everyone!! Right? Well, no. When a new technology, like ebooks or health trackers, is only available to some people, it has .. show full overview
2015x38
Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone
Episode overview
03, 2015
The sounds of the rainforest include: the chirps of birds, the buzz of cicadas, the banter of gibbons. But in the background is the almost-always present sound of a chainsaw, from .. show full overview
2015x39
Harry Baker: A love poem for lonely prime numbers
Episode overview
04, 2015
Performance poet (and math student) Harry Baker spins a love poem about his favorite kind of numbers — the lonely, love-lorn prime. Stay on for two more lively, inspiring poems from this charming performer.
2015x40
Andy Yen: Think your email's private? Think again
Episode overview
05, 2015
Sending an email message is like sending a postcard, says scientist Andy Yen in this thought-provoking talk: Anyone can read it. Yet encryption, the technology that protects the privacy .. show full overview
2015x41
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho: 4 lessons I learned from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence
Episode overview
06, 2015
Throughout her career in banking Ilona Szabó de Carvalho never imagined she’d someday start a social movement. But living in her native Brazil, which leads the world in homicidal .. show full overview
2015x42
Sangu Delle: In praise of macro -- yes, macro -- finance in Africa
Episode overview
09, 2015
In this short, provocative talk, financier Sangu Delle questions whether microfinance — small loans to small entrepreneurs — is the best way to drive growth in developing countries. "We .. show full overview
2015x43
Marc Kushner: Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you
Episode overview
10, 2015
"Architecture is not about math or zoning — it's about visceral emotions," says Marc Kushner. In a sweeping — often funny — talk, he zooms through the past thirty years of architecture .. show full overview
2015x44
Ismael Nazario: What I learned as a kid in jail
Episode overview
11, 2015
As a teenager, Ismael Nazario was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail, where he spent 300 days in solitary confinement — all before he was ever convicted of a crime. Now as a prison .. show full overview
2015x45
Shimpei Takahashi: Play this game to come up with original ideas
Episode overview
12, 2015
Shimpei Takahashi always dreamed of designing toys. But when he started work as a toy developer, he found that the pressure to use data as a starting point for design quashed his .. show full overview
2015x46
Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity
Episode overview
13, 2015
What's the secret to unlocking the creativity hidden inside your daily work, and giving every great idea a chance? Harvard professor Linda Hill, co-author of "Collective Genius," has .. show full overview
2015x47
Vincent Cochetel: I was held hostage for 317 days. Here's what I thought about...
Episode overview
16, 2015
Vincent Cochetel was held hostage for 317 days in 1998, while working for the UN High Commissioner on Refugees in Chechnya. For the first time, he recounts the experience — from what it .. show full overview
2015x48
Robyn Stein DeLuca: The good news about PMS
Episode overview
17, 2015
Everybody knows that most women go a little crazy right before they get their period, that their reproductive hormones cause their emotions to fluctuate wildly. Except: There's very .. show full overview
2015x49
David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?
Episode overview
18, 2015
As humans, we can perceive less than a ten-trillionth of all light waves. “Our experience of reality,” says neuroscientist David Eagleman, “is constrained by our biology.” He wants to .. show full overview
2015x50
Joseph DeSimone: What if 3D printing was 100x faster?
Episode overview
19, 2015
What we think of as 3D printing, says Joseph DeSimone, is really just 2D printing over and over ... slowly. Onstage at TED2015, he unveils a bold new technique — inspired, yes, by .. show full overview
2015x51
Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame
Episode overview
20, 2015
"Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop," says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Patient Zero of losing a personal reputation on a global scale almost instantaneously.” .. show full overview
2015x52
Fei-Fei Li: How we're teaching computers to understand pictures
Episode overview
23, 2015
When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are getting smart enough to do that too. What's next? In a thrilling .. show full overview
2015x53
Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided
Episode overview
24, 2015
Ten days after 9/11, a shocking attack at a Texas mini-mart shattered the lives of two men: the victim and the attacker. In this stunning talk, Anand Giridharadas, author of "The True .. show full overview
2015x54
Dave Isay: Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear
Episode overview
25, 2015
Dave Isay opened the first StoryCorps booth in New York’s Grand Central Terminal in 2003 with the intention of creating a quiet place where a person could honor someone who mattered to .. show full overview
2015x55
Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art
Episode overview
26, 2015
Theaster Gates, a potter by training and a social activist by calling, wanted to do something about the sorry state of his neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. So he did, .. show full overview
2015x56
Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
Episode overview
27, 2015
Dame Stephanie Shirley is the most successful tech entrepreneur you never heard of. In the 1960s, she founded a pioneering all-woman software company in the UK, which was ultimately .. show full overview
2015x57
Alison Killing: There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help
Episode overview
30, 2015
In this short, provocative talk, architect Alison Killing looks at buildings where death and dying happen — cemeteries, hospitals, homes. The way we die is changing, and the way we build .. show full overview
2015x58
Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world
Episode overview
31, 2015
Daniel Kish has been blind since he was 13 months old, but has learned to “see” using a form of echolocation. He clicks his tongue and sends out flashes of sound that bounce off surfaces .. show full overview
2015x59
Kevin Rudd: Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
Episode overview
01, 2015
The former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd is also a longtime student of China, with a unique vantage point to watch its power rise in the past few decades. He asks whether the .. show full overview
2015x60
Boniface Mwangi: The day I stood up alone
Episode overview
02, 2015
Photographer Boniface Mwangi wanted to protest against corruption in his home country of Kenya. So he made a plan: He and some friends would stand up and heckle during a public mass .. show full overview
2015x61
Bill Gates: The next outbreak? We’re not ready
Episode overview
03, 2015
In 2014, the world avoided a global outbreak of Ebola, thanks to thousands of selfless health workers — plus, frankly, some very good luck. In hindsight, we know what we should have done .. show full overview
2015x62
Bel Pesce: 5 ways to kill your dreams
Episode overview
06, 2015
All of us want to invent that game-changing product, launch that successful company, write that best-selling book. And yet so few of us actually do it. Brazilian entrepreneur Bel Pesce .. show full overview
2015x63
Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón: Math is forever
Episode overview
07, 2015
With humor and charm, mathematician Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón answers a question that’s wracked the brains of bored students the world over: What is math for? He shows the beauty of math .. show full overview
2015x64
Dan Ariely: How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised
Episode overview
08, 2015
The news of society's growing inequality makes all of us uneasy. But why? Dan Ariely reveals some new, surprising research on what we think is fair, as far as how wealth is distributed over societies ... then shows how it stacks up to the real stats.
2015x65
Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet
Episode overview
09, 2015
As manager of the Rosetta mission, Fred Jansen was responsible for the successful 2014 landing of a probe on the comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. In this fascinating and funny .. show full overview
2015x66
Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler
Episode overview
10, 2015
Photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor was living in Afghanistan — until his risky work forced him to leave the country. But for Batoor, a member of a displaced ethnic group called the Hazara, .. show full overview
2015x67
Kailash Satyarthi: How to make peace? Get angry
Episode overview
13, 2015
How did a young man born into a high caste in India come to free 83,000 children from slavery? Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Kailash Satyarthi offers a surprising piece of advice to anyone .. show full overview
2015x68
Takaharu Tezuka: The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen
Episode overview
14, 2015
At this school in Tokyo, five-year-olds cause traffic jams and windows are for Santa to climb into. Meet: the world's cutest kindergarten, designed by architect Takaharu Tezuka. In this .. show full overview
2015x69
Paul Tudor Jones II: Why we need to rethink capitalism
Episode overview
16, 2015
Paul Tudor Jones II loves capitalism. It's a system that has done him very well over the last few decades. Nonetheless, the hedge fund manager and philanthropist is concerned that a .. show full overview
2015x70
Nathalie Cabrol: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life
Episode overview
17, 2015
While we like to imagine little green men, it’s far more likely that life on other planets will be microbial. Planetary scientist Nathalie Cabrol takes us inside the search for microbes .. show full overview
2015x71
Gary Haugen: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now
Episode overview
20, 2015
Collective compassion has meant an overall decrease in global poverty since the 1980s, says civil rights lawyer Gary Haugen. Yet for all the world's aid money, there's a pervasive hidden .. show full overview
2015x72
Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe
Episode overview
21, 2015
Jedidah Isler first fell in love with the night sky as a little girl. Now she’s an astrophysicist who studies supermassive hyperactive black holes. In a charming talk, she takes us .. show full overview
2015x73
Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine
Episode overview
22, 2015
Chris Milk uses cutting edge technology to produce astonishing films that delight and enchant. But for Milk, the human story is the driving force behind everything he does. In this .. show full overview
2015x74
Clint Smith: How to raise a black son in America
Episode overview
23, 2015
As kids, we all get advice from parents and teachers that seems strange, even confusing. This was crystallized one night for a young Clint Smith, who was playing with water guns in a .. show full overview
2015x75
Nizar Ibrahim: How we unearthed the spinosaurus
Episode overview
24, 2015
A 50-foot-long carnivore who hunted its prey in rivers 97 million years ago, the spinosaurus is a "dragon from deep time." Paleontologist Nizar Ibrahim and his crew found new fossils, .. show full overview
2015x76
Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
Episode overview
27, 2015
Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as "smart" as a human being. And then, says Nick Bostrom, .. show full overview
2015x77
Greg Gage: How to control someone else's arm with your brain
Episode overview
28, 2015
Greg Gage is on a mission to make brain science accessible to all. In this fun, kind of creepy demo, the neuroscientist and TED Senior Fellow uses a simple, inexpensive DIY kit to take .. show full overview
2015x78
Sophie Scott: Why we laugh
Episode overview
30, 2015
Did you know that you're 30 times more likely to laugh if you're with somebody else than if you're alone? Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares this and other surprising facts .. show full overview
2015x79
Alice Goffman: How where you live can determine your path to college — or prison
Episode overview
01, 2015
In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood .. show full overview
2015x80
Pamela Ronald: The case for engineering our food
Episode overview
04, 2015
Pamela Ronald studies the genes that make plants more resistant to disease and stress. In an eye-opening talk, she describes her decade-long quest to isolate a gene that allows rice to .. show full overview
2015x81
Abe Davis: New video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties
Episode overview
05, 2015
Subtle motion happens around us all the time, including tiny vibrations caused by sound. New technology shows that we can pick up on these vibrations and actually re-create sound and .. show full overview
2015x82
Bill T. Jones: The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... and a moment of creative magic
Episode overview
06, 2015
Legendary dance choreographer Bill T. Jones and TED Fellows Joshua Roman and Somi didn't know exactly what was going to happen when they took the stage at TED2015. They just knew they .. show full overview
2015x83
Tal Danino: Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)
Episode overview
07, 2015
Liver cancer is one of the most difficult cancers to detect, but synthetic biologist Tal Danino had a left-field thought: What if we could create a probiotic, edible bacteria that was .. show full overview
2015x84
Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane
Episode overview
08, 2015
Singer-songwriter Dawn Landes tells the story of Tori Murden McClure, who dreamed of rowing across the Atlantic in a small boat -- but whose dream was almost capsized by waves the size .. show full overview
2015x85
Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee’s life
Episode overview
11, 2015
We’ve heard that bees are disappearing. But what is making bee colonies so vulnerable? Photographer Anand Varma raised bees in his backyard — in front of a camera — to get an up close .. show full overview
2015x86
Elora Hardy: Magical houses, made of bamboo
Episode overview
12, 2015
You've never seen buildings like this. The stunning bamboo homes built by Elora Hardy and her team in Bali twist, curve and surprise at every turn. They defy convention because the .. show full overview
2015x87
Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed
Episode overview
14, 2015
Roman Mars is obsessed with flags -- and after you watch this talk, you might be, too. These ubiquitous symbols of civic pride are often designed, well, pretty terribly. But they don't .. show full overview
2015x88
The Lady Lifers: A moving song from women in prison for life
Episode overview
15, 2015
The ten women in this chorus have all been sentenced to life in prison. They share a moving song about their experiences — one that reveals their hopes, regrets and fears. "I'm not an .. show full overview
2015x89
Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality
Episode overview
18, 2015
The founder of Sirius XM satellite radio, Martine Rothblatt now heads up a drug company that makes life-saving medicines for rare diseases (including one drug that saved her own .. show full overview
2015x90
Cosmin Mihaiu: Physical therapy is boring -- play a game instead
Episode overview
19, 2015
You’ve just been injured, and you’re on the way home from an hour of physical therapy. The last thing you want to do on your own is confusing exercises that take too long to show .. show full overview
2015x91
Steven Wise: Chimps have feelings and thoughts. They should also have rights
Episode overview
20, 2015
Chimpanzees are people too, you know. Ok, not exactly. But lawyer Steven Wise has spent the last 30 years working to change these animals' status from "things" to "persons." It's not a .. show full overview
2015x92
Esther Perel: Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved
Episode overview
21, 2015
Infidelity is the ultimate betrayal. But does it have to be? Relationship therapist Esther Perel examines why people cheat, and unpacks why affairs are so traumatic: because they .. show full overview
2015x93
Chris Burkard: The joy of surfing in ice-cold water
Episode overview
22, 2015
"Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit," says surf photographer Chris Burkard, as he explains his obsession with the coldest, choppiest, .. show full overview
2015x114
Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?
Episode overview
25, 2015
Penicillin changed everything. Infections that had previously killed were suddenly quickly curable. Yet as Maryn McKenna shares in this sobering talk, we've squandered the advantages .. show full overview
2015x115
Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
Episode overview
26, 2015
Statistically, the least reliable part of the car is ... the driver. Chris Urmson heads up Google's driverless car program, one of several efforts to remove humans from the driver's .. show full overview
2015x94
Jeffrey Brown: How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent
Episode overview
27, 2015
An architect of the "Boston miracle," Rev. Jeffrey Brown started out as a bewildered young pastor watching his Boston neighborhood fall apart around him, as drugs and gang violence took .. show full overview
2015x95
Yassmin Abdel-Magied: What does my headscarf mean to you?
Episode overview
28, 2015
What do you think when you look at this speaker? Well, think again. (And then again.) In this funny, honest, empathetic talk, Yassmin Abdel-Magied challenges us to look beyond our .. show full overview
2015x96
Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system
Episode overview
29, 2015
Every star we see in the sky has at least one planet orbiting it, says astronomer Sara Seager. So what do we know about these exoplanets, and how can we find out more? Seager introduces .. show full overview
2015x97
Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people
Episode overview
30, 2015
When Jimmy Nelson traveled to Siberia to photograph the Chukchi people, elders told him: "You cannot photograph us. You have to wait, you have to wait until you get to know us, you have .. show full overview
2015x98
Bill Gross: The single biggest reason why startups succeed
Episode overview
02, 2015
Bill Gross has founded a lot of startups, and incubated many others — and he got curious about why some succeeded and others failed. So he gathered data from hundreds of companies, his .. show full overview
2015x99
Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies
Episode overview
03, 2015
How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of logic, well before they can talk.
2015x100
Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is ... noticing
Episode overview
04, 2015
As human beings, we get used to "the way things are" really fast. But for designers, the way things are is an opportunity ... Could things be better? How? In this funny, breezy talk, the .. show full overview
2015x101
Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
Episode overview
05, 2015
There's an organization responsible for more terrorism plots in the United States than al-Qaeda, al-Shabaab and ISIS combined: The FBI. How? Why? In an eye-opening talk, investigative .. show full overview
2015x102
Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard
Episode overview
06, 2015
On Linda Cliatt-Wayman’s first day as principal at a failing high school in North Philadelphia, she was determined to lay down the law. But she soon realized the job was more complex .. show full overview
2015x103
Suki Kim: This is what it's like to teach in North Korea
Episode overview
09, 2015
For six months, Suki Kim worked as an English teacher at an elite school for North Korea's future leaders — while writing a book on one of the world's most repressive regimes. As she .. show full overview
2015x104
Sarah Jones: One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future
Episode overview
10, 2015
In this performance, Sarah Jones brings you to the front row of a classroom in the future, as a teacher plugs in different personas from the year 2016 to show their varied perspectives .. show full overview
2015x105
Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is?
Episode overview
12, 2015
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman is trying to answer a big question: Do we experience the world as it really is ... or as we need it to be? In this ever so slightly mind-blowing talk, he ponders how our minds construct reality for us.
2015x106
Lee Mokobe: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
Episode overview
13, 2015
"I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered," says poet Lee Mokobe, a TED Fellow, in this gripping and poetic exploration of identity and transition. It's a thoughtful reflection on bodies, and the meanings poured into them.
2015x107
Rana el Kaliouby: This app knows how you feel -- from the look on your face
Episode overview
16, 2015
Our emotions influence every aspect of our lives — how we learn, how we communicate, how we make decisions. Yet they’re absent from our digital lives; the devices and apps we interact .. show full overview
2015x108
Margaret Heffernan: Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work
Episode overview
17, 2015
Organizations are often run according to “the superchicken model,” where the value is placed on star employees who outperform others. And yet, this isn’t what drives the most .. show full overview
2015x109
Steve Silberman: The forgotten history of autism
Episode overview
18, 2015
Decades ago, few pediatricians had heard of autism. In 1975, 1 in 5,000 kids was estimated to have it. Today, 1 in 68 is on the autism spectrum. What caused this steep rise? Steve .. show full overview
2015x110
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A visual history of inequality in industrial America
Episode overview
19, 2015
For the last 12 years, LaToya Ruby Frazier has photographed friends, neighbors and family in Braddock, Pennsylvania. But though the steel town has lately been hailed as a posterchild of .. show full overview
2015x111
Joey Alexander: An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz
Episode overview
20, 2015
Raised listening to his dad's old records, Joey Alexander plays a brand of sharp, modern piano jazz that you likely wouldn't expect to hear from a pre-teenager. Listen as the 11-year-old .. show full overview
2015x112
Roxane Gay: Confessions of a bad feminist
Episode overview
23, 2015
When writer Roxane Gay dubbed herself a "bad feminist," she was making a joke, acknowledging that she couldn't possibly live up to the demands for perfection of the feminist movement. .. show full overview
2015x113
Chip Kidd: The art of first impressions -- in design and life
Episode overview
23, 2015
Book designer Chip Kidd knows all too well how often we judge things by first appearances. In this hilarious, fast-paced talk, he explains the two techniques designers use to communicate .. show full overview
2015x116
Dame Ellen MacArthur: The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world
Episode overview
29, 2015
What do you learn when you sail around the world on your own? When solo sailor Ellen MacArthur circled the globe – carrying everything she needed with her – she came back with new .. show full overview
2015x117
Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse
Episode overview
30, 2015
With his signature resolve, former US President Jimmy Carter dives into three unexpected reasons why the mistreatment of women and girls continues in so many manifestations in so many .. show full overview
2015x118
Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief
Episode overview
01, 2015
For the longest time, doctors basically ignored the most basic and frustrating part of being sick -- pain. In this lyrical, informative talk, Latif Nasser tells the extraordinary story .. show full overview
2015x119
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war
Episode overview
02, 2015
In 2011, the US Armed Forces still had a ban on women in combat -- but in that year, a Special Operations team of women was sent to Afghanistan to serve on the front lines, to build .. show full overview
2015x120
Rajiv Maheswaran: The math behind basketball's wildest moves
Episode overview
06, 2015
Basketball is a fast-moving game of improvisation, contact and, ahem, spatio-temporal pattern recognition. Rajiv Maheswaran and his colleagues are analyzing the movements behind the key .. show full overview
2015x121
Memory Banda: A warrior’s cry against child marriage
Episode overview
07, 2015
Memory Banda’s life took a divergent path from her sister’s. When her sister reached puberty, she was sent to a traditional “initiation camp” that teaches girls “how to sexually please a .. show full overview
2015x122
Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong
Episode overview
09, 2015
What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome it? Johann Hari has seen our current methods fail firsthand, as he has watched loved .. show full overview
2015x123
Ash Beckham: When to take a stand -- and when to let it go
Episode overview
10, 2015
Ash Beckham recently found herself in a situation that made her ask: who am I? She felt pulled between two roles — as an aunt and as an advocate. Each of us feels this struggle .. show full overview
2015x124
Noy Thrupkaew: Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works
Episode overview
13, 2015
Behind the everyday bargains we all love -- the $10 manicure, the unlimited shrimp buffet -- is a hidden world of forced labor to keep those prices at rock bottom. Noy Thrupkaew .. show full overview
2015x125
Aspen Baker: A better way to talk about abortion
Episode overview
14, 2015
Abortion is extremely common. In America, for example, one in three women will have an abortion in their lifetime, yet the strong emotions sparked by the topic -- and the highly .. show full overview
2015x126
Alec Soth + Stacey Baker: This is what enduring love looks like
Episode overview
15, 2015
Stacey Baker has always been obsessed with how couples meet. When she asked photographer Alec Soth to help her explore this topic, they found themselves at the world’s largest .. show full overview
2015x127
Salvatore Iaconesi: What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer
Episode overview
16, 2015
When artist Salvatore Iaconesi was diagnosed with brain cancer, he refused to be a passive patient -- which, he points out, means "one who waits." So he hacked his brain scans, posted .. show full overview
2015x128
Marlene Zuk: What we learn from insects’ kinky sex lives
Episode overview
17, 2015
Marlene Zuk delightedly, determinedly studies insects. In this enlightening, funny talk, she shares just some of the ways that they are truly astonishing -- not least for the creative ways they have sex.
2015x129
Jon Ronson: When online shaming spirals out of control
Episode overview
20, 2015
Twitter gives a voice to the voiceless, a way to speak up and hit back at perceived injustice. But sometimes, says Jon Ronson, things go too far. In a jaw-dropping story of how one .. show full overview
2015x130
Alaa Murabit: What my religion really says about women
Episode overview
21, 2015
Strong faith is a core part of Alaa Murabit's identity -- but when she moved from Canada to Libya as a young woman, she was surprised how the tenets of Islam were used to severely limit .. show full overview
2015x131
John Green: The nerd's guide to learning everything online
Episode overview
22, 2015
Some of us learn best in the classroom, and some of us ... well, we don't. But we still love to learn -- we just need to find the way that works for us. In this charming, personal talk, .. show full overview
2015x132
eL Seed: Street art with a message of hope and peace
Episode overview
23, 2015
What does this gorgeous street art say? It's Arabic poetry, inspired by bold graffiti and placed where a message of hope and peace can do the most good. In this quietly passionate talk, .. show full overview
2015x133
Yuval Noah Harari: What explains the rise of humans?
Episode overview
24, 2015
Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own business in a corner of Africa with all the other animals. But now, few would disagree .. show full overview
2015x134
Benedetta Berti: The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power
Episode overview
10, 2015
ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas. These three very different groups are known for violence — but that’s only a portion of what they do, says policy analyst Benedetti Berti. They also attempt to .. show full overview
2015x135
Rich Benjamin: My road trip through the whitest towns in America
Episode overview
11, 2015
As America becomes more and more multicultural, Rich Benjamin noticed a phenomenon: Some communities were actually getting less diverse. So he got out a map, found the whitest towns in .. show full overview
2015x136
Matt Kenyon: A secret memorial for civilian casualties
Episode overview
13, 2015
In the fog of war, civilian casualties often go uncounted. Artist Matt Kenyon, whose recent work memorialized the names and stories of US soldiers killed in the Iraq war, decided he .. show full overview
2015x137
Patience Mthunzi: Could we cure HIV with lasers?
Episode overview
14, 2015
Swallowing pills to get medication is a quick, painless and often not entirely effective way of treating disease. A potentially better way? Lasers. In this passionate talk, TED Fellow .. show full overview
2015x138
Alix Generous: How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger's
Episode overview
17, 2015
Alix Generous is a young woman with a million and one ideas -- she's done award-winning science, helped develop new technology and tells a darn good joke (you'll see). She has .. show full overview
2015x139
Manuel Lima: A visual history of human knowledge
Episode overview
18, 2015
How does knowledge grow? Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches; other times it grows as a complex and interconnected network. Infographics expert Manuel Lima .. show full overview
2015x221
Minh Thuy Ta: Stop fighting for feminism
Episode overview
18, 2015
This episode has no summary.
2015x140
Tony Wyss-Coray: How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really
Episode overview
19, 2015
Tony Wyss-Coray studies the impact of aging on the human body and brain. In this eye-opening talk, he shares new research from his Stanford lab and other teams which shows that a .. show full overview
2015x143
Jim Al-Khalili: How quantum biology might explain life’s biggest questions
Episode overview
24, 2015
How does a robin know to fly south? The answer might be weirder than you think: Quantum physics may be involved. Jim Al-Khalili rounds up the extremely new, extremely strange world of .. show full overview
2015x144
Seth Berkley: The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late ... if they’re made at all
Episode overview
25, 2015
It seems like we wait for a disastrous disease outbreak before we get serious about making a vaccine for it. Seth Berkley lays out the market realities and unbalanced risks behind why we aren't making vaccines for the world's biggest diseases.
2015x145
Robin Murphy: These robots come to the rescue after a disaster
Episode overview
27, 2015
When disaster strikes, who's first on the scene? More and more, it’s a robot. In her lab, Robin Murphy builds robots that fly, tunnel, swim and crawl through disaster scenes, helping .. show full overview
2015x146
Yves Morieux: How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done
Episode overview
28, 2015
Modern work -- from waiting tables to crunching numbers to designing products -- is about solving brand-new problems every day, flexibly and collaboratively. But as Yves Morieux shows in .. show full overview
2015x147
Wendy Freedman: This new telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
Episode overview
31, 2015
When and how did the universe begin? A global group of astronomers wants to answer that question by peering as far back in time as a large new telescope will let us see. Wendy Freedman .. show full overview
2015x148
Elizabeth Nyamayaro: An invitation to men who want a better world for women
Episode overview
01, 2015
Around the world, women still struggle for equality in basic matters like access to education, equal pay and the right to vote. But how to enlist everyone, men and women, as allies for .. show full overview
2015x149
Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
Episode overview
02, 2015
There’s a parallel Internet you may not have run across yet -- accessed by a special browser and home to a freewheeling collection of sites for everything from anonymous activism to illicit activities. Jamie Bartlett reports from the dark net.
2015x150
Jim Simons: A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street
Episode overview
03, 2015
Jim Simons was a mathematician and cryptographer who realized: the complex math he used to break codes could help explain patterns in the world of finance. Billions later, he’s working .. show full overview
2015x151
Alan Eustace: I leapt from the stratosphere. Here's how I did it
Episode overview
04, 2015
On October 24, 2014, Alan Eustace donned a custom-built, 235-pound spacesuit, attached himself to a weather balloon, and rose above 135,000 feet, from which point he dove to Earth, .. show full overview
2015x152
Barry Schwartz: The way we think about work is broken
Episode overview
08, 2015
What makes work satisfying? Apart from a paycheck, there are intangible values that, Barry Schwartz suggests, our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. It's time to stop thinking of workers as cogs on a wheel.
2015x153
BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life
Episode overview
10, 2015
At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a palliative care physician at Zen Hospice Project who thinks deeply about .. show full overview
2015x154
Billie Jean King: This tennis icon paved the way for women in sports
Episode overview
11, 2015
Tennis legend Billie Jean King isn't just a pioneer of women's tennis -- she's a pioneer for women getting paid. In this freewheeling conversation, she talks about identity, the role of .. show full overview
2015x141
Christopher Soghoian: How to Avoid Surveillance...With Your Phone
Episode overview
14, 2015
Who is listening in on your phone calls? On a landline, it could be anyone, says privacy activist Christopher Soghoian, because surveillance backdoors are built into the phone system by .. show full overview
2015x155
David Rothkopf: How fear drives American politics
Episode overview
14, 2015
Does it seem like Washington has no new ideas? Instead of looking to build the future, it sometimes feels like the US political establishment happily retreats into fear and willful .. show full overview
2015x142
Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
Episode overview
15, 2015
Dustin Yellin makes mesmerizing artwork that tells complex, myth-inspired stories. How did he develop his style? In this disarming talk, he shares the journey of an artist -- starting .. show full overview
2015x156
Mia Birdsong: The story we tell about poverty isn't true
Episode overview
15, 2015
As a global community, we all want to end poverty. Mia Birdsong suggests a great place to start: Let's honor the skills, drive and initiative that poor people bring to the struggle every .. show full overview
2015x157
Michael Kimmel: Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
Episode overview
16, 2015
Yes, we all know it’s the right thing to do. But Michael Kimmel makes the surprising, funny, practical case for treating men and women equally in the workplace and at home. It’s not a .. show full overview
2015x158
Mandy Len Catron: Falling in love is the easy part
Episode overview
17, 2015
Did you know you can fall in love with anyone just by asking them 36 questions? Mandy Len Catron tried this experiment, it worked, and she wrote a viral article about it (that your mom .. show full overview
2015x159
Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love
Episode overview
18, 2015
Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively .. show full overview
2015x160
Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school
Episode overview
21, 2015
When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells .. show full overview
2015x161
Frances Larson: Why public beheadings get millions of views
Episode overview
22, 2015
In a disturbing — but fascinating — walk through history, Frances Larson examines humanity's strange relationship with public executions … and specifically beheadings. As she shows us, .. show full overview
2015x162
Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to human rights
Episode overview
23, 2015
Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended — and their .. show full overview
2015x163
Robin Morgan: 4 powerful poems about Parkinson's and growing older
Episode overview
25, 2015
When poet Robin Morgan found herself facing Parkinson’s disease, she distilled her experiences into these four quietly powerful poems — meditating on age, loss, and the simple power of noticing.
2015x164
Samuel Cohen: Alzheimer's is not normal aging — and we can cure it
Episode overview
28, 2015
More than 40 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, and that number is expected to increase drastically in the coming years. But no real progress has been made in the .. show full overview
2015x165
Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local
Episode overview
29, 2015
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or .. show full overview
2015x166
Mac Stone: Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades
Episode overview
30, 2015
For centuries, people have viewed swamps and wetlands as obstacles to avoid. But for photographer Mac Stone, who documents the stories of wildlife in Florida's Everglades, the swamp .. show full overview
2015x167
Martin Pistorius: How my mind came back to life — and no one knew
Episode overview
01, 2015
Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain," "thank you," or "I love you,” — losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet .. show full overview
2015x168
Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling
Episode overview
02, 2015
What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you're not sure you want to do just one thing for the rest of your life, you're not alone. In this illuminating talk, writer and artist .. show full overview
2015x169
Alice Bows-Larkin: Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt
Episode overview
05, 2015
Imagine the hottest day you've ever experienced. Now imagine it's six, 10 or 12 degrees hotter. According to climate researcher Alice Bows-Larkin, that's the type of future in store for .. show full overview
2015x170
Siddhartha Mukherjee: Soon we'll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill
Episode overview
06, 2015
Current medical treatment boils down to six words: Have disease, take pill, kill something. But physician Siddhartha Mukherjee points to a future of medicine that will transform the way we heal.
2015x171
Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology
Episode overview
07, 2015
Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of .. show full overview
2015x172
Sandrine Thuret: You can grow new brain cells. Here's how
Episode overview
08, 2015
Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform .. show full overview
2015x173
Teitur: Home is a song I've always remembered
Episode overview
09, 2015
For musician Teitur, singing is about giving away a piece of yourself to others. "If your intentions are to impress people or to get the big applause at the end," he says, "then you are .. show full overview
2015x174
Michael Green: How we can make the world a better place by 2030
Episode overview
12, 2015
Can we end hunger and poverty, halt climate change and achieve gender equality in the next 15 years? The governments of the world think we can. Meeting at the UN in September 2015, they .. show full overview
2015x175
Vijay Kumar: The future of flying robots
Episode overview
13, 2015
At his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar and his team have created autonomous aerial robots inspired by honeybees. Their latest breakthrough: Precision Farming, in which .. show full overview
2015x176
Alyson McGregor: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women
Episode overview
14, 2015
For most of the past century, drugs approved and released to market have been tested only on male patients, leading to improper dosing and unacceptable side effects for women. The .. show full overview
2015x178
Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds
Episode overview
16, 2015
Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even .. show full overview
2015x179
Will Potter: The secret US prisons you've never heard of before
Episode overview
19, 2015
Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and .. show full overview
2015x180
Jennifer Doudna: We can now edit our DNA. But let's do it wisely
Episode overview
20, 2015
Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could .. show full overview
2015x181
Tom Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this
Episode overview
22, 2015
Designer Tom Uglow is creating a future in which humanity's love for natural solutions and simple tools can coexist with our need for information and the devices that provide us with it. .. show full overview
2015x182
Francesco Sauro: Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science
Episode overview
23, 2015
Cave explorer and geologist Francesco Sauro travels to the hidden continent under our feet, surveying deep, dark places inside the earth that humans have never been able to reach before. .. show full overview
2015x183
Hilary Cottam: Social services are broken. How we can fix them
Episode overview
26, 2015
When a family falls into crisis -- and it sometimes happens, thanks to unemployment, drugs, bad relationships and bad luck -- the social services system is supposed to step in and help .. show full overview
2015x184
Cesar Harada: How I teach kids to love science
Episode overview
27, 2015
At the Harbour School in Hong Kong, TED Senior Fellow Cesar Harada teaches citizen science and invention to the next generation of environmentalists. He's moved his classroom into an .. show full overview
2015x185
Christine Sun Kim: The enchanting music of sign language
Episode overview
28, 2015
Artist and TED Fellow Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she was taught to believe that sound wasn't a part of her life, that it was a hearing person's thing. Through her art, she .. show full overview
2015x186
Mathias Jud: Art that lets you talk back to NSA spies
Episode overview
29, 2015
In 2013, the world learned that the NSA and its UK equivalent, GCHQ, routinely spied on the German government. Amid the outrage, artists Mathias Jud and Christoph Wachter thought: Well, .. show full overview
2015x187
Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
Episode overview
30, 2015
You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but .. show full overview
2015x188
Nancy Lublin: The heartbreaking text that inspired a crisis help line
Episode overview
02, 2015
When a young woman texted DoSomething.org with a heartbreaking cry for help, the organization responded by opening a nationwide Crisis Text Line to provide an outlet for people in pain. .. show full overview
2015x189
Melissa Fleming: A boat carrying 500 refugees sunk at sea. The story of two survivors
Episode overview
03, 2015
Aboard an overloaded ship carrying more than 500 refugees, a young woman becomes an unlikely hero. This single, powerful story, told by Melissa Fleming of the UN's refugee agency, gives .. show full overview
2015x190
Patrícia Medici: The coolest animal you know nothing about ... and how we can save it
Episode overview
04, 2015
Although the tapir is one of the world's largest land mammals, the lives of these solitary, nocturnal creatures have remained a mystery. Known as "the living fossil," the very same tapir .. show full overview
2015x191
Harald Haas: A breakthrough new kind of wireless Internet
Episode overview
05, 2015
What if we could use existing technologies to provide Internet access to the more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure can't support it? Using off-the-shelf .. show full overview
2015x177
Anders Fjellberg: Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories
Episode overview
06, 2015
When two bodies wearing identical wetsuits washed ashore in Norway and the Netherlands, reporter Anders Fjellberg and photographer Tomm Christiansen started a search to answer the .. show full overview
2015x192
Kaki King: A musical escape into a world of light and color
Episode overview
06, 2015
A genre unto herself, Kaki King fuses the ancient tradition of working with one's hands with digital technology, projection-mapping imagery onto her guitar in her groundbreaking .. show full overview
2015x193
Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols: This is what LGBT life is like around the world
Episode overview
09, 2015
As a gay couple in San Francisco, Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols had a relatively easy time living the way they wanted. But outside the bubble of the Bay Area, what was life like for people .. show full overview
2015x194
Andreas Ekström: The moral bias behind your search results
Episode overview
10, 2015
Search engines have become our most trusted sources of information and arbiters of truth. But can we ever get an unbiased search result? Swedish author and journalist Andreas Ekström .. show full overview
2015x195
Chelsea Shields: How I'm working for change inside my church
Episode overview
12, 2015
How do we respect someone's religious beliefs, while also holding religion accountable for the damage those beliefs may cause? Chelsea Shields has a bold answer to this question. She was .. show full overview
2015x196
Jean-Paul Mari: The chilling aftershock of a brush with death
Episode overview
13, 2015
In April 2003, just as American troops began rolling into Baghdad, a shell smashed into the building author and war correspondent Jean-Paul Mari was reporting from. There he had a .. show full overview
2015x197
Josh Luber: The secret sneaker market -- and why it matters
Episode overview
16, 2015
Josh Luber is a "sneakerhead," a collector of rare or limited sneakers. With their insatiable appetite for exclusive sneakers, these tastemakers drive marketing and create hype for the .. show full overview
2015x198
Nonny de la Peña: The future of news? Virtual reality
Episode overview
17, 2015
What if you could experience a story with your entire body, not just with your mind? Nonny de la Peña is working on a new form of journalism that combines traditional reporting with .. show full overview
2015x199
Anote Tong: My country will be underwater soon -- unless we work together
Episode overview
18, 2015
For the people of Kiribati, climate change isn't something to be debated, denied or legislated against -- it's an everyday reality. The low-lying Pacific island nation may soon be .. show full overview
2015x200
Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling?
Episode overview
19, 2015
What's going on inside the brains of animals? Can we know what, or if, they're thinking and feeling? Carl Safina thinks we can. Using discoveries and anecdotes that span ecology, biology .. show full overview
2015x201
Genevieve von Petzinger: Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?
Episode overview
20, 2015
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled .. show full overview
2015x202
Ann Morgan: My year reading a book from every country in the world
Episode overview
23, 2015
Ann Morgan considered herself well read -- until she discovered the "massive blindspot" on her bookshelf. Amid a multitude of English and American authors, there were very few books from .. show full overview
2015x203
Regina Hartley: Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume
Episode overview
24, 2015
Given the choice between a job candidate with a perfect resume and one who has fought through difficulty, human resources executive Regina Hartley always gives the "Scrapper" a chance. .. show full overview
2015x204
Marina Abramović: An art made of trust, vulnerability and connection
Episode overview
30, 2015
Marina Abramović's art pushes the boundary between audience and artist in pursuit of heightened consciousness and personal change. In her groundbreaking 2010 work, "The Artist Is .. show full overview
2015x205
Kristen Marhaver: How we're growing baby corals to rebuild reefs
Episode overview
01, 2015
Kristen Marhaver studies corals, tiny creatures the size of a poppyseed that, over hundreds of slow years, create beautiful, life-sustaining ocean structures hundreds of miles long. As .. show full overview
2015x206
Jessica Shortall: The US needs paid family leave -- for the sake of its future
Episode overview
02, 2015
We need women to work, and we need working women to have babies. So why is America one of the only countries in the world that offers no national paid leave to new working mothers? In .. show full overview
2015x207
Chieko Asakawa: How new technology helps blind people explore the world
Episode overview
03, 2015
How can technology help improve our quality of life? How can we navigate the world without using the sense of vision? Inventor and IBM Fellow Chieko Asakawa, who's been blind since the .. show full overview
2015x208
Guillaume Néry: The exhilarating peace of freediving
Episode overview
04, 2015
In this breathtaking talk, world champion freediver Guillaume Néry takes us with him into the ocean's depths. Meter by meter, he explains the physical and emotional impact of water .. show full overview
2015x209
Jedidah Isler: The untapped genius that could change science for the better
Episode overview
07, 2015
Jedidah Isler dreamt of becoming an astrophysicist since she was a young girl, but the odds were against her: At that time, only 18 black women in the United States had ever earned a PhD .. show full overview
2015x210
Danit Peleg: Forget shopping. Soon you'll download your new clothes
Episode overview
08, 2015
Downloadable, printable clothing may be coming to a closet near you. What started as designer Danit Peleg's fashion school project turned into a collection of 3D-printed designs that .. show full overview
2015x211
Raymond Wang: How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them
Episode overview
10, 2015
Raymond Wang is only 17 years old, but he's already helping to build a healthier future. Using fluid dynamics, he created computational simulations of how air moves on airplanes, and .. show full overview
2015x212
Nicole Paris and Ed Cage: A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo
Episode overview
11, 2015
Nicole Paris was raised to be a beatboxer -- when she was young, her father, Ed Cage, used to beatbox her to sleep at night. Now the duo is known for their beatbox battles and jam .. show full overview
2015x213
Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead
Episode overview
14, 2015
The way we fish for popular seafood such as salmon, tuna and shrimp is threatening to ruin our oceans. Paul Greenberg explores the sheer size and irrationality of the seafood economy, .. show full overview
2015x214
Lucianne Walkowicz: Let's not use Mars as a backup planet
Episode overview
15, 2015
Stellar astronomer and TED Senior Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz works on NASA's Kepler mission, searching for places in the universe that could support life. So it's worth a listen when she .. show full overview
2015x215
Alison Killing: What happens when a city runs out of room for its dead
Episode overview
16, 2015
"If you want to go out and start your own cemetery" in the UK, says Alison Killing, "you kind of can." She thinks a lot about where we die and are buried -- and in this talk, the .. show full overview
2015x216
Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin: A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship
Episode overview
17, 2015
Legendary duo Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin have been friends for decades. In a raw, tender and wide-ranging conversation hosted by Pat Mitchell, the three discuss longevity, feminism, the .. show full overview
2015x217
António Guterres: Refugees have the right to be protected
Episode overview
18, 2015
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres thinks that we can solve the global refugee crisis -- and he offers compelling, surprising reasons why we must try. In conversation .. show full overview
2015x218
Rodrigo Bijou: Governments don't understand cyber warfare. We need hackers
Episode overview
21, 2015
The Internet has transformed the front lines of war, and it's leaving governments behind. As security analyst Rodrigo Bijou shows, modern conflict is being waged online between non-state .. show full overview
2015x219
Jason deCaires Taylor: An underwater art museum, teeming with life
Episode overview
22, 2015
For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse -- it's an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them .. show full overview
2015x220
Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
Episode overview
23, 2015
What keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life? If you think it's fame and money, you're not alone – but, according to psychiatrist Robert Waldinger, you're mistaken. As the .. show full overview