TEDTalks: 2014 season 2024

Mick Cornett: How an obese town lost a million pounds

Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems... palsy is just one

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research

Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn't usually work

Frederic Kaplan: How to build an information time machine

Ryan Holladay: To hear this music you have to be there. Literally

Harish Manwani: Profit's not always the point

Mark Kendall: Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper

Sheryl Sandberg: So we leaned in ... now what?

Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love

Guy Hoffman: Robots with soul

Laura Bates: Everyday sexism

Shereen El Feki: A little-told tale of sex and sensuality

Paula Johnson: His and hers … healthcare

Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify

Joe Kowan: How I beat stage fright

Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter

Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime

McKenna Pope: Want to be an activist? Start with your toys

Nicolas Perony: Puppies! Now that I've got your attention, complexity theory

Maya Penn: Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist …

Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)

Dan Berkenstock: The world is one big dataset. Now, how to photograph it ...

Teddy Cruz: How architectural innovations migrate across borders

Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence

Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention

David Puttnam: Does the media have a

Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore

Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability

Rupal Patel: Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints

Yann Dall'Aglio: Love -- you're doing it wrong

Molly Stevens: A new way to grow bone

Roselinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader

Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?

Ash Beckham: We're all hiding something. Let's find the courage to open up

Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself?

Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens

Michael Metcalfe: We need money for aid. So let's print it.

Henry Lin: What we can learn from galaxies far, far away

Annette Heuser: The 3 agencies with the power to make or break economies

Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains?

Philip Evans: How data will transform business

Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance — this is just the beginning

Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine

Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami

Ajit Narayanan: A word game to communicate in any language

Clayton Cameron: A-rhythm-etic. The math behind the beats

Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can we all

Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that

Carin Bondar: The birds and the bees are just the beginning

Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason

Daniel Reisel: The neuroscience of restorative justice

Edward Snowden: Here's how we take back the Internet

Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space

Charmian Gooch: My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business

Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk

Larry Page: Where's Google going next?

Ziauddin Yousafzai: My daughter, Malala

Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering

Ed Yong: Suicidal crickets, zombie roaches and other parasite tales

Del Harvey: The strangeness of scale at Twitter

Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance

Geena Rocero: Why I must come out

TED staff: It's TED, the Musical

Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics

Bill and Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done

Jennifer Golbeck: The curly fry conundrum: Why social media "likes" say more than you might think

Lawrence Lessig: The unstoppable walk to political reform

Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work

Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic

Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world

David Sengeh: The sore problem of prosthetic limbs

Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.

David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

Jennifer Senior: For parents, happiness is a very high bar

Norman Spack: How I help transgender teens become who they want to be

Jeremy Kasdin: The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets

Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces

Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near win

Michel Laberge: How synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion

Hamish Jolly: A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think)

James Patten: The best computer interface? Maybe ... your hands

Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating

Wendy Chung: Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet)

David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?

Andrew Bastawrous: Get your next eye exam on a smartphone

Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change

Sarah Jones: What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers

Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave?

Marco Tempest: And for my next trick, a robot

Stanley McChrystal: The military case for sharing knowledge

Randall Munroe: Comics that ask "what if?"

Mark Ronson: The exhilarating creativity of remixing

William Black: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is)

Deborah Gordon: What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet

Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life

Tristram Wyatt: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone

Rives: The Museum of Four in the Morning

Simon Sinek: Why good leaders make you feel safe

Jackie Savitz: Save the oceans, feed the world!

Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are

Chris Kluwe: How augmented reality will change sports ... and build empathy

Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about the war

Sebastian Junger: Why veterans miss war

Jon Mooallem: The strange story of the teddy bear, and what it reveals about our relationship to animals

Kitra Cahana: A glimpse of life on the road

Stephen Friend: The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes"

Sting: How I started writing songs again

Ray Kurzweil: Get ready for hybrid thinking

Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self

Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry

Robert Full: The secrets of nature's grossest creatures, channeled into robots

Yoruba Richen: What the gay rights movement learned from the civil rights movement

Stella Young: I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much

Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet's immune system

Will Potter: The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest

Uri Alon: Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown

AJ Jacobs: The world's largest family reunion … we're all invited!

Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)

Anne Curzan: What makes a word

Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices

Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English

Billy Collins: Two poems about what dogs think (probably)

Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don't define you

Lorrie Faith Cranor: What's wrong with your pa$$w0rd?

Naomi Oreskes: Why we should trust scientists

Ge Wang: The DIY orchestra of the future

Julian Treasure: How to speak so that people want to listen

Chris Domas: The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare

Sara Lewis: The loves and lies of fireflies

Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?

Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?

George Takei: Why I love a country that once betrayed me

Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist"

Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future

Renata Salecl: Our unhealthy obsession with choice

Karima Bennoune: When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism

David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it's magic

David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?

Nikolai Begg: A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery

Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that'd be at home in the deep sea

Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime

Ze Frank: Are you human?

Shai Reshef: An ultra-low-cost college degree

Margaret Gould Stewart: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)

Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state

Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis

Megan Washington: Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking

Talithia Williams: Own your body's data

Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming

Dan Pacholke: How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives

Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power

Clint Smith: The danger of silence

Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web

Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life

Jarrett Krosoczka: Why lunch ladies are heroes

Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans

Ziyah Gafić: Everyday objects, tragic histories

Martin Rees: Can we prevent the end of the world?

Rose Goslinga: Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding

Meera Vijayann: Find your voice against gender violence

Sally Kohn: Don't like clickbait? Don't click

Jill Shargaa: Please, please, people. Let's put the 'awe' back in 'awesome'

Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist?

Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age

Shubhendu Sharma: How to grow a tiny forest anywhere

Colin Grant: How our stories cross over

Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here's how I chose peace.

Dan Barasch: A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City

Hans and Ola Rosling: How not to be ignorant about the world

Uldus Bakhtiozina: Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down

Rishi Manchanda: What makes us get sick? Look upstream.

Andrew Connolly: What's the next window into our universe?

Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door

Avi Reichental: What's next in 3D printing

Antonio Donato Nobre: The magic of the Amazon: A river that flows invisibly all around us

Lord Nicholas Stern: The state of the climate — and what we might do about it

Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data

Eman Mohammed: The courage to tell a hidden story

Matthew O'Reilly: "Am I dying?" The honest answer.

Moshe Safdie: How to reinvent the apartment building

Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right

Susan Colantuono: The career advice you probably didn't get

Gail Reed: Where to train the world's doctors? Cuba.

Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind

Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road … and in the air

Thomas Piketty: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century

Meaghan Ramsey: Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you

Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era

Dilip Ratha: The hidden force in global economics: sending money home

Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters

Jeff Iliff: One more reason to get a good night's sleep

Myriam Sidibe: The simple power of hand-washing

Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection?

Melissa Fleming: Let's help refugees thrive, not just survive

Kitra Cahana: My father, locked in his body but soaring free

Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data?

Fred Swaniker: The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it

Joy Sun: Should you donate differently?

Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater

Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think

Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law

Sergei Lupashin: A flying camera ... on a leash

Frans Lanting: Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom

Debra Jarvis: Yes, I survived cancer. But that doesn't define me

Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like

Alessandra Orofino: It's our city. Let's fix it

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: Humble plants that hide surprising secrets

Kare Anderson: Be an opportunity maker

Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process

Haas&Hahn: How painting can transform communities

Ramanan Laxminarayan: The coming crisis in antibiotics

Michael Green: What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country

Ethan Nadelmann: Why we need to end the War on Drugs

Leana Wen: What your doctor won't disclose

Vincent Moon and Naná Vasconcelos: Hidden music rituals around the world

David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings

Will Marshall: Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time

Nancy Frates: Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge

Joe Landolina: This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly

Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself

Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don't

Emily Balcetis: Why some people find exercise harder than others

Pico Iyer: The art of stillness

Oren Yakobovich: Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world's most dangerous places

Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life

Rainer Strack: The workforce crisis of 2030 -- and how to start solving it now

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: What veterinarians know that doctors don't

Aakash Odedra: A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light

Jose Miguel Sokoloff: How Christmas lights helped guerrillas put down their guns

Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution

Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive

Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you

Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations

Vernā Myers: How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them

Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn

Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve

Bruno Torturra: Got a smartphone? Start broadcasting

Mundano: Pimp my ... trash cart?

Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!

Michael Rubinstein: See invisible motion, hear silent sounds. Cool? Creepy? We can't decide