TEDTalks: 2016 season 2024

Harry Cliff: Have We Reached The End Of Physics?

Sebastian Wernicke: How To Use Data To Make A Hit Tv Show

Aomawa Shields: How We'll Find Life On Other Planets

David Sedlak: 4 Ways We Can Avoid A Catastrophic Drought

James Veitch: This Is What Happens When You Reply To Spam Email

Tim Harford: How Frustration Can Make Us More Creative

Melvin Russell: I Love Being A Police Officer, But We Need Reform

Wael Ghonim: Let's Design Social Media That Drives Real Change

Ole Scheeren: Why Great Architecture Should Tell A Story

Jill Heinerth: The Mysterious World Of Underwater Caves

Jill Farrant: How We Can Make Crops Survive Without Water

Oscar Schwartz: Can A Computer Write Poetry?

Achenyo Idachaba: How I Turned A Deadly Plant Into A Thriving Business

Elizabeth Lev: The Unheard Story Of The Sistine Chapel

Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism Will Eat Democracy - Unless We Speak Up

David Gruber: Glow-in-the-dark Sharks And Other Stunning Sea Creatures

Tania Simoncelli: Should You Be Able To Patent A Human Gene?

Auke Ijspeert: A Robot That Runs And Swims Like A Salamander

Melati And Isabel Wijsen: Our Campaign To Ban Plastic Bags In Bali

Linda Liukas: A Delightful Way To Teach Kids About Computers

Astro Teller: The Unexpected Benefit Of Celebrating Failure

Andrés Ruzo: How I Found A Mythical Boiling River In The Amazon

Judson Brewer: A Simple Way To Break A Bad Habit

Pardis Sabeti: How We'll Fight The Next Deadly Virus

Matthew Williams: Special Olympics Let Me Be Myself - A Champion

Dambisa Moyo: Economic growth has stalled. Let's fix it

Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting Tech Will Change Work As We Know It

Gregory Heyworth: How I'm Discovering The Secrets Of Ancient Texts

Mike Velings: The Case For Fish Farming

Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicine

Jocelyne Bloch: The Brain May Be Able To Repair Itself - With Help

Celeste Headlee: 10 Ways To Have A Better Conversation

Shonda Rhimes: My Year Of Saying Yes To Everything

Allan Adams: What the discovery of gravitational waves means

Raffaello D'Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future

Al Gore: The Case For Optimism On Climate Change

Dalia Mogahed: What Do You Think When You Look At Me?

Audrey Choi: How To Make A Profit While Making A Difference

Mary Bassett: Why your doctor should care about social justice

Ivan Coyote: Why We Need Gender-neutral Bathrooms

Thomas Peschak: Dive into an ocean photographer's world

Magda Sayeg: How Yarn Bombing Grew Into A Worldwide Movement

Russ Altman: What Really Happens When You Mix Medications?

Alexander Betts: Our Refugee System Is Failing. Here's How We Can Fix It

Travis Kalanick: Uber's Plan To Get More People Into Fewer Cars

Reshma Saujani: Teach Girls Bravery, Not Perfection

Caleb Harper: This computer will grow your food in the future

Laura Robinson: The Secrets I Find On The Mysterious Ocean Floor

Mileha Soneji: Simple Hacks For Life With Parkinson's

Tshering Tobgay: This Country Isn't Just Carbon Neutral - It's Carbon Negative

Casey Gerald: The Gospel Of Doubt

Joe Gebbia: How Airbnb Designs For Trust

Tim Urban: Inside The Mind Of A Master Procrastinator

Jessica Ladd: The Reporting System That Sexual Assault Survivors Want

Arthur Brooks: A Conservative's Plea: Let's Work Together

Meron Gribetz: A Glimpse Of The Future Through An Augmented Reality Headset

Adam Foss: A Prosecutor's Vision For A Better Justice System

Carol Cohen: How To Get Back To Work After A Career Break

Latif Nasser: You Have No Idea Where Camels Really Come From

Siyanda Mohutsiwa: How young Africans found a voice on Twitter

Alex Kipman: A Futuristic Vision Of The Age Of Holograms

Angélica Dass: The Beauty Of Human Skin In Every Color

Dan Gross: Why Gun Violence Can't Be Our New Normal

Lisa Nip: How Humans Could Evolve To Survive In Space

Knut Haanaes: Two Reasons Companies Fail - And How To Avoid Them

Adam Grant: The Surprising Habits Of Original Thinkers

Haley Van Dyck: How A Start-up In The White House Is Changing Business As Usual

Parag Khanna: How Megacities Are Changing The Map Of The World

Danielle Feinberg: The Magic Ingredient That Brings Pixar Movies To Life

Tabetha Boyajian: The Most Mysterious Star In The Universe

Robert Palmer: The Panama Papers Exposed A Huge Global Problem. What's Next?

Linus Torvalds: The Mind Behind Linux

Hugh Evans: What Does It Mean To Be A Citizen Of The World?

Stephen Petranek: Your Kids Might Live On Mars. Here's How They'll Survive

Paula Hammond: A New Superweapon In The Fight Against Cancer

Mary Norris: The Nit-picking Glory Of The New Yorker's Comma Queen

Christiana Figueres: The Inside Story Of The Paris Climate Agreement

Joshua Prager: Wisdom From Great Writers On Every Year Of Life

Chris Anderson: Ted's Secret To Great Public Speaking

Juan Enriquez: We Can Reprogram Life. How To Do It Wisely

Aditi Gupta: A Taboo-free Way To Talk About Periods

Kenneth Lacovara: Hunting For Dinosaurs Showed Me Our Place In The Universe

Shivani Siroya: A smart loan for people with no credit history (yet)

R. Luke Dubois: Insightful Human Portraits Made From Data

Ameera Harouda: Why I Put Myself In Danger To Tell The Stories Of Gaza

Michael Metcalfe: A Provocative Way To Finance The Fight Against Climate Change

Riccardo Sabatini: How To Read The Genome And Build A Human Being

Sarah Gray: How My Son'S Short Life Made A Lasting Difference

Alice Rawsthorn: Pirates, Nurses And Other Rebel Designers

Dan Pallotta: The Dream We Haven'T Dared To Dream

Monica Byrne: A Sci-fi Vision Of Love From A 318-year-old Hologram

Michael Bodekaer: This Virtual Lab Will Revolutionize Science Class

Jennifer Kahn: Gene Editing Can Now Change An Entire Species - Forever

Uri Hasson: This Is Your Brain On Communication

Sanford Biggers: An Artist'S Unflinching Look At Racial Violence

Sangeeta Bhatia: This Tiny Particle Could Roam Your Body To Find Tumors

Kang Lee: Can You Really Tell If A Kid Is Lying?

Moran Cerf: This Scientist Can Hack Your Dreams

Laura Indolfi: Good News In The Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer

Sebastian Junger: Our Lonely Society Makes It Hard To Come Home From War

Toni Mac: The Laws That Sex Workers Really Want

Trevor Timm: How Free Is Our Freedom Of The Press?

Lidia Yuknavitch: The Beauty Of Being A Misfit

Mariano Sigman: Your Words May Predict Your Future Mental Health

Zaria Forman: Drawings That Show The Beauty And Fragility Of Earth

Joseph Ravenell: How Barbershops Can Keep Men Healthy

Adam Driver, Jesse Perez, Matt Johnson: Why I Bring Theater To The Military

Sue Desmond-hellmann: A Smarter, More Precise Way To Think About Public Health

Samantha Nutt: The Real Harm Of The Global Arms Trade

Norman Lear, Eric Hirshberg: An Entertainment Icon On Living A Life Of Meaning

Stephen Wilkes: The Passing Of Time, Caught In A Single Photo

Cédric Villani: What'S So Sexy About Math?

Amit Sood: Every Piece Of Art You'Ve Ever Wanted To See - Up Close And Searchable

Shaolan Hsueh: The Chinese Zodiac, Explained

Sajay Samuel: How College Loans Exploit Students For Profit

Negin Farsad: A Highly Scientific Taxonomy Of Haters

Andrew Youn: 3 Reasons Why We Can Win The Fight Against Poverty

Jamila Raqib: The Secret To Effective Nonviolent Resistance

Andrew Pelling: This Scientist Makes Ears Out Of Apples

Chris Milk: The Birth Of Virtual Reality As An Art Form

Tristan Harris: How Better Tech Could Protect Us From Distraction

Gill Hicks: I Survived A Terrorist Attack. Here'S What I Learned

Keolu Fox: Why Genetic Research Must Be More Diverse

Seema Bansal: How To Fix A Broken Education System ... Without Any More Money

Brian Little: Who Are You, Really? The Puzzle Of Personality

Tom Hulme: What Can We Learn From Shortcuts?

Wanda Diaz Merced: How A Blind Astronomer Found A Way To Hear The Stars

Blaise Agüera Y Arcas: How Computers Are Learning To Be Creative

Julia Galef: Why You Think You'Re Right - Even If You'Re Wrong

Prosanta Chakrabarty: Clues To Prehistoric Times, Found In Blind Cavefish

John Legend: Redemption Song

Marwa Al-Sabouni: How Syria's architecture laid the foundation for brutal war

Alexander Betts: Why Brexit Happened - And What To Do Next

Safwat Saleem: Why I Keep Speaking Up, Even When People Mock My Accent

Elise Roy: When We Design For Disability, We All Benefit

Leila Hoteit: 3 Lessons On Success From An Arab Businesswoman

Eric Haseltine: What Will Be The Next Big Scientific Breakthrough?

Emma Marris: Nature Is Everywhere - We Just Need To Learn To See It

Shubhendu Sharma: How To Grow A Forest In Your Backyard

Adam Savage: My Love Letter To Cosplay

Lisa Dyson: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food

eL Seed: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings

Gerard Ryle: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history

Ed Boyden: A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets

Suzanne Simard: How trees talk to each other

Anthony Goldbloom: The jobs we'll lose to machines — and the ones we won't

Martin Reeves: How to build a business that lasts 100 years

Molly Winter: The taboo secret to better health

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: How Africa can keep rising

Dave Brain: What a planet needs to sustain life

Monica Araya: A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels

James Green: 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life

Sarah Parcak: Hunting for Peru's lost civilizations — with satellites

Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era

Gonzalo Vilariño: How Argentina's blind soccer team became champions

Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here

Timothy Ihrig: What we can do to die well

Laura Boushnak: The deadly legacy of cluster bombs

Don Tapscott: How the blockchain is changing money and business

Vanessa Ruiz: The spellbinding art of human anatomy

Julia Bacha: How women wage conflict without violence

Christopher Bell: Bring on the female superheroes!

Kio Stark: Why you should talk to strangers

Jonathan Tepperman: The risky politics of progress

James Veitch: The agony of trying to unsubscribe

Sal Khan: Let's teach for mastery — not test scores

Courtney E. Martin: The new American Dream

David Camarillo: Why helmets don't prevent concussions — and what might

Franz Freudenthal: A new way to heal hearts without surgery

Neha Narula: The future of money

Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to raise successful kids — without over-parenting

Michael Shellenberger: How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment

Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal

Abigail Marsh: Why some people are more altruistic than others

Eric Liu: There's no such thing as not voting

David Burkus: Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid

Nadia Lopez: Why open a school? To close a prison

Sebastian Kraves: The era of personal DNA testing is here

Rebecca MacKinnon: We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights

J.D. Vance: America's forgotten working class

Camille A. Brown: A visual history of social dance in 25 moves

Oded Shoseyov: How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers

Sam Harris: Can we build AI without losing control over it?

Helen Fisher: Technology hasn't changed love. Here's why

Ellen Jorgensen: What you need to know about CRISPR

Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger

Adam de la Zerda: We can start winning the war against cancer

Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?

Rainn Wilson: Ideas worth dating

John McWhorter: 4 reasons to learn a new language

Ione Wells: How we talk about sexual assault online

Pico Iyer: The beauty of what we'll never know

Melissa Walker: Art can heal PTSD's invisible wounds

Jim Hemerling: 5 ways to lead in an era of constant change

Trevor Copp / Jeff Fox: Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles

Rachel Botsman: We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers

Todd Coleman: A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home

Zeynep Tufekci: Machine intelligence makes human morals more important

Manwar Ali: Inside the mind of a former radical jihadist

Philippa Neave: The unexpected challenges of a country's first election

Wanis Kabbaj: What a driverless world could look like

Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status

Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection

Tasos Frantzolas: Everything you hear on film is a lie

Rhiannon Giddens / Silk Road Ensemble:

Kelli Jean Drinkwater: Enough with the fear of fat

Christopher Soghoian: Your smartphone is a civil rights issue

Kandice Sumner: How America's public schools keep kids in poverty

Mallory Soldner: Your company's data could help end world hunger

Tim Leberecht: 4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines

Usman Riaz / Amanda Palmer / Jherek Bischoff:

Halla Tómasdóttir: It's time for women to run for office

Suzanne Barakat: Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate

Jonathan Haidt: Can a divided America heal?

Fawn Qiu: Easy DIY projects for kid engineers

Hector Garcia: We train soldiers for war. Let's train them to come home, too

Kimberlé Crenshaw / Abby Dobson: The urgency of intersectionality

Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy

Steven Johnson: How play leads to great inventions

Victor Rios: Help for kids the education system ignores

Roger Antonsen: Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world

Sandi Toksvig: A political party for women's equality

Juan Enriquez: What will humans look like in 100 years?

Adam Galinsky: How to speak up for yourself

Joe Lassiter: We need nuclear power to solve climate change

Mia Birdsong / Patrisse Cullors / Opal Tometi / Alicia Garza: An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter

Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)

Ryan Gravel: How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city

Kate Adams: 4 larger-than-life lessons from soap operas

Kim Katrin Milan / Tiq Milan: A queer vision of love and marriage

Natalie Panek: Let's clean up the space junk orbiting Earth

Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejection

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Veerle Provoost: Do kids think of sperm donors as family?

Kevin B. Jones: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine

Kevin Kelly: How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution

Rebecca Brachman: Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD?

Dena Simmons: How students of color confront impostor syndrome

Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time

David Autor: Will automation take away all our jobs?

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016?

Anjali Tripathi: Why Earth may someday look like Mars

Sharon Brous: It's time to reclaim religion

James Beacham: How we explore unanswered questions in physics