TEDTalks - Season 9 / Year 2013

Season 9 / Year 2013

Episodes

Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us

Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease

Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects

Jonathan Haidt: How common threats can make common (political) ground

Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair

Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist

Boghuma Kabisen Titanji: Ethical riddles in HIV research

Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes

Angela Patton: A father-daughter dance ... in prison

Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking -- you can do it, too

Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model.

Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?

Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood

Janine di Giovanni: What I saw in the war

Colin Powell: Kids need structure

Steven Schwaitzberg: A universal translator for surgeons

Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don't leave

Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market

Mitch Resnick: Let's teach kids to code

iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay

Fahad Al-Attiya: A country with no water

Zahra' Langhi: Why Libya's revolution didn't work -- and what might

Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun

Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day

Lee Cronin: Print your own medicine

Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls

Erik Schlangen: A "self-healing" asphalt

James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?

Esther Perel: The secret to desire in a long-term relationship

Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now!

Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really.

Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?

Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption

Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools

Michael Dickinson: How a fly flies

Bruce Feiler: Agile programming -- for your family

Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving

Bruno Maisonnier: Dance, tiny robots!

Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud

Jennifer Granholm: A clean energy proposal -- race to the top!

Amanda Palmer: The art of asking

Allan Savory: How to green the desert and reverse climate change

Edith Widder: How we found the giant squid

Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school

Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful

Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

David Anderson: Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals

Stewart Brand: The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?

Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)

Catarina Mota: Play with smart materials

Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B

Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ...

Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea

Francis Collins: We need better drugs -- now

Eric Whitacre: Virtual Choir Live

Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.

Mark Shaw: One very dry demo

Richard Turere: My invention that made peace with lions

Colin Camerer: Neuroscience, game theory, monkeys

Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life

Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost

Lawrence Lessig: We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim

Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing"

Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all

Freeman Hrabowski: 4 pillars of college success in science

Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot -- powered by your phone

Dan Ariely: What makes us feel good about our work?

Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport

Laura Snyder: The Philosophical Breakfast Club

Rose George: Let's talk crap. Seriously.

Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness

Joshua Prager: In search of the man who broke my neck

Andres Lozano: Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off

BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery

John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!

Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth

Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines

Jennifer Healey: If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable

David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips

Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk

Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors

Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography

Juan Enriquez: Your online life, permanent as a tattoo

Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion

Timothy Bartik: The economic case for preschool

ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese ... with ease!

Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback

Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning

Pearl Arredondo: My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher

Malcolm London: "High School Training Ground"

Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!

John Legend: "True Colors"

Angela Lee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit

Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley

Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20

Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness

Liu Bolin: The invisible man

Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!

Sergey Brin: Why Google Glass?

Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism

Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake

Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life

Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people

Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul

Paola Antonelli: Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA

Jackson Katz: Violence against women—it's a men's issue

Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!

Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind

Andrew Solomon: Love, no matter what

Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill

Anas Aremeyaw Anas: How I named, shamed and jailed

Denise Herzing: Could we speak the language of dolphins?

Martin Villeneuve: How I made an impossible film

Andrew McAfee: What will future jobs look like?

Raffaello D'Andrea: The astounding athletic power of quadcopters

George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders

Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot

Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive

Didier Sornette: How we can predict the next financial crisis

Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa

Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained.

Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes

Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser

Lesley Hazleton: The doubt essential to faith

Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?

Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon

Michael Archer: How we'll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger

Rodney Brooks: Why we will rely on robots

Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems

Joel Selanikio: The surprising seeds of a big-data revolution in healthcare

Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?

Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players

Michael Green: Why we should build wooden skyscrapers

The interspecies internet? An idea in progress…

Jack Andraka: A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager

Al Vernacchio: Sex needs a new metaphor. Here's one …

Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world

Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy

Pico Iyer: Where is home?

Two young scientists break down plastics with bacteria

Tom Thum: The orchestra in my mouth

John Searle: Our shared condition -- consciousness

Kate Stone: DJ decks made of... paper

Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: In our baby's illness, a life lesson

Paul Kemp-Robertson: Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.

Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a millionaire

Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?

Eli Beer: The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle

Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge

Peter van Manen: How can Formula 1 racing help ... babies?

Beardyman: The polyphonic me

Daniel H. Cohen: For argument's sake

Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses

Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets

Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head

Derek Paravicini and Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius

Margaret Heffernan: The dangers of

Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper

Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?

Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu: A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory.

May El-Khalil: Making peace is a marathon

Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers

Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend

Chrystia Freeland: The rise of the new global super-rich

Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas

George Monbiot: For more wonder, rewild the world

Jake Barton: The museum of you

Ron McCallum: How technology allowed me to read

Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven't gotten rid of malaria

Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection

James Lyne: Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it

Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing

Eric Berlow and Sean Gourley: Mapping ideas worth spreading

Andras Forgacs: Leather and meat without killing animals

Benjamin Barber: Why mayors should rule the world

Elizabeth Loftus: The fiction of memory

Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance

Onora O'Neill: What we don't understand about trust

James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'

Kevin Breel: Confessions of a depressed comic

Malcolm Gladwell: The unheard story of David and Goliath

Kelli Swazey: Life that doesn't end with death

Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating

Fabian Oefner: Psychedelic science

Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?

Michael Porter: Why business can be good at solving social problems

Michael Sandel: Why we shouldn't trust markets with our civic life

Janette Sadik-Khan: New York's streets? Not so mean any more

Trita Parsi: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible

Gary Slutkin: Let's treat violence like a contagious disease

Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction

Jeff Speck: The walkable city

Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death

Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places

Alessandro Acquisti: What will a future without secrets look like?

Hetain Patel: Who am I? Think again

Steve Howard: Let's go all-in on selling sustainability

Charles Robertson: Africa's next boom

Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy

Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge

Xavier Vilalta: Architecture at home in its community

Mariana Mazzucato: Government -- investor, risk-taker, innovator

Mohamed Hijri: A simple solution to the coming phosphorus crisis

Abha Dawesar: Life in the "digital now"

Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.

Dong Woo Jang: The art of bow-making

Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels

Robin Nagle: What I discovered in New York City trash

Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked

Mikko Hypponen: How the NSA betrayed the world's trust

Arthur Benjamin: The magic of Fibonacci numbers

Dambisa Moyo: Is China the new idol for emerging economies?

Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind

Mohamed Ali: The link between unemployment and terrorism

Stefan Larsson: What doctors can learn from each other

Jane McGonigal: Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling?

Lian Pin Koh: A drone's-eye view of conservation

Greg Asner: Ecology from the air

Henry Evans and Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity

Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There's a drone for that

How your "working memory" makes sense of the world

Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better

Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?

David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful

Toby Eccles: Invest in social change

Geraldine Hamilton: Body parts on a chip

Sally Kohn: Let's try emotional correctness

David Lang: My underwater robot

Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action

Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela

Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay... and community

Eddy Cartaya: My glacier cave discoveries

Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death

Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry

Toni Griffin: A new vision for rebuilding Detroit

Marco Annunziata: Welcome to the age of the industrial internet

Andrew Solomon: Depression, the secret we share

Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that's changing lives

Paul Piff: Does money make you mean?

Diana Nyad: Never, ever give up

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

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We should all be feminists
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