TEDTalks - Season 13 / Year 2017
Season 13 / Year 2017
Episodes
Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker?
Erika Gregory: The world doesn't need more nuclear weapons
Sam Kass: Want kids to learn well? Feed them well
Sofia Jawed-Wessel: The lies we tell pregnant women
Mandy Len Catron: A better way to talk about love
George Tulevski: The next step in nanotechnology
Dan Bricklin: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: To solve old problems, study new species
Sisonke Msimang: If a story moves you, act on it
Jennifer Brea: What happens when you have a disease doctors can't diagnose
Ashley Judd: How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control
Emily Parsons-Lord: Art made of the air we breathe
Robb Willer: How to have better political conversations
Paul Knoepfler: The ethical dilemma of designer babies
Jeanne Gang: Buildings that blend nature and city
Caleb Barlow: Where is cybercrime really coming from?
Deeyah Khan: What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids
Deepika Kurup: A young scientist's quest for clean water
Sarah Parcak: Help discover ancient ruins -- before it's too late
Alan Smith: Why you should love statistics
Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about
Sue Klebold: My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story
Nagin Cox: What time is it on Mars?
Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI
Tom Stranger / Thordis Elva: Our story of rape and reconciliation
Joshua Smith: New nanotech to detect cancer early
Jeff Speck: 4 ways to make a city more walkable
Aala El-Khani: What it's like to be a parent in a war zone
Miriam Zoila Pérez: How racism harms pregnant women -- and what can help
Rodrigo y Gabriela: An electrifying acoustic guitar performance
Amy Adele Hasinoff: How to practice safe sexting
Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry
Salil Dudani: How jails extort the poor
Grady Booch: Don't fear superintelligent AI
Yuval Noah Harari: Nationalism vs. globalism: the new political divide
Brittney Cooper: The racial politics of time
Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution
Charity Wayua: A few ways to fix a government
Stacy Smith: The data behind Hollywood's sexism
Ani Liu: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology
Jeff Kirschner: This app makes it fun to pick up litter
Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
Kathy Hull: Stories from a home for terminally ill children
Sara Ramirez: Rollercoaster
Carrie Poppy: A scientific approach to the paranormal
Megan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left
Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure
Jude Kelly: Why women should tell the stories of humanity
Joy Buolamwini: How I'm fighting bias in algorithms
John Koenig: Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions
Caitlin Doughty: A burial practice that nourishes the planet
Carrie Nugent: Adventures of an asteroid hunter
Peggy Orenstein: What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure
Karina Galperin: Should we simplify spelling?
Silk Road Ensemble: Turceasca
Dan Bell: Inside America's dead shopping malls
Peter Weinstock: Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer
Michele L. Sullivan: Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness
Margaret Bourdeaux: Why civilians suffer more once a war is over
Simon Anholt: Who would the rest of the world vote for in your country's election?
Mona Chalabi: 3 ways to spot a bad statistic
Ashton Cofer: A young inventor's plan to recycle Styrofoam
Katie Hinde: What we don't know about mother's milk
Michael Botticelli: Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one
Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA
Sō Percussion: Music for Wood and Strings
Emtithal Mahmoud: A young poet tells the story of Darfur
Casey Brown: Know your worth, and then ask for it
Gretchen Carlson, David Brooks: Political common ground in a polarized United States
Katie Bouman: How to take a picture of a black hole
Sebastián Bortnik: The conversation we're not having about digital child abuse
David R. Williams: How racism makes us sick
Giorgia Lupi: How we can find ourselves in data
Ari Wallach: 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term
Jonathan Marks: In praise of conflict
Todd Scott: An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillator
Zubaida Bai: A simple birth kit for mothers in the developing world
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We should all be feminists
Siamak Hariri: How do you build a sacred space?
Natasha Hurley-Walker: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
Amy Green: A video game to cope with grief
David Casarett: A doctor's case for medical marijuana
Curtis 'Wall Street' Carroll: How I learned to read -- and trade stocks -- in prison
Stephanie Busari: How fake news does real harm
Siddhartha Roy: Science in service to the public good
His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone
Serena Williams and Gayle King: On tennis, love and motherhood
Lisa Genova: What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's
Elon Musk: The future we're building -- and boring
Deborah Lipstadt: Behind the lies of Holocaust denial
Laura Galante: How to exploit democracy
Sangu Delle: There's no shame in taking care of your mental health
Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
Carolyn Jones: A tribute to nurses
Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves
Jorge Drexler: Poetry, music and identity
Kate Stafford: How human noise affects ocean habitats
Shah Rukh Khan: Thoughts on humanity, fame and love
Stuart Russell: 3 principles for creating safer AI
Lucy Kalanithi: What makes life worth living in the face of death
Ted Halstead: A climate solution where all sides can win
Wendy Troxel: Why school should start later for teens
T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison: When Black women walk, things change
Rutger Bregman: Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash
Sitawa Wafula: Why I speak up about living with epilepsy
Anthony D. Romero: This is what democracy looks like
Nina Fedoroff: A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
OK Go: How to find a wonderful idea
Triona McGrath: How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry
Garry Kasparov: Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them
Marlon Peterson: Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform
Raj Panjabi: No one should die because they live too far from a doctor
Rhiannon Giddens: Songs that bring history to life
Michael Bierut: How to design a library that makes kids want to read
Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth
Justin Davidson: Why glass towers are bad for city life -- and what we need instead
Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away
Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar: What happens in your brain when you pay attention?
Anne Lamott: 12 truths I learned from life and writing
Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
Richard Browning: How I built a jet suit
Katrina Spade: When I die, recompose me
Sharon Terry: Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it
Sofi Tukker: 'Awoo'
Jim Yong Kim: Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life?
Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures
David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character
Sinéad Burke: Why design should include everyone
Cheyenne Cochrane: A celebration of natural hair
Luma Mufleh: Don't feel sorry for refugees -- believe in them
Manu Prakash: Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: How we can face the future without fear, together
Jorge Ramos: Why journalists have an obligation to challenge power
Liz Hajek: What rivers can tell us about the earth's history
Adam Alter: Why our screens make us less happy
Kate Marvel: Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?
Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
Tricia Wang: The human insights missing from big data
Noah Feldman: Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship
Susan Robinson: How I fail at being disabled
Grace Kim: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)
Jimmy Lin: A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early
Tristan Harris: The manipulative tricks tech companies use to capture your attention
Jennifer Pluznick: You smell with your body, not just your nose
Kristen Marhaver: Why I still have hope for coral reefs
Marc Raibert: Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
Titus Kaphar: Can art amend history?
Ingrid Betancourt: What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith
Françoise Mouly: The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers
Joseph Redmon: How computers learn to recognize objects instantly
Tom Gruber: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives
Anjan Chatterjee: How your brain decides what is beautiful
Ashton Applewhite: Let's end ageism
David Baron: You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse
Jon Boogz and Lil Buck: A dance to honor Mother Earth
Anne Madden: Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face
Damon Davis: What I saw at the Ferguson protests
Manoush Zomorodi: How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
Ronald Sullivan: How I help free innocent people from prison
Jack Conte: How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age
Peter Calthorpe: 7 principles for building better cities
Richard J. Berry: A practical way to help the homeless find work and safety
Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life
Anika Paulson: How I found myself through music
Cathy O'Neil: The era of blind faith in big data must end
Iyad Rahwan: What moral decisions should driverless cars make?
David Whyte: A lyrical bridge between past, present and future
Robin Hanson: What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?
Carolyn Bertozzi: What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you
Laolu Senbanjo: The Sacred Art of the Ori
Niki Okuk: When workers own companies, the economy is more resilient
Wanuri Kahiu: Fun, fierce and fantastical African art
Tara Winkler: Why we need to end the era of orphanages
Noriko Arai: Can a robot pass a university entrance exam?
Jennifer Granick: How the US government spies on people who protest -- including you
Chance Coughenour: How your pictures can help reclaim lost history
Chetan Bhatt: Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are
Daan Roosegaarde: A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs
Erin Marie Saltman: How young people join violent extremist groups -- and how to stop them
Ray Dalio: How to build a company where the best ideas win
Tomás Saraceno: Would you live in a floating city in the sky?
Benjamin Grant: What it feels like to see Earth from space
OluTimehin Adegbeye: Who belongs in a city?
Caitlin Quattromani and Lauran Arledge: How our friendship survives our opposing politics
Emily Esfahani Smith: There's more to life than being happy
Alexander Wagner: What really motivates people to be honest in business
Pierre Thiam: A forgotten ancient grain that could help Africa prosper
Augie Picado: The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing
Helen Czerski: The fascinating physics of everyday life
Sethembile Msezane@ Living sculptures that stand for history's truths
Jun Wang: How digital DNA could help you make better health choices
Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again
Duarte Geraldino: What we're missing in the debate about immigration
Armando Azua-Bustos: The most Martian place on Earth
Radhika Nagpal: What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish
Theo E.J. Wilson: A black man goes undercover in the alt-right
Karoliina Korppoo: How a video game might help us build better cities
Anindya Kundu: The boost students need to overcome obstacles
Mei Lin Neo: The fascinating secret lives of giant clams
Nabila Alibhai: Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow
Julio Gil Future: tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere
Anna Heringer: The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings
Christian Rodríguez: What teen pregnancy looks like in Latin America
Euna Lee: What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea
Helen Pearson: Lessons from the longest study on human development
Gabriela González: How LIGO discovered gravitational waves — and what might be next
Prumsodun Ok: The magic of Khmer classical dance
Levon Biss: Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects
Nikki Webber Allen: Don't suffer from your depression in silence
Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
Christiane Amanpour: How to seek truth in the era of fake news
Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu: How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress
Greg Gage: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate
Eric Dyer: The forgotten art of the zoetrope
David Lee: Why jobs of the future won't feel like work
Sara DeWitt: 3 fears about screen time for kids -- and why they're not true
Elif Shafak: The revolutionary power of diverse thought
Paul Tasner: How I became an entrepreneur at 66
Kristin Poinar: What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet?
Elizabeth Wayne: We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer
Margrethe Vestager: The new age of corporate monopolies
Uldus Bakhtiozina: Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be
Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
Huang Yi & KUKA: A human-robot dance duet
Gus Casely-Hayford: The powerful stories that shaped Africa
Mike Kinney: A pro wrestler's guide to confidence
Naomi McDougall Jones: What it's like to be a woman in Hollywood
Anjan Sundaram: Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre
Rocío Lorenzo: How diversity makes teams more innovative
Martin Ford: How we'll earn money in a future without jobs
Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them
Zeynep Tufekci: We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
Shonda Rhimes and Cyndi Stivers: The future of storytelling
Tim Kruger: Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air?
Lauren Sallan: How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa
Giulia Enders: The surprisingly charming science of your gut
Amel Karboul: The global learning crisis -- and what to do about it
Gretchen Carlson: How we can end sexual harassment at work
Washington Wachira: For the love of birds
Inés Hercovich: Why women stay silent after sexual assault
Paul Hessburg: Why wildfires have gotten worse -- and what we can do about it
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim and Stephanie Busari: An interview with Mauritius's first female president
Jon Bowers: We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure
Robert Muggah: The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions
Victoria Pratt: How judges can show respect
Teresa Njoroge: What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit
Jackson Bird: How to talk (and listen) to transgender people
Lloyd Pendleton: The Housing First approach to homelessness
David Titley: How the military fights climate change
Beth Malone: How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life)
Christen Reighter: I don't want children -- stop telling me I'll change my mind
Kayla Briët: Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage
Per Espen Stoknes: How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming
Niti Bhan: The hidden opportunities of the informal economy
Scott Galloway: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions
Sarah Corbett: Activism needs introverts
Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely: How can groups make good decisions?
Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell: An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine
Elizabeth Blackburn: The science of cells that never get old
Keller Rinaudo: How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives
Matilda Ho: The future of good food in China
Natsai Audrey Chieza: Fashion has a pollution problem - can biology fix it?
Sebastian Thrun and Chris Anderson: What AI is -- and isn't
G.T. Bynum: A Republican mayor's plan to replace partisanship with policy
Luvvie Ajayi: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
Justin Baldoni: Why I'm done trying to be
Dan Gartenberg: The brain benefits of deep sleep -- and how to get more of it
Martina Flor: The secret language of letter design
Alastair Gray: How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime
Dao Nguyen: What makes something go viral?
Devita Davison: How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit
Nadine Hachach-Haram: How augmented reality could change the future of surgery
Gautam Bhan: A bold plan to house 100 million people
Xavier De Kestelier: Adventures of an interplanetary architect
Joan Blades and John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles
Miho Janvier: Lessons from a solar storm chaser
Kamau Gachigi: Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace
David Brenner: A new weapon in the fight against superbugs
Angela Wang: How China is changing the future of shopping
Atul Gawande: Want to get great at something? Get a coach
Javed Akhtar: The gift of words
Tiffany Watt Smith: The history of human emotions
Joel Jackson: A vehicle built in Africa, for Africa
Yvette Alberdingk Thijm: The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths
Deborah Willis and Hank Willis: Thomas A mother and son united by love and art
Christian Benimana: The next generation of African architects and designers
Heather Lanier: 'Good' and 'bad' are incomplete stories we tell ourselves
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