TEDTalks - Season 15 / Year 2019

Season 15 / Year 2019

Episodes

Jan Rader: In the opioid crisis, here's what it takes to save a life

Elizabeth Lyle: How to break bad management habits before they reach the next generation of leaders

Lýdia Machová: The secrets of learning a new language

Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams: The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption

Martin Danoesastro: What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?

Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers

Renzo Vitale: What should electric cars sound like?

Karissa Sanbonmatsu: The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain

Shohini Ghose: A beginner's guide to quantum computing

Gunjan Bhardwaj: How blockchain and AI can help us decipher medicine's big data

Deutsche Philharmonie Merck: "Part II. The Journey Through Time" / "Ruslan and Lyudmila"

Monique W. Morris: Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that

Katharine Wilkinson: How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming

Akash Manoj: A life-saving device that detects silent heart attacks

LADAMA: How music crosses cultures and empowers communities

Kotchakorn Voraakhom: How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods

Tiana Epps-Johnson: What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century

Jonathan Wilker: What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue

Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials

Mai Lan: "Autopilote" / "Pumper"

Tim Harford: A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity

Casey Gerald: Embrace your raw, strange magic

Sean Davis: Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer

Marian Wright Edelman: Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty

Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change

Emily Quinn: The way we think about biological sex is wrong

Leland Melvin: An astronaut's story of curiosity, perspective and change

Ruby Sales: How we can start to heal the pain of racial division

Matt Beane: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?

Sarah Barmak: The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality

Soraya Chemaly: The power of women's anger

Wendy De La Rosa: 3 psychological tricks to help you save money

Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business

Priyanka Jain: How to make applying for jobs less painful

Nicaila Matthews Okome: This is the side hustle revolution

Patty McCord: 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for

Amy Nicole Baker: 7 common questions about workplace romance

Danielle R. Moss: How we can help the "forgotten middle" reach their full potential

Julian Burschka: What your breath could reveal about your health

Anirudh Sharma: Ink made of air pollution

Shad Begum: How women in Pakistan are creating political change

Mathias Basner: Why noise is bad for your health -- and what you can do about it

P.J. Parmar: How doctors can help low-income patients (and still make a profit)

Steven Petrow: 3 ways to practice civility

Aja Monet and phillip agnew: A love story about the power of art as organizing

Juan Enriquez: The age of genetic wonder

Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman: What is the meaning of work?

Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?

Liz Kleinrock: How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics

Ashweetha Shetty: How education helped me rewrite my life

Dolores Huerta: How to overcome apathy and find your power

Ronald Rael: An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall

Lindy Lou Isonhood: A juror's reflections on the death penalty

Karl Skjonnemand: The self-assembling computer chips of the future

Farida Nabourema: Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here's how to know

Juliet Brophy: How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution

Majd Mashharawi: How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza

César Hidalgo: A bold idea to replace politicians

Dina Zielinski: How we can store digital data in DNA

T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison: The most powerful woman you've never heard of

Eugenia Cheng: An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math

Yvonne van Amerongen: The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care

Tom Thum and Matthew Broadhurst: What happens in your throat when you beatbox?

Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory

Thomas Curran: Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse

Crush Club: "My Man" / "Bohanna" / "We Dance"

Kriti Sharma: How to keep human bias out of AI

Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes

Amanda Williams: Why I turned Chicago's abandoned homes into art

Noah Wilson-Rich: What's killing bees -- and how to save them

Olympia Della Flora: Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school

Marjan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power

Esha Alwani: What it's like to have Tourette's -- and how music gives me back control

Rebecca Brachman: A new class of drug that could prevent depression and PTSD

Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi: To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language

Samy Nour Younes: A short history of trans people's long fight for equality

Nora Brown: "East Virginia" / "John Brown's Dream"

Chuck Murry: Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?

Alexander MacDonald: How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight

Kimberly Noble: How does income affect childhood brain development?

Helen Marriage: Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination

Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives

Rosalind Picard: An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

Eve Pearlman: How to lead a conversation between people who disagree

Nora McInerny: We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it

Keith Kirkland: Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch

Kashfia Rahman: How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain

Rana Abdelhamid: 3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer

Kakenya Ntaiya: Empower a girl, transform a community

Christoph Keplinger: The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future

Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy

Jack Dorsey: How Twitter needs to change

Sheperd Doeleman: Inside the black hole image that made history

Danielle N. Lee: How hip-hop helps us understand science

Romain Lacombe: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing

David R. Liu: Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA?

Leah Georges: How generational stereotypes hold us back at work

Kim Gorgens: The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime

Elizabeth Dunn: Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it

Hannah Gadsby: Three ideas. Three contradictions. Or not.

Yana Buhrer Tavanier: How to recover from activism burnout

Michele Wucker: Why we ignore obvious problems -- and how to act on them

Joanne Chory: How supercharged plants could slow climate change

Es Devlin: Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology

Ivan Poupyrev: Everything around you can become a computer

Eric Liu: How to revive your belief in democracy

Halla Tómasdóttir and Bryn Freedman: The crisis of leadership -- and a new way forward

Wajahat Ali: The case for having kids

Sabine Doebel: How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it

Matt Walker: Sleep is your superpower

Doug Roble: Digital humans that look just like us

Carson Bruns: Could a tattoo help you stay healthy?

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin: What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes

Arnav Kapur: How AI could become an extension of your mind

Katie Hood: The difference between healthy and unhealthy love

Brittany Packnett: How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others

Lucy Cooke: Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal

Bruce Friedrich: The next global agricultural revolution

Hamdi Ulukaya: The anti-CEO playbook

America Ferrera: My identity is a superpower -- not an obstacle

Jarrell Daniels: What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other

Morgan Vague: These bacteria eat plastic

Baratunde Thurston: How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time

Erika Hamden: What it takes to launch a telescope

Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out

Roger Hanlon: The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods

Bjarke Ingels: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future

Kate Bowler: "Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved

David Brooks: The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live

Michelle Kuo: The healing power of reading

Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made

Karen Lloyd: The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity

Priya Parker: 3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings

Ryan Martin: Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy

Daniel Lismore: My life as a work of art

Michael Tubbs: The political power of being a good neighbor

David Baker: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins

Rob Reid: How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it

Suleika Jaouad: What almost dying taught me about living

Lynn Rothschild: The living tech we need to support human life on other planets

Sarah Kay: "A Bird Made of Birds"

Brandon Clifford: The architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders

Lindsay Amer: Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality

Ethan Lindenberger: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines

Heidi Grant: How to ask for help -- and get a "yes"

Jonny Sun: You are not alone in your loneliness

Jon Gray: The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again

Glenn Cantave: How augmented reality is changing activism

Moriba Jah: The world's first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system

Julius Maada Bio: A vision for the future of Sierra Leone

Natalie Fratto: 3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it

Barbara J. King: Grief and love in the animal kingdom

Rick Doblin: The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

Jamie Paik: Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves

Amy Padnani: How we're honoring people overlooked by history

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: How film transforms the way we see the world

Ella Al-Shamahi: The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring

Derren Brown: Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head

Melanie Nezer: The fundamental right to seek asylum

Claudia Miner: A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten

Elizabeth Howell: How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy

Douglas Thomas: How a typeface helped launch Apollo

Rahul Mehrotra: The architectural wonder of impermanent cities

Hajer Sharief: How to use family dinner to teach politics

Albert-László Barabási: The real relationship between your age and your chance of success

Tshering Tobgay: An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole"

George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything

Nicola Sturgeon: Why governments should prioritize well-being

Ivonne Roman: How policewomen make communities safer

Nanfu Wang: What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy

Victor Vescovo: What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there

Margaret Heffernan: The human skills we need in an unpredictable world

Marc Bamuthi Joseph: "You Have the Rite"

Sara Valencia Botto: When do kids start to care about other people's opinions?

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative

Jon Lowenstein: Family, hope and resilience on the migrant trail

Bina Venkataraman: The power to think ahead in a reckless age

Pico Iyer: What ping-pong taught me about life

Kishore Mahbubani: How the West can adapt to a rising Asia

Britt Wray: How climate change affects your mental health

Kelly Wanser: Emergency medicine for our climate fever

Dessa: Can we choose to fall out of love?

Lee Thomas: How I help people understand vitiligo

Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe: A climate change solution that's right under our feet

Jochen Wegner: What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics

Emily F. Rothman: How porn changes the way teens think about sex

Anthony Veneziale: "Stumbling towards intimacy": An improvised TED Talk

Andrew Marantz: Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists

Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist

Phillip Atiba Goff: How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing

Carl June: A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer

Sandeep Jauhar: How your emotions change the shape of your heart

Danielle Citron: How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy

Jacqueline Woodson: What reading slowly taught me about writing

Raj Jayadev: Community-powered criminal justice reform

Nick Hanauer: The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward

Emmett Shear: What streaming means for the future of entertainment

Kristie Ebi: How climate change could make our food less nutritious

Patrick Chappatte: A free world needs satire

Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems

Johann Hari: This could be why you're depressed or anxious

Christer Mjåset: 4 questions you should always ask your doctor

Richard Bona: "Tumba La Nyama" / "Mulema"

Sonaar Luthra: We need to track the world's water like we track the weather

Safeena Husain: A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India

Tim Flannery: Can seaweed help curb global warming?

Emily Nagoski: How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime

Yaniv Erlich: How we're building the world's largest family tree

Will Hurd: A wall won't solve America's border problems

Sam Van Aken: How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit

Muthoni Drummer Queen: Creativity builds nations

Sarah Sze: How we experience time and memory through art

Mohammad Modarres: Why you should shop at your local farmers market

Moreangels Mbizah: How community-led conservation can save wildlife

Mitchell Katz: What the US health care system assumes about you

Camilla Arndal Andersen: What happens in your brain when you taste food

David Peterson: Why language is humanity's greatest invention

Efosa Ojomo: Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment

Paul Rucker: "Criminalization of Survival"

Tara Djokic: This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life

Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games

Gangadhar Patil: How we're helping local reporters turn important stories into national news

Andrew Forrest: A radical plan to end plastic waste

Juan Enriquez: A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border

Laura Boykin: How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases

Shannon Lee: What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully

Judith Jamison and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Revelations from a lifetime of dance

Adena Friedman: What's the future of capitalism?

The Bloom Twins: "Wrong" / "Small Town Weirdos"

First Aid Kit: "King of the World" / "Nothing Has to Be True" / "My Silver Lining"

David Deutsch: After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up

Julie Cordua: How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet

Bjarke Ingels: An architect's guide to living on Mars

Becca McCharen-Tran: Fashion that celebrates all body types -- boldly and unapologetically

Janelle Shane: The danger of AI is weirder than you think

Abhishek Gopalka: How motivation can fix public systems

Jon M. Chu: The pride and power of representation in film

Ashwin Naidu: The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation

Claire Wardle: How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust

Beau Lotto and Cirque du Soleil: How we experience awe -- and why it matters

Alexis Gambis: Why we need more (real) science in fiction

Hiromi Ozaki: How I bring myth and magic to life

Andrew Nemr: The sounds and sights of tap dance

Rose M. Mutiso: How to bring affordable, sustainable electricity to Africa

Leila Pirhaji: The medical potential of AI and metabolites

Toby Kiers: Lessons from fungi on markets and economics

Jess Kutch: What productive conflict can offer a workplace

Daniel Streicker: What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics

Lori Gottlieb: How changing your story can change your life

Sara-Jane Dunn: The next software revolution: programming biological cells

Bob Langert: The business case for working with your toughest critics

Bhakti Sharma: What open water swimming taught me about resilience

Tashka and Laura Yawanawá: The Amazon belongs to humanity -- let's protect it together

Paul A. Kramer: Our immigration conversation is broken -- here's how to have a better one

Morley: "Follow the Sound"

Maria Popova: An excerpt from "Figuring"

Martha Redbone: "Sleep Sleep Beauty Bright"

Eli Pariser: What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?

Ma Yansong: Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes

Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin: A historical musical that examines black identity in the 1901 World's Fair

Rabiaa El Garani: Hope and justice for women who've survived ISIS

Mani Vajipey: How India's local recyclers could solve plastic pollution

Peter Beck: Small rockets are the next space revolution

Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity

Cady Coleman: What it's like to live on the International Space Station

Sydney Jensen: How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?

Erika Pinheiro: What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better

Gaby Barrios: Why gender-based marketing is bad for business

Dan Ariely: How to change your behavior for the better

Jean-Manuel Izaret: A new Netflix-style pricing model that could make medical treatments affordable for all

Arunabha Ghosh: 5 steps for clean air in India

David Asch: Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

Daniel Bögre Udell: How to save a language from extinction

Mike Brown: The search for our solar system's ninth planet

Sougwen Chung: Why I draw with robots

Deepa Narayan: 7 beliefs that can silence women -- and how to unlearn them

Cathy Mulzer: The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone

Alejandro Durán: How I use art to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans

Heidi Boisvert: How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change

Kelsey Johnson: The problem of light pollution -- and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it

Cornelia Geppert: A video game that helps us understand loneliness

Eve Ensler: The profound power of an authentic apology

Jane Fonda: Why I protest for climate justice

Edward Tenner: The paradox of efficiency

Mariana Mazzucato: What is economic value, and who creates it?

Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson: How we can turn the tide on climate

Lorna Davis: A guide to collaborative leadership

Bright Simons: To help solve global problems, look to developing countries

Kelsey Leonard: Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans

Henna-Maria Uusitupa: How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars

Jasmine Crowe: What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger

Nick Bostrom: How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it

Guy Winch: How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

Valorie Kondos Field: Why winning doesn't always equal success

Cara E. Yar Khan: The beautiful balance between courage and fear
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