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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