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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