TEDTalks - Season 14 / Year 2018

Season 14 / Year 2018

Episodes

Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me

Lisa Feldman Barrett: You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them

Lana Mazahreh: 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water

Arik Hartmann: Our treatment of HIV has advanced. Why hasn't the stigma changed?

Sue Jaye Johnson: What we don't teach kids about sex

Stewart Brand and Chris Anderson: Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist

Touria El Glaoui: Inside Africa's thriving art scene

Mindy Scheier: How adaptive clothing empowers people with disabilities

Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs

Kevin Njabo: How we can stop Africa's scientific brain drain

Alexis Charpentier: How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage

Marily Oppezzo: Want to be more creative? Go for a walk

Jacob Collier: A one-man musical phenomenon

Vivek Maru: How to put the power of law in people's hands

Matt Goldman: The search for 'aha!' moments

Michelle Knox: Talk about your death while you're still healthy

Scott Williams: The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care

Bob Inglis: American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how

Anna Rosling Rönnlund: See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income

Cleo Wade: Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care

Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix: What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness

Naoko Ishii: An economic case for protecting the planet

Wendy Woods: The business benefits of doing good

Edsel Salvaña: The dangerous evolution of HIV

George Steinmetz: Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair

David Katz: The surprising solution to ocean plastic

Leila Takayama: What's it like to be a robot?

Amar Inamdar: The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy

Fredros Okumu: Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes

Susan David: The gift and power of emotional courage

Mike Gil: Could fish social networks help us save coral reefs?

Anjali Kumar: My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead

Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa: Black life at the intersection of birth and death

Danielle Wood: 6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth

Peter Ouko: From death row to law graduate

Stuart Duncan: How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism

Guy Winch: How to fix a broken heart

Karen Lloyd: This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life

John Cary: How architecture can create dignity for all

Mohamad Jebara: This company pays kids to do their math homework

Zachariah Mampilly: How protest is redefining democracy around the world

Tito Deler: "My Fine Reward"

Valarie Kaur: 3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage

Bhu Srinivasan: Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system

Marco Alverà: The surprising ingredient that makes businesses work better

Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl: The virginity fraud

Dixon Chibanda: Why I train grandmothers to treat depression

Walé Oyéjidé: Fashion that celebrates African strength and spirit

Amit Kalra: 3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem

Tanya Menon: The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet

Margaret Mitchell: How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us

Jason Shen: Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience

Nilay Kulkarni: A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes

Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi: How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex

Robert Hakiza: Refugees want empowerment, not handouts

Tapiwa Chiwewe: You don't have to be an expert to solve big problems

Howard C. Stevenson: How to resolve racially stressful situations

Ilona Stengel: The role of human emotions in science and research

Raymond Tang: Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water

Chuck Nice: A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology

Wendy Suzuki: The brain-changing benefits of exercise

Dustin Schroeder: How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet

Shameem Akhtar: To learn is to be free

Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy: How we became sisters

Bill Bernat: How to connect with depressed friends

Minda Dentler: What I learned when I conquered the world's toughest triathlon

Marc Bamuthi Joseph: What soccer can teach us about freedom

Petter Johansson: Do you really know why you do what you do?

Kaustav Dey: How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for

Naomi Klein: How shocking events can spark positive change

Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman: The wonderful world of life in a drop of water

Musimbi Kanyoro: To solve the world's biggest problems, invest in women and girls

Sophie Andrews: The best way to help is often just to listen

Iké Udé: The radical beauty of Africa, in portraits

Deanna Van Buren: What a world without prisons could look like

Alvin Irby: How to inspire every child to be a lifelong reader

Daniel Susskind: 3 myths about the future of work (and why they're not true)

Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect

Daniel Engber: How the progress bar keeps you sane

Paola Antonelli: The 3,000-year history of the hoodie

Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm

Isaac Mizrahi: How the button changed fashion

David Rockwell: The hidden ways stairs shape your life

Margaret Gould Stewart: How the hyperlink changed everything

Michael Bierut: The genius of the London Tube Map

Isabel Wilkerson: The Great Migration and the power of a single decision

Hadi Eldebek: Why must artists be poor?

Rei: "my mama" / "BLACK BANANA"

Sally Kohn: What we can do about the culture of hate

Chris Nowinski: Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE

Adong Judith: How I use art to bridge misunderstanding

Liz Ogbu: What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?

Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life

Soka Moses: For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over

Vittorio Loreto: Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known

Eve Abrams: The human stories behind mass incarceration

Sauti Sol: The rhythm of Afrobeat

Amishi Jha: How to tame your wandering mind

Matthias Müllenbeck: What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy?

Vikram Sharma: How quantum physics can make encryption stronger

Mennat El Ghalid: How fungi recognize (and infect) plants

Erica Stone: Academic research is publicly funded -- why isn't it publicly available?

Ndidi Nwuneli: The role of faith and belief in modern Africa

Leo Igwe: Why I choose humanism over faith

Judith Heumann: Our fight for disability rights -- and why we're not done yet

Christian Picciolini: My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out

Raphael Arar: How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions

Irina Kareva: Math can help uncover cancer's secrets

Drew Philp: My $500 house in Detroit -- and the neighbors who helped me rebuild it

Andrew Dent: To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift

Danny Hillis: Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth?

Kasiva Mutua: How I use the drum to tell my story

Tara Houska: The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights

José Andrés: How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Lera Boroditsky: How language shapes the way we think

Malika Whitley: How the arts help homeless youth heal and build

Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet

Robin Steinberg: What if we ended the injustice of bail?

Heidi M. Sosik: The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone

Caroline Harper: What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases?

Fred Krupp: Let's launch a satellite to track a threatening greenhouse gas

Yasin Kakande: What's missing in the global debate over refugees

Hannah Bürckstümmer: A printable, flexible, organic solar cell

Mark Tyndall: The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment

Nancy Rabalais: The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico

Zachary R. Wood: Why it's worth listening to people you disagree with

Diane Wolk-Rogers: A Parkland teacher's homework for us all

Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes

Clemantine Wamariya: War and what comes after

Dayo Ogunyemi: Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers

Tracee Ellis Ross: A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom

Sarah Donnelly: How work kept me going during my cancer treatment

Qudus Onikeku and The QTribe: "RainMakers"

Dylan Marron: How I turn negative online comments into positive offline conversations

Steven Pinker: Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers

Eric Berridge: Why tech needs the humanities

John Amory: How a male contraceptive pill could work

Laura L. Dunn: It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence

Tania Douglas: To design better tech, understand context

Ibeyi: "Valé" / "River"

Frances Frei: How to build (and rebuild) trust

Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo: What it takes to be racially literate

Sarah Murray: A playful solution to the housing crisis

Simone Giertz: Why you should make useless things

LB Hannahs: What it's like to be a transgender dad

Thandiswa Mazwai: "Iyeza" / "Zabalaza"

Emily Nagoski: The truth about unwanted arousal

Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow

Rola Hallam: The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria

Kirsty Duncan: Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge

Robert Neuwirth: The age-old sharing economies of Africa -- and why we should scale them

Nighat Dad: How Pakistani women are taking the internet back

Helen Gillet: "You Found Me"

Yuval Noah Harari: Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it

Ingrid Fetell Lee: Where joy hides and how to find it

Michael Rain: What it's like to be the child of immigrants

Michael Hendryx: The shocking danger of mountaintop removal -- and why it must end

Emily Levine: How I made friends with reality

Amy Edmondson: How to turn a group of strangers into a team

Jeremy Forbes: How to start a conversation about suicide

Gene Luen Yang: Comics belong in the classroom

Susan Emmett: This simple test can help kids hear better

Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal

Hugh Herr: How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential

tobacco brown: What gardening taught me about life

Lauren Pharr: How vultures can help solve crimes

Aaswath Raman: How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource

Oskar Eustis: Why theater is essential to democracy

Chera Kowalski: The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis

Elizabeth Cawein: How to build a thriving music scene in your city

Brett Hennig: What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?

Yasmin Green: How technology can fight extremism and online harassment

Enric Sala: Let's turn the high seas into the world's largest nature reserve

Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire

John Doerr: Why the secret to success is setting the right goals

Greg Gage: How a dragonfly's brain is designed to kill

Greg Gage: How sound can hack your memory while you sleep

Greg Gage: How you can make a fruit fly eat veggies

Greg Gage: This computer is learning to read your mind

Greg Gage: The real reason why mosquitoes buzz

Greg Gage: How octopuses battle each other

Jason B. Rosenthal: The journey through loss and grief

Max Tegmark: How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI

Giada Gerboni: The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots

Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile: How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village

Prosanta Chakrabarty: Four billion years of evolution in six minutes

Gastón Acurio: Can home cooking change the world?

Frans de Waal: The surprising science of alpha males

Poppy Crum: Technology that knows what you're feeling

Essam Daod: How we can bring mental health support to refugees

Reed Hastings: How Netflix changed entertainment -- and where it's headed

Anna Rothschild: Why you should love gross science

James Bridle: The nightmare videos of children's YouTube -- and what's wrong with the internet today

Vishaan Chakrabarti: How we can design timeless cities for our collective future

Paul Rucker: The symbols of systemic racism -- and how to take away their power

Ian Firth: Bridges should be beautiful

Karen J. Meech: The story of 'Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system

Travis Rieder: The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it

Rodin Lyasoff: How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel

Penny Chisholm: The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet

Lindsay Malloy: Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit

Steve Boyes: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places

Lindsay Malloy: Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit

Steve Boyes: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places

Jennifer Wilcox: A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Jakob Magolan: A crash course in organic chemistry

Gary Liu: The rapid growth of the Chinese internet -- and where it's headed

Kola Masha: How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace

Dan Knights: How we study the microbes living in your gut

Dan Gibson: How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls)

Elizabeth White: An honest look at the personal finance crisis

Lili Haydn: "The Last Serenade"

Renzo Piano: The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings

Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface

Rebeca Hwang: The power of diversity within yourself

Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu: What your smart devices know (and share) about you

Mary Maker: Why I fight for the education of refugee girls (like me)

Halima Aden: How I went from child refugee to international model

Mikhail Zygar: What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media

Stephen Webb: Where are all the aliens?

Boy Girl Banjo: "Dead Romance"

Tamekia MizLadi Smith: How to train employees to have difficult conversations

Lucy Marcil: Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms

Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease

Christina Wallace: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps

Supasorn Suwajanakorn: Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them

Bronwyn King: You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies

Christoph Niemann: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it)

Kai-Fu Lee: How AI can save our humanity

Tina Seelig: The little risks you can take to increase your luck

DK Osseo-Asare: What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation

Hasini Jayatilaka: How cancer cells communicate -- and how we can slow them down

Walter Hood: How urban spaces can preserve history and build community

Yelle: "Interpassion" / "Ba$$in"

Chetna Gala Sinha: How women in rural India turned courage into capital

Stephen DeBerry: Why the "wrong side of the tracks" is usually the east side of cities

Jessica Pryce: To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation

Janet Stovall: How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Leticia Gasca: Don't fail fast -- fail mindfully

Mary Lou Jepsen: How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains

Dread Scott: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom

Nora Atkinson: Why art thrives at Burning Man

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil: A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe

Angel Hsu: How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change

Alexandra Sacks: A new way to think about the transition to motherhood

Sunni Patterson: "Wild Women"

Tammy Lally: Let's get honest about our money problems

Steve McCarroll: How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain

Esther Sullivan: America's most invisible communities -- mobile home parks

Nikki Clifton: 3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking

Mark Pollock and Simone George: A love letter to realism in a time of grief

Pierre Barreau: How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life

Andrew Bastawrous: A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable

Benedetta Berti: Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?

Elise LeGrow: "You Never Can Tell" / "Over the Mountain, Across the Sea"

Will MacAskill: What are the most important moral problems of our time?

Ghada Wali: How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic

Luhan Yang: How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant

Tom Griffiths: 3 ways to make better decisions -- by thinking like a computer

The Soul Rebels: "Rebelosis" / "Rebel Rock" / "Rebel on That Level"

Simona Francese: Your fingerprints reveal more than you think

Sian Leah Beilock: Why we choke under pressure -- and how to avoid it

Kate Stone: The press trampled on my privacy. Here's how I took back my story

Niels van Namen: Why the hospital of the future will be your own home

Kaitlyn Sadtler: How we could teach our bodies to heal faster

Chip Colwell: Why museums are returning cultural treasures

Luke Sital-Singh: "Afterneath" / "Killing Me"

Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin

Tommy McCall: The simple genius of a good graphic

Tracie Keesee: How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together

Kym Worthy: What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit

Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes: "Chasms"

Isadora Kosofsky: Intimate photos of a senior love triangle

Liv Boeree: 3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion

DeAndrea Salvador: How we can make energy more affordable for low-income families

Kristie Overstreet: What doctors should know about gender identity

Christine Porath: Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business

Melinda Epler: 3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace

Magatte Wade: Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it

Camille A. Brown: "New Second Line"

Michel Dugon: The secrets of spider venom

Alex Honnold: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes

Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital

David Korins: 3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer

Rebecca Onie: What Americans agree on when it comes to health

Chip Conley: What baby boomers can learn from millennials at work — and vice versa

Kelly Richmond Pope: How whistle-blowers shape history

Chris A. Kniesly: History through the eyes of a chicken

David Lang: Let's protect the oceans like national parks

Juan Enriquez: La selección latinoamericana de cerebros

Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Waiting for Godot"?

Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots

Faith Osier: The key to a better malaria vaccine

Congrui Jin: What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves?

Gillian Gibb: Why can't some birds fly?

Matt Russo: What does the universe sound like? A musical tour

Vinay Shandal: How conscious investors can turn up the heat and make companies change

Leonora Neville: The princess who rewrote history

Wanis Kabbaj: How nationalism and globalism can coexist

Andrew Zimmerman Jones: Does time exist?

Henrietta Fore: How we can help young people build a better future

Darieth Chisolm: How revenge porn turns lives upside down

Elizabeth Streb: My quest to defy gravity and fly

Dennis Shasha: Can you solve the stolen rubies riddle?

A Tribe Called Red: "We Are the Halluci Nation"

Charles C. Mann: How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?

Alexis Jones: Redefining manhood—one locker room talk at a time

Shane Wickes: Why I came out as a gay football coach

Rachel Wurzman: How isolation fuels opioid addiction

Brian D. Avery: How rollercoasters affect your body

Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman: What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet

Joan C. Williams: We won't fix American politics until we talk about class — here's why

Keith Eggener: The fascinating history of cemeteries

Graham Allison: Is war between China and the US inevitable?

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy

David Fleischer: How to fight prejudice through policy conversations

Brian Olson: How an algorithm can fight election bias so every vote counts

Dolly Chugh: How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person

Julia Shaw: A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination

Suzie Sheehy: The case for curiosity-driven research

Özlem Cekic: Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail

Franklin Leonard: How I accidentally changed the way movies get made

Mara Mintzer: How kids can help design cities

Michael Green: The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't

Tamas Kocsis: The case for a decentralized internet

Alex Edmans: What to trust in a "post-truth" world

Teresa Bejan: Is civility a sham?

Julia Dhar: How to disagree productively and find common ground

Sebastien de Halleux: How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean

Paul Rucker: How my mom inspired my approach to the cello

Aparna Mehta: Where do your online returns go?

Floyd E. Romesberg: The radical possibilities of man-made DNA

Nita Farahany: When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?

Gabby Rivera: The story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero

Tarana Burke: Me Too is a movement, not a moment

Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager

Amy Herman: A lesson on looking

Ai-jen Poo: The work that makes all other work possible

Alan Crickmore: How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids

J. Marshall Shepherd: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview

Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague

Carla Harris: How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work

Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future

Madame Gandhi and Amber Galloway-Gallego: "Top Knot Turn Up" / "Bad Habits"

Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it

Li Wei Tan: The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne

Eldra Jackson: How I unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity

Darrick Hamilton: How "baby bonds" could help close the wealth gap

Dana Kanze: The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding

Ariana Curtis: Museums should honor the everyday, not just the extraordinary
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