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Thought-provoking videos about life and being human, with ideas from business leaders, psychologists and researchers speaking onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Episode Date
Is remote work better than being in the office? It's complicated | Mark Mortensen
Jul 18, 2023
4 ways to make hybrid work better for everyone | Tsedal Neeley
Apr 12, 2023
The surprising psychology behind your urge to break the rules | Paul Bloom
Mar 16, 2023
Demystifying the wild world of crypto | Laura Shin
Dec 05, 2022
How to tackle the stigma of living with HIV | Gareth Thomas
Dec 01, 2022
The truth about faking orgasms | Karen Gurney
Oct 17, 2022
I'm terrified of wanting to be a billionaire | Pardis Parker
Oct 14, 2022
4 ways to design a disability-friendly future | Meghan Hussey
Oct 11, 2022
The online community supporting queer Africans | Okong'o Kinyanjui
Sep 29, 2022
How to build an equitable and just climate future | Peggy Shepard
Aug 18, 2022
A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality | David Wengrow
Jul 22, 2022
An invitation to reexamine your familiar world | Gillian Tett
Jun 28, 2022
A creator-led internet, built on blockchain | Adam Mosseri
May 17, 2022
How to heal a divided world | Michèle Lamont
Apr 29, 2022
What my gender transition taught me about womanhood | Paula Stone Williams
Mar 29, 2022
The future will be shaped by optimists | Kevin Kelly
Mar 23, 2022
3 things men can do to promote gender equity | Jimmie Briggs
Mar 15, 2022
The origins of blackface and Black stereotypes | Dwan Reece
Feb 07, 2022
I'm tired of people telling me to "grind" | Pardis Parker
Jan 10, 2022
Why a free and fair internet is more vital than ever | Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa
Dec 23, 2021
How to escape the cynicism trap | Jamil Zaki
Dec 21, 2021
The forest is our teacher. It's time to respect it | Nemonte Nenquimo
Nov 23, 2021
The haunting truth of ghost stories | Coya Paz Brownrigg
Oct 29, 2021
How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | Steven Johnson
Oct 08, 2021
The inaccurate link between body ideals and health | Nancy N. Chen
Sep 14, 2021
A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition | Germán Santillán
Sep 01, 2021
The radical, revolutionary resilience of Black joy | Miracle Jones
Jul 27, 2021
3 myths about racism that keep the US from progress | Candis Watts Smith
Jul 16, 2021
Why aren't there more Native American restaurants? | Sean Sherman
Jul 06, 2021
The anxiety that comes from being treated like an outsider | Valerie Purdie-Greenaway
Jun 03, 2021
The infinite alchemy of storytelling | Zahra Al-Mahdi
May 24, 2021
The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees | Feras Fayyad
May 24, 2021
A feminist reimagining of Kenya's public transport | Naomi Mwaura
May 24, 2021
What's your happiness score? | Dominic Price
May 07, 2021
An honest history of an ancient and "nasty" word | Kate Lister
Apr 01, 2021
Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has) | Archie Crowley
Mar 31, 2021
What if mental health workers responded to emergency calls? | Leslie Herod
Mar 15, 2021
Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug
Mar 09, 2021
Why there's no such thing as objective reality | Greg Anderson
Feb 23, 2021
How to get everyone to care about a green economy | Angela Francis
Feb 05, 2021
3 ways companies can support grieving employees | Tilak Mandadi
Jan 05, 2021
Who counts as a speaker of a language? | Anna Babel
Dec 16, 2020
A playful exploration of gender performance | Jo Michael Rezes
Nov 18, 2020
The psychology of inequality and political division | Keith Payne
Sep 14, 2020
Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally | Dwinita Mosby Tyler
Jul 15, 2020
How to disrupt philanthropy in response to crisis | Darren Walker
Jul 10, 2020
The new urgency of climate change | Al Gore
Jun 25, 2020
A vision for the future of Afghanistan | Ashraf Ghani
Jun 23, 2020
Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor
Jun 23, 2020
How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Jun 18, 2020
3 secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone
Jun 15, 2020
How to turn your dissatisfaction into action | Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Jun 10, 2020
The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
Jun 09, 2020
How flags unite (and divide) us | Michael Green
Jun 09, 2020
How to channel your presence and energy into ending injustice | Rashad Robinson
Jun 08, 2020
The bill has come due for the US's history of racism | Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon
Jun 08, 2020
How the US can address the tragedy of veteran suicide | Charles P. Smith
May 22, 2020
The language of being human | Poet Ali
May 15, 2020
The injustice of "policing for profit" -- and how to end it | Dick M. Carpenter II
Apr 28, 2020
Racism has a cost for everyone | Heather C. McGhee
Apr 16, 2020
In uncertain times, think like a mother | Yifat Susskind
Apr 06, 2020
Without farmers, you'd be hungry, naked and sober | Eric Sannerud
Mar 18, 2020
Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word | Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Mar 12, 2020
The gender-fluid history of the Philippines | France Villarta
Mar 09, 2020
How women are revolutionizing Rwanda | Agnes Binagwaho
Mar 06, 2020
3 ways to uproot a culture of corruption | Wanjira Mathai
Feb 26, 2020
For the love of fangirls | Yve Blake
Feb 18, 2020
The real story of Rosa Parks -- and why we need to confront myths about Black history | David Ikard
Feb 03, 2020
How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust | Werner Reich
Jan 27, 2020
Why can't we talk about periods? | Jen Gunter
Jan 17, 2020
How guest worker visas could transform the US immigration system | David J. Bier
Jan 14, 2020
The perks of being a pirate | Tom Nash
Jan 14, 2020
Climate change will displace millions. Here's how we prepare | Colette Pichon Battle
Jan 10, 2020
The beautiful balance between courage and fear | Cara E. Yar Khan
Dec 23, 2019
Will the ocean ever run out of fish? | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet
Dec 19, 2019
What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger | Jasmine Crowe
Dec 18, 2019
Why I protest for climate justice | Jane Fonda
Dec 10, 2019
The profound power of an authentic apology | Eve Ensler
Dec 06, 2019
7 beliefs that can silence women -- and how to unlearn them | Deepa Narayan
Nov 25, 2019
How to save a language from extinction | Daniel Bögre Udell
Nov 21, 2019
3 questions we should ask about nuclear weapons | Emma Belcher
Nov 19, 2019
How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? | Sydney Jensen
Nov 13, 2019
How India's local recyclers could solve plastic pollution | Mani Vajipey
Nov 11, 2019
What open water swimming taught me about resilience | Bhakti Sharma
Nov 04, 2019
After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up | David Deutsch
Oct 14, 2019
A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border | Juan Enriquez
Oct 09, 2019
A radical plan to end plastic waste | Andrew Forrest
Oct 08, 2019
This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life | Tara Djokic
Oct 07, 2019
Why language is humanity's greatest invention | David Peterson
Oct 03, 2019
Why you should shop at your local farmers market | Mohammad Modarres
Oct 01, 2019
How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski
Sep 24, 2019
A free world needs satire | Patrick Chappatte
Sep 17, 2019
Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists | Andrew Marantz
Sep 05, 2019
What ping-pong taught me about life | Pico Iyer
Aug 23, 2019
The power to think ahead in a reckless age | Bina Venkataraman
Aug 22, 2019
How we're honoring people overlooked by history | Amy Padnani
Jul 11, 2019
The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again | Jon Gray
Jun 28, 2019
What almost dying taught me about living | Suleika Jaouad
Jun 19, 2019
Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin
Jun 12, 2019
3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings | Priya Parker
Jun 11, 2019
The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live | David Brooks
Jun 05, 2019
The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out | Reniqua Allen
May 30, 2019
My identity is a superpower -- not an obstacle | America Ferrera
May 23, 2019
The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood
May 17, 2019
How to recover from activism burnout | Yana Buhrer Tavanier
Apr 30, 2019
Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn
Apr 26, 2019
3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer | Rana Abdelhamid
Apr 12, 2019
How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight | Alexander MacDonald
Apr 01, 2019
A short history of trans people's long fight for equality | Samy Nour Younes
Mar 28, 2019
How to overcome apathy and find your power | Dolores Huerta
Feb 22, 2019
A love story about the power of art as organizing | Aja Monet and phillip agnew
Feb 14, 2019
3 ways to practice civility | Steven Petrow
Feb 13, 2019
An astronaut's story of curiosity, perspective and change | Leland Melvin
Jan 31, 2019
The way we think about biological sex is wrong | Emily Quinn
Jan 31, 2019
The power of women's anger | Soraya Chemaly
Jan 28, 2019
How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods | Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Jan 22, 2019
Embrace your raw, strange magic | Casey Gerald
Jan 17, 2019
How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming | Katharine Wilkinson
Jan 16, 2019
3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce | George Blair-West
Jan 14, 2019
The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts | Alex Rosenthal
Dec 19, 2018
How I unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity | Eldra Jackson
Dec 18, 2018
How to motivate people to do good for others | Erez Yoeli
Dec 05, 2018
Me Too is a movement, not a moment | Tarana Burke
Nov 30, 2018
My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs
Nov 13, 2018
A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination | Julia Shaw
Nov 02, 2018
How revenge porn turns lives upside down | Darieth Chisolm
Oct 24, 2018
How we can help young people build a better future | Henrietta Fore
Oct 24, 2018
How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes | Alex Honnold
Oct 08, 2018
3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion | Liv Boeree
Oct 01, 2018
What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit | Kym Worthy
Sep 26, 2018
Why museums are returning cultural treasures | Chip Colwell
Sep 20, 2018
The press trampled on my privacy. Here's how I took back my story | Kate Stone
Sep 18, 2018
What are the most important moral problems of our time? | Will MacAskill
Sep 12, 2018
How I went from child refugee to international model | Halima Aden
Aug 30, 2018
Why the "wrong side of the tracks" is usually the east side of cities | Stephen DeBerry
Aug 21, 2018
How women in rural India turned courage into capital | Chetna Gala Sinha
Aug 20, 2018
How urban spaces can preserve history and build community | Walter Hood
Aug 17, 2018
How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee
Aug 13, 2018
How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps | Christina Wallace
Jul 24, 2018
An honest look at the personal finance crisis | Elizabeth White
Jul 12, 2018
How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village | Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile
Jun 14, 2018
What gardening taught me about life | tobacco brown
May 31, 2018
How I made friends with reality | Emily Levine
May 23, 2018
The truth about unwanted arousal | Emily Nagoski
May 11, 2018
Why it's worth listening to people you disagree with | Zachary R. Wood
Apr 19, 2018
The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison
Apr 13, 2018
How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
Apr 11, 2018
To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift | Andrew Dent
Apr 04, 2018
Why I choose humanism over faith | Leo Igwe
Mar 29, 2018
The Great Migration and the power of a single decision | Isabel Wilkerson
Mar 15, 2018
How we became sisters | Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy
Mar 02, 2018
Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang
Feb 27, 2018
The virginity fraud | Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl
Feb 13, 2018
How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch
Feb 05, 2018
Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
Feb 01, 2018
My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar
Jan 31, 2018
The gift and power of emotional courage | Susan David
Jan 30, 2018
How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage | Alexis Charpentier
Jan 11, 2018
"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves | Heather Lanier
Dec 21, 2017
The history of human emotions | Tiffany Watt Smith
Dec 18, 2017
How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit | Devita Davison
Dec 07, 2017
Why I'm done trying to be "man enough" | Justin Baldoni
Dec 04, 2017
An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine | Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell
Nov 22, 2017
How to talk (and listen) to transgender people | Jackson Bird
Nov 14, 2017
The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions | Robert Muggah
Nov 09, 2017
We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure | Jon Bowers
Nov 09, 2017
Why women stay silent after sexual assault | Inés Hercovich
Nov 07, 2017
The powerful stories that shaped Africa | Gus Casely-Hayford
Oct 20, 2017
How economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson
Oct 24, 2011