List of TED speakers
This is a partial list of people who have spoken or otherwise presented at official TED conferences such as TED, TED@, TEDActive, TEDCity, TED-Ed, TED-NY, TEDGlobal, TEDSummit, TEDIndia, TEDSalon, TEDWomen, TEDYouth, TED Fellows Retreat, and TED Talks Education. It also includes speakers at the independent TEDMED conferences. Talks from the independent TEDx conferences are not included since there are thousands of such events making them less notable.. The TED.com website also hosts videos from conferences not affiliated with TED, but those talks and speakers are not included in this list.
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| Speaker | Talk |
| How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists | |
| Past is not our future | |
| Telling stories from Africa On humanity | |
| Mother and daughter doctor-heroes | |
| A science award that makes you laugh, then think | |
| The mystery box | |
| The El Sistema music revolution | |
| All you need is justice | |
| The danger of a single story | |
| The story of Ezra | |
| Why massive open online courses matter | |
| A new ecosystem for electric cars | |
| How PhotoSynth can connect the world's images Augmented-reality maps | |
| A new strategy in the war on cancer | |
| Political change with pen and paper | |
| Globalizing the local, localizing the global | |
| A Saudi woman who dared to drive | |
| On being a woman and a diplomat | |
| The search for humanity's roots | |
| An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz | |
| Tales of passion How to live passionately—no matter your age | |
| Why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown | |
| The surprising ingredient that makes businesses work better | |
| How I named, shamed and jailed | |
| Please don't take my Air Jordans | |
| TED's nonprofit transition How web video powers global innovation Questions no one knows the answers to | |
| Technology's long tail | |
| The business logic of sustainability | |
| A promising test for pancreatic cancer... from a teenager | |
| Which country does the most good for the world? | |
| Behind the great firewall of China | |
| Treat design as art Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA | |
| Is religion good or bad? | |
| My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process | |
| Our buggy moral code Beware conflicts of interest How equal do we want the world to be? You'd be surprised | |
| My wish: The Charter for Compassion Let's revive the Golden Rule | |
| A wide-angle view of fragile Earth | |
| The face of AIDS in Africa | |
| Why the world needs WikiLeaks | |
| Growing new organs Printing a human kidney | |
| Africa's cheetahs versus hippos |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| Ingenious homes in unexpected places | |
| Pay attention to nonviolence | |
| Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside down | |
| How to combat modern slavery | |
| The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean | |
| Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss | |
| Great cars are great art | |
| Intricate beauty by design | |
| How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination | |
| The birth of the open-source learning revolution | |
| Why mayors should rule the world | |
| How I fell in love with a fish | |
| Let's rethink America's military strategy | |
| Brain magic | |
| The museum of you | |
| How bacteria "talk" | |
| Building blocks that blink, beep and teach | |
| The polyphonic me | |
| A police chief with a difference | |
| The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle | |
| Designing objects that tell stories A supercharged motorcycle design | |
| Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans | |
| A cello with many voices | |
| The Game | |
| A performance of "Mathemagic" Teach statistics before calculus! The magic of Fibonacci numbers | |
| Conquering uncertainty with tenacity | |
| The new open-source economics | |
| We need a heroic narrative for death | |
| Biomimicry's surprising lessons from nature's engineers Biomimicry in action | |
| Simplifying complexity talk with Sean Gourley | |
| HIV and flu — the vaccine strategy | |
| The next web The year open data went worldwide A Magna Carta for the web | |
| Our refugee system is failing. Here's how we can fix it | |
| The electricity metaphor for the web's future | |
| The rise of cricket, the rise of India | |
| An artist's unflinching look at racial violence | |
| The arts festival revolution | |
| A one-man orchestra of the imagination | |
| The early birdwatchers | |
| Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer | |
| Memes and "temes" | |
| How I held my breath for 17 minutes | |
| The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain | |
| Becky Blanton | The year I was homeless |
| The origins of pleasure Can prejudice ever be a good thing? | |
| A computer that works like the brain | |
| Visualizing the wonder of a living cell | |
| My wish: Three actions for Africa The good news on poverty | |
| Photos of endangered cultures | |
| Teaching one child at a time | |
| There might just be life on Mars | |
| A philosophical quest for our biggest problems What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | |
| The most mysterious star in the universe | |
| Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans | |
| The Long Now What squatter cities can teach us 4 environmental 'heresies' Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready? | |
| Life at 30,000 feet | |
| The rise of personal robots | |
| A one-man world summit | |
| The bridge between suicide and life | |
| My wish: Help me stop pandemics | |
| The genesis of Google Why Google Glass? | |
| My battle to expose government corruption | |
| A conservative's plea: Let's work together | |
| The social animal Should you live for your résumé... or your eulogy? | |
| Robots will invade our lives Why we will rely on robots | |
| Listening to shame | |
| Wiring a web for global good Global ethic vs. national interest | |
| Doodlers, unite! | |
| The key to growth? Race with the machines | |
| How to "sketch" with electronics | |
| A prediction for the future of Iran | |
| How public spaces make cities work | |
| The joy of surfing in ice-cold water | |
| How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | |
| The future of cars | |
| Why people need poetry | |
| My wish: manufactured landscapes and green education Photographing the landscape of oil | |
| " Flowers" with string quartet |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| The power of introverts | |
| The next age of government | |
| Before Avatar... a curious boy | |
| Weaving narratives in museum galleries | |
| Our failing schools. Enough is enough! | |
| Cooking as alchemy | |
| Blindfold origami and cello | |
| Design and discovery | |
| Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse | |
| Greening the ghetto | |
| My life in typefaces | |
| Tools for a better world | |
| The interspecies internet? An idea in progress | |
| How do you explain consciousness? | |
| The voices of China's workers | |
| How to make hard choices | |
| The power of cartoons | |
| The idea behind Zipcar Excuse me, may I rent your car? | |
| 7 ways games reward the brain | |
| A warm embrace that saves lives | |
| Finding the story inside the painting | |
| The anthropology of mobile phones | |
| The hidden influence of social networks How social networks predict epidemics | |
| The history of our world in 18 minutes | |
| Synthetic Life Synthetic Personal Genomes | |
| A circle of caring | |
| My wish: Rebuilding Rwanda | |
| The "bottom billion" New rules for rebuilding a broken nation | |
| Everyday moments, caught in time Two poems about what dogs think | |
| We need better drugs — now | |
| Measuring what makes life worthwhile | |
| How an obese town lost a million pounds | |
| What I learned from spending 31 days underwater | |
| Fusion is energy's future | |
| CERN's supercollider What went wrong at the LHC Why we need the explorers | |
| Making matter come alive Print your own medicine | |
| The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you | |
| How architectural innovations migrate across borders | |
| Flow, the secret to happiness | |
| Your body language shapes who you are | |
| How I beat a patent troll | |
| Try something new for 30 days |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| The astounding athletic power of quadcopters Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future | |
| The quest to understand consciousness | |
| What diseases come from animals? | |
| Programming bacteria to detect cancer | |
| What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff | |
| Organic | |
| Dreams from endangered cultures The World Wide Web of belief and ritual Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving | |
| Life in the "digital now" | |
| Militant atheism Why the universe seems so strange | |
| A kinder, gentler philosophy of success Atheism 2.0 | |
| A roadmap to end aging | |
| A flirtatious aria | |
| Don't eat the marshmallow! | |
| Four American characters | |
| A look inside the brain in real time | |
| Once upon a time, my mother... | |
| How can science and business team up for the long haul? | |
| Dangerous memes The illusion of consciousness Let's teach religion — all religion — in schools Cute, sexy, sweet, funny | |
| Odes to vice and consequences | |
| Solving medical mysteries | |
| What if 3D printing was 100x faster? | |
| Old books reborn as art | |
| Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars A new way to explain explanation | |
| Our next giant leap Stephen Hawking's zero g flight Abundance is our future | |
| Why do societies collapse? How societies can grow old better | |
| Rethinking the way we sit down | |
| Salvation in greentech | |
| Cape Breton fiddling in reel time "What You've Got" "La Vie en Rose" "Love Is a Loaded Pistol" " Flowers" with string quartet | |
| Drawing on humor for change | |
| How juries are fooled by statistics | |
| We are makers | |
| Symmetry, reality's riddle | |
| Insightful human portraits made from data | |
| The key to success? Grit | |
| El Sistema's top youth orchestra | |
| Social experiments to fight poverty | |
| From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone | |
| The lifelong learner | |
| A Darwinian theory of beauty | |
| Let's look for life in the outer solar system | |
| The story of Project Orion The birth of the computer |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| Can we create new senses for humans? | |
| My wish: protect our oceans | |
| The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist | |
| Remaking my voice | |
| My magic moves | |
| Taking imagination seriously | |
| My wish: once upon a school | |
| The fractals at the heart of African designs | |
| A talking, squawking parrot | |
| Meet your microbes | |
| Pop culture in the Arab world A little-told tale of sex and sensuality | |
| This app knows how you feel — from the look on your face | |
| Making peace is a marathon | |
| FBI, here I am! | |
| Hackers: the Internet's immune system | |
| 3 things I learned while my plane crashed | |
| Playing with space and light | |
| Teach teachers how to create magic | |
| The life code that will reshape the future Using biology to rethink the energy challenge The next species of human Your online life, permanent as a tattoo | |
| Happiness in body and soul What security means to me Embrace your inner girl Suddenly, my body | |
| Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | |
| Happiness and its surprises | |
| A string quartet plays "Blue Room" " Flowers" with string quartet | |
| What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | |
| Can we domesticate germs? | |
| A hero of the Congo forest |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| The first secret of design is... noticing | |
| Exploring the mind of a killer | |
| Building a Facebook of biodiversity for the island of Hispaniola | |
| A highly scientific taxonomy of haters | |
| The council of dads Agile programming — for your family | |
| Politics and religion are technologies | |
| The 6 killer apps of prosperity | |
| To create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering Reading & writing is a fad There's no bits like show bits | |
| Are we ready for neo-evolution? | |
| A guerilla gardener in South Central LA | |
| The pursuit of ignorance | |
| My wish: three unusual medical inventions | |
| Why we love, why we cheat The brain in love | |
| Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration | |
| All things are Moleeds | |
| Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents' | |
| Feats of memory anyone can do | |
| A future beyond traffic gridlock | |
| What can cancer survivors teach us about cancer treatment? | |
| Why do we sleep? | |
| One seed at a time, protecting the future of food | |
| Walk the earth... my 17-year vow of silence | |
| Nerdcore comedy My web playroom Are you human? | |
| A visual history of inequality in industrial America | |
| The rise of the new global super-rich | |
| We need to feed the whole world | |
| The hunt for "unexpected genetic heroes" |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| A commodities exchange for Ethiopia | |
| Fight injustice with raw video The interspecies internet? An idea in progress | |
| The cockroach beatbox Backyard brains: the neurorevolution The RoboRoach How to control someone else's arm with your brain Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate DIY neuroscience | |
| Make love, not porn | |
| Our natural sleep cycle | |
| The future of business is the "mesh" | |
| Moving sculpture | |
| Lessons from the 1918 flu | |
| Mosquitos, malaria and education Innovating to zero! How state budgets are breaking US schools Teachers need real feedback Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done The next outbreak? We’re not ready | |
| Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we've done | |
| How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art | |
| How do we heal medicine? | |
| Confessions of a bad feminist | |
| Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls | |
| Metaphorically speaking | |
| How Airbnb designs for trust | |
| Extreme wingsuit flying | |
| My days as a young rebel A master architect asks, Now what? | |
| Beauty, truth and... physics? The ancestor of language | |
| Let's talk crap. Seriously. Inside the secret shipping industry | |
| Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab The interspecies internet? An idea in progress | |
| How to rebuild a broken state | |
| Actually, the world isn't flat | |
| The hunt for a supermassive black hole | |
| Inside the Egyptian revolution | |
| Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best. | |
| The surprising science of happiness Why we make bad decisions The psychology of your future self | |
| Your elusive creative genius Success, failure and the drive to keep creating | |
| The Earth is full | |
| A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided | |
| Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce The strange tale of the Norden bombsight The unheard story of David and Goliath | |
| Using design to make ideas new | |
| How to truly listen | |
| How global crime networks work Hire the hackers! | |
| How to get your ideas to spread The tribes we lead | |
| How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison | |
| Battling bad science What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe | |
| How art gives shape to cultural change | |
| Navigating our global future | |
| The battle between your present and future self | |
| The long reach of reason | |
| Why aren't we more compassionate? | |
| Meet global corruption's hidden players My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business | |
| What separates us from chimpanzees? How humans and animals can live together | |
| Lessons from past presidents | |
| What do babies think? | |
| The emergent genius of ant colonies What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet | |
| The death of innovation, the end of growth | |
| Averting the climate crisis New thinking on the climate crisis What comes after An Inconvenient Truth? | |
| Sculpted space, within and without | |
| The problem with "trickle-down techonomics" | |
| On technology and faith | |
| The world needs all kinds of minds | |
| A clean energy proposal — race to the top! | |
| Close-up card magic with a twist | |
| Making sense of string theory Is our universe the only universe? | |
| Why privacy matters | |
| Everyday inventions High-altitude wind energy from kites! | |
| A solar energy system that tracks the sun The single biggest reason why startups succeed | |
| The hidden power of smiling |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| What I learned from going blind in space | |
| The moral roots of liberals and conservatives Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence How common threats can make common ground | |
| Compassion and the true meaning of empathy | |
| Poems of war, peace, women, power | |
| Building a park in the sky | |
| The radical promise of the multi-touch interface | |
| Who are the job creators? Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming | |
| An all-star set | |
| The genius puppetry behind War Horse | |
| Why I must speak out about climate change | |
| Embrace the shake | |
| Building unimaginable shapes | |
| Robots that "show emotion" | |
| What explains the rise of humans? | |
| I listen to color | |
| My green school dream | |
| Trial, error and the God complex | |
| A history of the universe in sound | |
| Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | |
| The Web's secret stories The web as art | |
| Science can answer moral questions | |
| There are no mistakes on the bandstand | |
| Protecting Twitter users | |
| The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now | |
| A flight through the ocean | |
| Questioning the universe | |
| How brain science will change computing | |
| The magnificence of spider silk | |
| The toxic baby | |
| The doubt essential to faith | |
| Trusting the ensemble | |
| "Wait It Out" | |
| Building the Seed Cathedral | |
| Dare to disagree Why it's time to forget the pecking order at work | |
| What new power looks like | |
| How I became 100 artists | |
| The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance | |
| Reporting crisis via texting | |
| How to use experts — and when not to | |
| Could we speak the language of dolphins? | |
| The big idea my brother inspired | |
| Back to the future Understanding cancer through proteomics The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B | |
| Do the green thing | |
| Color blind or color brave? | |
| The painter and the pendulum We are all designers | |
| Aliens, love — where are they? Design, explained. | |
| Lab testing reinvented | |
| The joyful tradition of mountain music | |
| Why does the universe exist? | |
| In praise of slowness | |
| Transition to a world without oil | |
| Building a dinosaur from a chicken | |
| Four ways to fix a broken legal system | |
| 4 pillars of college success in science | |
| Learn to read Chinese... with ease! | |
| An 11-year-old's magical violin | |
| Does democracy stifle economic growth? | |
| How to succeed? Get more sleep | |
| Songs of secrets and city lights | |
| 2070 Paradigm Shift | |
| Fighting viruses, defending the net |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| Nizar Ibrahim | How we unearthed the Spinosaurus |
| Science versus wonder? | |
| 3 warp-speed architecture tales | |
| Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear | |
| How spectroscopy could reveal alien life | |
| Want to innovate? Become a "now-ist" | |
| How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis | |
| The art of choosing How to make choosing easier | |
| Where is home? The art of stillness |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| Skin color is an illusion | |
| Poverty, money — and love | |
| An unusual glimpse at celebrity | |
| An economic reality check | |
| How healthy living nearly killed me The world's largest family reunion … we're all invited! | |
| Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? | |
| Understanding the rise of China | |
| AstriaGraph: world’s first crowdsourced Space Traffic Monitoring system | |
| The music of a war child | |
| My creations, a new form of life | |
| Teach arts and sciences together | |
| Could future devices read images from our brains? | |
| Don't build your home, grow it! | |
| Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American? | |
| Impossible photography | |
| The Web as a city How the "ghost map" helped end a killer disease Where good ideas come from | |
| The dancer, the singer, the cellist... and a moment of creative magic | |
| Why we need to rethink capitalism | |
| A one-woman global village What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future | |
| Turning powerful stats into art | |
| Ellen Jorgensen | Biohacking -- you can do it, too What you need to know about CRISPR |
| What I'm worried about, what I'm excited about | |
| My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out One year of turning the world inside out | |
| Sex Advice to All Creation | |
| Why veterans miss war | |
| Model rocketry |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| Scenes from "My Architect" | |
| The riddle of experience vs. memory | |
| The illustrated woman | |
| To invent is to give Luke, a new prosthetic arm for soldiers The emotion behind invention | |
| How I built a windmill How I harnessed the wind | |
| Medical miracle on Everest | |
| A neural portrait of the human mind | |
| Toys and materials from the future | |
| We are the stories we tell ourselves | |
| The technology of the heart | |
| Comics of bygone New York | |
| A powerful idea about ideas | |
| If I should have a daughter... | |
| A critical look at geoengineering against climate change | |
| Human-centered design How to build your creative confidence | |
| How technology evolves | |
| Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best. | |
| Experiments that hint of longer lives | |
| How to build with clay... and community | |
| Let's use video to reinvent education | |
| Thoughts on humanity, fame and love | |
| A historic moment in the Arab world | |
| Mapping the future of countries | |
| Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is. The art of first impressions — in design and life | |
| The shared wonder of film | |
| This is what it's like to teach in North Korea | |
| Playing "Pink Noise" on guitar | |
| How I use sonar to navigate the world | |
| Photos that changed the world | |
| A thought experiment on the intelligence of crows | |
| Addicted to risk | |
| How augmented reality will change sports... and build empathy | |
| The dark secrets of a surveillance state | |
| How our microbes make us who we are | |
| Visualizing ourselves... with crowd-sourced data | |
| Let's try emotional correctness Don't like clickbait? Don't click | |
| Katlego Kai Kolanyane-Kesupile | How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village |
| What we're learning from online education | |
| 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe | |
| Tracking our online trackers | |
| To This Day... for the bullied and beautiful | |
| Can democracy exist without trust? | |
| The voice of the natural world | |
| The fight against sex slavery | |
| Why lunch ladies are heroes | |
| Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere | |
| Robots that fly... and cooperate | |
| The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | |
| The untouchable music of the theremin | |
| The accelerating power of technology A university for the coming singularity Get ready for hybrid thinking | |
| Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by... you | |
| Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it's magic | |
| Why You Don't Have to Wait Till You Grow Up |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| The generation that's remaking China | |
| A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane | |
| This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly | |
| My underwater robot | |
| The math and magic of origami | |
| The story of life in photographs Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom | |
| Games for girls | |
| Casting a spell on the cello | |
| A headset that reads your brainwaves | |
| The era of open innovation Education innovation in the slums | |
| A dig for humanity's origins | |
| The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk | |
| My escape from North Korea | |
| My mushroom burial suit | |
| Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks | |
| Grow your own clothes | |
| The art of creating awe | |
| A parable for Kenya | |
| Jon Levy | What makes us influential? |
| Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war | |
| Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist | |
| A song of the city | |
| Take "the Other" to lunch | |
| Laws that choke creativity We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim The unstoppable walk to political reform | |
| Software art Art that looks back at you | |
| The sound the universe makes | |
| A theory of everything | |
| The freakonomics of crack dealing Surprising stats about child carseats | |
| The price of shame | |
| Piano jazz that rocks Chaos and harmony on piano | |
| Embrace the near win | |
| How we're teaching computers to understand pictures | |
| 17 words of architectural inspiration | |
| A Visual History of Human Knowledge | |
| Your brain on improv Building the musical muscle | |
| What we can learn from galaxies far, far away | |
| Improvising on piano, aged 14 | |
| Curating humanity's heritage | |
| Building "self-aware" robots | |
| An 8-dimensional model of the universe | |
| The invisible man | |
| Why ordinary people need to understand power | |
| An inventory of the invisible An animated tour of the invisible | |
| The fiction of memory | |
| Global priorities bigger than climate change | |
| Organic design, inspired by nature | |
| Winning the oil endgame A 40-year plan for energy | |
| Texting that saves lives | |
| In the Internet age, dance evolves... | |
| Organic algorithms in architecture |
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| Speaker | Talk |
| The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world | |
| An illustrated journey through Rome | |
| Nature vs. humans A flight on solar wings | |
| 2600 years of history in one object | |
| Inventing instruments that unlock new music | |
| Let's take back the Internet! | |
| Cape Breton fiddling in reel time Fiddling in reel time | |
| Meet the microscopic life in your home--and on your face | |
| Better toilets, better life | |
| Designing for simplicity How art, technology and design inform creative leaders | |
| Meet the SixthSense interaction | |
| "Thula Mama" "Woza" | |
| How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era | |
| Fractals and the art of roughness | |
| Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon | |
| Profit's not always the point | |
| A brain in a supercomputer | |
| Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you've never noticed | |
| Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time | |
| This isn't her mother's feminism | |
| Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products | |
| A next-generation digital book | |
| A new way to fight corruption | |
| Your Human Firewall – The Answer to the Cyber Security Problem | |
| How architecture can connect us | |
| Government — investor, risk-taker, innovator | |
| What will future jobs look like? | |
| The beauty of data visualization | |
| Listen, learn... then lead The military case for sharing knowledge | |
| The visual magic of comics | |
| Cradle to cradle design | |
| Gaming can make a better world The game that can give you 10 extra years of life Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling? | |
| How to make stress your friend | |
| A choreographer's creative process in real time | |
| "Clonie" "Mother of Pearl," "If I Had You" "The Dog Song" | |
| The joy of lexicography Go ahead, make up new words! | |
| Txtng is killing language. JK!!! | |
| Your body is my canvas | |
| How to grow fresh air | |
| How pig parts make the world turn | |
| Singing old poems to life | |
| Growing evidence of brain plasticity | |
| Science visualization | |
| Body neutrality | |
| "Tembererana" "Peace on Earth" | |
| Re-engineering the brain | |
| Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime | |
| How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine | |
| Vivienne Ming | Making a better person |
| Health and the human mind | |
| The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting | |
| Meet the SixthSense interaction The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology | |
| So we leaned in... now what? | |
| The child-driven education Build a School in the Cloud | |
| Fashion and creativity | |
| How a dead duck changed my life | |
| My dream of a flying car | |
| Meet Milo, the virtual boy | |
| For more wonder, rewild the world | |
| What we're learning from 5,000 brains | |
| How the teddy bear taught us compassion | |
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| The day I stood up alone | |
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| The intricate economics of terrorism | |
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| How electroshock therapy changed me The extraordinary power of ordinary people | |
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| Inside a school for suicide bombers | |
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| A hospital tour in Nigeria |
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| How language transformed humanity | |
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| The way we think about charity is dead wrong | |
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| The journey across the high wire | |
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| A monkey economy as irrational as ours | |
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| How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets | |
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| The gentle genius of bonobos | |
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| How we read each other's minds | |
| Toys and materials from the future | |
| Use data to build better schools | |
| The emergent patterns of climate change | |
| On being wrong Don't regret regret | |
| The surprisingly logical minds of babies | |
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| What Cults Tell Us About Ourselves | |
| Why we laugh | |
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| The search for planets beyond our solar system | |
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| An ode to envy | |
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| The secret lives of paintings | |
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| Fighting cancer with dance | |
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| Anti-gravity sculpture The painter and the pendulum | |
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| The optimism bias | |
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| A performance with breath, music, passion | |
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| Institutions vs. collaboration How social media can make history How cognitive surplus will change the world Why SOPA is a bad idea How the Internet will transform government | |
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| My journey into movies that matter | |
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| The Philosophical Breakfast Club | |
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| The greatest TED Talk ever sold | |
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| A new way to grow bone | |
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| To upgrade is human | |
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| The global food waste scandal | |
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| Put a value on nature! | |
| Eco-friendly drywall | |
| The power and the danger of online crowds | |
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