Beauty surrounds us, draws us in, gives joy and creates conflict.
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We depend on rules, guidelines and laws to provide structure, order and function, but too often these systems fail us.
TED speakers share stories of overcoming a weakness and turning it into a strength.
A cornucopia of TEDTalks about food: growing it, cooking it, consuming it — and making sure there's enough for everyone.
In this episode, we explore ways to find quiet in our busy lives. How can we step back and make time to reflect in an increasingly distracted and hurried world?
Why do we create stereotypes? This week's episode explores ideas around this question.
Finding happiness may be simpler than you think.
In this hour, TED speakers explore our changing notions of privacy, the consequences, and whether privacy will soon be a relic of the past.
TED speakers explore our origins as a species — who we are, where we come from, where we're headed — and how we're connected to everything that came before us.
Stories ignite our imagination, let us leap over cultural walls and cross the barriers of time.
Beauty surrounds us, draws us in, gives joy and creates conflict.
Three compelling talks on how to improve education
We want to be creative but channeling our creative impulses is no small feat. Is creativity something we are born with or can we learn it? In this hour, TED speakers examine the mystery of creativity.
Are we simply the sum of our experiences? Or can we choose our own path? In this hour, TED speakers share stories of undergoing remarkable transformations despite extraordinary challenges.
Why do some people spend years trying to answer a single question, or even risk their lives to discover something new? In this hour, TED speakers explore how curiosity leads to unexpected places.
Our relationship with animals is complicated: we love and fear them; hunt, consume and protect them. In this hour, TED speakers explore what happens when humans and animals interact.
There are some truths that we believe in wholeheartedly—but what if we're completely wrong?
Some people might only dream of adventure but for others there's no option but to explore the most extreme places on earth—from the deepest caves to the roughest oceans, from the North Pole to dizzying heights on a high wire.
Income inequality is at an all-time high between the haves and the have-nots. But does the poverty gap have to be so wide, and can it potentially be eliminated altogether?
What makes us who we are? How do parents mold children into who they are? In this hour, TED speakers reflect on how our upbringing shapes us.