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How can we get people to do more good: to go to the polls, give to charity, conserve resources or just generally act better towards others?...
In 2006, Tarana Burke was consumed by a desire to do something about the sexual violence she saw in her community. She took out a piece of p...
How do you turn a memory, especially one of a traumatic event, into hard evidence of a crime? Julia Shaw is working on this challenge, combi...
What can you do if you're the victim of revenge porn or cyberbullying? Shockingly little, says journalist and activist Darieth Chisolm, who...
A massive generation of young people is about to inherit the world, and it's the duty of everyone to give them a fighting chance for their f...
Imagine being by yourself in the dead center of a 3,000-foot vertical cliff — without a rope to catch you if you fall. For professional rock...
Is it better to be lucky or good? Should we trust our gut feelings or rely on probabilities and careful analysis when making important decis...
In 2009, 11,341 untested rape kits -- some dating back to the 1980s -- were found in an abandoned warehouse once used by the Detroit police...
Archaeologist and curator Chip Colwell collects artifacts for his museum, but he also returns them to where they came from. In a thought-pro...
After a horrific accident put her in the tabloid headlines, Kate Stone found a way to take control of her narrative -- and help prevent othe...
Of all the problems facing humanity, which should we focus on solving first? In a compelling talk about how to make the world better, moral...
Halima Aden made history when she became the first hijab-wearing model on the cover of Vogue magazine. Now she returns to Kenya's Kakuma Ref...
What do communities on the social, economic and environmental margins have in common? For one thing, they tend to be on the east sides of ci...
When bankers refused to serve her neighbors in rural India, Chetna Gala Sinha did the next best thing: she opened a bank of her own, the fir...
Can public spaces both reclaim the past and embrace the future? Landscape architect Walter Hood has explored this question over the course o...
AI is massively transforming our world, but there's one thing it cannot do: love. In a visionary talk, computer scientist Kai-Fu Lee details...
Let's face it, online dating can suck. So many potential people, so much time wasted -- is it even worth it? Podcaster and entrepreneur Chri...
Millions of baby boomers are moving into their senior years with empty pockets and declining choices to earn a living. And right behind them...
In a poetic, personal talk, TED Fellow Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile examines the connection between her modern queer lifestyle and her childho...
Gardens are mirrors of our lives, says environmental artist tobacco brown, and we must cultivate them with care to harvest their full beauty...
With her signature wit and wisdom, Emily Levine meets her ultimate challenge as a comedian/philosopher: she makes dying funny. In this perso...
Sex educator Emily Nagoski breaks down one of the most dangerous myths about sex and introduces us to the science behind arousal nonconcorda...
We get stronger, not weaker, by engaging with ideas and people we disagree with, says Zachary R. Wood. In an important talk about finding co...
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world -- and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But do they shap...
There's no such thing as throwing something away, says Andrew Dent -- when you toss a used food container, broken toy or old pair of socks i...
As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention -- but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, c...
Sometimes, a single decision can change the course of history. Join journalist and author Isabel Wilkerson as she tells the story of the Gre...
Poets Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy perform excerpts from their play "Other Women," which is created and directed by Monica L. Williams....
How do we find fulfillment in a world that's constantly changing? Raymond Tang struggled with this question until he came across the ancient...
The hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl share their mission to empow...
At some point in our lives, almost every one of us will have our heart broken. Imagine how different things would be if we paid more attenti...
"It is the artist's job to unearth stories that people try to bury with shovels of complacency and time," says poet and freedom fighter Mwen...
Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity, she t...
Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, h...
For generations, record collectors have played a vital role in the preservation of musical and cultural heritage by "digging" for obscure mu...
Heather Lanier's daughter Fiona has Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, a genetic condition that results in developmental delays -- but that doesn't m...
The words we use to describe our emotions affect how we feel, says historian Tiffany Watt Smith, and they've often changed (sometimes very d...
There's something amazing growing in the city of Detroit: healthy, accessible, delicious, fresh food. In a spirited talk, fearless farmer De...
Justin Baldoni wants to start a dialogue with men about redefining masculinity -- to figure out ways to be not just good men but good humans...
Leah Chase's New Orleans restaurant Dooky Chase changed the course of American history over gumbo and fried chicken. During the civil rights...
We all know that when we make decisions in groups, they don't always go right -- and sometimes they go very wrong. How can groups make good...
Gender should be the least remarkable thing about someone, but transgender people are still too often misunderstood. To help those who are s...
With fantastic new maps that show interactive, visual representations of urban fragility, Robert Muggah articulates an ancient but resurging...
Sometimes trying your best isn't enough; when the situation demands it, you need to be perfect. For Jon Bowers, who runs a training facility...
Why do women who experience sexual assault rarely speak up about it? "Because they fear they won't be believed," says Inés Hercovich. "Becau...
In the vast sweep of history, even an empire can be forgotten. In this wide-ranging talk, Gus Casely-Hayford shares origin stories of Africa...
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