TED Talks

433–480 of 2,913 films, free to watch, from the world's open archives.

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Little OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Wendy Suzuki: The brain-changing benefits of exercise 2017 · Talk What's the most transformative thing that you can do for your brain today? Exercise! says neuroscientist Wendy Suzuki. Get inspired to go to the gym as Suzuki… Internet Archive Elon Musk: The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity ... 2013 · Talk · 21 min Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details… Internet Archive Helen Pearson: Lessons from the longest study on human development 2017 · Talk For the past 70 years, scientists in Britain have been studying thousands of children through their lives to find out why some end up happy and healthy while… Internet Archive Sivamani: Rhythm is everything, everywhere 2010 · Talk · 16 min Percussionist Sivamani delivers one of TED's liveliest and most inventive performances yet. He uses traditional Western and Eastern instruments to create a… Internet Archive Terry Moore: Why is 'x' the unknown? 2012 · Talk · 3 min Why is 'x' the symbol for an unknown? In this short and funny talk, Terry Moore gives the surprising answer. Internet Archive Lesley Hazleton: The doubt essential to faith 2013 · Talk · 13 min When Lesley Hazleton was writing a biography of Muhammad, she was struck by something: The night he received the revelation of the Koran, according to early… Internet Archive Sauti Sol: The rhythm of Afrobeat 2017 · Talk From Beyoncé to Drake and beyond, the world is rocking to the rhythm of Afrobeat. Feel the music as Kenyan afro-pop superstars Sauti Sol take the TED stage to… Internet Archive Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux 2016 · Interview · 21 min Linus Torvalds transformed technology twice — first with the Linux kernel, which helps power the Internet, and again with Git, the source code management… Internet Archive Bruce Schneier: The security mirage 2011 · Talk · 21 min The feeling of security and the reality of security don't always match, says computer-security expert Bruce Schneier. At TEDxPSU, he explains why we spend… Internet Archive Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man 2009 · Talk · 16 min Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland makes the daring assertion that a change in… Internet Archive Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun 2012 · Talk · 17 min Peter van Uhm is the Netherlands’ chief of defense, but that does not mean he is pro-war. At TEDxAmsterdam he explains how his career is one shaped by a love… Internet Archive Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives 2008 · Talk · 18 min Psychologist Jonathan Haidt studies the five moral values that form the basis of our political choices, whether we're left, right or center. In this… Internet Archive Emily Esfahani Smith: There's more to life than being happy 2017 · Talk Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there's a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having… Internet Archive Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to humming bird drone 2012 · Talk · 25 min "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" asks Regina Dugan, then director of DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In… Internet Archive Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning 2013 · Talk · 6 min It took a life-threatening condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of “pseudo-teaching” to understand the true role of the… Internet Archive Dan Dennett's response to Rick Warren 2006 · Talk · 24 min Philosopher Dan Dennett calls for religion -- all religion -- to be taught in schools, so we can understand its nature as a natural phenomenon. Then he takes… Internet Archive George Dyson at the birth of the computer 2008 · Talk · 17 min Historian George Dyson tells stories from the birth of the modern computer -- from its 17th-century origins to the hilarious notebooks of some early computer… Internet Archive Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food 2010 · Talk · 21 min Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our… Internet Archive Kary Mullis' next-gen cure for killer infections 2009 · Talk · 4 min Drug-resistant bacteria kills, even in top hospitals. But now tough infections like staph and anthrax may be in for a surprise. Nobel-winning chemist Kary… Internet Archive Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet 2006 · Talk · 3 min Stop wringing your hands over AIDS, cancer and the avian flu. Cardiovascular disease kills more people than everything else combined -- and it’s mostly… Internet Archive Liu Bolin: The invisible man 2013 · Talk · 7 min Can a person disappear in plain sight? That’s the question Liu Bolin‘s remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called “The… Internet Archive Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed 2011 · Talk · 5 min Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the… Internet Archive Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses 2013 · Talk · 9 min Good design looks great, yes -- but why shouldn't it also feel great, smell great and sound great? Designer Jinsop Lee (a TED Talent Search winner) shares his… Internet Archive John Hardy: My green school dream 2010 · Talk · 13 min Join John Hardy on a tour of the Green School, his off-the-grid school in Bali that teaches kids how to build, garden, create (and get into college). The… Internet Archive Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney 2011 · Talk · 17 min Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a… Internet Archive Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for strangeness 2013 · Talk · 8 min In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness -- people and… Internet Archive Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies 2011 · Talk · 16 min We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows… Internet Archive Shah Rukh Khan: Thoughts on humanity, fame and love 2017 · Talk · 17 min "I sell dreams, and I peddle love to millions of people," says Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood's biggest star. In this charming, funny talk, Khan traces the arc of… Internet Archive Tan Le: My immigration story 2012 · Talk · 12 min In 2010, technologist Tan Le took the TEDGlobal stage to demo a powerful new interface. But now, at TEDxWomen, she tells a very personal story: the story of… Internet Archive Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government 2012 · Talk · 18 min The open-source world has learned to deal with a flood of new, oftentimes divergent, ideas using hosting services like GitHub -- so why can’t governments? In… Internet Archive Clifford Stoll on ... everything 2008 · Talk · 17 min Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides -- and even a science experiment. After all, by… Internet Archive A Tribe Called Red: "We Are the Halluci Nation" 2018 · Talk A Tribe Called Red creates music that acts as a gateway into urban, contemporary indigenous culture, celebrating all of its layers and complexity. In a set… Internet Archive James Stavridis: How NATO's Supreme Commander thinks about global security 2012 · Talk · 16 min Imagine a global security driven by collaboration -- among agencies, government, the private sector and the public. That's not just the distant hope of… Internet Archive Ben Goldacre: What doctors don't know about the drugs they prescribe 2012 · Talk · 13 min When a new drug gets tested, the results of the trials should be published for the rest of the medical world -- except much of the time, negative or… Internet Archive Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time 2012 · Talk · 3 min A long time ago in New York City, Steve Addis stood on a corner holding his 1-year-old daughter in his arms; his wife snapped a photo. The image has inspired… Internet Archive Richard Branson's life at 30,000 feet 2007 · Interview · 29 min Richard Branson talks to TED's Chris Anderson about the ups and the downs of his career, from his multibillionaire success to his multiple near-death… Internet Archive Daniel Kraft invents a better way to harvest bone marrow 2009 · Talk · 4 min Daniel Kraft demos his Marrow Miner -- a new device that quickly harvests life-saving bone marrow with minimal pain to the donor. He emphasizes that the adult… Internet Archive Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating 2014 · Talk · 7 min Elizabeth Gilbert was once an "unpublished diner waitress," devastated by rejection letters. And yet, in the wake of the success of 'Eat, Pray, Love,' she… Internet Archive Tom Shannon's anti-gravity sculpture 2009 · Talk · 11 min Tom Shannon shows off his gravity-defying, otherworldly sculpture -- made of simple, earthly materials -- that floats and spins like planets on magnets and… Internet Archive Antony Gormley: Sculpted space, within and without 2012 · Talk · 15 min Legendary sculptor Antony Gormley riffs on space and the human form. His works explore the interior space we feel within our own bodies -- and the exterior… Internet Archive Caleb Harper: This computer will grow your food in the future 2016 · Talk · 16 min What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of CitiFARM at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change… Internet Archive Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats 2008 · Talk · 11 min Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics -- like… Internet Archive Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? 2010 · Talk · 9 min Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens -- and… Internet Archive Shonda Rhimes: My year of saying yes to everything 2016 · Talk · 18 min Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder, is responsible for some 70 hours of television per season, and she… Internet Archive Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations 2011 · Talk · 17 min Physicist Geoffrey West has found that simple, mathematical laws govern the properties of cities -- that wealth, crime rate, walking speed and many other… Internet Archive Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire 2012 · Talk · 19 min Even a death-defying magician has to start somewhere. High-wire artist Philippe Petit takes you on an intimate journey from his first card trick at age 6 to… Internet Archive Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker? 2017 · Talk · 13 min In every workplace, there are three basic kinds of people: givers, takers and matchers. Organizational psychologist Adam Grant breaks down these workplace… Internet Archive Colin Camerer: Neuroscience, game theory, monkeys 2013 · Talk · 13 min When two people are trying to make a deal -- whether they’re competing or cooperating -- what’s really going on inside their brains? Behavioral economist…