TED Talks

481–528 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 Elon Musk: The future we're building -- and boring 2017 · Talk · 40 min Elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in… Internet Archive Leah Buechley: How to “sketch” with electronics 2012 · Talk · 6 min Designing electronics is generally cumbersome and expensive -- or was, until Leah Buechley and her team at MIT developed tools to treat electronics just like… Internet Archive VS Ramachandran: The neurons that shaped civilization 2010 · Talk · 7 min Neuroscientist Vilayanur Ramachandran outlines the fascinating functions of mirror neurons. Only recently discovered, these neurons allow us to learn complex… Internet Archive Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons from robots about being human 2012 · Talk · 17 min The more that robots ingrain themselves into our everyday lives, the more we're forced to examine ourselves as people. At TEDxBerkeley, Ken Goldberg shares… Internet Archive Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? 2010 · Talk · 23 min Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson… Internet Archive His Holiness Pope Francis: Why the only future worth building includes everyone 2017 · Talk · 17 min A single individual is enough for hope to exist, and that individual can be you, says His Holiness Pope Francis in this searing TED Talk delivered directly… Internet Archive Dean Ornish: Help the body heal itself 2008 · Talk · 16 min Dean Ornish talks about simple, low-tech and low-cost ways to take advantage of the body's natural desire to heal itself. Internet Archive Brenda Laurel on games for girls 2009 · Talk · 13 min A TED archive gem. At TED in 1998, Brenda Laurel asks: Why are all the top-selling videogames aimed at little boys? She spent two years researching the world… Internet Archive Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) 2012 · Talk · 19 min From deep in the TED archive, Danny Hillis outlines an intriguing theory of how and why technological change seems to be accelerating, by linking it to the… Internet Archive Roz Savage: Why I'm rowing across the Pacific 2010 · Talk · 17 min Five years ago, Roz Savage quit her high-powered London job to become an ocean rower. She's crossed the Atlantic solo, and just started the third leg of a… Internet Archive Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy 2009 · Talk · 5 min In this brief talk, Saul Griffith unveils the invention his new company Makani Power has been working on: giant kite turbines that create surprising amounts… Internet Archive Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face 2009 · Talk · 18 min Ed Ulbrich, the digital-effects guru from Digital Domain, explains the Oscar-winning technology that allowed his team to digitally create the older versions… Internet Archive Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint 2013 · Talk · 15 min Make a city beautiful, curb corruption. Edi Rama took this deceptively simple path as mayor of Tirana, Albania, where he instilled pride in his citizens by… Internet Archive Peter Calthorpe: 7 principles for building better cities 2017 · Talk More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to urban areas by 2050. The way we… Internet Archive Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow 2012 · Talk · 17 min It's easy to imagine saving money next week, but how about right now? Generally, we want to spend it. Economist Shlomo Benartzi says this is one of the… Internet Archive Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors 2013 · Talk · 12 min Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic:… Internet Archive Charles Elachi on the Mars Rovers 2008 · Talk · 28 min At Serious Play 2008, Charles Elachi shares stories from NASA's legendary Jet Propulsion Lab -- including tales and video from the Mars Rover project. Internet Archive Beardyman: The polyphonic me 2013 · Talk · 11 min Frustrated by not being able to sing two notes at the same time, musical inventor Beardyman built a machine to allow him to create loops and layers from just… Internet Archive Charles Limb: Your brain on improv 2011 · Talk · 16 min Musician and researcher Charles Limb wondered how the brain works during musical improvisation -- so he put jazz musicians and rappers in an fMRI to find out.… Internet Archive Amy Edmondson: How to turn a group of strangers into a team 2017 · Talk Business school professor Amy Edmondson studies "teaming," where people come together quickly (and often temporarily) to solve new, urgent or unusual… Internet Archive Ray Dalio: How to build a company where the best ideas win 2017 · Talk What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency… Internet Archive Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins 2008 · Talk · 15 min Louise Leakey asks, "Who are we?" The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind -- and… Internet Archive Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color 2016 · Talk · 11 min Angélica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her… Internet Archive Anil Gupta: India's hidden hotbeds of invention 2010 · Talk · 22 min Anil Gupta is on the hunt for the developing world's unsung inventors -- indigenous entrepreneurs whose ingenuity, hidden by poverty, could change many… Internet Archive Nicholas Negroponte, in 1984, makes 5 predictions 2008 · Talk · 25 min With surprising accuracy, Nicholas Negroponte predicts what will happen with CD-ROMs, web interfaces, service kiosks, the touchscreen interface of the iPhone… Internet Archive Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs? 2008 · Talk · 17 min Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign?… Internet Archive Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence 2012 · Talk · 15 min How do you deal with a bully without becoming a thug? In this wise and soulful talk, peace activist Scilla Elworthy maps out the skills we need -- as nations… Internet Archive Srdja Popovic: How to topple a dictator 2012 · Talk · 12 min 2011 was a year of extraordinary people-powered resistance, starting with Arab Spring and spreading across the world. How did this resistance work so well?… Internet Archive Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty 2010 · Talk · 15 min TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton's provocative theory on beauty -- that art, music and other beautiful things, far from… Internet Archive Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain? 2013 · Talk · 13 min The human brain is puzzling -- it is curiously large given the size of our bodies, uses a tremendous amount of energy for its weight and has a bizarrely dense… Internet Archive Guy-Philippe Goldstein: How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace 2011 · Talk · 9 min More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons -- silent strikes on another country's computer systems that leave behind no trace. (Think of the… Internet Archive Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan 2011 · Talk · 20 min British MP Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan after 9/11, talking with citizens and warlords alike. Now, a decade later, he asks: Why are Western and… Internet Archive Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating 2013 · Talk · 17 min Amy Webb was having no luck with online dating. The dates she liked didn't write her back, and her own profile attracted crickets (and worse). So, as any fan… Internet Archive Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive 2013 · Talk · 14 min There's no actual law against women driving in Saudi Arabia. But it's forbidden. Two years ago, Manal al-Sharif decided to encourage women to drive by doing… Internet Archive Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time 2012 · Talk · 20 min In this epic overview, Michael Tilson Thomas traces the development of classical music through the development of written notation, the record, and the re-mix. Internet Archive Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are 2012 · Talk · 9 min How do you remember where you parked your car? How do you know if you're moving in the right direction? Neuroscientist Neil Burgess studies the neural… Internet Archive Angela Patton: A father-daughter dance ... in prison 2013 · Talk · 8 min At Camp Diva, Angela Patton works to help girls and fathers stay connected and in each others' lives. But what about girls whose fathers can't be there --… Internet Archive Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll 2012 · Talk · 6 min Drew Curtis, the founder of fark.com, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company that had a patent, "...for the creation and distribution of… Internet Archive Chris Anderson of WIRED on tech's Long Tail 2007 · Talk · 14 min Chris Anderson, the editor of WIRED, explores the four key stages of any viable technology: setting the right price, gaining market share, displacing an… Internet Archive David Macaulay's Rome Antics 2008 · Talk · 21 min David Macaulay relives the winding and sometimes surreal journey toward the completion of Rome Antics, his illustrated homage to the historic city. Internet Archive Samantha Power on a complicated hero 2008 · Talk · 23 min Samantha Power tells a story of a complicated hero, Sergio Vieira de Mello. This UN diplomat walked a thin moral line, negotiating with the world's worst… Internet Archive Vinay Venkatraman: “Technology crafts” for the digitally underserved 2012 · Talk · 14 min Two-thirds of the world may not have access to the latest smartphone, but local electronic shops are adept at fixing older tech using low-cost parts. Vinay… Internet Archive Hans Rosling shows the best stats you've ever seen 2006 · Talk · 19 min You've never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called… Internet Archive Michael Dickinson: How a fly flies 2013 · Talk · 15 min An insect's ability to fly is perhaps one of the greatest feats of evolution. Michael Dickinson looks at how a common housefly takes flight with such delicate… Internet Archive Tim Brown on creativity and play 2008 · Talk · 27 min At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play -- with many examples you can… Internet Archive Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves 2017 · Talk · 15 min How can humans be so compassionate and altruistic — and also so brutal and violent? To understand why we do what we do, neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky looks… Internet Archive Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking 2012 · Talk · 2 min People aren’t just cooking anymore -- they’re cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just… Internet Archive Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? 2010 · Talk · 2 min "There's a flip side to everything," the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect.