TED Talks

289–336 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 Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity 2010 · Talk · 21 min The thesaurus might equate "disabled" with synonyms like "useless" and "mutilated," but ground-breaking runner Aimee Mullins is out to redefine the word.… Internet Archive Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand 2012 · Talk · 6 min The days are past (if they ever existed) when a person, company or brand could tightly control their reputation -- online chatter and spin mean that if you're… Internet Archive Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison 2011 · Talk · 3 min Damon Horowitz teaches philosophy through the Prison University Project, bringing college-level classes to inmates of San Quentin State Prison. In this… Internet Archive Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head 2013 · Talk · 14 min To all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the… Internet Archive Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education 2012 · Talk · 20 min Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their most intriguing courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as a way to research how people… Internet Archive Vusi Mahlasela sings "Thula Mama" 2007 · Talk · 10 min South African singer-songwriter Vusi Mahlasela dedicates his song, "Thula Mama," to all women -- and especially his grandmother. Internet Archive Emily Levine's theory of everything 2009 · Talk · 22 min Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She's a brilliant trickster, poking holes… Internet Archive Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest 2010 · Talk · 20 min When the worst disaster in the history of Mount Everest climbs occurred, Ken Kamler was the only doctor on the mountain. At TEDMED, he shares the incredible… Internet Archive Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle 2012 · Talk · 17 min A dung beetle has a brain the size of a grain of rice, and yet shows a tremendous amount of intelligence when it comes to rolling its food source -- animal… Internet Archive Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence 2011 · Talk · 12 min In the deep, dark ocean, many sea creatures make their own light for hunting, mating and self-defense. Bioluminescence expert Edith Widder was one of the… Internet Archive Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity 2011 · Talk · 12 min Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, "ghostbusters" running through the… Internet Archive Arthur Benjamin does "Mathemagic" 2007 · Talk · 15 min In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses… Internet Archive Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud 2013 · Talk · 22 min Onstage at TED2013, Sugata Mitra makes his bold TED Prize wish: Help me design the School in the Cloud, a learning lab in India, where children can explore… Internet Archive Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+ 2010 · Talk · 19 min To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to… Internet Archive A TED speaker's worst nightmare 2012 · Talk · 3 min Colin Robertson had 3 minutes on the TED stage to tell the world about his solar-powered crowdsourced health care solution. And then... Internet Archive Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs 2009 · Talk · 20 min Mike Rowe, the host of "Dirty Jobs," tells some compelling (and horrifying) real-life job stories. Listen for his insights and observations about the nature… Internet Archive Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes 2012 · Talk · 13 min What should a community do with its unused land? Plant food, of course. With energy and humor, Pam Warhurst tells at the TEDSalon the story of how she and a… Internet Archive Russell Foster: Why do we sleep? 2013 · Talk · 21 min Russell Foster is a circadian neuroscientist: He studies the sleep cycles of the brain. And he asks: What do we know about sleep? Not a lot, it turns out, for… Internet Archive Lemn Sissay: A child of the state 2012 · Talk · 15 min Literature has long been fascinated with fostered, adopted and orphaned children, from Moses to Cinderella to Oliver Twist to Harry Potter. So why do many… Internet Archive Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity 2009 · Talk · 8 min Ray Kurzweil's latest graphs show that technology's breakneck advances will only accelerate -- recession or not. He unveils his new project, Singularity… Internet Archive A sense of humor about Afghanistan? Artist Aman Mojadidi shows how 2012 · Talk · 4 min Afghan-American artist Aman Mojadidi calls himself “Afghan by blood, redneck by the grace of god.” Playing off his two identities, the TED Fellow's bold,… Internet Archive PW Singer on military robots and the future of war 2009 · Talk · 18 min In this powerful talk, P.W. Singer shows how the widespread use of robots in war is changing the realities of combat. He shows us scenarios straight out of… Internet Archive David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust 2012 · Talk · 14 min What does a disgusting image have to do with how you vote? Equipped with surveys and experiments, psychologist David Pizarro demonstrates a correlation… Internet Archive Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness 2011 · Talk · 18 min Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness -- that is a marvelous fact -- but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses… Internet Archive Jeff Smith: Lessons in business … from prison 2012 · Talk · 5 min Jeff Smith spent a year in prison. But what he discovered inside wasn’t what he expected -- he saw in his fellow inmates boundless ingenuity and business… Internet Archive Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone 2012 · Talk · 9 min Your mobile phone, computer and game console have a bloody past — tied to tantalum mining, which funds the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.… Internet Archive David Byrne sings "(Nothing But) Flowers" 2010 · Talk · 3 min David Byrne sings the Talking Heads' 1988 hit, "(Nothing But) Flowers." He's accompanied by Thomas Dolby and string quartet Ethel, who made up the TED2010… Internet Archive Hans Rosling: Asia's rise -- how and when 2009 · Talk · 15 min Hans Rosling was a young guest student in India when he first realized that Asia had all the capacities to reclaim its place as the world's dominant economic… Internet Archive Wolfgang Kessling: How to air-condition outdoor spaces 2012 · Talk · 11 min During the hot summer months, watching an outdoor soccer match or concert can be tantamount to baking uncomfortably in the sun -- but it doesn’t have to be.… Internet Archive Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes 2012 · Talk · 14 min Our bodies are covered in a sea of microbes -- both the pathogens that make us sick and the "good" microbes, about which we know less, that might be keeping… Internet Archive Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change 2013 · Talk · 22 min “Desertification is a fancy word for land that is turning to desert,” begins Allan Savory in this quietly powerful talk. And terrifyingly, it's happening to… Internet Archive Jared Diamond on why societies collapse 2008 · Talk · 18 min Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the… Internet Archive Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales 2009 · Talk · 18 min Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature -- they act like… Internet Archive Caroline Lavelle casts a spell on cello 2007 · Talk · 7 min Caroline Lavelle plays the cello like a sorceress casting a spell, occasionally hiding behind her wild mane of blond hair as she sings of pastoral themes. She… Internet Archive Tim Ferriss: Why you should define your fears instead of your goals 2017 · Talk · 13 min The hard choices — what we most fear doing, asking, saying — are very often exactly what we need to do. How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action?… Internet Archive James Veitch: The agony of trying to unsubscribe 2016 · Talk · 7 min It happens to all of us: you unsubscribe from an unwanted marketing email, and a few days later another message from the same company pops up in your inbox.… Internet Archive Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual 2008 · Talk · 19 min Anthropologist Wade Davis muses on the worldwide web of belief and ritual that makes us human. He shares breathtaking photos and stories of the Elder… Internet Archive Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school 2013 · Talk · 15 min Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo the traditional Maasai rite of passage of female circumcision if he would let her go to high… Internet Archive Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The profound journey of compassion 2008 · Talk · 17 min Swami Dayananda Saraswati unravels the parallel paths of personal development and attaining true compassion. He walks us through each step of… Internet Archive Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic 2009 · Talk · 7 min Capt. Charles Moore of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation first discovered the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- an endless floating waste of plastic trash.… Internet Archive Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing" 2013 · Talk · 8 min 3D printing has grown in sophistication since the late 1970s; TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits is shaping the next development, which he calls 4D printing, where the… Internet Archive Bill Strickland makes change with a slide show 2008 · Talk · 35 min Bill Strickland tells a quiet and astonishing tale of redemption through arts, music, and unlikely partnerships. Internet Archive Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine 2010 · Talk · 16 min Eric Topol says we'll soon use our smartphones to monitor our vital signs and chronic conditions. At TEDMED, he highlights several of the most important… Internet Archive Siddhartha Roy: Science in service to the public good 2017 · Talk We give scientists and engineers great technical training, but we're not as good at teaching ethical decision-making or building character. Take, for example,… Internet Archive Ben Dunlap talks about a passionate life 2008 · Talk · 19 min Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong… Internet Archive Courtney Martin: Reinventing feminism 2011 · Talk · 11 min Blogger Courtney Martin examines the perennially loaded word "feminism" in this personal and heartfelt talk. She talks through the three essential paradoxes… Internet Archive Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters 2007 · Interview · 23 min Writer and actor Anna Deavere Smith gives life to author Studs Terkel, convict Paulette Jenkins, a Korean shopkeeper and a bull rider, excerpts from her solo… Internet Archive Noah Wilson-Rich: Every city needs healthy honey bees 2012 · Talk · 12 min Bees have been rapidly and mysteriously disappearing from rural areas, with grave implications for agriculture. But bees seem to flourish in urban…