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Thought-provoking videos about life and being human, with ideas from business leaders, psychologists and researchers speaking onstage at the TED conference, TEDx events and partner events around the world. You can also download these and many other videos free on TED.com, with an interactive English transcript and subtitles in up to 80 languages. TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.

Episodes

The new urgency of climate change | Al Gore

Jun 25 2020 • 57 MIN

The coronavirus brought much of the world to a standstill, dropping carbon emissions by five percent. Al Gore says keeping those rates down is now up to us. In this illuminating interview, he discu...

A vision for the future of Afghanistan | Ashraf Ghani

Jun 23 2020 • 46 MIN

Offering a vision of Afghanistan that goes beyond what's often depicted in the media, President Ashraf Ghani shares his thoughts on peacemaking, the true cost of war, the nation's COVID-19 response...

Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor

Jun 23 2020 • 13 MIN

Colonialism remains an inescapable blight on the present, lingering in the toxic, internalized mythologies and stereotypes that have outlived the regimes that created them, says historian Farish Ah...

How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt

Jun 18 2020 • 15 MIN

Our brains create categories to make sense of the world, recognize patterns and make quick decisions. But this ability to categorize also exacts a heavy toll in the form of unconscious bias. In thi...

3 secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone

Jun 15 2020 • 17 MIN

Everyone experiences loss, but how do you cope with the tough moments that follow? Resilience researcher Lucy Hone shares three hard-won strategies for developing the capacity to brave adversity, o...

How to turn your dissatisfaction into action | Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

Jun 10 2020 • 13 MIN

After the devastating rebel invasion of Freetown in 1999 and the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the city, refused to be paralyzed by her frustration with the status quo. Inste...