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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.

The powerful stories that shaped Africa | Gus Casely-Hayford
Oct 20, 2017 – 00:19:41
Why women stay silent after sexual assault | Inés Hercovich
Nov 7, 2017 – 00:16:46
We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure | Jon Bowers
Nov 9, 2017 – 00:10:41
How to talk (and listen) to transgender people | Jackson Bird
Nov 14, 2017 – 00:06:11
The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions | Robert Muggah
Nov 9, 2017 – 00:16:56
An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine | Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell
Nov 22, 2017 – 00:22:27
How can groups make good decisions? | Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely
Nov 22, 2017 – 00:08:23
Why I'm done trying to be "man enough" | Justin Baldoni
Dec 4, 2017 – 00:18:16
How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit | Devita Davison
Dec 7, 2017 – 00:12:22
"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves | Heather Lanier
Dec 21, 2017 – 00:13:36
The history of human emotions | Tiffany Watt Smith
Dec 18, 2017 – 00:14:20
How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage | Alexis Charpentier
Jan 11, 2018 – 00:14:29
My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar
Jan 31, 2018 – 00:15:58
The virginity fraud | Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl
Feb 13, 2018 – 00:11:28
The gift and power of emotional courage | Susan David
Jan 30, 2018 – 00:16:48
Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
Feb 1, 2018 – 00:07:49
How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch
Feb 5, 2018 – 00:12:12
The Great Migration and the power of a single decision | Isabel Wilkerson
Mar 15, 2018 – 00:17:42
How we became sisters | Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy
Mar 2, 2018 – 00:12:31
Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang
Feb 27, 2018 – 00:09:42
Why I choose humanism over faith | Leo Igwe
Mar 29, 2018 – 00:10:06
How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
Apr 11, 2018 – 00:13:59
To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift | Andrew Dent
Apr 4, 2018 – 00:10:21
Why it's worth listening to people you disagree with | Zachary R. Wood
Apr 19, 2018 – 00:11:09
What gardening taught me about life | tobacco brown
May 31, 2018 – 00:06:41
How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village | Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile
Jun 14, 2018 – 00:05:49
How I made friends with reality | Emily Levine
May 23, 2018 – 00:15:29
The truth about unwanted arousal | Emily Nagoski
May 11, 2018 – 00:15:03
An honest look at the personal finance crisis | Elizabeth White
Jul 12, 2018 – 00:17:59
How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps | Christina Wallace
Jul 24, 2018 – 00:05:06
How urban spaces can preserve history and build community | Walter Hood
Aug 17, 2018 – 00:14:01
What are the most important moral problems of our time? | Will MacAskill
Sep 12, 2018 – 00:11:41
How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee
Aug 13, 2018 – 00:14:49
How women in rural India turned courage into capital | Chetna Gala Sinha
Aug 20, 2018 – 00:14:15
How I went from child refugee to international model | Halima Aden
Aug 30, 2018 – 00:07:45
Why the "wrong side of the tracks" is usually the east side of cities | Stephen DeBerry
Aug 21, 2018 – 00:06:37
Why museums are returning cultural treasures | Chip Colwell
Sep 20, 2018 – 00:13:01
The press trampled on my privacy. Here's how I took back my story | Kate Stone
Sep 18, 2018 – 00:06:18
What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit | Kym Worthy
Sep 26, 2018 – 00:19:05
3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion | Liv Boeree
Oct 1, 2018 – 00:06:07
How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes | Alex Honnold
Oct 8, 2018 – 00:11:49
How revenge porn turns lives upside down | Darieth Chisolm
Oct 24, 2018 – 00:10:00
How we can help young people build a better future | Henrietta Fore
Oct 24, 2018 – 00:14:25
A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination | Julia Shaw
Nov 2, 2018 – 00:09:41
How to motivate people to do good for others | Erez Yoeli
Dec 5, 2018 – 00:12:22
My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs
Nov 13, 2018 – 00:15:15
Me Too is a movement, not a moment | Tarana Burke
Nov 30, 2018 – 00:16:15
How I unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity | Eldra Jackson
Dec 18, 2018 – 00:11:21
The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison
Apr 13, 2018 – 00:13:17
The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts | Alex Rosenthal
Dec 19, 2018 – 00:11:42

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