TED Ideas Worth Spreadingedit
Ideas Worth Spreading
We believe passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and, ultimately, the world.
Films:
- Shakti - The Feminine Power
- The Secret of Becoming Mentally Strong
- Is there scientific proof we can heal ourselves?
- How to Tap into Your Awareness
- How Exploring the Feminine Turned My Wounds into Strengths
- You Don't Find Happiness, You Create It
- We should all be feminists
- Consciously Reclaiming the Feminine & Masculine Within Each of Us
- When My Masculine Met My Feminine
- We need to restore femininity
- What Really Matters at the End of Life
- Tshering Tobgay: This Country Isn't Just Carbon Neutral -- It's Carbon Negative
- David Chalmers: How Do You Explain Consciousness?
- What are Animals Thinking and Feeling?
- Andrew Solomon: How The Worst Moments In Our Lives Make Us Who We Are
- Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism Will Eat Democracy -- Unless We Speak Up
- Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
- Michael Pollan: A plant's-eye view
- Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
- Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing
- Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action
- Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
- Leana Wen: What your doctor won’t disclose
- Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
- Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore
- Nick Bostrom: What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
- When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism
- The dark secrets of a surveillance state
- How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives
- Why privacy matters
- Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive
- Listening to shame
- Measuring what makes life worthwhile
- The danger of a single story
- Be an artist, right now!
- Why domestic violence victims don't leave
- My stroke of insight
- Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
- How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's
- Never, ever give up
- My escape from North Korea
- The brain in love
- Singing after a double lung transplant
- Meggan Watterson at TEDxWomen
- The Power Behind Kindness: Balpreet Kaur at TEDxOhioStateUniversity
- Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
- Elizabeth Lesser: Take "the Other" to lunch
- Paul Zak: Trust, morality - and oxytocin?
- Dan Gilbert: The surprising science of happiness
- Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
- Dan Dennett: The illusion of consciousness
- Dean Ornish: Healing through diet
- Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability
- His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart
- John Searle: Our shared condition -- consciousness
- Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion
- Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0
- Louie Schwartzberg: The hidden beauty of pollination
- Jennifer Granholm: A clean energy proposal -- race to the top!
- Munir Virani: Why I love vultures
- Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life
- Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude
- Melissa Garren: The sea we’ve hardly seen
- Jessica Green: We're covered in germs. Let's design for that.
- E.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
- Deborah Gordon: The emergent genius of ant colonies
- Jonathan Foley: The other inconvenient truth
- Fahad Al-Attiya: A country with no water
- Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
- Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods
- Richard Turere: My invention that made peace with lions
- Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
- Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control ... using bugs!
- Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA
- Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China
- Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift
- Stephen Coleman: The moral dangers of non-lethal weapons
- Keith Nolan: Deaf in the military
- LZ Granderson: The myth of the gay agenda
- Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world
- Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future
- Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China
- Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery
- Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object
- Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
- Eve Ensler: Suddenly, My Body
- Ananda Shankar Jayant fights cancer with dance
- Caroline Casey: Looking past limits
- Becky Blanton: The year I was homeless
- Helen Fisher tells us why we love + cheat
- Jane Fonda: Life's third act
- Julian Baggini - Is There A Real You?
- Jenna McCarthy: What you don't know about marriage
- Tan Le: My immigration story
- Jeff Kluger - The hidden power of siblings
- Larry Smith - Why you will fail to have a great career
- Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
- Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
- Paul Bloom: The origins of pleasure
- Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive
- Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy
- Billy Graham on technology and faith
- Rev. James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table
- Swami Dayananda Saraswati: The profound journey of compassion
- Imam Faisal Abdul Rauf: Lose your ego, find your compassion
- Rabbi Jackie Tabick: The balancing act of compassion
- Robert Wright: The evolution of compassion
- Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion
- Bob Thurman says we can be Buddhas
- Romulus Whitaker: The Real Danger Lurking in the Water
- Rachel Sussman: The World's Oldest Living Things
- Michael Pawlyn: Using Nature's Genius in Architecture
- Kartick Satyanarayan: How We Rescued the "Dancing" Bears
- Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the Ancient Material of the Future
- Dan Barber: How I Fell in Love with a Fish
- Cary Fowler: One Seed at a Time, Protecting the Future of Food
- Carl Safina: The Oil Spill's Unseen Culprits, Victims
- Anupam Mishra: The Ancient Ingenuity of Water Harvesting
- Simon Sinek: How Great Leaders Inspire Action
- Ryan Lobo: Photographing the Hidden Story
- Philip K. Howard: Four Ways to Fix a Broken Legal System
- Patrick Chappatte: The Power of Cartoons
- Parag Khanna Maps the Future of Countries
- Omar Ahmad: Political Change with Pen and Paper
- Nina Jablonski Breaks the Illusion of Skin Color
- Nicholas Christakis: How Social Networks Predict Epidemics
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Aid Versus Trade
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Want to help Africa? Do Business Here
- Mitchell Besser: Mothers Helping Mothers Fight HIV
- Liz Coleman's Call to Reinvent Liberal Arts Education
- Jonathan Klein: Photos That Changed the World
- Jacqueline Novogratz: A Third Way to Think About Aid
- Jacqueline Novogratz on Escaping Poverty
- Hans Rosling on HIV: New Facts and Stunning Data Visuals
- Euvin Naidoo on Investing in Africa
- Erik Hersman on Reporting Crisis Via Texting
- Annie Lennox: Why I Am an HIV/AIDS Activist
- Aimee Mullins: The Opportunity of Adversity
- Tom Shannon: The Painter and the Pendulum
- Sunitha Krishnan Fights Sex Slavery
- Corneille Ewango is a Hero of the Congo Forest
- James Cameron: Before Avatar ... A Curious Boy
- Shekhar Kapur: We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves
- Vik Muniz Makes Art With Wire, Sugar, Chocolate & String
- Raghava KK: Five Lives of an Artist
- William Kamkwamba on Building a Windmill
- Rick Smolan Tells the Story of a Girl
- Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge
- Michael Shermer on Strange Beliefs
- Stephen Hawking Asks Big Questions About the Universe
- George Smoot on the Design of the Universe
- Barry Schwartz on Our Loss of Wisdom
- Alain de Botton: A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success
- Richard Dawkins on Our "Queer" Universe
- Emily Levine's Theory of Everything
- Barry Schwartz on the Paradox of Choice
- Martin Seligman on Positive Psychology
- Daniel Goleman on Compassion
- Dan Gilbert Asks, Why Are We Happy?
- Al Seckel Says Our Brains Are Mis-wired
- Rob Forbes on Ways of Seeing
- Nancy Etcoff on the Surprising Science of Happiness
- Louise Leakey Digs for Humanity's Origins
- Wade Davis on the Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual
- Tom Honey on God and the Tsunami
- Rick Warren on a Life of Purpose
- Richard Dawkins on Militant Atheism
- Noah Feldman Says Politics and Religion are Technologies
- Matthieu Ricard on the Habits of Happiness
- Karen Armstrong on the Charter for Compassion
- Julia Sweeney on "Letting Go of God"
- Diane Benscoter on How Cults Rewire the Brain
- Dan Dennett's Response to Rick Warren
- Dan Dennett on Dangerous Memes
- Wade Davis on Endangered Cultures
- Tony Robbins Asks Why We Do What We Do
- Thomas Barnett Draws a New Map for Peace
- James Nachtwey's Searing Photos of War
- Sugata Mitra Shows How Kids Teach Themselves
- Steven Levitt Analyzes Crack Economics
- Samantha Power on a Complicated Hero
- Philip Zimbardo Shows How People Become Monsters or Heroes
- Paul Koontz Shares His Pix of North Korea
- Paul Collier on the "Bottom Billion"
- Patrick Awuah on Educating Leaders
- Nick Bostrom on Our Biggest Problems
- Negroponte Takes OLPC to Colombia
- Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop Per Child
- Newton Aduaka Tells the Story of Ezra
- Neil Turok: Physicist, Education Activist
- Michael Milken on Activism
- Maira Kalman, the Illustrated Woman
- Lee Smolin on Science and Democracy
- Larry Brilliant Wants to Stop Pandemics
- Kristen Ashburn's Photos of AIDS
- John Francis Walks the Earth
- John Doerr Sees Salvation and Profit in Greentech
- Jennifer 8. Lee hunts for General Tso
- Jehane Noujaim on a Global Day of Film
- Jeff Skoll Makes Movies That Matter
- Jeff Bezos on the Next Web Innovation
- Jay Walker's Library of Human Imagination
- Jared Diamond on Why Societies Collapse
- James Watson on How He Discovered DNA
- James Surowiecki on the Turning Point for Social Media
- Jacqueline Novogratz on Patient Capitalism
- Jacqueline Novogratz Invests in Ending Poverty
- Isabel Allende Tells Tales of Passion
- Howard Rheingold on Collaboration
- Hod Lipson Builds "Self-Aware" Robots
- Hans Rosling's New Insights on Poverty
- Hans Rosling Shows the Best Stats You've Ever Seen
- Gregory Petsko on the Coming Neurological Epidemic
- George Ayittey on Cheetahs vs. Hippos
- Frank Gehry Asks "Then What?"
- Franco Sacchi Tours Nigeria's Booming Nollywood
- Eve Ensler: Happiness in Body and Soul
- Eva Vertes looks to the future of medicine
- Emily Oster Flips Our Thinking on AIDS in Africa
- Edward Burtynsky on Manufactured Landscapes
- Doris Kearns Goodwin on Learning from Past Presidents
- Dean Kamen Previews a New Prosthetic Arm
- David Holt: Folk Musician
- David Griffin on How Photography Connects Us
- Dave Eggers' Wish: Once Upon a School
- Chris Jordan Pictures Some Shocking Stats
- Cameron Sinclair on Open-Source Architecture
- Brewster Kahle Builds a Free Digital Library
- Bono's Call to Action for Africa
- Bjorn Lomborg Sets Global Priorities
- Bill Strickland Makes Change with a Slide Show
- Bill Gates Unplugged
- Bill Clinton on Rebuilding Rwanda
- Ben Dunlap Talks About a Passionate Life
- Alisa Miller Shares the News about the News
- A.J. Jacobs' Year of Living Biblically
- Aimee Mullins and Her 12 Pairs of Legs
- Adam Grosser and His Sustainable Fridge
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