Derek Sivers: Weird, or Just Different?
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Derek Sivers shows opposite truths from opposites all over the world.
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David Merrill: David Merrill Demos Siftables
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)David Merrill shows how his Siftables can be an interactive entertainment and learning medium for all ages.
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Marc Pachter: The Art of the Interview
January 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Marc Pachter tells us about the art of the interview. He talks about his project, The Living Self-Portrait Series and recalls his most interesting interviews with very important people. He also emphasizes the good points to a successful interview.
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Stefan Wolff: Stefan Wolff: The Path to Ending Ethnic Conflicts
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Political scientist Stefan Wolff talks about why civil wars and ethnic conflicts happen-- and what it would take to stop them.
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Richard Preston: The Giant Trees
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)In this talk, Writer Richard Preston tells us about Giant Trees. He talks to us about the Redwood, Sequoia sempervirens, the tallest living organisms on earth. He also says that these trees are like individual living ecosystems that we still have very limited knowledge about.
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Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Sophal Ear shares how his mother's determination helped their family escape from Cambodia which was, at the time, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge.
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Miles Massey: Love Is Good
March 24, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Divorce Attorney Miles Massey, played by George Clooney in the 2003 film 'Intolerable Cruelty' gives a speech to his colleagues on the topic of love. The audience - initially skeptical - ultimately embraces his words.
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Thomas Jefferson: Address to Brother Handsome Lake
November 3, 1802 (over 221 years ago)President Thomas Jefferson responds to a request from Native American Indian leader Brother Lake that Jefferson intervene to stop the sale of alcohol to his people as alcoholism grows. Jefferson takes the opportunity to reiterate the United States' desire to buy land if the Indians desire to sell.
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Barack Obama: Senator Obama 2005 Knox Commencement Address
June 4, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Barack Obama inspires the Knox College class of 2005 to pluck the courage to do great things by anchoring their dreams to the dream of the whole American nation and spread their success not just to Americans but also to the whole world.
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Olafur Eliasson: Playing with Space and Light
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Olafur Eliasson shares his views on using art as a way to experience the world around us, not just merely "seeing" it. He explains that this then evokes a sense of responsibility and involvement which has incredible relevance, especially in the present times.
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Clay Shirky: How Social Media Can Make History
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Clay Shirky shows how the internet and social networks can change the way people interact and perceive the things around them to help create a better world.
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Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
March 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)In this fascinating talk, Biospherian Jane Poynter tells us about Life in Biosphere 2. She gives a background of it's history, how it was made. She also defines what a biosphere is and the questions it would be able to answer. She describes one of the major problems they had in Biosphere 2 as wel...
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Thomas Jefferson: Special Message to Congress on the Gun Boats
February 10, 1807 (about 217 years ago)President Thomas Jefferson makes the argument to Congress for the requisition of up to 200 gun boats for the defense of the Nations coastal cities and towns.
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Malcolm X: Interview with Milton Henry
January 1, 1964 (over 60 years ago)In this interview, Malcolm X discusses the OAAU's OAU Memorandum which he presented in the conference at Cairo before the independent African States. He expresses a positive opinion that the first steps towards internationalizing the American Negro's plight has been successful.
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Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Nic Marks shows how people should strive to be happy at the same time keeping the planet happy by preserving and conserving resources for the sake of the future.
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David Blaine: How I Held My Breath For 17 Minutes
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)David Blaine's preparation behind his 17-minute breath-holding stunt could not have been at all a magical experience but was very inspiring and motivating.
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Charles Fleischer: Charles Fleischer Insists: All Things are Moleeds
March 1, 2005 (about 19 years ago)In this speech, which will absolutely leave you in stitches, Fleischer rants on how he spent 27 years of his life on his epic theory on Moleeds.
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Thomas Jefferson: Proclamation in Response to the Chesapeake Affair
July 2, 1807 (almost 217 years ago)In the wake of the British's attack on the frigate Chesapeake, President Thomas Jefferson issues a proclamation barring British vessels from the United States' waters.
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Sylvia Earle: Sylvia Earle's TED Prize Wish to Protect our Oceans
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Slyvia Earle shares her wish of protecting the ocean and its inhabitants. She appeals to the audience with beautiful images and shocking statistics regarding the world's seas' rapid decline.
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Johanna Blakley: Lessons From Fashion's Free Culture
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Johanna Blakley explains why the fashion industry and a handfull of other industries do not have restrictive intellectual property rights protection and how the industry flourishes as a result.
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Jamie Heywood: The Big Idea My Brother Inspired
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, Jamie Heywood presents his brother's story in relation to their company, patients like me. It's a very data intensive website that helps patients find other people who have the same illnesses. It provides a lot of incredible information and lets you really know about your disease an...
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Neil Gershenfeld: Fab Labs
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Neil Gershenfeld invests on a large amount of equipment and opens Fab Labs to give hands-on educational experience to students and aspiring scientists.
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Al Gore: Averting Climate Crisis
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Former US Vice President Al Gore talks a bit about his life and how homes can start helping out the movement to resolve thge world's climate crisis.
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Steve Truglia: A Leap from the Edge of Space
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this interesting talk, Stuntman Steve Truglia tells us about a leap from the edge of space. He begins by showing us some of the famous stuntmen through history with their heroic stunts. He then shows us how moderen technology has aided the stunts industry. finally, he talks about the stunt he ...
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Steven Strogatz: Sync
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Steven Strogatz shows how living and non-living things could naturally move into synchrony almost defying the law of entropy.
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Martin Rees: Is This our Final Century?
July 2, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Martin Rees talks about how science has encompassed the big, the unknown and even the finite time of our planet.
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Julia Sweeney: Letting Go of God
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Julia Sweeney talks about her religious upbringing and her beliefs and non-beliefs that sprung later on.
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George Washington: Proclamation of Neutrality
April 22, 1793 (about 231 years ago)President George Washington declares the United States policy of neutrality as regards a state of war in Europe and threatens punishment to any citizen whose actions may threaten the US's intended impartiality.
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Maira Kalman: The Illustrated Woman
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)In this talk, illustrator Maira Kalman tells us about her work and her life. Her talk is like a tour of the creative side of the brain with lots of random thoughts floating around.
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Enric Sala: Glimpses of a Pristine Ocean
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Enric Sala shows the pristine oceans we used to have and the oceans we have now that we must save.
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Jeff Hawkins: How Brain Science Will Change Computing
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)In this talk, Jeff Hawkins talks to us about the human brain. He states that we have a lot of data about the brain but we still don't understand it. He also defines intelligence and how this brain research will result in advanced fundamental technology for the future.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: I See the Promised Land (I've Been to the Mountaintop)
April 3, 1968 (about 56 years ago)Martin Luther King's last speech popularly known as "I See the Promised Land" or "I've Been to the Mountaintop" is an inspirational public speech that focuses on peaceful revolution and the inevitability of Negro freedom even without his presence.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Drum Major Instinct
February 4, 1968 (about 56 years ago)The sermon about the Drum Major Instinct tells the people to harness the egoistic side of the human personality and live instead a life of humility and of service to others.
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Cameron Sinclair: The Refugees of Boom-and-Bust
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Cameron Sinclair shows how refugee workers are being mistreated to work on construction away from their homeland.
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Dean Kamen: On Inventing and Giving
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)In this talk, inventor Dean Kamen presents the Segway. He argues it's use in cities and the advantages it has over other transpostation devices. He also gives a short introduction on the Stirling Cycle engine that they've been developing.
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Shimon Schocken: Rides of Hope
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Shimon Schocken shares his riding team's experiences, which enlightened each member in unique ways.
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Curtis Wong: Roy Gould and Curtis Wong Preview the WorldWide Telescope
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Curtis Wong is the Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research, and he appears in this brief video with astrophysics researcher Roy Gould to introduce Microsoft's Worldwide Telescope to the TED audience.
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Julian Assange: Why the World Needs Wikileaks
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)In this interview, Julian Assange provides a background of his controversial website WikiLeaks. He also gave some insights about himself and basically explained the purpose and goal of WikiLeaks.
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James Monroe: Seventh Annual Message (The Monroe Doctrine)
December 2, 1823 (over 200 years ago)In this famous speech, President Monroe outlines what has become known as the Monroe Doctrine - giving warning that any further attempts at colonization in the Western Hemisphere would be considered a threat to the United States. Monroe further provides a thorough review of the 'precise knowledg...
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Katherine Fulton: You are the Future of Philanthropy
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Katherine Fulton helps to re-define philanthropy and adds in a bit of her own meaning to the traditional perspective.
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Barack Obama: Address to Congress on Health Insurance Reform
September 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)US President Barack Obama lays out the scope, goals, limitations and benefits of the Health Insurance Reform that he is planning to implement in order to alleviate the economy crisis.
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Maz Jobrani: Did You Hear the One About the Iranian-American?
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Maz Jobrani makes the crowd laugh with his witty jokes and subtle yet stirring message about equality and stereotyping.
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Michael Moschen: Michael Moschen Juggles Rhythm and Motion
March 1, 2002 (about 22 years ago)Michael Moschen awes the audience with his creative explorations on lines, space, shapes, and rhythms through his juggling expertise.
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Ory Okolloh: Becoming an Activist
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Ory Okolloh shares her life to instill in the minds of the audience that Africa is not just a poor country but a country with people who are striving to make a change.
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Natalie Jeremijenko: The Art of the Eco-Mindshift
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Natalie Jeremijenko shows simple yet attention-grabbing ways of changing your mindset into a more environment-friendly perspective.
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James Madison: Proclamation of a State of War with Great Britain
June 19, 1812 (almost 212 years ago)President James Madison's declaration of war against Great Britain; in it he calls upon all citizens to join the cause...
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Michael Specter: The Danger of Science Denial
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Michael Specter talks about how the fear of science and scientific data can damage the bright future that lays ahead of us.
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Charles Leadbeater: Innovation
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Charles Leadbeater inroduces a way of making big success and savings by using consumers as co-developers in a company.
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Jason Fried: Why Work Doesn't Happen at Work
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Jason Fried talks about a couple of distractions in the workplace that can greatly affect the amount of work done by office employees.
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Yochai Benkler: The New Open-Source Economics
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Yochai Benkler shares the benefits of having open-source systems as a means for lower costs and more efficient outcomes.
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Sarah Jones: One-Woman Global Village
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Sarah Jones introduces people in her life through her superb storytelling and mimicry.
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Beau Lotto: Optical Illusions Show How We See
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Through a series of experiments, Beau Lotto provides the audience with insights into how the brain finds patterns and ultimately allows us to "see".
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Stewart Brand: Squatter Cities
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)Stewart Brand shows why people are moving towards the squatter cities as they move out of poverty because of technology.
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Scott McCloud: Comics
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Scott McCloud talks about his childhood and his career as a cartoonist, as well as the power of the medium.
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Willie Smits: Willie Smits Restores a Rainforest
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Willie Smits talks about the restoration of environmental resources using step by step procedures that include the local people that eventually leads to increased environmental awareness and economic growth.
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Gary Flake: Gary Flake: is Pivot a Turning Point for Web Exploration?
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Flake tells the audience how Pivot could bring a revolution in web browsing by giving a wider array of options to the user.
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Barack Obama: American Graduation Initiative Address
July 14, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)President Barack Obama launches the American Graduation Initiative which will aid graduates in securing competitive jobs that will jumpstart their career right after graduation.
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Matthieu Ricard: The Habits of Happiness
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Matthieu Ricard talks about how meditation and mind transformation could bring us to that state of happiness or well-being we all so often wish for.
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Shekhar Kapur: We Are the Stories We Tell Ourselves
November 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this talk, director Shekhar Kapur tells us about storytelling. He describes his creative process and identifies how and why we are the stories that we tell.
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Gero Miesenboeck: Gero Miesenboeck Reengineers a Brain
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Gero Miesenboeck shows how the brain can be optically re-engineered and re-wired through experiments on flies.
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Rachel Pike: The Science Behind a Climate Headline
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this quick talk, scientist Rachel Pike tells us about the effort behind a Climate headline. She shows us the work being done in order for us to get accurate and current data on our climate. She gives as an example a molecule that they tracked over in Malaysia.
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Johan Rockstrom: Let the Environment Guide Our Development
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Johan Rockstrom shows the planet's boundaries and the areas where we need to start protecting and preserving in order to facilitate sustainable development.
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William Kamkwamba: Building a Windmill
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)In this talk, inventor William Kamkwamba from Malawi is being interviewed at TED for the first time. He tells us about the windmill that he made and how he did it.
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Hans Rosling: The Good News of the Decade?
September 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Hans Rosling talks about child mortality with the use of animated data.
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Sherwin Nuland: On Electroshock Therapy
February 1, 2001 (over 23 years ago)In this talk, Doctor and Author Sherwin Nuland discusses Electroshock Therapy. He tells us how it can treat depression. He recounts a personal story and provides inspiration on how he recovered from severe depression using this treatment. It's about losing everything and getting a second chance ...
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Eric Berlow: How Complexity Leads to Simplicity
July 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Simplicity can always be derived from complexity when viewed in a larger scale as presented by Eric Berlow.
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John La Grou: John La Grou Plugs Smart Power Outlets
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)John La Grou unveils their latest invention of intelligent plugs and electricity outlets that will not just save electricity but also save lives.
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James Geary: Metaphorically Speaking
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)James Geary stresses the importance of recognizing, understanding and appreciating metaphors in everyday life.
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Joshua Klein: On the Intelligence of Crows
March 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)In this talk, Hacker Joshua Klein tells us about crows. He provides examples on the intelligence of crows and how they are thriving on human communities. He urges us to find ways wherein we develop new ways to find a balance with those species living in our immediate environment.
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Jaime Lerner: Jaime Lerner Sings of the City
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Jaime Lerner talks about how a city could be transformed and put back together to help the environmemt through his wit and his voice.
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Birke Baehr: What's Wrong with our Food System
August 1, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Young food activist Birke Baehr details problems in our farming system and outlines solutions; 'we either pay the farmer or we can pay the hospital.'
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Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button Got His Face
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Ed Ulbrich shows how the head of Benjamin Button is genuinely Brad Pitt in the digital sense.
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John Maeda: John Maeda on his Journey in Design
May 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)John Maeda shows how he develops his designs and all the influences that impacted them throughout his artistic and technological journey.
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Abraham Lincoln: Gettysburg Address
November 19, 1863 (over 160 years ago)In Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, He gives us one of the most famous speeches in American history. In just three short paragraphs, the President reintroduces the Civil war as a universal struggle for equality and freedom. As such, this speech has served as immense inspiration to the United...
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Andrew Jackson: Proclamation Regarding the Opening of United States Ports to British Vessels
December 5, 1830 (over 193 years ago)President Andrew Jackson announces a joint agreement between Britain and the United States to allow commerce between the two nation's territories without added fees or tariffs.
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Stefan Sagmeister: The Power of Time Off
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Stefan Sagmeister shares how important it is to spend some time away from work to rejuvenate oneself for better output.
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Esther Duflo: Social Experiments to Fight Poverty
February 1, 2010 (over 14 years ago)Esther Duflo's talk on social experiements to fight poverty is all about how education and the power of persuasion can get the third world countries to believe in prevention rather than in cure.
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Thomas Jefferson: Special Message to Congress on Foreign Policy
December 6, 1805 (over 218 years ago)In a special message to Congress, President Thomas Jefferson speaks to foreign affairs with France and Spain, including deliberations over reparations to be paid to citizens of the United States whose property was taken agains their will, as well as the delineation of the boundaries of Lousiana.
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Joachim de Posada: Don't Eat the Marshmallow Yet
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)The marshmallow test, as replicated and explained by Joachim de Posada, shows that delayed gratification is one of the stepping stones to being successful.
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Ray Kurzweil: On how Technology will Transform Us
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)In this talk, Futurist Ray Kurzweil tells us about the coming technological advancements. He then provides detailed descriptions of these sci-fi sounding investions and gadgets. He also explains the exponential type of growth that technology is experiencing and predicts timelines on when these wi...
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David Deutsch: A New Way to Explain Explanation
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)David Deutsch explains the variability of bad explanations and urges the audience to belive in hard-to-vary explanations before believing it to be the truth.
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Roy Gould: Preview the WorldWide Telescope
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Roy Gould introducess a new way of learning and appreciating our place in the entire universe through the use of Microsoft's WorldWide Telescope.
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Mahatma Gandhi: Quit India (Part 2 of 3)
August 8, 1942 (over 81 years ago)In this call for unity among the different sects and social groups in India, Gandhi unburdens his emotions to fully express his desire to achieve freedom for everyone.
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Carne Ross: An Independent Diplomat
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Carne Ross talks about his work being an independent diplomat and his founding of the Independent Diplomats.
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Milton Glaser: Using Design to Make Ideas New
February 1, 1998 (over 26 years ago)Milton Glaser's creative mind is revealed to the audience during his talk on how he generates new ideas for his art.
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Arthur Benjamin: Formula for Changing Math Education
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Arthur Benjamin believes that the practicality of statistics should be the pinnacle of the study of mathematics rather than calculus.
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David Bolinsky: Animating a Cell
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)David Bolinsky animates the cells in the human body to give Harvard students a mental visual anchor to their scientific explorations.
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David Pogue: Simplicity Sells
February 1, 2006 (over 18 years ago)In this thoroughly entertaining talk/song medley, Tech Columnist David Pogue brings the message that Simplicity Sells. He gives examples of both good and bad product designs and encourages both consumers and designers to do it right and choose intelligent design.
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John Lloyd: John Lloyd Inventories the Invisible
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)John Lloyd shows all that is invisible to the eye, known to the mind and leaves a question on the purpose of our existence.
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John Quincy Adams: Speech to the U.S. House of Representatives on Foreign Policy
July 4, 1821 (almost 203 years ago)In this speech, delivered while Secretary of State, John Quincy Adams celebrates America's best attributes on its Independence Day and paints a picture of a country whose foreign policy will not involve aggression, but will push only to further peace and independence in countries around the world.
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Marisa Fick-Jordan: Marisa Fick-Jordan Shares the Wonder of Zulu Wire Art
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)In this speech, Fick-Jordan tells us how veering toward the contemporary side of art helped weavers from an African community.
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Robert Thurman: Expanding Your Circle of Compassion
October 1, 2009 (over 14 years ago)In this compelling talk, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman tells us about expanding our circle of compassion. He tells us a story defining what compassion is and how it's a universal topic. He gives us the sevenfold method for developing compassion and these really give you something to think about...
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Pamelia Kurstin: Pamelia Kurstin Plays the Theremin
February 1, 2002 (over 22 years ago)In this performance, musician Pamelia Kurstin makes haunting music with the Theremin. She shows us how to play it and tells us a little history about this interesting musical instrument. She also describes how it is to play the Theremin and what kind of music it makes.
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Greg Lynn: Calculus in Architecture
February 1, 2005 (over 19 years ago)Greg Lynn shows the immense contribution of calculus to the architectural design industry.
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Barack Obama: President-Elect Barack Obama in Chicago
November 4, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Barack Obama dedicates his victory to the American people and firmly believes that indeed in America all things are possible.
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Jacqueline Novogratz: A Third Way to Think About Aid
June 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this talk, Philanthropist Jacqueline Novogratz tells us about another way of thinking about Aid. There has been debate over whether aid does more harm than good and Jacqueline Novogratz proposes an option that uses Patient Capital. She explains what Patient Capital is, what it can do and provi...
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Liz Coleman: Call to Reinvent Liberal Arts Education
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Liz Coleman talks about how students are losing touch with the human heart as technology requires the neutrality and the unbiased thinking for technical mastery.
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Greg Stone: Saving the Ocean One Island at a Time
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Greg Stone talks about taking care of the ocean from the beds to the shore starting with the Phoenix Islands.
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Jacqueline Novogratz: On Escaping Poverty
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this talk, Philanthropist Jacqueline Novogratz tells us a story about escaping poverty. First she defines it not just in dollar terms and she gives us an account of Jane's story which provides a new light to the meaning of poverty.
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Steve Jurvetson: Model Rocketry
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Steve Jurvetson shares his passion for rockets and photography that he hopes somehow will inspire the young generation to be interedted in math and science.
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