Reading TED

thomas p. campbell: weaving narratives in museum galleries ^R 8.503
liz diller plays with architecture ^R 8.505
nandan nilekani's ideas for india's future ^R 8.506
daniel kraft: medicine's future? there's an app for that ^R 8.509
lee hotz: inside an antarctic time machine ^R 8.510
dalia mogahed: the attitudes that sparked arab spring ^R 8.515
amory lovins on winning the oil endgame ^R 8.517
shereen el feki a little-told tale of sex and sensuality ^R 8.517
ramesh raskar: imaging at a trillion frames per second ^R 8.520
andreas schleicher: use data to build better schools ^R 8.523
antónio guterres refugees have the right to be protected ^R 8.529
robert palmer the panama papers exposed a huge global problem. what's next ^R 8.530
andrew mcafee: what will future jobs look like? ^R 8.547
what young women believe about their own sexual pleasure ^R 8.548
bill gross on new energy ^R 8.561
keren elazari hackers the internet's immune system ^R 8.570
suzana herculano-houzel what is so special about the human brain ^R 8.570
peter attia what if we re wrong about diabetes ^R 8.580
it's time to reclaim religion ^R 8.580
how racism harms pregnant women—and what can help ^R 8.582
alison killing there's a better way to die, and architecture can help ^R 8.583
shawn achor: the happy secret to better work ^R 8.584
steven pinker and rebecca newberger goldstein the long reach of reason ^R 8.590
sarah lewis embrace the near win ^R 8.594
steven johnson: where good ideas come from ^R 8.600
nalini nadkarni: life science in prison ^R 8.608
will potter the shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest ^R 8.608
anne-marie slaughter can we all have it all ^R 8.612
adam ostrow: after your final status update ^R 8.621
allan adams the discovery that could rewrite physics ^R 8.627
heather barnett what humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime ^R 8.628
fabien cousteau: what i learned from spending 31 days underwater ^R 8.632
robert gupta: music is medicine, music is sanity ^R 8.632
lorrie faith cranor: what's wrong with your pa$$w0rd? ^R 8.637
charles leadbeater: the era of open innovation ^R 8.639
stephen friend the hunt for unexpected genetic heroes ^R 8.639
leyla acaroglu paper beats plastic how to rethink environmental folklore ^R 8.643
rachel botsman: the case for collaborative consumption ^R 8.651
sunni brown ^R 8.652
ben ambridge: 10 myths about psychology, debunked ^R 8.656
beeban kidron: the shared wonder of film ^R 8.657
laura indolfi good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer ^R 8.658
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 8.673
jay bradner: open-source cancer research ^R 8.677
george monbiot for more wonder rewild the world ^R 8.680
homaro cantu ben roche cooking as alchemy ^R 8.682
scott fraser: why eyewitnesses get it wrong ^R 8.682
natalie jeremijenko: the art of the eco-mindshift ^R 8.689
christopher deam restyles the airstream ^R 8.699
jeremy howard: the wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn ^R 8.699
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 8.700
christopher emdin teach teachers how to create magic ^R 8.704
matt killingsworth: want to be happier? stay in the moment ^R 8.704
laura boushnak: for these women, reading is a daring act ^R 8.706
richard dawkins: militant atheism ^R 8.706
enrique peñalosa why buses represent democracy in action ^R 8.707
uri alon why truly innovative science demands a leap into the unknown ^R 8.711
christopher soghoian how to avoid surveillance ... with the phone in your pocket ^R 8.717
ben dunlap: the life-long learner ^R 8.721
parag khanna how megacities are changing the map of the world ^R 8.721
vanessa ruiz the spellbinding art of human anatomy ^R 8.724
martin hanczyc: the line between life and not-life ^R 8.727
cesar kuriyama: one second every day ^R 8.728
kimberley motley: how i defend the rule of law ^R 8.732
maria bezaitis: the surprising need for strangeness ^R 8.732
michael merzenich: growing evidence of brain plasticity ^R 8.732
paul ewald asks, can we domesticate germs? ^R 8.736
abe davis new video technology that reveals an object's hidden properties ^R 8.738
naomi klein: addicted to risk ^R 8.740
thom mayne on architecture as connection ^R 8.740
jessica green: we're covered in germs. let's design for that. ^R 8.747
alastair parvin: architecture for the people by the people ^R 8.748
wes moore how to talk to veterans about the war ^R 8.748
anne milgram why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime ^R 8.753
tim brown urges designers to think big ^R 8.761
jessica ladd the reporting system that sexual assault survivors want ^R 8.762
dianna cohen: tough truths about plastic pollution ^R 8.766
wade davis: the worldwide web of belief and ritual ^R 8.788
what it's like to be a parent in a war zone ^R 8.801
paul debevec animates a photo-real digital face ^R 8.802
zeynep tufekci: online social change: easy to organize, hard to win ^R 8.812
michael metcalfe a provocative way to finance the fight against climate change ^R 8.815
deborah rhodes: a tool that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it's not available to you ^R 8.816
damian palin: mining minerals from seawater ^R 8.817
nick hanauer beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming ^R 8.821
evgeny morozov: how the net aids dictatorships ^R 8.824
the world doesn't need more nuclear weapons ^R 8.825
david binder: the arts festival revolution ^R 8.831
edward tenner unintended consequences ^R 8.834
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 8.851
sangu delle: in praise of macro—yes, macro—finance in africa ^R 8.854
jedidah isler how i fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe ^R 8.859
margaret gould stewart how giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too) ^R 8.865
mae jemison on teaching arts and sciences together ^R 8.866
majora carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship ^R 8.867
sanford biggers an artist's unflinching look at racial violence ^R 8.871
paul tudor jones ii why we need to rethink capitalism ^R 8.876
emily pilloton: teaching design for change ^R 8.885
brian skerry reveals ocean's glory—and horror ^R 8.887
sean follmer shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it ^R 8.892
jamie drummond: let's crowdsource the world's goals ^R 8.896
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 8.900
daphne koller: what we're learning from online education ^R 8.901
how to take a picture of a black hole ^R 8.903
francis de los reyes: sanitation is a basic human right ^R 8.927
lee smolin on science and democracy ^R 8.933
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 8.937
alice dreger: is anatomy destiny? ^R 8.943
richard dawkins: why the universe seems so strange ^R 8.943
annette heuser the 3 agencies with the power to make or break economies ^R 8.944
christopher soghoian government surveillance—this is just the beginning ^R 8.949
bran ferren to create for the ages, let's combine art and engineering ^R 8.953
dan pallotta: the way we think about charity is dead wrong ^R 8.953
edith widder: glowing life in an underwater world ^R 8.957
ron gutman the hidden power of smiling ^R 8.966
rishi manchanda what makes us get sick look upstream. ^R 8.968
hannah fry: the mathematics of love ^R 8.971
krista tippett: reconnecting with compassion ^R 8.976
gail reed: where to train the world's doctors? cuba. ^R 8.982
the playful wonderland behind great inventions ^R 8.982
alexander betts our refugee system is failing. here's how we can fix it ^R 8.993
alice bows-larkin climate change is happening. here's how we adapt ^R 8.993
william li: can we eat to starve cancer? ^R 8.996
andrew mcafee: are droids taking our jobs? ^R 8.997
richard baraniuk on open-source learning ^R 9.009
ken goldberg: 4 lessons from robots about being human ^R 9.021
sebastian deterding: what your designs say about you ^R 9.028
taryn simon photographs secret sites ^R 9.030
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.037
sue austin: deep sea diving ... in a wheelchair ^R 9.041
angelo vermeulen: how to go to space, without having to go to space ^R 9.043
auke ijspeert a robot that runs and swims like a salamander ^R 9.044
carin bondar the birds and the bees are just the beginning ^R 9.051
martin reeves how to build a business that lasts 100 years ^R 9.053
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.056
jacqueline novogratz on patient capitalism ^R 9.063
laurel braitman: depressed dogs, cats with ocd—what animal madness means for us humans ^R 9.063
sonaar luthra: meet the water canary ^R 9.067
why glass towers are bad for city life—and what we need instead ^R 9.093
paul bloom can prejudice ever be a good thing ^R 9.103
peter gabriel fights injustice with video ^R 9.107
joi ito: want to innovate? become a "now-ist" ^R 9.108
joseph desimone: what if 3d printing was 100x faster? ^R 9.111
jonathan eisen: meet your microbes ^R 9.114
should we simplify spelling? ^R 9.120
how to get better at the things you care about ^R 9.125
geoff mulgan: a short intro to the studio school ^R 9.125
george papandreou: imagine a european democracy without borders ^R 9.129
brian greene: is our universe the only universe? ^R 9.130
jd schramm: break the silence for suicide attempt survivors ^R 9.130
mary robinson why climate change is a threat to human rights ^R 9.143
chris bliss: comedy is translation ^R 9.167
didier sornette how we can predict the next financial crisis ^R 9.168
harry cliff have we reached the end of physics ^R 9.174
trevor aaronson how this fbi strategy is actually creating us-based terrorists ^R 9.191
nick bostrom what happens when our computers get smarter than we are ^R 9.194
paddy ashdown: the global power shift ^R 9.199
annie murphy paul: what we learn before we're born ^R 9.215
joi ito want to innovate become a now-ist ^R 9.223
aimee mullins: the opportunity of adversity ^R 9.225
nadine burke harris: how childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime ^R 9.228
james nachtwey: my photographs bear witness ^R 9.238
miguel nicolelis: a monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. no, really. ^R 9.248
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.255
michael bodekaer this virtual lab will revolutionize science class ^R 9.262
how we can find ourselves in data ^R 9.276
ameenah gurib-fakim: humble plants that hide surprising secrets ^R 9.286
wade davis: gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving ^R 9.292
asha de vos: why you should care about whale poo ^R 9.294
garth lenz: the true cost of oil ^R 9.295
ziyah gafic everyday objects, tragic histories ^R 9.303
nina tandon: could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine? ^R 9.313
clint smith how to raise a black son in america ^R 9.314
mihaly csikszentmihalyi: flow, the secret to happiness ^R 9.316
bruce aylward: humanity vs. ebola. how we could win a terrifying war ^R 9.341
saki mafundikwa ingenuity and elegance in ancient african alphabets ^R 9.342
yochai benkler on the new open-source economics ^R 9.342
kenneth shinozuka: my simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe ^R 9.343
johanna blakley: social media and the end of gender ^R 9.346
how we talk about sexual assault online ^R 9.351
avi rubin: all your devices can be hacked ^R 9.352
jon mooallem how the teddy bear taught us compassion ^R 9.355
david bolinsky: visualizing the wonder of a living cell ^R 9.357
paul conneally: digital humanitarianism ^R 9.362
rachel botsman: the currency of the new economy is trust ^R 9.393
tyrone hayes + penelope jagessar chaffer: the toxic baby? ^R 9.410
cesar harada: a novel idea for cleaning up oil spills ^R 9.428
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.428
anna mracek dietrich: a plane you can drive ^R 9.432
norman foster's green agenda ^R 9.436
a sense of humor about afghanistan? artist aman mojadidi shows how ^R 9.437
bassam tariq: the beauty and diversity of muslim life ^R 9.449
frederick balagadde: bio-lab on a microchip ^R 9.449
anand varma the first 21 days of a bee's life ^R 9.451
jinha lee a tool that lets you touch pixels ^R 9.458
yanis varoufakis capitalism will eat democracy—unless we speak up ^R 9.460
alessandra orofino: it's our city. let's fix it ^R 9.463
shimon schocken: the self-organizing computer course ^R 9.463
two young scientists break down plastics with bacteria ^R 9.465
andy yen: think your email's private? think again ^R 9.473
imam faisal abdul rauf: lose your ego, find your compassion ^R 9.474
trevor timm how free is our freedom of the press ^R 9.483
denis dutton: a darwinian theory of beauty ^R 9.486
david cameron: the next age of government ^R 9.491
miguel nicolelis: brain-to-brain communication has arrived. how we did it ^R 9.492
gr¨¦goire courtine the paralyzed rat that walked ^R 9.497
jae rhim lee: my mushroom burial suit ^R 9.506
chrystia freeland the rise of the new global super rich ^R 9.517
how the blockchain will radically transform the economy ^R 9.540
dan barasch a park underneath the hustle and bustle of new york city ^R 9.547
david pizarro: the strange politics of disgust ^R 9.554
neil burgess: how your brain tells you where you are ^R 9.557
jacqueline novogratz: a third way to think about aid ^R 9.560
roselinde torres what it takes to be a great leader ^R 9.580
ethan nadelmann: why we need to end the war on drugs ^R 9.596
sheila nirenberg: a prosthetic eye to treat blindness ^R 9.609
catherine bracy why good hackers make good citizens ^R 9.616
ed gavagan: a story about knots and surgeons ^R 9.625
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.630
christiana figueres the inside story of the paris climate agreement ^R 9.632
lucianne walkowicz let's not use mars as a backup planet ^R 9.633
genevieve von petzinger why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over europe ^R 9.649
hector ruiz on connecting the world ^R 9.653
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.654
taryn simon: the stories behind the bloodlines ^R 9.656
pankaj ghemawat: actually, the world isn't flat ^R 9.658
jared diamond on why societies collapse ^R 9.671
bernie krause the voice of the natural world ^R 9.673
lisa nip how humans could evolve to survive in space ^R 9.679
mustafa akyol: faith versus tradition in islam ^R 9.688
david anderson: your brain is more than a bag of chemicals ^R 9.694
nicholas christakis: how social networks predict epidemics ^R 9.710
a.j. jacobs how healthy living nearly killed me ^R 9.741
jessica green: are we filtering the wrong microbes? ^R 9.747
svante pääbo: dna clues to our inner neanderthal ^R 9.751
why brexit happened—and what to do next ^R 9.755
gian giudice why our universe might exist on a knife-edge ^R 9.755
ray kurzweil: the accelerating power of technology ^R 9.762
how racism makes us sick ^R 9.767
gregory heyworth how i'm discovering the secrets of ancient texts ^R 9.768
christina warinner: tracking ancient diseases using ... plaque ^R 9.792
susan lim: transplant cells, not organs ^R 9.792
dorothy roberts the problem with race-based medicine ^R 9.802
susan etlinger: what do we do with all this big data? ^R 9.802
how (and why) russia hacked the us election ^R 9.815
steven pinker: the surprising decline in violence ^R 9.816
michael mcdaniel: cheap, effective shelter for disaster relief ^R 9.821
jennifer golbeck the curly fry conundrum why social media ¡°likes¡± say more than you might think ^R 9.822
danny hillis: the internet could crash. we need a plan b ^R 9.825
shyam sankar: the rise of human-computer cooperation ^R 9.827
science in service to the public good ^R 9.834
alexander tsiaras: conception to birth—visualized ^R 9.838
a temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home ^R 9.846
nathan wolfe: what's left to explore? ^R 9.853
zahra' langhi: why libya's revolution didn't work—and what might ^R 9.873
amory lovins: a 40-year plan for energy ^R 9.885
laura snyder: the philosophical breakfast club ^R 9.895
rob knight: how our microbes make us who we are ^R 9.898
thomas insel: toward a new understanding of mental illness ^R 9.899
a young scientist's quest for clean water ^R 9.925
david sengeh the sore problem of prosthetic limbs ^R 9.927
why some people are more altruistic than others ^R 9.929
mariana mazzucato government—investor, risk-taker, innovator ^R 9.930
paola antonelli treats design as art ^R 9.937
navi radjou: creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits ^R 9.938
britta riley: a garden in my apartment ^R 9.962
craig venter unveils "synthetic life" ^R 9.966
rory sutherland: sweat the small stuff ^R 9.966
dave troy: social maps that reveal a city's intersections—and separations ^R 9.970
catarina mota: play with smart materials ^R 9.972
kristina gjerde: making law on the high seas ^R 9.995
mariano sigman your words may predict your future mental health ^R 9.996