TED Talks

  1. Cameron Russell: Top 10 Facts You Need to Know

    Beauty, brains — and a talent for making headlines.

    February 19, 2013
  2. TED Talks: How To Buy Happiness

    Michael Norton shares fascinating research on how money can, indeed buy happiness — when you don’t spend it on yourself. Listen for surprising data on the many ways pro-social spe…

    April 26, 2012
  3. TED Talks: How Fark Beat a Patent Troll

    Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark, tells the story of how he fought a lawsuit from a company that had a patent, “…for the creatio…

    April 18, 2012
  4. TED Talks: Frank Warren’s Half a Million Secrets

    “Secrets can take many forms — they can be shocking, or silly, or soulful.” Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret.com, shares some of the half-million secrets that strangers ha…

    April 14, 2012
  5. Ted Trailer #2

    Seth MacFarlane as the voice of a 30-something, pot-smoking, chick-banging teddy bear? Yes please. The Family Guy creator does triple duty as writer, director and voice star of Ted…

    April 10, 2012
  6. TED Talks: Connected, But Alone?

    As we expect more from technology, do we expect less from each other? Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication –…

    April 10, 2012
  7. TED Talks: Designing Books is No Laughing Matter

    Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he s…

    April 5, 2012
  8. Ted Red Band Trailer

    Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane hits the big screen for the first time as writer, director and voice of Ted. He tells the story of John Bennett (Mark Wahlberg), a grown man who …

    April 2, 2012
  9. TED Talks: From a Mach-20 Glider to a Hummingbird Drone

    “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” asks Regina Dugan, the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. In this breathtaking talk she desc…

    March 29, 2012
  10. TED Talks: Yup, I Built a Nuclear Fusion Reactor

    Taylor Wilson believes nuclear fusion is a solution to our future energy needs, and that kids can change the world. And he knows something about both of those. When he was 14 he bu…

    March 26, 2012
  11. TED Talks: Listening to Shame

    Shame is an unspoken epidemic, the secret behind many forms of broken behavior. Brené Brown, whose earlier talk on vulnerability became a viral hit, explores what can happen when …

    March 22, 2012
  12. TED Talks: Let’s Transform Energy With Natural Gas

    The US consumes 25% of the world’s oil, but as energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens points out, the country has no energy policy to prepare for the inevitable. Is alternative energy our …

    March 20, 2012
  13. TED Talks: The $8 Billion iPod

    Comic author Rob Reid unveils Copyright Math (TM), a remarkable new field of study based on actual numbers from entertainment industry lawyers and lobbyists.

    March 17, 2012
  14. TED Talks: Coding a Better Government

    Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new wa…

    March 14, 2012