TED Talks

Daniel Kraft offers a fast-paced look at the next few years of innovations in medicine, powered by new tools, tests and apps that bring diagnostic information right to the patient’…

Alice Dreger works with people at the edge of anatomy, such as conjoined twins and intersexed people. In her observation, it’s often a fuzzy line between male and female, among oth…

Paul Romer unveiled the idea for a “charter city” — a new kind of city with rules that favor democracy and trade. He tells the story of how such a city might just happen in Hondur…

Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing — which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, build…

Renowned paleontologist Jack Horner has spent his career trying to reconstruct a dinosaur. He’s taking living descendants of the dinosaur (chickens) and genetically engineering the…

Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more — and more about each other — than ever before. Where’s the moral operating system that allo…

Using simple, delightful illustrations, designer Stefan Sagmeister shares his latest thinking on happiness — both the conscious and unconscious kind. His seven rules for life and …

Physicists are used to the idea that subatomic particles behave according to the bizarre rules of quantum mechanics. In a breakthrough experiment, Aaron O’Connell has blurred that …

Designer Jessi Arrington packed nothing for TED but 7 pairs of undies, buying the rest of her clothes in thrift stores around LA. It’s a meditation on conscious consumption — wrap…

Using robotics, laser rangefinders, GPS and smart feedback tools, Dennis Hong is making a car for drivers who are blind. It’s not a self-driving car, but a car in which a non-sight…

The nerve disease ALS left graffiti artist TEMPT paralyzed from head to toe, forced to communicate blink by blink. Entrepreneur Mick Ebeling shares how he and a team of collaborato…

Journalist Mustafa Akyol talks about the way that some local cultural practices (such as wearing a headscarf) have become linked, in the popular mind, to the articles of faith of I…

Iranian-born artist Shirin Neshat explores the paradox of being an artist in exile: a voice for her people, but unable to go home. In her work, she explores Iran pre- and post-Isla…

Polio is almost completely eradicated, but almost isn’t good enough with a disease this terrifying. Bruce Aylward lays out the plan to continue the scientific miracle that ended po…

Aaron Koblin takes vast amounts of data and makes stunning visualizations. From elegant lines tracing airline flights to a crowd-sourced Johnny Cash video and the “Wilderness Downt…