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The 26.2-mile race took runners from Dodger Stadium on through iconic L.A. neighborhoods of Chinatown, Hollywood, and Beverly Hills. Spectators and supporters lined the entire route to cheer on the athletes. One of them was 15-year-old Abel Rivera, who lost his childhood home to the Eaton Fire in Altadena.
The 26.2-mile race took runners from Dodger Stadium on through iconic L.A. neighborhoods of Chinatown, Hollywood, and Beverly Hills. Spectators and supporters lined the entire route to cheer on the athletes. One of them was 15-year-old Abel Rivera, who lost his childhood home to the Eaton Fire in Altadena.
His neighborhood is just beginning to clean up and think about rebuilding after wildfires tore through it. For young Abel, training to run the marathon distance helped keep him calm and centered through tragedy.
His neighborhood is just beginning to clean up and think about rebuilding after wildfires tore through it. For young Abel, training to run the marathon distance helped keep him calm and centered through tragedy.
Abel ran with 3,000 other Los Angeles middle and high school students. They take part in a program called Students Run LA. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
Abel ran with 3,000 other Los Angeles middle and high school students. They take part in a program called Students Run LA. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
Many Angelenos are eager to survey the damage in their neighborhoods and see what can be salvaged. But fire crews say repopulation won't happen until those areas are considered safe. Crews have to clean up toxic ash, hazardous waste, and make repairs to power and water infrastructure first. The Eaton and Palisades fires are the two most destructive in Southern California history.
Many Angelenos are eager to survey the damage in their neighborhoods and see what can be salvaged. But fire crews say repopulation won't happen until those areas are considered safe. Crews have to clean up toxic ash, hazardous waste, and make repairs to power and water infrastructure first. The Eaton and Palisades fires are the two most destructive in Southern California history.
And another surge of Santa Ana winds are expected late Monday. into Tuesday. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
And another surge of Santa Ana winds are expected late Monday. into Tuesday. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
Flames are stretching into the communities of Brentwood, West L.A., and Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles. Firefighters are conducting airdrops and digging lines on the ground in an effort to stop the flames from spreading. They are racing to contain the Palisades Fire, which is already the biggest of the wildfires in the county, ahead of more wind events forecast for Monday.
Flames are stretching into the communities of Brentwood, West L.A., and Mandeville Canyon in Los Angeles. Firefighters are conducting airdrops and digging lines on the ground in an effort to stop the flames from spreading. They are racing to contain the Palisades Fire, which is already the biggest of the wildfires in the county, ahead of more wind events forecast for Monday.
Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Maroney gave an update.
Los Angeles County Fire Chief Anthony Maroney gave an update.
Dusk to dawn curfews are in effect for Palisades and Eaton Fire evacuation zones. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
Dusk to dawn curfews are in effect for Palisades and Eaton Fire evacuation zones. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
The L.A. County Sheriff is working with the coroner's office and FEMA to conduct searches. L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna says specialized search and rescue teams will use cadaver dogs to search for missing people as well as remains.
The L.A. County Sheriff is working with the coroner's office and FEMA to conduct searches. L.A. County Sheriff Robert Luna says specialized search and rescue teams will use cadaver dogs to search for missing people as well as remains.
Firefighters have struggled to contain the biggest Palisades fire in West Los Angeles. It grew by about 1,000 acres overnight. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
Firefighters have struggled to contain the biggest Palisades fire in West Los Angeles. It grew by about 1,000 acres overnight. For NPR News, I'm Elise Hu in Los Angeles.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
Today's talk is part of our new 2025 TED Fellows Films, adapted for podcasts just for our TED Talks Daily listeners.
We'll be releasing these special episodes showcasing our amazing fellows on certain Fridays throughout the rest of 2025 and into the new year.
So stay tuned.
The TED Fellows program supports a network of global innovators, and we're so excited to share their work with you.
Today, we'd like you to meet the satellite food security specialist, Catherine Nakalembe.
It might be hard to imagine how satellites orbiting in space can help farmers tending to the soil on Earth.
But for Catherine, who uses satellite technology and machine learning to monitor smallholder farming, this connection is essential.
She shares how satellites can play a vital role in helping to feed the world and why, even with her bird's eye view, a grounded, bottom up approach to supporting farmers is just as key.
As she puts it, true innovation isn't about high tech systems, but about making technology fit the problem.
After we hear from Catherine, stick around for her conversation with TED Fellows program director Lily James Olds.
And now a special conversation between TED fellow Catherine Nakalembe and TED fellows program director Lily James Olds.
That's coming up right after a quick break.
That was Catherine Nakalembe, a 2025 TED Fellow.
To learn more about the TED Fellows program and watch all the TED Fellows films, go to fellows.ted.com.
And that's it for today.
This episode was produced by Lucy Little, edited by Alejandra Salazar, and fact-checked by Eva Dasher.
The audio you heard at the top comes from the short film made by Divya Gidangi and Owen McLean, story edited by Corey Hajim, and produced by Ian Lowe.
Video production manager is Searing Dolma.
Additional support from Lily James Olds, Leonie Horster, and Allegra Pearl.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
Our team includes Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
Additional support from Emma Tobner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
If you enjoy the ideas you hear on this show, did you know you have the chance to actually see the newest TED Talks live next month?
This year's TED Next conference in Atlanta, Georgia is coming up November 9th through the 11th.
And you can learn more about joining us there at TED.com slash future you.
And there won't just be talks.
In addition to hearing world-class ideas from inspiring speakers like Jermaine Dupri, Sanjay Gupta, and Vivian Tu live, TED offers unforgettable interactive experiences, discovery sessions, and networking events.
Witness history in the making, make connections that will last a lifetime, and get inspiration that might just spark your next big idea.
Go to TED.com slash future you or click the link in our show notes to learn more about TED Next.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
Imagine a world where all young people, regardless of their gender, had access to the same opportunities.
Troy Vincent Sr., who was an all-star in the National Football League, is now the executive vice president of football operations for the NFL.
And he had access to the opportunities that led him down the path to football fame.
But as he shares in his talk, the reality is that for many young people, especially young women, the dream of becoming a professional athlete vanishes all too soon.
He asks us to consider what it will take to get sports to a place where the playing field isn't just metaphorically level, but literally accessible to all.
That was Troy Vincent Sr.
speaking at TED Sports Indianapolis in 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This episode was fact-checked by the TED Sports Research Team and produced and edited by our team.
Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tanzika Sungmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Christopher Faisy-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
It turns out the smell is the least of our worries when it comes to landfills.
In this talk, sustainability strategist Mohamed A. Sultan shares why methane gas, the odorless, invisible gas, is so dangerous for our health and our well-being.
Showcasing different examples of sustainable development projects across the African continent, he offers an alternative path towards a world with low methane emissions and shares why this is not only good for the planet, but good for people everywhere.
That was Mohamed A. Sultan at the TED Countdown Summit in Nairobi, Kenya in 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Christopher Fasey-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
If you enjoy the ideas you hear on this show, did you know you have the chance to actually see the newest TED Talks live next month?
This year's TED Next conference in Atlanta, Georgia is coming up November 9th through the 11th.
And you can learn more about joining us there at TED.com slash future you.
And there won't just be talks.
In addition to hearing world-class ideas from inspiring speakers like Jermaine Dupri, Sanjay Gupta, and Vivian Tu live, TED offers unforgettable interactive experiences, discovery sessions, and networking events.
Witness history in the making, make connections that will last a lifetime, and get inspiration that might just spark your next big idea.
Go to TED.com slash future you or click the link in our show notes to learn more about TED Next.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
Have you ever wanted to read someone else's mind?
Well, mentalist Oz Perlman is billed as one of the world's greatest mind readers, and yet he says he doesn't have any special powers.
In this spectacular talk meets magic show, mentalist Oz Perlman opens up to a captivated audience, sharing why it all comes down to understanding the human spirit and mind.
So close your eyes if you can, please don't if you're driving, and imagine you're sitting in the TED theater.
Oz is on stage, the house lights go up, and he walks out into the audience.
Over the next 15 minutes, he engages with multiple audience members he's never met before, wows everyone, and shows us how the principles of mentalism can be tools for living better and more connected lives at home, at work, and in our relationships.
Hey, y'all, Elise here, jumping in to say that Ian did, in fact, sit down at this moment looking absolutely flabbergasted, meaning he was thinking of Alexander the Great.
I'm as shocked as you are, honestly.
You don't have to hold the applause inside, Ted.
Around this time, someone from offstage hands Oz a small whiteboard and a marker.
He turns to Angira, and as he talks to her, he writes down a name, but doesn't reveal it to the audience just yet.
Are we singers?
This is not my first rodeo.
Okay, folks, the camera swings back to Anjira, who is bouncing up and down as she stands talking to Oz, and he's right.
She wasn't actually thinking of Bob Dylan.
The whiteboard turns to face us, and Oz had, in fact, written down Trevor Noah on the small whiteboard, and Jira is truly shocked.
Jeff, do you know what the most common question I get at the end of a show is?
Oz turns back to the man in the audience named Jeff, who he had spoken with earlier.
A staff person hands him a small blank whiteboard and a marker.
At this point, O's is back on stage and he whips out a bright green collapsible Frisbee.
As you can imagine, Dylan throws it far up into the seats, stays right.
Oh my God, is that far?
Show everybody!
Well, you guessed it, folks.
Jeff had indeed written down... Thank you, Brett!
...Barack Obama.
That was Oz Perlman leaving us all speechless at TED 2025.
And if you can, I would definitely recommend checking out the video of this talk over at TED.com.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Lucy Little.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hugh.
Last Sunday, I shared with y'all that we're doing a virtual read-along of TEDx speaker Oliver Berkman's book, Meditations for Mortals, four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts.
This is happening in the lead up to our TED Talks Daily Live Book Club conversation, which is gonna happen on Tuesday, November 4th.
While we read along, I'm sharing a few talks with you here that I've been reminded of or have turned to as I'm reading this book.
Today, we're thinking about what it means to take action.
Oliver asks us to think about what could shift if we embrace imperfection, which connects to this 2023 talk from cognitive scientist Maya Shankar.
In her talk, she explains how life's curveballs can be expansive and even inspiring.
She also has three questions to reframe our relationship to change and open up the possibility for growth.
You can follow me on Instagram at Elise Who, that's E-L-I-S-E-W-H-O, where I'll be sharing thoughts about the book Meditations for Mortals as we read along.
And if you're intrigued, please head to ted.com slash join to sign up and RSVP for our book club meeting.
But for now, here's Maya's talk.
That was Maya Shankar at TED 2023.
Her talk was originally published in July 2023.
And to those of you who are interested in joining us for our last live book club conversation of the year, which I hope you do, it's happening November 4th with Oliver Berkman, the author of Meditations for Mortals.
Just visit ted.com slash join to sign up and RSVP.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Lucy Little.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
If you enjoy the ideas you hear on this show, did you know you have the chance to actually see the newest TED Talks live next month?
This year's TED Next conference in Atlanta, Georgia is coming up November 9th through the 11th.
And you can learn more about joining us there at TED.com slash future you.
And there won't just be talks.
In addition to hearing world-class ideas from inspiring speakers like Jermaine Dupri, Sanjay Gupta, and Vivian Tu live, TED offers unforgettable interactive experiences, discovery sessions, and networking events.
Witness history in the making, make connections that will last a lifetime, and get inspiration that might just spark your next big idea.
Go to TED.com slash future you or click the link in our show notes to learn more about TED Next.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
Today's talk is part of our new 2025 TED Fellows Films adapted for podcasts just for our TED Talks Daily listeners.
We'll be releasing these special episodes showcasing...
our amazing fellows on certain Fridays throughout the rest of 2025 and into the new year.
The TED Fellows program supports a network of global innovators, and we are so excited to share their work with you.
Today, we'd love for you to meet protein engineer, designer, and TED Fellow Cesar Ramirez Sarmiento.
What if we could take one of nature's fundamental biological building blocks, proteins, and redesign them to tackle some of humanity's biggest challenges?
Cesar's lab is based in Santiago, Chile, and it uses AI to design new proteins with both therapeutic and environmental applications.
His creative approach to protein design and AI shows why Latin America is emerging as such a leader in this space and why we should look to enzymes for everything from breaking down PET plastics to developing new healthcare solutions.
After we hear from Cesar, stick around for his conversation with TED Fellows Program Director Lily James Olds.
It's coming up.
And now a special conversation between Cesar and TED Fellows Program Director Lily James Olds.
Coming up right after the break.
If you enjoy the ideas you hear on this show, did you know you have the chance to actually see the newest TED Talks live next month?
This year's TED Next conference in Atlanta, Georgia, is coming up November 9th through the 11th.
And you can learn more about joining us there at TED.com slash future you.
And there won't just be talks.
In addition to hearing world-class ideas from inspiring speakers like Jermaine Dupri, Sanjay Gupta, and Vivian Tu live, TED offers unforgettable interactive experiences, discovery sessions, and networking events.
Witness history in the making, make connections that will last a lifetime, and get inspiration that might just spark your next big idea.
Go to TED.com slash future you or click the link in our show notes to learn more about TED Next.
That was Cesar Ramirez Sarmiento, a TED 2025 fellow.
To learn more about the TED Fellows program and watch all the TED Fellows films, just go to fellows.ted.com.
And that's it for today.
This episode was produced by Lucy Little, edited by Alejandra Salazar, and fact-checked by Eva Dasher.
The audio you heard at the top comes from the short film made by Divya Gidangi and Owen McLean.
Story edited by Corey Hajim and produced by Ian Lowe.
Video production manager is Searing Dolma.
Additional support from Lily James Olds, Leonie Horster, and Allegra Pearl.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
Our team includes Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
Additional support from Emma Tobner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
What really happens when someone wins the lottery?
In this TEDx talk, Matt Pitcher, who is a former financial advisor to UK national lottery winners, shares the fascinating stories of what sudden wealth can do.
From life-changing joy to personal crises, these real-life accounts reveal how money can test values, relationships, and our identities.
He asks the question of all of us, what would you do if you won?
And more importantly, how are you already spending your most valuable resources of money and time?
That was Matt Pitcher speaking at TEDxWinchester in the UK in 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Christopher Fasey-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
By now it's clear we need bold strategies to pay for and stop the damages of climate change.
In this talk, economist Esther Duflo asks a blunt question.
Why don't we just tax the world's richest people in order to pay for climate damages?
She explains why a publicly funded redistribution system financed by taxes on billionaires and large multinational companies could really work and says this grand bargain is more within reach than we might expect.
That was Esther Duflo at the TED Countdown Summit in Nairobi, Kenya in 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sungmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Lucy Little.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
It might be safe to say that most of us have seen the chocolate guy on social media.
You know, the one who makes elaborate, gorgeous, intricate, edible structures all out of chocolate.
The ones whose videos have amassed literally billions of views over the years.
Well, we have a tasty treat for you on today's episode.
Omari Gishaw, considered by some as the world's most creative pastry chef, joins Lateef Nasser, co-host of Radiolab and a guest curator at TED 2025, for a talk and demonstration and the important role food plays in the creation of wonder.
He shows us how he manages to captivate the entire world with only one ingredient and without ever speaking a word.
Hey all, Elise here to give you some context for what you're hearing.
As Amaury describes what goes into making the coffee clock and the reasons behind doing the work that he does,
There's a video behind him on stage of him working on all of the elements of this delicate edible clock.
At this point in Amory's conversation with Latif, someone has wheeled a cart on stage with all of the ingredients needed to make this coffee clock in real time.
A camera is pointed down on the cart so we can see the details of what's on it.
And we see intricate, tiny pieces of a clock.
I'm talking about all of the gears, the clock hands painted in metallic colors.
They all look so real.
It's truly hard to believe they're made of chocolate.
Omri walks us through what would be the final stage of this process, which is putting the clock together.
Yes, Omri does have a heat gun with him on stage.
And that sound you're hearing is him warming up this chocolate glue that he's describing as we continue to watch his hands delicately put together these pieces.
Et voilà .
At this point, as you can imagine, Omri has finished.
With Latif's wow, we see a gorgeous, glossy, dark chocolate cake with the clock sitting on top.
And just like that, Omri cuts into all of his hard work to describe what's inside.
And I really won't blame you if you rush to go grab a chocolate bar after this.
And that was Omri Guichat and Latif Nasser at TED 2025, leaving us all craving chocolate.
If you can, I definitely recommend checking out the video of this talk over at TED.com.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Lucy Little.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
Thankfully, women's sports are finally experiencing a huge surge in popularity around the world.
I mean, who's not watching the WNBA playoffs right now?
There's been record-breaking viewership and attendance of games across sports and significant revenue growth.
And yet, social media algorithms, for example, are still skewing largely to covering men's sports.
In her talk, Olympic medalist and world champion rower Kate Johnson, who now leads global marketing strategy for sports and entertainment at Google, unpacks how and why this is still happening and why it's time to get serious about leveling the playing field for women's sports.
That was Kate Johnson speaking at TED Sports Indianapolis in 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This episode was fact-checked by the TED Sports Research Team and produced and edited by our team.
Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tanzika Sangmarnivong.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
As many of you know, here on TED Talks Daily, we have our own book club series.
Once a month, I sit down with TED speakers who have new books out, and we talk about their work and the big ideas that shape them.
A few times a year, we host one of these conversations live for the TED membership community.
Our last event of the year will be November 4th with the author and TEDx speaker Oliver Berkman.
And I'm super excited to let you all know that for the first time ever, I am hosting a virtual read-along of his book, Meditations for Mortals, four weeks to embrace your limitations and make time for what counts.
I'd love for you to join me for the read-along.
I really am a huge fan of Oliver Berkman and his work.
The live event happens on November 4th.
You can follow me on Instagram at Elise Who, that's E-L-I-S-E-W-H-O, where I'll be sharing some thoughts and prompts about the book leading up to the event.
And if you are intrigued, head to TED.com slash join to sign up and RSVP.
Reading Oliver's book has made me think of the many incredible talks and conversations we have shared over the years that dig into big questions of how to embrace who we are and what we want to be, how to make the most of our time.
Today, as we get started on week one of our virtual read-along, we're sharing this Archive TED membership conversation from 2021.
It's with TED curator Whitney Pennington-Rogers, who sits down with clinical psychologist Meg Jay to talk about how to close the empathy gap between you and your future self.
That was Meg Jay in conversation with Whitney Pennington Rogers at a TED membership event in 2021.
And for those of you who are interested in joining us for our last live book club conversation of the year on November 4th with author Oliver Berkman, visit TED.com slash join to sign up and RSVP.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sungmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Lucy Little.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
What happens when we let kids take risks and solve problems on their own?
This question led journalist and founder of the free-range kids movement, Lenore Skenazy, to embrace the title she had been given online of, quote, America's worst mom, after she shared the story of allowing her nine-year-old son to ride the New York City subway alone.
In a follow-up conversation to her 2025 talk released a few weeks ago, Lenore spoke with TED curator Whitney Pennington-Rogers to dig further into why it's so important to raise independent kids in today's tech-heavy, safety-obsessed age.
There are so many thorny topics that we parents have to confront as we parent kids these days.
And that's why I'm really excited to mention another show I'm hosting called Raising Us.
It's a podcast from a kid's company called A Kids Co.
This is their first parenting podcast, and it's for parents to help us talk to our kids about topics like gaming, social media...
puberty, the environment, democracy.
Like I mentioned, a lot of thorny topics.
And all of these topics couldn't be better connected with the overarching point that Lenore Skenazy makes in her conversation with Whitney.
Here they are.
That was Lenore Skenazy in conversation with Whitney Pennington-Rogers for a TED membership event in 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This episode was produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Christopher Faisy-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas and conversations to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
Deja Fox is 25 years old, and she already has a decade's worth of experience as a public figure and activist.
That's in big part thanks to social media.
Through sharing her youth activism, Deja grew a strong following that translated into a budding career in politics.
including becoming one of history's youngest presidential campaign strategists during Kamala Harris's 2024 campaign.
Now, Deja is challenging us to reimagine what our internet looks like and how to make social media a more inclusive space for everyone, including girls and women.
We sat down together at this year's TED conference to unpack how our online lives have moved offline and what that means.
And a quick note, this conversation was recorded in April 2025 while Deja was still running for Congress in a Democratic Party primary election for Arizona's 7th congressional district held in September.
The conversation mentions her run.
Well, Deja, congrats on your TED Talk.
Thank you.
To kick things off, I would love to know what it was like just preparing for the TED Talk, what surprised you along the way in this whole journey to winding up on stage.
Yeah, yeah.
Why do you think it is that teen girls so often get written off culturally as a source of power and innovation and intellect?
Well, some of it might be structural, too, right?
I mean, obviously, you're talking about kind of culturally the way that things are labeled and identified and spoken about and who gets to count and matter and who doesn't.
But also there's structural aspects of our online platforms, which is what your talk gets to, that can be quite difficult or unsafe spaces for women and girls.
Yeah.
And so you are advocating for alternate online spaces that are built by and for young women.
We'd love for you to just kind of expand on what that looks like and how an online space that is coming from and governed by a more women's perspective is different.
And there's also a lot of sameness too.
I mean, one of the big knocks against the TikTok algorithm is that you often see the same heavily, largely white, thin, you know, women with feminine, traditionally or conventionally feminine features.
Are there platforms that you're
wanting to see that do that differently?
Or are there those in existence that kind of offer a different look at reality?
When it comes to these alternative spaces, who's in charge of them?
Because obviously the mega tech companies and the mega conglomerates are in charge of our existing spaces.
What about the new platforms?
Who's running them?
Is it also profit-driven in the same way?
Well, that raises the next question.
Are there certain tech regulations or proposed regulations of social platforms that you're supportive of?
So there's nothing in particular that Congress has looked at so far that you're like, oh, yes, we need to curb this.
So when it comes to the new spaces that your talk focuses on, alternative online spaces, ones that are kind of growing now—
How would these new platforms protect and preserve safety and have the online community guidelines that maybe are missing now?
And how should they be prevented from winding up with the same problems and the same muck that's showing up in our current online platforms?
Yeah, but does it create any, like, I guess, a balkanized kind of internet, though, where it's like, this is the girl internet and this is the boy internet?
Yeah.
And then...
There's like the gender wars that we're already seeing continue to play themselves out, but in completely different echo chambers.
Yeah.
Stick around.
We'll be right back after a short break.
Let's connect our conversation to what you're up to now.
Yeah, let's do it.
How has your previous activism and your social media work connected to this decision to try and go into electoral politics?
Why electoral politics?
Very common story.
Yes.
And the flip side of this is that after World War II, all the electeds were in their 20s because it was like all these war veterans who just came home.
And so Congress, if you actually looked at people who were elected officials in like the 1948 Congress.
And most of them were probably in their 20s or at least half.
Right.
So it's pretty astounding.
What is your message then to young people who might be feeling pretty cynical?
I know it.
If not cynical, helpless about civics right now.
Oh, I love this.
I wish we'd started here.
I know.
Maybe we should.
So what does innovation or a good idea look like to you or mean to you?
Oh, so a good idea has staying power.
Okay.
A good idea sticks.
What would you say is the merit to distilling big ideas into something like a TED Talk now that you've done it?
All right.
What is something new that you brought into your life in 2025?
A run for Congress.
Okay, boom.
You got that one.
And then that was a real lightning answer.
And then what are you hoping to leave behind this year?
This conference has spent already a lot of time talking about AI.
It's going to continue to focus on AI.
There's been so many.
I mean, how many robots have there been?
What is the conversation about AI missing, do you think?
What do you want to hear more of in these conversations?
Is there a regret you have, a mistake that you've made in your life that has really taught you something in particular?
What's your transformative mistake?
I love that.
I love that.
Okay, last question.
Okay.
What is a small gratitude that you have in your life right now?
So a detail, something really specific that you're like, oh, I'm so glad that exists or I'm so glad for that particular moment or product.
That was Deja Fox in conversation with me, Elise Hu at TED 2025 in April 2025.
You can check out Deja's talk on the TED Talks daily feed and at TED.com.
And that's it for today.
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Hey, everyone, you're listening to TED Talks Daily, the show where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
Welcome back to my top 10 TED Talks, our first ever podcast playlist where we share a curated list of TED Talks from the archive on our feed all at once.
The first few talks on my top 10 list have asked us to look inward because the way we view and relate to ourselves affects who we are and how we act in the world.
But now I want to look outward.
So next up, I want to share journalist George Monbiot's talk from 2019 on the political stories that shape everything in our societies.
It's a framing for understanding the modern world.
It feels like the world's in crisis and upheaval.
And for me, this is a vital talk for the time we're living in.
He explains why we're stuck in a system that just keeps failing us and offers a potential way out.
That was George Monbiot at the TED Summit in 2019.
This is the fifth of 10 talks from the TED Archives that we are reposting as part of our first podcast playlist of my top 10 talks.
As we consider the narratives of the world, the systems that we're in, it really leads well into the next talk about institutions and institutionalized and structural racism.
That's coming up next.
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I'm Elise Hu.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
Hey, everyone.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, the show where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
Welcome back to my top 10 TED Talks, our first ever podcast playlist where we share a curated list of talks from the archive on our feed all at once.
Whether you've been with us since the first talk I shared in this playlist or you're just jumping in right here, this is one of my favorites for many reasons.
And one of the reasons is that you have to go way back to find it.
Social critic James Koonsler's 2004 talk, The Ghastly Tragedy of the Suburbs and the Very Real Reasons Behind Why They're So Ugly.
The delivery of this talk really cracks me up, and I think it's worth watching on TED.com for his visual examples.
But as a listen, it's also a good one.
It's asking us to reflect on the way that the design of our neighborhoods can make us more or less human and connected.
That was James Koonsler at TED 2004.
Can you believe it?
This is the seventh of TED Talks from the TED Archives that we are reposting as part of our first TED Talks Daily podcast playlist of my top 10 talks.
And stick with us because we're going to go to a more modern talk coming up next from Lori Gottlieb.
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I'm Elise Hu.
Thanks for listening.
Hey everyone, you're listening to TED Talks Daily, the show where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hume.
After all these years of listening and now hosting this show, the number one question I still get is, Elise, what are the talks that have stood out to you?
What are your favorite talks?
And of course, I have more than 10 favorites, but we had to start somewhere.
So we made a playlist and dropped 10 of my favorite TED Talks on the feed for our first ever podcast playlist.
This next one is from psychotherapist and author Lori Gottlieb, and it's had a profound impact on my life and my thinking because it's taught me how most of life's problems just boil down to wanting one of two things, freedom or change.
But it's really important that we take into account something else.
Lori Gottlieb gets into it.
That was Lori Gottlieb speaking at TED at DuPont 2019.
This is the eighth of 10 talks from the TED archives we are reposting as part of our first podcast playlist of my top 10 TED talks.
And I'm glad you just heard from Lori Gottlieb because it pairs really well with the next one.
It is a classic from the psychotherapist Esther Perel.
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Hey, everyone.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, the show where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
Welcome back to Elise's Top 10 TED Talks, our first ever podcast playlist where we share a curated list of talks from the archive on the feed all at once.
Thank you so much for having me.
Therapist and podcast host Esther Perel's 2015 talk is called Rethinking Infidelity, a talk for anyone who has ever loved.
And honestly, the title says it all.
It reframed how I understand relationships and ourselves.
And in a world that's all about connection, what better talk to dig into this topic?
That was Esther Perel at TED 2015.
This is the ninth of 10 talks from the TED archives that we are reposting as part of our first podcast playlist of my top 10 TED talks.
And to wrap it up, who better than one of our TED favorites, Suleika Juwad.
That's coming up.
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Hey, everyone.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, the show where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
Welcome back to my top 10 TED Talks, our first ever podcast playlist where we share a curated list of talks from the archive on the feed all at once.
I hope that you have enjoyed some of these, if not all of them, on this list.
And to close out this playlist, we have the formidable writer, teacher, and activist Suleika Juwad.
We started with talks that were about our present and future selves and how to think about it.
We've also talked about stories that we tell ourselves, narratives for the wider world, and what it means to consider aesthetics, connection and relationships.
Now we bring you to Suleika.
In her first TED Talk from 2019, she shares what almost dying taught her about living.
And she asks us the profound yet simple question, how do you begin again and find meaning after life is interrupted?
As we've learned from so many TED Talks, life can be a series of interruptions and restarts, frustrations.
Suleika reminds us of life's beauty and our resilience.
Thank you.
That was Suleika Juwad at TED 2019.
And that was the last talk from the TED Archives that we are reposting as part of our first TED Talks Daily podcast playlist of my personal top 10 TED Talks.
What a joy to be able to share some of these favorites with you.
And thank you so much for taking the time to listen.
I return to these talks pretty often and hope you will too.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
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I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
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What happens when following the right path leads you to the wrong place?
Writer, entrepreneur, and former Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler sits down with engineer and chemist Jenny Du to explore the question of how we each find unique purpose in this new episode from TED Intersections.
our original series that features unscripted conversations between speakers and experts taking on subjects at the intersection of their expertise.
Yancey and Jenny discuss how they each found the spark that led to their success and why it's important to love our own weird ways of being.
That was a conversation between Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du for our original series, TED Intersections.
Visit TED.com to watch this conversation and others from the series.
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I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
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Video games and kids.
It's a complicated subject, and I imagine just about everyone has an opinion, especially parents.
But what happens when a parent decides to step into the world of video games to understand their kids instead of begging them to get offline?
In this talk, esports competitor Hannah Bouquet shares how she found connection with her kids through playing esports and how video games can actually be a game changer for families.
That was Hannah Bouquet speaking at TEDx Sioux Falls in the US in 2025.
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I'm Elise Hugh.
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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
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In 1992, urban peace activist Akilah Shirels helped to broker a historic peace treaty between two rival gangs in Los Angeles, California.
It's a truce that led to a significant decrease in gang-related violence in neighborhoods across the city.
In his talk, Akilah shares how this experience changed his perspective on the power of dialogue and collaboration and began to redefine what public safety can look like.
And stick around after the talk for a Q&A between Akilah and TED's Head of Media and Curation, Helen Walters.
That was Akilah Shirell speaking at TED 2025.
This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.
Learn more at audaciousproject.org.
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I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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When the wildfires broke out in Los Angeles, California earlier this year, reports started coming out about insurance companies pulling back coverage from the people who needed it most.
This trend is only expected to increase as companies try to remove as much risk as possible.
In her talk, climate risk advisor Amy Barnes explains why we need to reframe risk insurance as a warning bell.
She says adaptation and smarter tools can help us get ahead of disasters and invest in resilience before it's too late.
That was Amy Barnes at the TED Countdown Summit Nairobi in Kenya in 2025.
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Happy Sunday, TED Talks Daily listeners.
I'm Elise Hugh.
Today, we're bringing you another one of our Sunday Picks, where we share an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective handpicked by us for you.
When was the last time you really connected with someone who disagrees with you?
Modern life places us in all kinds of echo chambers.
So what happens when these divides stop us from seeing and understanding one another?
In a time of deepening polarization, we reached into the archives of our audio collective podcast, How to Be a Better Human, to share an episode featuring journalist Monica Guzman.
Monica is the chief storyteller for Braver Angels, an organization dedicated to political depolarization.
Monica shares the tools she uses to find common ground with her loved ones and talks about why interacting with and listening to different points of view is critical work, especially now.
How to Be a Better Human is a show that looks in unexpected places for new ways to improve and show up for one another.
If you want to hear more insights like this, listen to How to Be a Better Human wherever you get your podcasts.
Learn about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com.
Coming up.
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For climate justice advocate Harjeet Singh, the reality is clear.
Climate change has made global uncertainty a part of daily life.
In his talk, he shares the stories of real exciting solutions that are already saving lives and livelihoods at the local level.
and argues that just as people adapt, policy and development must adapt to tailoring responses to fit local realities and not global ideals.
Because sometimes real change happens from the ground up, and we all have a part to play.
That was Harjeet Singh speaking at TED Countdown Summit in Nairobi, Kenya in 2025.
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I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
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Deep down, we may all be searching for the same things, to know who we are and that our existence will have a positive impact on the world.
At least this is what author and journalist Jennifer Wallace thinks and what led her to interview hundreds of people asking the simple question, do you feel like you matter?
In her talk, she revealed that for so many, the answer to this question was actually no.
She digs into what she calls a crisis of mattering and shares what she's learned about how we can change the way we view ourselves and our places in the world so that ultimately we're able to answer, yes, I matter.
That was Jennifer Wallace speaking at TED 2025.
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I'm Elise Hugh.
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Thanks for listening.
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The talk I'm sharing today is very important to me because it's something I care about a lot.
Beauty standards in our new technological age and the ways digital culture is reshaping our faces and bodies.
What does it mean when we so often see ourselves through the lens of our phones or computers?
What if the way we look in the real world somehow feels less real or doesn't live up to the image we have of ourselves online?
It's not just the topic that means a lot.
I also cherish this talk because I gave it.
As you may know, the talks I share with you on this show don't happen just anywhere.
They happen at our TED conferences.
And I gave this TED talk you're about to hear last year at the inaugural TED Next conference.
which is TED's newest annual flagship conference dedicated to exploring the future you, from the personal to the professional and everything in between.
TED Next caters to an audience that's really hungry for innovation and fresh ideas, and I really loved being on the ground in Atlanta where it takes place.
It pulses with a fizzy energy, and the conference has all the elements of the well-thought-out and executed programming that we expect from TED.
I'm so, so excited to share with you that I will have the honor of hosting a session of talks at TED Next 2025, which is coming soon on November 9th through 11th in Atlanta, Georgia.
I helped curate the talks for this session that I'm talking about and we have really dynamic speakers and artists that y'all are going to love and could really shift the way you think.
It's not too late to join me there in Atlanta at TED Next to see these talks happen live.
If you want to learn more about attending, which I hope you do, go to TED.com slash daily next.
That's TED.com slash daily next.
I hope to see you there.
And now here's my talk.
Earlier this year, I was in Taipei, Taiwan, where I decided I wanted to make a TikTok about Cup Noodle.
Only this brilliant TikTok never happened because of the shock I got when I opened up the app and flipped it into selfie mode.
The face looking back at me was a face?
But not exactly my face.
A whole array of beauty filters had automatically worked me over, and I could not turn them off.
There was so much going on here.
Skin smoothing, skin lightening, teeth whitening, nose narrowing, bigger eyes.
And it gave me a thinner, softer jawline.
This was a whole lot of nonconsensual filtering, or what someone joked was forced catfishing.
And for me, it's the perfect example of something called the technological gaze at work.
What is it?
Well, women have had to play to the male gaze forever, you know what that is.
But the technological gaze describes an algorithmically driven perspective that we learn to internalize, perform for and optimize for.
And then by taking in all our data, the machines learn to perform us in an endless feedback loop.
We learn it so young.
An estimated 80 percent of 13-year-old girls in America have already used filters or some kind of editing to alter their appearance online.
And these days, the filters are hyper-realistic because they tend to be AI-generated.
They come with a suite of characteristics teaching us how to look, things like arched eyebrows or higher cheekbones or plump lips.
What then happens is we see the gap between the way we look in the mirror and the way we look in these filters, and the digital world begins to dictate real-world beauty standards.
We've seen it in celebrity culture, and I know this because I saw it when I lived and worked in Seoul, South Korea, as the NPR bureau chief there nearly 10 years ago.
Seoul is all about optimizing your face and your body.
If you want your vagina rejuvenated, your skull reshaped, any part of your body lifted or enhanced, have at it.
It's the cosmetic surgery capital of the world.
Nearly half of all Korean women have already undergone some kind of plastic surgery.
By the time they're in their 20s, no other place comes close.
These days, TrapTox is really popular.
That's injecting Botox into the base of your neck, your trapezius muscles, to give the appearance of a longer neck.
Calves are being injected with Botox for the same reason.
Having a slimmer jawline is so desirable that a sole plastic surgery clinic once displayed the human bones of jaws it had shaved down in a glass vase in its lobby.
This has since been removed.
But this kind of body augmentation work isn't just accepted, it is expected, because in Seoul, looks matter so much for your professional and personal advancement.
Headshots are required on resumes.
Hiring bosses make character judgments based on your face.
You were often bullied if you were bald or big.
Trying to look better is framed as a route to economic security and a matter of personal responsibility.
But Korea just shows us a more concentrated and extreme example of the pretty privilege that exists everywhere.
Look at fatphobia in the United States, helping drive off-the-charts, off-label use of Ozempic.
Not for diabetes, but for weight loss.
It makes sense when we are so rewarded for thinness and stigmatized for fatness.
And all I'm saying is we should reckon with this, because the more narrow our idea of beauty is, the wider the pool of ugly becomes.
And digital culture is now reshaping our actual faces and bodies.
Under the technological gaze, I worry that our bodies become projects to be worked on forever.
And if we don't slow down this body augmentation arms race that I saw in Seoul, then the enhancements that were available there only get farther and farther out of reach, and not just for women.
Because if we are chasing digital beauty, well then, the limit does not exist.
AI's idea of attractiveness is only increasingly inhuman and cyborgian.
I don't want this.
I don't want my daughters coming up in a world in which their looks are the most important things about them.
It is incredibly marginalizing to everybody who can't fit in and exhausting for everyone who can, because you are constantly having to make or pay for interventions in order to keep up.
So what do we do?
Filters aren't going anywhere.
But we can challenge what the system is optimized for by changing what it means to be beautiful.
Just as the solution to homophobia isn't to make everyone straight and the solution to racism isn't to make everyone white, the solution to lookism and fatphobia isn't to make everyone interchangeably skinny and conventionally pretty.
In fact, it's the opposite.
It's to celebrate diversity and the differences that make us who we are, that are inherent to the human condition.
And ultimately, we have to disrupt a system that reduces our worthiness to our looks.
Even though my face is rounder and probably darker than an algorithm would like, I have come here tonight wearing my actual face.
And my hope for all of you is that you feel comfortable and will continue to feel comfortable doing the same, because I see a wide variety of jawlines out here tonight.
And let me just say, they are all worthy.
Thank you.
That was me, Elise Hu, at TED Next 2024.
And if you want to learn more about attending, please go to TED.com slash daily next.
TED.com slash daily next.
I really hope to see you there.
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And that's it for today.
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This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Lucy Little.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
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You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
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Artificial intelligence is many things, bewildering, exciting, terrifying.
But as this technology grows at a rapid pace, a question at the heart of it all remains.
How can we make sure we're not forgetting about people?
For spoken word artist Salome Agboruji and musician and composer Samora Pinderhughes, this question is everything.
Salome and Samora both performed at this year's TED conference, where Salome asked, as we fall deeper and deeper into the black box, is hoping for humanity the most human thing we can do?
And where Samora sang, are you going to let it go, the ego that remakes the world, that destroys the world?
Salome, Samora, and I sat down together after their performances for a special conversation about the role and importance of art and human creativity, how they each view technological advancement, and why art, for art's sake and as an advocacy tool, is more important now than ever before.
Well, thank you both so much for sitting down to talk with us.
I actually always really enjoy the performances at TED, but we don't get to hear more fully from the performers and the artists.
So just to help the audience familiarize themselves with you, how would you describe what you do as an artist?
Who wants to go first?
That's beautiful.
Before you brought your performances to TED, knowing it was a TED audience and that you were going to be on the TED stage, how did that inform what you decided to perform?
Are there lines or a lyric that you really wanted to make sure that you conveyed or you sang out on stage?
Is there a line in particular that you wanted to get across or that was your favorite?
It seems like for the past few years, the conversation at TED, the discourse, the sessions have brought up AI again and again and again, and for good reason, because these technology tools are changing humanity and changing the way we live and our societies as we know them.
What do you feel, especially as artists,
Is the AI conversation writ large missing?
What aren't we talking about and what should we be talking about more?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a big part.
Which is one of the drivers.
While we're on this topic, why have the Spotify playlists gotten so bad?
Like, not playlists, but like the Spotify—
or the technology?
Is it that it's just too expensive to reach audiences in real life, like with this live experience, at scale?
There's a question that came up on stage, this notion of like turning everything off and then turning it back on when it comes to society.
Like everything feels so broken and stuff isn't working and we're stuck.
Like what if we just turned it off and turned it back on?
Do you feel like we need a reset in society?
And what role might artists have to play to help us through and navigate through what feels like a lot of intractable problems right now?
there's no delineation really between artists and non-artists in that like we all were, we were all born creative, right?
We all have inner artists.
And so I'd love to know what your advice is for our listeners to re-engage in their own creativity and with the artists inside them.
OK, before I let y'all go, you've both performed on many stages in many different places, lots of different contexts.
How did the TED stage compare and how did you feel about it?
And of course, you had your choir with you.
Well, thank you both so much for sitting down and expanding on your ideas with me.
That was Salome Agbaruji and Samora Pinderhughes in conversation with me, Elise Hugh, in 2025.
You can check out Salome's talk on the TED Talks daily feed and both of their performances at TED.com.
And that's it for today.
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Meat is an integral part of billions of people's diets around the world, and yet it's hard to balance this reality with the unimaginable horrors that exist in factory farms today.
In his talk, farm animal welfare champion Louis Bollard reveals how it is possible to make lasting, sustainable changes in the meat industry.
He shares how a blend of big data, inventive tech, and grassroots pressure is actually driving major corporate and legislative reforms, showing us that we can tackle massive moral and environmental problems if we decide to act.
That was Louis Bollard speaking at TED 2025.
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The weekend, social security, health insurance.
What do these things have in common in the U.S.?
They all exist thanks to the work of labor unions.
In this Archive Talk from 2021, political economist Margaret Levy explains how these organizations forge equality and protect worker rights, but that it's time to reimagine unions for today's work culture if we are to truly build towards a more equitable future.
That was Margaret Levy speaking at TEDxSeattle in 2021.
This talk was originally published in May 2022.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
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Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
Hello, TED Talks Daily listeners.
I'm Elise Hu.
Today, we're bringing you another Sunday Pick, where we share an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you.
Tomorrow is Labor Day in the U.S.
It's a big national holiday.
And for many, this long weekend marks the end of summer and a chance to relax and spend time with friends and family.
But what if you're struggling with burnout, exhaustion, and just...
don't want to go back to work.
In this recent episode from How to Be a Better Human, host Chris Duffy speaks with Sarah Jaffe, author of the book, Work Won't Love You Back, how devotion to our jobs keeps us exploited, exhausted, and alone.
They dig into what's behind the dread some of us may be feeling at work and at home and offer some thoughts on what we can do about it.
How to Be a Better Human is a show that looks in unexpected places for new ways to improve and show up for one another.
If you want to hear more insights like this, listen to How to Be a Better Human wherever you get your podcasts and learn about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
I'm your host, Elise Hu.
Do schools kill creativity?
It's a question that has made today's talk a classic, one of the most watched TED Talks of all time.
So for back to school season, we are sharing author and educator Sir Ken Robinson's 2006 talk, which for all of you TED nerds out there was one of the first talks we ever published online.
where Sir Ken makes the profound case for why creativity is vital to our world and why creating an education system that nurtures rather than undermines creativity is a necessity.
That was Sir Ken Robinson at TED 2006.
The talk was first published in June 2006.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sungmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Christopher Fasey-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
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I'm your host, Elise Hu.
As we fall deeper and deeper into the black box, is hoping for humanity the most human thing we can do?
That's a question from poet Salome Agborugi.
In her moving and at times funny performance, she asks us to take a deep and honest look at why the rush towards celebrating artificial intelligence is dangerous and how looking to technological innovation to improve our lives often misses the point entirely.
That was Salome Agbaruji speaking at TED 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Christopher Faisy-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
You're listening to TED Talks Daily, where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day.
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When you think about AI literally generating new DNA, does that thrill you or scare you?
For bioengineer and genomic AI pioneer, Eric Nguyen, it's a little bit of both.
But for him, the possibilities of unlocking new medicines and curing diseases, among other things, makes it worth the risk.
In his talk, he shares how looking at DNA as a language, one that AI can learn to read, write, and ultimately build, will let us fundamentally change biology and life itself.
That was Eric Nguyen at TED 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This talk was fact-checked by the TED Research Team and produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, and Tansika Sangmarnivong.
This episode was mixed by Christopher Faisy-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
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Thanks for listening.
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Happy Sunday.
Today, we're bringing you a new episode of our very own book club series, where each month we check out new books from TED speakers that will spark your curiosity all year long.
A few weeks ago, I sat down with Ra Goddess, author of the new book, Intentional Ambition, Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom, and Fulfillment.
We got together virtually in front of a live audience of TED members to speak about how work culture has fundamentally changed and what we can do to recenter joy and mental well-being in our life and, yes, in our work.
Ra is a social impact strategist and career coach with over 30 years of experience empowering changemakers, creatives, leaders, and social entrepreneurs.
Her mission is to help people find their true mission and purpose in life and to revolutionize the way we live, work, and play.
In our conversation, she lays out three stages to renegotiate your relationship to work in order to discover and align with your true ambitions.
Let's get to it.
Ra, welcome.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you so much, Elise, for having me.
It's so wonderful to be here.
Well, let's just start with, given the fact that everything is going on in the world and can feel so tumultuous, it seems like it's a great moment to just reassess our relationships with work.
So let's start by talking about work culture itself.
How would you describe the current state of work?
Influx.
And that brings us to your current book, your new book, Intentional Ambition, which we're talking about today.
How is that situated in this landscape that you've laid out?
Joy is in the title of your book.
How do you think we should navigate finding joy and intention in our own lives given the fear and the uncertainty or anxiety that a lot of us are experiencing now given the backdrop that we're working under?
Yeah.
Yeah, but to get to those ends that we all seek, obviously it starts with a renegotiation or a negotiation with ourselves, which you write so beautifully about.
So I'd love to go back to your own timeline and how you kind of got to this framework that is laid out in the book.
Early on in the book, you share a story about an awakening that you had that led to your own renegotiation in your life following the death of your father.
How did you respond?
Originally.
One of those major ideas that you had to renegotiate is success and the idea of success.
Can you talk us through that and how you first thought about it and how you've come to think about it now?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
As we talk about this distinction between external rewards and intrinsic or internal rewards, it's related to a question that we received from a TED member.
So I'd love to ask you the question from Christy, who wrote,
What are indications we are pursuing someone else's version of success and not our own?
Yeah.
Oh, yes.
You know, the lack of energy.
Yeah.
Well, to follow up, once you've realized this distinction, you've kind of come to this moment, this fork in the road that you confronted yourself back in 2016.
Our fellow TED member Kelly S. asks, what's your advice?
What advice do you have on handling the pivot from achieving success from other people's eyes to focusing on your own definition?
This is such a great segue to the book, Rob, because in your book, you lay out a framework to finding our true ambition, finding our true selves.
negotiation, resignation, and renegotiation.
Do you want to talk us through those?
But of course, Ra, as you've pointed out, some of the barriers that are hardest to overcome are the ones that we've internalized inside ourselves.
What is the first step to changing our own mindsets and accepting the possibility of change?
Since so much of this renegotiation requires a reckoning, do you generally recommend that we seek outside help like an executive coach or a therapist to help us work through this?
Rob, the title of the book is Intentional Ambition.
So would you mind sharing with us what you defined as intentional ambition versus wounded ambition?
While we're on this topic of ambition, one of our TED members, Sofal E, asks a powerful question.
He writes, how do you redefine ambition when your earliest ambitions were survival-based?
In this case, Sofal is immigrant, refugee, first generation.
How do you unlearn the belief that joy and rest are luxuries instead of rights?
Yeah.
Let's get practical though, because so many people are struggling right now, whether they're struggling to find a job and feel like they have to take anything they can get, or they're working for jobs just to get by and feel like they don't have that extra time in order to slow down and get reflective and get clear.
Or they feel as though they can't quit a job they hate because of finances.
What advice would you give to someone who knows they do want more alignment?
They're listening to this conversation and they feel like, gosh, a lot of this tracks for me.
But there's lots of fears and practicalities around here that they feel like they just can't navigate around.
We talked earlier, Ra, about indications that we're on maybe the wrong path or out of alignment.
Another great question that we have from TED member Ryan S. is, I think I know where I want my career to go, but I don't know how to get there.
How do I know that I'm on the right path?
It absolutely does.
I have certainly found that in my own life.
Well, as we're talking about collaboration and connection, we have yet to talk about your phrase that you use called the scarcity scare.
We're so conditioned to this narrative that there's not enough and not enough opportunity or work to go around.
What could work and competition look like outside of this scarcity mindset?
All right, Ra.
Someone wrote in and said that they're in their mid-70s and felt like they didn't really have a story anymore.
So I wonder how you would respond to this and to the question of having to reimagine your purpose at the end of a working life.
This conversation has been full of stories and the stories that we tell ourselves, the ones that we inherit, the ones that we build and shape for ourselves after a renegotiation.
So in the lead up to this conversation, Ra, you shared a few questions with us for the TED community.
And you asked...
What is a story you tell yourself about your place in life or at work that's no longer serving you?
What is the new story that you want to be able to tell instead?
In what ways do you think you're struggling to get there?
Really great prompt, very thoughtful.
And before we share some of what y'all submitted, Rod, do you mind just briefly sharing an example of your own story with us about a story that maybe stopped serving you and how you found your new one?
What a powerful unlock.
That's awesome.
Thank you for sharing, and thank you to our TED community for submitting.
We had so many thoughtful answers to this prompt, and I wish we could share them all, but Ra has reviewed them and chosen a few that she would like to respond to.
So here's the first one from Uzgush C., who wrote...
Thank you so much.
After that, I decided to live for myself.
I started to study for my dream department.
And currently, I'm a second grade university student at age 26, 27 in November.
I feel like I'm a burden now because I'm not making money.
I'm not working.
but I can't find any job while studying.
I want to have high grades, but sometimes I feel like I'm doing something wrong and I should just quit and start to work at any job.
So I'm mostly struggling because of economic issues and the mental problems that this causes.
Still, I don't want to give up because I feel like life is a journey.
Even if I'm late, even if I'm doing something wrong, I know that I will learn from it.
And in the end, I want to say I didn't give up and that I'm doing what makes me happy.
Thank you so much.
Okay, our next one is from Kim H., who wrote in and says, "'The old story I'm ready to change.
I have to carry it all to make it matter.
For years, I've believed that my impact is directly tied to how much I shoulder alone, that if I slow down or ask for help, the vision will shrink or stall.
This story has fueled progress, but also burnout, isolation, and a quiet fear that I'm always one step behind.'"
The new story.
I'm building systems, teams, and communities that let purpose move through me, not depend on me.
I want to lead from a place of aligned energy, not obligation.
I want my work to feel like a collaboration with life, not a fight against the clock.
What's blocking me?
I'm good at strategy and execution, but letting go of control, delegating deeply, and truly trusting others with the mission still feels like a risk.
I'm navigating how to release the martyr mindset while still holding the bar high.
That's my edge right now.
Wonderful.
Wonderful.
Okay.
One last one is from Jeannie J. who writes, story no longer serving me is I've recognized a tendency to undervalue or minimize my own expertise and contributions, which has sometimes limited the recognition and opportunities available to me.
New story I want to tell.
I'm stepping into a professional narrative of clarity, confidence, and meaningful impact where my expertise and passion align seamlessly with abundant opportunities, career advancement, and professional fulfillment.
I love that.
I love all these mantras.
They're so helpful.
Thank you for sharing such thoughtful and important reflections.
We have a few more minutes.
So before we wrap, we have lots of questions from our members, and that's how we will close out our hour as we typically do.
Ra, are you ready?
I'm ready.
Okay.
Manoj M. asks, how can young leaders stay true to their purpose when the pressure to succeed often means compromising or playing it safe?
Yeah.
Wanderly D asks, how do we achieve success in light of fast-paced trends?
How can we really be seen outside of social media?
Okay, lovely.
Jennifer S. asks, achieving can be fun.
How do we aim for that fun level without spilling over to an unhealthy level of achievement?
Underachieving can feel unfulfilling.
Yeah.
Okay, we have time for one more question.
So I will ask it for Tarla W., who asks, staying intentionally ambitious right now can be challenging for even generally optimistic people.
What might be the most fundamental practices to stay on a positive path?
So this is an opportunity for you to kind of recap for us too, Rob.
Let's stay on you for one last question from me, Ra, which is, what is the mantra that's keeping you going right now?
You've offered so many to our listeners, but what about you?
Thank you so much to Raw Goddess for this incredibly moving and motivating conversation.
I have personally learned so much.
I'm sure our listeners have too.
Raw Goddess, thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you so much, Elise.
That was Raw Goddess in conversation with me, Elise Hugh, for the TED Talks Daily Book Club.
This conversation was hosted in partnership with our TED membership team.
Thank you to our wonderful TED members for joining our live virtual event.
To watch the conversation on video, visit TED.com.
Finally, if you want to be part of our next live book club event, sign up for a TED membership at go.ted.com slash membership.
You'll get live access to virtual podcast recording sessions and the chance to ask writers like Ra deer-burning questions.
And that's it for today.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This episode was produced by Lucy Little.
The TED Talks daily team includes Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, and Tanzika Sangmarnivar.
Additional support from Emma Tobner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hugh.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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We all know what fun feels like, especially after we've had fun.
But what makes an activity or an experience actually fun?
That's what science journalist and author Catherine Price helps us unpack.
In her archive talk from TED 2022, she breaks down the elements that have to come together to have a truly fun time and why it's so important to our wellness and overall happiness.
That was Katherine Price at TED 2022.
This talk was originally published in June 2022.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today's show.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This episode was produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, Alejandra Salazar, and Tonsica Sarmarnivon.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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As natural disasters and war force more and more people from their homes, immigration has become a divisive, politicized issue around the world.
In this conversation, hosted by TED's Whitney Pennington Rogers, journalist Sonia Shah and Professor Zeke Hernandez discuss the truth behind human migration, the pitfalls of restrictive immigration policies, and how to actually promote a more resilient, safe, and economically flourishing society.
That was a TEDxplains conversation with Sonia Shah, Zeke Hernandez and Whitney Pennington-Rogers.
It was recorded August 5th, 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
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It's a hard cycle to crack.
In order to prevent food waste, we rely mostly on plastic packaging and refrigeration, which then leads to major environmental problems.
What if we turn to nature to address these challenges?
In her talk, engineer and chemist Jenny Du shares how her company is tackling plastic production and food waste by mimicking nature's own preservation methods.
In turn, it's opening up major possibilities for less waste and a more diverse and accessible global food supply.
And stick around after the talk for a Q&A between Jenny and Lateef Nasser, the co-host of Radiolab and a guest curator at TED 2025.
That was Jenny Du speaking at TED 2025.
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It's a simple but profound question.
Does the world really need classical music anymore?
What about orchestras?
In this gorgeous talk and performance, violinist Joshua Bell and the Chamber Orchestra of America take to the TED stage to share why music remains a singularly unifying force in our world and why it and the musicians who share it are more crucial now than ever before.
That was Joshua Bell and the Chamber Orchestra of America at TED 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
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TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This episode was produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, Alejandra Salazar, and Tonsica Sarmarnivon.
It was mixed by Christopher Fasey-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
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Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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Venting.
We all do it.
Something frustrates us and we vent to a partner or a friend, hoping it'll make us feel better.
But does it actually work?
In this talk, social and organizational psychology expert Jennifer Parlamas unpacks the science of anger and the myths behind venting and reveals why it actually can reinforce anger rather than alleviate it.
She shares what you might want to consider doing instead.
That was Jennifer Parlamis at TEDxGVAgrad in Geneva, Switzerland in 2025.
If you're curious about TED's curation, find out more at TED.com slash curation guidelines.
And that's it for today's show.
TED Talks Daily is part of the TED Audio Collective.
This episode was produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, Alejandra Salazar, and Tonsica Sarmarnivon.
It was mixed by Christopher Fasey-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
I'm Elise Hu.
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Thanks for listening.
Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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Did you know that when the phonograph first came out in the early 1900s, some argued that pre-recorded music wasn't real music?
In this talk, musician and social media creator Dustin Ballard says we're still wrestling with that question today.
What makes music real music in the first place?
Dustin is known for his popular YouTube channel, There I Ruined It, where he uses artistry and AI to quote, lovingly destroy our favorite songs.
He weaves us through a few hilarious examples of different ways he's quote, ruined songs and complicates our questions around AI's role in music making.
That was Dustin Ballard speaking at TED 2025.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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Clean energy visionary Lei Zhang says clean energy is bringing about an age of possibility.
In this talk, he brings us to the Gobi Desert, a massive desert that stretches across northern China and southern Mongolia, where one of the world's largest green hydrogen projects can be found.
He shares how this and other barren landscapes hold more energy reserves than the world consumes today and reminds us all to get a little more creative.
Where others see emptiness, he sees abundance.
That was Lei Zhang speaking at TED Countdown Summit Nairobi in Kenya in 2025.
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What would the German philosopher Immanuel Kant say about a fender bender?
In this Archive Talk, TV writer and producer Michael Schur from hit shows like The Office and The Good Place.
takes us on a surprisingly funny trip through the teachings of some of history's great philosophers.
He walks us through how to confront life's moral dilemmas and shows how understanding ethical theories, both old and new, can help you make better, kinder decisions.
That was Michael Schur at TED 2022.
This talk was originally posted in July 2022.
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We spend a lot of time talking about the ways the internet and social media are destructive, ruining our attention spans, our ability to connect, our ability to discern truth from fiction.
But with all this knowledge, could there still be a way to live happier lives online?
Like all Gen Zers, writer and designer Michael Sun grew up online and he knows the dangers.
But in his talk, he shares why he thinks it's possible to create a modern internet that lets us be vulnerable and connect with others in a more positive way and enjoy the randomness that life and the early internet has to offer.
That was Michael Sun speaking at TEDx Youth Sydney in Australia in 2023.
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Feeding 1 million kids daily in Kenya by 2030 and 2 million more across Africa?
Now that is great math.
In this talk, food trailblazer Warira Najiru shares how her organization, Food for Education, is changing the script on what is possible.
There are innovative solutions taking place across Africa, which can serve as a blueprint for feeding children sustainably and at scale.
It's time, she asks us, to reimagine the continent not as a crisis zone, but as the source of inspiration for what is possible.
And it's time we listen.
That was Warira Najiru at TED 2025.
This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.
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A question that petrifies me, and I'm assuming everyone listening, is the world on the brink of World War III?
In this talk, political scientist Hemi Azikukie digs into the four major dimensions of war to uncover patterns of global dynamics and growing instability that led to World Wars I and II.
Through this lens of history, he shares a powerful and scary reflection on the present moment and a warning to not repeat the mistakes of the past.
That was Henny Ozzie-Cookier at TEDxLisboa in 2025.
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When you've been making films for as long as director, producer, and author Barry Sonnenfeld has, you've definitely learned a thing or two, or a lot more, about life.
In this talk, Barry pulls from his four decades in the film industry to share 10 unexpected rules for survival and success and what it takes to really make people laugh without letting them know you're trying.
Enjoy.
That was Barry Sonnenfeld at TED 2025.
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In 100 years, what will future generations say about us and what we did or didn't do for them and this planet?
It's a powerful question that impact investor Jacqueline Novogratz asks in her talk, where she lays out a plan to bring electricity to everyone on the planet, fixing, as she calls it, one of the biggest planetary market failures of our lifetime.
For Jacqueline, it is in darkness that instability, forced migration, and inequality rise.
Sharing examples of success stories her firm has invested in, she lays out how this dream is possible and asks us to consider what is the risk of not daring to be better and not daring to bring light sustainably to all.
That was Jacqueline Novogratz at TED Countdown Summit Nairobi in 2025.
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What can you hear when you take a moment to be silent?
In this Archive Talk, host of the podcast 20,000 Hertz, Dallas Taylor, takes us on an exploration of sound, telling the story of arguably the most debated musical composition in recent history.
composer John Cage's iconic piece, 433.
Through this story, Dallas invites us all to take notice of what's around us when we truly stop to listen and asks, what is silence anyway?
Please note there is an intentional long period of no talking, four minutes and 33 seconds to be exact, at the end of this talk.
We welcome you to stick around and just witness what you hear around you.
That was Dallas Taylor at TED 2020.
This talk was originally posted in May of 2020.
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Hey, TED Talks Daily listeners, I'm Elise Hu.
Today, we're bringing you a Sunday pick where we share an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you.
What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance?
To explore this question, we're sharing an episode of How to Be a Better Human featuring Raina Cohen, author of the book, The Other Significant Others, Reimagine Life with Friendship at the Center.
She sat down with host Chris Duffy to talk about the value of platonic relationships, and they get into everything from what it means to offload expectations from a romantic partner onto friends instead, to how to cope with the loss of a friend, and what to do when politics divide friendships.
If you want to strengthen your relationships of all kinds, this episode is for you.
How to Be a Better Human is a show that looks in unexpected places for new ways to improve and show up for one another.
If you want to hear more insights like this, listen to How to Be a Better Human wherever you get your podcasts.
Learn about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com.
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Photography has a particular gift to strip away assumptions and leave viewers with a window into a subject's character, filling our eyes and our minds with wonder and curiosity.
In this Moving Talk from 2022, portrait photographer Platon shares the extraordinary stories behind what it's like to photograph some of the world's most prominent figures, from Michelle Obama to Pussy Riot to Vladimir Putin and Muhammad Ali.
He tells us how photographs have the ability to capture the disarming power of empathy and human connection.
Asking all of us to remember we're in this together.
That was Platon at TED 2022.
To see the many photographs referenced in this talk, visit TED.com.
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For me, comedy is a necessary lens through which to look at the issues we're facing in the world.
It's a place to laugh and sometimes cry laugh.
In this hilarious and searing set from comedian and screenwriter Jenna Friedman, she asks us to consider the things that separate us from machines and wonders, will we continue to get replaced by AI?
Will we be replaced by robots?
but maybe not the stand-up comics.
I don't want to give too much away, so I'm just going to leave it there.
And a heads up that today's talk contains mature content that may not be suitable for all audiences.
That was Jenna Friedman speaking at TED 2025.
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I'm Elise Hugh.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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You know how sometimes great friends are actually the worst roommates?
Or people who are really kind can be horrible leaders?
In this talk, organizational culture expert Jamie Wolfe and media scholar Dr. Chris Bell bring this predicament to the workplace, sharing the reasons why some really good people become bad leaders.
They share things to look out for, and if you're a manager or a leader, how to avoid becoming a bad boss.
That was Jamie Wolfe and Chris Bell at TEDxSonoma County in 2025.
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Voting is a fundamental right in this country, and it's something that should be easy to do.
So a question I've always had is, is there a world in which we could vote from our phones?
Venture capitalist and political strategist Bradley Tusk makes the case that secure, accessible phone voting is possible and would be a huge step forward to dramatically increase turnout and restore function, representation, and trust in democracy.
That was Bradley Tusk speaking at TED 2025.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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Amid the conflict in the Middle East, another threat silently multiplies, climate change.
But what would happen if instead of looking at climate and world conflict as separate, we saw them as being integrally connected?
In this talk, Palestinian environmental peacemaker Nada Majdalani shares how her organization is bringing together Jordanians, Palestinians and Israelis through a vision of environmental peace building and why tapping into the region's natural resources can foster interdependence and cooperation, not conflict.
That was Nada Majdalani at TED Countdown Summit 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Art has a simple and profound way of illuminating life and connecting us to the world.
In this popular archive talk, artist Myra Kalman does just this –
Through talking about her art and practice, she reflects on life, death, dinner parties, and why she loves not knowing the right answers.
She reminds us life is worth loving in all its absurd glory.
That's coming up.
That was Myra Kalman at TED Women in 2023.
This talk was originally published in October 2023.
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We all know about physical safety and what it means to set up work and personal environments to feel safe.
But what does it mean to feel psychologically safe?
In this talk, organizational psychologist Dr. Rafael Chiusi uses real-life examples to reflect on the hazard of fear-based cultures and why fostering psychological safety creates better results at work and beyond.
That was Raphael Chiusi at TEDxMcMasterU in 2022.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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I'm always amazed by how entrepreneurial minds are able to solve some of the biggest, most intangible problems we face, seeing scalable solutions against all odds.
This is one of those stories.
In this conversation, impact investor Jacqueline Novogratz speaks with Sotoyo Lobokoye, the CEO of M-Pesa, Africa's largest fintech platform, to learn how M-Pesa's digital banking ecosystem has revolutionized financial access across Africa.
It demonstrates how financial inclusion and smart technology truly have the power to uplift entire communities.
That's coming up.
That was Satoyo Lopukoye in conversation with Jacqueline Novogratz at TED 2025.
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In a moment that stunned the world in 2019, the famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris went up in flames.
In this talk, Philippe Villeneuve, the chief architect of Notre Dame's reconstruction, says that reviving the historic cathedral has been more than a rebuild.
It's a blueprint for future restoration efforts.
Drawing on time-honored techniques, Philippe shares how a team of craftspeople and experts came together to bring new life to this Gothic masterpiece and what it took to help Notre Dame be reborn from the ashes.
That was Philippe Villeneuve at TED 2025.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
Hey, TED Talks Daily listeners, I'm Elise Hu.
Today, we have an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you.
We've all heard how important it is to relax and recharge, but in reality, a lot of people don't use their vacation days or even unwind on the weekends at all.
This week, we're breaking down why that might not be a great idea in an episode of Work Life with Adam Grant.
Today's pick from the archives is all about the science of taking a break.
You'll learn how to prevent burnout and make the most of your time off to bounce back stronger than ever.
You can find Work Life with Adam Grant wherever you get your podcasts.
Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com.
Now onto the episode right after a quick break.
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Learning from my own mistakes and reflecting on how I handle things in life has always been a huge part of my own growth.
For business leader Paul Ketchlove, the power of reflection is key to, well, just about everything.
In his archive talk, he shares that through every career he's held, from priest to opera singer to senior management consultant, he's benefited from the habit of reflecting on what worked and what could be better next time.
Coming up, how retrospectives can transform our careers and relationships.
That was Paul Catchlove for TED at BCG.
This talk was originally published in September 2022.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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From a boy setting off small explosions in his living room to the creator of world-famous pyrotechnic events, multidisciplinary artist Cai Guo-chang has always been drawn to gunpowder.
In this Archive Talk, he gives a stunning tour of his work, including his firework spectacle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, his sky ladder of fire reaching to the clouds, and new work created with A.I.,
He shares why he believes art is one of the best mediums to explore the great tensions of our world, violence and beauty, control and freedom, destruction and construction.
Please note this talk was delivered in Mandarin Chinese and translated live into English.
The translation was put through a custom AI model of Cai Guochang's voice, powered by technology from Metaphysic.
In this episode, you'll hear how Cai would sound if he were speaking English.
That was Tsai Kuo-chang at TED 2024.
This talk was originally published in April 2024.
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This episode was produced and edited by our team, Martha Estefanos, Oliver Friedman, Brian Green, Lucy Little, Alejandra Salazar, and Tonsica Sarmarnivon.
It was mixed by Christopher Fasey-Bogan.
Additional support from Emma Taubner and Daniela Balarezo.
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I never thought I'd see the day where I walk into the room and see my one-year-old golden retriever, Oscar, video chatting with a friend who's also a golden retriever.
It might make some people laugh, but for computer scientist Ilyena Herskij-Douglas, the notion of a social internet for animals isn't far off and is one she's actively exploring.
In her talk, she shares why giving animals access to technology can make their lives better.
and why animals are more socially aware than we think.
That was Ilyena Herskish-Douglas at TEDx Manchester in 2025.
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Digital forensic scientist, Hani Fareed warns we're at a pivotal fork in the road when it comes to what our eyes are seeing and what's real.
Hani, who specializes in identifying AI generated imagery and video, explained in his TED Talk how generative AI is fundamentally changing our very understanding of truth.
After Hani got off stage, we sat down to talk more about the rapid growth of generative AI and its vast implications for how we engage with media, politics, and, well, pretty much everything.
We also talk about the very real dangers of deepfakes, the changing face of news globally, and why it's so important to be skeptical and diligent about everything we see and hear.
Well, thank you for sitting down with me.
Talk to us a little bit just about the big idea of your TED Talk.
Because we are all engaging in a world of visual imagery these days.
But so much of it is fake.
How do we?
No, it didn't.
Trash in, trash out.
I'm like, really?
It really boomerangs back on itself.
Yeah.
Capitalism has such a way of absorbing its own critiques and then just moving forward.
So if trust is lost or trust is broken and we can't get it back, then is the cow out of the barn?
What do we do?
How do I not just curl up in fetal position?
Yeah, it already feels really, really weird.
Isn't that what they're designed to do?
Yeah, would guardrails, would regulation or guardrails even be able to do anything about these advances given that AI is kind of on its own already?
I mean, it happened with cigarettes.
There's also kind of a collective action problem too, right?
Like you can prescribe various solutions for individuals.
Like I can go on digital detox and I might be able to get off of social media, but not if the collective isn't off social media.
Right.
It's my data.
They're making the bets.
Yeah, slapping taxes on –
What is considered, like, not good for you.
Syntaxes.
That has certainly happened in the past.
And why not open our minds to doing that again?
I want to talk about the young people because you mentioned young people and what we do about that.
And the fact that so many of them search TikTok for information.
Yeah.
What do you say to parents?
What kind of advice do you give to parents for their kids and for teaching their kids to become more literate when it comes to the information that they encounter when there is so much trash out there?
But like it or not, that is a primary news source.
Real quick, how do you teach or what do you teach to folks who want to be able to tell the difference between fake or real imagery?
No, there's a methodology.
All right.
Last question.
Since the cow is kind of out of the barn or the toothpaste is out of the tube, whatever analogy you want to use.
How do you convince people that things are fake when they're not real?
Yeah, and we also have – we're only human.
We have our own cognitive biases too.
Yeah.
Thank you so much for sitting down with me.
Before we wrap up completely, I have some rapid fire questions.
Okay, okay.
Here we go.
What does innovation or a good idea look or feel like to you?
Okay.
What's something new that you brought into your life in 2025 that didn't exist before?
Or are you a new practice?
Are you, like, playing tennis or anything?
Are you doing anything new?
What are you hoping to leave behind this year?
Okay.
That'll be the new thing you bring into the world, and you get to leave it behind.
It's a legacy, too.
That's a good one.
All right.
Off the TED stage, what is a fun talent, skill, hobby, obsession that you have that you love so much that you could give another TED Talk?
Just about that.
Touch grass.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's your most treasured memory?
Food is so evocative, too.
Well, maybe along the lines of that, what would constitute a perfect day for you?
I mean, you can just list off a few things.
That's beautiful.
All right.
Two-sided question.
Final two.
What are you worried about?
What's giving you hope?
I'm sure this interview is making me feel great, honey.
All right.
Thank you so much.
That was Hani Farid in conversation with me, Elise Hu, at TED 2025.
You can check out Hani's talk on the TED Talks Daily feed and at TED.com.
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The most influential puppets in my life are actually Muppets, you know, from Sesame Street or Kermit and Miss Piggy and their whole Jim Henson puppet universe.
They evoke all kinds of feelings and nostalgia, childhood.
In this talk, artist and designer Fredette Lamp, who is part of the French street theater collective La Machine, reflects on what it means to create and build giant moving machines, from fire-breathing sea dragons to slumbering minotaurs, and why the kind of puppets she makes go way beyond entertainment.
They can help reshape how people see their cities and one another.
That was Fredette Lamp at TED 2025.
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There are some really dangerous myths facing the climate movement that we have to work quickly to combat, according to Nobel laureate and climate leader Al Gore.
In this urgent talk, he dismantles the fossil fuel industry's narrative of, quote, climate realism, contrasting their misleading claims with the remarkable advancements in renewable energy.
He makes the powerful case that we already have everything we need to solve the climate crisis today.
That was Al Gore at TED Countdown Summit 2025 in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Happy Sunday.
Today, we're bringing you a conversation between me and writer, performer, and educator, Sarah Kay.
We got together virtually in front of a live audience of TED members just a few weeks ago, and we talked about her journey as a poet and her new collection of poetry, A Little Daylight Left.
This conversation is part of our book club series, where we check out new books from past TED speakers that will spark your curiosity all year long.
Sarah Kay was in her early 20s when her first TED Talk went viral.
She has since given four more and was the host of the podcast Sincerely X from TED.
She's also written five books of poetry and performed her work all over the world, from the cornfields in Iowa to a ship on a Norwegian fjord to a nightclub in Singapore.
She's also performed at Carnegie Hall, middle school gyms, the back rooms of dive bars, and more.
She's the founder and co-director of Project Voice, an organization that uses poetry to entertain, educate, and empower students and educators worldwide.
Sarah's poems invite us to consider what it might look like to boldly face the hard things we so often run from and to celebrate what we hold dear.
The result has been described as a blueprint for discovering beauty in all that makes us human.
I am so delighted to share our book club conversation with you today.
Sarah Kay, welcome and thank you so much for joining us today.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you for that kind intro.
Of course.
Well, I am amazed and long have been amazed at the way you're able to bring together such vast and sometimes overwhelming topics into a space that really feels safe and relatable.
You wrote in your poem Orange about, I'm quoting now, the invisible thread of poetry that so many people are holding on to, even and especially people who may not have anything else in common.
In your view, what makes poetry so powerful that so many people are drawn to it and hold on to it?
New York City is a big part of your latest collection.
Tell us a little bit about how you became a poet.
Speaking of a room full of adults, by the time you were 22, you were on stage giving your first TED Talk.
This was 2011, and you began your talk with... If I should have a daughter...
That talk went super viral and has been watched literally millions of times.
And you have since described that TED Talk as the start of an accidental ambassadorship.
What do you mean by that?
You mentioned using poetry in the classroom.
So let's jump to poetry as education and in education.
You have been an educator for much of your adult life now, having started Project Voice when you were in college.
Can you share some of your experiences with poetry in the classroom and what it's like just teaching poetry and the benefits of poetry?
younger folks learning it.
I guess they don't have to be younger even.
What a beautiful story.
Let's get practical then.
How do you think readers should engage with poetry?
Do you have a preferred way of teaching folks how to approach a text?
You now have five collections of poetry out.
You're very prolific.
What does the process of writing and gathering or curating a collection of poetry look like for you?
Well, let's apply those questions to your latest collection, A Little Daylight Left.
What are those poems for?
What are they doing?
What is the arc?
Okay.
Well, as we talk about this timeline,
We have a really great question from Mariam K, who's one of our TED members, who asks, if you, Sarah, in 2025, who just gave her fifth TED Talk,
could give advice to the Sarah in 2011 who was about to give her first, what would that advice be?
In your acknowledgements,
You wrote, thank you to the many poets who provided doorways through which I could and needed to walk in order to find these poems of my own, which leads me to ask, what is your relationship to your ancestors, your teachers, both alive and no longer living?
And why is their influence so important to your poetry?
So for someone listening to this, maybe they're feeling inspired to write or create, but doesn't know where to start, what would you tell them?
Now we're going to transition into the closing section of this conversation, which I'm super excited about.
We're going to do a version of something that you used to do with the Paris Review, which I think is pretty brilliant.
So before we get started, can you tell us a little bit about what we're about to do, what PoetryRx means, where the idea came from, and what it means when you say to reach for a poem?
We had so many thoughtful submissions when we asked you all to write in to Sarah.
So here's the first one I have for you, Sarah Kay.
It is from Angela S. They are asking about how to manage an immigrant's distress in the current state of America.
Angela writes, it's hard to feel grateful for the opportunities this country has given while also feeling afraid and unwelcomed.
That kind of emotional conflict is hard to explain to people who haven't lived it.
It's like holding your breath in a place that's supposed to be home.
Thank you so much for sharing that.
Our last prompt for today is from Robin S., who shared with us...
When I get a whiff that something beautiful is happening, my mind automatically warns me that it will not last or that maybe I am mistaken.
What is your advice?
And just full disclosure, I totally relate to this.
I'm always like, is there another shoe about to drop?
So give us a poem for this, Sarah.
Thank you so much for that.
You know, what a special and sacred time that we all get to spend together in community.
Before we wrap, a lot of people have been asking questions and so many questions too.
So I want to just end our hour with as many questions as we can get to.
First from Zainab.
I feel hopeless as a young person living in a world that's going through wars, genocide, inequality, uncertainty, capitalism, in a world that's in a state of despair.
What do I do as an individual?
What does art stand in here?
Yeah.
Tricky to just list off, but Laura asks, which poems are on your life soundtrack?
Which poems could be credited with moving or changing you the most?
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
From Cat H, is there a moment when your poetry gave you a revelation or offered you a revelation that frightened you?
Yeah.
This is very Ted question from Mari Angela A. How will AI change the way we make poetry?
Well, Sarah Kay, that brings us to the end of our time together.
Thank you so much for this incredibly moving and soul-nourishing conversation.
Thank you.
Thank you a million times over.
That was Sarah Kay in conversation with me, Elise Hu, for the TED Talks Daily Book Club, hosted in partnership with our TED membership team.
Thank you to our wonderful TED members for joining our live virtual event.
To watch the conversation on video, all you have to do is visit TED.com.
Finally, if you want to be part of our next live book club event, please sign up for a TED membership at go.ted.com slash membership.
You'll get live access to virtual podcast recording sessions and the chance to ask writers like Sarah your burning questions.
And that's it for today.
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For actor-producer Yara Shahidi, curiosity is one of the most important tools we have for imagining a better world and what our place in it can be.
In her archive talk, she asks us not to second guess what distracts us in life, but instead to explore our curiosity for what's around us.
It might not solve the world's largest problems, but if we refuse to let our worlds get smaller, imagine what futures we can build together.
That was Yara Shahidi speaking at TED 2023.
This talk was originally published in April 2023.
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How do we celebrate progress and innovation while also acknowledging the fear of losing one's job to, say, AI?
In this talk, journalist Megan J. McArdle explores this question, sharing her deep anxiety around AI threatening her career as a writer while...
as a libertarian, also wrestling with her belief in progress and the potential of new technologies.
That's coming up.
That was Megan J. McArdle at TED 2025.
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Stereotypes can often come when we say the word autism.
In this talk, actress and disability rights activist Chloe Hayton asks us to reconsider the narrative around autism and why it's so important to uplift autistic voices.
She shares the story of her own diagnosis.
and the journey to knowing autism doesn't mean wrong or bad, and asks those who are not autistic to help create a world where the neurodivergent to neurotypical spectrum is understood and celebrated.
That was Chloe Hayden at TEDxSydney Youth in 2024.
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Freedom is a fragile thing and something that can mean many different things to different people.
In this talk, journalist and lawyer Greg Lukianoff warns against what he calls mob censorship.
He asks people to consider what happens when disruptive protests silence opposing views and reminds us that free speech is a crucial safeguard for truth, safety, and the powerless.
That was Greg Lukanoff speaking at TED 2025.
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Today, we have another Sunday Pick episode where we share another podcast from the TED Audio Collective handpicked by us for you.
Tech journalist, opinion leader, and podcast host Kara Swisher has hosted hundreds and hundreds of news-making interviews tracking tech and media's changing power, often going head-to-head with the most prominent figures in the tech industry.
In this episode of Design Matters, hosted by Debbie Millman and with a special appearance from writer Roxanne Gay, Cara sits down in front of a live audience to talk about her wide-ranging career covering the fast-evolving world of technology and politics.
You can find episodes of Design Matters wherever you get your podcasts.
Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com.
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Our original series, TED Intersections, features unscripted conversations between speakers and experts taking on subjects at the intersection of their expertise.
In this final intersections conversation of the season, work futurist Michelle Weiss sits down with video creator John Ushai to answer the question, how do we navigate the ever-evolving nature of work?
Discussing how they both maneuver the pace of technological change in the workplace, they offer advice on how to make sure your skills stand out and what to keep in mind when entering into the workforce today and in the future.
That was a conversation between Michelle Weiss and John Ushai for our original series, TED Intersections.
Visit TED.com to watch this conversation and others from the series.
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I love so many of the TED Talks and performances we share with you here each day.
And over the years, I've learned so much, laughed so much, and even shed a few tears.
But today's performance is really special, and I'm so excited to share it with you.
We'll quickly set the scene for you.
Composer, author, and performer Todd Allman walks on stage and sits down at a grand piano.
And over the next 10 minutes, he accompanies the imagined voice of artificial intelligence herself, played by the incredible actor and singer Donna Murphy.
It's cabaret meets searing social commentary meets comedic gold.
Enjoy.
That was Todd Almond and Donna Murphy performing at TED 2025.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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You may have heard the phrase, the forests are the Earth's lungs.
And yet, more than a third of the world's forests have been cleared in just the last 300 years.
A landmass approximately 1.5 times the size of the United States.
The commodities that have been created from this deforestation, wood, palm oil, to name a couple, are so ubiquitous in our world today that taking them out of production is nearly impossible.
But for sustainability expert Andika Putradatama, there's no way to mitigate climate change without stopping the loss of the world's forests.
In his 2024 talk, he shares his vision for preserving the forest we still have, restoring the ones we've lost, and what has to be done in order for us to not miss the forest for the trees.
That was Andika Putradatama at TED Countdown's Dilemma event in Brussels in 2024.
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Streaming platforms, corporate gatekeepers, and now AI have eroded the power of artists.
And today, creative people globally struggle to earn a living.
Is it possible that an artist-powered revolution is on its way?
For writer, entrepreneur, and former Kickstarter CEO, Yancey Strickler, the answer is yes.
In his talk, he shares his idea for a radical new legal structure, which he calls the Artist Corporation, that could give creators real economic and organizational power on their own terms.
Coming up.
That was Yancy Strickler speaking at TED 2025.
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Today, we have an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective handpicked by us for you.
If you're feeling a little mediocre at something at work, consider this.
That could actually be the key to succeeding at something else.
In this episode of Fixable, business leaders Anne Morris and Francis Fry dare listeners to be bad in order to get good.
Using Steve Jobs and Apple as an example, Francis and Anne share insights on why phoning in certain things at work isn't lazy, but rather exactly what you need to do to excel where it matters most in your life and career.
Whatever you're dealing with at work, Fixable is there to help.
Listen to Fixable wherever you get your podcasts.
And if you've got a problem that you want fixed, call our hotline at 234-FIXABLE.
That's 234-349-2253 to leave Anne and Frances a voicemail with your workplace problems.
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TED Intersections is back for a second season.
This original series features unscripted conversations between TED speakers taking on subjects at the intersection of their expertise.
In this conversation, internet filmmaker Barron Ryan sits down with marriage and family therapist Stephanie R. Yates Anyabwile to answer the question, how do you learn to love yourself?
They dig into the struggles of people-pleasing, why we care so much about what people think of us, and how we can resist that sneaky urge to compare ourselves to others.
That was a conversation between Baron Ryan and Stephanie R. Yates-Añabuile for our original series, TED Intersections.
Visit TED.com to watch this conversation and others from the series.
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There have been times in my life where I've been frustrated or angry and wanted to say something to a friend that I know will come off as maybe aggressive or even mean.
In this Archive Talk, CEO, coach, and author Kim Scott poses the question, how do we say what we mean without being mean?
She shares why she thinks we must all be radically candid, as she calls it, and action steps that we can take to make it easier to say what we're feeling in the moment and build better relationships.
That was Kim Scott at TEDx Portland.
This talk was originally published in May 2023.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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We are in an extinction crisis.
By the end of the century, scientists believe that up to one-third of animal life on this planet could be gone.
That's a huge problem for so many reasons.
And according to biologist and entrepreneur Scott Laurie, we can help more than we know.
In his talk, he shares the power of citizen science and why we should all be taking out our phones and snapping a photo of that cool insect or bird we see way more for the sake of the earth.
And stick around for a brief Q&A between Scott and head of TED, Chris Anderson, after the talk.
That was Scott Laurie at TED 2025.
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We see it in the movies, assassins, hit lists, dramatic races to save people's lives.
How real can all this stuff be?
Well, in this wild talk, digital researcher Carl Miller makes it clear.
This isn't the stuff of movies, but rather of real life.
He takes us inside the mysterious workings of the dark web, where people are engaging in immoral acts that belong in the halls of true crime.
Hold on to your seats for this talk.
That was Karl Miller at TEDxManchester in 2025.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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We could all use a bit more humor in our lives, right?
So today we're bringing you just that.
In her 2024 set, comedian Shalewa Sharp brings her unique blend of self-deprecation and social observation to the TED stage and asks some of life's burning questions, including, but not limited to, did capitalism break my ankle?
Enjoy!
That was Shalewa Sharp speaking at TED Next in 2024.
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And that's it for today's show.
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Today, an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked for you by us.
This summer, TED Health is bringing you a special mini-series all about vaccines called Information Inoculation.
Featuring conversations with some of the nation's leading experts in public health and epidemiology, this series is all about why vaccines matter, how to avoid medical misinformation, and making sure you're equipped to make the best choices for your life and for your community.
Today's episode features a talk by Ethan Lindenberger, a young activist fighting against vaccine disinformation.
Then host Shoshana Ungerleider sits down with Jennifer Reich, an expert on vaccine hesitancy.
Jennifer explains where people's concerns about vaccines come from and offers helpful advice for having conversations about this increasingly polarizing subject.
You can listen to more of this special series on TED Health wherever you get your podcasts.
Learn more about the TED Audio Collective at audiocollective.ted.com.
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TED Intersections is back for a second season.
This original series features unscripted conversations between TED speakers and experts taking on subjects at the intersection of their expertise.
In today's conversation, Navid Madhavian, a New Yorker cartoonist and writer, sits down with physician Amy Baxter to answer the question, how do you navigate pain?
You'll be amazed by the connections they make between telling stories on paper, treating physical pain, and how the act of healing manifests in unexpected ways.
That's up next.
That was a conversation between Navid Madhavian and Amy Baxter for our original series, TED Intersections.
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When you hear of the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Queensland, Australia, many people think of vast colors, sparkling waters, and technicolor fish.
But coral reef systems are extremely sensitive to temperature.
And so as the planet warms, reefs across the world, including the Great Barrier Reef, are dying and at a terrifying pace.
This problem might seem insolvable, but not to reef guardian Teresa Fyfe.
So in honor of World Oceans Day coming up this Sunday, we're sharing her inspiring talk where she shares how she and her team are deploying new technology with roots in cancer research that's making scalable coral restoration a reality.
And as Teresa says, why it's not game over, but game on.
That was Teresa Fyfe speaking at TED 2025.
This ambitious idea is part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.
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Freedom is a flower.
It needs to be nurtured with water and sunlight and thoughtful care.
It's not a given that it will grow or survive all on its own.
Journalist Lei Cheng knows this firsthand.
For more than three years, Lei was imprisoned by China on false accusations of supplying state secrets overseas.
Today, she has a simple but powerful message.
You have to tend to your freedom, and it can't be taken for granted.
After Lei's talk, she and I sat down to think about freedom in theory and in practice.
We also talk about the role of journalism in helping preserve our freedoms in an increasingly turbulent world.
Well, Lake, congrats on your TED Talk.
We're getting you just off the TED stage.
How are you feeling now that it's done?
Yeah, that'll be some other round.
Let's talk about your beginnings, because we are both journalists.
I'd love to know why you wanted to get into journalism in the first place.
So you had a completely different career and then pivoted.
Yes.
How did you pivot?
Like, did you study?
Did you go to school?
Or did you just kind of get a job in journalism?
Tell us a little bit about your career pivot.
And we're glad that you did.
I wasn't glad for a
Your talk centers around this notion of freedom.
I'd love to know how you thought about freedom before being incarcerated and how you're thinking about it now.
I didn't think about freedom because I enjoyed it.
Instead, you ran into a buzzsaw.
It sounds like, obviously, bring that back to your time being incarcerated, too, because this is what really crystallized for you, this notion of freedom, right?
And then led to some of the ideas in your talk.
When do you feel like that evolution was really evident to you?
And how are you internalizing and living this notion of being free now?
Yeah.
You bring up war.
I'd love to talk a little bit about the concept of defending freedom because governments all over the world are spending millions, billions, trillions of dollars on defense and their militaries.
What do you think about that concept, the notion that the state needs to come in and defend the idea of freedom for its citizens?
Given the fact that the Chinese state did try to hurt you, are there any guardrails now or any guardrails that you give yourself in terms of what you can and cannot say about the Chinese government?
You talked about this already a little bit, but what would you say is your vision, your affirmative vision for collectively building a freer future?
Yeah.
Do you think that we confuse, especially in this highly visual, highly consumerist society, do you think that we confuse consumer choice for freedom?
Yeah.
And then obviously there's architects of our choices too, right?
Absolutely.
Whoever's behind the brands or the manufacturers or the industry.
And who does it benefit?
Yeah.
Well, given the way that the internet has balkanized us or has become a bunch of echo chambers and the growing nationalism and authoritarianism that we are seeing around the world, so not just in Asia, but also here in the West, what role do you think journalists should be playing in this moment for the globe?
Yeah.
So the economic incentives are all off.
We're also just seeing as a result of
failure of a lot of these business models behind journalism.
Just so many organizations or independent news organizations having to close up shop.
Is that the case in Australia?
Are there responses that you like to this problem of the media implosion?
All right.
You talk about how you learned that the mind can often be our greatest prison.
So what advice do you have for people who are feeling stuck?
Stuck between... Imprisoning themselves, yeah, with their own thoughts or their own notions of what their lives are supposed to be.
We have some rapid fire questions, a lightning round.
So you don't have to overthink it.
And it's just a quick word association or whatever comes to your mind first.
And it's a way for us to get to know you beyond your talk specifically.
All right.
What does innovation or a good idea look or feel like to you?
Spock.
Love it.
What's something new that you brought into your life in 2025 that didn't exist before?
dating apps.
Ooh, I want to hear more.
See, now I have to ask a follow-up.
Are there different dating apps in Australia than there are in the U.S.
and Canada?
Okay.
Vegemite.
No.
When I think of Australia, I'm always like...
Tim Tams?
And then Vegemite.
And I'm like, I have a taste for Tim Tams, but not Vegemite.
Okay.
What are you hoping to leave behind this year?
Your book.
Yes.
Actually, a play.
Ooh.
I'm working on a play.
How exciting.
How are you learning to write a play versus a book or a script that you've written before?
Great.
All right.
Off the TED stage, what is a fun talent, skill, or hobby that you have that you love so much that you could give another TED Talk just about that?
Food.
Ooh, any specific kind of food?
Everything is delicious.
I'm really maximizing my meals at the food trucks.
because they're open for several hours.
So if you have a strategy, you can really hit all of them within the five hours.
Good idea.
I like the way you think.
I have all the buffet hacks.
Just come to me.
Yes, please.
What is your most treasured memory?
Singing in the cell.
That's really lovely.
Kind of bittersweet, of course.
And what would constitute a perfect day for you?
Wow.
You really thought about this.
I love it.
I guess you had a lot of time to figure out what you valued the most.
Yes.
Then you don't get to enjoy all the other things.
All right.
What are you worried about and what's giving you hope?
Last question.
What's kind of a small gratitude?
I know you're grateful for many things.
What is a small gratitude that you have in your life right now?
Like a little specific thing that you're really grateful for?
Yes.
Beautiful.
Lei Cheng, thank you so much.
Thank you.
That was Lei Cheng in conversation with me, Elise Hu at TED 2025.
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For more than a decade, journalist Lei Chang built a successful career reporting on China's economic growth for outlets such as CNBC Asia and the China Global Television Network.
But in 2020, her career came to a sudden halt when the Chinese government jailed her under false accusations and kept her detained for three years.
Lay took the TED stage to share lessons learned from her imprisonment, namely that only through losing freedom do we learn to truly appreciate it.
That was Lei Cheng at TED 2025.
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I can't tell you how hard it is to say no or set healthy boundaries around work.
I mean...
Just last night, I was working until 10 p.m.
I know I'm not alone in this.
We live in a world where extreme hustling is often seen as a positive thing and where adding more to your plate is rewarded.
But there's a dark side to that that no one likes to talk about.
Burnout and adverse health effects from stress and exhaustion.
Kickstarter VP Tarveen Forrester knows that boundaries often get a bad rap.
People are seen as lazy, for example.
But in her 2024 talk, she shares her secret sauce for developing a healthy relationship around the word no.
That was Tarveen Forrester at TED Next in 2024.
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Where do conspiracy theories come from and how do they spread?
For mathematician Adam Kucharski, this question is key, especially as we navigate a world full of complex and overwhelming things, from climate and health to AI.
In his talk, he shares why he finds comfort in leaning into the unknown, but asks us to consider why it's crucial that we find better ways to trust the things we cannot explain and to explain the things that we do not trust.
That was Adam Kaczarski at TEDxLondon in 2025.
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Saying no can be one of the hardest things to do.
Even if you're not a people pleaser, the desire to maintain a positive reputation at work or with friends can make it hard to turn people down.
Lucky for us, Work Life with Adam Grant is back for a new season.
In the episode, Adam explores the art and the science of saying no.
He shares strategies for setting boundaries with others that allow us to create space for ourselves and, in turn, healthier relationships with those around us.
If you want to learn more ways to work smarter, you're in luck.
You can find Work Life wherever you get your podcasts.
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Hey Adam.
Hey Adam.
Can you give me some advice?
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It's a question that continues to be relevant, maybe now more than ever.
If democracy depends on discourse, how do we have constructive conversations in a time of great polarization?
In this wonderful 2023 talk from our archives, writer and comedian Jordan Klepper offers humorous, and I'll add helpful, tips on how to have these conversations.
This is a fun one.
That was Jordan Klepper at a TED Democracy event in New York City.
This talk was first published in 2023.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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Solutions journalist Angus Harvey has been reporting on stories of progress for years.
In his talk, he wonders if he's been wrong for reporting only on the good things, but not in the way you might think.
He puts a spotlight on overlooked breakthroughs in a world teetering between collapse and progress, all while asking us, what is the narrative we should be telling about our times?
Coming up.
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Words shape our way of being, including our most intimate relationships.
For educator and polyglot Magdalena Huller, who speaks six languages, intercultural communication adds a whole new dimension.
She asks, if you cannot flawlessly communicate with the person you want to be closest to in the world,
How does that affect your relationship?
Coming up, advice for how people can build love languages that transcend words.
That was Magdalena Holler at TEDxCookshill in Australia in 2024.
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The journalism business has been imploding for my entire adult life, collapsing business models, shuttering publications, fewer and fewer jobs for the important work of informing the public.
Hamish McKenzie, one of the founders of Substack, goes so far as to say that we're in an age of chaos media.
There's a cacophony of voices online driven by algorithmic whims and viral trends, but the rewards go primarily to the platforms.
In his talk, he shares a vision for a new media ecosystem where relationships are valued over, quote, flimsy validation, and his hope for a world where journalists and creators can own and live off their work.
Coming up.
That was Hamish McKenzie at TED 2025.
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When one of the leaders in the field of artificial intelligence tells you to be scared of what's ahead, well, I listened.
Computer scientist, Yoshua Bengio, is at the forefront of deep learning research and AI development.
And he's also a leading voice in the effort to reduce the potential risks of superhuman AI.
He shares why the world should treat the risk of extinction from AI as a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war.
And stick around after the talk for a brief Q&A between Yoshua and head of TED, Chris Anderson.
That was Joshua Bengio at TED 2025.
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Today, we're bringing you a new installment of our Book Club series, where we check out new books from TED speakers that will spark your curiosity all year long.
Author and leadership expert Simon Sinek is no stranger to TED.
He's given some of the most watched TED Talks of all time, including his 2009 TEDx Talk that has completely changed the game around leadership and what it means to lead a purposeful life.
His first book, Start With Why, How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, which came out just months after his TEDx talk, quickly became a bestseller.
And just a week ago, the 15th anniversary edition of Start With Why was released.
So we invited Simon to come on TED Talks Daily for a conversation about what's changed for him, his outlook on the state of things today, and how his theory of Start With Why...
has not only withstood the test of time, but may actually be more relevant now than ever before.
And just a heads up, this conversation took place over video chat online, so you may hear some background noise throughout the conversation.
Sorry about that.
Simon Sinek, thanks for sitting down with us.
Well, you're a longtime friend of TED, and we are now kind of looking back at Start With Why.
It's the 15th anniversary.
Given the extraordinary success of not only your TED Talks, but just your work generally, the idea of starting with why has clearly stood the test of time.
So what was it like for you to update this book for this edition?
Has the idea evolved over the past 15 years though?
No.
Is it pretty tried and true?
One example you bring up a lot or you had brought up a lot was Apple of a company that could lead with Y and often did lead with Y. I'm curious what person or organization, politician even, is inspiring you today.
What do you think leading with Y looks like in our modern business era or our modern society?
Is it still the Apple model for you or has anything changed?
As a servant leader.
Yep.
What needs to be done to turn things around?
Are there places where you are seeing pushback or organizations that are trying to turn things around?
Step back and explain it for us.
Wow.
Wow.
Right, and that's where the incentives get all out of whack.
You focus a lot on purpose, not just for organizations, but for workers, for individuals.
How do you know when people are actually being true to their purpose, their why, and living, as you say, from the inside out?
But if we are talking about business leaders, at the end of the day, can the why or the purpose outweigh money as the ultimate goal?
Because ultimately, you do have to put food on the table or send your kids to school.
Are you encountering more skepticism or cynicism about whether this why matters in a time when there's so many bad leaders who are getting into and amassing so much power?
There's a lot of folks who are following leaders who seem like they have compromised or unclear whys, that's for sure.
Why aren't they?
Structural, of course.
Right.
But it occurs to me that knowing your why could still be really useful and helpful in confronting uncertainty or even failure.
Could you talk a little bit about how knowing your why could help with this time of tumult or uncertainty, whether it's individual or organizational?
You mention or you share something in your book about a time that you lost your own sense of why, that this book or this concept came out of a darker time for you.
When did you realize that and how did you find your way back out, if you don't mind going into this a little bit?
If we have found our why, how do you know when your why might have gotten fuzzy over time?
And then what do we do in response?
And you brought this up a little earlier about how the why in our short term might feel different than the why in the long term, which is connected to so many current global crises like climate change, the struggle between the need for resources now and then the longer term need to protect future generations.
So how do you consolidate or balance these two ideas of kind of the short term and the long term game?
Right, right.
And for the planet, if your why is just to continue to go on existing, then... Well, that's the other thing.
Yeah.
Let's step back and talk a little bit just about actionable advice for listeners out there who are coming to start with why for the first time.
What do you say to folks who are sort of like, how do I find my why to begin with?
That's lovely.
And there's plenty of people who do like you and want to hear this message and have.
So I'm curious, before we let you go, do you have a story of impact that you've heard from somebody who's engaged with this book or your work that really moved you?
So follow-up question, what's next for you?
Great point.
I agree with you and feel as though our society is over-indexes towards romantic relationships over platonic ones.
And so I'm so glad that we have another big idea from you to read and share.
When is that coming?
Love it.
Great answer.
Simon Sinek, thanks for sitting down with us once again.
That was Simon Sinek in conversation with me, Elise Hu for the TED Talks Daily Book Club.
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We are on a tight timeline as a planet to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
And one aspect of the transition to renewables that doesn't get talked about enough...
are the raw materials in the supply chain that the transition requires.
Climate strategist Marielle Remillard pushes for planning and business innovation in crucial areas in order to meet our climate goals.
That was Marielle Remillard speaking at TED at BCG in 2024.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
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When it comes to climate change, everyone has an opinion.
There are the realists, the optimists, the climate deniers, and finding common ground can feel almost impossible.
But for movement builder Matthew Phillips, the only way forward is to create a space where everyone can participate without pointing fingers.
In his 2024 talk, he shares why it's important to bring different beliefs together to both clash and collaborate, and why artists are uniquely qualified to help bring people together in an entirely new and necessary way.
That was Matthew Phillips at TED Countdown's Dilemma event in Brussels in 2024.
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AI and the future of humanity were huge topics at this year's TED conference.
Central to all of this was a pretty existential question.
In today's world, what is a human actually for?
To add to this discussion, Google's former CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt joined creative technologist Bilawal Sidhu for a conversation about AI and our collective future.
They discuss what, if any, are the limits of AI, ethical questions about its rising use across various sectors, and why the AI revolution, as Eric puts it, is underhyped.
Thank you.
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Every day, more and more people are talking about climate change.
At the same time, it seems that every day, more and more people don't want to hear about climate change.
It's overwhelming.
But restaurateur Pinky Cole, owner of Slutty Vegan in Atlanta, Georgia, might be serving up a solution.
In a conversation with TED Radio Hour host Manoush Zomorodi, Pinky shares how great food and hospitality sets the table for the harder conversations we need to keep having.
Her work with plant-based food challenges us to think about the future of the planet one dish at a time.
That was Pinky Cole in conversation with Manoush Zomorodi at TED Next in 2024.
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Food waste has about five times the greenhouse gas footprint of the entire aviation industry.
Hello, TED Talks Daily listeners.
I'm Elise Hu.
For today's Sunday Pick, we're bringing you an episode of another podcast from the TED Audio Collective, handpicked by us for you.
There is a place where a network of thousands of bridges connects pretty much everything.
I know the image of thousands of bridges sounds fantastical, but this isn't fiction.
This place really exists.
And we're taking you there with the help of the podcast, Far Flung.
Host Salim Reshamwala takes us to Nepal, home of the tallest mountains in the world and the land of many bridges, and digs into how these structures shape the way the Nepalese perceive connection, community, and what's important to hold on to in life.
To hear more unique ideas and stories from around the globe, check out Far Flung, available wherever you get your podcasts.
Now on to the episode right after a quick break.
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A not-so-long time ago, in a galaxy not that far, far away, it is a period of great change.
Moving images made by computers striking from the deep are winning major victories.
During this monumental transition, one master of visual effects stood tall on a giant red dot to share the tale of this great collision between art and technology, humans and AI.
Pursued by a love of exploration, he reminds us that it is the blending of the old with the new that has always driven innovation, bringing artistic freedom to the galaxy.
Okay, is it obvious we're excited about Star Wars Day tomorrow, May the 4th?
Today's speaker has actually worked his visual magic on Star Wars films.
At TED 2025, visual effects trailblazer Rob Bredow gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the history of technology in the special effects industry and why he's hopeful that AI won't replace creatives, but instead empower artists to create new, mind-blowing wonders on the big screen.
May the force be with you.
Elise here, a quick note, head to TED.com to watch the premiere Rob mentions here.
It's a short film made by an artist using the latest generative AI tools available today.
And now back to the spaceship.
I mean, Rob.
That was Rob Bredow at TED 2025.
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I'm Elise Hu.
I'll be back tomorrow with a fresh idea for your feed.
Thanks for listening.
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Much like pictures, cartoons can say so much with so little.
New Yorker cartoonist and writer Navid Marevian has spent years distilling huge concepts and emotions into drawings on the page.
In his 2024 talk, Navid shares the lessons he's learned from doing it and why for him, life's greatest lesson is to remember that in the end, words are almost never the point of communication anyway.
Coming up.
That was Navid Madhavian at TED Next in 2024.
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The potential of AI is limitless, and that's exactly why we need to put limits on it before it's too late.
That's the message technology ethicist Tristan Harris shared on the TED stage this year.
Back in 2017, Tristan warned us about the pitfalls of social media.
Now, in 2025, he says that's child's play compared to the threats we might unleash with AI if we don't get this technology rolled out right.
Tristan and I sat down to chat at this year's TED conference just after he gave his talk.
We dive into his vision for the narrow path, one where the power of AI is matched with responsibility, foresight, and discernment.
Tristan Harris, thank you so much for joining us.
I will start by reading back a line from your talk, which you can probably recite with me, but just to frame things.
Of AI, you say, we are releasing the most powerful, most uncontrollable, most inscrutable technology in history and releasing it as fast as possible with the maximum incentive to cut corners on safety.
Key line.
That was a lot.
No, but if that is the case, how do we respond?
And how do we even respond quickly enough?
Because AI is better now than it was half an hour ago, which was better than it was half an hour before that.
The nation of geniuses.
Yeah, there's the arms race and there's the profit motive, obviously.
So if it is already being rolled out and has been rolled out, how do we unroll out it?
Unroll it out?
Yeah, unroll it out.
Yeah, why don't you frame that, the chaotic and the dystopian possibilities for AI?
Yeah, this all sounds good at first.
This is all happening amid a real breakdown in trust generally.
And fortunately... In institutions and businesses and governments that you just named, right?
Can you draw a parallel between the axes that you just described and social media and the way social media was rolled out?
Okay.
I just wanted you to describe that because it translates to this moment in AI too, because it seems like we're so much farther down the road with social media, but still in the early few years of AGI.
Practically speaking.
Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you.
What is the timeline?
So given this timeline, what are you most worried about?
And regulation is always too slow.
Why do you know The Day After?
Yeah, I was going to say.
What is the something that you propose we do?
What is the narrow path, practically speaking?
Almost a surgeon general's warning.
one marshmallow single instant gratification stick our hands in our ears and pretend the downsides don't exist species like we have to step into our wise technological maturity Tristan Harris I have some rapid fire questions for you that we ask everyone and you don't have to think about it too hard because I know you've had to sort of be on for several days straight all right here we go you're in the hot seat what does innovation or a good idea look or feel like to you what does innovation or a good idea look like that is a very deep question
Good answer.
All right.
Off the TED stage, what's a fun talent, skill, hobby, obsession that you have that you love so much that you could give a TED Talk on it?
No idea.
Yeah.
I thought you were going to say magic.
Because you were into magic.
I didn't know it was so mathematic.
Yeah.
Very cool.
Had no idea.
Truly blown away.
All right.
This can just be a quick list.
What would constitute a perfect day for you?
So high minded.
Some people are just like coffee.
Follow up.
What are you most worried about and what's giving you hope?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, because cynicism obviously leads to the fatalism that you've been talking about.
What choice do we have but to be in a position of hope?
Love it.
Last question.
What's a small gratitude that you have in your life right now?
A detail, a moment, anything like specific that you're really grateful for?
What's yours?
Do you have anything that, what would you express before sitting down tonight?
Tristan, thank you so much.
That was Tristan Harris in conversation with me, Elise Hume, in 2025.
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April 29th, 2025 marked U.S.
President Donald Trump's 100th day in office since he began his second term.
To reflect on the recent past and to look towards the future, we're bringing you a special conversation from our series, TED Explains the World.
Political scientist Ian Bremmer, president and founder of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media, sits down with TED's head of media and curation, Helen Walters, to discuss everything that's happened since January 20th and to consider what's to come.
That was Ian Bremmer and Helen Walters for our series, TED Explains the World.
This conversation took place on April 29th, 2025.
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