Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The secret soundtrack of the sea | TEDxSHORTS
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Marine biologist, fish ecologist and self-confessed ocean optimist Steve Simpson explains the intric...
Can light stop the coronavirus? | David Brenner
24 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Far-UVC light is a type of ultraviolet light that kills microbes and viruses and, crucially, seems t...
How to use love to repair social inequality | Chloé Valdary
22 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What does Kendrick Lamar have in common with Disney's "Moana"? They recognize our common humanity an...
A comprehensive, neighborhood-based response to COVID-19 | Kwame Owusu-Kesse
21 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Crisis interventions often focus on a single aspect of a big, complicated problem, failing to addres...
Stop making mass shooters famous | Tom Teves
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting in a movie theater of Aurora, Colorado left the town, and the nati...
How city mayors are taking action on climate change | Eric Garcetti
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"If you change your city, you're changing the world," says Eric Garcetti, mayor of Los Angeles and c...
Activism, changemakers and hope for the future | Malala Yousafzai
18 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Education activist (and recent Oxford graduate) Malala Yousafzai reflects on the defining moments of...
Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally | Nita Mosby Tyler
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A more equal world starts with you. Citing a formative moment from her own life, equity advocate Nit...
What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds? | Shari Davis
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds in your community? That’s the...
The colorful critter world of microbes in Antarctica | Ariel Waldman
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this tour of the microscopic world, explorer and artist Ariel Waldman introduces the charismatic ...
A blueprint for reparations in the US | William "Sandy" Darity
15 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With clarity and insight, economist and author William "Sandy" Darity discusses how the grievous inj...
What happens when biology becomes technology? | Christina Agapakis
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"We've been promised a future of chrome -- but what if the future is fleshy?" asks biological design...
You Have the Rite" | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a breathtaking, jazz-inflected spoken-word performance, TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph shares a B...
Every day you live, you impact the planet | Jane Goodall + Chris Anderson
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary primatologist Jane Goodall says that humanity's survival depends on conservation of the na...
A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food | Ali Kashani
08 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the friendly robot that could deliver your next burrito. Ali Kashani introduces us to Postmates...
How the pandemic will shape the near future | Bill Gates
07 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Gates talks best (and worst) case scenarios for the coronavirus pandemic in the months ahead, e...
Africa is a sleeping giant -- I’m trying to wake it up | Adeola Fayehun
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Africa is like a sleeping giant,” says journalist and satirist Adeola Fayehun at the beginning ...
The new urgency of climate change | Al Gore
03 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The coronavirus brought much of the world to a standstill, dropping carbon emissions by five percent...
Scenes from a Black trans life | D-L Stewart
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
At the crossroads of life and livelihood, scholar D-L Stewart invites us into scenes from his own li...
What foods did your ancestors love? | Aparna Pallavi
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Around the world, Indigenous food cultures vanish because of industrialized agriculture and a shifti...
Stop being a bystander in your own life | Tracy Edwards
30 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Life doesn't go from A to B -- it's messy," says sailing legend Tracy Edwards. In this inspiring ta...
How we can build sustainable, equitable cities after the pandemic | Vishaan Chakrabarti
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cities are engines of culture, commerce, knowledge and community, but they're also centers of inequa...
The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testing | Nir Eyal
27 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Conventional vaccine testing is a slow, years-long process. As thousands of people continue to die e...
How women will lead us to freedom, justice and peace | H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
26 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“I was the first woman president of an African nation, and I do believe more countries ought to tr...
How to support and celebrate living artists | Swizz Beatz
24 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz is on a mission to revolutionize the way artists do business....
Why colonialist stereotypes persist — and how to stop romanticizing history | Farish Ahmad-Noor
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Colonialism remains as an inescapable blight on the present, lingering in the toxic, internalized my...
How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time | Baratunde Thurston
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Baratunde Thurston explores the phenomenon of white Americans calling the police on black Americans ...
Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe | Kennet Lacovara
17 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when you discover a dinosaur? Paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara details his unearthing of...
My secret to staying focused under pressure | Russell Wilson
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Athletes train their bodies to run faster, jump higher, throw farther -- so why don’t they train t...
3 secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone experiences loss, but how do you cope with the tough moments that follow? Resilience resear...
How to build an antiracist world | Ibram X. Kendi
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There is no such thing as being “not racist,” says author and historian Ibram X. Kendi. In this ...
How drawing can set you free | Shantell Martin
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Who are you? To answer this question, artist Shantell Martin followed her pen. In this brilliantly v...
What tech companies know about your kids | Veronica Barassi
12 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The digital platforms you and your family use every day -- from online games to education apps and m...
Bangkok
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Let's say you go into labor in the back of a taxi. The traffic is so bad you don't know if you'll ma...
How to turn your dissatisfaction into action | Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
10 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After the devastating rebel invasion of Sierra Leone in 1999 and the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Yvonne ...
We need to green the economy while restarting it | Nigel Topping
09 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nigel Topping has a cool job: he’s the UK’s High Level Climate Action Champion for COP26, the UN...
5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work | Anastasia Penright
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
No matter your industry, you’ve experienced drama at work. In this funny and all-too-relatable ta...
The path to ending systemic racism in the US | Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In a time of mourning and anger over the ongoing violence inflicted on Black communities by police i...
Part 2: The path to ending systemic racism in the US | Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero
05 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a special episode of TED Talks Daily. In the first, you heard from Dr. Phillip A...
How to support witnesses of harassment and build healthier workplaces | Julia Shaw
04 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What makes you speak up -- or not -- when you see something you know is wrong? Memory scientist Juli...
The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw
03 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and unde...
The true cost of financial dependence | Estelle Gibson
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Giving up control of your finances -- voluntarily or otherwise -- can leave you powerless and, in so...
My story of love and loss as a transracial adoptee | Sara Jones
30 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A mysterious tattoo on her forearm was all that linked Sara Jones, who was adopted as a child by whi...
Let's make the world wild again | Kristine Tompkins
29 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Earth, humanity and nature are inextricably interconnected. To restore us all back to health, we nee...
Autofocusing reading glasses of the future | Nitish Padmanaban
28 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As you age, you gradually lose the ability to refocus your eyes -- a phenomenon as old as humanity i...
The secret weapon against pandemics | Georges C. Benjamin
27 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The coronavirus pandemic won't be the last crisis to test public health systems worldwide, says phys...
A COVID-19 “exit” strategy to end lockdown and reopen the economy | Uri Alon
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we return to work without spurring a second surge of coronavirus infection? Biologist Uri Al...
10 ways to have a better conversation | Celeste Headlee
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have conversations...
Actionable solutions to support the mental health of US veterans | Charles P. Smith
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Veterans in the United States take their own lives at an alarming rate. Suggesting new ways to prior...
The Real Reason You Procrastinate
21 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
You procrastinate because you're lazy, right? Wrong. The truth is more complex—and far more intere...
The quirky sex lives of ocean creatures | Marah J. Hardt
20 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The ocean plays host to a peculiar party of wild, marine sex life that's perhaps quirkier (and kinki...
Can we edit memories? | Amy Milton
19 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Trauma and PTSD rewire your brain -- especially your memory -- and can unearth destructive emotional...
To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others | Dean Furness
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When you stop comparing yourself to others, you can accomplish great things, says wheelchair athlete...
The case for student mental health days | Hailey Hardcastle
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
School can be rife with stress, anxiety, panic attacks and even burnout — but there's often no for...
Restoring human dignity at the US southern border | Norma Pimentel
14 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
After seeing the conditions in which children were held at a detention center on the US-Mexico borde...
How to manage your stress like an ER doctor | Darria Long
13 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How do doctors in the emergency room stay calm and focused amidst the chaos? Drawing on years of exp...
How The Bail Project is reforming criminal justice in the US | Robin Steinberg and Manoush Zomorodi
12 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly half a million people in the US are in jail right now without being convicted of a crime, sim...
A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic | Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How can we stop the next pandemic before it starts? Disease researchers Pardis Sabeti and Christian ...
The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers | Laurel Braitman
09 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Health care workers are under more stress than ever before. How can they protect their mental health...
How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response | Huang Hung
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To combat COVID-19, countries have enforced city-wide shutdowns, stay-at-home orders and mask mandat...
How face surveillance threatens your privacy and freedom | Kade Crockford
07 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Privacy isn't dead, but face surveillance technology might kill it, says civil rights advocate Kade ...
The cost of workplace stress -- and how to reduce it | Rob Cooke
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
By some estimates, work-related stress drains the US economy of nearly 300 billion dollars a year --...
How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics | Jim Collins
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Before the coronavirus pandemic, bioengineer Jim Collins and his team combined the power of AI with ...
The anti-CEO playbook | Hamdi Ulukaya
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Profit, money, shareholders: these are the priorities of most companies today. But at what cost? In ...
How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zomorodi
01 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Do you sometimes have your most creative ideas while folding laundry, washing dishes or doing nothin...
Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality | Brian Little
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that ma...
How to overcome apathy and find your power | Dolores Huerta
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Sí, se puede!" -- "Yes, we can!" It's the rallying cryDoloresHuerta came up with as a young activi...
How "policing for profit" undermines your rights | Dick M. Carpenter II
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many countries have an active, centuries-old law that allows government agencies to take your things...
Crisis support for the world, one text away | Nancy Lublin
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if we could help people in crisis anytime, anywhere with a simple text message? That's the idea...
A global pandemic calls for global solutions | Larry Brilliant
24 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Examining the facts and figures of the coronavirus outbreak, epidemiologist Larry Brilliant evaluate...
How to shift your mindset and choose your future | Tom Rivett-Carnac
23 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to big life problems, we often stand at a crossroads: either believe we're powerless a...
An ode to living on Earth | Oliver Jeffers
22 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you had to explain to a newborn -- or an alien -- what it means to be a human being living on Ear...
What's missing from the American immigrant narrative | Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Recounting her story of finding opportunity and stability in the US, Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez e...
An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease | Lara Durgavich
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does your genetic inheritance, culture and history influence your health? Biological anthropolog...
How to co parent as allies, not adversaries | Shaka Senghor and Ebony Roberts
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
When Shaka Senghor and Ebony Roberts ended their relationship, they made a pact to protect their son...
Racism has a cost for everyone | Heather C. McGhee
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Racism makes our economy worse -- and not just in ways that harm people of color, says public policy...
Regain control in an unpredictable world | Checking In with Susan David
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Many of us are feeling stuck right now, forced to adapt to a world that we have little control over....
A history of Indigenous languages — and how to revitalize them | Lindsay Morcom
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Indigenous languages across North America are under threat of extinction due to the colonial legacy ...
Why sleep matters now more than ever | Matt Walker
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A good night’s sleep has perhaps never been more important. Sharing wisdom and debunking myths, sl...
A monkey economy as irrational as ours | Laurie Santos
10 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laurie Santos looks for the roots of human irrationality by watching the way our primate relatives m...
The tech we need to end the pandemic and restart the economy | Danielle Allen
09 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As COVID-19 continues to spread, the world is facing two existential threats at once: a public healt...
How understanding divorce can help your marriage | Jeannie Suk Gersen
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To understand what makes marriages work, we need to talk about why they sometimes end, says family l...
It's OK to feel overwhelmed. Here's what to do next | Elizabeth Gilbert
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
If you're feeling anxious or fearful during the coronavirus pandemic, you're not alone. Offering hop...
In uncertain times, think like a mother | Yifat Susskind
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
There's a simple and powerful way to confront the world's most pressing crises, says women's rights ...
The intangible effects of walls | Alexandra Auer
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
More barriers exist now than at the end of World War II, says designer Alexandra Auer. And when you ...
What it's really like to have autism | Ethan Lisi
03 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"Autism is not a disease; it's just another way of thinking," says Ethan Lisi. Offering a glimpse in...
Indigenous wisdom should be at the heart of climate activism | Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
To tackle a problem as large as climate change, we need both science and Indigenous wisdom, says env...
How you can help save the monarch butterfly -- and the planet | Mary Ellen Hannibal
01 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Monarch butterflies are dying at an alarming rate around the world -- a looming extinction that coul...
Simple, effective tech to connect communities in crisis | Johanna Figueira
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The world is more connected than ever, but some communities are still cut off from vital resources l...
How forgiveness can create a more just legal system | Martha Minow
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pardons, commutations and bankruptcy laws are all tools of forgiveness within the US legal system. A...
What the world can learn from China’s response to the coronavirus | Gary Liu
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
From Hong Kong, South China Morning Post CEO Gary Liu tracks China’s response to the coronavirus p...
2 questions to uncover your passion -- and turn it into a career | Noeline Kirabo
26 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What's your passion? Social entrepreneur Noeline Kirabo reflects on her work helping out-of-school y...
How we must respond to the COVID-19 pandemic | Bill Gates
25 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Philanthropist and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates offers insights into the COVID-19 pandemic, discus...
How to be your best self in times of crisis | Susan David
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
“Life’s beauty is inseparable from its fragility,” says psychologist Susan David. In a special...
The weird history of the "sex chromosomes" | Molly Webster
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The common thinking on biological sex goes like this: females have two X chromosomes in their cells,...
Go ahead, dream about the future | Charlie Jane Anders
20 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
"You don't predict the future -- you imagine the future," says sci-fi writer Charlie Jane Anders. In...
How repaying loans with social service transforms communities | Angie Murimirwa
19 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could repay loans through volunteering and mentorship instead of money? Activist Angie M...
How you can support farmers in the US | Eric Sannerud
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Farmers keep us fed and our economies stable, but in the US they're retiring faster than they're bei...
A fascinating time capsule of human feelings toward AI | Lucy Farey-Jones
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How comfortable are you with robots taking over your life? Covering a wide range of potential applic...
A campaign for period positivity | Ananya Grover
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Having your period is exhausting -- and for many people across the world, menstruation is even more ...