Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The business case for working with your toughest critics | Bob Langert
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a “corporate suit” (his words) and former VP of sustainability at McDonald’s, Bob Langert w...
The next software revolution: programming biological cells | Sara-Jane Dunn
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The cells in your body are like computer software: they’re “programmed” to carry out specific ...
Change your story, change your life | Lori Gottlieb
01 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Stories help you make sense of your life -- but when these narratives are incomplete or misleading, ...
What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics | Daniel Streicker
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Could we anticipate the next big disease outbreak, stopping a virus like Ebola before it ever strike...
What productive conflict can offer a workplace | Jess Kutch
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Got an idea to make your workplace better? Labor organizer and TED Fellow Jess Kutch can show you ho...
Lessons from fungi on markets and economics | Toby Kiers
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Resource inequality is one of our greatest challenges, but it’s not unique to humans. Like us, myc...
The price of a "clean" internet | Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of images and videos are uploaded to the internet each day, yet we rarely see shocking and ...
The medical potential of AI and metabolites | Leila Pirhaji
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Many diseases are driven by metabolites -- small molecules in your body like fat, glucose and choles...
How to bring affordable, sustainable electricity to Africa | Rose M. Mutiso
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Energy poverty, or the lack of access to electricity and other basic energy services, affects nearly...
The revolutionary power of diverse thought | Elif Shafak
25 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shaf...
How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust | Claire Wardle
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How can we stop the spread of misleading, sometimes dangerous content while maintaining an internet ...
The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation | Ashwin Naidu
24 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Mangrove forests are crucial to the health of the planet, gobbling up CO2 from the atmosphere and pr...
The pride and power of representation in film | Jon M. Chu
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
On the heels of the breakout success of his film "Crazy Rich Asians," director Jon M. Chu reflects o...
How motivation can fix public systems | Abhishek Gopalka
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you fix broken public systems? You spark people's competitive spirit. In a talk about getting...
Fashion that celebrates all body types -- boldly and unapologetically | Becca McCharen-Tran
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fashion designers have the power to change culture -- and Becca McCharen-Tran is using her platform ...
Why we have an emotional connection to robots | Kate Darling
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're far from developing robots that feel emotions, but we already have feelings towards them, says...
An app that helps incarcerated people stay connected to their families | Marcus Bullock
18 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Over his eight-year prison sentence, Marcus Bullock was sustained by his mother's love -- and by the...
How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris
17 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We need a radically new approach to ocean conservation, says marine biologist Alasdair Harris. In a ...
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean | Tina Arrowood
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
During the winter of 2018-2019, one million tons of salt were applied to icy roads in the state of P...
How family separation at the US-Mexico border affects children’s mental health | Luis H. Zayas
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How does psychological trauma affect children's developing brains? In this powerful talk, social wor...
How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet | Julie Cordua
15 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Social entrepreneur Julie Cordua works on a problem that isn’t easy to talk about: the sexual abus...
The cosmic war between monotony and creativity | David Deutsch
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Theoretical physicist David Deutsch delivers a mind-bending meditation on the "great monotony" -- th...
The psychology of your future self | Dan Gilbert
11 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished." Dan Gilbert shares rece...
What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully | Shannon Lee
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us know Bruce Lee as the famous martial artist and action film star -- but he was also a phi...
Laura Boykin: How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases 10, 2019
10 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nearly 800 million people worldwide depend on cassava for survival -- but this critical food source ...
A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border | Juan Enriquez
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this powerful, personal talk, author and academic Juan Enriquez shares stories from inside the im...
A radical plan to end plastic waste | Andrew Forrest
09 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Plastic is an incredible substance for the economy -- but it’s the worst substance possible for th...
How we’re helping local reporters turn important stories into national news | Gangadhar Patil
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Local reporters are on the front lines of important stories, but their work often goes unnoticed by ...
The transformative power of video games | Herman Narula
08 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A full third of the world’s population -- 2.6 billion people -- play video games, plugging into ma...
An ancient rock suggests a new theory for how life started | Tara Djokic
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Exactly when and where did life on Earth begin? Scientists have long thought that it emerged three b...
Why language is humanity’s greatest invention | David Peterson
05 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Civilization rests upon the existence of language, says language creator David Peterson. In a talk t...
Innovation is the antidote to corruption | Efosa Ojomo
04 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Traditional thinking on corruption goes like this: if you put good laws in place and enforce them we...
What the US health care system assumes about you | Mitchell Katz
02 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The US health care system assumes many things about patients: that they can take off from work in th...
How community-led conservation can save wildlife | Moreangels Mbizah
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Conservationist and TED Fellow Moreangels Mbizah studied the famous Cecil the lion until he was shot...
Why you should shop at your local farmers market | Mohammad Modarres
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The average farmer in America makes less than 15 cents of every dollar on a product that you purchas...
Four billion years of evolution in six minutes | Prosanta Chakrabarty
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Did humans evolve from monkeys or from fish? In this enlightening talk, ichthyologist and TED Fellow...
You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies | Bronwyn King
27 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tobacco causes more than seven million deaths every year -- and many of us are far more complicit in...
A wall won’t solve America’s border problems | Will Hurd
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Building a 30-foot-high concrete structure from sea to shining sea is the most expensive and leas...
How we’re building the world’s largest family tree | Yaniv Erlich
25 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Genealogist Yaniv Erlich helped build the world’s largest family tree -- comprising 13 million peo...
How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski
24 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As a sex educator, Emily Nagoski is often asked: How do couples sustain a strong sexual connection o...
A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India | Safeena Husain
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Girls’ education is the closest thing we have to a silver bullet to help solve some of the worl...
4 questions you should always ask your doctor | Christer Mjåset
19 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
“Doctor, is this really necessary?” Backed by startling statistics about overtreatment, neurosur...
How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems | Federica Bianco
17 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
To study a system as complex as the entire universe, astrophysicists need to be experts at extractin...
How climate change could make our food less nutritious | Kristie Ebi
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rising carbon levels in the atmosphere can make plants grow faster, but there’s another hidden con...
The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward | Nick Hanauer
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rising inequality and growing political instability are the direct result of decades of bad economic...
Community-powered criminal justice reform | Raj Jayadev
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Community organizer Raj Jayadev wants to transform the US court system through "participatory defens...
What reading slowly taught me about writing | Jacqueline Woodson
12 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Reading slowly -- with her finger running beneath the words, even when she was taught not to -- has ...
A “living drug” that could change the way we treat cancer | Carl June
10 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Carl June is the pioneer behind CAR T-cell therapy: a groundbreaking cancer treatment that superchar...
How we can turn racism into a solvable problem -- and improve policing | Phillip Atiba Goff
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we define racism as behaviors instead of feelings, we can measure it -- and transform it from a...
Why I became a climate activist -- and why you should too | Luisa Neubauer
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"I dream of a world where geography classes teach about the climate crisis as this one great challen...
Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists | Andrew Marantz
05 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Andrew Marantz spent three years embedded in the world of internet trolls and social medi...
How to teach teenagers to think critically about porn | Emily F. Rothman
04 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The free, online, mainstream pornography that teenagers are most likely to see is a completely terr...
What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics | Jochen Wegner
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In spring 2019, more than 17,000 Europeans from 33 countries signed up to have a political argument ...
A climate change solution that’s right under our feet | Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There’s two times more carbon in the earth's soil than in all of its vegetation and the atmosphere...
Emergency medicine for our climate fever | Kelly Wanser
01 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As we recklessly warm the planet by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, some industrial em...
How I escaped North Korea -- and found freedom | Yeonmi Park
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"North Korea is unimaginable," says human rights activist Yeonmi Park, who escaped the country at th...
How I help people understand vitiligo | Lee Thomas
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
TV news anchor Lee Thomas thought his career was over after he was diagnosed with vitiligo, an autoi...
How technology can fight extremism and online harassment | Yasmin Green
28 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can technology make people safer from threats like violent extremism, censorship and persecution? In...
How climate change affects your mental health | Britt Wray
27 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"For all that's ever been said about climate change, we haven't heard nearly enough about the psycho...
How the West can adapt to a rising Asia | Kishore Mahbubani
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As Asian economies and governments continue to gain power, the West needs to find ways to adapt to t...
Ping-pong and the riddle of victory | Pico Iyer
23 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in England, Pico Iyer was taught that the point of a game was to win. Now, some 50 years ...
The power to think ahead in a reckless age | Bina Venkataraman
22 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a forward-looking talk, author Bina Venkataraman answers a pivotal question of our time: How can ...
Family, hope and resilience on the migrant trail | Jon Lowenstein
21 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the past 20 years, photographer and TED Fellow Jon Lowenstein has documented the migrant journey...
How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt
20 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten more than his fair share of attention from his acting career. But as...
The surprising ingredient that makes businesses work better | Marco Alverà
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What is it about unfairness? Whether it's not being invited to a friend's wedding or getting penaliz...
The history of human emotions | Tiffany Watt Smith
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The words we use to describe our emotions affect how we feel, says historian Tiffany Watt Smith, and...
Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience | Jason Shen
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Very few of us hold jobs that line up directly with our past experiences or what we studied in colle...
A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere | Jennifer Wilcox
14 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Our planet has a carbon problem -- if we don't start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, we...
Why I train grandmothers to treat depression | Dixon Chibanda
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dixon Chibanda is one of 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe -- for a population of more than 16 million. R...
How to tame your wandering mind | Amishi Jha
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Amishi Jha studies how we pay attention: the process by which our brain decides what's important out...
Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do we find fulfillment in a world that's constantly changing? Raymond Tang struggled with this q...
Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care | Cleo Wade
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and poet Cleo Wade recites a moving poem about being an advocate for love and acceptance in a...
Want to get great at something? Get a coach | Atul Gawande
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do we improve in the face of complexity? Atul Gawande has studied this question with a surgeon's...
How to get back to work after a career break | Carol Fishman Cohen
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you've taken a career break and are now looking to return to the workforce, would you consider ta...
Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong | Johann Hari
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What really causes addiction -- to everything from cocaine to smart-phones? And how can we overcome ...
The human skills we need in an unpredictable world | Margaret Heffernan
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The more we on technology to make us efficient, the fewer skills we have to confront the unexpected,...
What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy | Nanfu Wang
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
China's one-child policy ended in 2015, but we're just beginning to understand what it was like to l...
How policewomen make communities safer | Ivonne Roman
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Less 13 percent of police officers in the United States are women -- despite their proven effectiven...
Why governments should prioritize well-being | Nicola Sturgeon
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In 2018, Scotland, Iceland and New Zealand established the network of Wellbeing Economy Governments ...
The world's "Third Pole" is melting away. Here's how we can stop it from disappearing | Tshering Tobgay
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Hindu Kush Himalaya region is the world's third-largest repository of ice, after the North and S...
When in life are you most likely to succeed? | Albert-László Barabási
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Backed by mathematical analysis, network theorist Albert-László Barabási explores the hidden mech...
The architectural wonder of impermanent cities | Rahul Mehrotra
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Every 12 years, a megacity springs up in India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival -- what's built...
What explains the rise of humans? | Yuval Noah Harari
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Seventy thousand years ago, our human ancestors were insignificant animals, just minding their own b...
How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy | Elizabeth Howell
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shocking, but true: the United States has the highest rate of deaths for new mothers of any develope...
A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten | Claudia Miner
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Early education is critical to children's success -- but millions of kids in the United States still...
The fundamental right to seek asylum | Melanie Nezer
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Refugee and immigrants rights attorney Melanie Nezer shares an urgently needed historical perspectiv...
The fascinating places scientists aren't exploring | Ella Al-Shamahi
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We're not doing frontline exploratory science in a huge portion of the world -- the places governmen...
How I'm using film to end honor killings in Pakistan | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Film has the power to change the way we think about ourselves and our culture. Documentarian and TED...
How we're honoring people overlooked by history | Amy Padnani
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since its founding in 1851, the "New York Times" has published thousands of obituaries -- for heads ...
Why it's worth listening to people we disagree with | Zachary R. Wood
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We get stronger, not weaker, by engaging with ideas and people we disagree with, says Zachary R. Woo...
The price of shame | Monica Lewinsky
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop," says Monica Lewinsky. In 1998, she says, “I was Pat...
3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it | Natalie Fratto
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When venture investor Natalie Fratto is determining which start-up founder to support, she doesn't j...
American bipartisan politics can be saved — here's how | Bob Inglis
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Former Republican member of the U.S. Congress Bob Inglis shares an optimistic message about how cons...
A vision for the future of Sierra Leone | Julius Maada Bio
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Julius Maada Bio first seized political power in Sierra Leone in 1996, he did so to improve the...
Space traffic is our next wicked environmental problem | Moriba Jah
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"Most of what we send into outer space never comes back," says astrodynamicist and TED Fellow Moriba...
3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage | Valarie Kaur
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
What's the antidote to rising nationalism, polarization and hate? In this inspiring, poetic talk, Va...
My wish: Protect our oceans | Sylvia Earle
29 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary ocean researcher Sylvia Earle shares astonishing images of the ocean -- and shocking stats...
The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again | Jon Gray
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
"The hood is good," says Jon Gray of the Bronx, New York-based creative collective Ghetto Gastro. Wo...
You are not alone in your loneliness | Jonny Sun
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Being open and vulnerable with your loneliness, sadness and fear can help you find comfort and feel ...
How to ask for help -- and get a "yes" | Heidi Grant
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Asking for help is tough. But to get through life, you have to do it all the time. So how do you get...