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Cady Coleman: What it's like to live on the International Space Station - test

• Hilde Stenuit How new drugs could come from space (55) test
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Cai Guo-Qiang: A firework ladder to the sky — and the magic of explosive art - test

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Caitlin Doughty: A burial practice that nourishes the planet - test

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Caitlin Quattromani and Lauran Arledge: How our friendship survives our opposing politics - test

• Eve Pearlman How to lead a conversation between people who disagree (30) test
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Caitria + Morgan O'Neill: How to step up in the face of disaster - test

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Cal Newport: Why you should quit social media - test

• Naomi Shimada Tips for reclaiming your peace of mind online (60) test
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Caleb Barlow: Where is cybercrime really coming from? - test

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Caleb Chung: Playtime with Pleo, your robotic dinosaur friend - test

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Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs - test

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Cameron Morin: What do all languages have in common? - test

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• Ajit Narayanan A word game to communicate in any language (36) test
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Cameron Paterson: The infamous and ingenious Ho Chi Minh Trail - test

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Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model. - test

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Cameron Sinclair: My wish A call for open-source architecture - test

• Christian Benimana The next generation of African architects and designers (43) test
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Cameron Sinclair: The refugees of boom-and-bust - test

• Saket Soni The workers rebuilding communities after natural disasters (27) test
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Cameron Webb: How to design mosquitoes out of cities - test

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Camilla Arndal Andersen: What happens in your brain when you taste food - test

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Camille A. Brown: A visual history of social dance in 25 moves - test

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Camille Defrenne and Suzanne Simard: The secret language of trees - test

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Camille Langston: How to use rhetoric to get what you want - test

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Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice - test

• Kristin Poinar What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet? (24) test
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Camille Seaman: Photos from a storm chaser - test

• Gavin Pretor-Pinney Cloudy with a chance of joy (35) test
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• Sarah J. Doherty How aerosols brighten clouds — and cool the planet (22) test

Camille Seaman: The Arctic vs. the Antarctic - test

• Robert Swan Let's save the last pristine continent (42) test
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• Lewis Pugh How I swam the North Pole (36) test
• Rob Dunbar Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice (33) test
• Ben Saunders Why did I ski to the North Pole? (33) test

Camilo Ramirez: The problem with the U.S. bail system - test

• The TED Interview Robin Steinberg's quest to reform cash bail (68) test
• Robin Steinberg What if we ended the injustice of bail? (67) test
• Robin Steinberg and Manoush Zomorodi The US is addicted to incarceration. Here's how to break the cycle (58) test
• Eve Abrams The human stories behind mass incarceration (35) test
• Salil Dudani How jails extort the poor (32) test

Candace Parker: How to break down barriers and not accept limits - test

• Cleo Wade Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care (34) test
• Mariana Atencio What makes you special? (33) test
• Shameem Akhtar To learn is to be free (32) test
• Fields Wicker-Miurin Learning from leadership's missing manual (31) test
• Sheryl WuDunn Our century's greatest injustice (31) test

Candice Neveu: Returning to school mid-career? Here's what you need to know - test

• Matt Beane How do we learn to work with intelligent machines? (32) test
• Trish Millines Dziko How schools can nurture every student's genius (32) test
• Eduardo Briceño How to get better at the things you care about (31) test
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Candis Watts Smith: 3 myths about racism that keep the US from progress - test

• John Biewen The lie that invented racism (54) test
• Ibram X. Kendi The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist (52) test
• Dexter Dias Racism thrives on silence -- speak up! (44) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (42) test
• Nate Silver Does racism affect how you vote? (41) test

Candy Chang: Before I die I want to ... - test

• Alua Arthur Why thinking about death helps you live a better life (41) test
• Stephen Cave The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death (35) test
• Peter Saul Let's talk about dying (34) test
• Alison Killing There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help (34) test
• Jonny Sun You are not alone in your loneliness (31) test

Canwen Xu: I am not your Asian stereotype - test

• John Biewen The lie that invented racism (51) test
• The TED Interview Mellody Hobson challenges us to be color brave (42) test
• Ibram X. Kendi The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist (38) test
• John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson The fight for civil rights and freedom (37) test
• Candis Watts Smith 3 myths about racism that keep the US from progress (36) test

Cara E. Yar Khan: The beautiful balance between courage and fear - test

• Damon Davis Courage is contagious (35) test
• Ingrid Betancourt What six years in captivity taught me about fear and faith (30) test
• Sharon Terry Science didn't understand my kids' rare disease until I decided to study it (29) test
• Christian Picciolini My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out (24) test
• Achim Steiner Humanity's planet-shaping powers -- and what they mean for the future (24) test

Cara Greene Epstein: How theater weathers wars, outlasts empires and survives pandemics - test

• Natasha Tsakos A multimedia theatrical adventure (36) test
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• Yara Shahidi and Anil Seth What makes you “you”? An actor and a neuroscientist answer (28) test
• Lucas Rizzotto Why I built my own time machine (28) test
• Julie Taymor Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge (27) test

Carin Bondar: The birds and the bees are just the beginning - test

• Menno Schilthuizen The evolution of animal genitalia (49) test
• Aaron Reedy Sex determination More complicated than you thought (44) test
• Luka Seamus Wright The wild sex lives of marine creatures (43) test
• Marah J. Hardt Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish? (41) test
• Marlene Zuk What we learn from insects' sex lives (36) test

Carina Morillo: To understand autism, don't look away - test

• Martin Pistorius How my mind came back to life — and no one knew (21) test
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• Wendy Chung Autism — what we know (and what we don't know yet) (20) test
• Drew Dudley Everyday leadership (19) test

Carl Honoré: In praise of slowness - test

• Kathryn Bouskill The unforeseen consequences of a fast-paced world (44) test
• Laura Vanderkam How to gain control of your free time (39) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (38) test
• Juliet Schor The case for a 4-day work week (36) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (35) test

Carl June: A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer - test

• Elizabeth Wayne We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer (55) test
• Carolyn Bertozzi What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you (55) test
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Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen villains -- and victims - test

• Lisa Margonelli The political chemistry of oil (53) test
• Richard Sears Planning for the end of oil (39) test
• Susan Shaw The oil spill's toxic trade-off (38) test
• Fahad Al-Attiya A country with no water (38) test
• Amory Lovins Winning the oil endgame (36) test

Carl Safina: What are animals thinking and feeling? - test

• Jane Goodall What separates us from chimpanzees? (33) test
• Laurel Braitman Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans (33) test
• Nick Bostrom A philosophical quest for our biggest problems (30) test
• Robert Thurman We can be Buddhas (30) test
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Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain - test

• Ed Boyden A new way to study the brain's invisible secrets (39) test
• Ed Boyden A light switch for neurons (36) test
• Sam Rodriques What we'll learn about the brain in the next century (35) test
• Henry Markram A brain in a supercomputer (34) test
• Sergiu P. Pasca How we're reverse engineering the human brain in the lab (34) test

Carl Zimmer: How did feathers evolve? - test

• Emma Schachner The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet (27) test
• Jack Horner Where are the baby dinosaurs? (26) test
• Martin Lockley The dinosaur detectives of real-life Jurassic parks (25) test
• Jack Horner Building a dinosaur from a chicken (25) test
• Paul Sereno Digging up dinosaurs (21) test

Carla Harris: How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work - test

• Dolly Chugh How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person (26) test
• Melinda Epler 3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace (26) test
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Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds - test

• Dean Kamen To invent is to give (36) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (34) test
• Frank Gehry A master architect asks, Now what? (34) test
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• Renzo Piano The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings (33) test

Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines -- and an app that helps people avoid them - test

• Lindsey Schneider Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement (39) test
• Anneliese Mehnert One of history's most dangerous myths (34) test
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Carlos M. Duarte: The unexpected, underwater plant fighting climate change - test

• Ralph Chami What a living whale is worth -- and why the economy should protect nature (32) test
• Jane Zelikova The hidden wonders of soil (31) test
• Jean-François Bastin What if there were 1 trillion more trees? (29) test
• Asmeret Asefaw Berhe A climate change solution that's right under our feet (29) test
• Triona McGrath How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry (29) test

Carlos Moreno: The 15-minute city - test

• Jeff Speck The walkable city (47) test
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• Mick Cornett How an obese town lost a million pounds (42) test

Carlos Reif: Why do we kiss under mistletoe? - test

• Iseult Gillespie The myth of Loki and the deadly mistletoe (23) test
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• Richard Preston The mysterious lives of giant trees (17) test

Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor: How business can drive solutions to social problems - test

• Seema Bansal How to fix a broken education system ... without any more money (44) test
• Geoffrey Canada Our failing schools. Enough is enough! (37) test
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Carly Anne York: Want to know if you're pregnant? Use this frog - test

• Tien Nguyen How do pregnancy tests work? (21) test
• Siyanda Mohutsiwa How young Africans found a voice on Twitter (18) test
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• Tyrone Hayes + Penelope Jagessar Chaffer The toxic baby (15) test

Carne Ross: An independent diplomat - test

• Wadah Khanfar A historic moment in the Arab world (30) test
• Keith Lowe Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II (29) test
• Eve Ensler What security means to me (29) test
• Fields Wicker-Miurin Learning from leadership's missing manual (29) test
• David Rothkopf How fear drives American politics (28) test

Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve - test

• Olympia Della Flora Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school (41) test
• Angela Lee Duckworth Grit The power of passion and perseverance (36) test
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• Nora Flanagan What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education (35) test
• Sydney Chaffee How teachers can help kids find their political voices (34) test

Carol Farbotko and Ingrid Boas: Where will you be able to live in 20 years? - test

• Colette Pichon Battle Climate change will displace millions. Here's how we prepare (30) test
• Vicki Arroyo Let's prepare for our new climate (29) test
• António Guterres The race to a zero-emission world starts now (28) test
• Al Roker An extreme weather report from America's weatherman (27) test
• R. Saravanan Is the weather actually becoming more extreme? (26) test

Carol Fishman Cohen: How to get back to work after a career break - test

• Sarah Aviram Does more freedom at work mean more fulfillment? (46) test
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• Debbie Lovich 3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right (39) test
• Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper The best career path isn't always a straight line (39) test

Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy - test

• The TED Interview Roger McNamee takes on big tech (36) test
• Zeynep Tufekci We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads (32) test
• Alexander Betts Why Brexit happened -- and what to do next (31) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (30) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (30) test

Carole K. Hooven: How testosterone and culture shape behavior - test

• Stuart Brown Play is more than just fun (49) test
• Steve Keil A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond (46) test
• Isabel Behncke Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans (39) test
• Tim Brown Tales of creativity and play (34) test
• Yana Buhrer Tavanier How to recover from activism burnout (34) test

Caroline Casey: Looking past limits - test

• Kate Bowler "Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved (33) test
• Martin Pistorius How my mind came back to life — and no one knew (33) test
• Keiichiro Hirano Love others to love yourself (32) test
• Neil Pasricha The 3 A's of awesome (31) test
• Mandy Len Catron A better way to talk about love (30) test

Caroline Catlin: Why I photograph the quiet moments of grief and loss - test

• Nora McInerny We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it (39) test
• David Kessler How to find meaning after loss (36) test
• Andrew Solomon Love, no matter what (35) test
• Kate Bowler "Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved (35) test
• Martin Pistorius How my mind came back to life — and no one knew (35) test

Caroline Harper: What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases? - test

• Bruce Aylward Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war (31) test
• Parag Khanna Where on Earth will people live in the future? (30) test
• Rebecca Firth Can we call it a "world map" if it's missing a billion people? (29) test
• Gordon Brown Global ethic vs. national interest (27) test
• Hans Rosling Let my dataset change your mindset (27) test

Caroline Lavelle: Casting a spell on the cello - test

• Lucianne Walkowicz Light waves, visible and invisible (16) test
• Francesca Hogi True love — and the myth of "happily ever after" (16) test
• Colm Kelleher Is light a particle or a wave? (16) test
• Rogier van der Heide Why light needs darkness (15) test
• Shih Chieh Huang Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea (15) test

Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure - test

• Reshma Saujani Teach girls bravery, not perfection (38) test
• Monique W. Morris Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that (36) test
• Deepa Narayan 7 beliefs that can silence women -- and how to unlearn them (35) test
• Aditi Gupta A taboo-free way to talk about periods (34) test
• Peggy Orenstein What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure (34) test

Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners - test

• Anika Paulson How I found myself through music (29) test
• David Byrne How architecture helped music evolve (28) test
• Ge Wang The DIY orchestra of the future (27) test
• Mark Ronson How sampling transformed music (26) test
• Michael Tilson Thomas Music and emotion through time (25) test

Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (21) test
• Jay Silver Hack a banana, make a keyboard! (21) test
• Seth Godin The tribes we lead (20) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (20) test
• John Biewen The lie that invented racism (20) test

Carolyn Beans: Does planting trees actually cool the planet? - test

• Jean-François Bastin What if there were 1 trillion more trees? (50) test
• Susan Graham A new way to restore Earth's biodiversity -- from the air (41) test
• Suzanne Simard How trees talk to each other (39) test
• Willie Smits How to restore a rainforest (38) test
• Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr The city planting a million trees in two years (38) test

Carolyn Beans: Food expiration dates don't mean what you think - test

• Tristram Stuart The global food waste scandal (56) test
• Dana Gunders How to turn the tables on food waste (55) test
• Aparna Pallavi What foods did your ancestors love? (52) test
• Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli The future of the food ecosystem -- and the power of your plate (51) test
• Jasmine Crowe What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger (49) test

Carolyn Beans: What would happen if everyone stopped eating meat tomorrow? - test

• Sarah Lake The hidden forces behind your food choices (44) test
• Bruce Friedrich The next global agricultural revolution (43) test
• Mark Bittman What's wrong with what we eat (42) test
• Brian Kateman How to reduce your diet's carbon footprint — without going vegan (42) test
• Carolyn Beans Which is better for you "Real" meat or "fake" meat? (41) test

Carolyn Beans: Which is better for you "Real" meat or "fake" meat? - test

• Bruce Friedrich The next global agricultural revolution (63) test
• Sarah Lake The hidden forces behind your food choices (63) test
• Brian Kateman How to reduce your diet's carbon footprint — without going vegan (53) test
• Uma Valeti Is cultivated meat the future of food? (43) test
• Isha Datar How we could eat real meat without harming animals (42) test

Carolyn Beans: Why is rice so popular? - test

• Jim Whitaker and Jessica Whitaker Allen A cleaner world could start in a rice field (44) test
• Pamela Ronald The case for engineering our food (37) test
• Brent Loken Can we create the "perfect" farm? (27) test
• Ilissa Ocko The fastest way to slow climate change now (25) test
• Joanne Chory How supercharged plants could slow climate change (23) test

Carolyn Bertozzi: What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you - test

• Elizabeth Wayne We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer (58) test
• Carl June A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer (55) test
• Nabiha Saklayen Could you recover from illness ... using your own stem cells? (52) test
• Hani Goodarzi What if a simple blood test could detect cancer? (51) test
• George Zaidan and Charles Morton How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones? (51) test

Carolyn Freiwald: The hidden history found in your teeth - test

• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (42) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (40) test
• Erez Yoeli How to motivate people to do good for others (39) test
• Michael Specter The danger of science denial (38) test
• Justin Trudeau Leadership lessons from the prime minister of Canada (38) test

Carolyn Harris: Why is Marie Antoinette so controversial? - test

• Sydney Iaukea The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii (20) test
• Kenny Coogan Licking bees and pulping trees The reign of a wasp queen (18) test
• Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler History vs. Henry VIII (18) test
• Eric Liu How to understand power (17) test
• Walter R. Tschinkel Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids the life of a fire ant queen (17) test

Carolyn Jones: A tribute to nurses - test

• Ben Gran Why nurses are key to medical innovation (38) test
• Elaine Fong My mother's final wish -- and the right to die with dignity (36) test
• Hui-wen Sato How grief helped me become a better caregiver (35) test
• Bruce Feiler The secret to mastering life's biggest transitions (35) test
• BJ Miller What really matters at the end of life (33) test

Carolyn Marshall: Why didn't this 2,000 year old body decompose? - test

• Steven Allison Earth's original inhabitants -- and their role in combating climate change (39) test
• Jane Zelikova The hidden wonders of soil (29) test
• Rob Knight How our microbes make us who we are (29) test
• Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin You are your microbes (27) test
• Katrina Spade When I die, recompose me (26) test

Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life? - test

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• Lana Mazahreh 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water (18) test
• David Sedlak 4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought (18) test

Charles Wallace: Are there any places on Earth with no bugs? - test

• Murry Gans Why are there so many insects? (23) test
• Emily Parsons-Lord Art made of the air we breathe (22) test
• Renata di Tullio Por qué deberíamos comer más bichos (21) test
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• Nina G. Jablonski Why do we have hair in such random places? (20) test

Charles Wallace: When you're an ant but also a fungus tycoon - test

• Deborah Gordon The emergent genius of ant colonies (40) test
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• Deborah Gordon What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet (28) test
• Deborah Gordon Inside the ant colony (28) test
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Charlie Jane Anders: Go ahead, dream about the future - test

• Anab Jain Why we need to imagine different futures (54) test
• The TED Interview How to be a futurist (52) test
• Bastian Schaefer A 3D-printed jumbo jet? (47) test
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Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity - test

• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (43) test
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• Linus Torvalds The mind behind Linux (39) test
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Charlotte Degot: A more accurate way to calculate emissions - test

• Gavin McCormick Tracking the whole world's carbon emissions -- with satellites and AI (44) test
• Karen Scrivener A concrete idea to reduce carbon emissions (37) test
• Jens Burchardt How we can curb climate change by spending two percent more on everything (36) test
• TED-Ed The material that could change the world ... for a third time (33) test
• Alice Bows-Larkin Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt (33) test

Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption's hidden players - test

• Charmian Gooch My wish To launch a new era of openness in business (45) test
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Want to help Africa? Do business here (40) test
• Efosa Ojomo Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment (37) test
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• Robert Palmer The Panama Papers exposed a huge global problem. What's next? (34) test

Charmian Gooch: My wish To launch a new era of openness in business - test

• Charmian Gooch Meet global corruption's hidden players (45) test
• Bill Gross The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed (38) test
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• Dame Vivian Hunt How businesses can serve everyone, not just shareholders (33) test
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Chase LaDue and Bruce A. Schulte: The incredible, bendable, twistable, expandable elephant trunk - test

• Alex Gendler Why elephants never forget (35) test
• Lucy King How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans (32) test
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• Emily Parsons-Lord Art made of the air we breathe (18) test

Chelsea Shields: How I'm working for change inside my church - test

• Sharon Brous It's time to reclaim religion (49) test
• Karen Armstrong My wish The Charter for Compassion (45) test
• Kwame Anthony Appiah Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question) (39) test
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Chen Qiufan: A sci-fi vision of life in 2041 - test

• Alex Kipman A futuristic vision of the age of holograms (33) test
• Kevin Kelly Technology's epic story (30) test
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Chera Kowalski: The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis - test

• Dawn Wacek A librarian's case against overdue book fines (33) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (33) test
• Stephen Ritz A teacher growing green in the South Bronx (31) test
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Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk - test

• Fiorenzo Omenetto Silk, the ancient material of the future (35) test
• Michel Dugon The secrets of spider venom (25) test
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• Emily Leproust How synthetic biology can improve our health, food and materials (19) test
• Chris Hadfield What I learned from going blind in space (16) test

Cheryl Holder: The link between climate change, health and poverty - test

• Britt Wray How climate change affects your mental health (40) test
• Sophia Kianni Language shouldn't be a barrier to climate action (39) test
• Laprisha Berry Daniels Lessons from the past on adapting to climate change (39) test
• Al Roker An extreme weather report from America's weatherman (36) test
• David Finnigan A controversial play — and what it taught me about the psychology of climate (36) test

Chetan Bhatt: Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are - test

• Sheikha Al Mayassa Globalizing the local, localizing the global (31) test
• Sharon Brous It's time to reclaim religion (31) test
• Karen Armstrong My wish The Charter for Compassion (30) test
• Deeyah Khan What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids (30) test
• Chelsea Shields How I'm working for change inside my church (30) test

Chetna Gala Sinha: How women in rural India turned courage into capital - test

• Shad Begum How women in Pakistan are creating political change (41) test
• Srishti Bakshi My long walk across India for women's freedom (40) test
• Cecile Richards The political progress women have made -- and what's next (39) test
• Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Women entrepreneurs, example not exception (38) test
• Kavita Ramdas Radical women, embracing tradition (36) test

Cheyenne Cochrane: A celebration of natural hair - test

• Laetitia Ky Wild, intricate sculptures — made out of my hair (53) test
• Mena Fombo No. You cannot touch my hair! (51) test
• Nina G. Jablonski Why do we have hair in such random places? (45) test
• Jon Gray The power of the Afro pick (44) test
• Sarthak Sinha Why do some people go bald? (41) test

Chezare A. Warren: The difference between false empathy and true support - test

• Tilak Mandadi 3 ways companies can support grieving employees (29) test
• John Biewen The lie that invented racism (29) test
• Brittney Cooper The racial politics of time (26) test
• Vernā Myers How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them (26) test
• Jamil Zaki How to escape the cynicism trap (26) test

Chiara Decaroli: The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work - test

• Hartmut Neven Quantum computers aren't what you think — they're cooler (49) test
• Shohini Ghose A beginner's guide to quantum computing (46) test
• Craig Costello In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers? (43) test
• Matt Langione The promise of quantum computers (39) test
• Jim Al-Khalili How quantum biology might explain life's biggest questions (36) test

Chibeze Ezekiel: A vision for sustainable energy in Africa - test

• Xiaojun "Tom" Wang The human cost of coal mining in China (47) test
• Jordan Wirfs-Brock The four things you need to know about the energy you use (40) test
• Varun Sivaram How India could pull off the world's most ambitious energy transition (39) test
• Lucie Pinson How to stop banks from investing in fossil fuels (37) test
• Al Gore What comes after An Inconvenient Truth? (36) test

Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (51) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (50) test
• Linus Torvalds The mind behind Linux (48) test
• Dan Ariely What makes us feel good about our work? (46) test
• Jason Fried Why work doesn't happen at work (46) test

Chieh Huang: How to know if it's time to change careers - test

• Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper The best career path isn't always a straight line (44) test
• ZigZag Step 1 The Puls‪e‬ (40) test
• Carol Fishman Cohen How to get back to work after a career break (37) test
• Gala Jackson How to quit your job -- without ruining your career (37) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (36) test

Chieko Asakawa: How new technology helps blind people explore the world - test

• Ron McCallum How technology allowed me to read (36) test
• Aleph Molinari Let's bridge the digital divide! (34) test
• Andrew McAfee Are droids taking our jobs? (33) test
• Abha Dawesar Life in the "digital now" (31) test
• Paul Conneally How mobile phones power disaster relief (29) test

Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu: How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress - test

• George Ayittey Africa's cheetahs versus hippos (31) test
• Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again (29) test
• Dayo Ogunyemi Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers (28) test
• Charles Robertson Africa's next boom (27) test
• Euvin Naidoo Why invest in Africa (27) test

Chika Okoro: How colorism shapes our standards of beauty - test

• Angela Koine Flynn The science of skin color (39) test
• Jen Gunter 5 skin health myths to stop believing now (38) test
• Jenna C. Lester Why skin disease is often misdiagnosed in darker skin tones (35) test
• Nina Jablonski Skin color is an illusion (28) test
• Monique W. Morris Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that (28) test

Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers - test

• Jacqueline Woodson What reading slowly taught me about writing (37) test
• Ann Morgan My year reading a book from every country in the world (37) test
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The danger of a single story (34) test
• Ron McCallum How technology allowed me to read (32) test
• Lidia Yuknavitch The beauty of being a misfit (31) test

Children of Palau: Leave only footprints that will wash away - test

• Teitur Home is a song I've always remembered (26) test
• The Lady Lifers A moving song from women in prison for life (25) test
• Pico Iyer Where is home? (24) test
• Sarah Murray A playful solution to the housing crisis (23) test
• Manu Peni The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design (22) test

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story - test

• Tyler Cowen Be suspicious of simple stories (54) test
• Lori Gottlieb How changing your story can change your life (49) test
• Jacqueline Woodson What reading slowly taught me about writing (47) test
• Elif Shafak The politics of fiction (42) test
• Damon Gameau The story that shapes your relationship with nature (40) test

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: We should all be feminists - test

• Mary Ann Sieghart Why are women still taken less seriously than men? (55) test
• Justin Baldoni Why I'm done trying to be "man enough" (53) test
• Jimmie Briggs 3 things men can do to promote gender equity (52) test
• Michael Kimmel Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included (50) test
• Gaby Barrios Why gender-based marketing is bad for business (50) test

Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016? - test

• Steven Addis A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time (28) test
• Laura Vanderkam How to gain control of your free time (27) test
• Gretchen Carlson How we can end sexual harassment at work (26) test
• Angus Hervey The good news you might have missed (26) test
• Andri Snær Magnason On time and water (25) test

Chinyanta Kabaso: The dazzling diversity of African dance -- in 14 moves - test

• Camille A. Brown A visual history of social dance in 25 moves (59) test
• Ryan Heffington How dance can unleash your inner joy (50) test
• Ananda Shankar Jayant Fighting cancer with dance (35) test
• Prumsodun Ok The magic of Khmer classical dance (34) test
• Trevor Copp and Jeff Fox Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles (32) test

Chip Berlet: Are the Illuminati real? - test

• Janja Lalich Why do people join cults? (14) test
• Beth Noveck Demand a more open-source government (14) test
• Laura Snyder The Philosophical Breakfast Club (14) test
• Trevor Timm How free is our freedom of the press? (13) test
• Rebecca MacKinnon Let's take back the Internet! (13) test

Chip Colwell: Why museums are returning cultural treasures - test

• Gabrielle Rifkind How to prevent — or stop — a war (31) test
• Keith Lowe Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II (31) test
• P.W. Singer Military robots and the future of war (31) test
• Zarlasht Halaimzai What it's like to be a war refugee (28) test
• Yuval Noah Harari The war in Ukraine could change everything (27) test

Chip Conley: An alternative to the "midlife crisis" - test

• Bruce Feiler The secret to mastering life's biggest transitions (23) test
• Joshua Prager Wisdom from great writers on every year of life (22) test
• Jane Fonda Life's third act (22) test
• Ashton Applewhite Let's end ageism (20) test
• Chip Conley What baby boomers can learn from millennials at work -- and vice versa (20) test

Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (34) test
• Nic Marks The Happy Planet Index (32) test
• Dominic Price What's your happiness score? (31) test
• Pico Iyer The art of stillness (29) test
• Chris Anderson TED's nonprofit transition (28) test

Chip Conley: What baby boomers can learn from millennials at work -- and vice versa - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (34) test
• Pico Iyer The art of stillness (33) test
• Abha Dawesar Life in the "digital now" (32) test
• Jennifer D. Sciubba The truth about human population decline (32) test
• Don Tapscott Four principles for the open world (32) test

Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is. - test

• Brian Dettmer Old books reborn as art (46) test
• Chip Kidd Why books are here to stay (46) test
• Julie Dreyfuss The evolution of the book (37) test
• Deb Willis and Hank Willis Thomas A mother and son united by love and art (36) test
• Storybook Maze A street librarian's quest to bring books to everyone (35) test

Chip Kidd: The art of first impressions -- in design and life - test

• David Carson Design and discovery (29) test
• Marian Bantjes Intricate beauty by design (27) test
• Chip Kidd Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is. (26) test
• Frank Gehry A master architect asks, Now what? (24) test
• Brian Dettmer Old books reborn as art (24) test

Chip Kidd: Why books are here to stay - test

• Brian Dettmer Old books reborn as art (53) test
• Chip Kidd Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is. (46) test
• Chand John What's the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf? (44) test
• Julie Dreyfuss The evolution of the book (42) test
• Storybook Maze A street librarian's quest to bring books to everyone (41) test

Chris A. Kniesly: History through the eyes of a chicken - test

• Leah Garcés A lesson in turning adversaries into allies (23) test
• Peter Singer A modern argument for the rights of animals (17) test
• Daniel Finkel Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle? (16) test
• Isha Datar How we could eat real meat without harming animals (14) test
• Margaret Heffernan Forget the pecking order at work (14) test

Chris A. Kniesly: How corn conquered the world - test

• Rebecca Webster When ancient wisdom beats modern industry (26) test
• Brent Loken Can we create the "perfect" farm? (23) test
• Agnes Kalibata How to empower farmers — and nourish the planet (23) test
• Andrew Smith Why do we eat popcorn at the movies? (20) test
• Bruce Friedrich The next global agricultural revolution (20) test

Chris Abani: On humanity - test

• Hawa Abdi + Deqo Mohamed Mother and daughter doctor-heroes (38) test
• Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine (37) test
• Sakena Yacoobi How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school (36) test
• Yifat Susskind In uncertain times, think like a mother (35) test
• Tony Porter A call to men (34) test

Chris Abani: Telling stories from Africa - test

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The danger of a single story (37) test
• Giles Duley When a reporter becomes the story (31) test
• Bono My wish Three actions for Africa (30) test
• Chris Abani On humanity (30) test
• Keith Lowe Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II (30) test

Chris Anderson (TED): Questions no one knows the answers to - test

• Chris Anderson Why can't we see evidence of alien life? (77) test
• Chris Anderson How many universes are there? (71) test
• Stephen Hawking Questioning the universe (50) test
• Dimitar Sasselov How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets (47) test
• Betül Kaçar We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we? (45) test

Chris Anderson and Monique Ruff-Bell: Ideas change everything — and what's next for TED - test

• Chris Anderson TED's nonprofit transition (49) test
• The TED Interview Bill Gates looks to the future (44) test
• Sarah Jones What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers (42) test
• Steven Johnson Where good ideas come from (41) test
• Sarah Jones A one-woman global village (40) test

Chris Anderson and Richard Saul Wurman: TED is 40 — here's how it all started - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (45) test
• Frank Gehry A master architect asks, Now what? (44) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (44) test
• John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson The fight for civil rights and freedom (43) test
• The TED Interview Susan Cain takes us into the mind of an introvert (41) test

Chris Anderson: How many universes are there? - test

• Chris Anderson (TED) Questions no one knows the answers to (71) test
• Brian Greene Is our universe the only universe? (39) test
• Harry Cliff Have we reached the end of physics? (34) test
• Katie Mack Life-altering questions about the end of the universe (33) test
• Sean Carroll Distant time and the hint of a multiverse (32) test

Chris Anderson: How web video powers global innovation - test

• Chris Anderson and Monique Ruff-Bell Ideas change everything — and what's next for TED (37) test
• Emmett Shear What streaming means for the future of entertainment (35) test
• David Perry Are games better than life? (34) test
• Michael Stevens How much does a video weigh? (32) test
• Larry Page Where's Google going next? (32) test

Chris Anderson: TED's nonprofit transition - test

• Chris Anderson and Monique Ruff-Bell Ideas change everything — and what's next for TED (49) test
• Nicholas Negroponte A 30-year history of the future (42) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (39) test
• Richard Branson Life at 30,000 feet (38) test
• Chris Anderson and Richard Saul Wurman TED is 40 — here's how it all started (38) test

Chris Anderson: TED's secret to great public speaking - test

• Andrew Peek How your personal narrative limits your future (39) test
• Chris Anderson and Monique Ruff-Bell Ideas change everything — and what's next for TED (38) test
• Nancy Duarte The secret structure of great talks (37) test
• César Hidalgo A bold idea to replace politicians (37) test
• TED staff It's TED, the Musical (35) test

Chris Anderson: Technology's long tail - test

• Kevin Kelly Technology's epic story (41) test
• Kevin Kelly How technology evolves (36) test
• Nadjia Yousif Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague (33) test
• Ray Kurzweil The accelerating power of technology (33) test
• Margaret Mitchell How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us (31) test

Chris Anderson: Why can't we see evidence of alien life? - test

• Chris Anderson (TED) Questions no one knows the answers to (77) test
• Betül Kaçar We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we? (52) test
• Dimitar Sasselov How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets (51) test
• Tara Djokic This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life (48) test
• Sarah Rugheimer The search for microscopic aliens (45) test

Chris Bangle: Great cars are great art - test

• Jennifer Healey If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable (39) test
• Travis Kalanick Uber's plan to get more people into fewer cars (38) test
• Freeman H. Shen A future with fewer cars (36) test
• Alex Koster What will the dream car of the future be like? (35) test
• Bill Ford A future beyond traffic gridlock (35) test

Chris Bennett: A close-to-home solution for accessible childcare - test

• Claudia Miner A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten (38) test
• Marian Wright Edelman Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty (32) test
• Helen Pearson Lessons from the longest study on human development (30) test
• Georgette Mulheir The tragedy of orphanages (30) test
• Sara-Jane Dunn The next software revolution programming biological cells (29) test

Chris Bliss: Comedy is translation - test

• Hannah Gadsby Three ideas. Three contradictions. Or not. (33) test
• Luisa Neubauer Why you should be a climate activist (26) test
• Jamil Abu-Wardeh The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour (24) test
• Cleo Wade Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care (24) test
• Gordon Brown Global ethic vs. national interest (24) test

Chris Burkard: The joy of surfing in ice-cold water - test

• Raymond Tang Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water (26) test
• Lewis Pugh How I swam the North Pole (26) test
• Kelsey Leonard Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans (26) test
• Roz Savage Why I'm rowing across the Pacific (26) test
• Lana Mazahreh 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water (26) test

Chris Domas: The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare - test

• Malte Spitz Your phone company is watching (32) test
• JP Rangaswami Information is food (28) test
• Hasan Elahi FBI, here I am! (27) test
• Ryan Pullen How clicking a single link can cost millions (27) test
• Alessandro Acquisti What will a future without secrets look like? (26) test

Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind - test

• Mick Cornett How an obese town lost a million pounds (41) test
• Jaime Lerner A song of the city (41) test
• Liu Thai Ker The architectural mastermind behind modern Singapore (40) test
• Rahul Mehrotra The architectural wonder of impermanent cities (40) test
• Richard J. Berry A practical way to help the homeless find work and safety (38) test

Chris Duffy: How to find laughter anywhere - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (26) test
• Adam Alter Why our screens make us less happy (24) test
• Dave Eggers My wish Once Upon a School (24) test
• Laura Vanderkam How to gain control of your free time (22) test
• Mesmin Destin How everyday interactions shape your future (22) test

Chris Fisher: Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR - test

• Chris Fisher Why we should archive everything on the planet (99) test
• Liam Young Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future (26) test
• Oliver Jeffers An ode to living on Earth (26) test
• Achim Steiner Humanity's planet-shaping powers -- and what they mean for the future (26) test
• Luisa Neubauer Why you should be a climate activist (25) test

Chris Fisher: Why we should archive everything on the planet - test

• Chris Fisher Let's scan the whole planet with LiDAR (99) test
• Liam Young Planet City -- a sci-fi vision of an astonishing regenerative future (28) test
• Oliver Jeffers An ode to living on Earth (26) test
• Achim Steiner Humanity's planet-shaping powers -- and what they mean for the future (26) test
• Benjamin Grant What it feels like to see Earth from space (25) test

Chris Gerdes: The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver - test

• Chris Urmson How a driverless car sees the road (53) test
• Alex Koster What will the dream car of the future be like? (50) test
• Jennifer Healey If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable (45) test
• Shai Agassi A new ecosystem for electric cars (41) test
• Steven Levitt Surprising stats about child carseats (38) test

Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space - test

• Cady Coleman What it's like to live on the International Space Station (31) test
• Olafur Eliasson Playing with space and light (31) test
• Megan McArthur A NASA astronaut's lessons on fear, confidence and preparing for spaceflight (29) test
• James Orsulak Why we need to move manufacturing off-planet (28) test
• Antony Gormley Sculpted space, within and without (28) test

Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art - test

• Mona Chalabi 3 ways to spot a bad statistic (26) test
• Sarah Sze How we experience time and memory through art (26) test
• Susan Etlinger What do we do with all this big data? (25) test
• Amanda Renteria A bold plan to transform access to the US social safety net (25) test
• Dolores Huerta How to overcome apathy and find your power (25) test

Chris Kluwe: How augmented reality will change sports ... and build empathy - test

• Glenn Cantave How augmented reality is changing activism (37) test
• Donald Hoffman Do we see reality as it is? (34) test
• Jiabao Li Art that reveals how technology frames reality (33) test
• Bilawal Sidhu The AI-powered tools supercharging your imagination (32) test
• Herman Narula The transformative power of video games (32) test

Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability - test

• Miguel Goncalves How millennials and Gen Z can invest in a better future (48) test
• Vinay Shandal How conscious investors can turn up the heat and make companies change (38) test
• Audrey Choi How to make a profit while making a difference (38) test
• Wendy Woods The business benefits of doing good (36) test
• Nili Gilbert The crucial intersection of climate and capital (33) test

Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine - test

• Chris Milk The birth of virtual reality as an art form (48) test
• Jehane Noujaim My wish A global day of film (43) test
• Nonny de la Peña The future of news? Virtual reality (37) test
• Jeff Skoll My journey into movies that matter (37) test
• Cleo Wade Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care (36) test

Chris Milk: The birth of virtual reality as an art form - test

• Chris Milk How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine (48) test
• Michael Tilson Thomas Music and emotion through time (36) test
• Pierre Barreau How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life (35) test
• Tod Machover + Dan Ellsey Inventing instruments that unlock new music (34) test
• Anika Paulson How I found myself through music (34) test

Chris Nowinski: Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE - test

• Andres Lozano Parkinson's, depression and the switch that might turn them off (46) test
• Jeff Hawkins How brain science will change computing (44) test
• Nita Farahany Your right to mental privacy in the age of brain-sensing tech (44) test
• Tom Oxley A brain implant that turns your thoughts into text (44) test
• Clifford Robbins What happens when you have a concussion? (44) test

Chris Roe: Amazon's commitment to run on 100-percent renewable energy - test

• Varun Sivaram How India could pull off the world's most ambitious energy transition (49) test
• Ksenia Petrichenko What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? (48) test
• James Irungu Mwangi Africa's great carbon valley -- and how to end energy poverty (47) test
• Rose M. Mutiso How to bring affordable, sustainable electricity to Africa (47) test
• Jordan Wirfs-Brock The four things you need to know about the energy you use (46) test

Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth - test

• John Koenig Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions (36) test
• Erin McKean Go ahead, make up new words! (33) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (31) test
• Parag Khanna Where on Earth will people live in the future? (31) test
• Erin McKean The joy of lexicography (30) test

Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road - test

• Chris Gerdes The future race car -- 150mph, and no driver (53) test
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Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll: How I learned to read -- and trade stocks -- in prison - test

• Estelle Gibson The true cost of financial dependence (51) test
• Tammy Lally Let's get honest about our money problems (45) test
• J Mase III 3 money lessons from infamous scam artists (40) test
• Dilip Ratha The hidden force in global economics sending money home (40) test
• Michael Norton How to buy happiness (39) test

Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots - test

• Kate Darling Why we have an emotional connection to robots (61) test
• Rodney Brooks Robots will invade our lives (55) test
• Leila Takayama What's it like to be a robot? (55) test
• Catie Cuan Next up for AI? Dancing robots (54) test
• Ali Kashani A friendly, autonomous robot that delivers your food (51) test

Cynthia Fay Davis: The myth of the moon goddess - test

• Tom Honey Why would God create a tsunami? (40) test
• Jackie Tabick The balancing act of compassion (25) test
• Julia Sweeney Letting go of God (25) test
• Liana Finck Life is hard. Art helps (24) test
• Anjali Kumar My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead (23) test

Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives - test

• Aubrey de Grey A roadmap to end aging (39) test
• Monica Menesini Why do our bodies age? (30) test
• Joao Pedro de Magalhaes Why do animals have such different lifespans? (29) test
• Craig Venter Sampling the ocean's DNA (28) test
• Moshe Szyf How early life experience is written into DNA (27) test

Cynthia Ong: Redefining how we love - test

• Keiichiro Hirano Love others to love yourself (64) test
• Mandy Len Catron A better way to talk about love (63) test
• Aracelis Girmay "For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card" (60) test
• Helen Fisher The brain in love (60) test
• Francesca Hogi True love — and the myth of "happily ever after" (59) test

Cynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of Idol TV - test

• Tamana Ayazi and Kat Craig The danger and devotion of fighting for women in Afghanistan (32) test
• Henrietta Fore How we can help young people build a better future (29) test
• Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy How film transforms the way we see the world (29) test
• Jared Diamond How societies can grow old better (28) test
• Deeyah Khan What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids (27) test

Cynthia Williams: The secret perks of driving electric - test

• Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal The surprisingly long history of electric cars (42) test
• TED Countdown TED Explores A New Climate Vision (37) test
• Monica Araya The billion-dollar campaign to electrify transport (33) test
• Akshat Rathi Capitalism broke the climate. Now it can fix it (33) test
• Bill Ford A future beyond traffic gridlock (32) test

Cédric Villani: What's so sexy about math? - test

• Jim Simons The mathematician who cracked Wall Street (31) test
• Jeff Dekofsky Is math discovered or invented? (30) test
• Eddie Woo How math is our real sixth sense (29) test
• Benoit Mandelbrot Fractals and the art of roughness (29) test
• Mohamad Jebara This company pays kids to do their math homework (28) test

Céline Valéry: How does your body process medicine? - test

• Jen Gunter A cleanse won't detox your body -- but here's what will (32) test
• Céline Valéry The dangers of mixing drugs (30) test
• Bill Schutt How do blood transfusions work? (29) test
• Andrew Lovering How high altitude affects your body (27) test
• TED-Ed The surprising effects of pregnancy (25) test

Céline Valéry: The dangers of mixing drugs - test

• Ethan Nadelmann Why we need to end the War on Drugs (31) test
• Céline Valéry How does your body process medicine? (30) test
• Russ Altman What really happens when you mix medications? (30) test
• Mark Tyndall The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment (28) test
• Patience Mthunzi Could we cure HIV with lasers? (26) test

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: The US can move past immigration prisons -- and towards justice - test

• César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández Why immigration prisons aren't the answer (98) test
• Will Hurd A wall won't solve America's border problems (38) test
• Erika Pinheiro What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better (35) test
• Dolores Huerta How to overcome apathy and find your power (32) test
• Parag Khanna Where on Earth will people live in the future? (30) test

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández: Why immigration prisons aren't the answer - test

• César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández The US can move past immigration prisons -- and towards justice (98) test
• Will Hurd A wall won't solve America's border problems (38) test
• Erika Pinheiro What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better (35) test
• Dolores Huerta How to overcome apathy and find your power (31) test
• Parag Khanna Where on Earth will people live in the future? (29) test

César Hidalgo: A bold idea to replace politicians - test

• Max Rashbrooke 3 ways to upgrade democracy for the 21st century (49) test
• Seth Godin The tribes we lead (46) test
• Ivan Krastev Can democracy exist without trust? (45) test
• Bret Stephens and Yordanos Eyoel Democracy requires disagreement. Here's how to do it better (43) test
• Rory Stewart Why democracy matters (42) test

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