TED Recommendations

OK Go: How to find a wonderful idea - test

• Steven Johnson Where good ideas come from (33) test
• Adam Sadowsky How to engineer a viral music video (31) test
• Chris Anderson TED's secret to great public speaking (27) test
• Rives The Museum of Four in the Morning (26) test
• Andrew Peek How your personal narrative limits your future (26) test

Ocean Ramsey: Why the world needs sharks - test

• Simon Berrow How do you save a shark you know nothing about? (54) test
• Thomas Peschak Dive into an ocean photographer's world (34) test
• Hamish Jolly A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it's not what you think) (32) test
• Kara Logan Berlin 3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser (28) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (28) test

Oded Shoseyov: How we're harnessing nature's hidden superpowers - test

• Eben Bayer Are mushrooms the new plastic? (30) test
• Dan Widmaier The future of fashion -- made from mushrooms (29) test
• Michael Green The natural building blocks of sustainable architecture (25) test
• Juan Enriquez The next species of human (24) test
• Juan Enriquez What will humans look like in 100 years? (24) test

Ofer Levy: The new science of personalized vaccines - test

• Seth Berkley The quest for the coronavirus vaccine (46) test
• Dan Kwartler How fast can a vaccine be made? (44) test
• Seth Berkley HIV and flu -- the vaccine strategy (44) test
• Mark Kendall Demo A needle-free vaccine patch that's safer and way cheaper (44) test
• Kaitlyn Sadtler and Elizabeth Wayne How the COVID-19 vaccines were created so quickly (42) test

Okong'o Kinyanjui: The online community supporting queer Africans - test

• Jioji Ravulo A liberating vision of identity that transcends labels (46) test
• Peachy Liv How to protect your mental well-being online -- from a Gen-Zer (37) test
• Tiq Milan and Kim Katrin Milan A queer vision of love and marriage (32) test
• Shari Davis What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds? (31) test
• Eli Pariser What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good? (31) test

Olafur Eliasson: Kids are speaking up for the environment. Let's listen - test

• Anab Jain Why we need to imagine different futures (36) test
• Charlie Jane Anders Go ahead, dream about the future (34) test
• Meg Jay Essential questions to ask your future self (31) test
• The TED Interview How to be a futurist (30) test
• Bastian Schaefer A 3D-printed jumbo jet? (29) test

Olafur Eliasson: Playing with space and light - test

• Antony Gormley Sculpted space, within and without (48) test
• Phnam Bagley Gourmet food for the final frontier (44) test
• Hilde Stenuit How new drugs could come from space (41) test
• James Orsulak Why we need to move manufacturing off-planet (39) test
• Dan Barasch A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City (38) test

Ole Scheeren: Why great architecture should tell a story - test

• Ma Yansong Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes (47) test
• Daniel Libeskind 17 words of architectural inspiration (46) test
• Xavier Vilalta Architecture at home in its community (42) test
• Thomas Heatherwick The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings (41) test
• Jeanne Gang Buildings that blend nature and city (41) test

Oleksandra Matviichuk: The ordinary people doing extraordinary things in Ukraine - test

• Yuval Noah Harari The war in Ukraine could change everything (54) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (48) test
• Wadah Khanfar A historic moment in the Arab world (47) test
• Parag Khanna Where on Earth will people live in the future? (46) test
• Wael Ghonim Inside the Egyptian revolution (45) test

Olesya Khromeychuk: What the world can learn from Ukraine's fight for democracy - test

• Timothy Snyder Is democracy doomed? The global fight for our future (37) test
• Zoya Lytvyn Ukraine's fight to keep educating its children (33) test
• Oleksandra Matviichuk The ordinary people doing extraordinary things in Ukraine (32) test
• Ian Bassin How to spot authoritarianism — and choose democracy (32) test
• Yordanos Eyoel How to build a global pro-democracy movement (32) test

Olga Kitaina: How to alter the perception of mental health care in Russia - test

• Nick Turner and Whitney Pennington Rodgers How to fix two of the most broken systems in the US (41) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (40) test
• Vikram Patel Mental health for all by involving all (39) test
• Bill Gates How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic (39) test
• Paul Hudson and Lindsay Levin Leadership in the age of AI (38) test

Olga Yurkova: Inside the fight against Russia's fake news empire - test

• Sinan Aral How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation (48) test
• Alisa Miller How the news distorts our worldview (42) test
• Christiane Amanpour How to seek truth in the era of fake news (40) test
• Lara Setrakian 3 ways to fix a broken news industry (30) test
• Damon Brown How to choose your news (30) test

Oliver Elfenbaum: How does the stock market work? - test

• Richard Coffin How do investors choose stocks? (64) test
• Ashwini Anburajan How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital (29) test
• Eleni Gabre-Madhin A commodities exchange for Ethiopia (28) test
• Adam Clulow How one of the most profitable companies in history rose to power (28) test
• Chris McKnett The investment logic for sustainability (28) test

Oliver Jeffers: An ode to living on Earth - test

• Sarah T. Stewart Where did the Moon come from? A new theory (42) test
• Eric Hinterman How going to Mars improves life on Earth (40) test
• Benjamin Grant What it feels like to see Earth from space (40) test
• Dr. Matt J. Carlson Free falling in outer space (39) test
• Dimitar Sasselov How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets (39) test

Oliver Sacks: What hallucination reveals about our minds - test

• Elizabeth Cox What causes hallucinations? (53) test
• Read Montague What we're learning from 5,000 brains (32) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (31) test
• Wael Ghonim Inside the Egyptian revolution (30) test
• Abigail Marsh Why some people are more altruistic than others (29) test

Olivia Affuso: 3 ways community creates a healthy life - test

• Rebecca Onie What Americans agree on when it comes to health (33) test
• Sandra Aamodt Why dieting doesn't usually work (33) test
• Karen DeSalvo How tech companies can help combat the pandemic and reshape public health (32) test
• Matthias Müllenbeck What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy? (31) test
• Margaret Bourdeaux Why civilians suffer more once a war is over (31) test

Olivia Arthur: Meditations on the intersection of humanity and technology - test

• Sherry Turkle Connected, but alone? (32) test
• Hugh Herr How we'll become cyborgs and extend human potential (31) test
• Guy Hoffman Robots with "soul" (30) test
• Margaret Mitchell How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us (30) test
• Barry Schwartz The way we think about work is broken (30) test

Olivia Breese: The molecular love story that could help power the world - test

• Vaitea Cowan How green hydrogen could end the fossil fuel era (49) test
• TED Countdown How do we get the world off fossil fuels quickly and fairly? (42) test
• Jim Hagemann Snabe Dreams and details for a decarbonized future (39) test
• James Irungu Mwangi Africa's great carbon valley -- and how to end energy poverty (39) test
• Ksenia Petrichenko What if buildings created energy instead of consuming it? (38) test

Olivia Lazard: The blind spots of the green energy transition - test

• Changhua Wu Can the US and China take on climate change together? (43) test
• Zainab Usman How sci-fi informs our climate future — and what to do next (37) test
• TED Countdown How do we get the world off fossil fuels quickly and fairly? (36) test
• Saleem Ali The fight over minerals for green energy — and a better way forward (35) test
• Rose M. Mutiso The energy Africa needs to develop -- and fight climate change (34) test

Olivia Remes: How to cope with anxiety - test

• Lisa Damour 3 steps of anxiety overload -- and how you can take back control (58) test
• Annabel Spring and Wendy Suzuki What makes a good life? A neuroscientist and a global financial CEO answer (55) test
• Wendy Suzuki How to calm your anxiety, from a neuroscientist (51) test
• Jen Gunter What's normal anxiety -- and what's an anxiety disorder? (51) test
• Valerie Purdie-Greenaway The anxiety that comes from being treated like an outsider (49) test

Olivia Remes: How to cope with loneliness - test

• WorkLife with Adam Grant We don't have to fight loneliness alone (56) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (52) test
• Marisa G. Franco The secret to making new friends as an adult (51) test
• Brian S. Lowery and Kylan Gibbs What makes us human in the age of AI? A psychologist and a technologist answer (51) test
• Tanya Menon The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet (50) test

Olivia Vinckier: A colorful case for outside-the-box thinking on identity - test

• John Biewen The lie that invented racism (41) test
• The TED Interview Mellody Hobson challenges us to be color brave (38) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (35) test
• Coleman Hughes A case for color blindness (34) test
• Brittney Cooper The racial politics of time (34) test

Olivier Scalabre: The next manufacturing revolution is here - test

• Cathie Wood Why AI will spark exponential economic growth (42) test
• Kate Raworth A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow (40) test
• Robert Gordon The death of innovation, the end of growth (38) test
• Dambisa Moyo Economic growth has stalled. Let's fix it (34) test
• Augie Picado The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing (32) test

OluTimehin Adegbeye: Who belongs in a city? - test

• Smruti Jukur Johari What if the poor were part of city planning? (40) test
• Kent Larson Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city (35) test
• Gautam Bhan A bold plan to house 100 million people (34) test
• Alessandra Orofino It’s our city. Let’s fix it (34) test
• Robert Muggah How to protect fast-growing cities from failing (31) test

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò: Why Africa must become a center of knowledge again - test

• The TED Interview David Deutsch on the infinite reach of knowledge (50) test
• Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim Indigenous knowledge meets science to take on climate change (41) test
• Dayo Ogunyemi Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers (31) test
• Euvin Naidoo Why invest in Africa (30) test
• Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress (29) test

Olympia Della Flora: Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school - test

• Pearl Arredondo My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher (59) test
• Diana Laufenberg How to learn? From mistakes (53) test
• Nora Flanagan What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education (53) test
• Karim Abouelnaga A summer school kids actually want to attend (51) test
• Linda Cliatt-Wayman How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard (51) test

Omar Ahmad: Political change with pen and paper - test

• Jason Fried Why work doesn't happen at work (28) test
• Debbie Lovich 3 tips for leaders to get the future of work right (26) test
• Marian Bantjes Intricate beauty by design (26) test
• WorkLife with Adam Grant When work takes over your life (26) test
• Anjali Sud and Stephanie Mehta How great leaders take on uncertainty (26) test

Onora O'Neill: What we don't understand about trust - test

• Rachel Botsman We've stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers (70) test
• WorkLife with Adam Grant How to trust people you don't like (52) test
• Marcos Aguiar 7 tools for building a business people trust (49) test
• Frances Frei How to build (and rebuild) trust (46) test
• WorkLife with Adam Grant Bonus Relationships at work with Esther Perel (46) test

Onyx Ashanti: This is beatjazz - test

• Renzo Vitale What should electric cars sound like? (22) test
• Julian Treasure The 4 ways sound affects us (20) test
• Christine Sun Kim The enchanting music of sign language (20) test
• Anab Jain Why we need to imagine different futures (19) test
• Bastian Schaefer A 3D-printed jumbo jet? (19) test

Oral McGuire: How to live with fire - test

• George T. Whitesides The growing megafire crisis -- and how to contain it (50) test
• Danielle Torley I stepped out of grief -- by dancing with fire (48) test
• Jennifer B. Nuzzo 3 ways to prepare society for the next pandemic (31) test
• Paul Hessburg Why wildfires have gotten worse -- and what we can do about it (31) test
• Elizabeth Cox Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas? (26) test

Ordinary Things: Who owns the internet of the future? - test

• Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa Why a free and fair internet is more vital than ever (53) test
• Danny Hillis The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B (49) test
• Kayvon Tehranian How NFTs are building the internet of the future (46) test
• Rebecca MacKinnon Let's take back the Internet! (43) test
• Tamas Kocsis The case for a decentralized internet (41) test

Oren Yakobovich: Hidden cameras that film injustice in the world’s most dangerous places - test

• Yvette Alberdingk Thijm The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths (33) test
• Ava DuVernay How film changes the way we see the world (32) test
• JR My wish Use art to turn the world inside out (32) test
• Peter Gabriel Fight injustice with raw video (32) test
• Jehane Noujaim My wish A global day of film (31) test

Oren Zaslansky: The next wave of innovation in freight - test

• Massimo Russo 3 ways your company's data can jump-start climate action (25) test
• Jennifer Zhu Scott Why you should get paid for your data (23) test
• Mallory Freeman Your company's data could help end world hunger (23) test
• Tim Berners-Lee The next web (23) test
• Tim Smith Big Data (23) test

Orisanmi Burton: What really happened during the Attica Prison Rebellion - test

• Will Potter The secret US prisons you've never heard of before (28) test
• JR Why art is a tool for hope (24) test
• Kiran Bedi A police chief with a difference (24) test
• Shaka Senghor Why your worst deeds don’t define you (23) test
• Alan Crickmore How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids (22) test

Orit Tykocinski: The counterintuitive psychology of insurance - test

• Rose Goslinga Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding (44) test
• Dan Ariely How to change your behavior for the better (28) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (25) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (24) test
• Paolo Gaudiano What DEI gets wrong — and how to do it right (24) test

Ory Okolloh: How I became an activist - test

• Kakenya Ntaiya A girl who demanded school (39) test
• Mary Maker Why I fight for the education of refugee girls (like me) (39) test
• Fred Swaniker The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it (39) test
• Angélique Kidjo and Femi Oke Why joy is a state of mind (38) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (37) test

Oscar Schwartz: Can a computer write poetry? - test

• Alex Gendler The Turing test Can a computer pass for a human? (37) test
• The TED Interview Ray Kurzweil on what the future holds next (35) test
• Raphael Arar How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions (33) test
• Shervin Khodabandeh Why people and AI make good business partners (33) test
• Nick Bostrom What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? (33) test

Oskar Eustis: Why theater is essential to democracy - test

• Cara Greene Epstein How theater weathers wars, outlasts empires and survives pandemics (36) test
• Helen Marriage Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination (32) test
• Bret Stephens and Yordanos Eyoel Democracy requires disagreement. Here's how to do it better (31) test
• César Hidalgo A bold idea to replace politicians (31) test
• Walter Hood How urban spaces can preserve history and build community (31) test

Ozawa Bineshi Albert: Climate action needs new frontline leadership - test

• Angela Mahecha Adrar The people who caused the climate crisis aren't the ones who will fix it (49) test
• Peggy Shepard How to build an equitable and just climate future (42) test
• Colette Pichon Battle Climate change will displace millions. Here's how we prepare (41) test
• David Lammy and Justin J. Pearson How to be a leader for climate justice (41) test
• Rahwa Ghirmatzion and Zelalem Adefris Community-powered solutions to the climate crisis (40) test

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