Your Brain Hallucinates Your Conscious Reality
Neuroscientist Anil Seth explores how our brains create conscious reality, suggesting we're all constantly hallucinating and only agree on shared perceptions as "reality." A mind-bending look at existence itself.
What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure
Exploring young women's attitudes towards sexual pleasure, highlighting the importance of open discussions about sex, bodies, and intimacy to empower girls and close the "orgasm gap."
How to Speak Up for Yourself
Learn strategies to assert yourself, navigate social situations, and expand personal power with insights from social psychologist Adam Galinsky in this empowering TED Talk on speaking up effectively.
Paper Beats Plastic - How to Rethink Environmental Folklore
Challenging environmental myths and advocating for systems-based innovations to create sustainable products and ease planetary strain. Rethinking common beliefs about paper, plastic, and other eco-friendly choices.
How to Escape Education's Death Valley
Sir Ken Robinson reveals 3 key principles for human flourishing, challenging current education culture and proposing a nurturing climate of possibility for younger generations.
The Way We Think About Charity Is Dead Wrong
Dan Pallotta challenges conventional thinking on charity, advocating for a shift in how we measure nonprofit success. He argues for rewarding big goals and accomplishments rather than frugality in charitable organizations.
The Power of Introverts
Passionate exploration of introversion's value in society, challenging extrovert-centric norms and celebrating introverts' unique talents and contributions to the world.
Planning a Virtual Experience Research Accelerator - VERA
Exploring the vision for a Virtual Experience Research Accelerator to revolutionize VR research by improving scale, representativeness, and resource sharing among scholars and practitioners.
Mixed Reality in a Highly Connected World
Explore mixed reality's impact on social interaction, learning, and privacy in our increasingly connected world, with insights from Firefox Reality.
Human-Centered AI for Sustainability - Case Social Robots
Explore human-centered AI for sustainability, focusing on social robots. Learn about interdisciplinary design methodologies and practical applications in various societal contexts.
The NSA Responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk
NSA deputy director responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk, addressing privacy concerns, security threats, and the balance between transparency and secrecy in intelligence operations.
How We Take Back the Internet
Edward Snowden discusses surveillance, internet freedom, and data privacy, emphasizing the importance of protecting digital rights and rethinking internet laws for a more secure and free online environment.
The 6 Killer Apps of Prosperity
Historian Niall Ferguson explores six key ideas from Western culture that have promoted prosperity, stability, and innovation, and discusses their potential for global adoption in the modern era.
Don't Take Consciousness for Granted
Inspiring talk on overcoming severe brain injury through innovative treatments and the importance of preserving consciousness, with insights on recovery beyond medical expectations.
Let's Teach Fish to Text! and Other Outlandish Ideas
Explore innovative environmental solutions through art and engineering, from walking tadpoles to texting fish. Discover how public engagement and creative experiments can address ecological challenges.
How to Combat Modern Slavery
Explore the economics of modern slavery, its global impact, and the feasible solution to end it. Learn about personal stories, statistics, and the cost of freeing every slave worldwide.
Innovating to Zero
Bill Gates unveils his vision for achieving zero carbon emissions globally by 2050, discussing the need for energy innovation, nuclear technology, and "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe.
Happiness and Its Surprises
Explore the science of happiness, its biological basis, and surprising effects on our bodies. Learn about positivity, empathy, and strategies for increasing well-being in this thought-provoking talk.
The New Era of Positive Psychology
Explore the shift from disease-focused psychology to positive psychology, examining its potential to enhance well-being and foster human flourishing through various approaches to happiness.
My Stroke of Insight
Brain scientist shares personal stroke experience, offering unique insights into brain functions, self-awareness, and the power of choice in perception and recovery.
How Bad Architecture Wrecked Cities
Explore how poor urban design impacts civic life and learn about creating public spaces that foster community engagement and a sense of place.