The Problem With Food and Climate — and How To Fix It | Jonathan Foley | TED
Jonathan Foley presents data-backed solutions to address food production's significant contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, offering four key steps to build a better global food system and reduce environmental impact.
The Satellite Helping Slow Climate Change — Right Now | Millie Chu Baird | TED
MethaneSAT is a satellite monitoring global methane emissions, a potent short-term greenhouse gas. Environmental advocate Millie Chu Baird explains methane's heat-trapping effects and why reducing emissions is crucial for addressing climate change in our lifetimes.
The Missing Piece of the Clean Energy Transition | Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha | TED
Energy equity expert Sheila Ngozi Oparaocha argues that the clean energy transition overlooks millions without energy access. She highlights grassroots women's organizations leading efforts for universal access and calls for prioritizing gender equality in energy policies to create a sustainable future where no one is left behind.
AI That Connects the Digital and Physical Worlds | Anima Anandkumar | TED
AI professor Anima Anandkumar explains how neural operators — AI trained on detailed physics — bridge the gap between language models and scientific simulation, enabling improved weather forecasting and medical device design through universal physical understanding.
The Fight Over Minerals for Green Energy — and a Better Way Forward | Saleem Ali | TED
Saleem Ali discusses the global competition for essential minerals needed for clean energy transition, highlighting conflicts between countries rushing to mine these resources and proposing cooperative solutions to avoid resource wars.
3 Ideas for Communicating Across the Political Divide | Isaac Saul | TED
Journalist Isaac Saul explores how subtle word choices in language can inhibit productive political dialogue and shows how small but important changes can help us have better conversations with people who think differently.
How Farmworkers Are Fighting Extreme Heat | Jon Esformes and Gerardo Reyes Chávez | TED
Farmworker Gerardo Reyes Chávez and farm manager Jon Esformes collaborate on a unique partnership model to protect agricultural workers from extreme heat and exploitation, creating safer, more humane working conditions that could serve as a blueprint for modern labor practices worldwide.
Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED
Writer Laurel Braitman explores the relationship between bravery and fear, sharing hard-won wisdom on love, loss, self-forgiveness, and embracing the full spectrum of human emotions through the metaphor of life as an endless sushi conveyor belt.
Could Psychedelics Help Patients in Therapy? | Benjamin Lewis | TED
Psychiatrist Benjamin Lewis presents clinical trial results showing how group therapy combined with safe psilocybin use can improve mental health conditions like depression and burnout, advocating for more psychedelic approaches in psychiatry.
Lessons From People Already Adapting to the Climate Crisis | Dorcas Naishorua | TED
Dorcas Naishorua, a Maasai climate activist, explains how the climate crisis is threatening the traditional Maasai way of life that has sustained them for centuries through cattle herding. She calls for local and international support as they adapt to environmental changes.
Magic and Wonder in the Age of AI | David Kwong | TED
Magician David Kwong demonstrates how AI and technology can enhance magic and create wonder, performing a mind-reading act with ChatGPT to show how tech elevates our capacity for awe rather than diminishing it.
Next Up for AI? Dancing Robots | Catie Cuan | TED
Robot choreographer Catie Cuan explores why teaching robots to move with grace, intention and emotion is essential for creating AI-powered machines we'll want to welcome into our daily lives.
The Hidden Danger of Lead in Soil | Yvette Cabrera | TED
Investigative journalist Yvette Cabrera exposes the hidden threat of lead contamination in urban soil, particularly dangerous for children in cities. She presents an action plan to map contaminated soils and create healthier communities through targeted interventions.
A Street Librarian's Quest to Bring Books to Everyone | Storybook Maze | TED
Storybook Maze is a radical street librarian who combats book deserts by installing free public book vending machines and hosting street corner story times, making literature accessible to children in underserved communities. She also shares how others can become radical street librarians.
The Last 6 Decades of AI — and What Comes Next | Ray Kurzweil | TED
Ray Kurzweil discusses AI's transformative impact since its inception six decades ago, highlighting its exponential growth and predicting the singularity - the point where human intelligence merges with machine intelligence.
How You Could See Inside Your Body — With a Micro-Robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari | TED
Physician Vivek Kumbhari demonstrates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable micro-robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke. This technology enables direct visualization of internal organs, potentially replacing invasive endoscopies with more comfortable, affordable medical imaging.
A Scientific Breakthrough That Could Transform How We Produce Food | David Friedberg | TED
David Friedberg discusses the evolution of agriculture and its environmental costs, then introduces "boosted breeding" - a scientific breakthrough that could transform global food production by making it more efficient and sustainable.
Is Cultivated Meat the Future of Food? | Uma Valeti | TED
Cardiologist and entrepreneur Uma Valeti discusses how conventional animal agriculture harms humans, animals, and the environment. He presents cultivated meat grown directly from animal cells as a solution that preserves favorite protein meals while potentially saving billions of animal lives, improving human health, and protecting the planet.
A Master Chef’s Take on Food, Culture and Community | Marcus Samuelsson | TED
Chef Marcus Samuelsson discusses how food brings people and cultures together, exploring the fusion of modern Black cuisine and the joyful power of food in conversation with art curator Thelma Golden.
Leadership Lessons From the Prime Minister of Canada | Justin Trudeau | TED
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discusses leadership lessons, overcoming impostor syndrome, maintaining motivation amid criticism, encouraging truth-telling, and what keeps him awake at night in an interview with organizational psychologist Adam Grant.
How to solve our crisis of belonging | Daze Aghaji | TEDxLondon
Cultural strategist and environmental activist Daze Aghaji argues that multiple global crises - from Palestine to climate change to toxic gender debates - stem from a fundamental crisis of belonging, leading people to seek connection through harmful ideologies like nationalism and anti-immigrant rhetoric.