Can you protect yourself shame's harmful affects? Vulnerability researcher Brené Brown explores shame resilience.
Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist who spent three years during World War II living under unspeakable circumstances in several of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps.
For 50 years the environmental movement has unsuccessfully argued that we should save the planet for moral reasons, that there were more important things than money. Ironically, it now seems it will be money -- through the economic impact of climate change and resource constraint -- that will motivate the sweeping changes necessary to avert catastrophe.
What's an atheist scientist like me doing writing good things about religion? I didn't start out this way. As a teenager, I had contempt for religion. I was raised Jewish, but when I read the Bible, I was shocked. It hardly seemed to me like a good guide for ethical behavior in modern times, what with all the smiting and stoning and genocide, some of it ordered by God. In college, I read other holy books, and they didn't make me any more positive toward religion.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt discusses the moral and psychological reasons behind divisions in American politics.
Creativity has taken center stage in recent years, with a slew of books, articles and TED talks extolling the virtues of imagination and exhorting young and old to go out and exercise their creative muscle.
A couple of years ago I started a program to try to get rock-star tech and design people to take a year off and work in the one environment that represents pretty much everything they're supposed to hate -- government. It's called Code for America, and it's a little bit like a Peace Corps for geeks.
How could computer code change our cities for the better? Code for America's Jennifer Pahlka explains.
I'm an attorney and I represent incarcerated people, both in my home state of Alabama and across the United States.
How does injustice influence America's identity? Public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson explains.
Cars and commercial airplanes move the vast majority of us around, but as any frequent traveler knows, both of these modes of transportation have their limitations.
The longest debate since humans have been having debates is whether we are good or evil. It underlies the stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Jesus and Judas.
What's the first dream you ever had?
For decades, repressive governments in the Arab world controlled the media, shaping public opinion through propaganda, according to Wadah Khanfar, who headed Al Jazeera until his resignation this week.
Two years ago, Carlo Ratti, the head of MIT's Senseable City Lab, decided to find out what happened when city residents disposed of trash.
You know where your purchases come from, but not where they end up. MIT's Carlo Ratti explains why you should know.
It wasn't enough for Nathan Myhrvold to work with Stephen Hawking on research in physics, or to develop many of Microsoft's key products, or publish books of his nature photography. He had to take his career in yet another direction -- by getting his hands dirty in the kitchen.
Chef and scientist Nathan Myhrvold explains his high-tech approach to cooking.
I will never forget holding my newborn baby in my arms watching a television report on the 1987 famine in Ethiopia -- hearing the haunting cries of babies whose hunger could not be met by their anguished mothers.
In our modern society, driving is really a necessity. It is a means of getting you to your destination wherever, whenever. Driving is also fun. Some people even consider it an expression of power. Most importantly, driving is really about freedom, about independence.
Jumping out of a plane and free falling is an incredible sensation, says Yves Rossy.
Artist JR talks about his city-sized art and one of his recent projects, "Women Are Heroes."
The anonymous -- and mysterious -- street artist JR has had an impact in many places around the world, even though he's still in his 20s.
When I was a young boy, I dreamed of two things: one, to become a paleontologist, and another, to have a pet dinosaur. I have become a paleontologist, and now I strive to figure out a way to bring back or create my living dinosaur.
My project sprang from an idea in my book "Fashioning The Future: Tomorrow's Wardrobe."
Can you really grow a dress in a bathtub? Designer Suzanne Lee explains the world of "Biocouture" at TED 2011.
I have always liked coming home and sharing what has happened that day with my loved ones. I like comparing notes. I know other people do, too. I think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live.
We all know what makes a good graph or chart. It should be a clear, precise presentation of the data. Right?
Little did I know that studying how my son learned to speak would come to this: a TED Talk gone viral, partially thanks to Ashton Kutcher and his 6 million Twitter followers -- and a technology platform that may change the way we understand social, political and commercial communications.
MIT researcher Deb Roy parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch his son's "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water."
"Geez, my company is wasting so much of my time and energy."
A number of the talks by speakers at TEDWomen have been featured by CNN.com in its weekly series of TED Talks along with additional text by the speakers.
As you will see in our TED talk, Beverly and I have spent enough time in the bush with lions to understand that we have a problem -- rapidly declining big cat populations.
Dereck and Beverly Joubert talk about the plight of African lions and their movie "The Last of the Lions" at TEDWomen.
I can't help but notice that while most of the other TED talks shown on the TED website draw comments of "inspiring" or "courageous" or "beautiful," mine is labeled ... "obnoxious." Am I insulted? Of course! But it's perfectly obvious from reading the comments why this is so.
Hanna Rosin reviews startling new data that shows women actually surpassing men in several important measures, such as college graduation rates.
Armed with a camera and an eight-foot brush, French photographer JR strides across the rubble of an old Shanghai neighborhood.
Paris' boulevards and Shanghai's streets have been the canvas for "JR", the French TED Prize-winning street artist.
TED Prize-winning chef leads bid to educate Americans about healthy eating.
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