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- 2025-09-0412 min
Most countries fail at clean energy. Here’s how mine succeeded | Sebastián Kind
Energy expert Sebastián Kind helped Argentina go from virtually no renewable energy to generating nearly 40 percent of its electricity from wind and solar in just six years, despite economic crises and skepticism. How did the country's transition off fossil fuels happen so quickly?…
- 2025-09-0310 min
What’s behind the rise of far right politics in Europe | Daphne Halikiopoulou
Far-right parties are gaining popularity worldwide. Why is that?…
- 2025-09-0218 min
How labor unions shape society | Margaret Levi (re-release)
The weekend. Social Security. Health insurance. What do these things have in common?…
- 2025-08-3141 min
Sunday Pick: How to stop devoting yourself to your job (w/ Sarah Jaffe) | How to Be a Better Human
Sarah Jaffe is the author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keep Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone. She and Chris discuss the emotional toll of modern work culture and the importance of community. They also dive into Sarah’s newest book, From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire, and explore the idea that between pandemics, climate change, and economic inequality, many of us are feeling a huge (and often unacknowledged sense of grief. Sarh explains the concept of “disenfranchised grief” and how collective mourning can invite meaningful social connections. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-3020 min
Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson (re-release)
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. This episode originally aired in 2006
- 2025-08-306 min
"The Unprompted," a poem that AI will never understand | Salome Agbaroji
What happens when a poet talks back to AI?…
- 2025-08-2911 min
Want to make change? Let young people tell their stories | Anshul Tewari
As a teenager, social entrepreneur Anshul Tewari didn’t see young voices represented in the conversations that mattered. His solution?…
- 2025-08-2813 min
Could we detect breast cancer with a fingerprint? | Simona Francese
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women globally. And yet, many people pass up opportunities to get screened for the disease, often because of the invasive and sometimes painful process of mammograms. Chemist and professor Simona Francese presents a potentially groundbreaking alternative that could transform how and when we identify this deadly disease. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-2714 min
Why you should spend less time with your kids | Lenore Skenazy
Whether it’s micromanaging playtime, constantly hovering or incessantly texting, the adult takeover of childhood has created a crisis of anxiety in both children and parents, says Lenore Skenazy, cofounder and president Let Grow, an organization dedicated to normalizing childhood independence. With wit and humor, she lays out the unexpected benefits of letting our kids be a bit more “free range” — and shows why the most teachable moments happen when parents aren’t there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-2613 min
How AI could generate new life-forms | Eric Nguyen
If DNA is just a string of letters, could AI learn to read it … or even write it?…
- 2025-08-2453 min
Rha Goddess is an entrepreneurial soul coach and author of the new book "Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom, and Fulfillment." In this TED Talks Daily Book Club interview with host Elise Hu, Goddess talks about moving forward after the 2020 pandemic and how you can center your life around joy and mental wellbeing. She lays out the three stages to renegotiate your relationship to work in order to discover and align with your true ambitions. Later in the conversation, she answers questions from the TED community and offers advice on how to recognize your mission and values in life while leading with compassion. The TED Talks Daily Book Club series features TED speakers discussing their latest books and exploring their ideas beyond the page. Stay tuned to our feed for more interviews like this one and for special live book club events open exclusively to TED Members
- 2025-08-2313 min
Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life | Catherine Price (re-release)
Have you had your daily dose of fun?…
- 2025-08-2311 min
What sex, soap and alcohol taught me about making an impact | Myriam Sidibe
What if saving lives and growing a company went hand in hand?…
- 2025-08-2259 min
The missing piece in the story of migration | Sonia Shah and Zeke Hernandez
Headlines often reduce migration to crisis and controversy, leaving out the bigger picture that movement is a natural, even necessary part of who we are. As borders tighten and debates intensify, journalist Sonia Shah and professor Zeke Hernandez unravel our historical understanding of migration and examine immigration's impact on creating resilient, safe and economically flourishing societies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-2113 min
The science of making fruits and veggies last longer | Jenny Du
It's a hard nut to crack: in order to prevent food waste, we rely on plastic packaging and refrigeration, which harm the environment. What if we could turn to nature to address these challenges?…
- 2025-08-2019 min
300 years of classical music in 18 minutes | Joshua Bell
Does the world still need classical music?What about orchestras?…
- 2025-08-1810 min
The world's first "nature superpower" | Ilona Szabó de Carvalho
Over the last 40 years, Brazil has lost an area larger than California to deforestation — and 90 percent of the clear-cutting has been illegal, all part of a multi-billion-dollar global environmental crime economy. Civic entrepreneur Ilona Szabó de Carvalho sees this crisis as an opportunity. Revealing how Brazil is pioneering an economic model actually profiting from protecting nature, she shares the ambitious restoration goals and innovations in forest mapping that are turning the country into a "nature superpower." Get a glimpse of what an economy rooted in regeneration, not extraction, could look like. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-1737 min
Sunday Pick: After the Glory Fades | Good Sport
Competitive sports give athletes structure, community and purpose. And an outlet for their passion. So what happens when, because of injury or age, they can’t play anymore?…
- 2025-08-1616 min
Why venting doesn’t help you deal with anger | Jennifer Parlamis
Does venting actually help you cool off, or does it just add fuel to the fire?…
- 2025-08-1627 min
Why your zip code shouldn’t determine your lifespan | Dion Dawson
What if ending food insecurity meant ditching charity models that haven’t been updated since the 1960s?…
- 2025-08-1410 min
A practical guide to taking control of your life | Cate Hall
The real lever of a meaningful life isn’t intelligence or hustle — it’s personal agency, says Cate Hall, former Supreme Court attorney and once the world’s top-ranked female poker player. Sharing her journey from the throes of addiction to leading a multibillion-dollar foundation, Hall shares tactical wisdom for increasing your ability to see and act on life's hidden degrees of freedom, showing how even the most trapped among us can discover a path to fulfillment. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-1411 min
A multigenerational musical journey | Yijia Tu
In an enchanting talk and performance, singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Yijia Tu traces a path from the world’s biggest stages to a family lullaby passed down through the generations, showing how music carries memory across centuries and cultures. Blending East Asian folk traditions into modern sound, she shows how honoring tradition isn’t worshiping ashes — it’s keeping the fire alive. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-1313 min
A corporate job isn’t the only path to success. Here’s where to look next | Anuj Tanna
Are you unemployed, or just an entrepreneur who doesn’t know it yet?…
- 2025-08-1215 min
How common knowledge shapes the world | Steven Pinker
Common knowledge is the secret engine of social life, letting us coordinate everything from meet-ups to markets to international diplomacy. In this fascinating talk, experimental cognitive scientist Steven Pinker explores its momentous impact, threading together stories of why autocrats fear blank signs, why central bankers mumble and why saying the quiet part out loud can wreck a friendship. With wit and wisdom, he invites us to better understand the ways we get into each other’s heads — and what it means when shared norms wobble. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-1036 min
Sunday Pick: Protecting your time with Linda Babcock | WorkLife with Adam Grant
In this season of WorkLife, we’re pairing each of our regular episodes with a companion interview to do a deeper dive into the topic. This is the deeper dive for our episode on how to say no. Linda Babcock is a professor emerita of economics at Carnegie Mellon and co-author of “The No Club,” a club of people who help each other set boundaries. Linda and Adam share some of their personal struggles and lessons with around no, discuss Linda’s research on why women take on more non-promotable tasks at work, and explore novel strategies for us all to guard our time against people who don’t respect it. To listen to our previous episode, "How to Say No," click here !
- 2025-08-0911 min
How to preserve your private life in the age of social media | Bryce Dallas Howard (re-release)
Growing up in the public eye, multi-hyphenate creator Bryce Dallas Howard experienced the familiar pressure to share her life with the world on social media. But with her mother's steadfast guidance, Howard learned to set personal boundaries and savor the beauty of private moments. In this personal talk, she draws on three generations of family wisdom to remind us that "a private life makes a public life worth living." This episode originally aired on June 6, 2022
- 2025-08-0824 min
A bold idea to rebuild the working class | Molly Hemstreet
Struggling communities don’t need handouts — they need bold new ways to root wealth. Meet Molly Hemstreet — a TED Fellow, Southern Appalachia native and cofounder of worker support network the Industrial Commons — who’s flipping the script on generational poverty by turning textile waste into $9-per-pound yarn and factory workers into business owners. Discover how her long-haul approach is rebuilding rural economies stitch by stitch, proving that opportunity grows when we stop extracting and start empowering. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-0812 min
Is AI ruining music? | Dustin Ballard
What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely?…
- 2025-08-0614 min
The powerful promise of Earth’s harshest places | Lei Zhang
Clean energy visionary Lei Zhang loves the Gobi Desert — the most Mars-like place on Earth. Why?…
- 2025-08-0512 min
How ethics can help you make better decisions | Michael Schur (re-release)
What would Immanuel Kant say about a fender bender?…
- 2025-08-0350 min
Sunday Pick: Ai Weiwei | Design Matters
Ai Weiwei joins to discuss his new memoir “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,” depicting a century-long epic tale of China told through a story of his family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-08-028 min
Life is hard. Art helps | Liana Finck (re-release)
Cartoonist Liana Finck's drawings hold our hands through life's predicaments, big and small: dating, breakups, what to make for dinner, how to leave a party without being rude, how to think about our relationship with God. In a funny, moving talk, she shares some of her drawings and shows how she uses creativity to navigate false starts and cluelessness in the search for belonging. This episode originally aired January 2, 2024
- 2025-08-0112 min
How to recapture the joy of the early internet | Michael Sun
Before algorithms ruled our feeds, the internet was a mess — glitchy, chaotic and full of unexpected magic. Internet culture writer Michael Sun reflects on the wild digital world of the 2000s — and makes a funny, wry case for why we need to reclaim its spontaneity, weirdness and genuine connection. From niche Facebook groups to loading music onto your iPod, it might be time to borrow from the past. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-3111 min
The blueprint for serving a million school lunches — every day | Wawira Njiru
With a genius combination of smart tech, local food and bold partnerships, Wawira Njiru and her nonprofit Food4Education have gone from serving 25 children in a makeshift kitchen to becoming a cornerstone of Kenya’s school meals system, delivering half a million meals every day. Hear her plan to feed a million kids daily in Kenya by 2030 — and two million more across Africa — as she offers a blueprint for the rest of the world to follow. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-297 min
The multidimensional magic of modern maps | Peter Wilczynski
Maps have long helped us understand the world — now, they can help us shape it. Digital cartographer Peter Wilczynski introduces the Living Globe: a real-time, data-rich digital twin of Earth that fuses satellite imagery, sensor data and AI. Watch for a glimpse of the future of maps — and learn how these new tools can help us build the future without wrecking the planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-2913 min
A small nation’s surprising solution to unemployment | James Mnyupe
How did a small, economically vulnerable country become a trailblazer in sustainable industry?…
- 2025-07-2737 min
Sunday Pick: Unsolicited Advice: How to get your mojo back at work | Fixable
Are you feeling overwhelmed, uninspired, or burned out at work?…
- 2025-07-2613 min
Go ahead, dream about the future | Charlie Jane Anders (re-release)
"You don't predict the future -- you imagine the future," says sci-fi writer Charlie Jane Anders. In a talk that's part dream, part research-based extrapolation, she takes us on a wild, speculative tour of the delights and challenges the future may hold -- and shows how dreaming up weird, futuristic possibilities empowers us to construct a better tomorrow. This episode originally aired October 14, 2022
- 2025-07-2632 min
Why building new proteins from scratch is our new superpower | David Baker
The rapidly evolving field of protein design is revealing solutions to some of the world’s greatest problems, whether it's blocking a virus, breaking down a pollutant or creating brand-new materials. In conversation with TED’s Whitney Pennington Rodgers, biochemist David Baker explores his team’s Nobel Prize-winning work using AI to design new proteins with functions never before seen in nature — achieving breakthroughs that have fundamentally changed the future of science. (This conversation was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. TED Membership is the best way to support and engage with the big ideas you love from TED. To learn more, visit ted.com/membership.) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-2519 min
Are we heading toward World War III? | Heni Ozi Cukier
In this urgent talk, political scientist Heni Ozi Cukier analyzes the social, economic, political and military conditions that preceded the last two world wars, revealing how historical patterns and today’s geopolitical shifts may be pointing us in a dangerously familiar direction. Connecting past and present, he challenges us to recognize the warning signs — and act before it’s too late. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-2414 min
How to get people to do what you want | Barry Sonnenfeld
As a film and television director, Barry Sonnenfeld had millions of dollars riding on his ability to get his cast and crew to play along — and much of what he learned along the way applies to everyday life. Here, he shares nine bits of wisdom and whimsy gleaned from 40 years in entertainment. So the next time you encounter a screaming bully, you too will know what to do. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-2314 min
700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that | Jacqueline Novogratz
Impact investor and Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz unveils a bold vision to bring off-grid solar electricity to 700 million people still living in darkness, transforming lives while slashing emissions. She asks a thought-provoking question: What if this generation could be remembered for finally bringing electricity — and dignity — to everyone on the planet?…
- 2025-07-2114 min
What silence can teach you about sound | Dallas Taylor (re-release)
What can you hear in silence?…
- 2025-07-2039 min
Sunday Pick: How to be a better friend (w/ Rhaina Cohen) | How to Be a Better Human
What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance?…
- 2025-07-1919 min
Stories of photographing monumental people -- from Michelle Obama to Stephen Hawking | Platon
With his art, photographer Platon seeks to strip away assumptions and leave viewers with a window into his subject's character, filling our eyes with wonder and curiosity. Sharing extraordinary stories of what it's like to photograph some of the world's most prominent figures -- from Michelle Obama and Pussy Riot to Vladimir Putin and Muhammad Ali -- Platon captures the disarming power of empathy and human connection. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-199 min
The jokes AI won’t tell | Jena Friedman
Could a robot ever be funny?…
- 2025-07-1713 min
Why good people become bad bosses | Jamie Woolf and Christopher Bell
You’ve probably had a bad boss, but you might not realize how easy it is to become one. Leadership experts Jamie Woolf and Christopher Bell unpack “power blindness” — how authority can warp your perspective — and share smart, practical ways to break the cycle of toxic bosses for good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-1716 min
We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it | Nora McInerny (re-release)
In a talk that's by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life and death. Her candid approach to something that will, let's face it, affect us all, is as liberating as it is gut-wrenching. Most powerfully, she encourages us to shift how we approach grief. "A grieving person is going to laugh again and smile again," she says. "They're going to move forward. But that doesn't mean that they've moved on." This episode originally aired on December 25, 2019
- 2025-07-1612 min
Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk
The US political system is broken — and the solution might be in the palm of your hands, says political strategist Bradley Tusk. Drawing on his deep experience with lobbying and marketing, he makes the case for allowing Americans to vote on their phones, explaining how it can be done safely and securely. Learn why mobile voting could be the best way to increase voter turnout, reduce political extremism and save our broken democracy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
- 2025-07-1412 min
An unexpected plan for peace in the Middle East | Nada Majdalani
The Middle East is a climate hotspot, with many parts of the region set to experience an increase in temperature by five to eight degrees Celsius by the end of the century. Palestinian peace activist Nada Majdalani discusses how the climate crisis could actually instigate a movement towards peace, unveiling the "Peace Triangle" initiative — a visionary plan to transform conflicts in the Middle East through shared water and energy projects. Drawing on her experience in cross-border environmental collaboration, she offers a glimpse of how economic interdependence between Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians could lead to peace. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information