There’s something amazing growing in the city of Detroit: healthy, accessible, delicious, fresh food. In a spirited talk, fearless farmer...

The combined market capitalization of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google is now equivalent to the GDP of India. How did these four...

In 2011, Teresa Njoroge was convicted of a financial crime she didn’t commit — the result of a long string of false accusations,...

Most people instinctively avoid conflict, but as Margaret Heffernan shows us, good disagreement is central to progress. She illustrates...

“We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don’t,” says poet and...

Daniel Goleman, author of “Emotional Intelligence,” asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. #Commpassion #TEDTalk

Our biases can be dangerous, even deadly — as we’ve seen in the cases of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner, in Staten...

Having feelings isn’t a sign of weakness — they mean we’re human, says producer and activist Nikki Webber Allen. Even after being...

Why does race matter so profoundly for health? David R. Williams developed a scale to measure the impact of discrimination on well-being,...

Between 2008 and 2016, the United States deported more than three million people. What happens to those left behind? Journalist Duarte...

In an unmissable talk about race and politics in America, Theo E.J. Wilson tells the story of becoming Lucius25, white supremacist...

At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don’t “act like a man.” Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how...

Underneath every shiny new mega city, there’s often a story of communities displaced. In this moving, poetic talk, OluTimehin Adegbeye...

Kevin Breel didn’t look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But he tells the story of the night he...

Sixty-five million people were displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster in 2016. It’s not just a crisis; it’s a test of who we...

We’re all embedded in vast social networks of friends, family, co-workers and more. Nicholas Christakis tracks how a wide variety of...

In this deeply moving talk, Lucy Kalanithi reflects on life and purpose, sharing the story of her late husband, Paul, a young...

Lux Narayan starts his day with scrambled eggs and the question: “Who died today?” Why? By analyzing 2,000 New York Times obituaries over...

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success...