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TED Talks Daily
Want TED Talks on the go? Everyday, this feed brings you our latest talks in audio format. Hear thought-provoking ideas on every subject imaginable – from Artificial Intelligence to Zoology, and everything in between – given by the world's leading thinkers and doers. This collection of talks, given...
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Sunday Pick: The Office’s Rainn Wilson on meaning and happiness | ReThinking with Adam Grant
Rainn Wilson was a late bloomer: he landed the role of Dwight Schrute on The Office after over a decade of struggling as an actor. But success didn’t...
A cosmologist's guide to the end of the universe | Katie Mack and Debbie Millman
How does studying the end of time change your perspective of life on Earth? Cosmologist and TED Fellow Katie Mack joins designer and podcaster Debbie...
How to get past the "messy middle" of a big change | Mary Martin
Did progress on your next big project stall out? Transformation expert Mary Martin refers to this moment as the "messy middle" — the frustrating gap b...
A street librarian's quest to bring books to everyone | Storybook Maze (re-release)
As a self-proclaimed radical street librarian, Storybook Maze makes books appear where they're scarce. Through initiatives like free, public book vend...
How I built a machine that feeds millions | Felix Brooks-church
If you ate bread this week (or cooked with salt and oil), you probably benefited from something millions miss out on: food fortification. Social entre...
Why Big Tech is incompatible with democracy | Bruno Giussani
Most of the technology powering life in Europe today — chatbots, the cloud, digital infrastructure — is owned by companies in the United States. Write...
Why AI is an even bigger deal than you think | Reed Hastings
Netflix cofounder and Anthropic board member Reed Hastings joins TED's Sal Khan to give a look inside the race to build AI. Hear his take on how the t...
Sunday Pick: Why you should try improv comedy (w/ Rick Andrews) | How to Be a Better Human
What do radio personality Ira Glass, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, and your host Chris Duffy have in common? They all have practiced an unexpect...
The Mystery of Sea Creatures (1/5): A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
Over the course of hundreds of scuba dives, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson fell in love -- with a fish. In this ode to parrotfish, she share...
The Mystery of Sea Creatures (2/5): A giant Jurassic sea dragon, unearthed | Dean R. Lomax
Among the dinosaurs, giant sea dragons roamed the ancient ocean. Millions of years later, paleontologist Dean R. Lomax and his team freed the remains...
The Mystery of Sea Creatures (3/5): Could an orca give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker
What if we could hear nature's ultrasonic communication -- and talk back? From a bat's shrill speech to a peacock's infrasound mating call, conservati...
The Mystery of Sea Creatures (4/5): Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish? | Marah J. Hardt
The ocean plays host to a peculiar party of wild, marine sex life that's perhaps quirkier (and kinkier) than you can fathom. But is human behavior int...
The Mystery of Sea Creatures (5/5): The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks
Meet the fantastically colorful and astonishingly adaptable sea slugs that found a way to photosynthesize (or create energy from sunlight) like plants...
The power of imagination — onstage and off | Suki Hillier
When professional child actor Suki Hillier landed the title role in "Matilda The Musical," she thought she would have to learn how to become someone e...
Can a camera on every corner make us safer? | Garrett Langley
Garrett Langley founded Flock because he believed it was too easy to get away with crime in the US. His solution? A network of license plate readers,...
Why AI will never replace a great teacher | Matt Wu
What's the most powerful tool in any classroom? In the age of AI, education advocate Matt Wu still believes it's the people. In this hopeful talk, he...
How AI is discovering athletes that human scouts miss | Richard Felton-Thomas (re-release)
What if the next Lionel Messi or Simone Biles is out there right now ... but no one knows? Sports scientist Richard Felton-Thomas shows how new AI too...
How surveillance tech erodes your privacy | Jen Golbeck
You've probably heard the warnings about digital privacy: read the terms of service, think before you share, be careful what you click. But AI ethicis...
Sunday Pick: Finding Purpose: Why you should stop chasing your “dream job” (w/ Emily the Recruiter) | Fixable
Does your “dream job” really exist? You may know Emily Durham as Emily the Recruiter on social media, where she shares practical, refreshingly honest...
Why depression isn't what you think | Lisa Monteggia
The idea that depression comes from a chemical imbalance in the brain has shaped treatment for decades. Neuroscientist Lisa Monteggia shares research...
The deadly threat affecting millions — and how to prevent it | Drew McCartor
Lead poisoning robs the world's kids of millions of IQ points a day and kills more people than wars, natural disasters and road accidents combined — y...
Why winning doesn't always equal success | Valorie Kondos Field (re-release)
Valorie Kondos Field knows a lot about winning. As the longtime coach of the UCLA women's gymnastics team, she won championship after championship and...
Confessions of an accidental killer | Gregg Ward
Author Gregg Ward spent decades grappling with guilt from a personal tragedy before recognizing a different path forward — where purpose replaced self...
Does working hard really make you a good person? | Azim Shariff (re-release)
Around the world, people who work hard are often seen as morally good -- even if they produce little to no results. Social psychologist Azim Shariff a...
The kind of AI we actually need | Van Jones
Social entrepreneur Van Jones believes a new human civilization is being born in real time — and that our technology is racing ahead of our wisdom. In...
Why you fear the unknown — and what it can teach you | Maya Shankar, Simone Stolzoff
Cognitive scientist Maya Shankar and author Simone Stolzoff have each spent years studying how people navigate uncertainty (and why it often feels so...
Why democracy requires renewal | Michael Dimock
Pew Research Center president Michael Dimock has spent years listening to what Americans think — and what they're telling him right now is pretty dark...
The path to mathematical superintelligence | Tudor Achim
Generative AI hallucinates, creating a truth problem that science can't afford. Computer scientist Tudor Achim thinks a 400-year-old idea holds the fi...
An immersive record of what the LA fires left behind | Nonny de la Peña
Arriving in the devastated neighborhoods of Los Angeles after the 2025 Southern California wildfires, journalist Nonny de la Peña started scanning the...
Why countries should measure dreams and ambitions (just like GDP) | Lance Katigbak
What do you want to be when you grow up? It's a universal question — and yet at some point, people stop asking you. Drawing on a nationwide survey acr...
How play boosts your creativity and resilience | Katina Bajaj
When was the last time you just ... played? Creative health scientist Katina Bajaj thinks adults are in a "play deprivation crisis," where we've repla...
You know this song (but the orchestra doesn't) | Jacob Collier and VSO School of Music Orchestra
Jacob Collier walks onstage to conduct an orchestra ... but none of the musicians know what song they're about to play. In a joyful experiment in live...
The unexpected wonders of my son's short life | James G. Robinson | Your Body on Tech
When James G. Robinson's son Nadav was born with a rare heart defect, he feared the worst. What he didn't anticipate were the moments of unexpected wo...
The case for making art in a crisis | Yiyun Kang | Your Body on Tech
We have more data than any generation in history, yet reality has never felt harder to grasp. Artist Yiyun Kang is on a mission to translate the invis...
Can Ozempic end addiction? | Dhruv Khullar | Your Body on Tech
What if GLP-1s like Ozempic could do more than just tip the scales? Physician Dhruv Khullar traces the winding path of the "moderation molecule" — fro...
Why I’m obsessed with health wearables (and you should be too) | Michael Snyder | Your Body on Tech
Genome researcher Michael Snyder believes health wearables, such as smart watches and glucose monitors, can transform medicine, shifting from reactive...
Your vaccine questions deserve real answers | Kizzmekia Corbett | Your Body on Tech
What good is a vaccine people don't trust? Immunologist and TED Fellow Kizzmekia Corbett co-developed the first COVID-19 vaccine to enter clinical tri...
What we're getting wrong about teens and tech | Candice Odgers | Your Body on Tech
Trigger warning - this episode contains mention of suicide and severe depression.
For years, the warning has been: smartphones are destroying a...
What sitting all day does to your brain and body | Keith Diaz | Your Body on Tech
Can a five-minute walk change how you feel all day? Exercise scientist Keith Diaz shows how your body is built for the kind of movement that modern li...
Your Body on Tech: Why living online is leaving us exhausted — and what actually helps (with Manoush Zomorodi and Elise Hu)
Manoush Zomorodi, host of TED Radio Hour, takes over as guest host ofTED Talks Daily this week to answer a timely question: What does it mean to be hu...