Visit to watch more groundbreaking talks from the TED Fellows. One day, humans will explore space en masse and live scattered across the solar system on planets like Mars and beyond. Inspired by his time […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. In the grand scheme of history, modern reality is a bizarre exception when compared to the worlds of ancient, […]
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Did humans evolve from monkeys or from fish? In this enlightening talk, ichthyologist and TED Fellow Prosanta Chakrabarty dispels some hardwired myths about evolution, encouraging us to remember that we're a small part of a […]
In the vast sweep of history, even an empire can be forgotten. In this wide-ranging talk, Gus Casely-Hayford shares origin stories of Africa that are too often unwritten, lost, unshared. Travel to Great Zimbabwe, the […]
Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures — your pictures — to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After crowdsourcing photographs of destroyed monuments, museums and artifacts, Coughenour uses advanced technology […]
Rivers are one of nature's most powerful forces — they bulldoze mountains and carve up the earth, and their courses are constantly moving. Understanding how they form and how they'll change is important for those […]
Sarah Parcak uses satellites orbiting hundreds of miles above Earth to reveal covert ancient treasures buried underneath our feet. There's a lot to find; in the Egyptian Delta alone, Parcak estimates we have actually excavated […]
Emily Parsons-Lord re-creates air from unique minutes in Earth's history– from the clean, fresh-tasting air of the Carboniferous period to the soda-water air of the Great Perishing to the heavy, harmful air of the future […]
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