Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Stories help you make sense of your life — but when these narratives are incomplete or misleading, they can […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. On the heels of the breakout success of his film "Crazy Rich Asians," director Jon M. Chu reflects on […]
Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, subtitles, translations, personalized Talk recommendations and more. Reading slowly — with her finger running beneath the words, even when she was taught not to — has […]
China's one-child policy ended in 2015, but we're just beginning to understand what it was like to live under the program, says TED Fellow and documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang. With footage from her film "One […]
Film has the power to change the way we think about ourselves and our culture. Documentarian and TED Fellow Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy uses it to fight violence against women, turning her camera on the tradition of […]
"The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing," says Sarah Kay, quoting her friend, poet Kaveh Akbar. Performing "A Bird Made of Birds," she shares how and where she finds poetry. […]
Hollywood needs to stop resisting what the world actually looks like, says actor, director and activist America Ferrera. Tracing the contours of her career, she calls for more authentic representation of different cultures in media […]
Hannah Gadsby's groundbreaking special "Nanette" broke comedy. In a talk about truth and purpose, she shares three ideas and three contradictions. Or not. Get TED Talks recommended just for you! Learn more at . The […]
Long before we had rocket scientists, the idea of spaceflight traveled from mind to mind across generations. With great visuals, TED Fellow and NASA economist Alexander MacDonald shows how 300 years of sci-fi tales — […]
India has the second largest population of any country in the world — yet it has only 50 decent bookstores, says publisher Chiki Sarkar. So she asked herself: How do we get more people reading […]
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