If you’re looking to use your time at home to be a little more creative, you’ll definitely want to check out this talk. Author Amy Tan delves into the subject of creativity with immense humor and grace, drawing on her personal history to comment on how frustrating and nebulous and…
Feeling lonely in this time of self-isolation and social distancing? Then you may want to give this TED Talk a listen. Here, Jonny Sun shares his story of overcoming loneliness by opening up to strangers on the Internet. It’s a sweet and charming conversation that encourages its listeners to remember…
If you need a little reminder of just how powerful the human spirit is, look no further than this amazing TEDx Talk from chef José Andrés. In it, he talks about how he and a team of cooks, restaurateurs, and volunteers worked together to feed the storm-ravaged island of Puerto…
I don’t know about y’all, but I have been majorly in my feels recently. I’m up, I’m down, I’m all around, and the emotional roller coaster doesn’t seem like it’s going to end anytime soon. Thankfully, Dr. Susan David says that’s a good thing. In this talk, she ruminates on…
In this conversation, writer Karen Thompson Walker poses a deceptively simple question: Is there something to be learned from fear? Her answer is a resounding yes, that there’s actually quite a lot to glean from acknowledging and sitting with our worst fears. At a moment in which many of us…
Accepting the 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was eradicated from the planet, and calls for a new global system that can identify and contain pandemics before they spread.
Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see…
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Was 2017 really the “worst year ever,” as some would have us believe? In his analysis of recent data on homicide, war, poverty, pollution and more, psychologist Steven Pinker finds that we’re doing better now in every one of them when compared with 30 years ago. But progress isn’t inevitable,…
In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge — but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out: with personal devices that control our lives,…
You’ve heard about slow food. Now here’s slow … TV? In this very funny talk, Norwegian television producer Thomas Hellum shares how he and his team began to broadcast long, boring events, often live — and found a rapt audience. Shows include a 7-hour train journey, an 18-hour fishing expedition…
Almost 30 years ago, Pico Iyer took a trip to Japan, fell in love with the country and moved there. A keen observer of the human spirit, Iyer professes that he now feels he knows far less about Japan — or, indeed, about anything — than he thought he knew…