TED Talks with English transcript

Nancy Lublin: How data from a crisis text line is saving lives

TEDWomen 2015

Nancy Lublin: How data from a crisis text line is saving lives
956,279 views

When a young woman texted DoSomething.org with a heartbreaking cry for help, the organization responded by opening a nationwide Crisis Text Line for people in pain. Nearly 10 million text messages later, the organization is using the privacy and power of text messaging to help people handle addiction, suicidal thoughts, eating disorders, sexual abuse and more. But there's an even bigger win: The anonymous data collected by text is teaching us when crises are most likely to happen -- and helping schools and law enforcement to prepare for them.

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Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed

TEDGlobal>London

Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you'll be stressed
15,873,808 views

You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded -- the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be."

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Francesco Sauro: Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science

TEDGlobal>London

Francesco Sauro: Deep under the Earth's surface, discovering beauty and science
1,551,994 views

Cave explorer and geologist Francesco Sauro travels to the hidden continent under our feet, surveying deep, dark places inside the earth that humans have never been able to reach before. In the spectacular tepuis of South America, he finds new minerals and insects that have evolved in isolation, and he uses his knowledge of these alien worlds to train astronauts.

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Christine Sun Kim: The enchanting music of sign language

TED Fellows Retreat 2015

Christine Sun Kim: The enchanting music of sign language
1,810,763 views

Artist and TED Fellow Christine Sun Kim was born deaf, and she was taught to believe that sound wasn't a part of her life, that it was a hearing person's thing. Through her art, she discovered similarities between American Sign Language and music, and she realized that sound doesn't have to be known solely through the ears -- it can be felt, seen and experienced as an idea. In this endearing talk, she invites us to open our eyes and ears and participate in the rich treasure of visual language.

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Tea Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this

TEDxSydney

Tea Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this
1,718,807 views

Designer Tea Uglow is creating a future in which humanity's love for natural solutions and simple tools can coexist with our need for information and the devices that provide us with it. "Reality is richer than screens," she says. "We can have a happy place filled with the information we love that feels as natural as switching on lightbulb."

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Jennifer Doudna: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA

TEDGlobal>London

Jennifer Doudna: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA
2,870,405 views

Geneticist Jennifer Doudna co-invented a groundbreaking new technology for editing genes, called CRISPR-Cas9. The tool allows scientists to make precise edits to DNA strands, which could lead to treatments for genetic diseases ... but could also be used to create so-called "designer babies." Doudna reviews how CRISPR-Cas9 works -- and asks the scientific community to pause and discuss the ethics of this new tool.

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Anders Fjellberg: Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories

TEDGlobal>London

Anders Fjellberg: Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories
1,315,407 views

When two bodies wearing identical wetsuits washed ashore in Norway and the Netherlands, journalist Anders Fjellberg and photographer Tomm Christiansen started a search to answer the question: who were these people? What they found and reported in Norway's "Dagbladet" is that everybody has a name, everybody has a story and everybody is someone.

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Will Potter: The secret US prisons you've never heard of before

TED Fellows Retreat 2015

Will Potter: The secret US prisons you've never heard of before
4,502,663 views

Investigative journalist Will Potter is the only reporter who has been inside a Communications Management Unit, or CMU, within a US prison. These units were opened secretly, and radically alter how prisoners are treated -- even preventing them from hugging their children. Potter, a TED Fellow, shows us who is imprisoned here, and how the government is trying to keep them hidden. "The message was clear," he says. "Don't talk about this place." Find sources for this talk at willpotter.com/cmu

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Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds

TED Fellows Retreat 2015

Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds
1,132,751 views

Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. "The world is alive with musical expression," she says. "We are already immersed."

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Alyson McGregor: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women

TEDxProvidence

Alyson McGregor: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women
1,594,282 views

You might not know this: Many of the medicines we take -- common drugs like Ambien and everyday aspirin -- were only ever tested on men. And the unknown side effects for women can be dangerous, even deadly. Alyson McGregor studies the differences between male and female patients; in this fascinating talk she explains how the male model became our framework for medical research ... and what women and men need to ask their doctors to get the right care for their bodies.

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Michael Green: How we can make the world a better place by 2030

TEDGlobal>London

Michael Green: How we can make the world a better place by 2030
1,837,575 views

Can we end hunger and poverty, halt climate change and achieve gender equality in the next 15 years? The governments of the world think we can. Meeting at the UN in September 2015, they agreed to a new set of Global Goals for the development of the world to 2030. Social progress expert Michael Green invites us to imagine how these goals and their vision for a better world can be achieved.

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Vijay Kumar: The future of flying robots

TEDxPenn

Vijay Kumar: The future of flying robots
1,780,679 views

At his lab at the University of Pennsylvania, Vijay Kumar and his team have created autonomous aerial robots inspired by honeybees. Their latest breakthrough: Precision Farming, in which swarms of robots map, reconstruct and analyze every plant and piece of fruit in an orchard, providing vital information to farmers that can help improve yields and make water management smarter.

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Teitur: Home is a song I've always remembered

TED2015

Teitur: Home is a song I've always remembered
1,099,161 views

For musician Teitur, singing is about giving away a piece of yourself to others. "If your intentions are to impress people or to get the big applause at the end," he says, "then you are taking, not giving." Listen as he plays on stage at TED2015, offering two songs about love, distance and home.

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Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology

TED2015

Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology
2,427,289 views

Designer and architect Neri Oxman is leading the search for ways in which digital fabrication technologies can interact with the biological world. Working at the intersection of computational design, additive manufacturing, materials engineering and synthetic biology, her lab is pioneering a new age of symbiosis between microorganisms, our bodies, our products and even our buildings.

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Sandrine Thuret: You can grow new brain cells. Here's how

TED@BCG London

Sandrine Thuret: You can grow new brain cells. Here's how
7,962,651 views

Can we, as adults, grow new neurons? Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret says that we can, and she offers research and practical advice on how we can help our brains better perform neurogenesis—improving mood, increasing memory formation and preventing the decline associated with aging along the way.

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Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling

TEDxBend

Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling
6,976,105 views

What do you want to be when you grow up? Well, if you're not sure you want to do just one thing for the rest of your life, you're not alone. In this illuminating talk, writer and artist Emilie Wapnick describes the kind of people she calls "multipotentialites" -- who have a range of interests and jobs over one lifetime. Are you one?

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Samuel Cohen: Alzheimer's is not normal aging — and we can cure it

TED@BCG London

Samuel Cohen: Alzheimer's is not normal aging — and we can cure it
2,376,932 views

More than 40 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer's disease, and that number is expected to increase drastically in the coming years. But no real progress has been made in the fight against the disease since its classification more than 100 years ago. Scientist Samuel Cohen shares a new breakthrough in Alzheimer's research from his lab as well as a message of hope. "Alzheimer's is a disease," Cohen says, "and we can cure it."

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Alice Bows-Larkin: Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt

TEDGlobalLondon

Alice Bows-Larkin: Climate change is happening. Here's how we adapt
1,278,564 views

Imagine the hottest day you've ever experienced. Now imagine it's six, 10 or 12 degrees hotter. According to climate researcher Alice Bows-Larkin, that's the type of future in store for us if we don't significantly cut our greenhouse gas emissions now. She suggests that it's time we do things differently—a whole system change, in fact—and seriously consider trading economic growth for climate stability.

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Martin Pistorius: How my mind came back to life — and no one knew

TEDxKC

Martin Pistorius: How my mind came back to life — and no one knew
2,460,653 views

Imagine being unable to say, "I am hungry," "I am in pain," "thank you," or "I love you,” -- losing your ability to communicate, being trapped inside your body, surrounded by people yet utterly alone. For 13 long years, that was Martin Pistorius’s reality. After contracting a brain infection at the age of twelve, Pistorius lost his ability to control his movements and to speak, and eventually he failed every test for mental awareness. He had become a ghost. But then a strange thing started to happen -- his mind began to knit itself back together. In this moving talk, Pistorius tells how he freed himself from a life locked inside his own body.

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Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school

TEDWomen 2015

Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school
1,497,714 views

When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells the jaw-dropping story of two times when she was threatened to stop teaching -- and shares her vision for rebuilding her beloved country.

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Frances Larson: Why public beheadings get millions of views

TEDGlobalLondon

Frances Larson: Why public beheadings get millions of views
1,187,917 views

In a disturbing — but fascinating — walk through history, Frances Larson examines humanity's strange relationship with public executions … and specifically beheadings. As she shows us, they have always drawn a crowd, first in the public square and now on YouTube. What makes them horrific and compelling in equal measure?

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Mac Stone: Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades

TEDxUF

Mac Stone: Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades
1,268,200 views

For centuries, people have viewed swamps and wetlands as obstacles to avoid. But for photographer Mac Stone, who documents the stories of wildlife in Florida's Everglades, the swamp isn't a hindrance — it's a national treasure. Through his stunning photographs, Stone shines a new light on a neglected, ancient and important wilderness. His message: get out and experience it for yourself. "Just do it — put your feet in the water," he says. "The swamp will change you, I promise."

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Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local

TEDGlobal 2014

Taiye Selasi: Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local
3,010,490 views

When someone asks you where you're from … do you sometimes not know how to answer? Writer Taiye Selasi speaks on behalf of "multi-local" people, who feel at home in the town where they grew up, the city they live now and maybe another place or two. "How can I come from a country?" she asks. "How can a human being come from a concept?"

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Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love

TEDxGoldenGatePark 2012

Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love
6,503,628 views

Scott Dinsmore quit a job that made him miserable, and spent the next four years wondering how to find work that was joyful and meaningful. He shares what he learned in this deceptively simple talk about finding out what matters to you — and then getting started doing it.

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Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to human rights

TEDWomen 2015

Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to human rights
1,378,632 views

Climate change is unfair. While rich countries can fight against rising oceans and dying farm fields, poor people around the world are already having their lives upended -- and their human rights threatened -- by killer storms, starvation and the loss of their own lands. Mary Robinson asks us to join the movement for worldwide climate justice.

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Mandy Len Catron: Falling in love is the easy part

TEDxChapmanU

Mandy Len Catron: Falling in love is the easy part
3,963,490 views

Did you know you can fall in love with anyone just by asking them 36 questions? Mandy Len Catron tried this experiment, it worked, and she wrote a viral article about it (that your mom probably sent you). But ... is that real love? Did it last? And what's the difference between falling in love and staying in love?

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