TED Talks with English transcript

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin: What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes

TEDMED 2018

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin: What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes
2,353,117 views

E-cigarettes and vapes have exploded in popularity in the last decade, especially among youth and young adults -- from 2011 to 2015, e-cigarette use among high school students in the US increased by 900 percent. Biobehavioral scientist Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin explains what you're actually inhaling when you vape (hint: it's definitely not water vapor) and explores the disturbing marketing tactics being used to target kids. "Our health, the health of our children and our future generations is far too valuable to let it go up in smoke -- or even in aerosol," she says.

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Romain Lacombe: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing

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Romain Lacombe: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing
1,705,055 views

How often do you think about the air you're breathing? Probably not enough, says entrepreneur and TED Fellow Romain Lacombe. He introduces Flow: a personal air-quality tracker that fits in your hand and monitors pollution levels in real time. See how this device could help you track and understand pollution street by street, hour by hour -- and empower you to take action to improve your health.

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Leah Georges: How generational stereotypes hold us back at work

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Leah Georges: How generational stereotypes hold us back at work
2,158,242 views

The Silent Generation, baby boomers, Generation X, millennials, Gen Z -- we're all in the workforce together. How are our assumptions about each other holding us back from working and communicating better? Social psychologist Leah Georges shows how we're more similar than different and offers helpful tactics for navigating the multigenerational workplace.

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Jarrell Daniels: What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other

TED Salon: Education Everywhere

Jarrell Daniels: What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other
1,807,253 views

A few weeks before his release from prison, Jarrell Daniels took a class where incarcerated men learned alongside prosecutors. By simply sitting together and talking, they uncovered surprising truths about the criminal justice system and ideas for how real change happens. Now a scholar and activist, Daniels reflects on how collaborative education could transform the justice system and unlock solutions to social problems.

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Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out

TED Salon Doha Debates

Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out
1,913,304 views

Millennials are now the largest, most diverse adult population in the US -- but far too often, they're reduced to the worn-out stereotype of lazy, entitled avocado toast lovers, says author Reniqua Allen. In this revealing talk, she shares overlooked stories of millennials of color, offering a broader, more nuanced view of the generation. "Millennials are not a monolith," she says.

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Michele Wucker: Why we ignore obvious problems -- and how to act on them

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Michele Wucker: Why we ignore obvious problems -- and how to act on them
2,179,064 views

Why do we often neglect big problems, like the financial crisis and climate change, until it's too late? Policy strategist Michele Wucker urges us to replace the myth of the "black swan" -- that rare, unforeseeable, unavoidable catastrophe -- with the reality of the "gray rhino," the preventable danger that we choose to ignore. She shows why predictable crises catch us by surprise -- and lays out some signs that there may be a charging rhino in your life right now.

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Sabine Doebel: How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it

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Sabine Doebel: How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it
2,412,954 views

You use your brain's executive function every day -- it's how you do things like pay attention, plan ahead and control impulses. Can you improve it to change for the better? With highlights from her research on child development, cognitive scientist Sabine Doebel explores the factors that affect executive function -- and how you can use it to break bad habits and achieve your goals.

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Rosalind Picard: An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

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Rosalind Picard: An AI smartwatch that detects seizures
1,872,363 views

Every year worldwide, more than 50,000 otherwise healthy people with epilepsy suddenly die -- a condition known as SUDEP. These deaths may be largely preventable, says AI researcher Rosalind Picard. Learn how Picard helped develop a cutting-edge smartwatch that can detect epileptic seizures before they occur and alert nearby loved ones in time to help.

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Christoph Keplinger: The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future

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Christoph Keplinger: The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future
452,936 views

Robot brains are getting smarter and smarter, but their bodies are often still clunky and unwieldy. Mechanical engineer Christoph Keplinger is designing a new generation of soft, agile robot inspired by a masterpiece of evolution: biological muscle. See these "artificial muscles" expand and contract like the real thing and reach superhuman speeds -- and learn how they could power prosthetics that are stronger and more efficient than human limbs.

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Alexander MacDonald: How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight

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Alexander MacDonald: How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight
1,642,075 views

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 -- from Edgar Allan Poe to Jules Verne to H.G. Wells and beyond -- sparked a culture of space exploration. A fascinating look at how stories become reality, featuring a goose machine sent to the Moon.

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Halla Tómasdóttir and Bryn Freedman: The crisis of leadership -- and a new way forward

TED Salon U.S. Air Force

Halla Tómasdóttir and Bryn Freedman: The crisis of leadership -- and a new way forward
2,091,986 views

What should modern leadership look like? Entrepreneur and former Icelandic presidential candidate Halla Tómasdóttir thinks global leaders need to change their ways -- or risk becoming irrelevant. In a conversation with curator Bryn Freedman, she shows how anybody can step up and make a difference, even if you don't yet have power. "There's a leader inside every single one of us," she says, "and our most important work in life is to release that leader."

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Rana Abdelhamid: 3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer

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Rana Abdelhamid: 3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer
1,808,671 views

At 16, Rana Abdelhamid started teaching self-defense to women and girls in her neighborhood. Almost 10 years later, these community classes have grown into Malikah: a global grassroots network creating safety, power and solidarity for all women. How did she do it? Abdelhamid shares three ingredients for building a movement from the ground up.

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Kashfia Rahman: How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain

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Kashfia Rahman: How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain
2,067,475 views

Why do teenagers sometimes make outrageous, risky choices? Do they suddenly become reckless, or are they just going through a natural phase? To find out, Kashfia Rahman -- winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (and a Harvard freshman) -- designed and conducted an experiment to test how high school students respond to and get used to risk, and how it changes their still-developing brains. What she discovered about risk and decision-making could change how we think about why teens do what they do.

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Chuck Murry: Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?

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Chuck Murry: Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?
1,853,632 views

The heart is one of the least regenerative organs in the human body -- a big factor in making heart failure the number one killer worldwide. What if we could help heart muscle regenerate after injury? Physician and scientist Chuck Murry shares his groundbreaking research into using stem cells to grow new heart cells -- an exciting step towards realizing the awesome promise of stem cells as medicine.

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Kimberly Noble: How does income affect childhood brain development?

TED Salon: Education Everywhere

Kimberly Noble: How does income affect childhood brain development?
2,016,105 views

Neuroscientist and pediatrician Kimberly Noble is leading the Baby's First Years study: the first-ever randomized study of how family income changes children's cognitive, emotional and brain development. She and a team of economists and policy experts are working together to find out: Can we help kids in poverty simply by giving families more money? "The brain is not destiny," Noble says. "And if a child's brain can be changed, then anything is possible."

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Kim Gorgens: The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime

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Kim Gorgens: The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime
1,921,298 views

Here's a shocking statistic: 50 to 80 percent of people in the criminal justice system in the US have had a traumatic brain injury. In the general public, that number is less than five percent. Neuropsychologist Kim Gorgens shares her research into the connection between brain trauma and the behaviors that keep people in the revolving door of criminal justice -- and some ways to make the system more effective and safer for everyone.

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Nora McInerny: We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it

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Nora McInerny: We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it
3,856,087 views

In a talk that's by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life and death. Her candid approach to something that will, let's face it, affect us all, is as liberating as it is gut-wrenching. Most powerfully, she encourages us to shift how we approach grief. "A grieving person is going to laugh again and smile again," she says. "They're going to move forward. But that doesn't mean that they've moved on."

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Eve Pearlman: How to lead a conversation between people who disagree

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Eve Pearlman: How to lead a conversation between people who disagree
2,509,688 views

In a world deeply divided, how do we have hard conversations with nuance, curiosity, respect? Veteran reporter Eve Pearlman introduces "dialogue journalism": a project where journalists go to the heart of social and political divides to support discussions between people who disagree. See what happened when a group that would have never otherwise met -- 25 liberals from California and 25 conservatives from Alabama -- gathered to talk about contentious issues. "Real connection across difference: this is a salve that our democracy sorely needs," Pearlman says.

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Helen Marriage: Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination

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Helen Marriage: Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination
337,958 views

Visual artist Helen Marriage stages astonishing, large-scale public art events that expand the boundaries of what's possible. In this visual tour of her work, she tells the story of three cities she transformed into playgrounds of the imagination -- picture London with a giant mechanical elephant marching through it -- and shows what happens when people stop to marvel and experience a moment together.

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Nora Brown: "East Virginia" / "John Brown's Dream"

TED Salon: Education Everywhere

Nora Brown: "East Virginia" / "John Brown's Dream"
255,994 views

In a mesmerizing set, musician Nora Brown breathes new life into two old-time banjo tunes: "East Virginia" and "John Brown's Dream." An evocative performance paired with a quick history of the banjo's evolution.

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Marjan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power

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Marjan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power
767,738 views

The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in one hour than all of humanity uses in an entire year. How can we make this power more accessible to everyone, everywhere? Solar designer Marjan van Aubel shows how she's turning everyday objects like tabletops and stained glass windows into elegant solar cells -- and shares her vision to make every surface a power station.

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Noah Wilson-Rich: How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time

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Noah Wilson-Rich: How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time
1,775,198 views

Bees are dying off in record numbers, but ecologist Noah Wilson-Rich is interested in something else: Where are bees healthy and thriving? To find out, he recruited citizen scientists across the US to set up beehives in their backyards, gardens and rooftops. Learn how these little data factories are changing what we know about the habitats bees need to thrive -- and keep our future food systems stable.

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Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi: To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language

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Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi: To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language
1,799,889 views

Bacteria "talk" to each other, sending chemical information to coordinate attacks. What if we could listen to what they were saying? Nanophysicist Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi invented a tool to spy on bacterial chatter and translate their secret communication into human language. Her work could pave the way for early diagnosis of disease -- before we even get sick.

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Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes

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Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
1,760,281 views

Phil Plait was on a Hubble Space Telescope team of astronomers who thought they may have captured the first direct photo of an exoplanet ever taken. But did the evidence actually support that? Follow along as Plait shows how science progresses -- through a robust amount of making and correcting errors. "The price of doing science is admitting when you're wrong, but the payoff is the best there is: knowledge and understanding," he says.

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Samy Nour Younes: A short history of trans people's long fight for equality

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Samy Nour Younes: A short history of trans people's long fight for equality
1,740,694 views

Transgender activist and TED Resident Samy Nour Younes shares the remarkable, centuries-old history of the trans community, filled with courageous stories, inspiring triumphs -- and a fight for civil rights that's been raging for a long time. "Imagine how the conversation would shift if we acknowledge just how long trans people have been demanding equality," he says.

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Kriti Sharma: How to keep human bias out of AI

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Kriti Sharma: How to keep human bias out of AI
2,050,106 views

AI algorithms make important decisions about you all the time -- like how much you should pay for car insurance or whether or not you get that job interview. But what happens when these machines are built with human bias coded into their systems? Technologist Kriti Sharma explores how the lack of diversity in tech is creeping into our AI, offering three ways we can start making more ethical algorithms.

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Esha Alwani: What it's like to have Tourette's -- and how music gives me back control

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Esha Alwani: What it's like to have Tourette's -- and how music gives me back control
412,811 views

Esha Alwani began writing songs when she was six years old, shortly after being diagnosed with Tourette syndrome. And she noticed something amazing: whenever she played music, her involuntary tics suddenly went away. Listen along as Alwani explores the power of music and delights the audience with an ethereal performance of her piano ballad "I'm Not Loving You (My Mask)."

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Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory

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Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory
2,805,305 views

The Earth and Moon are like identical twins, made up of the exact same materials -- which is really strange, since no other celestial bodies we know of share this kind of chemical relationship. What's responsible for this special connection? Looking for an answer, planetary scientist and MacArthur "Genius" Sarah T. Stewart discovered a new kind of astronomical object -- a synestia -- and a new way to solve the mystery of the Moon's origin.

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Olympia Della Flora: Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school

TED Salon: Education Everywhere

Olympia Della Flora: Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school
2,129,368 views

To get young kids to thrive in school, we need to do more than teach them how to read and write -- we need to teach them how to manage their emotions, says educator Olympia Della Flora. In this practical talk, she shares creative tactics she used to help struggling, sometimes disruptive students -- things like stopping for brain breaks, singing songs and even doing yoga poses -- all with her existing budget and resources. "Small changes make huge differences, and it's possible to start right now ... You simply need smarter ways to think about using what you have, where you have it," she says.

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