TED Talks Daily

162 episode briefs available

Let your ambition light you up, not burn you out | Tarveen Forrester

Sunday Pick: How do you approach gender as a parent? (with LB Hannahs) | How to Be a Better Human

How do you take the right risks? A photographer and brand builder answer | David Suh and Molly Graham

How to build in space for life on Earth | Ariel Ekblaw

Beyond the Talk: Ariel Ekblaw in conversation with TED Talks Daily

Can AI help us speak with wolves? | Jeffrey T. Reed

Beyond the Talk: Lei Cheng in conversation with TED Talks Daily

What I learned about freedom in a secret Chinese prison | Lei Cheng

Why Ukraine's drone attack on Russia changes war forever | Ian Bremmer

A new lifeline for the world's coral reefs | Theresa Fyffe

Information Inoculation: Defending Against Medical Myths: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines | TED Health

The fine art of fibbing | Athena Kugblenu

How can creativity help us heal? A doctor and a cartoonist answer | Amy Baxter and Navied Mahdavian

How to find humor in life's absurdity | Maira Kalman (re-release)

Sunday Pick: Barcelona: streetwear with a political twist | Far Flung

Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley Tusk

We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it | Nora McInerny (re-release)

Stories of photographing monumental people -- from Michelle Obama to Stephen Hawking | Platon

Sunday Pick: How to value friendship (w/ Rhaina Cohen) | How to Be a Better Human

The jokes AI won’t tell | Jena Friedman

700 million people still live without electricity. Here’s how to fix that | Jacqueline Novogratz

How to get people to do what you want | Barry Sonnenfeld

Are we heading toward World War III? | Heni Ozi Cukier

Why building new proteins from scratch is our new superpower | David Baker

Go ahead, dream about the future | Charlie Jane Anders (re-release)

Sunday Pick: Unsolicited Advice: How to get your mojo back at work | Fixable

The blueprint for serving a million school lunches — every day | Wawira Njiru

How to recapture the joy of the early internet | Michael Sun

How to make learning as addictive as social media | Luis von Ahn (re-release)

The wonder of weightlifting | Jaime Seeman

Is AI ruining music? | Dustin Ballard

How to preserve your private life in the age of social media | Bryce Dallas Howard (re-release)

Sunday Pick: Protecting your time with Linda Babcock | WorkLife with Adam Grant

The hidden logic of human harmony | Steven Pinker

A corporate job isn’t the only path to success. Here’s where to look next | Anuj Tanna

A multigenerational musical journey | Yijia Tu

Sunday Pick: After the Glory Fades | Good Sport

Why venting doesn’t help you deal with anger | Jennifer Parlamis

The missing piece in the story of migration | Sonia Shah and Zeke Hernandez

300 years of classical music in 18 minutes | Joshua Bell

TED Talks Daily Book Club: Intentional Ambition: Redefining Your Work for Greater Joy, Freedom, and Fulfillment | Rha Goddess

How AI could generate new life-forms | Eric Nguyen

Why you should spend less time with your kids | Lenore Skenazy

"The Unprompted," a poem that AI will never understand | Salome Agbaroji

Want to make change? Let the kids tell their stories | Anshul Tewari

Sunday Pick: How to stop devoting yourself to your job (w/ Sarah Jaffe) | How to Be a Better Human

Could we detect breast cancer with a fingerprint? | Simona Francese

Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson (re-release)

How labor unions shape society | Margaret Levi (re-release)

What’s behind the rise of far right politics in Europe | Daphne Halikiopoulou

Most countries fail at clean energy. Here’s how mine succeeded | Sebastián Kind

How displaced people are driving local economies | Julienne Oyler

How to end factory farming | Lewis Bollard

Beyond the Talk: Salome Agbaroji and Samora Pinderhughes in conversation with TED Talks Daily

How nearly dying helped me discover my own cure (and many more) | David Fajgenbaum

How digital culture is reshaping our faces and bodies | Elise Hu (re-release)

Why we need to know our lives matter | Jennifer Wallace

TED Intersections: How will new tech shape your life? A roboticist and a political strategist answer | Bradley Tusk and Ali Kashani

Amy Barnes: Will climate change make your home uninsurable? | TED Countdown Summit 2025

(#10) Elise’s Top Ten: What almost dying taught me about living | Suleika Jaouad

(#4) Elise’s Top Ten: The power of vulnerability | Brené Brown

(#5) Elise’s Top Ten: The new political story that could change everything | George Monbiot

(#6) Elise’s Top Ten: Racism has a cost for everyone | Heather C. McGhee

(#7) Elise’s Top Ten: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs | James Howard Kunstler

(#9) Elise’s Top Ten: Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved | Esther Perel

(#8) Elise’s Top Ten: Change your story, change your life | Lori Gottlieb

How video games can power up your parenting | Hannah Boquet

The link between evolution and language | Richard Dawkins

Yancey Strickler and Jenny Du: How do you rethink how the world works? An entrepreneur and an engineer answer | TED Intersections

Mexico City | Far Flung

Inside WWE's storytelling machine | Paul "Triple H" Levesque

How do you turn hope into action? A doctor and a public health expert answer | David Fajgenbaum and Celina de Sola

Forget the corporate ladder — winners take risks | Molly Graham (re-release)

TED Talks Daily Book Club: How to Be Free: A Proven Guide to Escaping Life’s Hidden Prisons | Shaka Senghor

How Dolly Parton led me to an epiphany | Jad Abumrad (re-release)

This TED Talk is full of bad ideas | Gabe Whaley

3 simple ways to build stronger relationships at work | Alyssa Birnbaum

What separates us from chimpanzees? | Jane Goodall

Sunday Pick: How Texas became America’s biggest producer of wind energy | Speed & Scale

Your relationship expectations could be holding you back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile (re-release)

Beyond the Talk: Deja Foxx on finding alternative online spaces

Going viral taught me the internet is broken — but fixable | Deja Foxx

The best thing that could happen to the energy industry | Matt Tilleard

How we’re turning pollution into toys, toothpaste and more | Xu Hao

The hidden cost of buying gold | Claudia Vega

TED Talks Daily Book Club: Essential questions to ask your future self | Meg Jay (re-release)

The flourishing future of women's sports | Kate Johnson

A pastry chef works his chocolatier magic — live | Amaury Guichon

Tax the rich — and save the planet | Esther Duflo

TED Talks Daily Book Club: Why change is so scary — and how to unlock its potential | Maya Shankar (re-release)

What do newborn babies think about? | Claudia Passos Ferreira

How satellites are supporting farmers across Africa | Catherine Nakalembe

TED Talks Daily Book Club: You are not alone in your loneliness | Jonny Sun (re-release)

What if you could talk to your favorite character in a movie? | Christoph Lassner

How to measure the planet’s heartbeat | Yadvinder Malhi

Sunday Pick: How to use your muscles — or risk losing them | How to Be a Better Human

How to build your confidence — and spark it in others | Brittany Packnett Cunningham (re-release)

How AI is discovering athletes that human scouts miss | Richard Felton-Thomas

3 tips to make your world beautifully wild | Isabella Tree

Why your blood should flow like ketchup | Sean Farrington

My identity is a superpower — not an obstacle | America Ferrera

These AI devices protect nature in real time | Juan M. Lavista Ferres

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

How climate shocks could break the economy | Edmond Rhys Jones

Two US governors — a Democrat and a Republican — on why there's hope for democracy | Matt Meyer and J. Kevin Stitt

TED Talks Daily Book Club: Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet | Kate Marvel

How to see (and stop) deforestation from space | Tasso Azevedo

Wicked's costume designer on how to tell stories with clothes | Paul Tazewell

How to communicate with your dog, from a Westminster champion | Jennifer Crank

The thrill of not knowing all the answers | Harini Bhat

Can AI uplift entrepreneurs that traditional banks reject? | Mercedes Bidart

The army of autonomous robots restoring nature | Tom Chi

Why are we demolishing homes during a housing crisis? | Olaf Grawert

How the fridge changed food | Nicola Twilley

How AI is unearthing hidden scientific knowledge | Sara Beery

The daily practice that could rewire your brain | Timm Chiusano

Will AI make humans useless? | Akram Awad

An art movement built on ancestral wisdom | Jackie Lebo

How I found resilience through artistry | Misty Copeland

How we built Watch Duty, the lifesaving wildfire alert app | John Mills

The ethical case for taking on the climate crisis | Al Gore, Wanjira Mathai & Karenna Gore (TED Countdown House)

How ibogaine could treat depression and anxiety | Nolan Williams

TED Talks Daily Book Club: Embrace your limitations | Oliver Burkeman

The surprisingly simple reason teams fail | Tessa West

Schools urgently need a redesign. Here's how | Aylon Samouha

This revolutionary moment in space exploration | Chris Hadfield

The question that saved my company from bankruptcy | Sharon Price John

Is the AI bubble about to burst? | Henrik Zeberg

What I learned from cooking my way across a continent | Dieuveil Malonga

Why I spend hours sketching in conflict zones | George Butler

The trap of win-lose thinking (and how to escape it) | John Mackey

This movie never ends the same way twice | Gary Hustwit

The pattern we're missing in the AI job panic | Vlad Tenev

The case for spending more time with your friends | Rhaina Cohen

How art transforms brokenness into beauty | Lily Yeh (re-release)

An ode to living on Earth | Oliver Jeffers (re-release)

What 2025 Taught Us—And Where 2026 Is Taking Us

This is how kids should be learning with AI | Priya Lakhani

The spiritual wisdom we need for a planet in crisis | Tariq Al-Olaimy

How to live a meaningful life | Brian S. Lowery (re-release)

Interview: What happens in your brain when you pay attention? with Dr. Sasha Hamdani | from TED Health

Silence, the universal medicine | Pico Iyer

How to introduce yourself — and get hired | Rebecca Okamoto

Beyond the Talk: Pico Iyer on silence and stillness

Sunday Pick: Why your brain is an unreliable narrator (w/ Aparna Nancherla) | How to Be a Better Human

What gets lost when we treat conversations like transactions | Khaya Dlanga

Can you picture things in your mind? I can't | Alex Rosenthal

The art (and science) of stop-motion animation | Brian McLean

The missing piece in climate action (it's not what you think) | Yi Li

How I found resilience as my life fell apart | Jane Marie Chen

How to power the world 24/7 — without oil | Cindy Taff

What happened when I started scoring my life every day | Chris Musser

What literally every K-pop song sounds like | Charlene Kaye

Why can't we better prepare for extreme weather? | Catherine Nakalembe

The language you're fluent in — but forgot how to hear | Louis VI

Sunday Pick: How to think critically about history — and why it matters (w/ David Ikard)

In defense of hip-hop | Roland Fryer

1 thing you can do today to be happier | Sonja Lyubomirsky

Will AI take your job in the next 10 years? Wrong question | Vinciane Beauchene

A songwriting battle with my AI clone | Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Elise Hu

A different way to measure success in health care | Andrew Bastawrous

Sunday Pick: The Truth About "The Zone" (with Steph Curry) | Good Sport