Andy Hobsbawm shares a fresh ad campaign about going green -- and some of the fringe benefits.

Is torture ever justified? Would you steal a drug that your child needs to survive? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? How much is one human life worth? In the "Justice" program that bears his name, Harvard professor Michael Sandel probes these questions -- and asks what you think, and why.

The Great Wall of China is a 13,000-mile dragon of earth and stone that winds its way through the countryside of China. As it turns out, the wall's history is almost as long and serpentine as its structure. Megan Campisi and Pen-Pen Chen detail the building and subsequent decay of this massive, impressive wall. [Directed by Steff Lee, narrated b...

Many people like to talk about how important voting is, how it's your civic duty and responsibility as an adult. Eric Liu agrees with all that, but he also thinks it's time to bring joy back to the ballot box. The former political speechwriter details how he and his team are fostering the culture around voting in the 2016 US presidential electio...

In the grand scheme of history, modern reality is a bizarre exception when compared to the worlds of ancient, precolonial and Indigenous civilizations, where myths ruled and gods roamed, says historian Greg Anderson. So why do Westerners today think they're right about reality and everybody else is wrong? Anderson tears into the fabric of object...

China is a huge laboratory of innovation, says retail expert Angela Wang, and in this lab, everything takes place on people's phones. Five hundred million Chinese consumers -- the equivalent of the combined populations of the US, UK and Germany -- regularly make purchases via mobile platforms, even in brick-and-mortar stores. What will this tran...

The former prime minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd is also a longtime student of China, with a unique vantage point to watch its power rise in the past few decades. He asks whether the growing ambition of China will inevitably lead to conflict with other major powers -- and suggests another narrative.

Why is China appointing thousands of judges to environmental courts and training prosecutors to bring cases to them, even if it means suing the government? Eco-lawyer James Thornton takes us inside the country's growing effort to use the power of the courts to address environmental problems -- a little-known story that indicates China could beco...

China is the world's biggest polluter -- and now one of its largest producers of clean energy. Which way will China go in the future, and how will it affect the global environment? Data scientist Angel Hsu describes how the most populous country on earth is creating a future based on alternative energy -- and facing up to the environmental catas...

History has been written by whoever controls the dominant fuel of the era — until now, says renewables entrepreneur Matt Tilleard. He explains why, as the clean energy transition ramps up, we’re moving from a world where energy comes from burning fuels to one where it will come from using technology. Learn why this could change everything about ...

" I marvel at every little freedom that we have. Because for three years and two months, it was all brutally taken away from me," says journalist Lei Cheng. In 2020, Lei was wrongfully detained in China after being falsely accused of leaking state secrets. Several years after her release, she took the stage at TED2025 to share her perspective on...

How do you talk to someone who doesn't believe in climate change? Not by rehashing the same data and facts we've been discussing for years, says climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. In this inspiring, pragmatic talk, Hayhoe shows how the key to having a real discussion is to connect over shared values like family, community and religion -- and to...

Innovation in medicine sometimes come from the brave of the patients. In this talk, Dr. Ching HO shares her idea on what can medical institutes and breast physicians help to build the concept of breast health?

TEDxNeihu invited Ching Hui Chen, Director of Nuwa Fertility Center, to share the correct medical concepts and suggestions with the audience. In her years of practice, she has successfully used her professional knowledge to assist infertile couples with fertility planning from different aspects, and assisted many local and foreign families fac...

Why do we care about our information? How is our information related to the way we exist as human beings? Offering a renewed reading of the classical philosophical definition of the soul as the ‘form’ of the human, this talk explores how understanding the soul as ‘form’ can not only help us account for the connection between our information and ...

As an able-bodied robotics engineer, Cheng-Hua Wu wasn't sure how he and his team could help patients suffering from lower limb injuries. After approaching the problem in a more attentive yet creative way, Wu sought to develop an exoskeleton solution that can be made available for the average consumer. In this short and straight-forward talk, ...

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Jenna is from the Fintech Division in MDEC, building the fintech ecosystem in Malaysia working with experts, regulators, financial institutions, accelerator, investors, startups/scaleups and academic institutions. She was an Advocate and Solicitor previously with experience of running a law firm such as in the fields of corporate, litigation, hu...

Hoi Ching examines the many forms of prejudice and discrimination that all of us fall prey to. She illustrates her talk with demonstrations and slides relating to Gestalt Laws, and explains how our brains manipulate visual stimuli in order to make sense of our world. Social Identity Theory is also employed in order to describe how an 'us versu...

与肮脏划上等号的苍蝇，如今在刑事罪案上扮演了重要角色，帮助法医推测死亡时间、地点及原因。此外，丘忠君博士也告诉大家苍蝇是有助于农业、伤口处理及花粉传播，在养分循环上扮演重要角色，是大自然生态中不可或缺的重要份子。 Fly has given a negative impression and it is dirty. However it is important in criminal cases now , it helps forensic pathologists to estimate the death timing, location and its cause. According to Dr Heo Chong Chin, fly has assisted in a...