Dessa: Can we choose to fall out of love?
What's the best way to get over heartbreak? Rapper and writer Dessa came up with an unconventional approach after a chance viewing of Helen Fisher's TED Talk about the brains of the lovestruck. In a wryly funny talk, she describes how she worked with a neuroscientist to try to get her brain to fall out of love with her ex -- and shares wisdom ab...
Tessa Khan: How can we escape soaring energy bills? Stop using fossil fuels
As oil and gas companies continue to make record profits off of the same forces driving climate chaos, war and soaring energy bills, it's become clear that boom times for the fossil fuel industry are bad times for the rest of us, says climate change lawyer Tessa Khan. She asks us to consider the true cost of our reliance on fossil fuels, outlini...
Tessa West: The problem with being "too nice" at work
Are you "too nice" at work? Social psychologist Tessa West shares her research on how people attempt to mask anxiety with overly polite feedback — a practice that's more harmful than helpful — and gives three tips to swap generic, unhelpful observations with clear, consistent feedback, even when you feel awkward.
Tessa Clarke: The surprising climate benefits of sharing your stuff
There's something simple we can all do to help the planet -- and it's probably not what you think. With one-third of all the food we produce globally each year being thrown away, entrepreneur Tessa Clarke believes that sharing more and wasting less is an underrated solution to the climate crisis. Learn more about how you can join the growing mov...
Angelica Dass: Usando la fotografía para celebrar los diferentes tonos y colores de la humanidad
La fotografía de Angélica Dass desafía nuestra forma de pensar sobre el color de la piel y la identidad étnica. En esta íntima charla, la artista habla sobre la inspiración detrás de su proyecto de fotografía, Humanae, el cual nos invita a cuestionar los sistemas que nos tratan de categorizar o separar, y donde nos ofrece un espacio para elogiar...
Christina Tosi: My secret to creating real magic
In an infectiously joyous talk, Milk Bar founder Christina Tosi shares the sugary jolt of her first food memory and behind-the-scenes stories of her bakery's famously inventive cakes, cookies and treats. This talk may make you hungry -- but it'll also leave you a resonant message about how breaking the rules and challenging your assumptions can ...
Karen Tse: How to stop torture
Dexter Dias: Racism thrives on silence -- speak up!
Racism thrives on your silence and apathy, says human rights lawyer Dexter Dias. Telling the story of a harrowing UK court case that spotlights the corrosive effects of injustice, Dias urges us all to speak out and expose toxic myths about race -- in order to allow hope, change and justice to flourish.
Rob Toews: AI's single point of failure
"The world's most important advanced technology is nearly all produced in a single facility," says AI expert Rob Toews. He describes how one company in Taiwan, TSMC, manufactures nearly all the most advanced semiconductor chips — a crucial technology that powers everything from phones to electric vehicles to next-generation artificial intelligen...
Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests
"Save the rainforest" is an environmental slogan as old as time — but Tasso Azevedo catches us up on how the fight is actually going these days. Spurred by the jaw-dropping losses of the 1990s, new laws (and transparent data) are helping slow the rate of deforestation in Brazil. Is it enough? Not yet. He has five ideas about what we should do ne...
Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color
Angélica Dass's photography challenges how we think about skin color and ethnic identity. In this personal talk, hear about the inspiration behind her portrait project, Humanæ, and her pursuit to document humanity's true colors rather than the untrue white, red, black and yellow associated with race.
Francisco Díez-Buzo: Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"?
Gabriel García Márquez's novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" brought Latin American literature to the forefront of the global imagination and earned García Márquez the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature. What makes the novel so remarkable? Francisco Díez-Buzo investigates. [TED-Ed Animation by Lucy Animation Studio]
Wanda Diaz Merced: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars
Wanda Diaz Merced studies the light emitted by gamma-ray bursts, the most energetic events in the universe. When she lost her sight and was left without a way to do her science, she had a revelatory insight: the light curves she could no longer see could be translated into sound. Through sonification, she regained mastery over her work, and now ...
Hortensia Jiménez Díaz: How Mendel's pea plants helped us understand genetics
Each father and mother pass down traits to their children, who inherit combinations of their dominant or recessive alleles. But how do we know so much about genetics today? Hortensia Jiménez Díaz explains how studying pea plants revealed why you may have blue eyes. [Directed by Johan Sonestedt and Veronica Wallenberg, narrated by Rose Eveleth].
Li-Huei Tsai: Could we treat Alzheimer's with light and sound?
What if we could use brain waves to treat Alzheimer's? Professor and neuroscientist Li-Huei Tsai details a promising new approach to artificially stimulate gamma brain waves using light and sound therapy, to increase connectivity and synchrony and delay the onset of this deadly disease. This non-invasive therapy has already been shown to work in...
Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now
Marc Adam Hertzman and Flavio dos Santos Gomes: The kingdom hidden in Brazil
In the 1600s, an expansive autonomous settlement called Palmares reached its height in Brazil. It was founded and led by people escaping from slavery, also called maroons. It was one of the world's largest maroon communities, its population reaching beyond 10,000— and its citizens were at constant war with colonial forces. Marc Adam Hertzman &am...
DESSA: Can we choose to fall out of love? | Dessa | TEDxWanChai
The singer and rapper Dessa had been writing songs about heartbreak for years as she waded through a volatile relationship and a protracted breakup. One night, inspired by a TED Talk, she decided to design a case study in which she'd be the only participant. With the help of an fMRI machine, a team of willing scientists and a neuro-feedback prac...
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Lauren Díaz: La Magia del destino
Eijah Diaz: What Next?
Suraj Das: Sanitise your World - An ECO life for a common man
Our speaker Mr.Suraj not only preaches but practices too. He has been living in Kharghar for quite some time and Has not contributed any organic waste to Landfills from his Home since 2017, he has been composting at home and also follow other sustainable living concepts at home. He has been doing Plastic cleanups and Tree plantation drives at va...
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TEDx Taiz: ''Home-made!" Countdown, Walid Mahyoub
Walid spoke about his personal experience in packaging beans at home from simple materials located in each house, and how this idea is important in serving mainly low-income groups as well as poor communities that lack basic services such as rural areas, displacement camps and civil areas that experiencing shortage of fuel, food, water, or elec...
Marius Dusa: Zâmbetul – Incertitudine în diversitate
Există o mare diversitate de oameni în această lume și putem spune cu certitudine că fiecare are particularitățile sale specifice, ceea ce face ca oricare dintre noi să fie diferit de ceilalți. Cu toate acestea, ne comportăm și avem așteptări de la semenii noștri ca și cum ar fi exact ca noi, ca și cum nevoile și valorile noastre ar fi identice...
Denisse Díaz: Y La Maternidad, ¿Quién Me La certifica?
Hildizina Dias: Educação Acolhedora - uma utopia possível
A partir das pesquisas que já realizou sobre a educação moçambicana, julga que uma das soluções para o crescimento económico e sócio-cultural é apostar seriamente numa Educação Acolhedora, que traga para a escola mais acolhimento, mais cuidado e mais amorosidade. Estes são os elementos que possibilitam atender as necessidades dos alunos e permit...
Daisy Ma: My mind-shifting Arctic expedition and how it affects my community
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