TED Resident Fawn Qiu designs fun, low-cost projects that use familiar materials like paper and fabric to introduce engineering to kids. In this quick, clever talk, she shares how nontraditional workshops like hers can change the perception of technology and inspire students to participate in creating it.

Do you feel overwhelmed by the complex issues facing our world, not to mention your own personal problems? Spirituality is the key to staying grounded and hopeful -- even for skeptics, says actor and author Rainn Wilson. He explains why it's time for all of us to experience a spiritual shake-up and outlines two paths to tap into your innate wisd...

Fany的主题是电子音乐，通过一个制作人兼DJ的身份向大家阐述什么才是真正的电子音乐。在现代社会存在着各式各样的音乐类型，而电子音乐对于我来说是信仰般的存在。我介绍了在初中就喜欢上了电子音乐并且沉迷其中。后来受到国内制作人Chace的影响，在去过几次电子音乐派对后，正式开始我的音乐学习历程。在这个过程中我越发理解我做音乐的初衷以及希望保持电子音乐纯粹性的渴望。上海，是我一切梦想开始的地方，每周在前往上海的高铁上总是有许多思绪能带给我创作的灵感。所以我开始创作流行音乐。不管是日常生活，爱情，精神压力，种种不同的情绪都能带给我创作的动力。与此同时，我发掘到了音乐更深处的魅力：Techno。这种纯粹的4/4拍的鼓点击打着我的内心，比起流行音乐Techno更能引起我的共鸣。越来越多的地下音乐派...

Vania examines the effect of stress on life, based on her observations of her younger relatives. She examines what part stress has to play physiologically and emotionally, and discusses its links to mental health issues, self-judgement, and perception. Vania makes reference to some primary research which she has carried out recently amongst he...

In this TEDx Talk, Finn Coy-Gresavage discusses the dangers of binaries and how they can hurt us all. Binary thinking is the tendency to think in terms of absolutes, black and white, good and bad. But in reality, life is more complex than that. Finn gives a powerful example of how binary thinking led to them being misgendered and ultimately caus...

Vinay Nandicoori, the current director of CSIR-CCMB, Hyderabad, did his Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from IISC, Bangalore. He was a Postdoc at Texas A&M University and the University of Virginia before returning to India in 2004 to establish his research group at the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi. Vinay Nandicoori is...

How do we increase voting turnout in our elections? Xin Ke Law-Ghallager and Finn Creeggan are students who are passionate about politics and elections. In their talk, they emphasize the importance of getting youth involved in politics early on in life so that our future elections will have greater turnouts.