Inspired by Aung San Suu Kyi's call to action, "If you're feeling helpless, help someone," Morley composed this song. She sings it at TEDxWomen in her gorgeous, warm voice.

Playing "Follow the Sound" from her album "Borderless Lullabies" -- which was created in support of immigrant and refugee children entering the US -- Morley weaves jazz, soul and resonant vocals. She's joined onstage by cellist Dave Eggar and multi-instrumentalist Chris Bruce.

William Faulkner is considered one of America's most remarkable and perplexing writers. He confused his audience intentionally, using complex sentences, unreliable narrators, and outlandish imagery. His body of work is shocking, inventive, hilarious, and challenging. So how can readers navigate his literary labyrinths? Sascha Morrell explains ho...

Honeybees have thrived for 50 million years, each colony 40 to 50,000 individuals coordinated in amazing harmony. So why, seven years ago, did colonies start dying en masse? Marla Spivak reveals four reasons which are interacting with tragic consequences. This is not simply a problem because bees pollinate a third of the world's crops. Could thi...

A mountain separating two lakes. A room papered floor to ceiling with bridal satins. The lid of an immense snuffbox. These seemingly unrelated images take us on a tour of a sperm whale's head in Herman Melville's "Moby Dick." Though the book features pirates, typhoons, high-speed chases, and giant squid, it's anything but a conventional seafarin...

Living life as an embodiment of capitalism makes some things in life much easier. But no matter how wrong things go the important thing is to keep providing shareholder value, which in this case is pretty close to friendship. Mike Merrill decided thirteen years ago to become a publicly traded person, offering shareholders a degree of influence o...

MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables -- cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?

Carina Morillo knew almost nothing about autism when her son Ivan was diagnosed -- only that he didn't speak or respond to words, and that she had to find other ways to connect with him. She shares how she learned to help her son thrive by being curious along with him. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

When trying to come up with a new idea, we all have times when we get stuck. But according to research by behavioral and learning scientist Marily Oppezzo, getting up and going for a walk might be all it takes to get your creative juices flowing. In this fun, fast talk, she explains how walking could help you get the most out of your next brains...

Every human deserves protection under their country’s laws — even when that law is forgotten or ignored. Sharing three cases from her international legal practice, Kimberley Motley, an American litigator practicing in Afghanistan and elsewhere, shows how a country’s own laws can bring both justice and “justness”: using the law for its intended p...

Over the past two decades, jellyfish have begun to overwhelm our oceans. If things stay on their current trajectory, we could be headed for a future where the entire ocean is thick with jellyfish. So, is there anything that can keep these gelatinous creatures under control? Mariela Pajuelo and Javier Antonio Quinones take a look at the jellyfish...

After losing her mother in a house fire when she was just six years old, Danielle Torley saw two paths before her: a life full of fear, or one that promised healing and recovery. In this inspiring talk, she describes how she turned her grief into beauty in a most unexpected way -- by dancing with fire.

When 9th grader Owen Morley isn't in class, you can find him wearing black and white stripes as a hockey referee. In this informative talk, he explains that some of the most important lessons he has learned in life did not come from the classroom, but form the hockey rink.

Fascinated by the creative process Tom is passionate about sharing what he’s learned about art, rhythm and harmony over the past 60 years. From playing kit drums with the Art School band Scritti Politti in his 20’s, through songwriting in his 30’s, to studying psychology and facilitation in his 40’s. At TEDxWandsworth 2017, Tom energises the a...

Dr. Morley discusses the intersection of structural inequality, the cycle of violence, and the impacts of violence on the brains of both members of impoverished communities and the law enforcement officials policing these communities. Dr. Morley explains how compassion based interventions alleviate the impacts of the cycle of violence on the bra...

In this talk Emerson Morley, a High School Sophomore, explores how to surmount learning disabilities in a world where student's worth is measured by their GPA.

After his son lost his sight, design technologist James Morley-Smith observed how he adapted to interact with the world around him, such as learning to play piano, black keys first. This tactic — factoring in immutable limitations — inspired Morley-Smith to approach his design from a new angle by considering impediments first. "It doesn't matter...

Mariela Delgado es ciclista y es medallista olímpica en juegos Olímpicos y Paraolímpicos. Nos cuenta su inspiradora historia que se inició en Posadas y la llevó a competir en todo el mundo

When we hear the word twins, we automatically think two of the same. And then we try and tell the two apart by hanging onto personality traits that make them wildly different. In her talk, Miraal Kabir, herself a fraternal twin, talks about this forced differentiation, and how the compulsion to stand apart drives twins to orphan parts of themsel...

Yuri Marçal tem 25 anos e é carioca. Formado em teatro e TV pela Escola de Atores Wolf Maya, teve seu início na comédia em fevereiro de 2016, num curso ministrado pelo humorista Fábio Rabin. Desde então coleciona shows em capitais do Brasil, participações em quadros de TV, foi semifinalista do quadro Quem Chega Lá do Domingão do Faustão e tem mi...

¿Qué tienen en común el físico Albert Einstein, el pintor e inventor Leonardo Da Vinci y la empresaria y activista Anita Roddick? Las suyas son trayectorias sinuosas, con cambios y retrocesos que nutrieron sus procesos creativos y sentaron las bases de sus más grandes logros. En esta charla, la emprendedora Mariel Rentería sostiene que el aprend...

Christian talks about the power of choices that each of us holds in our lives; how are lives are the product of choices made by us and for us by others, and how statistics sometimes don’t paint the entire picture.

Dünyanın en etkin 100 Biyoloji bilim insanı arasında gösterilen Meral Beksaç, bilim dünyasından bakan bir gözle Ankara Fen Lisesinin gelişimini yorumluyor.

Dr. Philippe Morel is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Geneva and doctor in the visceral surgery department at the Geneva University Hospital. He obtained his Federal Diploma of Medicine at the University of Geneva in 1978. Thereafter he specialized in the field of surgery with a year of specialisation from 1984-1985 in Birmingham (Engl...

“One True Meaning” is a witty, comedic speech that strives to communicate a deeper meaning about our pursuit for happiness, and it most certainly isn’t what you expect it to be. By revealing universal truths about life through the speaker’s own quest for meaning, and exploring the true power of the subconscious mind, a new theory is presented, p...

Ponència on els sons hi tenen un gran pes, difonent i transmetent com hi connectem, descobrint a la vegada, noves dimensions de la nostra realitat a partir de sons quotidians. “Els sons ens fan connectar realment amb el nostre entorn; però també, amb els uns i altres”

La chef Mariela nos cuenta las experiencias de su vida que forjaron su personalidad para situarla como una de las cocineras más reconocidas en Baja California.

Mariel Hawley shares her passion: swimming. She also shares her journey. Mariel states that the greatest obstacle we have is ourselves and that the mentality in which you face challenges will determine how far you can go.

Después de 10 años de lo que ahora llama; su década de “hermoso caos”, ocurrió… era viernes al mediodía, estaba compartiendo un shawarma de pollo con un amigo maravillosamente iluminado con quien intercambiaba lecciones de baile de Salsa por prácticas de meditación Qigong. Él estaba, como siempre, escuchando atentamente su charla de 100 km/h sob...

Marli Andrade após seus estudos em psicologia social, na Argentina voltou ao país e trouxe a missão de transformar a juventude através das práticas literárias.