👁An actor and a neuroscientist answer: What makes you “you”?
🧠Yara Shahidi and Anil Seth
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What can acting reveal about the mystery of consciousness? Actor and producer Yara Shahidi and cognitive neuroscientist Anil Seth unpack the surprising ways that portraying different characters can reveal insights about our authentic selves — even if we're not actually performing onstage or onscreen. Explore the intersection of consciousness and identity and discover how our brains and bodies work in tandem to form our understanding of ourselves. (This conversation is part of “TED Intersections,” a series featuring thought-provoking conversations between experts navigating the ideas shaping our world.)
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#psychology #brain #identity #consciousness #creativity #neuroscience #personal_growth #personality

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👁How to build the 3D world of your dreams with just a text prompt
🧠Kiran Bhat
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What if AI could help you make the perfect video game — in seconds? In this cutting-edge demo, 3D AI innovator Kiran Bhat co-creates a never-before-seen Roblox world with the TED audience — transforming the crowd’s suggestions into a playable 3D village in real-time. Discover how AI can help you bridge the gap between creativity and code in this peek at the future of gaming.
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#AI #gaming #technology #engineering #creativity #design #computers #media #entertainment

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👁How music helped me live through long COVID
🧠Joshua Roman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣An accomplished cellist, TED Fellow Joshua Roman has practiced his instrument daily since he was a child — until a severe case of long COVID almost robbed him of his ability to play. In an inspiring talk, he plays a piece by Johann Sebastian Bach, shares how he found his way back to music and then performs a staggering new solo composition, titled "Immunity."
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#music #performance #creativity #TED_Fellows #health #coronavirus

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👁Is AI ruining music?
🧠Dustin Ballard
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What makes music “real” — is it the instruments, the voice, the creator’s intention or something else entirely? Dustin Ballard, the creative force behind the viral channel “There I Ruined It,” explores the weird, wonderful and sometimes unsettling ways AI is reshaping music. With fiddle solos and AI-powered mashups of your favorite songs, he invites us to ask: Are new tools fostering creativity, or just making noise?
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#music #technology #AI #art #creativity #future

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👁A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes
🧠Nilay Kulkarni
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Every three years, more than 30 million Hindu worshippers gather for the Kumbh Mela in India, the world's largest religious gathering, in order to wash away their sins. With massive crowds descending on small cities and towns, stampedes inevitably happen, and in 2003, 39 people were killed during the festival. In 2014, then 15-year-old Nilay Kulkarni decided to put his skills as a self-taught programmer to use by building a tech solution to help prevent stampedes. Learn more about his invention -- and how it helped the 2015 Nashik Kumbh Mela have zero stampedes and casualties.
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#india #collaboration #data #creativity #design #innovation #religion #invention #software

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👁How to turn AI prompts into movie magic
🧠Jason Zada
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣AI won’t replace storytellers — it will give them superpowers, says film director Jason Zada. Showing how new technology allows creators to turn wild ideas into cinematic worlds at warp speed, Zada and the TED audience dream up the premise for a new sci-fi short film live from the stage, and then get to see the results three days later.
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#film #AI #technology #creativity #art

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👁A pastry chef works his chocolatier magic — live
🧠Latif Nasser
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Get a taste of the chocolatier life from world-renowned pastry chef Amaury Guichon as he shares his story — and the secrets of his craft — with podcaster Latif Nasser. Learn what it takes to construct elaborate, lifelike (and delicious) sculptures from 100 percent confectionery ingredients as Guichon puts the final touches on his signature decadent chocolate clock pastry, complete with delicate gears.
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#food #art #design #innovation #creativity

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👁This TED Talk is full of bad ideas
🧠Gabe Whaley
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if the worst ideas turned out to be the most interesting? Mischief-making artist Gabe Whaley shares how he built a collective of artists whose seemingly bad ideas — like selling 5,000 keys to the same car — often go viral and sell for thousands of dollars. His playful experiments show why it’s worth leaning into the absurd … because you never know what might happen.
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#art #design #Ideas #creativity

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👁How I turned frustration into creative success
🧠Joshua Schachter
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Sharing his accidental journey to viral fame, digital pioneer Joshua Schachter reveals how programming a robot to make deliberate mistakes in otherwise deeply satisfying plotter art sparked millions of views (and hilariously strong reactions). Learn how to turn your frustration into creative success — and discover how quirky, unexpected art can captivate audiences worldwide. (Created in collaboration with Ignite Talks)
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#art #technology #design #social_media #computers #robots #creativity

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👁Wicked's costume designer on how to tell stories with clothes
🧠Paul Tazewell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣If you've ever been swept away by the worlds of "Wicked," "Hamilton" or "West Side Story," you've seen Paul Tazewell's breathtaking costumes. The Oscar-winning designer (whose work features in "Wicked: For Good") explores the subconscious language of clothing and how it shapes who we view as heroes — and who we view as villains. (Followed by a short Q&A with TED's Monique Ruff-Bell)
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#design #film #history #art #fashion #creativity #identity

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👁How to see the future coming — and prepare for it
🧠Jane McGonigal
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣As a futurist who helps people prepare for all different kinds of possibilities, Jane McGonigal thinks we overuse words like "unthinkable" and "unimaginable." She introduces three hypothetical scenarios, showing how you can foster the ability to think creatively, anticipate new risks and feel ready for whatever the future may hold. (Created in collaboration with Ignite Talks)
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#future #personal_growth #creativity

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👁This movie changes every time you watch it
🧠Gary Hustwit
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Film is generally a fixed medium: the scenes are shot, the edits are made, and the final version is the one and only movie you'll see. Filmmaker Gary Hustwit flips this convention on its head, introducing his project "Eno" — a documentary about the musician and composer Brian Eno that reinvents itself every time you watch it ... and is never the same twice.
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#film #entertainment #art #technology #music #storytelling #creativity

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👁Is perfectionism just procrastination in disguise?
🧠Jon Youshaei
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What separates struggling artists from successful ones? Looking to creative geniuses like Mozart, Edison and Monet, video creator Jon Youshaei explains why aiming to be prolific — despite flops and failures along the way — is the key to unlocking your creative success.
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#creativity #personal_growth #media #storytelling #Internet #entertainment #art #history #productivity

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👁The art (and science) of stop-motion animation
🧠Brian McLean
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣You're invited into the world of stop-motion animation, where design and engineering collide to create fan-favorite films. Visual effects artist Brian McLean (from the Oscar-winning studio behind "Coraline" and "ParaNorman") explores how 3D printing is revolutionizing this century-old craft, showing how creative obsession paired with cutting-edge technology can reinvent the way we make things.
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#animation #technology #art #creativity #design #innovation #media #storytelling #TEDx

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👁"Marigolds," a poem about wonder
🧠Safiya Sinclair
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Poet Safiya Sinclair performs "Marigolds: A Letter to Wonder," an original poem she created for TED that explores memory, beauty and the fragility of life. After the poem, she talks with TED's Helen Walters about her writing process — and what it feels like when the creative muse strikes.
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#poetry #writing #creativity #nature #gardening

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👁The fire-breathing dragon-horse sparking wonder in a city near you
🧠Frédette Lampre
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣How does a city change when its art doesn’t hang on museum walls but instead roams the streets? Artist Frédette Lampre of the production company La Machine shares how their towering, handcrafted mechanical creations transform urban spaces into living theaters, creating unforgettable experiences that reconnect people with their cities and each other.
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#art #cities #creativity #culture #humanity

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👁Jermaine Dupri on the art of making a hit | On the Spot
🧠Jermaine Dupri
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Legendary music producer Jermaine Dupri pulls back the curtain on how hit songs really get made in TED’s rapid-fire Q&A format, “On the Spot.” Answering a stream of unexpected questions, he covers what makes a good hook, why he doesn’t chase “cool,” how he helped build Atlanta’s sound and more.
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#music #culture #art #entertainment #collaboration #creativity

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👁The accidental brilliance of makeshift signs
🧠Kate Canales
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What happens when the design of everyday things misses the mark? People fill in the blanks. Designer Kate Canales has spent more than 20 years photographing the handmade, improvised signs that appear when the original falls short. From perplexing bathroom directions to our struggles with doors and point-of-sale machines, her photos capture something technology can't replace: our instinct to look out for each other and leave a few instructions behind.
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#design #society #culture #technology #creativity #art #humor

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👁You got what you wanted. Now what?
🧠Debbie Millman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Over two decades of interviewing countless creative people, Debbie Millman (host of the iconic "Design Matters" podcast) had a realization: the pride and joy of accomplishing something often evaporates almost instantly. She explains how to stop chasing external validation for your achievements and instead live for the act of creation itself.
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#creativity #design #personal_growth

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👁How to invite creativity into your life
🧠Debbie Millman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What do you hear when you sit in silence? For artist Rose B. Simpson, that question is the beginning of all art. She comes from a line of ceramic artists stretching back generations and, as part of her multidisciplinary work, she also builds custom lowrider cars. (If that sounds like a contradiction, that's kind of the point.) In conversation with "Design Matters" podcast host Debbie Millman, Simpson invites you to find your own aesthetic — not by searching, but by listening.
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#art #culture #mindfulness #nature #creativity #storytelling

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