👁The orchestra in my mouth
🧠Tom Thum
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In a highly entertaining performance, beatboxer Tom Thum slings beats, comedy and a mouthful of instrumental impersonations into 11 minutes of creativity and fun that will make you smile.
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👁How I held my breath for 17 minutes
🧠David Blaine
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.
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#biology #magic #medicine #performance

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👁A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar ...
🧠Maz Jobrani
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Iranian-American comedian Maz Jobrani takes to the TEDxSummit stage in Doha, Qatar to take on serious issues in the Middle East -- like how many kisses to give when saying “Hi,” and what not to say on an American airplane.
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#Middle_East #TEDx #comedy #culture #entertainment #humor #performance

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👁The dazzling diversity of African dance -- in 14 moves
🧠Chinyanta Kabaso
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣If African culture were a tree, then dance would be its flowers, says choreographer and TED Idea Search winner Chinyanta Kabaso. In a captivating display of both traditional and modern dances, she showcases the beauty of these movements and explains how they reveal the history of migration and shared cultural connections of different ethnic groups across the continent.
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#dance #Africa #culture #history #performance #creativity

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👁Life lessons from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9
🧠Benjamin Zander
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Legendary conductor Benjamin Zander explains his view on the difference between "positive thinking" and "possibility" (one's a fraud; the other's the real thing, he says) and intersperses delightful stories from a lifetime in music with a sing-along to Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
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#music #storytelling #performance #Life

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👁Magic and wonder in the age of AI
🧠David Kwong
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣With AI everywhere you look, you may think you've seen it all. Magician David Kwong suggests otherwise, proposing advancements in technology actually increase opportunities for wonder. In an entertaining performance, he invites an audience member on stage to exhibit the mind-reading magic of ChatGPT — and explores how tech elevates our capacity for awe.
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#magic #AI #technology #performance #storytelling

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👁The alchemy of pop
🧠Kesha
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣"You can write a song and you can not tell the truth, but your song will suck," says pop star Kesha. So what's the secret to making a great pop song? She explains the special alchemy of her own hits like "TiK ToK" and "Praying" and gives a stunning debut performance of her new song, "Cathedral." (Note: This talk contains mature language.)
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#music #entertainment #culture #performance #personal_growth

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👁What's possible when the arts belong to everybody
🧠Lear deBessonet with Brian Stokes Mitchell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣With huge, city-wide casts from an array of communities, theater director Lear deBessonet's productions illuminate the unique power of the arts to transform our lives through collective expression. She explores the power of spectacle to inspire awe, connect individuals and heal loneliness with tangible, life-changing results. In a dramatic moment, deBessonet's message comes to life when Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell takes the stage for a dazzling performance of "The Impossible Dream (The Quest)," accompanied by pianist Todd Almond, the MEI Screaming Eagles Marching Band and some surprise vocalists.
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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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👁The jokes AI won’t tell
🧠Jena Friedman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Could a robot ever be funny? In a sharp standup act, comedian Jena Friedman lambasts the mad dash to develop AI and offers a surprising take on why it will never replace comedians. (Contains mature content.)
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#comedy #performance #AI #technology #robots

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👁The art of reading minds
🧠Oz Pearlman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Have you ever wanted to read someone's mind? Mentalist Oz Pearlman is billed as one of the world's greatest mind readers ... and yet, he says he doesn't have any special powers. In this spectacular talk meets psychic-inspired magic show, he demonstrates his skills on a live audience in the theater — and shows how anyone can learn the principles of mentalism.
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#Translation_Unavailable #Content_Curation #Tag_Generation #psychology #performance #magic #illusion #storytelling #entertainment

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👁300 years of classical music in 18 minutes
🧠Joshua Bell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Does the world still need classical music? What about orchestras? In this gorgeous talk and performance, violinist Joshua Bell and the Chamber Orchestra of America play selections of classical music masterpieces — from Mozart’s Symphony No. 25 to Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony and more — sharing why this art form remains a singularly unifying force.
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#music #performance #art #history

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👁An art movement built on ancestral wisdom
🧠Jackie Lebo
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣"How are the children? How are the cattle? Is it raining?" Filmmaker Jackie Lebo discovered the meaning of this traditional greeting when she and nine other artists explored Turkana, an isolated part of Kenya where the discovery of oil has disrupted pastoral life. Through film, photography and music, she and musicians Elizabeth Korikel and Eddie Grey share the deep cultural roots of art — and highlight the true connectedness of humanity.
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#art #music #performance #Africa #culture #community #collaboration #photography

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👁Why meeting in the middle isn’t enough for today’s trickiest debates
🧠Stephanie Lepp
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Can art help us usefully address polarizing issues such as gender, abortion or race? In a performance of “Faces of X” — a series that seeks to reframe culture-war clashes — actor Bill Heck stages different sides of a debate between capitalism’s champions and its critics, illuminating a new way to grapple with complex realities. After the performance, creator Stephanie Lepp offers three questions we should all ask to move to clear perspective and new understanding.
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#performance #capitalism #society #personal_growth #social_change #art #communication

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👁A spicy take on parenting, happiness and sex
🧠Negin Farsad
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In a biting standup act, comedian and TED Fellow Negin Farsad gives the best parenting advice you've never heard and examines the link between happiness and sex. (Contains mature content)
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#comedy #performance #parenting #TED_Fellows #sex

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👁The greatest show on Earth — for kids who need it most
🧠Sahba Aminikia
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣TED Fellow and composer Sahba Aminikia brings the healing power of dance, storytelling, music and performance to some of the most dangerous places on Earth. By celebrating children and their communities with beauty and joy, he shows how to cultivate hope, connection and love — even in conflict zones. "The ultimate power is in unity," Aminikia says.
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#TED_Fellows #art #war #theater #performance #kids

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👁How to become a K-pop superstar — in 7 minutes
🧠Charlene Kaye
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Want to become a K-pop superstar? Comedian and musician Charlene Kaye lays out the formula for breaking through in just a few easy steps, from rapping like a sexy baby to dancing like you’re making pizza in the Matrix. Part musical, part dance performance, part comedy show — this is your how-to guide for creating the next K-pop hit.
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#comedy #humor #dance #music #performance

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👁The language you're fluent in — but forgot how to hear
🧠 Louis VI
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣What if the calm you feel when you hear birdsong isn't a coincidence, but ancient evolutionary wiring ... a signal that once meant safety? Musical ecologist and rapper Louis VI says humans are hardwired to nature's sonic language, but modern life has drowned it out. He explores how we can tap back into the "overwhelming chorus of aliveness" we’ve stopped hearing — and performs "Butcherbird," an original song syncing with the melody of bird calls from West Papua.
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#nature #environment #animals #biodiversity #sound #music #performance #ecology #science

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👁How I imitate nature's voices
🧠Snow Raven
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣You're about to hear the sounds of several different creatures — from the voice of one single musician. In a spellbinding talk and performance, singer Snow Raven mimics the hoot of an owl, the grumble of a bear, the howl of a wolf and more.
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#animals #nature #music #performance

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👁Yo! Have you ever seen a yo-yo dance like this?
🧠Shu Takada
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣A six-time world yo-yo champion, Shu Takada is spinning his dreams into reality. Watch how he turns a humble pastime into a mesmerizing art form, blending yo-yo wizardry with dance and acrobatics.
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#performance #entertainment #dance #toys

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