👁Why art is a tool for hope
🧠 JR
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Famed for enormous black-and-white portraits that are pasted on surfaces ranging from the Louvre to the US-Mexico border wall, multimedia artist JR continues to tackle ambitious projects. In this powerfully moving talk, he shares how he made a giant mural on the courtyard floor of a maximum-security prison -- with the help of guards and prisoners alike -- and ended up with much more than a compelling image.
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#art #prison #community #humanity #creativity #communication #relationships

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👁Why can parrots talk?
🧠Grace Smith-Viduarre and Tim Wright
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Whether they're belting Beyoncé, head-banging to classic rock, or rattling off curse words at zoo-goers, parrots are constantly astounding us. They are among the only animals that produce human speech, and some parrots do it almost uncannily well. How is this possible? Grace Smith-Vidaurre and Tim Wright dig into the anatomy that allows parrots to talk, scream, curse, and recite facts. [Directed by Anton Bogaty, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Jarrett Farkas].
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#TED_Ed #animals #animation #education #communication #birds #science #biology #conservation

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👁The best way to apologize (according to science)
🧠 TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Over the years, people have come up with some truly awful apologies. From classic non-apologies, to evasive excuses, and flimsy corporate promises, it's all too easy to give a bad apology. Good apologies generally share certain elements, and considering these factors can help you make amends in a variety of situations. Explore what to do— and not to do— in order to deliver an authentic apology. [Directed Vitalii Nebelskyi, and action agency, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#animation #TED_Ed #education #psychology #communication #mental_health #relationships

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👁Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
🧠Brian Little
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣What makes you, you? Psychologists like to talk about our traits, or defined characteristics that make us who we are. But Brian Little is more interested in moments when we transcend those traits -- sometimes because our culture demands it of us, and sometimes because we demand it of ourselves. Join Little as he dissects the surprising differences between introverts and extroverts and explains why your personality may be more malleable than you think.
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#communication #humanity #personality #identity #humor #self #psychology #TED_Books

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👁5 steps to building a personal brand you feel good about
🧠Marcos Salazar
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Whether you realize it or not, you have a personal brand, says social entrepreneur Marcos Salazar -- and you have the power to shape what it is. Here's how you can create a brand that captures who you are, who you'd like to be and how you want to make an impact on the world.
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#work #self #personal_growth #personality #communication #marketing

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👁What makes a language... a language?
🧠Martin Hilpert
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Outside of China, Mandarin and Cantonese are often referred to as Chinese dialects, despite being even more dissimilar than Spanish and Italian. On the other hand, speakers of Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, which are three distinct languages, can usually communicate with each other in their native tongues. So, when is speech considered a dialect versus a language? Martin Hilpert investigates. [Directed by Luísa M H Copetti, Hype CG, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Gabriel Maia].
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#education #language #animation #TED_Ed #history #communication

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👁The hidden network that makes the internet possible
🧠Sajan Saini
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣In 2012, a team of researchers set a world record, transmitting 1 petabit of data— that's 10,000 hours of high-def video— over a fifty-kilometer cable, in a second. This wasn't just any cable. It was a souped-up version of fiber optics, the hidden network that links our planet and makes the internet possible. What is fiber optics and how does it work? Sajan Saini explores the vital technology. [Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson].
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#TED_Ed #animation #innovation #technology #Internet #communication #science #invention #computers

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👁4 ways to have healthy conversations about race
🧠Afrika Afeni Mills
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Learning how to have productive conversations about race is a necessary part of the human experience. Educator Afrika Afeni Mills says the best place to start is in the classroom -- because the earlier these skills are taught, the fewer biases there are to unlearn. She shares four actionable lessons to help people overcome their fear and take on these conversations at any age.
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#race #humanity #communication #inclusion #education #leadership #social_change

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👁Can we recreate the voice of a 3,000-year-old mummy?
🧠David M. Howard
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Drawing on his work reconstructing the vocal tract of an ancient Egyptian priest, speech scientist David M. Howard shares three evolutionary wonders of human speech -- and the importance of nurturing your own voice in an increasingly noisy world.
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#history #language #communication #human_body #biology #science #TEDx #evolution

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👁5 steps to fix any problem at work
🧠Anne Morriss
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In a practical, playful talk, leadership visionary Anne Morriss reinvents the playbook for how to lead through change -- with a radical, one-week plan to build trust and fix problems by following a step per day.
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#work #personal_growth #leadership #business #success #relationships #communication #trust

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