👁How stress drains your brain — and what to do about it
🧠Nicole Byers
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Do you ever feel extra forgetful? Stress could be the culprit. In a fascinating talk about how your memory works, neuropsychologist Nicole Byers shares the science behind how stress drains your brain's resources, making it harder to remember things and easier to make mistakes. But fear not: she also shares a simple solution to recharge your brain and get your memory back on track.
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#memory #brain #science #psychology #neuroscience #TEDx

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👁Why science needs to get behind natural medicine
🧠Jeff Chen
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Pharmaceutical companies often only patent drugs they can monetize, creating synthetic versions of remedies already available in nature. In this quick talk, physician and entrepreneur Jeff Chen offers a path to affordable, effective natural medicines — for everyone.
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#medicine #health #health_care #science #nature #human_body

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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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👁The largest river on Earth is actually in the sky
🧠Iseult Gillespie
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣The largest rainforest in the world, the Amazon, exists between two rivers — but not in the way you might think. At ground level, the Amazon River and its tributaries weave their path. But above the canopy, bigger waterways are on the move. These flying rivers are almost invisible, but are essential to life on Earth. Iseult Gillespie explores how this crucial system keeps the rainforest alive. [Directed by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya, Otter Studios, narrated by Christina Greer, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #nature #natural_resources #South_America #water #rivers #science

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👁How to build a global pro-democracy movement
🧠Yordanos Eyoel
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣"Democracy is the most compelling vision we have for self-governance," says freedom advocate Yordanos Eyoel. Taking a stand against predatory and opportunist authoritarian forces, she shares how to reimagine, accelerate and protect the pro-democracy movement — to build societies that are both functional and inclusive.
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#activism #democracy #society #inclusion

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👁Why you should embrace mediocrity
🧠Crispin Thurlow
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣From "elite" pickles to "premium" baby diapers, marketers are constantly telling us to seek superiority — but "by the simple law of averages, most of us have to live a life more ordinary," says sociolinguist Crispin Thurlow. He invites us to embrace mediocrity for a change, offering a different path to contentedness without comparison.
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#language #sociology #personal_growth #TEDx #money #culture

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👁My mission to change the narrative of mental health
🧠Glenn Close
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Legendary actor and mental health advocate Glenn Close is on a quest to change how we think about mental health, starting with her decision to speak out about her own family's struggles — a brave choice considering the stigma that pervades the topic. In a sweeping conversation with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Close shares the inspiration behind the advocacy group she founded to combat the crisis, underscoring the transformative power of community and the critical need for comprehensive mental health care systems.
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#social_change #emotions #family #mental_health #society

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👁When AI can fake reality, who can you trust?
🧠Sam Gregory
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣We're fast approaching a world where widespread, hyper-realistic deepfakes lead us to dismiss reality, says technologist and human rights advocate Sam Gregory. What happens to democracy when we can't trust what we see? Learn three key steps to protecting our ability to distinguish human from synthetic — and why fortifying our perception of truth is crucial to our AI-infused future.
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#AI #democracy #technology #corruption #media #future #journalism

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👁Why businesses need a dreamer's magic and a doer's realism
🧠Beth Viner
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣At work, the dreamers often get credit for the big ideas, but they can also sometimes seem untethered to reality to the doers, who are trying to ... get things done. It's when these two types of humans work in harmony that business magic happens, says culture strategist Beth Viner. She lays out a practical blueprint for harnessing the dreamer's out-of-the-box thinking and the doer's practicality, showing why it's the key to building, growing and innovating in any relationship or organization.
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#work #innovation #work_life_balance #creativity

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👁Why AI will spark exponential economic growth
🧠Cathie Wood
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Investor Cathie Wood explores this unique moment in technology, which she sees as being marked by the simultaneous evolution of five pivotal innovation platforms — a scenario unparalleled in history. Exploring the role of AI in reshaping economic paradigms, she predicts a surge in global GDP growth and productivity, underscoring the need for businesses and investors to adapt in order to keep up.
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#AI #technology #economics #money #innovation #driverless_cars

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👁How advanced is whale talk?
🧠David Gruber and Shane Gero
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Soon after whaling ships began operating in the North Pacific, an interesting trend emerged. Within just a few years, whalers saw a 58% drop in their successful strikes. Sperm whales had suddenly become harder to kill— they had begun fleeing the boats instead of forming their usual defensive circles. Were whales communicating new strategies to each other? David Gruber and Shane Gero investigate. [Directed by Anna Benner, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Raphael Tschernuth].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #ocean #animals #communication #biology #science

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👁What happens as we die?
🧠Kathryn Mannix
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Have we lost the practical wisdom of what happens as people die? With lessons from a career witnessing thousands of people's final breaths, palliative care expert Kathryn Mannix urges us to demystify the experience of death, sharing how a better understanding of what actually happens can reduce fear in the final days, for you and your loved ones.
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#death #family #medicine #Life #health #health_care #personal_growth #TEDx

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👁How acts of kindness sparked a global movement
🧠Asha Curran
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣"We underestimate the power of our own generous actions," says Asha Curran, CEO of the global generosity movement GivingTuesday. Sharing stories of people making a difference through simple acts of kindness, she shows how generosity, even in its simplest forms, can be a transformative force — and explains why we all benefit from a world grounded in giving.
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#social_change #community #humanity #happiness #society #philanthropy #money

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👁How to get motivated even when you don’t feel like it
🧠 TED-Ed
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Motivation is complicated. Psychologists define motivation as the desire or impetus to initiate and maintain a particular behavior. But sometimes, no matter how passionate you are about a goal or hobby, finding the motivation to actually do it can be difficult. Why is motivation so fickle? Explore intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and dig into how these forces contribute to our drive. [Directed by Magali García, narrated by Alexandra Panzer, music by Adam Alexander, Bamm Bamm Wolfgang].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #motivation #psychology #emotions

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👁What's your leadership language?
🧠Rosita Najmi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In a globe-trotting career that has spanned corporations, governments, nonprofits and philanthropy, Rosita Najmi has often found herself translating among them. Instead of focusing on leadership style, she makes the case for becoming fluent in the languages of leadership, explaining how it can help you adapt to audiences across industries and collectively achieve your goals.
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#leadership #business #work #women_in_business #language

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👁The history of poker: Bluffing, betting, and busting
🧠James McManus
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣From its earliest incarnations, poker has always been a contest of guile, guts, and gambling. The game first emerged around 1800 in the melting pot of New Orleans, and soon spread up the Mississippi, Ohio, and Missouri rivers. So, how did this simple game of the American South skyrocket in popularity? James McManus shares how the card game became an international affair. [Directed by Chintis Lundgren, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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#TED_Ed #education #animation #gaming #history

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👁Enough red tape — we need to say yes to clean energy
🧠Rich Powell
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Climate innovation leader Rich Powell dives into the bureaucracy, bottlenecks and not-in-my-backyard attitude preventing the US from achieving its green energy goals, warning that we need about 10,000 new clean energy projects to be built in the US this decade if we're to reach net zero by 2050. Learn more about what's needed to fight NIMBYism, get serious about the energy transition — and get out of our own way.
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#climate_change #Countdown #sustainability #renewable_energy #energy #electricity #environment #policy #business

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👁Don't be a jerk to your barista — and other thoughts on frontline work
🧠Adriann Negreros
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣All jobs, especially those held by frontline workers, should have dignity and the ability to turn into great careers, says change management expert Adriann Negreros. From shift flexibility to ending work on time, he outlines what he calls the "handbook of humanity" — people-centered ideas for change, rooted in empathy — that, when implemented, can redefine the nature of frontline work.
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#work_life_balance #business #work #humanity #equality #empathy

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👁The vital data you flush down the toilet
🧠Newsha Ghaeli
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣"Everybody pees and poops — and we know that urine and stool contain a rich source of information on our health," says data detective Newsha Ghaeli. Exploring the growing field of wastewater epidemiology, she shows how studying sewage can (anonymously) reveal a lot about the collective well-being of our cities — leading to real-time quality-of-life improvements like tracking pandemics, updating social policies and much more.
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#health_care #health #cities #pollution #public_health #data

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👁Is alternative meat the recipe for a healthier planet?
🧠Tao Zhang
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣A Chinese saying goes, "There's no pleasure in eating without meat." And the data backs that up: every year, China consumes 26 percent of the world's meat and 45 percent of its seafood — numbers that could grow alongside rising incomes. Impact investor Tao Zhang shows why getting Chinese consumers to switch to plant-based alternatives is vital to tackling climate change and explores how it's also a massive business opportunity to bring tasty, affordable new proteins to market.
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#food #climate_change #sustainability #china #environment #business #entrepreneur

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