👁Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?
🧠Alex Gendler
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣You and nine other individuals have been captured by super-intelligent alien overlords. The aliens think humans look quite tasty, but their civilization forbids eating highly logical and cooperative beings. Unfortunately, they're not sure whether you qualify, so they decide to give you all a test. Can you solve this hat riddle? Alex Gendler shows how. [Directed by Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by WORKPLAYWORK and Cem Misirlioglu].
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#collaboration #creativity #memory #philosophy #TED_Ed #animation

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👁Your elusive creative genius
🧠Elizabeth Gilbert
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.
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#creativity #culture #entertainment #poetry #work #writing #personality

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👁The surprising habits of original thinkers
🧠Adam Grant
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals -- including embracing failure. "The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they're the ones who try the most," Grant says. "You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones."
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#business #creativity #curiosity #exploration #decision_making #innovation #invention #leadership #personal_growth

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👁Intelligent floating machines inspired by nature
🧠Anicka Yi
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating "aerobes" inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines -- and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. "What if our machines could be more than just our tools, and instead, a new type of companion species?" she asks.
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#art #technology #future #creativity #machine_learning #computers #robots #AI

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👁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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👁How play helps a kid's brain grow
🧠Jesse Ilhardt
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣A little bit of playtime can have big benefits for a child's developing brain, like a superfood -- but adult participation is a crucial ingredient for best results. Early-education leader Jesse Ilhardt makes the case for you to put down the phone, pick up the make-believe tea cup (or that blanket-superhero cape) and take the time to experiment with imagination during kids' most formative learning years.
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#TEDx #kids #brain #parenting #creativity #neuroscience #personal_growth #psychology #science

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👁A creator-led internet, built on blockchain
🧠Adam Mosseri
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣As digital assets like cryptocurrency and NFTs become more mainstream, design thinker and head of Instagram Adam Mosseri believes that creators are uniquely positioned to benefit. These blockchain-enabled technologies could remove the need for a "middleman" in the form of large social media platforms, allowing creators to more freely distribute their work and connect with their audiences. He explains how this new age of the internet will give way to "the greatest transfer of power from institutions to individuals in all time."
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#creativity #Internet #future #blockchain #metaverse #art #technology #society #innovation

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👁3 stories of Pakistani resilience, told in film
🧠Jawad Sharif
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣TED Fellow Jawad Sharif was born with a rebellious streak -- and he's used it in his documentary films to amplify the unheard voices of Pakistan. Sharing three stories of everyday heroes -- a high-altitude mountaineer, a folk musician of a bygone instrument and the country's first transgender doctor -- Sharif shows how documentaries can be a space for both creation and defiance.
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#film #social_change #creativity #storytelling #TED_Fellows #art

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👁The timeless, ancient language of art
🧠Wangechi Mutu
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Using found materials and mesmerizing structures that unearth deep-rooted emotions, Wangechi Mutu's visual creations celebrate our collective history and explore how art communicates into the future. From ancient rock carvings in the Sahel to her own chimeric abstractions, she shares her journey of self-discovery and reminds us all that we already speak the most ancient language of all.
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#art #women #Africa #creativity #storytelling #identity

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👁The magic of a creative career
🧠Michael Sheen
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English | 🇹🇷Turkish

👣The city of Port Talbot in South Wales is known for a few things: a steel mill, a proudly working class population and a passionate commitment to the arts that produced Hollywood superstars Richard Burton and Anthony Hopkins. In this sweet, personal talk, actor Michael Sheen shares how he was also able to take advantage of all the city had to offer, why he's worried that a change in approach to arts education means that kids now don't get the same kind of chances -- and the steps he's taking to ensure that creative up-and-comers get the support and access they deserve. (With animations by Sam Orams and Sarah Klan.)
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#art #theater #creativity #youth #culture #storytelling #diversity #TEDx

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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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👁How to find humor in life's absurdity
🧠Maira Kalman
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣With levity and profound insight, artist Maira Kalman reflects on life, death, dinner parties, not knowing the right answers, the joys of eating a hot dog from a street vendor and more. This talk, interwoven with her delightful paintings, is itself an artwork that seems to hold the entirety of life in all its absurd glory.
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#art #design #creativity #storytelling #humanity

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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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👁Wild, intricate sculptures — made out of my hair
🧠Laetitia Ky
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Artist Laetitia Ky has a unique medium: using the hair on her head (and some wire), she creates incredible sculptures of objects, animals, people and more, promoting messages of bodily autonomy and self-acceptance. She shares how she came to create these surprisingly intricate forms and offers a joyful message of creative perseverance.
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#feminism #art #women #Africa #social_change #creativity

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👁How fantasy worlds can spark real change
🧠Annalee Newitz
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣When the world's problems have you weary, journalist and science fiction writer Annalee Newitz suggests a good dose of escapist fiction to refresh your perspective. Step into the whimsical world of science fiction, cosplay and "goblincore" to see how fantasy worlds help us reimagine our relationships with our communities and each other — and why the best way to solve your problems may start with escaping them.
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#humanity #art #architecture #creativity #books #Internet

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👁Bravery, brilliance and RuPaul Charles | On the Spot
🧠RuPaul Charles
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣In the debut of TED's new "On the Spot" rapid-fire Q&A format, Emmy-winning television superstar and drag icon RuPaul Charles answers questions about bravery, brilliance and more — all with his signature wit and wisdom. Get a glimpse inside RuPaul's head and hear his thoughts on the power of drag, the best way to slay, the most important personality trait -- and the best advice he's ever been given. (Featuring an equally rapid-fire Q&A with TED's Helen Walters.)
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#entertainment #TV #creativity #identity #motivation #personal_growth #self #art

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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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#art #theater #performance #community #public_health #culture #entertainment #collaboration #creativity

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👁A firework ladder to the sky — and the magic of explosive art
🧠Cai Guo-Qiang
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣From a boy setting off small explosions in his living room to the creator of world-famous pyrotechnic events, multidisciplinary artist Cai Guo-Qiang has always been drawn to gunpowder. He gives a stunning tour of his work — including his fireworks spectacle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, his "sky ladder" of fire reaching to the clouds and new work created with AI — and shows how his art probes the line between destruction and construction, control and freedom, violence and beauty. (This talk was delivered in Mandarin and translated live into English. The translation was put through a custom AI model of Cai Guo-Qiang's voice, powered by technology from Metaphysic. You'll hear how Cai would sound if he were speaking English.)
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#art #creativity #AI #technology #culture #storytelling

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👁How buildings can improve life — inside and out
🧠Doris Sung
🗣Subtitle: 🇬🇧English

👣Architect and building tech innovator Doris Sung presents a compelling vision for reimagining building facades as active contributors to urban life and public health. Showcasing innovative technologies — like buildings that filter particulates out of the air and facades that react to heat — Sung demonstrates how modern architecture can evolve beyond aesthetics to address critical issues like pollution, energy efficiency and urban heat islands, offering a glimpse into a future where architecture improves life for inhabitants and pedestrians alike.
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#architecture #creativity #future #infrastructure #public_space #urban_planning

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👁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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