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TED Talks

Sergey Brin + Larry Page: The genesis of Google

12th - Higher Ed
Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin offer a peek inside the Google machine, sharing tidbits about international search patterns, the philanthropic Google Foundation, and the company's dedication to innovation and employee...
Instructional Video12:46
TED Talks

TED: How do you build a sacred space? | Siamak Hariri

12th - Higher Ed
To design the Baha' Temple of South America, architect Siamak Hariri focused on illumination -- from the temple's form, which captures the movement of the sun throughout the day, to the iridescent, luminous stone and glass used to...
Instructional Video13:06
TED Talks

TED: Are video calls the best we can do in the age of the metaverse? | Josephine Eyre

12th - Higher Ed
Remote work, while redefining the workplace landscape, seems stuck behind endless video conference calls that hinder free-flowing conversation and collaboration. In the 21st century, is that really the best we can do? Digital...
Instructional Video17:36
TED Talks

Moshe Safdie: Building uniqueness

12th - Higher Ed
Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly unique for its site and its users.
Instructional Video13:33
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TED: How architecture can create dignity for all | John Cary

12th - Higher Ed
If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long bathroom lines again. Lines like these are representative of a more serious issue, Cary says: the lack of diversity in design that leads to...
Instructional Video11:13
TED Talks

TED: How we can find ourselves in data | Giorgia Lupi

12th - Higher Ed
Giorgia Lupi uses data to tell human stories, adding nuance to numbers. In this charming talk, she shares how we can bring personality to data, visualizing even the mundane details of our daily lives and transforming the abstract and...
Instructional Video17:53
TED Talks

Kishore Mahbubani: How the West can adapt to a rising Asia

12th - Higher Ed
As Asian economies and governments continue to gain power, the West needs to find ways to adapt to the new global order, says author and diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. In an insightful look at international politics, Mahbubani shares a...
Instructional Video11:44
TED Talks

TED: 4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines | Tim Leberecht

12th - Higher Ed
In the face of artificial intelligence and machine learning, we need a new radical humanism, says Tim Leberecht. For the self-described "business romantic," this means designing organizations and workplaces that celebrate authenticity...
Instructional Video11:44
TED Talks

Dale Dougherty: We are makers

12th - Higher Ed
America was built by makers -- curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED@MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we're all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools...
Instructional Video17:25
TED Talks

TED: A letter to all who have lost in this era | Anand Giridharadas

12th - Higher Ed
Summer, 2016: amid populist revolts, clashing resentments and fear, writer Anand Giridharadas doesn't give a talk but reads a letter. It's from those who have won in this era of change, to those who have, or feel, lost. It confesses to...
Instructional Video13:15
TED Talks

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative

12th - Higher Ed
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten more than his fair share of attention from his acting career. But as social media exploded over the past decade, he got addicted like the rest of us -- trying to gain followers and likes only to be left...
Instructional Video15:17
TED Talks

TED: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here's why I left | Megan Phelps-Roper

12th - Higher Ed
What's it like to grow up within a group of people who exult in demonizing ... everyone else? Megan Phelps-Roper shares details of life inside America's most controversial church and describes how conversations on Twitter were key to her...
Instructional Video16:57
TED Talks

TED: What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh evans

12th - Higher Ed
Hugh evans started a movement that mobilizes "global citizens," people who self-identify first and foremost not as members of a state, nation or tribe but as members of the human race. In this uplifting and personal talk, learn more...
Instructional Video10:29
TED Talks

Alicia Eggert: Imaginative sculptures that explore how we perceive reality

12th - Higher Ed
TED Fellow Alicia Eggert takes us on a visual tour of her work -- from a giant sculpture on an uninhabited island in Maine to an installation that inflates only when people hold hands to complete an electric current. Her work explores...
Instructional Video14:57
TED Talks

TED: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy | Bettina Warburg

12th - Higher Ed
Say hello to the decentralized economy -- the blockchain is about to change everything. In this lucid explainer of the complex (and confusing) technology, Bettina Warburg describes how the blockchain will eliminate the need for...
Instructional Video9:48
TED Talks

TED: The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again | Jon Gray

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. "The hood is good," says Jon Gray of the Bronx, New York-based creative collective Ghetto Gastro. Working at the...
Instructional Video17:07
TED Talks

TED: A queer vision of love and marriage | Tiq Milan and Kim Katrin Milan

12th - Higher Ed
Love is a tool for revolutionary change and a path toward inclusivity and understanding for the LGBTQ+ community. Married activists Tiq and Kim Katrin Milan have imagined their marriage -- as a transgender man and cis woman -- a model of...
Instructional Video15:55
TED Talks

TED: This computer will grow your food in the future | Caleb Harper

12th - Higher Ed
What if we could grow delicious, nutrient-dense food, indoors anywhere in the world? Caleb Harper, director of the Open Agriculture Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, wants to change the food system by connecting growers with technology....
Instructional Video15:00
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TED: every piece of art you've ever wanted to see -- up close and searchable | Amit Sood

12th - Higher Ed
What does a cultural Big Bang look like? For Amit Sood, director of Google's Cultural Institute and Art Project, it's an online platform where anyone can explore the world's greatest collections of art and artifacts in vivid, lifelike...
Instructional Video22:12
TED Talks

TED: Doesn't everyone deserve a chance at a good life? | Jim Yong Kim

12th - Higher Ed
Aspirations are rising as never before across the world, thanks in large part to smartphones and the internet -- will they be met with opportunity or frustration? As President of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim wants to end extreme...
Instructional Video3:28
TED-Ed

TED-Ed: Networking for the networking averse - Lisa Green Chau

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Networking can seem so hard -- but not if you have the right advice. Try taking advantage of weak ties; you never know what friend of a friend of a friend can aid you in your dreams. Lisa Green Chau outlines how being proactive and...
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TED: When we design for disability, we all benefit | Elise Roy

12th - Higher Ed
I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received, says elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she knows that being Deaf gives her a unique way of experiencing and reframing the world...
Instructional Video14:12
TED Talks

TED: The search for "aha!" moments | Matt Goldman

12th - Higher Ed
In 1988, Matt Goldman co-founded Blue Man Group, an off-Broadway production that became a sensation known for its humor, blue body paint and wild stunts. The show works on the premise that certain conditions can create "aha moments" --...
Instructional Video15:17
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TED: A better way to talk about love | Mandy Len Catron

12th - Higher Ed
* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. In love, we fall. We're struck, we're crushed, we swoon. We burn with passion. Love makes us crazy and makes us...