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TED Talks Daily
Episodes — page 14
- How to turn off work thoughts during your free time | Guy Winch (re-release)
Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow’s tasks or stewing over offi…
- How to be a great listener | Maegan Stephens, Nicole Lowenbraun
Have you ever left a meeting thinking: everyone talked, but nothing was achieved? Chances are that people were listening to each other, just not in the same way. Listening experts…
- What you know that AI doesn’t | Priyanka Vergadia
AI is good at seeing patterns, but it’s humans who figure out what to do next, says technologist Priyanka Vergadia. She shares three stories of human excellence sparked by AI insig…
- Why I want to bring lions back to my village | Seif Hamisi
As a child in rural Kenya, conservationist Seif Hamisi fell asleep to the sound of lions outside his village. Today, the lions are gone, mirroring a continent-wide trend: African w…
- The new science of eyewitness memory | John Wixted
We've built a legal system that distrusts eyewitness memory — backed by cautionary science and high-profile exonerations. John Wixted, a leading psychology researcher, challenges t…
- Sunday Pick: How to find true love (w/ Francesca Hogi) | from How to Be a Better Human
Love coach Francesca Hogi is dedicated to helping daters find “lasting love in the midst of a broken dating culture.” In this episode, Francesca shares her approach to analyzing ro…
- The AI-generated intimacy crisis | Bryony Cole
Tonight, millions of people will go to bed and whisper to an AI companion. But what are we giving up when we fall in love with machines? Sextech expert Bryony Cole offers three que…
- The doctor on a mission to build a healthier South Sudan | Yohanis Riek
Yohanis Riek went from herding cattle and fighting as a child soldier to becoming the first doctor in his community in South Sudan. He shares his journey to found a nonprofit bring…
- The pressure that makes Olympians perform worse | Dominique Condo
Why do we celebrate appearance over ability in sports? Performance scientist Dominique Condo explores why so many elite female athletes — women with Olympic medals, world records a…
- How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs | Llion Jones
Llion Jones cowrote "Attention Is All You Need," the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI revolution. Now he warns that…
- The 6 essential ingredients of loving relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh
How do you build a lifetime of love? After analyzing 450 couples across more than 40 countries, relational psychotherapist Sara Nasserzadeh discovered six essential ingredients for…
- The brilliance of bridges and roads that repair themselves | Mark Miodownik
Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? Scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik describes a new class of…
- Sunday Pick: The Truth About "The Zone" (with Steph Curry) | Good Sport
When it comes to sports, is there anything more evocative -- and elusive -- than "the zone"? That mythical place an athlete goes to where focus is laser-sharp, nothing can go wrong…
- A songwriting battle with my AI clone | Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Elise Hu
As AI tools get better at making music, will there be a time when machines move people more than musicians? Putting that question to the test, legendary hitmaker Jason "Poo Bear" B…
- A different way to measure success in health care | Andrew Bastawrous
After building a smartphone app to bring eye care to millions of people in remote areas, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous confronted a new question: What do we lose whe…
- Will AI take your job in the next 10 years? Wrong question | Vinciane Beauchene
As AI agents take over more tasks at work, the question isn’t whether or not humans matter — it’s how we make our impact count. Leadership expert Vinciane Beauchene challenges some…
- What ancestral intelligence can teach us about AI | Nanjira Sambuli
There's a common African proverb: "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thinking to today's AI evolution, a…
- 1 thing you can do today to be happier | Sonja Lyubomirsky
Can anyone become happier? Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky studies this question in her lab, doing experiments on "happiness interventions" to see what kinds of actions elicit this…
- In defense of hip-hop | Roland Fryer
Hip-hop often gets blamed for its controversial lyrics. What if there was a way to actually measure its impact on people's lives? Analyzing 40 years' worth of radio station data an…
- Sunday Pick: How to think critically about history — and why it matters (w/ David Ikard)
Have you ever recalled a story only to have someone point out "that's not how it went"? Well, what happens when what we misrepresent are our historical narratives? David Ikard is a…
