TED talks that captivate
The TED (Technology Entertainment & Design) events are always a wealth of information and present some of the most brilliant people on the planet. It's never a waste of time to watch them.
Click on a subject to see the list of the best TED talks I've grouped under its heading.
Favorites (36 of the best from all subjects)
This is water. The new life speech.
Depression, the secret we share. It is part of life and should be demystified.
How transgender teens can be helped to become who they want to be. Incredible work.
The state of fusion reactors to produce our energy.
The art of stillness. A life changing ability.
Rewriting the rules of relationships.
Hedonistic sustainability while designing a building.
Magical houses, made of bamboo. Beautiful, impressive, and part of our future.
An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math.
Embrace your raw, strange magic. Be yourself.
Why art thrives at Burning Man.
The nightmare videos of YouTube for children, and what is wrong with the internet today.
Adventures of an interplanetary architect.
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions.
The era of blind faith in big data must end.
I do not want children, stop telling me I will change my mind.
A black man goes undercover in the alt-right.
How to design a library that makes kids want to read.
Buildings that blend nature and city.
The taboo secret to healthier plants and people.
Nature is everywhere, we just need to learn to see it.
The laws that sex workers really want.
Your kids might live on Mars. Here is how they will survive.
Why great architecture should tell a story.
Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works, and sex work accounts for less than 25% of it.
Why the War on Drugs is wrong: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong.
Why we need to end the War on Drugs.
My legs give me super powers. You can always redefine yourself, beauty is in you.
The secret to desire. Defining what desire, love & sex are.
New data on the rise of women. The future belongs to women.
A new ecosystem for electric cars. Making financial sense.
How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change. An eye opener.
Build a School in the Cloud. Knowing is obsolete, learning is not.
Retrofitting suburbia.
Lessons from fashion's free culture. Innovation is crippled by copyrights and patents
The art of asking. The future of music. Fealess connections.
Gender, Sex & Relationships (29)
The secret to desire. Defining what desire, love & sex are.
Online dating is a black hole of humanity, but here is the only reason to do it and only way to go about it.
Hilarious recounting of the first sex talk with a daughter.
Making sex normal, as it should be.
Rewriting the rules of relationships.
10 myths about psychology, debunked. Men and women? Not so different.
Great presentation explaining sex work. Selling Sex: Contradicting Violence with Choice.
The secret to desire in a long-term relationship.
Rethinking infidelity... a talk for anyone who has ever loved.
Why we love, why we cheat.
Love, you are doing it wrong.
Falling in love is the easy part. What we understand or want of love.
Open Your Mind to What Goes on Behind Closed Doors with a Sex Worker.
The laws that sex workers really want.
Technology hasn't changed love. Here is why.
A better way to talk about love.
Changing the Way We Think About Consensual Non-monogamy. There are other options beside monogamy, very valid ones.
What it is like to be a woman in Hollywood.
How we can end sexual harassment at work.
I do not want children, stop telling me I will change my mind.
What we don't teach kids about sex.
The Ethical Stripper. What it means to face stigma for a sex worker
Fighting stigma with storytelling: Lessons from a former sex worker.
What it is like to be a transgender dad and what it really means to be gender agnostic.
The truth about unwanted arousal.
The person you really need to marry: yourself.
Redefining manhood, one locker room talk at a time.
The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain.
The way we think about biological sex is wrong.