Videos tagged with #TEDxTalks
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Fish sex -- it's weirder than you think | Marah J. Hardt | TEDxMileHigh
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• enDid you ever wonder how fish have sex? Buckle up for a wild journey through the sex lives of everything from lobsters to anglerfish. In this hilarious talk, marine biologist Marah J. Hardt explains wh
What crows can teach us about death | Dr. Kaeli Swift | TEDxSalem
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• enHumans have paid attention to the behaviors of animals around their dead for centuries, but science has only recently given it more serious study. This talk explores what animals, particularly crows,
An ER doctor on how to triage your busy life | Darria Long | TEDxNaperville
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• enER doctor Darria Long explains key lessons from hospital emergency rooms on handling stress, chaos, and life. Dr. Darria Long Gillespie is a Yale- and Harvard-trained emergency physician, author of na
How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust | Werner Reich | TEDxMidAtlantic
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• enWerner Reich shares a powerfully personal tale about his time in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. He describes how the kindness of one man who dared to do something unexpected — teach him a
The three secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone | TEDxChristchurch
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• enDr Lucy Hone is a resilience expert who thought she found her calling supporting people to recover following the Christchurch earthquake. She had no idea that her personal journey was about to take he
GDP measures the wrong things. Here's something better. | Marilyn Waring | TEDxChristchurch
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• enIn 1953, a group of economists got together to create the Gross Domestic Product: a way to measure everything that involves a market transaction. But GDP doesn't measure the single biggest contributor
Waking up as a meme-hero | Andras Arato | TEDxKyiv
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• enWhat would you feel if one day you wake up and realize that you have become a meme? Andras Arato tells a story of how he became a world known meme “Hide The Pain Harold.” Andras Arato is a 73-year ol
Why Most Parenting Advice is Wrong | Yuko Munakata | TEDxCU
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• enParenting books promise to show people how to raise happy, successful children, and in the process to reveal why each of us turned out the way we did. But the science of child development tells a diff
The Greatest Invention in the History of the World | David Peterson | TEDxBerkeley
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• enLanguage creator, author, and UC Berkeley alum David J. Peterson shares the importance of learning languages in today’s society and redefines language as more than just a tool. He has created language
How to Get Over The End of a Relationship | Antonio Pascual-Leone | TEDxUniversityofWindsor
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• enHave you had an important relationship end and felt a bit stuck on how to move on? Clinical psychologist Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone calls this “emotional baggage” or “unfinished business” and speaks ab
How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey | TEDxManchester
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• enThe latest research is clear: the state of our attention determines the state of our lives. So how do we harness our attention to focus deeper, get distracted less, and even become more creative? Chri
Don't strive to be famous, strive to be talented | Maisie Williams | TEDxManchester
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• enMaisie is an actress, an entrepreneur, and an activist. Yet to this day, she has no formal qualifications to her name. Her career has been built upon a symphony of seemingly normal opportunities that
How to break away from habit & follow through on your goals | Sabine Doebel | TEDxMileHigh
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• enResearch shows that executive function has a profound impact on your life – it correlates with academic achievement, mental and physical health, making money and saving money, and even staying out of
What a sex worker can teach us about human connection | Nicole Emma | TEDxSaltLakeCity
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• en"In a society that values strong, stoic alpha males, where can a man find space to be vulnerable? Nicole Emma, a sex worker with 18 years of experience, gives a unique perspective on men's need for co
School strike for climate - save the world by changing the rules | Greta Thunberg | TEDxStockholm
3,507,833 views
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• enGreta Thunberg realized at a young age the lapse in what several climate experts were saying and in the actions that were being taken in society. The difference was so drastic in her opinion that she
How to Deal with Difficult People | Jay Johnson | TEDxLivoniaCCLibrary
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• enFrom co-workers and colleagues to friends and family, we are faced with challenging relationships daily. Unfortunately, we often go about managing them the wrong way. Only by elevating our understandi
What happens in your throat when you beatbox? | Tom Thum & Dr Matthew Broadhurst | TEDxSydney
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• enBeatboxer Tom Thum has a symphony in his throat, but how does he make those sounds? Armed with a microphone and camera, get up close and personal as we peer down the back of Tom Thum's throat. In this
The Upside of Anger | Ryan Martin | TEDxFondduLac
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• enDr. Ryan Martin is the chair of the Psychology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and a nationally known anger researcher. His work focuses on healthy and unhealthy expressions of an
A perfect apology in three steps | Jahan Kalantar | TEDxSydney
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• enSaying sorry is something most of us are terrible at – we favour emojis over emotions. In this touching short talk, criminal defence lawyer Jahan Kalantar offers advice on how to apologise effectively
Mathematics is the sense you never knew you had | Eddie Woo | TEDxSydney
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• enIn this illuminating talk, high school mathematics teacher and YouTube star Eddie Woo shares his passion for mathematics, declaring that "mathematics is a sense, just like sight and touch" and one we
Can We Choose to Fall Out of Love? | DESSA | TEDxWanChai
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• enThe singer and rapper Dessa had been writing songs about heartbreak for years, as she waded through a volatile relationship and a protracted breakup. One night, inspired by a TED talk, she decided to
I Was Almost A School Shooter | Aaron Stark | TEDxBoulder
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• enAfter growing up in painful, abusive conditions, Aaron Stark was on his way to an atrocity, until simple acts of kindness changed his life forever. What is causing the rise of violence and are our cur
The Dangers of Whitewashing Black History | David Ikard | TEDxNashville
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• enShould white people care about the whitewashing of black history? Most people will likely answer yes to this question, if only because it sounds politically correct to do so. What will hopefully becom
Navigating the Multigenerational Workplace | Leah Georges | TEDxCreightonU
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• enLeah Georges’ research—the multigenerational workforce—sheds light on a first in America’s history: four generations interacting in a workplace, with the Gen Z group coming soon. Leah Georges’ researc