Schedule for TED

How The Brain Works EP03

How The Brain Works EP03

1) The brain may be able to repair itself -- with help | Jocelyne Bloch 2) What causes migraines? | Marianne Schwarz 3) Could we treat Alzheimer's with light and sound? | Li-Huei Tsai 4) How memories form and how we lose them | Catharine Young 5) What is so special about the human brain? | Suzana Herculano-Houzel 6) How the food you eat affects your brain | Mia Nacamull

2026-05-05 20:10:50 +0000 UTC2026-05-05 21:11:49 +0000 UTC(1h)
The Curious Traveler EP04

The Curious Traveler EP04

1) My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs 2) The secret messages of Viking runestones | Jesse Byock 3) The ancient, earth-friendly wisdom of Mongolian nomads | Khulan Batkhuyag 4) My long walk across India for women's freedom | Srishti Bakshi 5) How germs travel on planes -- and how we can stop them | Raymond Wang 6) For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism? | Aziz Abu Sarah

2026-05-06 23:55:23 +0000 UTC2026-05-07 00:57:02 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
Justice By (Re)design EP04

Justice By (Re)design EP04

1) How "second chance" laws could transform the US justice system | Sheena Meade 2) What if mental health workers responded to emergency calls? | Leslie Herod 3) An unsung hero of the civil rights movement - Christina Greer 4) The multibillion-dollar US prison industry -- and how to dismantle it | Bianca Tylek 5) The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for Indigenous rights | Tara Houska 6) The dark history of the Chinese Exclusion Act | Robert Chang 7) Why genetic research must be more diverse | Keolu Fox

2026-05-06 10:12:28 +0000 UTC2026-05-06 11:13:58 +0000 UTC(1h1m)
Your Body, Explained EP12

Your Body, Explained EP12

1) The miracle of organ donation — and a breakthrough for the future | Abbas Ardehali 2) The new science of personalized vaccines | Ofer Levy 3) Your body vs. implants - Kaitlyn Sadtler 4) The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it | Travis Rieder 5) How did we get fertility so wrong? | Mona Chalabi 6) How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change | Heidi Boisvert

2026-05-06 01:26:56 +0000 UTC2026-05-06 02:25:57 +0000 UTC(59m)
Your Body, Explained EP62

Your Body, Explained EP62

1) Why body language is the key to self-expression — and hot selfies | David Suh 2) Do you really need to take 10,000 steps a day? | Shannon Odell 3) Yes, tiny mites live on your face — but is that a bad thing? | M. Alejandra Perotti 4) Can you "see" images in your mind? Some people can't | Adam Zeman 5) My Big Idea (Ep. 3): The monthly miracle packed with scientific potential | Karli Büchling 6) How do drugs make you hallucinate? | Anees Bahji

2026-05-06 00:26:23 +0000 UTC2026-05-06 01:26:56 +0000 UTC(1h)
Overlooked History EP02

Overlooked History EP02

1) The mysterious life and death of Rasputin - Eden Girma 2) The forgotten queen of Egypt | Abdallah Ewis 3) The world's most mysterious book - Stephen Bax 4) Did Ancient Troy really exist? - Einav Zamir Dembin 5) History's deadliest king | Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja 6) Why was India split into two countries? | Haimanti Roy 7) A day in the life of a Mongolian queen - Anne F. Broadbridge 8) History vs. Sigmund Freud - Todd Dufresne 9) The dark history of bananas | John Soluri 10) The first and last king of Haiti | Marlene Daut 11) The history of Tea - Shunan Teng

2026-05-05 23:12:41 +0000 UTC2026-05-06 00:26:23 +0000 UTC(1h13m)
Overlooked History EP61

Overlooked History EP61

1) The tragedy of the one guy who was right about the Trojan Horse | Noah Charney 2) Why did people wear powdered wigs? | Stephanie Honchell Smith 3) Ugly History: The Armenian Genocide | Ümit Kurt 4) The woman who broke the Great Wall of China | Juwen Zhang 5) The tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde | Iseult Gillespie 6) The dark history of arsenic | Neil Bradbury 7) The history of the world according to rats | Max G. Levy 8) A day in the life of a martial artist in medieval China | Peter Lorge 9) One of the most controversial medical procedures in history | Jenell Johnson

2026-05-05 22:07:16 +0000 UTC2026-05-05 23:12:41 +0000 UTC(1h5m)