1) What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea | Yeonmi Park 2) My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out | Christian Picciolini 3) Escaping the Khmer Rouge | Sophal Ear 4) What happened to the lost Kingdom of Kush? | Geoff Emberling 5) Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home. | Holly Morris 6) The biggest mistakes in mapmaking history | Kayla Wolf
1) The exploitation of US college athletes | Tim Nevius 2) Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it | Sophie Howe 3) Why should you read “Fahrenheit 451”? - Iseult Gillespie 4) What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education | Nora Flanagan 5) How dirt bikes and STEM ignite ingenuity in Baltimore | Brittany Young 6) Let's teach for mastery -- not test scores | Sal Khan 7) How to choose your news | Damon Brown
1) The board game getting kids excited about school | Joel Baraka 2) Technology can't fix inequality -- but training and opportunities could | 'Gbenga Sesan 3) Can stereotypes ever be good? | Sheila Marie Orfano and Densho 4) Sex education should start with consent | Kaz 5) The power of creative constraints - Brandon Rodriguez 6) How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? | Sydney Jensen
1) What makes a word "real"? | Anne Curzan 2) One of the most difficult words to translate... - Krystian Aparta 3) Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions | John Koenig 4) What do all languages have in common? | Cameron Morin 5) The gift of words | Javed Akhtar 6) How to save a language from extinction | Daniel Bögre Udell
1) The linguistic genius of babies | Patricia Kuhl 2) Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets | Saki Mafundikwa 3) A word game to communicate in any language | Ajit Narayanan 4) The enchanting music of sign language | Christine Sun Kim
1) How do personality tests work? | Merve Emre 2) Why you feel anxious socializing (and what to do about it) | Fallon Goodman 3) The psychology of narcissism - W. Keith Campbell 4) How to turn climate anxiety into action | Renée Lertzman 5) Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin
1) Why some people are more altruistic than others | Abigail Marsh 2) Do you really know why you do what you do? | Petter Johansson 3) The counterintuitive psychology of insurance | Orit Tykocinski 4) Can you outsmart a troll (by thinking like one)? | Claire Wardle 5) Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1) | Jeff Leek and Lucy McGowan
1) Fly with the Jetman | Yves Rossy 2) Meet the SixthSense interaction | Pattie Maes + Pranav Mistry 3) Robots that fly ... and cooperate | Vijay Kumar 4) What will future jobs look like? | Andrew McAfee
1) Why do cats act so weird? - Tony Buffington 2) Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger? | David Epstein 3) What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? | Nick Bostrom 4) What causes hallucinations? - Elizabeth Cox 5) What you need to know about stalkerware | Eva Galperin
1) The tipping points of climate change — and where we stand | Johan Rockström 2) Luxury, not landfill — the waste-free future of fashion | Joon Silverstein 3) Why violence is rising with global temperatures | Peter Schwartzstein 4) I'm a conservative — and I care about the climate, too | Danielle Butcher Franz 5) What if the climate movement felt like a house party? | Matthew Phillips
1) Collagen's dirty secret — and its clean future | Fei Luo 2) A concrete plan for sustainable cement | Ryan Gilliam 3) Why are we sending critical metals to the dump? | Jeff More 4) Norse mythology's climate lessons for the future | Lauren Fadiman 5) How to make climate stories impossible to ignore | Katherine Dunn 6) A new lifeline for the world's coral reefs | Theresa Fyffe 7) This is how nomadic farmers live | TED-Ed
1) The hidden cost of the green transition's mineral rush | Galina Angarova 2) The big idea funding forest conservation | Andika Putraditama 3) What is true confidence? A photographer and a brand builder answer | David Suh and Molly Graham
1) Solar energy is even cheaper than you think | Jenny Chase 2) The rise of China's homegrown brands — and why they matter | Roger Hu 3) Why joy and flexibility are good for business | Rosie Sargeant 4) How to handle grief at work and beyond | Meredith Wilson Parfet 5) How to finance the future of farming | Berry Marttin 6) How industrial fishing sinks communities | Lamin Jassey
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
1) I let algorithms randomize my life for two years | Max Hawkins 2) My journey mapping the uncharted world | Tawanda Kanhema 3) Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor 4) My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar 5) The African swamp protecting Earth's environment | Vera Songwe
1) Give yourself permission to be creative | Ethan Hawke 2) A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford 3) The left brain vs. right brain myth | Elizabeth Waters 4) When the world is burning, is art a waste of time? | R. Alan Brooks 5) How to build a fictional world | Kate Messner 6) The infinite alchemy of storytelling | Zahra Al-Mahdi
1) How to discover your authentic self -- at any age | Bevy Smith 2) The most notorious scientific feud in history | Lukas Rieppel 3) The case for a 4-day work week | Juliet Schor 4) What's the best country to live in? | TED-Ed 5) The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding | Dana Kanze
1) How to make applying for jobs less painful | Priyanka Jain 2) The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out | Reniqua Allen 3) The future of machines that move like animals | Robert Katzschmann 4) Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy | Carole Cadwalladr 5) How to govern AI — even if it's hard to predict | Helen Toner
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
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