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Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee Taylor 18 min
Let’s Replace Cancel Culture with Accountability | Sonya Renee Taylor
18 min · Sonya explores the impact of calling out and calling in people who have caused harm. She offers us a third alternative - “calling on”. We often think that discerning someone’s intent is...
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards 12 min
Raising Free People | Akilah Richards
12 min · We can’t keep using tools of oppression and expect to raise free people - we must examine privilege and power in our relationships with our children, the world’s most vulnerable citizens...
Marriage 2.0 -- a system update for lifelong relationships | Liza Shaw | TEDxHickory 19 min
Marriage 2.0 -- a system update for lifelong relationships | Liza Shaw | TEDxHickory
19 min · Liza is the Director of Marriage and Family Therapy Services in Hickory, NC and a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). She received her...
Polyamory | Leon Feingold | TEDxBushwick 20 min
Polyamory | Leon Feingold | TEDxBushwick
20 min · Polyamorous relationships consist of individuals of multi-partner relationships and families. Leon offers an insight through his journey in finding polyamory as the means to creating...
How to Stop Poverty: Start a Worker-Owned Cooperative | Jim Brown 18 min
How to Stop Poverty: Start a Worker-Owned Cooperative | Jim Brown
18 min · Why is chronic poverty tolerated in America? Is our economic system flawed? Through personal stories and insights, University of Alabama professor J. Palmer (Jim) Brown explores the...
Why the Future Economy has to be a Wellbeing Economy | Katherine Trebeck 16 min
Why the Future Economy has to be a Wellbeing Economy | Katherine Trebeck
16 min · Katherine is the Policy and Knowledge Lead for the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. She has over eight years’ experience in various roles with Oxfam GB - as a Senior Researcher for the Global...
My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi movement & How I Got Out | Christian Picciolini 21 min
My Descent Into America's Neo-Nazi movement & How I Got Out | Christian Picciolini
21 min · At 14-years-old, Christian Picciolini went from naive teenager to white supremacist, and soon, the leader of America’s first neo-Nazi skinhead gang. How was he radicalized, and how did...
You Are Not Your Body | Janine Shepherd 20 min
You Are Not Your Body | Janine Shepherd
20 min · We often define ourselves by things that are "outside" us: relationships, work, family — even our own bodies. But what would it mean to have your life dramatically altered and your body...
An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins 19 min
An Economic Hit Man Confesses and Calls to Action | John Perkins
19 min · John Perkins describes the methods he used to bribe and threaten the heads of state of countries on four continents in order to create a global empire and he reveals how the leaders who...
We’re Doing Dying All Wrong | Ken Hillman 15 min
We’re Doing Dying All Wrong | Ken Hillman
15 min · As a world leader in managing the care of very sick people, Ken Hillman’s breakthrough methods of treating critically ill patients have become the gold standard in Australia, the U.S...
How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee 13 min
How to Have a Good Conversation | Celeste Headlee
13 min · When your job hinges on how well you talk to people, you learn a lot about how to have great conversations – and most of us don’t converse very well.
Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan 16 min
Can Beauty Save Our Planet? | Chris Jordan
16 min · Chris Jordan is all in on beauty. After photographing sea birds dying by the dozens from consuming bits of plastic, Chris had a revelation: It was time to refocus in his lens on the...
What would happen if everything was free? | Colin R. Turner | TEDxGalway 19 min
What would happen if everything was free? | Colin R. Turner | TEDxGalway
19 min · Challenging social norms is never easy, but, Colin argues, our social norms have created a crisis - and challenge them we must if we are to move to the next phase of our continuing...
How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey 16 min
How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey
16 min · The 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...
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley 18 min
Copyright is Brain Damage | Nina Paley
18 min · Ideas aren't good or bad because of what licenses people slap on them. Just relate to the ideas themselves.
Creating Freedom: Raoul Martinez at TEDxWhitechapel 18 min
Creating Freedom: Raoul Martinez at TEDxWhitechapel
18 min · Much about who we are is determined by the lottery of our birth. We inherit genes we didn't ask for, and are faced with a world we played no part in creating. In short, we are shaped by...
What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis 17 min
What Do You Do When Someone Just Doesn't Like You? | Daryl Davis
17 min · What do you do when someone just doesn't like you? I mean really, really doesn't like you. And you know it. And what if that person, or those people, have made an open show of that...
Supporting Education Through Community Engagement (TEDx Talk 2013) 12 min
Supporting Education Through Community Engagement (TEDx Talk 2013)
12 min · "How can we best utilize our communities to support the education of our children while also encouraging community participation?"
Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory 23 min
Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory
23 min · Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.
The Failure Of Success 13 min
The Failure Of Success
13 min · In his talk "The Failure Of Success", Dr. George Land gives us a brief history of human innovation and talks about the importance of creativity.
How to Grow Happiness in the Brain 17 min
How to Grow Happiness in the Brain
17 min · Mithu Storoni is an author, a University of Cambridge-trained medical doctor (MD), certified in Ophthalmology, and also holds a PhD in Neuro-ophthalmology. Her book, 'Stress-Proof'...
Everyone Is a Story | Nora Jaccaud 12 min
Everyone Is a Story | Nora Jaccaud
12 min · Nora Jaccaud is the co-creator of Human Postcards, an ongoing web series of 60-second video portraits capturing the powerful messages of everyday people from around the world. In this...
Beyond the Culture of Contest 18 min
Beyond the Culture of Contest
18 min · Michael Karlberg is a professor in the Department of Communication at Western Washington University. He completed his Ph.D. in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in...
The Future of Race in America: Michelle Alexander at Tedx 24 min
The Future of Race in America: Michelle Alexander at Tedx
24 min · Michelle Alexander posits that mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system in the United States. After the Civil Rights Movement, a “wave of punitive” legislation swept across...
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do 6 min
5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do
6 min · In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected?...
Brown, Trans, Queer, Muslim and Proud 15 min
Brown, Trans, Queer, Muslim and Proud
15 min · In this moving and powerful talk, Sabah Choudrey talks about his life as a transgender Muslim and how his different identities collide.  Sabah is a UK-based Pakistani trans activist...
Be Kinder: Jennifer Wood at Tedxhamburg 18 min
Be Kinder: Jennifer Wood at Tedxhamburg
18 min · It should never happen again, but it does. Genocide after the Holocaust continues to happen. What can we do? This talk explores how kindness and empathy can be cultivated, and how we can...
Food Security by Nammalvar at Tedx Trichy 22 min
Food Security by Nammalvar at Tedx Trichy
22 min · Nammalvar, an agriculturist from India explain food security and the need for organic farming in our developing world.
Basic Income and Other Ways to Fix Capitalism | Federico Pistono | Tedxhaarlem 20 min
Basic Income and Other Ways to Fix Capitalism | Federico Pistono | Tedxhaarlem
20 min · A few years ago, those who warned us about the risks of technological unemployment were labelled as luddites, crazy, or techno-pessimists. Now some of the greatest economists agree that...
A BIG Idea, a Bot Idea -- How Smart Policy Will Advance Tech | Albert Wenger | Tedxnewyork 18 min
A BIG Idea, a Bot Idea -- How Smart Policy Will Advance Tech | Albert Wenger | Tedxnewyork
18 min · This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Many of our current economic policies originated during times of scarcity. But now, says...
Where Were You When You Fell In Love With Nature? 12 min
Where Were You When You Fell In Love With Nature?
12 min · Marine scientist and ocean advocate Wallace "J." Nichols explores the neuroscience of our brains on nature, and posits that our love of the natural world holds the key to preserving it.
It's Time for Porn to Change | Erika Lust | Tedxvienna 12 min
It's Time for Porn to Change | Erika Lust | Tedxvienna
12 min · This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. It's time for porn to change #changeporn Erika Lust is an independent erotic filmmaker and...
The Surprising Truth about Rejection | Cam Adair | TEDxFargo 15 min
The Surprising Truth about Rejection | Cam Adair | TEDxFargo
15 min · This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Cam Adair tells a story of our society's collective nightmare: rejection. It's a story we've all...
How to Start an Empathy Revolution 17 min
How to Start an Empathy Revolution
17 min · Empathy can be a force for radical social change, but only if we understand how to unleash it.
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx 13 min
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx
13 min · Over the centuries, our culture has been slowly but gradually extending its circle of compassion. Our capacity to have compassion for those 'not like us' (whether the difference be...
Jackson Katz: A Paradigm-Shifting Perspective On The Violence That Harms Both Women and Men 19 min
Jackson Katz: A Paradigm-Shifting Perspective On The Violence That Harms Both Women and Men
19 min · This should really get your brain thinking in entirely new ways.
How to Inspire Grassroots Change in Your City 11 min
How to Inspire Grassroots Change in Your City
11 min · Kristin Stith and Paul Klein are MBA students and full time professionals in Reno, Nevada. In this video they describe how you can start a grassroots movement of change in your city...
TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless 11 min
TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless
11 min · With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.
How To Occupy The Noosphere: Ian MacKenzie @ TEDxVictoria 2013 13 min
How To Occupy The Noosphere: Ian MacKenzie @ TEDxVictoria 2013
13 min · Ian MacKenzie An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. MacKenzie's most recent film, Occupy Love...
Wonderful World of Worms: Cathy Nesbitt at TEDx The Annex Women 9 min
Wonderful World of Worms: Cathy Nesbitt at TEDx The Annex Women
9 min · Cathy Nesbitt discusses "The Wonderful World of Worms: The Unsung Heroes". Imagine worm composting in every home, every business, every school ... In the spirit of ideas worth spreading...
LILAC: A Model for Truly Affordable Green Cohousing 16 min
LILAC: A Model for Truly Affordable Green Cohousing
16 min · The triple bottom line for business is people, planet, profit. What is it for housing? A group of people in Leeds, England have built a cohousing project that sets a triple-benefit bar...
The World Becomes What You Teach 17 min
The World Becomes What You Teach
17 min · This video is a popular TEDx talk by Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (www.HumaneEducation.org). She is a pioneer in the comprehensive humane...
TEDxOjai - Peter Joseph: The Big Question 10 min
TEDxOjai - Peter Joseph: The Big Question
10 min · Peter Joseph is a director, writer, producer, editor, composer and creator of the Zeitgeist movies series. He is an independent filmmaker who has written, directed, narrated, scored and...
Turning the Farm Bill into the Food Bill - TEDxManhattan - Ken Cook 14 min
Turning the Farm Bill into the Food Bill - TEDxManhattan - Ken Cook
14 min · By tradition, it’s called “the farm bill.” To EWG it ought to be the “food bill.” And instead of spending billions of your dollars in ways that harm water quality and wildlife, it should...
Dave Meslin: Redefining Apathy 7 min
Dave Meslin: Redefining Apathy
7 min · In this Tedx talk, Dave Meslin argues that it isn't apathy that keeps people from engaging in politics. People do care, he argues, but the barriers to participation make it prohibitively...
It's Not All Hopeless! Here Are Seven Ways We Can Win the Sustainability Endgame 15 min
It's Not All Hopeless! Here Are Seven Ways We Can Win the Sustainability Endgame
15 min · Think it's all hopeless? Think there are too many problems and our children's future is doomed? In 16 minutes, renowned and inspiring speaker Guy Dauncey explains why pessimism is the...
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