🎥🍿 Why we laugh

👄 : English
🎭 : #Cognitive_Science, #Humor, #Neuroscience, #Science, #Psychology, #Sociology, #Brain, #Evolution, #Animals, #Human_Body, #Communication

💬 Did you know that you're 30 times more likely to laugh if you're with somebody else than if you're alone? Cognitive neuroscientist Sophie Scott shares this and other surprising facts about laughter in this fast-paced, action-packed and, yes, hilarious dash through the science of cracking up.

🎥🍿 Do schools kill creativity?

👄 : English
🎭 : #Creativity, #Culture, #Dance,, #Parenting, #Teaching, #Kids

💬 Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity.

🎥🍿 AI’s Single Point of Failure

👄 : English
🧑‍🏫 : Rob Toews
🎭 : #Science, #Technology, #AI

💬 "The world's most important advanced technology is nearly all produced in a single facility," says AI expert Rob Toews. He describes how one company in Taiwan, TSMC, manufactures nearly all the most advanced semiconductor chips — a crucial technology that powers everything from phones to electric vehicles to next-generation artificial intelligence — and breaks down how geopolitical tensions in the region could paralyze the global field of AI.

🎥🍿 Goats, blockchain and the future of money

👄 : English
🎭 : #Community, #Technology, #Farming, #Agriculture, #Money, #Blockchain, #TED_Fellows, #Finance

💬 What if smallholder farmers could use their produce and livestock to pay for goods and services? TED Fellow and alternative currency enthusiast Fariel Salahuddin is working to make this a reality in places including rural Pakistan, where basic necessities like water and electricity are often expensive or inaccessible. She explores how the way we exchange value has evolved over time -- from bartering to blockchain -- and shares a new perspective on currency that promotes self-reliance for farmers and creates a more inclusive economy.

🎥🍿 Elon Musk talks Twitter, Tesla and how his brain works

👄 : English
🧑‍🏫 : Elon Musk
🎭 : #Technology, #Business, #Computers

💬 In this live, unedited conversation, Elon Musk -- the head of Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company -- digs into the recent news around his bid to purchase Twitter and gets honest about the biggest regret of his career, how his brain works, the future he envisions for the world and a lot more. (This conversation with head of TED Chris Anderson was recorded live at TED2022 on April 14, 2022. If you want to hear even more, head over to "The TED Interview" podcast, where Musk and Anderson sat down at the new Tesla Gigafactory in Texas to discuss some of the radical innovations he's working on -- including Tesla's intelligent humanoid robot, SpaceX's Starship and Neuralink's brain-machine interfaces.)

🎥🍿 Redemption Stories

👄 : English
🧑‍🏫 : John Tarantino
🎭 : #Stories

💬 We all have redemption stories. Some of us have lived them. Others one day will. We can overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles, recenter our lives and give ourselves and our communities renewed hope. John has been recognized by Best Lawyers of America, Chambers USA, Benchmark and Lawdragon as one of the top attorneys in the country.

🎥🍿 Stanford University Commencement

👄 : English
🎭 : #Steve_Jobs

💬 At his Stanford University commencement speech, Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and Pixar, urges us to pursue our dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself.

🎥🍿 Brain magic

👄 : English
🎭 : #Brain, #Entertainment, #Illusion, #Magic

💬 First, Keith Barry shows us how our brains can fool our bodies -- in a trick that works via podcast too. Then he involves the audience in some jaw-dropping (and even a bit dangerous) feats of brain magic.

🎥🍿 The Secret to Mastering Life's Biggest Transitions

👄 : English
🎭 : #TEDTalks

💬 How do you navigate life's growing number of transitions with meaning, purpose and skill? Writer Bruce Feiler offers a powerful way to handle uncertain, painful and confusing times -- or "lifequakes", as he calls them. Learn how to equip yourself with the essential tools and mindset to ride out (and rewrite) the toughest chapters of your life story, and turn unease and upheaval into growth and renewal.

🎥🍿 The next global superpower isn't who you think👄 : English
🎭 : #Politics

💬 Who runs the world? Political scientist Ian Bremmer argues it's not as simple as it used to be. With some eye-opening questions about the nature of leadership, he asks us to consider the impact of the evolving global order and our choices as participants in the future of democracy.