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The top 10 most popular TED Talks of 2024 — and ideas for being a better you in 2025

The top 10 most popular TED Talks of 2024 — and ideas for being a better you in 2025

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As 2024 wraps up, join us in celebrating the most popular, mind-blowing and must-watch TED Talks published this year. From cutting-edge AI to climate breakthroughs and transformative insights on human potential, our curated end-of-year-lists capture a compelling panorama of ideas that challenge, inspire and reimagine our collective future. From AI and technological innovation to climate []

Inflection: The talks of TED Salon, presented in partnership with Novo Nordisk

Inflection: The talks of TED Salon, presented in partnership with Novo Nordisk

We’ve reached a pivot point in the global conversation about our bodies. In an evening of talks, four speakers delved into how science and innovation are reshaping our understanding of well-being, health and what’s possible as we age. The event: TED Salon: Inflection, curated and hosted by Sally Kohn, and presented in partnership with Novo []

Love: Notes from Session 4 of TEDNext 2024

Love: Notes from Session 4 of TEDNext 2024

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Session 4 of TEDNext 2024 explored the full spectrum of love, from romantic love and lost love to self-love and the love we feel for dogs. After all, isn’t this what life’s all about? The event: Talks from Session 4 of TEDNext 2024, hosted by TED’s Ikey Ajavon When and where: Wednesday, October 23, 2024, []

Work: Notes from Session 3 of TEDNext 2024

Work: Notes from Session 3 of TEDNext 2024

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Session 3 of TEDNext 2024 is all about work, featuring innovators who challenge us to think about work in new and compelling ways. They provide practical tools to navigate an ever-evolving career landscape as well as insights into avoiding burnout, working through crisis and re-evaluating the role that work plays in our lives. The event: []

Reveal: Notes from Session 2 of TEDNext 2024

Reveal: Notes from Session 2 of TEDNext 2024

Dedicated to unlocking the possibilities within everyday struggles, Session 2 of TEDNext 2024 covered everything from recycling glass bottles to battling perfectionism. Speakers presented in a format new to the TED stage, speaking for exactly five minutes with prepared slides auto-advancing behind them every 15 seconds. This format, developed and perfected by Ignite Talks over []

The Next Stage at TEDNext 2024 — in photos

The Next Stage at TEDNext 2024 — in photos

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TEDNext 2024 — the very first iteration of TED’s newest flagship event — features not one but two stages where attendees are immersed in new ideas and perspectives in a journey of discovery. The “Next Stage” breaks our traditional style of speakers on the red circle delivering their ideas to the audience in favor of []

Explore the 2024 TED Fellows Film Series

Explore the 2024 TED Fellows Film Series

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We’ve been cooking up something new that we’re thrilled to finally be able to share with you. The TED Fellows Film Series is a brand new kind of content from TED. These short films are a mix of TED Talks and short-form documentaries about TED Fellows. Who are these TED Fellows, you ask? TED Fellows []

The Audacious Project reveals its 2024 cohort

The Audacious Project reveals its 2024 cohort

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The Audacious Project supports big ideas to foster change around the world’s most urgent challenges. Today, this innovative funding initiative, housed at TED, is announcing its new cohort of projects for 2024, which are as bold as ever — from an idea to repurpose generic drugs en masse to reach the 300 million people globally []

TED-Ed Student Talks celebrates 10 years

TED-Ed Student Talks celebrates 10 years

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TED-Ed, TED’s education and youth initiative, is passionate about sharing diverse and meaningful student ideas with the world. Since 2014, thousands of educators across the globe have used our free TED-Ed Student Talks resources to support their students in identifying, developing and sharing their ideas with each other and across the globe. As the TED-Ed []

Accelerating solutions to the climate crisis: The talks of TEDCountdown @BloombergGreenFestival

Accelerating solutions to the climate crisis: The talks of TEDCountdown @BloombergGreenFestival

We’re midway into the decisive decade for climate change — the decisions and actions taken today will determine the way we live tomorrow. In a special evening of TED Talks, performances and conversations, TED’s global climate initiative, TED Countdown, partnered with Bloomberg Green at the Bloomberg Green Festival in Seattle to dive into the current []