Today, on the fifth birthday of TEDTalks video, we’re releasing a new list of the 20 most-watched TEDTalks over the past five years — as watched on all the platforms we track: TED.com, YouTube, iTunes, embed and download, Hulu and more …
What a great, mixed-up group this is! Talks about education and creativity, sex and fish, whizzy tech demos and big questions about the universe … it’s a cool snapshot of what we find interesting.
Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (2006): 8,660,010 views
Jill Bolte Taylor‘s stroke of insight (2008): 8,087,935
Pranav Mistry on the thrilling potential of SixthSense (2009): 6,747,410
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense (2009): 6,731,153
David Gallo‘s underwater astonishments (2007): 6,411,705
Tony Robbins asks Why we do what we do (2006): 4,909,505
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen (2006): 3,954,776
Arthur Benjamin does mathemagic (2005): 3,664,705
Jeff Han demos his breakthrough multi-touchscreen (2006): 3,592,795
Johnny Lee shows Wii Remote hacks for educators (2008): 3,225,864
Blaise Aguera y Arcas runs through the Photosynth demo (2007): 3,007,440
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing your genius (2009): 2,978,288
Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy? (2004): 2,903,993
Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe (2008): 2,629,230
Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation (2009): 2,616,363
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice (2005): 2,263,065
Richard St. John shares 8 secrets of success (2005): 2,252,911
Mary Roach 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm (2009): 2,223,822
Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action (2010): 2,187,868
Chimamanda Adichie shares the danger of a single story (2009): 2,143,763
Comments (132)
Pingback: MAGIC VIDEO HUB | My City: Gabriella Gomez-Mont on life in “that beast of a city,” Mexico City
Pingback: Adam Davidson on the government shutdown, and why it’s economic “suicide” | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: Remembering Ross Langdon: TEDx speaker and humanitarian architect killed in Nairobi attack | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: How to trust intelligently | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: Want to know more about the unreliable nature of memory? Read this | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: The why and how of effective altruism: Peter Singer’s talk visualized | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: Tech Task #4 | Teacher Talk
Pingback: TEDxers remix the TEDCity2.0 poster from a kit of parts | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: What is it about bees? Three experts discuss why they’re fascinating, why they’re dying and what can save them | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: TED Fellow Negin Farsad opens film “The Muslims Are Coming!” | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: Studying human nature by picking pockets: A Q&A with Apollo Robbins | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: TED Talks with novel ways of thinking about epidemics | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: 11 moving images from 9/11 submitted by people around the world | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions
Pingback: The top 20 TED talks of the year |
Pingback: Sixth Sense Technology by Pranav Mistry | upwardandforward
Pingback: Encouraging and Motivating Websites/Blogs | Back to School with PIDP
Pingback: ¿Acaso las escuelas matan la creatividad? | Innovaccion |
Pingback: Apprendre l'anglais et se cultiver avec les conférences TED Talks