1. Campaigns Spend Millions to Influence Voters. This Works Better | Katie Paris | TED Katie Paris quit her career in Washington, DC, to figure out how to make politics feel less like strangers shouting at each other and more like friends looking out for each other. 10/17 23:00 ♡
2. AI and the End of Loneliness | Paul Bloom | TED AI companions may soon cure loneliness, says psychologist Paul Bloom: a gift for the isolated and the elderly, but a danger for the young, who need to experience the hard work of r 10/16 23:00 ♡
3. Why I’m Building Libraries Inside Prisons | Reginald Dwayne Betts | TED At age 16, Reginald Dwayne Betts was sentenced to nine years in prison. He turned to books to help hold onto his sanity — and developed a belief that we find what we look for, even 10/15 23:00 ♡
4. How the Wealth Gap Is Reshaping Politics | Xochitl Gonzalez | TED Wealth inequality gets talked about as an economic problem. Writer Xochitl Gonzalez makes the case that it's a civic one, too — a slow, quiet threat to democracy. Drawing on her re 10/13 23:00 ♡
5. The original cosmic hit #TEDTalks What sound came after the Big Bang? Astronomer Mark Whittle takes us back to the infant cosmos, where massive sound waves pulsed through primordial gas in a pattern that's still tr 10/13 01:00 ♡
6. Why We Blew Up Four Dams — and Saved a River | Amy Bowers Cordalis | TED For thousands of years, the Klamath River in Northern California was home to one of the continent’s great salmon runs, creating abundance for the native Yurok Tribe … until a serie 10/12 23:00 ♡
7. How to Start Any Conversation the Right Way | Chris Fenning | TED What's your point? Communication expert Chris Fenning reveals how the first 60 seconds can make or break a workplace conversation — and shares a three-step framework to help you ge 10/12 02:00 ♡
8. Here’s your reminder that you are enough — and you always will be #WorldMentalHealthDay On paper, Blake Mycoskie is a glowing success story: he founded TOMS Shoes, building a global brand that has given away more than 100 million pairs of shoes to children in need. Ye 10/10 23:00 ♡
9. The Three Words That Saved My Life | Blake Mycoskie | TED On paper, Blake Mycoskie is a glowing success story: he founded TOMS Shoes, building a global brand that has given away more than 100 million pairs of shoes to children in need. Ye 10/10 20:00 ♡
10. These are the inherent human skills that machines can’t replace #TEDTalks As AI reshapes work, school and love, what part of being human can't a machine take over? In a wide-ranging conversation, psychotherapist Esther Perel and TED's vision steward Sal 10/10 03:00 ♡