How craving attention makes you less creative | Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has gotten more than his fair share of attention from his acting career. But as social media exploded over the past decade, he got addicted like the rest of us -- trying to gain f...
20 Aug 201913min
The architectural wonder of impermanent cities | Rahul Mehrotra
Every 12 years, a megacity springs up in India for the Kumbh Mela religious festival -- what's built in ten weeks is completely disassembled in one. What can we learn from this fully functioning, temp...
22 Jul 201913min
How a typeface helped launch Apollo | Douglas Thomas
When humanity first landed on the moon in 1969, the typeface Futura was right there with them. In this fascinating history of typography, designer Douglas Thomas shares Futura's role in launching the ...
19 Jul 201914min
Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head | Derren Brown
"Magic is a great analogy for how we edit reality and form a story -- and then mistake that story for the truth," says psychological illusionist Derren Brown. In a clever talk wrapped around a dazzlin...
16 Jul 201914min
How film transforms the way we see the world | Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
Film has the power to change the way we think about ourselves and our culture. Documentarian and TED Fellow Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy uses it to fight violence against women, turning her camera on the tra...
12 Jul 201912min
Architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders | Brandon Clifford
How did ancient civilizations move massive stones to build Stonehenge, the Pyramids and the Easter Island statues? In this quick, delightful talk, TED Fellow Brandon Clifford reveals some architectura...
21 Jun 20194min
"A Bird Made of Birds" | Sarah Kay
"The universe has already written the poem you were planning on writing," says Sarah Kay, quoting her friend, poet Kaveh Akbar. Performing "A Bird Made of Birds," she shares how and where she finds po...
21 Jun 20194min
Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future | Bjarke Ingels
Design gives form to the future, says architect Bjarke Ingels. In this worldwide tour of his team's projects, journey to a waste-to-energy power plant (that doubles as an alpine ski slope) and the LEG...
3 Jun 201915min
