Food Security: Everybody's business Sophie is a seventeen year old school girl from Cork in Ireland who already has an impressive international track record ...

The world is changing and for the most part it’s a good thing. Equality is ripping through our planet at a tremendous rate. Not so long ago a person was cons...

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this talk, Doug shares the evolution, role, and power television...

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experienc...

Learning Disability in Higher Education and the Professor Student Relationship The professor-student relationship in higher education may be one of mentorshi...

Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United ...

Pete Masters, MSF, presents on the Missing Maps project and how engaging humanitarian and tech volunteer communities in the project can provide NGOs with much needed mapping data; for epidemiology, disaster risk preparedness and intelligent resource allocation and decision making. Remote volunteers trace satellite images onto OpenStreetMap, local community volunteers add details (street names, medical centres,

Why does everybody wants to reach the top? Jeroen van Baar explains in a very open and engaging way about the problem of our generation. He argues that we sh...

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TED...