Step into artist Cornelia Geppert's visually stunning video game "Sea of Solitude," whoch explores how battling the "monsters" of loneliness and self-doubt can help us better grapple with the complexity and struggles of mental health. This talk was presented at a TED...

At age 81, actor and activist Jane Fonda is putting herself on the line for the planet -- literally. In a video interview with TEDWomen curator Pat Mitchell, Fonda speaks about getting arrested multiple times during Fire Drill Fridays, the weekly climate...

Konstantin Ernst är chef för  Channel One, en rysk, statlig tv-kanal. Det är den tv-kanal som når längst och som ses av flest ryssar. Amerikanska The New Yorker har tecknat ett porträtt av Putins inofficiella propaganda-chef. In the final days of 1999, Konstantin...

You've heard about slow food. Now here's slow ... TV? In this very funny talk, Norwegian television producer Thomas Hellum shares how he and his team began to broadcast long, boring events, often live -- and found a rapt audience. Shows include a 7-hour train journey,...

How can we stop the spread of misleading, sometimes dangerous content while maintaining an internet with freedom of expression at its core? Misinformation expert Claire Wardle explores the new challenges of our polluted online environment and maps out a plan to...

Du har kunnat prata arbete med din gode vän i fler år. Ni har pratat arbete, vad ni gör, bygger och utvecklar. Sedan börjar din goda vän att jobba på Apple och gardinen går ned. Nu blir det tyst, om jobbet. Din goda vän delar inte med sig, berättar inte - inte ens om...

How do you pick up a malicious online virus, the kind of malware that snoops on your data and taps your bank account? Often, it's through simple things you do each day without thinking twice. James Lyne reminds us that it's not only the NSA that's watching us, but...

Apes, dolphins and elephants are animals with remarkable communication skills. Could the internet be expanded to include sentient species like them? A new and developing idea from a panel of four great thinkers -- dolphin researcher Diana Reiss, musician Peter...

For the first two decades of the commercial Internet, we celebrated the Internet as one of society's greatest inventions. After all, the Internet has led to truly remarkable outcomes: it has helped overthrow repressive political regimes, made economic markets more...

Can we fight terror without destroying democracy? Internet freedom activist Rebecca MacKinnon thinks that we'll lose the battle against extremism and demagoguery if we censor the internet and press. In this critical talk, she calls for a doubling-down on strong...

Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them nearly a day and a half to read the terms of all the apps on an average phone. In a talk about the...

Ever wondered how your smartphone works? Take a journey down to the atomic level with scientist Cathy Mulzer, who reveals how almost every component of our high-powered devices exists thanks to chemists -- and not the Silicon Valley entrepreneurs that come to most...