tedtalksdirector's Playlists

Talks that will encourage you to talk to strangers

Talks for inspiring transformed curriculums

Education ideas from unlikely places

Ken Robinson: 10 talks on education - Education legend Sir Ken Robinson picked the talks he loves — all full of insight, bright ideas and, of course, creativity.

Teenage thinkers with big ideas for energy

Words, words, words - As Wittgenstein famously wrote, "The limits of my language means the limits of my world." Watch talks by linguists, data analysts and word nerds who explore the all-encompassing power of language.

GROSS! - Poop, dead duck sex, sanitary napkins, eating bugs, and much, much more conversation not meant for the dinner table.

Great talks about cars

Look for the helpers - In the days since the Boston Marathon was interrupted by two bomb blasts -- which killed three and injured 100 -- a meme has emerged online: "Look for the helpers." The quote comes from Fred Rogers, who shared in his tome The Mister Rogers Parenting Book, "When I was a boy and I would see scary...

Listen up - Talks on the importance of listening, and how to do it much better.

Great talks about talking - TED Talks cover an incredible breadth of topics -- from mathematical origami to self-repairing architecture to personalized medicine. Some talks explore what lies at the very essence of TED — the act of talking. The 9 talks below explore the various dynamics of speech — from phonology to...

Everything you thought...was wrong - Talks with counterintuitive solutions to flip your thinking, on everything from shoes to aid organizations to the universe.

Powerful talks about the quest for equality in the U.S.

Design of useful things - Quirky, fascinating talks about the design of practical things we all need, whether we know it or not.

Maestros, if you please...! - These extraordinary maestros bring you into the world of writing and conducting music.

Spoken-word fireworks - Brave and beautiful expressions from some of the world's most talented spoken-word performers, who weave stories in words and gestures.

That's absurd! - These quirky talks remind us that life is funny, weird, sweet, absurd.

Learning from failure

Growing your own food

The future of cars, planes and rockets

Unlikely collaborations - TED Talks that reach across fields

Unexpected lion stories

Creatures from the deep

What does the future look like? - Visions of the future, on everything from cars to the Internet to the human species.

Continent by continent, TEDGlobal talks - TEDGlobal has been held in Oxford, England; Arusha, Tanzania; Mysore, India; and Edinburgh, Scotland — with speakers from a wide range of other countries. In other words, it's a global affair. As we prepare for TEDGlobal 2013: "Think Again," kicking off on June 10, we thought we'd take a closer...