Add to EJ Playlist  In her quest to become a world-famous violinist, Ji-Hae Park fell into a severe depression. Only music was able to lift her out again -- showing her that her goal needn't be to play lofty concert halls, but instead to bring the wonder of the instrument to as many people as possible. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  Architect Alastair Parvin presents a simple but provocative idea: what if, instead of architects creating buildings for those who can afford to commission them, regular citizens could design and build their own houses? The concept is at the heart of Wikihouse, an open source construction kit that means just about anyone can build a house, anywhere. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  Thinking about death is frightening, but planning ahead is practical and leaves more room for peace of mind in our final days. In a solemn, thoughtful talk, Judy MacDonald Johnston shares 5 practices for planning for a good end of life. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  In art school, Phil Hansen developed an unruly tremor in his hand that kept him from creating the pointillist drawings he loved. Hansen was devastated, floating without a sense of purpose. Until a neurologist made a simple suggestion: embrace this limitation ... and transcend it. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  If you're lucky enough to live without want, it's a natural impulse to help others in need. But, asks philosopher Peter Singer, what's the most effective way to give charitably? He talks through some surprising thought experiments to help you balance emotion and practicality -- and make the biggest impact with whatever you can share. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  It's not a demo, more of a philosophical argument: Why did Sergey Brin and his team at Google want to build an eye-mounted camera/computer , codenamed Glass? Onstage at TED2013, Brin calls for a new way of seeing our relationship with our mobile computers -- not hunched over a screen but meeting the world heads-up. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we're barricading ourselves against strangeness -- people and ideas that don't fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already like and where we've already been. A call for technology to deliver us to what and who we need, even if it's unfamiliar. (Filmed at TED@Intel.) TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  Can a person disappear in plain sight? That's the question Liu Bolin's remarkable work seems to ask. The Beijing-based artist is sometimes called "The Invisible Man" because in nearly all his art, Bolin is front and center — and completely unseen. He aims to draw attention to social and political issues by dissolving into the background. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomething s: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade. In this provocative talk, Jay says that just because marriage, work and kids are happening later in life, doesn't mean you can't start planning now. She gives 3 pieces of advice for how twentysomething s can re-claim adulthood in the defining decade of their lives. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish -- and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk he tells us how to get out of the educational "death valley" we now face, and how to nurture our youngest generations with a climate of possibility. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design -- plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more. Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at http://www.ted. com/translate Follow TED news on Twitter: http://www.twit ter.com/tednews Like TED on Facebook: https://www.fac ebook.com/TED Subscribe to our channel: http://www.yout ube.com/user/TE DtalksDirector

Add to EJ Playlist  Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized t...

Add to EJ Playlist  In a heart-melting moment, TED Talks Education host John Legend sits at the piano to sing "True Colors," giving the lyrics a special meaning for kids and tea...

Add to EJ Playlist  Why, why, why does our education system look so similar to the way it did 50 years ago? Millions of students were failing then, as they are now -- and it's b...

Add to EJ Playlist  Pearl Arredondo grew up in East Los Angeles, the daughter of a high-ranking gang member who was in-and-out of jail. Many teachers wrote her off as having a p...

Add to EJ Playlist  Young poet, educator and activist Malcom London performs his stirring poem about life on the front lines of high school. He tells of the "oceans of adolescen...

Add to EJ Playlist  It took a life-threatenin g condition to jolt chemistry teacher Ramsey Musallam out of ten years of "pseudo-teachin g" to understand the true role of the educa...

Add to EJ Playlist  Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: "satisfactory." And with no feedback, no coaching, there's just no way to improve. Bill G...

Add to EJ Playlist  For foreigners, learning to speak Chinese is a hard task. But learning to read the beautiful, often complex characters of the Chinese written language may be...

Add to EJ Playlist  In this well-argued talk, Timothy Bartik makes the macro-economic case for preschool education -- and explains why you should be happy to invest in it, even ...

Add to EJ Playlist  Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don'...

Add to EJ Playlist  What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we're only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at ...

Add to EJ Playlist  Economics PhD Sebastião Salgado only took up photography in his 30s, but the discipline became an obsession. His years-long projects beautifully capture the ...

Add to EJ Playlist  Taylor Wilson was 14 when he built a nuclear fusion reactor in his parents' garage. Now 19, he returns to the TED stage to present a new take on an old topic...

Add to EJ Playlist  Nilofer Merchant suggests a small idea that just might have a big impact on your life and health: Next time you have a one-on-one meeting, make it into a "wa...

Add to EJ Playlist  Tech columnist David Pogue shares 10 simple, clever tips for computer, web, smartphone and camera users. And yes, you may know a few of these already -- but ...

Add to EJ Playlist  When we drive, we get into a glass bubble, lock the doors and press the accelerator, relying on our eyes to guide us -- even though we can only see the few c...

Add to EJ Playlist  As machines take on more jobs, many find themselves out of work or with raises indefinitely postponed. Is this the end of growth? No, says Erik Brynjolfsson ...

Add to EJ Playlist  The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be ...

Add to EJ Playlist  Does texting mean the death of good writing skills? John McWhorter posits that there's much more to texting -- linguistically, culturally -- than it seems, a...