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TED Talks Daily

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Why Big Tech is incompatible with democracy | Bruno Giussani

21.07.2026 • 00:22:11

Most of the technology powering life in Europe today — chatbots, the cloud, digital infrastructure — is owned by companies in the United States. Write...

Why AI is an even bigger deal than you think | Reed Hastings

20.07.2026 • 00:19:08

Netflix cofounder and Anthropic board member Reed Hastings joins TED's Sal Khan to give a look inside the race to build AI. Hear his take on how the t...

Sunday Pick: Why you should try improv comedy (w/ Rick Andrews) | How to Be a Better Human

19.07.2026 • 00:41:01

What do radio personality Ira Glass, New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, and your host Chris Duffy have in common? They all have practiced an unexpect...

The Mystery of Sea Creatures (1/5): A coral reef love story | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

18.07.2026 • 00:08:53

Over the course of hundreds of scuba dives, marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson fell in love -- with a fish. In this ode to parrotfish, she share...

The Mystery of Sea Creatures (2/5): A giant Jurassic sea dragon, unearthed | Dean R. Lomax

18.07.2026 • 00:15:33

Among the dinosaurs, giant sea dragons roamed the ancient ocean. Millions of years later, paleontologist Dean R. Lomax and his team freed the remains ...

The Mystery of Sea Creatures (3/5): Could an orca give a TED Talk? | Karen Bakker

18.07.2026 • 00:15:27

What if we could hear nature's ultrasonic communication -- and talk back? From a bat's shrill speech to a peacock's infrasound mating call, conservati...

The Mystery of Sea Creatures (4/5): Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish? | Marah J. Hardt

18.07.2026 • 00:14:34

The ocean plays host to a peculiar party of wild, marine sex life that's perhaps quirkier (and kinkier) than you can fathom. But is human behavior int...

The Mystery of Sea Creatures (5/5): The fantastically weird world of photosynthetic sea slugs | Michael Middlebrooks

18.07.2026 • 00:12:18

Meet the fantastically colorful and astonishingly adaptable sea slugs that found a way to photosynthesize (or create energy from sunlight) like plants...

The power of imagination — onstage and off | Suki Hillier

17.07.2026 • 00:12:28

When professional child actor Suki Hillier landed the title role in "Matilda The Musical," she thought she would have to learn how to become someone e...

Can a camera on every corner make us safer? | Garrett Langley

16.07.2026 • 00:18:12

Garrett Langley founded Flock because he believed it was too easy to get away with crime in the US. His solution? A network of license plate readers, ...