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TEDx SHORTS: short, eye-opening ideas from some of the world’s greatest TEDx speakers

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End the media coverage mass shooters want
5:34
How to cope with meeting madness
6:17
The cost of menstrual shame
9:39
Let the worms eat your organic waste
8:21
An honest look at the personal finance crisis
9:28
How to discover a planet from your sofa
9:38
Dogs for conservation
6:47
Why do some people fear vaccines?
7:31
Misogyny in hip hop
8:48
What homo naledi teaches us about being human
9:56
Are your expectations making you unhappy?
7:47
Life after dark in the ancient world
9:17
Black trans lives matter
10:06
Why Dungeons and Dragons is good for you
11:18
How justice and climate change are inseparable
7:27
How doctors can help low-income patients
10:54
The emotional cost of euthanasia
10:39
Lessons from the world avoided
8:33
I am not your Asian stereotype
8:11
How literature can help us develop empathy
7:55
How to improve your brain's executive function
7:38
I care about disappearing glaciers and you should too
8:48
Diversity isn’t enough to integrate schools
7:55
When doctors don't know what's wrong
8:25
What does GDP really measure?
8:27
Why I’m a conservationist — and a zookeeper
6:50
How I advocate for missing and murdered Indigenous women
10:05
Who gets to belong?
7:59
Navigating the multigenerational workplace
9:31
What COVID can teach us about societal disparities
7:53
The power of a panda
8:05
Is music politicized?
8:06
How we can store digital data in DNA
8:46
Why most parenting advice is wrong
6:29
How to build your climate fitness
7:38
The inner work of racial justice
8:20
Honeybees from Cape Cod to Mars
9:11
The mathematics of love
6:53
Fight for your right to party
6:33
Can a conversation reduce prejudice?
11:31
The history of blackface and why it's still so harmful
7:29
Find the courage to come out of your closet
7:37
The virginity fraud
9:56
Why medieval politics was nothing like Game of Thrones
8:30
Race is a fiction, racism is not
9:17
How to navigate dual careers in a marriage
8:13
Is pop music stuck on repeat?
7:16
Does Jim Crow still exist in America?
7:56
How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancer
7:18
To find success, embrace what makes you different
8:48
A gendered world makes a gendered brain
11:16
Why do we believe things that aren't true?
8:07
Let's protect the oceans like national parks
8:20
First impressions aren't what they used to be
8:09
Why designing for sustainability is harder than you'd think
9:38
To detect diseases earlier let's speak bacteria's secret language
7:37
Increase your self-awareness with one simple fix
6:46
How to tame your "advice monster"
6:45
The science behind Moderna’s vaccine development
6:12
The dangers of short-termism
8:19
Why do we sabotage love?
7:50
Why I teach world religions
6:30
3 reasons you’re not doing what you say you’ll do
9:47
Love motels for insects
7:34
Why we must confront the painful parts of US history
12:21
Men, ask your therapists to take you outside
5:48
Boys will be what we teach them to be
6:47
What does a star sound like?
10:29
Immigration prison isn't the answer -- here's why
8:54
The surprising consequences of a fast-paced world
9:09
Can we choose to fall out of love?
10:43
Making the death penalty obsolete
9:07
Choosing 'radical hospitality'
7:17
Reclaiming your self-worth
7:43
Why I became a climate activist -- and you should, too
10:06
Women's sexuality isn't 'complicated'
11:00
Are you "underbanked"?
8:17
A crash course in reporting on Native America
7:47
How revenge porn turns lives upside down
7:51
What an 'escape room' can teach us about cancer
7:59
3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser
9:06
My philosophy for a happy life
8:50
Hacking our approach to cancer
9:43
The secret to scientific discoveries
8:34
A glance at HIV in 21st century America
8:37
What is the future of work?
5:59
Demystifying Tourette's Syndrome
8:24
How singing inspired revolutions
5:41
Violence against women is a men’s issue
10:01
Why we get mad--and why it’s healthy
10:21
Indigenous in plain sight
8:25
How sexism shapes human knowledge
10:26
How women are the key to economic well-being
8:11
How trust creates diversity in institutions
8:42
3 ways women can win in the marketplace
10:10
We should all be feminists
10:36
3 ways to avoid divorce
9:17
Five alarm American democracy
8:38
The toxic footprint of our hospitals
8:41
The bacterial solution to plastic pollution
8:43