When stress got to be too much for TED Fellow Sangu Delle, he had to confront his own deep prejudice: that men shouldn't take care of their mental health. In a personal talk, Delle shares how he learned to handle anxiety in a society...

You need social skills to have a conversation in real life -- but they're quite different from the skills you need to write good dialogue. Educator Nadia Kalman suggests a few "anti-social skills," like eavesdropping and muttering to...

English is fast becoming the world's universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits...

If you see something wrong in the workplace, what should you do? Business leader Angélique Parisot-Potter says you should speak up, even when it's scary. Sharing her personal experience of voicing concerns at work, she offers three...

While we might consider elections to be the cornerstone of democracy, the Athenians who coined the term actually employed a lottery system to choose most of their politicians. Melissa Schwartzberg describes the ins and outs of the...

Our functional map of the brain has changed. Here's why.



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What is culture? How do we define it and how does it change? We’ll explore different categories of culture, like low culture, high culture, and sub-cultures. We'll also revisit our founding theories to consider both a structural...

The prisoner strapped under a descending pendulum blade. A raven who refuses to leave the narrator's chamber. A beating heart buried under the floorboards. Poe's macabre and innovative stories of gothic horror have left a timeless mark...

Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kamiti Prison in Kenya, sometimes locked up in a cell with 13 other grown men for 23 and a half hours a day. In a moving talk, he tells the story of how he was freed -- and his current mission with the...

In her Auntie An-mei’s home, Jing-Mei reluctantly takes her seat at the eastern corner of the mahjong table. At the north, south and west corners are her aunties, long-time members of the Joy Luck Club. This gathering is the point of...

This video is answering the question of what makes the German language interesting.

"1984" by George Orwell is a thought-provoking and unsettling novel that delves into the dangers of totalitarianism, manipulation of language, and the loss of individual freedom. Through a gripping narrative, Orwell challenges readers to...

The video explores George Orwell's novel "1984" and its themes of language manipulation, propaganda, and control. It highlights how the use of language, such as doublethink and newspeak, can be wielded as tools of power to shape and...

Omer Bartov is a professor at Brown University and a leading historian of the Holocaust and genocide. Reflecting on his intellectual formation, Bartov recalls the influence of Saul (Shaul) Friedländer, his teacher at Tel Aviv University...

China has one of the world’s most ancient cultures, yet it’s only since 1978 that foreigners have been welcomed. This long history of cultural isolation helps explain the attitudes Chinese people have toward foreigners, which many...

Italians are lively communicators and literally speak with their hands—at times, they use their entire bodies! They generally stand close together and often touch each other’s arms or shoulders while talking. In fact, touching someone is...

Since the French Revolution, the republic’s motto has been “Liberté, égalité, fraternité” (“Liberty, equality, brotherhood”), which certainly says something about French attitudes. In France, however, generalizations don't always apply....

Not all cultures view power from the same perspective. In Sweden, Norway, and Israel, for example, respect for equality is a warranty of freedom. Both managers and subordinates have carte blanche to speak their minds. People in these...

Globalization has increased our interactions and communications with colleagues around the world. It’s tempting to think that just because we have access to phones and teleconferencing platforms, communications are the same everywhere....

Worldwide, more than 400 million people speak Spanish. A small minority of Mexicans—about seven million—speak one of fifty Indian languages that have survived. Learn more about the local uses of language, including the widespread use of...

In Mexico, socioeconomic status, including where a person lives, attends school, shops, and works, is determined in large part by ethnic background. Sadly, for rural Indians, this almost always means living forever in poverty. Only a...

Tyriq Withers’ journey from Florida State football walk-on to starring in Jordan Peele’s Him is anything but ordinary. In the latest episode of Boardroom Talks, Withers gets real about the emotional moment he quit football, the...

With the exception of a few indigenous groups living in the Amazon, everyone in Brazil speaks Portuguese. Over the years, Brazilian Portuguese has developed its own character as Indian, African, and English words have been added....

Brazilians are often collectivist in orientation, which means they tend to focus on the group instead of the individual. Exactly how does this mind-set impact the workplace? Find out how workplace behavior is affected, from sharing...