Wendy Troxel looks at the cultural expectations that pressure couples into sharing a bed and why some relationships would benefit from sleeping separately. This talk was filmed at TEDxManhattanBeach. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of ideas worth spreading. To learn more about TEDxSHORTS, ...
For a long time, Amrou Al-Kadhi struggled to negotiate the intersections between their queer and Islamic heritage. These identities felt completely polarized, as if their identity were founded on a tectonic fault at constant risk of rupture. Yet, it was the unlikely world of quantum physics that allowed Al-Kadhi to find the magic of contradictio...
About this event: In an increasingly globalized world, are we so focused on the details that we miss the bigger picture? As we gauge how it affects us as individuals, thinking about how we, in turn, create its future is more crucial than ever. What are the overlooked ways that we affect those around us? What will a more globally connected world look like if we co...
Event details: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · March 16, 2019
About this event: It takes one domino to set off a series of chain reactions. One domino, one idea, one event, one setback, one experience that could change the world forever. We have all experienced a tipping point when something either comes together or it all falls apart. The tipping point may be the moment of truth but it all comes down to what happens after....
Event details: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · April 9, 2022
About this event: From vibrations to waves to sound, we are always evolving and learning from fresh, unique voices. With a community so dynamic, you are bound to hear something from them that you have never heard before. Let these new voices reframe your context, introduce you to unfamiliarity and challenge your perspectives.
Event details: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · September 26, 2020
About this event: As the world becomes more uncertain each day, the ability to stop and recognize what’s truly going on becomes increasingly necessary. Recognize means thinking critically about what we see around us. It starts with examining the messaging around us recognizing underlying assumptions, bias and stereotypes. It’s a cycle of listening, identifying, r...
Event details: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada · May 15, 2021
What does an image sound like? This idea of blurring the line between different senses has been around for years. With the addition of technology to the mix, Ernesto shares the insights he gained through his work exploring data- bending, Glitch art and the synesthetic nature of computers.
Ernesto Peña is a Mexican designer, researcher and educa...
PoChun Chen details a surprising part of Taiwanese culture, and how it can help us rethink our relationship with the environment.
Chen is a Taiwanese independent filmmaker, photographer, and film student at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her works include narrative short films, experimental films, and fashion filmmaking for European and...
Hashem talked about the enhancement the value of Yemeni coffee environmentally and agriculturally as it is one of the major component of Yemeni environment. He estestablished " Yemeni Coffee Club " to increase farmers' awareness of the importance of planting coffee and to encourage them to replant it by distributing 18000 coffee sapling t...
From the life stories of men living in an inner-city homeless shelter, accommodating a small sector of the homeless population trapped in a cycle of homelessness because of chronic substance abuse or severe and persistent mental illnesses, evolves the deeper meaning of home that transcends the physical structure. Anne Shand uncovers the factors ...
The growing concerns about plastic consumption can be anxiety- inducing. As an interdisciplinary artist, Kathryn explores the relationships between art and the Anthropocene and shares her experience of navigating this anxiety to encourage positive changes.
Kathryn Wadel is an interdisciplinary artist living on the Katzie First Nation and the Kw...
Claudia Hopkins reveals how design can be not only what is typically visible to the eye. Through compelling examples that have begun to transform local communities, she offers simple steps for how anyone can participate.
Amberlie Perkin is an Artist and Art Educator. She has a passion for teaching and reaching youth through art and building empathy and connection through shared creative experiences.
Amberlie has an interdisciplinary practice including painting, drawing, photography, and sculpture. Her artwork investigates place, nature, memory, and wounded ecol...
Discussing tattoos is no easy task from child-to-parent. Through personal experiences, Chloe heartens open mindedness, and hopes to break the taboo associated with tattooing. In her storytelling, she encourages inclusivity and empathy to create a middle ground for all individuals seeking to come to terms with this medium.
Every day we are faced with a decision. To accept the status quo or question the perspectives we find within ourselves. The status quo is the unwillingness to change also known as our inertia. Within our inertia, we find comfort in what we know but also ignore the voice within ourselves that craves something bigger. When we question our beliefs ...
Haneen with Mohammed Abdulmalek, the lute player, amazed TEDx audience by singing a song from the Zubaidi tradition "Alil Alhawa" by the artist Ayub Tarsh and a Taizian song "Kam Fouady" by Abdelbaset Absi.
Hind is a young entrepreneur that talked about her passion for planting varieties of varied plants, the importance of planting them in every house and how she transformed her small garden into her own big project.
What would a world without religion look like?
Caroline Schaffalitzky intends to show, how that thought experiment is a little more complicated than you might think.
Walid spoke about his personal experience in packaging beans at home from simple materials located in each house, and how this idea is important in serving mainly low-income groups as well as poor communities that lack basic services such as rural areas, displacement camps and civil areas that experiencing shortage of fuel, food, water, or elec...
Offering tips from the well-known program he helped develop, Bill Burnett, executive director of Stanford's Life Design Lab, illustrates the ways design thinking can be used to help build the life you want. This talk was filmed at TEDxStanford. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of ideas wort...
Marine biologist, fish ecologist and self-confessed ocean optimist Steve Simpson explains the intricate sounds that exist in our oceans -- and why listening to this soundtrack can help us protect it. This talk was filmed at TEDxExeter. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of ideas worth spreadi...
Rian spoke about the solar oven and his initiative in training young people in making a solar oven, and that this idea is mainly aimed to relieve citizens' suffering and reduce the crisis of lack of domestic gas.
Uważam, że życiem kierują przypadki oraz szanse, które pojawiają się przed nami i trzeba je zauważyć i
umiejętnie wykorzystać. Myślę, że ja dostałam taką swoją szansę w chwili, gdy miałam 21 lat i musiałam
wykonać skok na głęboką wodę biznesu.
Wraz z wiekiem zdobyłam to, co w biznesie najważniejsze – doświadczenie, a ono podpowiada, że
kluczem d...
Marysia to 20-letnia studentka. Utalentowana żeglarka od dziecka związana z wodą, sportem, podróżami, muzyką i teatrem. Żeglarka, która w ciągu kilku ostatnich lat przepłynęła ponad 60 tysięcy mil morskich. Jako najmłodsza Polka dwukrotnie opłynęła Przylądek Horn. Mając 17 lat uczestniczyła w 2,5 miesięcznej wyprawie szlakiem sir Ernesta Shackle...
Ashley Whillans shares strategies to help overcome "time poverty," and get the most out of our social relationships and careers. This talk was filmed at TEDxCambridge. All TEDx events are organized independently by volunteers in the spirit of TED's mission of ideas worth spreading. Listen and subscribe to TEDx SHORTS and more podcasts from the T...