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TED Inspirational — 86 episodes

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Why We Need to End the Era of Orphanages | Tara Winkler

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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zomorodi

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The Secret To Living Longer May Be Your Social Life | Susan Pinker

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A tribute to nurses : Carolyn Jones

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The lies we tell pregnant women : Sofia Jawed-Wessel

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Sharon Brous: It's time to reclaim religion

7

Enough with the fear of fat : Kelli Jean Drinkwater

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Inside the mind of a former radical jihadist : Manwar Ali

9

Why open a school? To close a prison : Nadia Lopez

10

How my son's short life made a lasting difference - Sarah Gray

11

Why I put myself in danger to tell the stories of Gaza : Ameera Harouda

12

Wisdom from great writers on every year of life TED: Joshua Prager

13

Tim Urban Inside the mind of a master procrastinator

14

Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection

15

Robert Waldinger : What makes a good life?

16

Melati and Isabel Wijsen: Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali

17

Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don't have one true calling

18

Elizabeth Nyamayaro: An invitation to men who want a better world for women

19

Matt Kenyon: A secret memorial for civilian casualties

20

Alec Soth + Stacey Baker: This is what enduring love looks like

21

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon:Meet the women fighting the front lines of an American war

22

Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people

23

Chris Burkard: The joy of surfing in ice-cold water

24

Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane

25

Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world

26

Anand Giridharadas: A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collide

27

Nancy Frates: Why my family started the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The rest is hi

28

Haas&Hahn;: How painting can transform communities

29

Kitra Cahana: My father, locked in his body but soaring free

30

Matthew O'Reilly: “Am I dying?” The honest answer.

31

Megan Washington: Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking

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Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don't define you

33

Jennifer Senior: For parents, happiness is a very high bar

34

My philosophy for a happy life: Sam Berns

35

Maya Penn: Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist …

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Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela

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David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful

38

Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death

39

Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head

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Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a millionaire

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Roberto D'Angelo + Francesca Fedeli: In our baby's illness, a life lesson

42

Pico Iyer: Where is home?

43

Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained.

44

Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive

45

Joshua Prager: In search of the man who broke my neck

46

Richard Turere: My invention that made peace with lions

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Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea

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Dan Pallotta: The way we think about charity is dead wrong

49

Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school

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Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful

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Ron Finley: A guerilla gardener in South Central LA

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Wade Davis: Gorgeous photos of a backyard wilderness worth saving

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Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day

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Zahra' Langhi: Why Libya's revolution didn't work -- and what might

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Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don't leave

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Janine di Giovanni: What I saw in the war

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Cameron Russell: Looks aren't everything. Believe me, I'm a model

58

Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes

59

Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time

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Lemon Andersen performs

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Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person

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Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude

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David Binder: The arts festival revolution

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Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers

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Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!

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Faith Jegede: What I’ve learned from my autistic brothers

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Lemn Sissay: A child of the state

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Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?

69

Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine

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Candy Chang: Before I die I want to...

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LZ Granderson: The myth of the gay agenda

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Giles Duley: When a reporter becomes the story

73

David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence

74

Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations ... by banjo

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Jane Fonda: Life's third act

76

Tan Le: My immigration story

77

Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men

78

John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers

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Julia Bacha: Pay attention to nonviolence

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Johanna Blakley: Social media and the end of gender

81

Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep

82

Joachim de Posada says, Don't eat the marshmallow yet

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Felix Dennis' odes to vice and consequences

84

John Hardy: My green school dream

85

David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 min

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Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success