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  • Dolly Parton is burning up, not burning out | from WorkLife with Adam Grant

    Dolly Parton's hit songs — like "9 to 5," "Jolene" and "I Will Always Love You" — have captured generation after generation. In this episode, recorded around the release of "Run, Rose, Run" (her novel co-written with James Patterson and paired with a full-length companion album), host Adam Grant talks with Dolly about her creative process, how she balances getting things right with getting things done and how she manages the hefty cup of ambition she pours herself each morning.


    (This episode originally aired in 2022.)

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    29 min
  • How 180 strangers built a library together | Rebecca Toh
    Does the fix for a fragmented world begin with a shared bookshelf? Photographer Rebecca Toh traces how she joined with 180 other people to build a community-funded library where strangers rent shelves, fill them with their personal collections and forge something rare: real connection.

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    13 min
  • How to fix Africa's learning crisis | Rapelang Rabana

    By 2030, nearly half the world's young people will be African. Yet for decades, the continent's learning crisis was treated with systems unfit for reality on the ground. Social entrepreneur Rapelang Rabana shows how homegrown leadership and technology designed for African classrooms can deliver foundational skills to millions of children — and shape a new future of education across the continent. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)


    (Following the talk, Elise Hu interviews Rabana on what makes the Imagine tablet so effective and engaging for students. Rabana also reiterates how using solar-powered tablets in a controlled setting can empower students and the limitations of applying Western standards of education to Sub-Saharan Africa.)


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    35 min
  • Sunday Pick: How to mentally reset when you’re stressed out (w/ Dr Jenny Taitz) | How to Be a Better Human
    It’s hard to not feel stress at the state of the world today, so how can you cope with stressors without letting them completely overwhelm you? Clinical psychologist Jenny Taitz spends most of her days helping clients navigate through their stress. She shares why she uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, in her therapy work, whether a cold plunge can help you snap out of your messy ruminations, and why doing a few tasks each day to practice for pleasure and mastery can help improve your mood.

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    41 min
  • How to make learning impossibly fun | Mark Rober
    What if science class felt less like studying out of a textbook and more like an unforgettable field trip? From viral glitter-bomb traps to backyard engineering marvels, former-NASA-engineer-turned-YouTuber Mark Rober has spent years proving that curiosity is contagious — and that the best way to teach science is to make it impossibly fun. In conversation with TED's Whitney Pennington Rodgers, Rober shares how play, wonder and a healthy dose of mischief can transform the way kids learn ... and gives a peek inside his plan to bring magic to every classroom in America. (This conversation was part of an exclusive TED Membership event. TED Membership is the best way to support and engage with the big ideas you love from TED. To learn more, visit ted.com/membership.)

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    44 min
  • Is AI turning us all into the same person? | Sandra Matz
    When you need to make a decision, you might turn to AI for advice. But what happens when you let algorithms decide more and more things for you? Computational social scientist Sandra Matz reveals how AI models limit what you see, discover and try, subtly flattening what makes you unique. Hear her tips for how to use AI to fuel your curiosity and expand your world instead.

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    17 min
  • Why you need the growth mindset of a weed | Stephen Nobles
    Educator Stephen Nobles believes curiosity is the key to unlocking a student's potential. In conversation with TED's Whitney Pennington Rodgers, he encourages teachers to see every student through a lens of possibility — and asks what each of us might be missing when we let our assumptions go unchallenged.

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    19 min
  • How I’m helping thousands rebuild their lives after prison | Susan Burton
    Each year, around two million women are released from prisons and jails in the US, many with nowhere to go. Susan Burton knows this firsthand: after cycling in and out of prison for years, she finally found a safe place to land ... and made it her mission to offer others the same. She shares how she's helping thousands rebuild their lives — and changing the way we think about second chances.

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    15 min
  • How AI is breaking the internet (and what to do about it) | Matthew Prince
    For the past 30 years, surviving as an internet business meant getting people to click on your website. But AI is now making that thousands of times harder, says Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, one of the world’s largest internet networks. He makes the provocative case for a different deal — whereby tech companies actually pay people for creating content that feeds their AI models.

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    16 min
  • We’ve solved many medical mysteries. Where are the cures? | Saloni Dattani
    Science communicator Saloni Dattani traces the quiet revolution of medical innovation that has slashed death rates from conditions like heart disease and malaria — and reveals the broken incentives that have delayed other lifesaving treatments for decades. "Diseases are not a fact of life," she says. "They're problems that we can solve."

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    13 min

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