Having won an Olympic gold medal and two Women's World Cups, Megan Rapinoe is among the most decorated and world famous athletes of our time. She joins Design Matters host Debbie Millman to talk about her legendary soccer career, activism, and New York Times Best-Selling book. Design Matters is another podcast from the TED Audio Collective. If y...

"Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together," says theater maker and TED Fellow Marc Bamuthi Joseph. Through his performances and an engagement initiative called "Moving and Passing," Joseph combines music, dance and soccer to reveal accessible, joyful connections between the arts and sports. Learn more about ho...

With warmth and respect, Gonzalo Vilariño tells the captivating story of Argentina's blind soccer team -- and how a sincere belief in themselves and their capabilities transformed the players from humble beginnings into two-time World Champions. "You have to get out there and play every game in this beautiful tournament that we call life," Vilar...

In 1997, Brazilian football player Roberto Carlos set up for a 35 meter free kick with no direct line to the goal. Carlos's shot sent the ball flying wide of the players, but just before going out of bounds it hooked to the left and soared into the net. How did he do it? Erez Garty describes the physics behind one of the most magnificent goals i...

Meet seven all-terrain robots -- like the humanoid, soccer-playing DARwIn and the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR -- built by Dennis Hong's robotics team at RoMeLa, based at Virginia Tech. Watch to the end for the five creative secrets to his lab's success.

Gonzalo Vilariño uses sport to change the rules of the game for the disabled.

Why should a good education be exclusive to rich kids? Schools in low-income neighborhoods across the US, specifically in communities of color, lack resources that are standard at wealthier schools -- things like musical instruments, new books, healthy school lunches and soccer fields -- and this has a real impact on the potential of students. K...

Luma Mufleh does something revolutionary: she coaches soccer. A Jordanian immigrant and Muslim of Syrian descent, Mufleh is determined to empower refugee children everywhere.

Refugee activist Luma Mufleh created a new type of school system to bring educational equity to resettlement communities across the US. Grounding students through soccer and the arts, Mufleh's schools empower refugee children to heal their trauma, understand their new home and imagine a better future. Learn more about her work -- and what every ...

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Elise Roy thinks that designers have the capacity and responsibility to address and resolve human problems on micro and macro scales and contribute to social well-being.

Christine Porath helps organizations build thriving workplaces.

Researcher-turned-entrepreneur Richard Socher dives deep into different kinds of existing AI systems and what they can teach us about ourselves — pointing out how, as AI advances, it mirrors both humanity's ingenuity and its flaws.

2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair is co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises -- and acts as a conduit between the design community and the world's humanitarian needs.

How does snow artist Simon Beck trace massive, intricate patterns in the snow? With a little math and a lot of legwork. Simon Beck (TEDxKlagenfurt Talk: Snow art) believes that anyone can make a “snow drawing.” Just tread a simple shape into the snow, again and again, until a spectacular pattern emerges. The geometry, he says, is the easy part....

About this event: Studio 18 Musicians - Performance Shelley Lauten - Central Florida Commission on Homelessness Dr. Graham Worthy - Department Chair, UCF Biology Kay Rawlins - Orlando City Soccer / Orlando City Foundation Dr. Albert Manero - Limbitless Solutions Tammy Lally - The Money Coach Chandra Arthur - Friendish Bruce Duncan & Bina 48 - Terasem Moveme...

About this event: Do you promise yourself every night to start the morning walk on the morning jog? Do remember where you have at home soccer ball? Do you dream of walking in the mountains / cycling / swimming more often? In anticipation of the sporting event that is very active in coming to our hometown, TEDxSvobodaAve invites you to the Salon is dedicated ...

Germany's 7-1 victory over host country Brazil in the World Cup semi-finals this week followed the injury of Brazilian soccer star Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior, whose collision with Colombian player Juan Camilo Zúñiga during the quarter-final game led to a hail of racist epithets aimed at Zúñiga. Ready to go beyond the headlines? 5 primary sour...

Dennis Hong is a professor and the Founding Director of RoMeLa (Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory) at UCLA. His research focuses on robot locomotion and manipulation, autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots.

About this event: Who Wins the Game? We believe that technology,design and entertainment are way involved in social media and sports.TEDxAlsancak will be interesting and having variety of knowledge which really worth to spread and meet with TED spirit and goal. TEDxAlsancak will be a cross-disciplinary event. TEDxAlsancak pulls speakers from various platf...

The right kind of preparation can keep us from stumbling during stressful situations, says cognitive scientist Sian Leah Beilock. This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from someone in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. “They choked.” It’s one of...

Dennis Hong shared seven species of robots in his talk at TEDxNASA 2009, from the soccer-playing DARwIn to the cliff-gripping CLIMBeR. In this new video, Hong -- the director of the Virginia Tech robotics lab RoMeLa -- introduces us to CHARLI, a lightweight robot designed to walk and move like a human. Or, you know, dance to Psy’s “Gangnam St...

ReThinking with Adam Grant Soccer star Abby Wambach on being good enough February 7, 2023 [00:00:00] Adam Grant: Hey everyone, it's Adam Grant. Welcome back to ReThinking: my podcast on the science of what makes us tick. I'm an organizational psychologist, and I'm taking you inside the minds of fascinating people to explore new thoughts and ne...

Shared fictions -- in the form of news, religions, novels, sports, money, even brands -- fill our lives, but that’s OK. It’s these shared beliefs that have helped humans cooperate and conquer the planet, explains historian Yuval Harari. We are repeatedly told these days that we have entered the terrifying new era of post-truth, in which not jus...

From tennis to swimming and soccer, female athletes are at the top of their game right now, but they are still not receiving the support that men do. Despite accumulating international titles, the US women’s national soccer team are currently having to pursue a gender discrimination lawsuit for equal pay (above, a photo of them from August 20...

Two hundred years ago today, Jane Austen published Pride and Prejudice, the classic tale of Elizabeth Bennett. Though the book has now sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, Austen (above) received £110 for the copyright from publisher T. Egerton, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. While Pride and Prejudice was published in 18...

We're more connected than ever before but, in some parts of the world, life has never been more difficult. From refugee camps full of people displaced by war to urban blight in the developed world, our problems are growing more complex. But in that strife lies opportunity. In the seventh session of TED2017, hosted by TED's Curation Director K...

Most of us enter the professional world believing that the focus and hard work which got us through our education will help us rise there, too. But we don't yet realize that there are significant obstacles lying in our path. Author Michelle P. King explains how the need to conform can stand between women and success. Between the ages of 24 a...

The Klong Toey Community Lantern -- a community space in the oldest and largest of Bangkok’s slums -- was built very quickly. Not quite as quickly as shown in this three-minute timelapse video, but construction for the project took just three weeks thanks to the help of the community. But while construction went fast, Norwegian architects ...

Every day at every workplace around the world, employees engage in a ballet. Each of us has a role to play, and we alternate between solo moments and collaborative interludes, between scripted choreography and improv. While the members and the steps may change over time, as long as the business continues, the ballet goes on. Well, if wor...