Life
Questions
1. Do you enjoy life?
2. What life-changing moments have you had in your life?
3. Do you ever feel you have wasted your life?
4. What is the meaning of life?
5. What’s your biggest goal in life?
6. What word would you use to sum up your life?
7. Who has been your biggest influence in life?
8. What will life be like fifty years from now?
Videos
Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for
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the first time.
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Category: Psychology
As dawn breaks over a moveable city of ten thousand yurts, Queen Boraqchin readies her kingdom for departure to their summer camping grounds. While her husband, the grandson of Genghis Khan, is out raiding, she
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juggles the duties of managing flocks, family and a city of thousands. Anne F. Broadbridge outlines a day in the life of a Mongolian queen.
Lesson by Anne F. Broadbridge, directed by Els Decaluwe.
Lesson by Anne F. Broadbridge, directed by Els Decaluwe.
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Category: History & Culture
Keywords: Countryside | Life
The year is 15 CE, and the Roman Empire is prospering. Most of the credit will go to the emperor, but this success wouldn’t have been possible without loyal soldiers like Servius Felix. Robert Garland illuminates what life was
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like for a solider in the Roman army.
Lesson by Robert Garland, animation by Brett Underhill.
Lesson by Robert Garland, animation by Brett Underhill.
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Category: History & Culture
We spend a little too much time worrying about how we must appear in the minds of others. However, the poignant, useful truth is that almost everyone doesn’t care at all about who we are, what we’re doing and how we’ve messed up.
Category: Psychology
The legendary boxer Muhammad Ali shares some of the wisdom that he has acquired.
Category: Psychology | Sports
Follow a queen fire ant as she builds a colony, protects it from neighboring ant armies and fends off would-be usurpers vying for her throne.
In the spring, just after a heavy rainfall, male and female fire ants swarm the skies for a day of romance, known as the nuptial flight. Thousands of reproduction-capable ants take part in a mating frenzy, and for one successfully mated female, her work is only beginning. Walter R. Tschinkel details how the new queen builds a colony and protects it from neighboring ant armies.
Lesson by Walter R. Tschinkel, directed by Lisa Vertudaches.
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In the spring, just after a heavy rainfall, male and female fire ants swarm the skies for a day of romance, known as the nuptial flight. Thousands of reproduction-capable ants take part in a mating frenzy, and for one successfully mated female, her work is only beginning. Walter R. Tschinkel details how the new queen builds a colony and protects it from neighboring ant armies.
Lesson by Walter R. Tschinkel, directed by Lisa Vertudaches.
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Category: Nature & Environment
New videography techniques have opened up the oceans’ microscopic ecosystem, revealing it to be both mesmerizingly beautiful and astoundingly complex. Marine biologist Tierney Thys has used footage from
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a pioneering project to create a film designed to ignite wonder and curiosity about this hidden world that underpins our own food chain.
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Category: Nature & Environment
Our culture is obsessed with happiness, but what if there’s a more fulfilling path? Happiness comes and goes, says writer Emily Esfahani Smith, but having meaning in life — serving something beyond yourself and developing
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the best within you — gives you something to hold onto. Learn more about the difference between being happy and having meaning as Smith offers four pillars of a meaningful life.
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Category: Psychology
What if Andy Warhol had it wrong, and instead of being famous for 15 minutes, we’re only anonymous for that long? In this short talk, Juan Enriquez looks at the surprisingly permanent effects of digital sharing on our personal
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privacy. He shares insight from the ancient Greeks to help us deal with our new “digital tattoos.”
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Category: Technology