Hans Rosling: The magic washing machine - YouTube I was only four years old when I saw my mother load a washing machine for the very first time in her life. That was a great day for my mother. My mother and father had been saving money for…

Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes ... We live in an incredibly busy world. The pace of life is often frantic, our minds are always busy, and we're always doing something. So with that in mind, I'd like you just to take a …

TEDxToronto - Neil Pasricha "The 3 A's of Awesome ... So the Awesome story: It begins about 40 years ago, when my mom and my dad came to Canada. My mom left Nairobi, Kenya. My dad left a small village outside of Amritsar, India. A…

Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible ... This is a representation of your brain, and your brain can be broken into two parts. There's the left half, which is the logical side, and then the right half, which is the intuitive. And …

Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men - YouTube I've been in Afghanistan for 21 years. I work for the Red Cross and I'm a physical therapist. My job is to make arms and legs -- well it's not completely true. We do more than that. We pr…

Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed ... Imagine a big explosion as you climb through 3,000 ft. Imagine a plane full of smoke. Imagine an engine going clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack. It sounds scary. Well I…

Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern ... I'm 150 feet down an illegal mine shaft in Ghana. The air is thick with heat and dust, and it's hard to breathe. I can feel the brush of sweaty bodies passing me in the darkness, but I …

Munir Virani: Why I love vultures - YouTube I would like to talk to you about a very special group of animals. There are 10,000 species of birds in the world. Vultures are amongst the most threatened group of birds. When you see a vulture …

Allan Savory: How to green the world's deserts and reverse climate change The most massive tsunami perfect storm is bearing down upon us. This perfect storm is mounting a grim reality, increasingly grim reality, and we are facing that real…

David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates Two weeks ago, I was sitting at the kitchen table with my wife Katya, and we were talking about what I was gonna talk about today. We have an 11-year-old son; his name is Lincoln. He was sitting…