Can awe change your health?
In this TEDMED Conversation, Jennifer Stellar and Jon Ellenthal explore the science of awe and self-transcendent emotions, and what these powerful experiences may reveal about connection, stress, and well-being.
This Week at TEDMED: What emotions do to us, and for us
We often think of emotion as something private, internal, or fleeting. But awe, empathy, grief, and compassion can shape our biology, influence how we relate to others, and transform the way we give and receive care.
What primates can teach us about empathy
Frans de Waal spent his career challenging the idea that human emotion and social behavior are ours alone. His work shows how empathy, cooperation, leadership, and belonging have deep roots across the animal kingdom.
How care changes when connection comes first
This playlist brings together TEDMED voices on diagnosis, illness, grief, dementia, aging, uncertainty, and palliative care, revealing how deeply care depends on listening, presence, honesty, and connection.
Editor’s Picks: Before Health Becomes Personal
These TEDMED Talks look upstream: to the food systems that shape behavior, the vaccine technologies that may redefine prevention, the policies that influence violence, and the civic forces that make change possible.
Can we create vaccines that mutate and spread?
In early days of his career, Virologist Leor Weinberger noticed a fundamental mismatch in the creation of viral therapies. While viruses are dynamic, therapies were static. He spent…
Why we can't stop eating unhealthy foods
Sugar scientist and UCSF professor of health policy Laura Schmidt questions whether consumers really do have freedom of choice – and what policymakers can learn from corporations in…
How better policy will trigger fewer gun deaths
Daniel Webster, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and…
What it takes to create social change against all odds
It is impossible to think about environmental advocacy today without remembering what brought us here. For decades, Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader has been identifying corporate misdeeds, galvanizing public…
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