Your left-wing biases make it very hard to take your talks seriously.

Used to be very diverse and interesting. Now it’s mostly climate change. Meh.

Love the idea of TED Talks. I have listened to these podcast for several years. It's seems to have gradually slipped to promote more and more left-wing, radicalized content. Maybe 20% of the episodes are actually beneficial. Too bad!

The subject says it all. With that being said, it’s important to expand ones perspective and not be married to your ideas. Unfortunately this podcast panders to the media’s agenda; capturing one’s attention and promoting indignation.

Look I know that I’m just 10 but I still understand everything she is saying.She talks about things that really matter. I love this podcast and so should you.

OK I took a listen. First you say thing you say is racism and global warming. Out! The two biggest alarmist about global warming are Gore and Obama, both have beach houses. And as for the race card, China is the most ethnic-centric racist society in the world.

I am on a daily mission to call progs racist everyday. Because they are.

I just listened to John’s talk.

As a white person, I will definitely be more attentive to the suffering of my fellow humans in the future.

Alison Schuback

The undisputed, undeniable facts are that many of our “revered” and “founding fathers” did not live up to the eloquent and idealistic words they penned. We the People can honor our country’s history in the most meaningful way by seeing ALL of its reality and correcting the systems and policies by which we choose to govern ourselves as the UNITED States of America to promote and support those ideals. The words “all men” need to be intentionally and deliberately interpreted to mean all citizens and legal aliens - that’s the ideal of “We the People” I want to support. “Founding Fathers” should mean and represent Mothers and Children - all our ancestors with all their flaws. Now we, the current occupants of this UNITED States of America need to reexamine what WE believe in and how WE will set and reset our governing policies and social systems to live up to and support these agreed upon ideals. I used to hear the phrase “if we don’t learn from history we repeat it”. I now prefer the words “if we don’t see history we continue it” please USA let us create a more just history for our the many future generations of USA inhabitants to “see” and “learn from”.

The present problem of the Electoral College can be solved relatively easy not by abolishment, but an adjustment and some arithmetic. Instead of Winner Takes All - which renders millions of votes moot - why not allocate accordingly?

While I find the figures confusing (California has 55 electoral votes, which averages out to 1 vote per 723,272,727 residents; Wisconsin has 5, which translates to one vote per 588,220 residents, while Hawai’i has a whopping 4 votes averaging out to only 350k of the islands’ state’s population!), in principle, however, tallying the votes and attributing them per party will, with a handful of exceptions (i.e. votes for the Independents and Greens and other third parties), restore balance and fairness to the system simply by allocating collective votes for a particular party an electoral vote, statewide.

If, for example, in the state of a large state such as California, a third party should ever accrue sufficient votes statewide to reach or surpass a total of 723,272,727, then it would be allocated one electoral vote; still not sufficient to put that party into the White House, of course, but providing appeasement to those who voted for a third party as well as providing a possible progression in the direction of the viability of an alternative to the current two party system some time for the future.

In the event that there should be a tie, i.e. neither Republican nor Democrat obtain the necessary 270 electoral votes, then the winner is the party with the most electoral votes - which will then approximate the popular vote and therefore reflect voters’ choices much more accurately than is presently the case.

The episode today was wonderful.

Making our adversaries into our allies is something the world could desperately use.

Splendid as usual.

Just finished listening to his speech. He is so on point! I’m concerned of numbing children & adults so much that we lose their creativity to fit a static mold. We need diversity and let children follow their gifts. I write this from my own experience of being “guided “ into a career that didn’t fill my sole. Luckily I’m making more time to be creative. Sorry to hear Ken passed away. Thank you Sir Robinson!!

I love listening to this podcast in the morning to get my brain working. This gets me into a peaceful and quiet morning ritual. 🙏

I enjoy the Ted talks.

I wish you keep the interviews in a separate podcast, it’s just not what I’m looking for.

It was a re-run of old episode with outdated information. There was no mention that it was a re-run.

I didn’t expected this from this podcast.

You CANNOT re-air an episode about the coronavirus from March on August 12th without a CLEAR edit in the AUDIO of the episode. Fix this please!

Keep going

I’m a firm believer in that there is a problem with racial discrimination and that something needs to be done about it. But when 9/10 of your podcasts are about the same thing you should probably try changing your name to the only thing you’re talking about. I use TED talks Daily on my commute to and from work which needs more variety then just racial segregation or racial discrimination. Please don’t lose your goal TED talks in spreading a WIDE variety of information to the public.

Such a fantastic conversation providing invaluable insights on how human can live harmoniously with Nature

We need to make Ethical choices

I love gates and his philanthropy. He’s brilliant and impacted vaccines in Africa greatly. That said, having gates offer prognosis for COVID-19, as well as treatment seems off. There are actual medical experts to lead the charge and be more informative. Or at least have a medical professional on the side. This isn’t quite “reckless”, but does contribute to setting the precedents of interviewing non-experts for (needed) expert information. Gates is a good guy. This is just not the appropriate time for this when there are lots of medical experts with better information.

I love daily TED!! So inspirational!!

I enjoy that the topics are of importance to the individual speaker versus finding a speaker to give a speech on something trending. It’s helpful in opening up the mind to what and who else is out there. Usually very interesting.

May 15th’s episode was AMAZING! It was so interesting! Love this!

I would like to share my story with TED, want to share the what I learnt from life and want to people to think about it. Request guidance!

mostly these speakers positively relate their own, individual experience and ideas, and theres very little bashing.

I listened to the former award winning and championship winning coach talk about the rewards from realizing coaching to win has a high cost, coaching to live does wonders for you and your players, and the funny thing is you still win a lot but really enjoy it!

I think her message applies to MOST of our world right now: how far do we go to win? How did we come to celebrate ethically or morally vacant people? Would we really not win if we were all a bit more tolerant, patient, or kind?

I mean, those two cliches are still true: no one gets outta here alive, and you can’t take anything with you! Might as well prioritize enjoying life!

I usually love listening to this podcast and many other thought-provoking NPR podcasts in general. I’ve listened for years, but lately I’m seeing these left leaning productions for the harm they try to cause.

For example, the recent episode about what America can learn from China in their reaction to the pandemic literally made my skin crawl. I’m sorry, but Chinese people are not happy to do whatever their government tells them to do and don’t obey because they see their government like a caring parental figure, which they so appreciate! I’m paraphrasing, but I swear when I heard this assertion, I laughed so hard, I swerved and almost hit a car in the lane next to mine!

Chinese people do what they are told because of a thing called COMMUNISM.

I don’t know if Ted Talks knows about it, but from what I hear, communism is not so great...at least not for We the People of The United States of America.

What is the purpose of choosing this angle? You should be talking about the millions of people starving globally with the continuation of this shutdown. Maybe Ted Talks should also explore the dangers of a global economic collapse. You could do 100 episodes on that topic alone.

You could be talking about how more than half of the counties in the United States haven’t had a single Covid-19 death, yet are still being forced to stay shut down. You could be talking about the deadly global repercussions of the lockdown such as loss of education, depression, suicide, rise in crimes, looting, wide spread hunger, domestic violence, ample opportunities for child sexual abuse by the people in their own homes, or the many other harmful outcomes of extending this lockdown. I mean come on, you should at least give some consideration to informing the American people about these very real, very serious, and very deadly realities.

Another topic to explore would be America’s urgent need to stop the very dangerous practice of depending on China for 70 percent of our pharmaceutical drugs. These things matter to the American people. Why not explore these topics?

Instead, you are joining the rest of MSM in disparaging the Americans who are standing up for their constitutional rights and yes, some want to golf, but the majority are fighting to save their small businesses, to save their homes, to feed their families, and most importantly they are standing up for what it means to be free, for what it means to be an American, for our constitutional rights, which we have been totally taken for granted.

As far as I know, we the people have the right to protest and lucky for those who don’t want to protest, don’t have to protest. That’s the beauty of it all.

I lean very left on most issues, but that doesn’t mean I will follow you blindly. That doesn’t mean I will cheer on Communism just because you try to depict it in a calm “balanced” way. How dumb do you think your audience is? How clueless do you really think we are?

What is your purpose in depicting support for communism, while talking down to the citizens of your own free country?

Why would you release an episode like this? Why would you peddle such nonsense? I’ve deleted so many recent episodes without listening to more than five because you guys aren’t even trying to hide the propaganda anymore. It’s disappointing and it really makes me so so so sad.

I like the older episodes better. The newer ones tend to introduce a problem and then not give a solution, or are just not very well done in general. If you want good ones, I suggest scrolling down a bit.

This was amazingly helpful. Excellent insight into being human in this inhuman time. I now have some tools to help me not just get through the pandemic but to even grow a bit more deeply emotionally.

Slow the f down

Jesus Herbert Christ

Have you noticed people on podcasts are talking much faster even in longer formats. Calm down presenters. Everyone is nervous enough.

TED is a knowledgeable guy. A bit full of himself, but definitely knowledge. He has an answer to everything, even things you didn’t think you needed an answer for. I heard TED explain why people laugh. That’s like explaining why people breathe. Alexa and TED would be the ultimate power couple. There would be no question left unanswered between the two of them. If they put their metaphorical minds together, we could potentially answer all the questions this world has to offer. Like when did the first second occur and is a second called a second because it always will be second to whatever number came before it? Or if it’s normal to shake a stranger’s hand and normal to shake your dog’s paw AND it’s normal for dogs to sniff other dogs’ butts, why am I considered a weirdo if I sniff my dog’s butt? These are the questions that need to be answered. Someone needs to set up Ted and Alexa.

Good daily dose of something new to think about. Some are a bit lackluster but what do you expect with so many episodes. But bite size episodes are nice.

Too many topics pertaining to social justice. Rarely listen anymore

Listened to an episode of Coronavirus. Was very informative and interesting. Lots of information. Short and easy to follow. Intriguing topics.

Ted Talks used to be chock-filled with enlightenment. Now, it’s 90% politically correct blather.

Very tedious topics and speakers.

Always held TED talks in fairly high regard. Not much inspirational here... for which I am sorry.

A handful of interesting topics. But the rest are pretty meaningless drivel.

Quality has gone down hill. I unsubscribed.

Most talks are pretentious and boring

This podcast cover a wide range of topics and it’s always very well done and put together beautifully. It’s mind opening

As a few have pointed out the topics are mostly socal topics that seem to target a narrow segment of issues. Some of them are interesting but other just are people with cuases which is fine they are not just my causes or what I think is important but I am sure some people will find this interesting and informative.

I give it five stars for great content.

I’ve always loved TEDTalks, but sometimes I am disappointed with some so I go back and continue to watch the same one.

The app works fine but TED talks these days are terrible. I no longer learn anything nor am I entertained. Listen to something else.. unless you’re into rambling and nonsense than you may enjoy the latest TED talk.

15 minutes of drivel. Get people without annoying voices

Now, all they talk about is mostly social justice topics...🙄

I would give this show a 5 out of 5 if not for the Revolutionary power of thought episode. Normally I like to write down at least on thing I learned or one cool fact from each episode, but I didn’t even understand what the speaker was talking about. It was very confusing and I couldn’t find a linear story to listen to. Disappointing Ted Talk

Normally I’m a big fan of this podcast. However, the 10/25/19 episode about revolutionary power of thought seemed very disjointed and confusing. I’m not understand where the speaker is going yet, and I’m 12 minutes in. This is only my perception, so take it with a grain of salt.

Even the ones I’m not particularly interested in have something to offer.

The talk about “a new origin of life” was really about some fanatic wanting to rant about climate change. Pathetic!