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of the thousands of eyes on them at any given time. Not being open to the public means that our animals are less stressed by the unpredictable factors that come with people visiting.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

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of the thousands of eyes on them at any given time. Not being open to the public means that our animals are less stressed by the unpredictable factors that come with people visiting.

The Wildlife Sanctuary You Can Visit from Anywhere | Maya Higa | TED · TED

and another breath out. You can open your eyes now. My name is David.

Joy Will Find You — If You Let It | David Larbi | TED · TED

(Laughter) she's doing open-heart surgery over here. If I'm cooking, the door is shut, the kids are out,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

after waiting around for someone else to open a bookstore, I decided to do it myself. This was not the fulfillment of a

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

Like all the people who told me not to open a bookstore, you may be wondering if books are even relevant in this

The Love of My Life (and Why I Need to Share It with You) | Ann Patchett | TED · TED

Sargasso Sea Hope Spot: the open ocean home for turtles and whales and sharks and thousands of other sea creatures.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

At the time, 99 percent of the ocean was open for exploitation. Today, 97 percent is still open for exploitation.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

99 percent of the ocean was open for exploitation. Today, 97 percent is still open for exploitation. It's time to seriously scale up.

We’re Keeping the Ocean Wild — and You Can Join Us | Sylvia A. Earle | TED · TED

If we're honest, a lot of us would. And it's not because we're not open-minded, but we've been taught that these are warning signs

Your Relationship Expectations Could Be Holding You Back | Stephanie R. Yates-Anyabwile | TED · TED

want to reach out to offer support to someone in need but hold back. We’d like to be open and honest in our relationships, but all too often keep our true selves to ourselves.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

expressing support to someone in need, being open and honest in our relationships all tend to be received, on average,

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

even if there's nothing I can do in that moment. It's made me a more open, friendlier person and as a result, changed all of my relationships.

The Simple Habit for a Happier Social Life | Nicholas Epley | TED · TED

in order to then be able to scale this technology. Now we have markets that are closed, markets that are open, and we have to do all of the work with the cities,

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

And so we also have the burden of making those policymakers, who are not welcoming us with open arms ... to demonstrate our safety record.

Waymo’s Case for a Driverless Future | Tekedra Mawakana, Sal Khan | TED · TED

Harvey glimpsed that narrow door, I held the door open, the Chief Justice walked through it,

What Really Won the Trillion-Dollar Supreme Court Case | Neal Kumar Katyal | TED · TED

Today, the project is called OpenClaw. It's pretty much the fastest-growing open-source project. Its mascot is a lobster.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

I built this sandbox, this sandcastle, for me, and I made it open-source so other people could play with it and other people could raise their imagination.

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

So I created the OpenClaw Foundation, a nonprofit, open-source forever. Because what OpenClaw did for many people

How I Created OpenClaw, the Breakthrough AI Agent | Peter Steinberger | TED · TED

sometimes waiting hopelessly. The just-may singles are open to possibilities, the hopeless romantics.

Stop Telling Single People to Get Married | Peter McGraw | TED · TED

But they found that when people went into this group of people, they became warmer, open, more friendly, because they made this assumption. And so indeed, it became this self-fulfilling prophecy

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

the speaker will become less and less vulnerable and more and more likely to open up the inner recesses of his or her mind to the listener.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

Everybody is an expert in something. Number three: Use open-ended questions. In this case, take a cue from journalists.

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

Buddha said, and I'm paraphrasing, "If your mouth is open, you're not learning." And Calvin Coolidge said, "No man ever listened his way out of a job."

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

from the experiences of connection or disconnection we've received. So whether you are friendly, open, warm, vulnerable, trusting, cynical, aggressive, even violent,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

I keep my mouth shut as often as I possibly can. I keep my mind open. And I’m always prepared to be amazed,

Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation | TED · TED

I also knew the research on transitioners, right? People that are in times of transition are most open to friendship. So people that are traveling, people that have just moved to the city,

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

So pick whoever in the group that you really liked and ask them, "Oh, would you be open to like, getting coffee, getting tea like, before or after our next group?"

The Secret to Making New Friends as an Adult | Marisa G. Franco | TED · TED

I look at this person and I momentarily get a shift in perception, and I stay open to the mysteries that are living right next to me. And then, more importantly, in this description about the other

The secret to desire in a long-term relationship | Esther Perel | TED · TED

someone you met for the first time, but you felt more open with them. You felt like you truly cared.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

One is to ask expansive, open-ended questions, and the other is to answer questions expansively.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

and the other is to answer questions expansively. Asking expansive, open-ended questions encourages the other person to open up

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Asking expansive, open-ended questions encourages the other person to open up and share a bit more about themselves.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

Probe a little deeper. Answering questions expansively encourages you to open up and share more about yourself,

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

this is me and my dog in the mid 50s. So what that does is that encourages them to open up because they've now learned a little bit more about you.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

They have more insight into your life. And now they're more open to sharing about their own. Number two is overlap, or finding things in common.

3 Simple Ways to Build Stronger Relationships at Work | Alyssa Birnbaum | TED · TED

"Henna khala, this is awkward, but I can't open my Capri Sun." Kids don't feel awkward

Want to Get Ahead at Work? Risk the Awkward Moments | Henna Pryor | TED · TED

who used to make us do a lot of the same workouts as the men. It didn't matter whether we were lightweights or we were open weights, whether we were in a single or an eight.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

Nobody asked us about our periods, and we definitely didn’t talk about it. You know, even the open-weight women had issues where they would get urinary incontinence if they tried to do the track workouts.

What Women Athletes Need to Unlock Their Full Potential | Kate Ackerman | TED · TED

Students are exploring their identities, and they're more open to abstract thinking. I believe that having a healthy and balanced confidence

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

to offer an appreciation for someone or something. Open it up to an apology or talk about a social issue that might be on their hearts.

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

to show boys that it is perfectly human to open your minds and your hearts to your community. Now the third C represents community,

3 Skills Every Middle School Boy Needs | Jerome Hunter | TED · TED

a threatening silence, a silence that breaks your heart open in a room that's suddenly empty. Unfortunately, most of us know how to make silence a weapon or a shield.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

For me, it's like stepping out of your social, skyscraper self and wandering out into a vast open meadow. Getting out of your head and coming back to your senses.

Silence, the Universal Medicine | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

And she showed me how to make just the right crimp so they wouldn't open, and she makes them with her daughters every Sunday

The secret to living longer may be your social life | Susan Pinker

loyalty and trust, it's a place where you're more open to have a conversation about health and especially about high blood pressure.

Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy | TED · TED

And I started to think I should just dump this project. But then I remembered Tom talking to the open air and I tried it.

Your elusive creative genius | Elizabeth Gilbert

But I think what we have to keep in keep in mind is that the biological timing system has evolved under the open sky and not in offices or museums.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

I can only recommend you to spend as much time as you can under the open sky, but try to make it at least 30 minutes per day.

Why Daylight Is the Secret to Great Sleep | Christine Blume | TED · TED

that feel like they have a space to use their words, and then open up those communities, just enough to allow those words to spread.

Are We Cooked? How Social Media Shapes Language | Adam Aleksic | TED · TED

and powerful artificial intelligence. But it's important that this pursuit be done out in the open so the science can be shared with the world,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

I'm very excited about what the science of intelligence can achieve out in the open. You know, in the last century,

Can AI Match the Human Brain? | Surya Ganguli | TED · TED

Brenda started Cleveland's first trauma recovery center, but had to cash in her retirement fund just to keep her doors open. And despite being the city's only 24-hour assistance for victims,

The Grassroots Movement Transforming Public Safety | Aqeela Sherrills | TED · TED

According to climate realism, it's just not practical to stop using the sky as an open sewer for the emissions from burning fossil fuels and the other emissions.

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

for the emissions from burning fossil fuels and the other emissions. Instead, we should just continue using the sky as an open sewer. So where climate realism is concerned,

Why Climate Action Is Unstoppable — and “Climate Realism” Is a Myth | Al Gore | TED · TED

by making them more efficient. Because China is doing everything open source, open weights, we immediately got the benefit of their invention

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

largely closed models, largely under very good control. China is likely to be the leader in open source unless something changes. And open source leads to very rapid proliferation around the world.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

China is likely to be the leader in open source unless something changes. And open source leads to very rapid proliferation around the world. This proliferation is dangerous at the cyber level and the bio level.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

and the equivalent of mutually-assured destruction, you've also said that the US should embrace open-source AI even after China's DeepSeek showed what's possible

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

with a fraction of the compute. But doesn't open-sourcing these models, just hand capabilities to adversaries that will accelerate their own timelines?

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

everything about the world that we have built is based on academic research, open source, so forth. Much of Google's technology was based on open source.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

is based on academic research, open source, so forth. Much of Google's technology was based on open source. Some of Google's technology is open-source,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

Much of Google's technology was based on open source. Some of Google's technology is open-source, some of it is proprietary, perfectly legitimate.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

some of it is proprietary, perfectly legitimate. What happens when there's an open-source model that is really dangerous,

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

The consensus in the industry right now is the open-source models are not quite at the point of national or global danger.

The AI Revolution Is Underhyped | Eric Schmidt | TED · TED

but I'll get confronted by journalists who say, oh, well, we shouldn't open Pandora's box. And my point to them is Pandora’s box was opened a long time ago

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

And so the point I would make to people is you're not asking to not open Pandora's box. You're asking to shove it back in and close it again.

The AI Arsenal That Could Stop World War III | Palmer Luckey | TED · TED

but also for everyone -- researchers, consumers and more, who benefit from an open internet. It should come as no surprise

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

Today, we launched a "Statement on AI Training," a short, simple open letter, which simply reads: “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI

How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED · TED

becoming more joyful more open More Alive to the moment and I'm not alone

Slow Spaces

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then the next thing is to look. You look. You open your eyes. You open your ears. You open your nose.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

You look. You open your eyes. You open your ears. You open your nose. You open all your senses

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

You open your ears. You open your nose. You open all your senses for this wonderful richness that is given to us.

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

to enjoy, to enjoy what is given to us. And then we can also open our hearts, our hearts for the opportunities,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

because nothing makes us more happy than when all of us are happy. And when we open our hearts to the opportunities, the opportunities invite us to do something,

Want to be happy? Be grateful | David Steindl-Rast

Researchers have found that people often feel more comfortable being honest and open about their inner selves with strangers than they do with their friends and their families --

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

and you can tell by how they respond whether they're open to talking more. The last one I want to challenge you to

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

that when he grew up, he would open up the doors of a local restaurant and invite this community inside to enjoy three-course dinners.

Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn

(Applause) The battle between your model and open source. How much were you shaken up by the arrival of DeepSeek?

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

How much were you shaken up by the arrival of DeepSeek? SA: I think open source has an important place. We actually, just last night, hosted our first community session

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

We actually, just last night, hosted our first community session to kind of decide the parameters of our open-source model and how we want to shape it.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

and how we want to shape it. We're going to do a very powerful open-source model. I think this is important.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

We're going to do something near the frontier, I think, better than any current open-source model out there. This will not be all --

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

maybe you or I, don’t like. But there is going to be an important place for open-source models as part of the constellation here.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

CA: In a world where agency is out there and say that, you know, maybe it’s open models are widely distributed and someone says,

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

that you've shifted from being OpenAI, this open thing, to the allure of building something super powerful.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

I think it'd be hard to give us a bad grade on that. I do think it's fair that we should be open sourcing more. I think it was reasonable

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

But now I think we have a better understanding, as a world, and it is time for us to put very capable open systems out into the world. If you invite me back next year, you will probably yell at me

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

If you invite me back next year, you will probably yell at me for somebody who has misused these open-source systems, and say, "Why did you do that?"

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

and say, "Why did you do that?" You know, "You should have not gone back to your open roots." But, you know, there's trade offs in everything we do.

OpenAI’s Sam Altman Talks ChatGPT, AI Agents and Superintelligence — Live at TED2025

them now how much they're helping them is open to question there a lot of them getting killed um but they they could

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

and I'll give you example Le I mean you look at um meta and their open- Source llama chatbot and there are a lot of

The Biggest Global Risks for 2025 | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer · TED

is for me to gently try and play devil's advocate. TED is obviously -- we're trying to be open tent. We want people of all political views and so forth,

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

you know, highly politicized lawsuits in which they're going to have to open up their computers, their laptops.

Can Big Tech and Privacy Coexist? | Carole Cadwalladr and Chris Anderson | TED · TED

But in reality, I just didn't know how to stand up for myself when I did open up. So I was having this discussion with a friend

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

to the people-pleasing part of the conversation, because if you're afraid to open up to your partner, which is what I see a lot,

A Filmmaker + a Therapist on People-Pleasing | TED Intersections · TED

one of the things we say is if you want to take away the screen you have to open the door

How to Raise Confident Kids in an Age of Anxiety | Lenore Skenazy | TED · TED

it's actually not rocket science. Open communication, mutual respect, kindness, patience --

The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood | TED · TED

safely transporting the ones who call for her assistance. Wild women, they open portals to new worlds, new speech, new dreams.

"Wild Women" | Sunni Patterson

(Singing) There'll be days like this, my momma said. When you open your hands to catch and wind up with only blisters and bruises;

If I should have a daughter ... | Sarah Kay