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So suddenly, somehow, I had turned this zoo outreach job that I had into a work-from-home situation, right?

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

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So suddenly, somehow, I had turned this zoo outreach job that I had into a work-from-home situation, right?

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

what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be Priceless later on let me give you one

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

our finest creation the Macintosh a year earlier and I just turned 30 and then I got

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

love and so I decided to start over I didn't see it then but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

a microscope the doctor started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement 2005 · Stanford

But as they went out of the room, he turned on the radio that was sitting on his desk. And when they got out of the room,

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

she was on her feet, moving to the music. And they watched for a few minutes, and he turned to her mother and said, "Mrs. Lynne, Gillian isn't sick.

Do schools kill creativity? — Ken Robinson · TED

I had just turned 22 when I finished my first semester of graduate school at the

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

Everybody was running around and having fun, but then sometime around 30 it was like the music turned off and everybody started sitting down.

Why 30 is not the new 20 | Meg Jay

Was it me or the teacher? She must have realized that she turned a team-building event into a public roast for three six-year-olds.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

so I ignored that part of my brain. I turned to her and I said, "Hi, my name is Nick.

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

but it didn't seem to matter. She turned to me, a big smile, her face all lit up --

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

I was presented with an investment opportunity, and then I was turned down. And that rejection hurt me.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

if they kept to themselves in solitude, or if they turned to the person who sat next to them that morning and tried to have a conversation, tried to connect.

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

that left them feeling happier if they kept to themselves in solitude, than if they turned to the stranger to connect with them on the train. But when we recruited another sample of people

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

And I just said, "No? I'm sorry." Then I turned around, and I just ran. (Laughter)

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

changed all of my relationships. I've turned countless strangers into friends or into acquaintances at least --

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

And then Day Three: Getting Olympic Doughnuts. This is where my life was turned upside down. I went to a Krispy Kreme.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

and to change myself. So I turned the rest of my 100 days of rejection into this playground --

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

Then I started embracing it. I turned that into the biggest gift in my life. I started teaching people how to turn rejections into opportunities.

What I Learned from 100 Days of Rejection | Jia Jiang | TED · TED

But what actually happened is so much cooler. Because as more and more of that nitrogen turned into a gas, those gas molecules got more and more crowded

Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED · TED

By genetic disease we mean that cancer is caused by oncogenes that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

that are turned on in cancer and tumor suppressor genes that are turned off to cause cancer. You might think that we learned about oncogenes

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

Now, I will not tell you that src is the most important oncogene. that src is the most frequently turned on oncogene in all of cancer. But it was the first oncogene.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

Now, TP53 is the most important tumor suppressor gene. It is the most frequently turned off tumor suppressor gene in almost every kind of cancer.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

She came out in the hall to chat with me for a few minutes. It turned out that what she had been reading was the protocol that the chemotherapy doctors

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

she started to notice another nodule in the same area. It turned out he hadn't gotten it all, and she wasn't good to go. But what happened at this juncture absolutely fascinates me.

Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine | Kevin B. Jones

To my great surprise, this unorthodox approach turned me into a quasi self-help guru. And a few years into this trip, I decided that I wanted to get a sense

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

(Laughter) After she finished reading, my wife turned to me and said, "Congratulations, now you're boring."

The Benefits of Not Being a Jerk to Yourself | Dan Harris | TED · TED

(Laughter) I have yet to see somebody who is so turned on by somebody who needs them.

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

naughtiness, mischief. Basically most of us will get turned on at night by the very same things that we will demonstrate against during the day.

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

to cardiovascular disease. Basically, I've turned stress into the enemy. But I have changed my mind about stress,

How to Make Stress Your Friend | Kelly McGonigal | TED · TED

I received that chart in hand, reviewed it, and I turned the handle on the door and I entered the room.

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

those intricate ways in which our DNA is literally shaped, genes turned on and off based on the exposures to the environment,

What makes us get sick? Look upstream | Rishi Manchanda

and all of that support disappeared overnight. In a blur, my days turned into breastfeeding difficulties, toddler meltdowns and depression.

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

I decided to post a joke video on TikTok one day about my house-turned-disaster. (Laughter)

How to Do Laundry When You're Depressed | KC Davis | TED · TED

but I didn't think they had any chance at all of doing it. And it turned out that was the case. All of the AI juju circa 2016

Can AI Master the Art of Humor? | Bob Mankoff | TED · TED

I discovered that a communication line in my immune system was turned into overdrive, and that a decades-old transplant drug might be able to turn it off.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

I wrote a book about my journey, "Chasing My Cure," which is being turned into a film, and I joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

Within two weeks of starting leucovorin, he turned to his dad when he was leaving for work and said, "Daddy, I love you." It's just incredible.

How Nearly Dying Helped Me Discover My Own Cure (and Many More) | David Fajgenbaum | TED · TED

I was just 23 years old, and my firstborn son, Terrell, had just turned seven. Driven by the belief that our children would not inherit our conflicts,

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

for the community for Juneteenth, turned into a day and an event that made me feel like I had never felt before.

Your Zip Code Shouldn’t Determine Your Lifespan | Dion Dawson | TED · TED

Silicon Valley, which was home to many of our top engineers and scientists, had turned its back on defense and the military writ large,

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

at the working habits of its staff guess who turned out to be the most productive not those who stay chained to their

Slow Work

In Africa where I was, I didn't have drinkable water. Every time I turned on the faucet, I was overwhelmed. Every time I clicked on the light, I was so grateful.

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

and on the water faucet, and every time I turned it on, water. So leave it up to your own imagination.

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

The future of the world will be a network, not a pyramid turned upside down. The revolution of which I am speaking is a nonviolent revolution,

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

because the normal revolution is one where the power pyramid is turned upside down and those who were on the bottom are now on the top

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

my morning cup of coffee. Well, it turned out to be not so simple at all. (Laughter)

My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs

So this really started for me right after I turned 25, and I started to wake up in the middle of the night

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

we could hear ours all the time. More often than not, one of his scans turned up something. Back tumor here, a neck tumor there,

Lessons from My Father’s Final Days | Laurel Braitman | TED · TED

And so I had this nerdy thing where I love building surveys. So I turned these nine dimensions into kind of a 20-ish question survey that I answer pretty much every day.

What Happened When I Started Measuring My Life Every Day | Chris Musser | TED · TED

All of this done on donated supplies and volunteer time. And that has now turned into over 40 boxes over three different counties, with a network of hundreds of volunteers keeping it stocked.

How Acts of Kindness Sparked a Global Movement | Asha Curran | TED · TED

I got cast as Etienne Toussaint Bouvier, Las Vegas showgirl turned Anthony's wife for the final season of "Designing Women."

A 3-Step Guide to Believing in Yourself | Sheryl Lee Ralph | TED · TED

"Good. You never know. I might have turned around, and zoop, you're gone."

Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark

on a relatively new relationship. But as it turned out, I had no idea. So the article was published online

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

"Hey Mandy, where's your boyfriend?" And I promptly turned bright red. I understand that this is part of the deal.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

to do a media appearance together. I turned down TV interviews, and I said no to every request for photos of the two us.

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

and I had no idea how or if I could make a life without him. So I turned to science. I researched everything I could find about the science of romantic love,

Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron

delivered to farms for animals to eat. The rest gets composted and turned back into good dirt.

TED Explores: Food for the Future | TED Countdown · TED

that the last time you spoke, you know, you'd end up being sued and that it turned your life upside down. We're not going into sort of naming names and all the rest of it,

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

Because I was having to defend something which I’d never said, and that was where it turned the case on its head, because it meant I couldn't defend that judge's meaning.

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

Like, I love my personal achievements. I'm really happy with my life. I think it's turned out OK. I wish incredible personal achievements for all of you.

How to Live a Meaningful Life | Brian S. Lowery | TED · TED

as well as their independence and it turned out that um you know parents are very very concerned about phones and

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

No matter how many difficult feelings there were, he turned toward them with kindness and compassion. He never turned away.

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

he turned toward them with kindness and compassion. He never turned away. And what was the second characteristic

How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski

Volatility, belittling. My oldest son turned around and looked at me, and said, "Mom, that's not love."

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

and we learn it's not reciprocal. It can be turned off or on. It doesn't need to be nurtured,

The AI-Generated Intimacy Crisis | Bryony Cole | TED · TED

that we take this moment of inflection and we actually pivot in a good way. AWG: Yeah, so I actually just turned in the paper to Stanford, which is an AI policy paper about what we need to do going forward

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

I felt this tap on my shoulder, and I turned around to see this giant girl in a hoodie sweatshirt emerge from the crowd.

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

And it created the American middle class. It created a boom in our economy and turned us into what we are today, which is the most successful and most powerful nation in the world.

3 Possible Futures for AI — Which Will We Choose? | Alvin W. Graylin | TED · TED

that received direct contact with the rays from that sun was instantly turned to ash. And what was left of the city soon followed.

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

Recently I told someone my work is on democracy and technology. He turned to me and said, “Wow...

How AI and Democracy Can Fix Each Other | Divya Siddarth | TED · TED

(Laughter) So, we turned to the data again. And we found America's longest-lived population

How to Live to be 100+ | Dan Buettner | TED · TED

the stability it had given me was turned against me. I stood in the studio, surrounded by my peers,

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

was now a stage that we could stand on together. Resilience had turned pain into beauty and beauty into legacy.

The Roots of Resilience | Misty Copeland | TED · TED

It never worked. So I finally turned towards her and I finally said the things that she had always needed to hear.

What Losing Everything Taught Me About Resilience | Jane Marie Chen | TED · TED

and then we can sift through all the information we've collected and try to work out why their lives turned out different. This British study -- it's actually a kind of crazy story.

Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson

The emergence of vision half a billion years ago turned a world of darkness upside down. It set off the most profound evolutionary process:

With Spatial Intelligence, AI Will Understand the Real World | Fei-Fei Li | TED · TED

if you don't know what this is. That is a human brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption.

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

But it gets weirder. Only this man's brain turned to glass, not his other organs,

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

When researchers discover how life began or unlock how ancient brains turned to glass, these are ultimately human stories

The Thrill of Not Knowing All the Answers | Harini Bhat | TED · TED

before putting them out. But interestingly, it turned out that even with those flaws, many tens of millions of people still find them very useful.

How AI Is Unlocking the Secrets of Nature and the Universe | Demis Hassabis | TED · TED

(Laughter) It hasn't turned out all that well. But my students and I, about five years ago,

Why Don’t We Have Better Robots Yet? | Ken Goldberg | TED · TED

So, what have we done to protect the Arabic language? We turned this into a concern of the civil society, and we launched a campaign to preserve the Arabic language.

Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language

And as they were leaving the room, two of them turned to me and said, "We loved that.

How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

our little bump turned into a smooth line. The news reported on a "huge disappointment," on "faded hopes,"

How we explore unanswered questions in physics | James Beacham

and thought, I need to figure out what this is. And it turned out to be shame. And shame is really easily understood as the fear of disconnection:

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

in the decade of doing this research. My one year turned into six years: Thousands of stories, hundreds of long interviews, focus groups.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

And now my mission to control and predict had turned up the answer that the way to live is with vulnerability and to stop controlling and predicting.

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

initiating sex with my wife; being turned down; asking someone out; waiting for the doctor to call back;

The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown | TED · TED

or listening to music or reading. It turned out that the people who were assigned to talk to strangers didn't think they were going to like it,

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

didn't think they were going to like it, but they turned out to be much happier at the end of the task than the people who just rode the subway keeping to themselves.

The Secret to a Happy Life — Lessons from 8 Decades of Research | Robert Waldinger | TED · TED

and get married a year after that. But when Kathy turned 27, she didn't find a husband. She found a lump in her breast.

How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch | TED · TED

By age 11, I wasn't allowed to watch horror films, so I turned to documentaries instead. "The Cove," "Food, Inc," "An Inconvenient Truth."

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

was when I sat glued to my computer screen, staring at mass dolphin hunts that turned the shoreline red. Staring as million-year-old forests were bulldozed to produce Big Macs,

Clover Hogan: What to do when climate change feels unstoppable | TED · TED

May I have your attention, please?" And everyone turned around, startled. And George said,

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are | Andrew Solomon

and the roads grew emptier and narrower, and then I turned onto an even narrower path, barely paved, that snaked for two miles

Where Is Home? | Pico Iyer | TED · TED

live-in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages. So, the year I turned eight, we got a new house boy. His name was Fide.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED

I didn't consciously identify as African. But in the U.S., whenever Africa came up, people turned to me. Never mind that I knew nothing about places like Namibia.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story | TED · TED