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Morality

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of morality.

Video playlists about Morality

The road to peace

10 talks • 2h 24m

Peace. It's humanity's eternal, elusive dream. These speakers offer inspired ideas, practical advice and real-world examples from around the globe of how it just might be attainable.

New tech, new ethics

9 talks • 2h 34m

With technical advancement comes great ethical responsibility. In these talks, amazing, life-altering feats of science make us ask: How could we mess this up?

Talks about Morality

Sharon Brous

It's time to reclaim religion

Posted Dec 2016

Zeynep Tufekci

Machine intelligence makes human morals more important

Posted Oct 2016

Jennifer Kahn

Gene editing can now change an entire species — forever

Posted May 2016

Aspen Baker

A better way to talk about abortion

Posted Jul 2015

Ash Beckham

When to take a stand — and when to let it go

Posted Jul 2015

Leana Wen

What your doctor won’t disclose

Posted Nov 2014

Daniel Reisel

The neuroscience of restorative justice

Posted Mar 2014

Elizabeth Loftus

How reliable is your memory?

Posted Sep 2013

Ellen 't Hoen

Pool medical patents, save lives

Posted Dec 2012

David Pizarro

The strange politics of disgust

Posted Oct 2012

Sebastian Deterding

What your designs say about you

Posted May 2012

Frans de Waal

Moral behavior in animals

Posted Apr 2012

Stephen Coleman

Non-lethal weapons, a moral hazard?

Posted Feb 2012

Paul Zak

Trust, morality — and oxytocin?

Posted Nov 2011

Sam Harris

Science can answer moral questions

Posted Mar 2010

Rebecca Saxe

How we read each other's minds

Posted Sep 2009

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Exclusive articles about Morality

The promising and perilous science of gene editing

CRISPR-Cas9 could change the human genome for generations. Here’s why its inventor is trying to press pause. Should scientists edit the human genome, striking out undesirable t...

What are the ethics of using young blood to reverse the effects of aging?

In June, Stanford biologist Tony Wyss-Coray took the TED stage to describe no less than “an absolutely amazing development in aging research” (How young blood might help reverse...

The moral dark side of reporting on the dark net

The best way to understand how an illegal online drugs market works is to buy something from it. That, however, creates fairly obvious difficulties, as Jamie Bartlett explains. ...

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