More than facts. This week, how belief, communication, and connection determine what we trust—and what we act on.
What’s changed, and what hasn’t, since this talk? In this 2-minute Brief, TEDMED revisits James Hamblin’s ideas, examining how the tension between clarity and oversimplification has only intensified in today’s health landscape.
Why do some stories spread faster than evidence? Heidi Larson reveals how vaccine decisions are shaped not just by information, but by trust, and what happens when it breaks. In a connected world, those fractures don't stay local, they scale.
Health doesn’t move on its own, it’s carried through systems, stories, and scrutiny. From Katherine Eban’s investigation into the drug supply to Sanjay Gupta on medical media, this playlist explores how trust is built, and how health travels across borders and beliefs.
Step outside the boundaries of health to explore perception, creativity, and the evolving relationship between humans, systems, and technology.
Much research has shown that there is a deep connection between music and the mind. It sparks memory, invokes empathy, and allows for emotional release. Musical Visionary Beatie…
Research has demonstrated a strong connection between music and memory. In fact, Psychedelic Neuroscientist Frederick Streeter Barrett studied the deep connection between music and nostalgia, explaining that music…
In today’s world of wearables, we have begun to receive information about our bodies in real time, and with relative ease. What if we could take this a…
Some say ‘seeing is believing’. Yet, Creative Investigator Anupam B. Jena argues that “seeing is not the same thing as looking”. Anupam believes that health care insights exist…
Our connection to nature – and to the world around us – is difficult to measure. Yet, it is being documented in marvelous ways by Nordic Nature Artists…
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