This playlist, curated by TED, is courtesy of TED.com. It comprises 12 talks with a total running duration of about 2 hours and 28 minutes.
Talks in this playlist:
Jill Shargaa: Please, please, people. Let’s put the ‘awe’ back in ‘awesome’
John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography
Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?
Terry Moore: Why is ‘x’ the unknown?
Jean-Baptiste Michel + Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books
Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
Alan Siegel: Let’s simplify legal jargon!
Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry
Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal