The year in ideas: TED Talks of 2014

What were the most powerful ideas of 2014? Watch our 8-minute highlight reel of the Year in Ideas. Explore a fun, interactive playlist of the TED Talks of the year at Below, a time-coded list of the talks in this video: 00:09 Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space 00:22 Fabien Cousteau: What I learned spending 31 days underwater 00:32 Vincent Moon and Nana Vasconcelos: Hidden musical rituals around the world 00:42 Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road ... and in the air 01:00 Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back 01:09 Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics 01:20 Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb, dance 01:29 Leanna Wen: What your doctors won’t disclose 01:41 Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope 01:52 Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection? 02:08 Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power 02:18 Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy 02:25 Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like 02:40 Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world? 02:51 Michael Green: What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country 03:00 Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming 03:14 Thomas Pikkety: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century 03:20 Charmian Gooch: My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business 03:30 Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data 03:37 Jennifer Golbeck: The curly fry conundrum: Why social media ‘likes’ say more than you think 03:47 Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime 03:57 Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters 04:09 Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk 04:19 Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet 04:24 Keren Elazari: Hackers: The Internet’s immune system 04:34 Melissa Fleming: Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive 04:40 Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law 04:47 Eman Mohammed: Courage to tell a hidden story 04:54 Sebastian Junger: Why veterans miss war 05:00 Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life 05:10 Sting: How I started writing songs again 05:19 Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music 05:24 Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near-win 05:30 Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating 05:40 Jamila Lysicott: 3 ways to speak English 05:49 Jill Shargaa: Please, please, please, let’s put the ‘awe’ back in ‘awesome’ 06:01 Anne Curzan: What make a word ‘real?’ 06:14 Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future 06:28 Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self 06:34 Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age 06:43 Ziauddin Yousafzai: My daughter, Malala 07:03 Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here’s how I chose peace. 07:12 Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave? 07:23 Geena Rocero: Why I must come out 07:31 Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don’t define you 07:43 Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems ... palsy is just one 08:04 Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best. 08:12 Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are