How to Explain Complicated Things

How to Explain Complicated Things You may remember a time when it was difficult to make it through the day without hearing someone cite a TED Talk. A major technological reason for that was streaming video’s new accessibility on practically everyone’s computer (especially those of people bored at work). A major cultural reason was there was a considerable demographic overlap between those who knew their way around the new video-sharing realms of the internet and those likely to want to hear a “thought leader” speak for eighteen minutes or less. Whether schools kill creativity, the mechanics of procrastination, what happens when you reply to spam e‑mail: these are just a few of the subjects that most aggressively captivated the minds of the suddenly large and chatty TED Talk audience of the late two-thousands and early twenty-tens. Since those days, some of the most popular TED Talks ever given have undergone reputational re-evaluation. The robustness of the science undergirding

Added 30 Sept 2026