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 http://yearinideas.ted.com/2014/
Below, a time-coded list of the talks in this video:

00:09
Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
http://go.ted.com/8bW

00:22
Fabien Cousteau: What I learned spending 31 days underwater
http://go.ted.com/8bs

00:32
Vincent Moon and Nana Vasconcelos: Hidden musical rituals around the world
http://go.ted.com/8bZ

00:42
Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road … and in the air
http://go.ted.com/8bw

01:00
Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back
http://go.ted.com/8b7

01:09
Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics
http://go.ted.com/8bQ

01:20
Hugh Herr: The new bionics that let us run, climb, dance
http://go.ted.com/8bT

01:29
Leanna Wen: What your doctors won’t disclose
http://go.ted.com/8by

01:41
Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope
http://go.ted.com/8bX

01:52
Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection?
http://go.ted.com/8bd

02:08
Eric Liu: Why ordinary people need to understand power
http://go.ted.com/8bc

02:18
Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy
http://go.ted.com/8bU

02:25
Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like
http://go.ted.com/8bv

02:40
Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?
http://go.ted.com/8b2

02:51
Michael Green: What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country
http://go.ted.com/8b5

03:00
Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming
http://go.ted.com/8bM

03:14
Thomas Pikkety: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century
http://go.ted.com/8bN

03:20
Charmian Gooch: My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business
http://go.ted.com/8b9

03:30
Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data
http://go.ted.com/8bP

03:37
Jennifer Golbeck: The curly fry conundrum: Why social media ‘likes’ say more than you think
http://go.ted.com/8bf

03:47
Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime
http://go.ted.com/8Cp

03:57
Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
http://go.ted.com/8CC

04:09
Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk
http://go.ted.com/8C6

04:19
Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet
http://go.ted.com/8CL

04:24
Keren Elazari: Hackers: The Internet’s immune system
http://go.ted.com/8CF

04:34
Melissa Fleming: Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive
http://go.ted.com/8CK

04:40
Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law
http://go.ted.com/8CY

04:47
Eman Mohammed: Courage to tell a hidden story
http://go.ted.com/8Cj

04:54
Sebastian Junger: Why veterans miss war
http://go.ted.com/8Ci

05:00
Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life
http://go.ted.com/8CD

05:10
Sting: How I started writing songs again
http://go.ted.com/8CB

05:19
Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music
http://go.ted.com/8Cx

05:24
Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near-win
http://go.ted.com/8Cn

05:30
Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating
http://go.ted.com/8C4

05:40
Jamila Lysicott: 3 ways to speak English
http://go.ted.com/8Ca

05:49
Jill Shargaa: Please, please, please, let’s put the ‘awe’ back in ‘awesome’
http://go.ted.com/8CE

06:01
Anne Curzan: What make a word ‘real?’
http://go.ted.com/8Cu

06:14
Nicholas Negroponte: A 30-year history of the future
http://go.ted.com/8C8

06:28
Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self
http://go.ted.com/8CS

06:34
Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age
http://go.ted.com/8CG

06:43
Ziauddin Yousafzai: My daughter, Malala
http://go.ted.com/8Ch

07:03
Zak Ebrahim: I am the son of a terrorist. Here’s how I chose peace.
http://go.ted.com/8Cq

07:12
Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave?
http://go.ted.com/8CH

07:23
Geena Rocero: Why I must come out
http://go.ted.com/8Cm

07:31
Shaka Senghor: Why your worst deeds don’t define you
http://go.ted.com/8Cg

07:43
Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems … palsy is just one
http://go.ted.com/8Ck

08:04
Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
http://go.ted.com/8CW

08:12
Andrew Solomon: How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are
http://go.ted.com/8CR