TEDMED

TEDMED bridges the gap between science and the public by sharing stories that inform, inspire, and provoke action inside and outside of medicine.

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Christine Nieves shows what community can become in a crisis: not just solidarity, but infrastructure.

After Hurricane Maria, local knowledge, reciprocity, and organized care became tools for survival.

Watch her #TEDMED Talk: https://t.co/iETIDU5x5X

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“Exposure was not enough.”

Ralph Nader’s TEDMED Talk makes a sharper case for social change: awareness matters, but organized civic pressure is what turns public concern into institutional action.

Watch the full Talk at https://t.co/El3sW1oIwZ.

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Visibility can expose a problem. It rarely solves one.

In this #TEDMED In Context, we revisit Ralph Nader’s argument that durable change requires organized citizens, sustained pressure, and a clear understanding of how systems move.

Watch at https://t.co/El3sW1oIwZ.

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What behavior are we accidentally training people to repeat?

This week at TEDMED: habit loops, cultural loops, and the rewards that shape what we do next.

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Some patterns are not biological destiny.

They are culturally reinforced loops.

We reward the self over relationships.
Thinking over feeling.
Distance over closeness.

Then those rewards shape behavior.

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Niobe Way challenges one of culture’s most familiar shortcuts:

“Boys will be boys.”

Her TEDMED Talk asks what happens when emotional distance is treated as natural, rather than taught.

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The shift is not from weakness to discipline.

It is from reacting to investigating.

What does the urge feel like?
What reward does the brain expect?
What happens when the reward is not what we thought?

That is where the loop starts to update.

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If willpower worked, behavior change would be easy.

Judson Brewer’s work shows why habits are not just choices. They are reward-based learning loops.

Trigger. Behavior. Reward.

The new TEDMED Now episode explores how those loops can change.

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When scientific recommendations change, people may hear contradiction.

But often, that change is science doing what science is supposed to do: testing, updating, correcting, refining.

The communication challenge is not hiding uncertainty.

It is explaining it before mistrust fills the gap.

Watch full Talk: https://t.co/FW3jEHaSUz

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“Just give people the facts” sounds reasonable.

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Heidi Larson asks us to see it differently: as a trust signal. https://t.co/crh9pfs8Sq

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The lesson: public health does not move through evidence alone. It moves through relationships.

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Since COVID-19, the trust picture has become more polarized and more fragile.

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Rumors are not just noise. They reveal what people fear, question, or feel excluded from.

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Vaccine hesitancy is often treated as a knowledge gap.

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Trust in science is not built by information alone.

It depends on who is speaking, who feels heard, and whether uncertainty is explained before it becomes suspicion.

This week at TEDMED: vaccine confidence, misinformation, and why facts need trust to travel.

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Compassion is not uniquely human.

Frans de Waal shows that chimpanzees engage in consolation behavior after conflict or distress.

That makes compassion more than a virtue. It is observable social biology.

Watch his TEDMED Talk: https://t.co/kMqVr72ScC

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Positive emotions may do more than improve mood.

Jennifer Stellar explains how awe and compassion can shift attention outward, support connection and meaning, and may even relate to physical markers of health.

The science of connection is bigger than we think.

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What if awe is part of your health?

In a new #TEDMEDConversation, Jennifer Stellar and Jon Ellenthal explore whether awe and compassion are more than beautiful experiences.

They may be part of how connection changes us.

Watch the new Conversation: https://t.co/TYLozPDKEg

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