The Top 20 TED Talks in The Last 5 Years

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This list of the most popular videos is compiled by TED  and covers a wide range of topics such as education, creativity, sex, big questions about the universe and many more. We are sharing it with you here in case you want to use some with your students.

Sir Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity (2006): 8,660,010 views 
Jill Bolte Taylor‘s stroke of insight (2008): 8,087,935 
Pranav Mistry on the thrilling potential of SixthSense (2009): 6,747,410 
Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense (2009): 6,731,153 
David Gallo‘s underwater astonishments (2007): 6,411,705 
Tony Robbins asks Why we do what we do (2006): 4,909,505 
Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen (2006): 3,954,776 
Arthur Benjamin does mathemagic (2005): 3,664,705 
Jeff Han demos his breakthrough multi-touchscreen (2006): 3,592,795 
Johnny Lee shows Wii Remote hacks for educators (2008): 3,225,864 
Blaise Aguera y Arcas runs through the Photosynth demo (2007): 3,007,440 
Elizabeth Gilbert on nurturing your genius (2009): 2,978,288 
Dan Gilbert asks: Why are we happy? (2004): 2,903,993 
Stephen Hawking asks big questions about the universe (2008): 2,629,230 
Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation (2009): 2,616,363 
Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice (2005): 2,263,065 
Richard St. John shares 8 secrets of success (2005): 2,252,911 
Mary Roach 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm (2009): 2,223,822 
Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action (2010): 2,187,868 
Chimamanda Adichie shares the danger of a single story (2009): 2,143,763 "