TED Talks Daily

TED Talks Daily takes the best presentations from TED and TEDx stages around the world and delivers them as audio episodes, one per day. The subjects span everything from artificial intelligence to zoology, with stops at psychology, design, politics, health, education, and technology along the way. Host Elise Hu introduces each talk and provides context, but the bulk of every episode is the speaker and their ideas. For high school students, this is one of the most efficient ways to stay curious across a huge range of subjects. Episodes run 10 to 40 minutes, which means you can fit one into a morning routine, a bus commute, or a study break. Recent episodes have covered the science of eyewitness memory, how AI is changing human connection, and innovations in healthcare delivery in developing countries. The diversity of topics means you are constantly exposed to fields and ideas you might never encounter in a standard high school curriculum. The catalog is massive at over 2,100 episodes, and the show holds a 4.1 star average from over 10,000 Apple ratings. The quality varies because TED and TEDx speakers range from world-class researchers to less polished presenters, but the best episodes can genuinely change how you think about a subject in under 20 minutes. For students figuring out what interests them or preparing for college essays about their intellectual curiosity, a daily TED habit is hard to beat.