Five TED Talks to inspire you in 2020

Since its launch in 1984, non-profit organisation TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) has become a go-to online resource for anyone interested in education, business, science, technology and creativity.

With more than 3,300 talks in more than 110 languages, it’s a global phenomenon – the perfect place to find food for thought in 2020.

We’ve hunted out five TED talks to get you started – find more at www.ted.com

– if you’re feeling burned out and find work problems follow you home, this talk by psychologist Guy Winch offers three simple techniques to help you relax and recharge after a busy day in the office, and stop you fretting over tomorrow’s tasks or stewing over tension in the workplace.

climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time - scientists predict it will displace more than 180 million people by 2100. Disaster recovery lawyer Colette Pichon Battle looks at how we can radically restructure the econom- ic and social systems which are driving climate change in the first place.

we’ve all heard the theories on why dinosaurs died out, but how did they come to dominate the earth in the first place? In this talk, paleontologist Emma Schachner takes us back to 200 million years before dinosaurs became extinct to take a whole new look at their history.

if one of your New Year resolutions was to ditch the cigarettes, this talk by health policy expert Mitch Zeller is the one for you, as he details the sordid history of nicotine addiction and invites us to imagine a world where policy changes stop people becoming addicted in the first place.

what if you never had to fill out paperwork again? In Estonia, this is already a reality, thanks to an ambitious digital transformation known as ‘e-Estonia’. One of the program’s experts, Anna Piperal, explains the key principles which power this ‘e-government’ and shows why the rest of the world should follow suit.