State of the x: TEDxTalks in May

TEDxTalks by the numbers: May

1,278 new talks added to the TEDxTalks library
3.5 million views of the TEDxTalks YouTube channel and the TEDxTalks website
10 talks featured on TED.com
1.6 million views of those TEDxTalks featured on TED.com in May

TEDxTalks by the numbers: All time

16,546 TEDxTalks
42 million views of the TEDxTalks on the YouTube channel and the TEDxTalks website
168 talks featured on TED.com
80 million views of the TEDxTalks featured on TED.com

Seasoned TED speaker and prolific ad man Rory Sutherland knows a thing or two about how context can shape our perceptions of the world. At TEDxAthens, he makes a compelling case for how reframing is the key to happiness:

Melissa Garren believes the ocean’s most important life is also its smallest: the marine microbes that provide half the oxygen we breathe, and maintain entire underwater ecosystems. At TEDxMonterey, she shows how we are just starting to discover how these “invisible engineers” control our ocean’s chemistry: