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- A Tribe Called Red: We Are the Halluci Nation
- A.J. Jacobs: How healthy living nearly killed me, My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee, My year of living biblically, The evolution of the coffee cup lid, The world’s largest family reunion … we’re all invited!
- Aakash Odedra: A dance in a hurricane of paper, wind and light
- Aala El-Khani: What it’s like to be a parent in a war zone
- Aaron Duffy: Illusions for a better society
- Aaron Huey: America’s native prisoners of war
- Aaron Koblin: Visualizing ourselves … with crowd-sourced data
- Aaron O’Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object
- Aaron Reedy: Sex determination: More complicated than you thought
- Aaron Sams: How to speed up chemical reactions (and get a date)
- Aaswath Raman: How we can turn the cold of outer space into a renewable resource
- Aatish Bhatia: The physics of human sperm vs. the physics of the sperm whale
- Abe Davis: New video technology that reveals an object’s hidden properties
- Abha Dawesar: Life in the digital now
- Abhishek Gopalka: How motivation can fix public systems
- Abigail Marsh: Why some people are more altruistic than others
- Abigail Washburn: Building US-China relations … by banjo
- Abraham Verghese: A doctor’s touch
- Achenyo Idachaba: How I turned a deadly plant into a thriving business
- Adam Alter: Why our screens make us less happy
- Adam Carroll: What playing Monopoly with real money taught me about my kids–and humanity
- Adam Davidson: What we learned from teetering on the fiscal cliff
- Adam Driver: My journey from Marine to actor
- Adam Foss: A prosecutor’s vision for a better justice system
- Adam Galinsky: How to speak up for yourself
- Adam Garone: Healthier men, one moustache at a time
- Adam Garske: How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world
- Adam Grant: Are you a giver or a taker?, The surprising habits of original thinkers
- Adam Grosser: A mobile fridge for vaccines
- Adam Kucharski: How can we control the coronavirus pandemic?
- Adam Ockelford: In the key of genius
- Adam Ostrow: After your final status update
- Adam Sadowsky: How to engineer a viral music video
- Adam Savage: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries, My love letter to cosplay, My obsession with objects and the stories they tell
- Adam Spencer: Why I fell in love with monster prime numbers
- Adam de la Zerda: We can start winning the war against cancer
- Adar Cohen: 3 ways to lead tough, unavoidable conversations
- Addison Anderson: The most groundbreaking scientist you’ve never heard of
- Aditi Gupta: A taboo-free way to talk about periods
- Aditi Shankardass: A second opinion on developmental disorders
- Adong Judith: How I use art to bridge misunderstanding
- Adora Svitak: What adults can learn from kids
- Adrienne Mayor: Did the Amazons really exist?, The Greek myth of Talos, the first robot
- Adrián Paenza: How folding paper can get you to the moon
- Afra Raymond: Three myths about corruption
- Agnes Binagwaho: How women are revolutionizing Rwanda
- Ahn Trio: A modern take on piano, violin, cello
- Ai-jen Poo: The work that makes all other work possible
- Aicha el-Wafi: The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship
- Aimee Mullins: Changing my legs - and my mindset, My 12 pairs of legs, The opportunity of adversity
- Aja Monet: A love story about the power of art as organizing
- Ajit Narayanan: A word game to communicate in any language
- Akash Manoj: A life-saving device that detects silent heart attacks
- Akshita Agarwal: The paradox of value
- Al Gore: Averting the climate crisis, New thinking on the climate crisis, The case for optimism on climate change, What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?
- Al Seckel: Visual illusions that show how we (mis)think
- Al Vernacchio: Sex needs a new metaphor. Here’s one …
- Alaa Murabit: What my religion really says about women
- Alain de Botton: A kinder, gentler philosophy of success, Atheism 2.0
- Alan Crickmore: How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids
- Alan Eustace: I leapt from the stratosphere. Here’s how I did it
- Alan Kay: A powerful idea about ideas
- Alan Lupack: Is there any truth to the King Arthur legends?
- Alan Russell: The potential of regenerative medicine
- Alan Siegel: Let’s simplify legal jargon!
- Alan Smith: Why you should love statistics
- Alanna Shaikh: How I’m preparing to get Alzheimer’s, Why COVID-19 is hitting us now – and how to prepare for the next outbreak
- Alasdair Harris: How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution
- Alastair Gray: How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime
- Alastair Parvin: Architecture for the people by the people
- Albert-László Barabási: The real relationship between your age and your chance of success
- Alberto Cairo: There are no scraps of men
- Alec Soth: This is what enduring love looks like
- Alejandro Aravena: My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process
- Alejandro Durán: How I use art to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans
- Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado: To solve old problems, study new species
- Aleph Molinari: Let’s bridge the digital divide!
- Alessandra Orofino: It’s our city. Let’s fix it
- Alessandro Acquisti: What will a future without secrets look like?
- Alex Edmans: What to trust in a post-truth world
- Alex Gendler: A brief history of chess, A day in the life of a Cossack warrior, Can you outsmart this logical fallacy?, Can you solve the bridge riddle?, Can you solve the death race riddle?, Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle?, Can you solve the famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle?, Can you solve the giant iron riddle?, Can you solve the multiplying rabbits riddle?, Can you solve the pirate riddle?, Can you solve the prisoner hat riddle?, Can you solve the rebel supplies riddle?, Can you solve the secret sauce riddle?, Can you solve the three gods riddle?, Epic Engineering: Building the Brooklyn Bridge, Everything changed when the fire crystal got stolen, History vs. Christopher Columbus, History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte, How do ventilators work?, How does impeachment work?, How the world’s longest underwater tunnel was built, How tsunamis work, Myths and misconceptions about evolution, The Egyptian myth of Isis and the seven scorpions, The myth of Hercules, The myth of Loki and the master builder, The myth of Sisyphus, The wars that inspired Game of Thrones, Which voting system is the best?, Why do we cry? The three types of tears, Why doesn’t the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over?, Why elephants never forget, Why should you read Crime and Punishment?, Why should you read The Master and Margarita?, History vs. Henry VIII, What Machiavellian really means, History vs. Augustus
- Alex Honnold: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff – without ropes
- Alex Kipman: A futuristic vision of the age of holograms
- Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill
- Alex Rosenthal: The case of the missing fractals, Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer?, The Artists Think Like A Coder, Ep 5, The Chasm Think Like A Coder, Ep 6, The Factory Think Like A Coder, Ep 9, The Furnace Bots Think Like A Coder, Ep 3, The Gauntlet Think Like A Coder, Ep 8, The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts, The Prison Break Think Like A Coder, Ep 1, The Resistance Think Like A Coder, Ep 2, The Tower of Epiphany Think Like A Coder, Ep 7, The Train Heist Think Like A Coder, Ep 4, When is a pandemic over?
- Alex Steffen: The route to a sustainable future, The shareable future of cities
- Alex Tabarrok: How ideas trump crises
- Alex Wissner-Gross: A new equation for intelligence
- Alexa Meade: Your body is my canvas
- Alexander Belcredi: How a long-forgotten virus could help us solve the antibiotics crisis
- Alexander Betts: Our refugee system is failing. Here’s how we can fix it, Why Brexit happened – and what to do next
- Alexander MacDonald: How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight
- Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth – visualized
- Alexander Wagner: What really motivates people to be honest in business
- Alexandra Auer: The intangible effects of walls
- Alexandra Horowitz: How do dogs see with their noses?
- Alexandra Sacks: A new way to think about the transition to motherhood
- Alexandros Charalambides: Why aren’t we only using solar power?
- Alexis Charpentier: How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage
- Alexis Jones: Redefining manhood—one locker room talk at a time
- Alexis Ohanian: How to make a splash in social media
- Ali Carr-Chellman: Gaming to re-engage boys in learning
- Alice Bows-Larkin: Climate change is happening. Here’s how we adapt
- Alice Dreger: Is anatomy destiny?
- Alice Goffman: How we’re priming some kids for college — and others for prison
- Alice Rawsthorn: Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers
- Alicia Eggert: Imaginative sculptures that explore how we perceive reality
- Alicia Garza: An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
- Alisa Kazarina: Humanity at the intersection of science and archaeology
- Alisa Miller: How the news distorts our worldview
- Alisa Volkman: Let’s talk parenting taboos
- Alison Gopnik: What do babies think?
- Alison Jackson: An unusual glimpse at celebrity
- Alison Killing: There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help, What happens when a city runs out of room for its dead
- Alison Ledgerwood: A simple trick to improve positive thinking
- Alix Generous: How I learned to communicate my inner life with Asperger’s
- Allan Adams: The discovery that could rewrite physics, What the discovery of gravitational waves means
- Allan Jones: A map of the brain
- Allan Savory: How to fight desertification and reverse climate change
- Allison Hunt: How to get (a new) hip
- Allison Ramsey: The accident that changed the world
- Alvin Irby: How to inspire every child to be a lifelong reader
- Alwar Balasubramaniam: Art of substance and absence
- Alyson McGregor: Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women
- Alyssa Loorya: What I learned from digging under New York City’s streets
- Alyssa Monks: How loss helped one artist find beauty in imperfection
- Amanda Bennett: We need a heroic narrative for death
- Amanda Burden: How public spaces make cities work
- Amanda Mattes: Kabuki: The people’s dramatic art
- Amanda Palmer: Space Oddity, The art of asking
- Amanda Schochet: How bumble bees inspired a network of tiny museums
- Amanda Williams: Why I turned Chicago’s abandoned homes into art
- Amane Dannouni: How online marketplaces can help local economies, not hurt them
- Amar Inamdar: The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy
- Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
- Amber Galloway-Gallego: Music with a message should be accessible
- Amber M. Yates: How this disease changes the shape of your cells
- Amber Stuver: Einstein’s twin paradox explained
- Ameenah Gurib-Fakim: An interview with Mauritius’s first female president, Humble plants that hide surprising secrets
- Ameera Harouda: Why I put myself in danger to tell the stories of Gaza
- Amel Karboul: The global learning crisis – and what to do about it
- America Ferrera: My identity is a superpower – not an obstacle
- Ami Angelowicz: The terrors of sleep paralysis
- Ami Klin: A new way to diagnose autism
- Amishi Jha: How to tame your wandering mind
- Amit Kalra: 3 creative ways to fix fashion’s waste problem
- Amit Sood: Building a museum of museums on the web, Every piece of art you’ve ever wanted to see – up close and searchable
- Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin: A historical musical that examines black identity in the 1901 World’s Fair
- Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy, Winning the oil endgame
- Amos Winter: The cheap all-terrain wheelchair
- Amy Adele Hasinoff: How to practice safe sexting
- Amy Adkins: 3 tips to boost your confidence, The myth of Icarus and Daedalus, Who am I? A philosophical inquiry, Why do we dream?
- Amy Cuddy: Your body language may shape who you are
- Amy Edmondson: How to turn a group of strangers into a team
- Amy Green: A video game to cope with grief
- Amy Herman: A lesson on looking
- Amy Lockwood: Selling condoms in the Congo
- Amy Milton: Can we edit memories?
- Amy Nicole Baker: 7 common questions about workplace romance
- Amy O’Toole: Science is for everyone, kids included
- Amy Padnani: How we’re honoring people overlooked by history
- Amy Purdy: Living beyond limits
- Amy Smith: Simple designs to save a life
- Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?
- Amy Webb: How I hacked online dating
- Anab Jain: Why we need to imagine different futures
- Anand Agarawala: Rethink the desktop with BumpTop
- Anand Giridharadas: A letter to all who have lost in this era, A tale of two Americas. And the mini-mart where they collided
- Anand Varma: The first 21 days of a bee’s life
- Ananda Shankar Jayant: Fighting cancer with dance
- Anant Agarwal: Why massive open online courses (still) matter
- Ananya Grover: A campaign for period positivity
- Anas Aremeyaw Anas: How I named, shamed and jailed
- Anastasia Penright: 5 steps to remove yourself from drama at work
- Anastasia Taylor-Lind: Fighters and mourners of the Ukrainian revolution
- Anders Fjellberg: Two nameless bodies washed up on the beach. Here are their stories
- Anders Ynnerman: Visualizing the medical data explosion
- Andras Forgacs: Leather and meat without killing animals
- Andrea Ghez: The hunt for a supermassive black hole
- Andrea Gibson: The Nutritionist
- Andrea M. Henle: How CRISPR lets you edit DNA
- Andreas Ekström: The moral bias behind your search results
- Andreas Raptopoulos: No roads? There’s a drone for that
- Andreas Schleicher: Use data to build better schools
- Andreea S. Calude: Does grammar matter?
- Andres Lozano: Parkinson’s, depression and the switch that might turn them off
- Andrew Bastawrous: A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable, Get your next eye exam on a smartphone
- Andrew Bird: A one-man orchestra of the imagination
- Andrew Blum: Discover the physical side of the internet
- Andrew Connolly: What’s the next window into our universe?
- Andrew Dent: To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift
- Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction
- Andrew Forrest: A radical plan to end plastic waste
- Andrew Marantz: Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists
- Andrew McAfee: Are droids taking our jobs?, What will future jobs look like?
- Andrew Mwenda: Aid for Africa? No thanks.
- Andrew Pelling: This scientist makes ears out of apples
- Andrew Pontzen: The fundamentals of space-time: Part 2
- Andrew Solomon: Depression, the secret we share, How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are, Love, no matter what
- Andrew Stanton: The clues to a great story
- Andrew Vanden Heuvel: The moon illusion
- Andrew Youn: 3 reasons why we can win the fight against poverty
- Andrew Zimmerman Jones: Does time exist?
- Andrey Vyshedskiy: The neuroscience of imagination
- Andrés Ruzo: The boiling river of the Amazon
- Andy Hobsbawm: Do the green thing
- Andy Puddicombe: All it takes is 10 mindful minutes
- Andy Yen: Think your email’s private? Think again
- Anees Bahji: Can steroids save your life?, Is marijuana bad for your brain?, What is schizophrenia?
- Angel Chang: The wildly complex anatomy of a sneaker
- Angel Hsu: How China is (and isn’t) fighting pollution and climate change
- Angela Belcher: Using nature to grow batteries
- Angela Koine Flynn: The science of skin color
- Angela Lee Duckworth: Grit: The power of passion and perseverance
- Angela Patton: A father-daughter dance … in prison
- Angela Wang: How China is changing the future of shopping
- Angelicque White: What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate
- Angelo Vermeulen: How to go to space, without having to go to space
- Angie Murimirwa: How repaying loans with social service transforms communities
- Angélica Dass: The beauty of human skin in every color
- Ani Liu: Smelfies, and other experiments in synthetic biology
- Anika Hazra: A simple way to tell insects apart
- Anika Paulson: How I found myself through music
- Anil Ananthaswamy: What it takes to do extreme astrophysics
- Anil Gupta: India’s hidden hotbeds of invention
- Anil Seth: Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
- Anindya Kundu: The boost students need to overcome obstacles, The opportunity gap in US public education – and how to close it
- Anirudh Sharma: Ink made of air pollution
- Anita Collins: How playing an instrument benefits your brain, The benefits of music education
- Anjali Kumar: My failed mission to find God – and what I found instead
- Anjali Tripathi: Why Earth may someday look like Mars
- Anjan Chatterjee: How your brain decides what is beautiful
- Anjan Sundaram: Why I risked my life to expose a government massacre
- Ann Cooper: What’s wrong with school lunches
- Ann Curry: How to restore trust in Journalism
- Ann Morgan: My year reading a book from every country in the world
- AnnMarie Thomas: Hands-on science with squishy circuits
- Anna Deavere Smith: Four American characters
- Anna Heringer: The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings
- Anna Mracek Dietrich: A plane you can drive
- Anna Piperal: What a digital government looks like
- Anna Post: How to set the table
- Anna Rosling Rönnlund: See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income
- Anna Rothschild: Why you should love gross science
- Anne Basting: How to meaningfully reconnect with those who have dementia
- Anne Curzan: What makes a word real?
- Anne F. Broadbridge: A day in the life of a Mongolian queen, The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire
- Anne Gaskett: The sexual deception of orchids
- Anne Lamott: 12 truths I learned from life and writing
- Anne Madden: Meet the microscopic life in your home – and on your face
- Anne Marie Albano: How to raise kids who can overcome anxiety
- Anne Milgram: Why smart statistics are the key to fighting crime
- Anne-Marie Slaughter: Can we all have it all?
- Annette Heuser: The 3 agencies with the power to make or break economies
- Annie Bosler: How to practice effectively…for just about anything
- Annie Lennox: Why I am an HIV/AIDS activist
- Annie Murphy Paul: What we learn before we’re born
- Anote Tong: My country will be underwater soon – unless we work together
- Antara Raychaudhuri: The legend of Annapurna, Hindu goddess of nourishment
- Anthony Atala: Growing new organs, Printing a human kidney
- Anthony D. Romero: This is what democracy looks like, The path to ending systemic racism in the US
- Anthony Goldbloom: The jobs we’ll lose to machines – and the ones we won’t
- Anthony Hazard: The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you
- Anthony McCarten: A (not so) scientific experiment on laughter
- Anthony Veneziale: Stumbling towards intimacy: An improvised TED Talk
- Antonio Damasio: The quest to understand consciousness
- Antonio Garcia Vicente: Porque le enseño a niños como yo a programar
- Antony Gormley: Sculpted space, within and without
- Antón García-Abril: How prefab homes can transform affordable housing
- António Guterres: Refugees have the right to be protected
- Anupam Mishra: The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
- Anushka Naiknaware: A teen scientist’s invention to help wounds heal
- Aomawa Shields: How we’ll find life on other planets
- Aparna Mehta: Where do your online returns go?
- Aparna Rao: Art that craves your attention, High-tech art (with a sense of humor)
- Apollo Robbins: The art of misdirection
- April Gudenrath: Insults by Shakespeare
- Aracelis Girmay: For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me A Card
- Ari Wallach: 3 ways to plan for the (very) long term
- Ariana Curtis: Museums should honor the everyday, not just the extraordinary
- Arianna Huffington: How to succeed? Get more sleep
- Ariel Anbar: A needle in countless haystacks: Finding habitable worlds
- Ariel Garten: Know thyself, with a brain scanner
- Arik Hartmann: Our treatment of HIV has advanced. Why hasn’t the stigma changed?
- Aris Venetikidis: Making sense of maps
- Arleen Sugano: The physics of the hardest move in ballet
- Armand D’Angour: The real story behind Archimedes’ Eureka!
- Armando Azua-Bustos: The most Martian place on Earth
- Arnav Kapur: How AI could become an extension of your mind
- Arthur Benjamin: A performance of Mathemagic, Teach statistics before calculus!, The magic of Fibonacci numbers
- Arthur Brooks: A conservative’s plea: Let’s work together
- Arthur Ganson: Moving sculpture
- Arthur Potts Dawson: A vision for sustainable restaurants
- Artūrs Miksons: The benefits of expressing your emotions (constructively)
- Arunabha Ghosh: 5 steps for clean air in India
- Arunachalam Muruganantham: How I started a sanitary napkin revolution!
- Arvind Gupta: Turning trash into toys for learning
- Asaf Bar-Yosef: An athlete uses physics to shatter world records
- Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes: Chasms
- Ash Beckham: We’re all hiding something. Let’s find the courage to open up, When to take a stand – and when to let it go
- Asha de Vos: Why you should care about whale poo
- Asher Hasan: My message of peace from Pakistan
- Ashley Graham: Plus-size? More like my size
- Ashley Judd: How online abuse of women has spiraled out of control
- Ashraf Ghani: How to rebuild a broken state
- Ashton Applewhite: Let’s end ageism
- Ashton Cofer: A plan to recycle the unrecyclable
- Ashweetha Shetty: How education helped me rewrite my life
- Ashwin Naidu: The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation
- Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital
- Asmeret Asefaw Berhe: A climate change solution that’s right under our feet
- Aspen Baker: A better way to talk about abortion
- Astro Teller: The unexpected benefit of celebrating failure
- Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?, Want to get great at something? Get a coach
- Aubrey de Grey: A roadmap to end aging
- Audrey Choi: How to make a profit while making a difference
- Augie Picado: The real reason manufacturing jobs are disappearing
- Augusto Carballido: There may be extraterrestrial life in our solar system
- Auke Ijspeert: A robot that runs and swims like a salamander
- Auret van Heerden: Making global labor fair
- Austin Eubanks: What surviving the Columbine shooting taught me about pain
- Avi Reichental: What’s next in 3D printing
- Avi Rubin: All your devices can be hacked
- Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: A love story for the coral reef crisis, Will the ocean ever run out of fish?, Underwater farms vs. climate change
- Ayana Jamieson: Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler?
- Ayanna Howard: Make robots smarter
- Azim Khamisa: What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness
- Aziz Abu Sarah: For more tolerance, we need more … tourism?
- Aziza Chaouni: How I brought a river, and my city, back to life
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- BJ Miller: What really matters at the end of life
- BLACK: My journey to yo-yo mastery
- Baba Shiv: Sometimes it’s good to give up the driver’s seat
- Bahia Shehab: A thousand times no
- Balsher Singh Sidhu: Are we running out of clean water?
- Bandi Mbubi: Demand a fair trade cell phone
- Barat Ali Batoor: My desperate journey with a human smuggler
- Baratunde Thurston: How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time
- Barbara Block: Tagging tuna in the deep ocean
- Barbara J. King: Grief and love in the animal kingdom
- Barbara Natterson-Horowitz: What veterinarians know that physicians don’t
- Barry Schuler: Genomics 101
- Barry Schwartz: Our loss of wisdom, The paradox of choice, The way we think about work is broken, Using our practical wisdom
- Bart Knols: 3 new ways to kill mosquitoes
- Bart Weetjens: How I taught rats to sniff out land mines
- Barton Seaver: Sustainable seafood? Let’s get smart
- Bassam Tariq: The beauty and diversity of Muslim life
- Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet?
- Beardyman: The polyphonic me
- Beau Lotto: Science is for everyone, kids included, How we experience awe – and why it matters, Optical illusions show how we see
- Becca McCharen-Tran: Fashion that celebrates all body types – boldly and unapologetically
- Becci Manson: (Re)touching lives through photos
- Becky Blanton: The year I was homeless
- Beeban Kidron: The shared wonder of film
- Bel Pesce: 5 ways to kill your dreams
- Belinda Stutzman: How is power divided in the United States government?
- Ben Ambridge: 9 myths about psychology, debunked
- Ben Cameron: Why the live arts matter
- Ben Cort: What commercialization is doing to cannabis
- Ben Goldacre: Battling bad science, What doctors don’t know about the drugs they prescribe
- Ben Kacyra: Ancient wonders captured in 3D
- Ben Katchor: Comics of bygone New York
- Ben Longdon: How do viruses jump from animals to humans?
- Ben Roche: Cooking as alchemy
- Ben Saunders: To the South Pole and back — the hardest 105 days of my life, Why bother leaving the house?, Why did I ski to the North Pole?
- Ben Wellington: How we found the worst place to park in New York City – using big data
- Bence Nanay: The End of History Illusion
- Benedetta Berti: What does it mean to be a refugee?, Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?, The surprising way groups like ISIS stay in power
- Benjamin Barber: Why mayors should rule the world
- Benjamin Grant: What it feels like to see Earth from space
- Benjamin Seibold: What is phantom traffic and why is it ruining your life?
- Benjamin Wallace: The price of happiness
- Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music
- Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
- Bernie Dunlap: The life-long learner
- Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world
- Bertrand Piccard: My solar-powered adventure
- Beth Malone: How my dad’s dementia changed my idea of death (and life)
- Beth Noveck: Demand a more open-source government
- Bethany Rickwald: Would you opt for a life with no pain?
- Betsy Schwarm: Why should you listen to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons?
- Bettina Bair: Inside your computer
- Bettina Warburg: How the blockchain will radically transform the economy
- Beverly: Life lessons from big cats
- Bhakti Sharma: What open water swimming taught me about resilience
- Bhu Srinivasan: Capitalism isn’t an ideology – it’s an operating system
- Bilal Bomani: Plant fuels that could power a jet
- Bill: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we’ve done
- Bill Bernat: How to connect with depressed friends
- Bill Clinton: My wish: Rebuilding Rwanda
- Bill Davenhall: Your health depends on where you live
- Bill Doyle: Treating cancer with electric fields
- Bill Ford: A future beyond traffic gridlock
- Bill Gates: How state budgets are breaking US schools, How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic, Innovating to zero!, Mosquitos, malaria and education, Teachers need real feedback, The next outbreak? We’re not ready
- Bill Gross: A solar energy system that tracks the sun, The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed
- Bill Joy: What I’m worried about, what I’m excited about
- Bill Keegan: The Taino myth of the cursed creator
- Bill Schutt: A brief history of cannibalism, How do blood transfusions work?
- Bill Shillito: How to organize, add and multiply matrices
- Bill Shribman: What cameras see that our eyes don’t
- Bill Stone: Inside the world’s deepest caves
- Bill Strickland: Rebuilding a neighborhood with beauty, dignity, hope
- Bill T. Jones: The dancer, the singer, the cellist … and a moment of creative magic
- Billie Jean King: This tennis icon paved the way for women in sports
- Billy Collins: Everyday moments, caught in time, Two poems about what dogs think (probably)
- Billy Graham: On technology and faith
- Bina Venkataraman: The power to think ahead in a reckless age
- Birke Baehr: What’s wrong with our food system
- Bjarke Ingels: 3 warp-speed architecture tales, Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future
- Bjorn Lomborg: Global priorities bigger than climate change
- Blaise Agüera y Arcas: Augmented-reality maps, How computers are learning to be creative, How PhotoSynth can connect the world’s images
- Boaz Almog: The levitating superconductor
- Bob Inglis: American bipartisan politics can be saved – here’s how
- Bob Langert: The business case for working with your toughest critics
- Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon
- Bob Stein: A rite of passage for late life
- Bob Woodward: What I learned investigating Nixon
- Bobby Ghosh: Why global jihad is losing
- Boghuma Kabisen Titanji: Ethical riddles in HIV research
- Boniface Mwangi: The day I stood up alone
- Bonnie Bassler: How bacteria talk
- Bono: My wish: Three actions for Africa, The good news on poverty (Yes, there’s good news)
- Boy Girl Banjo: Dead Romance
- Boyd Varty: What I learned from Nelson Mandela
- Brad Troeger: What is love?
- Bradley Voytek: Diagnosing a zombie: Brain and body (Part one)
- Bran Ferren: To create for the ages, let’s combine art and engineering
- Brandon Clifford: Architectural secrets of the world’s ancient wonders
- Brandon Rodriguez: The power of creative constraints
- Brenda Laurel: Why not make video games for girls?
- Brenda Romero: Gaming for understanding
- Brendan Constantine: The Opposites Game
- Brené Brown: Listening to shame, The power of vulnerability
- Brett Hennig: What if we replaced politicians with randomly selected people?
- Brewster Kahle: A free digital library
- Brian A. Levine: How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works
- Brian A. Pavlac: Ugly History: Witch Hunts, What really happened during the Salem Witch Trials
- Brian Christian: How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines)
- Brian Cox: CERN’s supercollider, What went wrong at the LHC, Why we need the explorers
- Brian D. Avery: How rollercoasters affect your body
- Brian Dettmer: Old books reborn as art
- Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about that?
- Brian Greene: Is our universe the only universe?, Making sense of string theory
- Brian Jones: What on Earth is spin?
- Brian Little: Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality
- Brian Olson: How an algorithm can fight election bias so every vote counts
- Brian Skerry: The ocean’s glory – and horror
- Bright Simons: To help solve global problems, look to developing countries
- British Paraorchestra: The debut of the British Paraorchestra
- Britt Wray: How climate change affects your mental health
- Britta Riley: A garden in my apartment
- Brittany Packnett: How to build your confidence – and spark it in others
- Brittney Cooper: The racial politics of time
- Bronwyn King: You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies
- Brooke Buddemeier: Can you survive nuclear fallout?
- Bruce Aylward: How we’ll stop polio for good, Humanity vs. Ebola. How we could win a terrifying war
- Bruce Bueno de Mesquita: A prediction for the future of Iran
- Bruce Feiler: Agile programming – for your family, The council of dads
- Bruce Friedrich: The next global agricultural revolution
- Bruce McCall: What is retro-futurism?
- Bruce Schneier: The security mirage
- Bruno Bowden: Watch me fold origami (blindfolded)
- Bruno Maisonnier: Dance, tiny robots!
- Bruno Torturra: Got a smartphone? Start broadcasting
- Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice
- Bryn Freedman: What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet, The crisis of leadership – and a new way forward, How do we find dignity at work?
- Bunker Roy: Learning from a barefoot movement
- Burt Rutan: The real future of space exploration
- Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil: A rare galaxy that’s challenging our understanding of the universe
- Béatrice Coron: Stories cut from paper
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- C.K. Williams: Poetry of youth and age
- Cady Coleman: What it’s like to live on the International Space Station
- Caitlin Doughty: A burial practice that nourishes the planet
- Caitlin Quattromani: How our friendship survives our opposing politics
- Caitria: How to step up in the face of disaster
- Cal Newport: Why you should quit social media
- Caleb Barlow: Where is cybercrime really coming from?
- Caleb Chung: Playtime with Pleo, your robotic dinosaur friend
- Cameron Herold: Let’s raise kids to be entrepreneurs
- Cameron Paterson: The infamous and ingenious Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model.
- Cameron Sinclair: My wish: A call for open-source architecture, The refugees of boom-and-bust
- Camilla Arndal Andersen: What happens in your brain when you taste food
- Camille A. Brown: A visual history of social dance in 25 moves
- Camille Defrenne: The secret language of trees
- Camille Langston: How to use rhetoric to get what you want
- Camille Seaman: Haunting photos of polar ice, Photos from a storm chaser, The Arctic vs. the Antarctic
- Candy Chang: Before I die I want to …
- Cara E. Yar Khan: The beautiful balance between courage and fear
- Carin Bondar: The birds and the bees are just the beginning
- Carl Honoré: In praise of slowness
- Carl June: A living drug that could change the way we treat cancer
- Carl Safina: The oil spill’s unseen villains – and victims, What are animals thinking and feeling?
- Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
- Carl Zimmer: How did feathers evolve?
- Carla Harris: How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work
- Carlo Ratti: Architecture that senses and responds
- Carlos Bautista: The awful logic of land mines – and an app that helps people avoid them
- Carmen Agra Deedy: Once upon a time, my mother …
- Carne Ross: An independent diplomat
- Carol Dweck: The power of believing that you can improve
- Carol Fishman Cohen: How to get back to work after a career break
- Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook’s role in Brexit – and the threat to democracy
- Caroline Casey: Looking past limits
- Caroline Harper: What if we eliminated one of the world’s oldest diseases?
- Caroline Lavelle: Casting a spell on the cello
- Caroline Paul: To raise brave girls, encourage adventure
- Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners
- Caroline Weaver: Why the pencil is perfect
- Carolyn Bertozzi: What the sugar coating on your cells is trying to tell you
- Carolyn Jones: A tribute to nurses
- Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn moon harbor life?, This is Saturn
- Carolyn Steel: How food shapes our cities
- Carrie Nugent: Adventures of an asteroid hunter
- Carrie Poppy: A scientific approach to the paranormal
- Carson Bruns: Could a tattoo help you stay healthy?
- Carter Emmart: A 3D atlas of the universe
- Carvens Lissaint: Put the financial aid in the bag
- Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
- Casey Brown: Know your worth, and then ask for it
- Casey Gerald: Embrace your raw, strange magic, The gospel of doubt
- Catarina Mota: Play with smart materials
- Catharine Young: How memories form and how we lose them
- Catherine Bracy: Why good hackers make good citizens
- Catherine Crump: The small and surprisingly dangerous detail the police track about you
- Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin, Surgery’s past, present and robotic future, The tradeoffs of building green
- Cathy Mulzer: The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone
- Cathy O’Neil: The era of blind faith in big data must end
- Cecile Richards: The political progress women have made – and what’s next
- Celeste Headlee: 10 ways to have a better conversation
- Cella Wright: How do virus tests actually work?, This sea creature breathes through its butt
- Cesar Harada: A novel idea for cleaning up oil spills, How I teach kids to love science
- Cesar Kuriyama: One second every day
- Chad Frischmann: 100 solutions to reverse global warming
- Chad Jenkins: Meet the robots for humanity
- Chad Orzel: Schrödinger’s cat: A thought experiment in quantum mechanics, What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
- Chade-Meng Tan: Everyday compassion at Google
- Chance Coughenour: How your pictures can help reclaim lost history
- Chand John: What’s the fastest way to alphabetize your bookshelf?
- Charity Tillemann-Dick: Singing after a double lung transplant
- Charity Wayua: A few ways to fix a government
- Charles Anderson: Dragonflies that fly across oceans
- Charles C. Mann: How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?
- Charles Elachi: The story behind the Mars Rovers
- Charles Fleischer: All things are Moleeds
- Charles Hazlewood: The debut of the British Paraorchestra, Trusting the ensemble
- Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums, The era of open innovation
- Charles Limb: Building the musical muscle, Your brain on improv
- Charles Moore: Seas of plastic
- Charles Morton: How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones?, The uncertain location of electrons
- Charles P. Smith: How the US can address the tragedy of veteran suicide
- Charles Robertson: Africa’s next boom
- Charlie Jane Anders: Go ahead, dream about the future
- Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity
- Charmian Gooch: Meet global corruption’s hidden players, My wish: To launch a new era of openness in business
- Chelsea Shields: How I’m working for change inside my church
- Chera Kowalski: The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
- Cheryl Hayashi: The magnificence of spider silk
- Cheryl Holder: The link between climate change, health and poverty
- Chetan Bhatt: Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are
- Chetna Gala Sinha: How women in rural India turned courage into capital
- Cheyenne Cochrane: A celebration of natural hair
- Chiara Decaroli: The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work
- Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager, How to know if it’s time to change careers
- Chieko Asakawa: How new technology helps blind people explore the world
- Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu: How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress
- Chika Okoro: How colorism shapes our standards of beauty
- Chiki Sarkar: How India’s smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story, We should all be feminists
- Chinaka Hodge: What will you tell your daughters about 2016?
- Chip Berlet: Are the Illuminati real?
- Chip Colwell: Why museums are returning cultural treasures
- Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile, What baby boomers can learn from millennials at work – and vice versa
- Chip Kidd: Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is., The art of first impressions – in design and life, Why books are here to stay
- Chris A. Kniesly: History through the eyes of a chicken, How corn conquered the world
- Chris Abani: On humanity, Telling stories from Africa
- Chris Anderson: How many universes are there?, How web video powers global innovation, Technology’s long tail, TED’s nonprofit transition, TED’s secret to great public speaking, Why can’t we see evidence of alien life?, How we can turn the tide on climate, What AI is – and isn’t, Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist
- Chris Anderson (TED): Questions no one knows the answers to
- Chris Bangle: Great cars are great art
- Chris Bliss: Comedy is translation
- Chris Burkard: The joy of surfing in ice-cold water
- Chris Domas: The 1s and 0s behind cyber warfare
- Chris Downey: Design with the blind in mind
- Chris Gerdes: The future race car – 150mph, and no driver
- Chris Hadfield: What I learned from going blind in space
- Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art
- Chris Kluwe: How augmented reality will change sports … and build empathy
- Chris McKnett: The investment logic for sustainability
- Chris Milk: How virtual reality can create the ultimate empathy machine, The birth of virtual reality as an art form
- Chris Nowinski: Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE
- Chris Sheldrick: A precise, three-word address for every place on earth
- Chris Urmson: How a driverless car sees the road
- Christen Reighter: I don’t want children – stop telling me I’ll change my mind
- Christer Mjåset: 4 questions you should always ask your doctor
- Christian Benimana: The next generation of African architects and designers
- Christian Happi: A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic
- Christian Moro: The surprising reason our muscles get tired
- Christian Picciolini: My descent into America’s neo-Nazi movement – and how I got out
- Christian Rudder: Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating
- Christiana Figueres: How we can turn the tide on climate, The inside story of the Paris climate agreement
- Christiane Amanpour: How to seek truth in the era of fake news
- Christien Meindertsma: How pig parts make the world turn
- Christina Greer: An unsung hero of the civil rights movement, Does your vote count? The Electoral College explained, How one journalist risked her life to hold murderers accountable, Notes of a native son: the world according to James Baldwin
- Christina Wallace: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps
- Christina Warinner: Tracking ancient diseases using … plaque
- Christine Porath: Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business
- Christine Sun Kim: The enchanting music of sign language
- Christoph Adami: Finding life we can’t imagine
- Christoph Keplinger: The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future
- Christoph Niemann: You are fluent in this language (and don’t even know it)
- Christopher Ategeka: How adoption worked for me
- Christopher Bahl: A new type of medicine, custom-made with tiny proteins
- Christopher Bell: Bring on the female superheroes!
- Christopher C. Deam: The Airstream, restyled
- Christopher Danielson: One is one… or is it?
- Christopher Emdin: Teach teachers how to create magic
- Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?
- Christopher Ryan: Are we designed to be sexual omnivores?
- Christopher Soghoian: Government surveillance — this is just the beginning, How to avoid surveillance … with the phone in your pocket, Your smartphone is a civil rights issue
- Christopher Warner: In on a secret? That’s dramatic irony, Situational irony: The opposite of what you think, What is verbal irony?
- Christopher deCharms: A look inside the brain in real time
- Christopher moot Poole: The case for anonymity online
- Chrystia Freeland: The rise of the new global super-rich
- Chrystina Russell: A path to higher education and employment for refugees
- Chuck Murry: Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?
- Chuck Nice: A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology
- Chuck Plunkett: When local news dies, so does democracy
- Cirque du Soleil: How we experience awe – and why it matters
- Claire Bowern: Where did English come from?
- Claire Simeone: The lovable (and lethal) sea lion
- Claire Wardle: How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust
- Claron McFadden: Singing the primal mystery
- Claudia Aguirre: Does stress cause pimples?, What makes tattoos permanent?, What would happen if you didn’t sleep?, Why is yawning contagious?
- Claudia Miner: A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten
- Clay Shirky: How cognitive surplus will change the world, How social media can make history, How the Internet will (one day) transform government, Institutions vs. collaboration, Why SOPA is a bad idea
- Clemantine Wamariya: War and what comes after
- Cleo Wade: Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care
- Clifford Robbins: What happens when you have a concussion?
- Clifford Stoll: The call to learn
- Clint Smith: How to raise a black son in America, Ode to the Only Black Kid in the Class, The danger of silence
- Cláudio Guerra: Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary
- Colette Pichon Battle: Climate change will displace millions. Here’s how we prepare
- Colin Camerer: When you’re making a deal, what’s going on in your brain?
- Colin Grant: How our stories cross over
- Colin Powell: Kids need structure
- Colin Stokes: How movies teach manhood
- Colm Kelleher: How we see color, Is light a particle or a wave?, The science of symmetry, What is color?, What is Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox?
- Congrui Jin: What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves?
- Conor Heffernan: The treadmill’s dark and twisted past
- Conrad Wolfram: Teaching kids real math with computers
- Constantine N. Vaporis: A day in the life of a teenage samurai
- Corneille Ewango: A hero of the Congo forest
- Cornelia Geppert: A video game that helps us understand loneliness
- Cosmin Mihaiu: Physical therapy is boring – play a game instead
- Courtney E. Martin: The new American Dream, This isn’t her mother’s feminism
- Courtney Stephens: A brief history of melancholy
- Craig A. Kohn: What are stem cells?
- Craig Costello: In the war for information, will quantum computers defeat cryptographers?
- Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life, Sampling the ocean’s DNA, Watch me unveil synthetic life
- Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz: Three Months After
- Crush Club: My Man / Bohanna / We Dance
- Curtis Austin: The real story of the Black Panther Party
- Curtis Wall Street Carroll: How I learned to read – and trade stocks – in prison
- Curtis Wong: A preview of the WorldWide Telescope
- Cyndi Stivers: The future of storytelling
- Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots
- Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
- Cynthia Schneider: The surprising spread of Idol TV
- Cédric Villani: What’s so sexy about math?
- Céline Valéry: How does your body process medicine?, The dangers of mixing drugs
- César Hidalgo: A bold idea to replace politicians
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- DK Osseo-Asare: What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation
- Daan Roosegaarde: A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs
- Daina Ramey Berry: The electrifying speeches of Sojourner Truth
- Dale Dougherty: We are makers
- Dalia Mogahed: The attitudes that sparked Arab Spring, What it’s like to be Muslim in America
- Dambisa Moyo: Economic growth has stalled. Let’s fix it, Is China the new idol for emerging economies?
- Dame Ellen MacArthur: The surprising thing I learned sailing solo around the world
- Dame Stephanie Shirley: Why do ambitious women have flat heads?
- Damian Palin: Mining minerals from seawater
- Damion Searls: How does the Rorschach inkblot test work?
- Damon Brown: How to choose your news
- Damon Davis: Courage is contagious
- Damon Horowitz: Philosophy in prison, We need a moral operating system
- Dan Adams: A brief history of goths
- Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our own decisions?, Beware conflicts of interest, How equal do we want the world to be? You’d be surprised, How to change your behavior for the better, Our buggy moral code, What makes us feel good about our work?, How can groups make good decisions?
- Dan Barasch: A park underneath the hustle and bustle of New York City
- Dan Barber: A foie gras parable, How I fell in love with a fish
- Dan Bell: Inside America’s dead shopping malls
- Dan Berkenstock: The world is one big dataset. Now, how to photograph it …
- Dan Bricklin: Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet
- Dan Buettner: How to live to be 100+
- Dan Clay: Why you should bring your whole self to work
- Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing
- Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny, Dangerous memes, Let’s teach religion – all religion – in schools, The illusion of consciousness
- Dan Ellsey: Inventing instruments that unlock new music
- Dan Finkel: 5 ways to share math with kids, Can you solve the giant cat army riddle?, Can you solve the rogue AI riddle?, Can you solve the secret werewolf riddle?, Can you solve the world’s most evil wizard riddle?
- Dan Gartenberg: The brain benefits of deep sleep – and how to get more of it
- Dan Gibson: How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet
- Dan Gilbert: The psychology of your future self, The surprising science of happiness, Why we make bad decisions
- Dan Gross: Why gun violence can’t be our new normal
- Dan Knights: How we study the microbes living in your gut
- Dan Kwartler: How fast can a vaccine be made?, What causes headaches?, What causes insomnia?, What would happen if every human suddenly disappeared?, Why should you read Dune by Frank Herbert?
- Dan Meyer: Math class needs a makeover
- Dan Pacholke: How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives
- Dan Pallotta: The dream we haven’t dared to dream, The way we think about charity is dead wrong
- Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff
- Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation
- Dan Reinstein: How does laser eye surgery work?
- Dan Reisel: The neuroscience of restorative justice
- Dan Schulman: What COVID-19 means for the future of commerce, capitalism and cash
- Dan Van der Vieren: Can you solve Einstein’s Riddle?
- Dana Kanze: The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding
- Daniel Bögre Udell: How to save a language from extinction
- Daniel Dulek: How big is a mole? (Not the animal, the other one.)
- Daniel Engber: How the progress bar keeps you sane
- Daniel Finkel: Can you solve the alien probe riddle?, Can you solve the cuddly duddly fuddly wuddly riddle?, Can you solve the dark matter fuel riddle?, Can you solve the jail break riddle?, Can you solve the killer robo-ants riddle?, Can you solve the multiverse rescue mission riddle?, Can you solve the sea monster riddle?, Can you solve the time travel riddle?, Can you solve the troll’s paradox riddle?, Can you solve the unstoppable blob riddle?, Can you solve the vampire hunter riddle?
- Daniel Garrie: Defining cyberwarfare… in hopes of preventing it
- Daniel Goldstein: The battle between your present and future self
- Daniel Goleman: Why aren’t we more compassionate?
- Daniel H. Cohen: For argument’s sake
- Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory
- Daniel Kish: How I use sonar to navigate the world
- Daniel Kraft: A better way to harvest bone marrow, Medicine’s future? There’s an app for that, The pharmacy of the future? Personalized pills, 3D printed at home
- Daniel Levitin: How to stay calm when you know you’ll be stressed
- Daniel Libeskind: 17 words of architectural inspiration
- Daniel Lismore: My life as a work of art
- Daniel M. Abrams: Why are some people left-handed?
- Daniel Pauly: The ocean’s shifting baseline
- Daniel Schnitzer: Inventing is the easy part. Marketing takes work
- Daniel Streicker: What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics
- Daniel Suarez: The kill decision shouldn’t belong to a robot
- Daniel Susskind: 3 myths about the future of work (and why they’re not true)
- Daniel Tammet: Different ways of knowing
- Daniel Wolpert: The real reason for brains
- Daniele Quercia: Happy maps
- Danielle Allen: An ethical plan for ending the pandemic and restarting the economy
- Danielle Citron: How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy
- Danielle Feinberg: The magic ingredient that brings Pixar movies to life
- Danielle N. Lee: How hip-hop helps us understand science
- Danielle R. Moss: How we can help the forgotten middle reach their full potential
- Danielle Wood: 6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth
- Danit Peleg: Forget shopping. Soon you’ll download your new clothes
- Danny Dorling: Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are)
- Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994), Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth?, The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B, Understanding cancer through proteomics
- Dao Nguyen: What makes something go viral?
- Daphne Bavelier: Your brain on video games
- Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education
- Daria van den Bercken: Why I take the piano on the road … and in the air
- Darieth Chisolm: How revenge porn turns lives upside down
- Darren Croft: Inside the killer whale matriarchy
- Darria Long: An ER doctor on triaging your crazy busy life
- Darrick Hamilton: How baby bonds could help close the wealth gap
- Dave Brain: What a planet needs to sustain life
- Dave Eggers: My wish: Once Upon a School
- Dave Isay: Everyone around you has a story the world needs to hear
- Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathy
- Dave Troy: Social maps that reveal a city’s intersections — and separations
- Dave deBronkart: Meet e-Patient Dave
- David Agus: A new strategy in the war on cancer
- David Anderson: Your brain is more than a bag of chemicals
- David Asch: Why it’s so hard to make healthy decisions
- David Autor: Will automation take away all our jobs?
- David Baker: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins
- David Baron: You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse
- David Biello: How the compass unlocked the world
- David Binder: The arts festival revolution
- David Birch: A new way to stop identity theft
- David Bismark: E-voting without fraud
- David Blaine: How I held my breath for 17 minutes
- David Bolinsky: Visualizing the wonder of a living cell
- David Brenner: A new weapon in the fight against superbugs
- David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé … or your eulogy?, The lies our culture tells us about what matters – and a better way to live, The social animal, Political common ground in a polarized United States
- David Burkus: Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid
- David Byrne: (Nothing But) Flowers with string quartet, How architecture helped music evolve
- David Cage: How video games turn players into storytellers
- David Camarillo: Why helmets don’t prevent concussions – and what might
- David Cameron: The next age of government
- David Carson: Design and discovery
- David Casarett: A doctor’s case for medical marijuana
- David Chalmers: How do you explain consciousness?
- David Christian: The history of our world in 18 minutes
- David Damberger: What happens when an NGO admits failure
- David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation, After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up, Chemical scum that dream of distant quasars
- David Dunning: Why incompetent people think they’re amazing
- David Eagleman: Can we create new senses for humans?
- David Epstein: Are athletes really getting faster, better, stronger?
- David Gallo: Deep ocean mysteries and wonders, Life in the deep oceans, Underwater astonishments
- David Grady: How to save the world (or at least yourself) from bad meetings
- David Griffin: How photography connects us
- David Gruber: Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures
- David Hanson: Robots that show emotion
- David Heymann: What we do (and don’t) know about the coronavirus
- David Hoffman: Sputnik mania, What happens when you lose everything
- David Holt: The joyful tradition of mountain music
- David Ian Howe: A brief history of dogs
- David Ikard: The real story of Rosa Parks – and why we need to confront myths about black history
- David J. Bier: How guest worker visas could transform the US immigration system
- David J. Malan: What’s an algorithm?
- David Katz: The surprising solution to ocean plastic
- David Keith: A critical look at geoengineering against climate change
- David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence, Human-centered design
- David Korins: 3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer
- David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet – and it’s magic
- David Lang: Let’s protect the oceans like national parks, My underwater robot
- David Lee: Why jobs of the future won’t feel like work
- David Lindell: A camera that can see around corners
- David Logan: Tribal leadership
- David Lunney: The life cycle of a neutron star, Where does gold come from?
- David MacKay: A reality check on renewables
- David Macaulay: An illustrated journey through Rome
- David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization
- David Merrill: Toy tiles that talk to each other
- David Miliband: The refugee crisis is a test of our character
- David Perry: Are games better than life?
- David Peterson: Why language is humanity’s greatest invention
- David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust
- David Pogue: 10 top time-saving tech tips, Cool tricks your phone can do, Simplicity sells, The music wars
- David Puts: To find your perfect mate, think like an evolutionist
- David Puttnam: Does the media have a duty of care?
- David R. Dow: Lessons from death row inmates
- David R. Liu: Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA?
- David R. Williams: How racism makes us sick
- David Rockwell: A memorial at Ground Zero, The hidden ways stairs shape your life
- David Rothkopf: How fear drives American politics
- David S. Rose: How to pitch to a VC
- David Schwartz: Not all scientific studies are created equal
- David Sedlak: 4 ways we can avoid a catastrophic drought
- David Sengeh: The sore problem of prosthetic limbs
- David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful
- David Titley: How the military fights climate change
- David Wallace-Wells: How we could change the planet’s climate future
- David Whyte: A lyrical bridge between past, present and future
- Dawn Landes: A song for my hero, the woman who rowed into a hurricane
- Dawn Maslar: The science of attraction
- Dawn Wacek: A librarian’s case against overdue book fines
- Dayananda Saraswati: The profound journey of compassion
- Dayo Ogunyemi: Visions of Africa’s future, from African filmmakers
- DeAndrea Salvador: How we can make energy more affordable for low-income families
- Dean Furness: To overcome challenges, stop comparing yourself to others
- Dean Kamen: Luke, a new prosthetic arm for soldiers, The emotion behind invention, To invent is to give
- Dean Ornish: Healing through diet, The killer American diet that’s sweeping the planet, Your genes are not your fate
- Deanna Pucciarelli: The history of chocolate
- Deanna Van Buren: What a world without prisons could look like
- Deb Roy: The birth of a word
- Deb Willis: A mother and son united by love and art
- Debbie Millman: How symbols and brands shape our humanity, The function and fashion of eyeglasses
- Deborah Gordon: Inside the ant colony, The emergent genius of ant colonies, What ants teach us about the brain, cancer and the Internet
- Deborah Lipstadt: Behind the lies of Holocaust denial
- Deborah Rhodes: A test that finds 3x more breast tumors, and why it’s not available to you
- Deborah Scranton: An Iraq war movie crowd-sourced from soldiers
- Debra Jarvis: Yes, I survived cancer. But that doesn’t define me
- Dee Boersma: Pay attention to penguins
- Deepa Narayan: 7 beliefs that can silence women – and how to unlearn them
- Deepika Kurup: A young scientist’s quest for clean water
- Deeyah Khan: What we don’t know about Europe’s Muslim kids
- Del Harvey: Protecting Twitter users (sometimes from themselves)
- Dena Simmons: How students of color confront impostor syndrome
- Denice Frohman: Accents
- Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
- Denise Herzing: Could we speak the language of dolphins?
- Dennis Hong: Making a car for blind drivers, My seven species of robot – and how we created them
- Dennis Shasha: Can you solve the control room riddle?, Can you solve the stolen rubies riddle?, Can you solve the temple riddle?
- Dennis Wildfogel: How big is infinity?, What is the universe made of?
- Dennis vanEngelsdorp: A plea for bees
- Densho: Ugly history: Japanese American incarceration camps
- Deqo Mohamed: Mother and daughter doctor-heroes
- Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats
- Derek Abbott: Should you trust unanimous decisions?
- Derek Paravicini: In the key of genius
- Derek Sivers: How to start a movement, Keep your goals to yourself, Weird, or just different?
- Derren Brown: Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head
- Dessa: Can we choose to fall out of love?
- Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs. West – the myths that mystify
- Devita Davison: How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit
- Diana Laufenberg: How to learn? From mistakes
- Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world’s most dangerous jellyfish, Never, ever give up
- Diana Reiss: The interspecies internet? An idea in progress
- Diane Benscoter: How cults rewire the brain
- Diane Kelly: What we didn’t know about penis anatomy
- Diane Knutson: Why we need darkness
- Diane Wolk-Rogers: A Parkland teacher’s homework for us all
- Dianna Cohen: Tough truths about plastic pollution
- Dick M. Carpenter II: The injustice of policing for profit – and how to end it
- Didier Sornette: How we can predict the next financial crisis
- Diego Prilusky: How volumetric video brings a new dimension to filmmaking
- Dilip Ratha: The hidden force in global economics: sending money home
- Dimitar Sasselov: How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets
- Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls)
- Dina Zielinski: How we can store digital data in DNA
- Dixon Chibanda: Why I train grandmothers to treat depression
- Diébédo Francis Kéré: How to build with clay … and community
- Dolly Chugh: How to let go of being a good person – and become a better person
- Dolores Huerta: How to overcome apathy and find your power
- Don Greene: How to practice effectively…for just about anything
- Don Levy: A cinematic journey through visual effects
- Don Norman: 3 ways good design makes you happy
- Don Tapscott: Four principles for the open world, How the blockchain is changing money and business
- Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is?
- Donald Sadoway: The missing link to renewable energy
- Dong Woo Jang: The art of bow-making
- Doris Kearns Goodwin: Lessons from past presidents
- Doris Kim Sung: Metal that breathes
- Dorothy Roberts: The problem with race-based medicine
- Dorsa Amir: Why do humans have a third eyelid?
- Doug Levinson: What gives a dollar bill its value?
- Doug Roble: Digital humans that look just like us
- Douglas L. Oliver: The science of hearing
- Douglas Rushkoff: How to be Team Human in the digital future
- Douglas Thomas: How a typeface helped launch Apollo
- Dr. Bernice King: The path to ending systemic racism in the US
- Dr. Matt J. Carlson: Free falling in outer space
- Dr. Natascha M. Santos: Debunking the myths of OCD
- Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff: How we can make racism a solvable problem – and improve policing, The path to ending systemic racism in the US
- Dragana Rogulja: How artificial light affects our health
- Dread Scott: How art can shape America’s conversation about freedom
- Drew Berry: Animations of unseeable biology
- Drew Curtis: How I beat a patent troll
- Drew Dudley: Everyday leadership
- Drew Philp: My $500 house in Detroit – and the neighbors who helped me rebuild it
- Dropbox: How one team turned a sprint project into a marathon success
- Duarte Geraldino: What we’re missing in the debate about immigration
- Dustin Schroeder: How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet
- Dustin Yellin: A journey through the mind of an artist
- Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue
- Dylan Marron: Empathy is not endorsement
- Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials
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- E.O. Wilson: Advice to a young scientist, My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life
- Eames Demetrios: The design genius of Charles + Ray Eames
- Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic?
- Ebony Roberts: How to co-parent as allies, not adversaries
- Ed Boyden: A light switch for neurons, A new way to study the brain’s invisible secrets
- Ed Cage: A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo
- Ed Gavagan: A story about knots and surgeons
- Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face
- Ed Yong: Zombie roaches and other parasite tales
- Eddi Reader: Kiteflyer’s Hill, What You’ve Got
- Eddie Jaku: A Holocaust survivor’s blueprint for happiness
- Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world
- Eddie Woo: How math is our real sixth sense
- Eddy Cartaya: My glacier cave discoveries
- Eden Girma: The mysterious life and death of Rasputin
- Edi Rama: Take back your city with paint
- Edith Widder: Glowing life in an underwater world, How we found the giant squid, The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence
- Edmond Hui: How the heart actually pumps blood
- Edsel Salvaña: The dangerous evolution of HIV
- Eduardo Briceño: How to get better at the things you care about
- Eduardo Paes: The 4 commandments of cities
- Edward Burtynsky: My wish: Manufactured landscapes and green education, Photographing the landscape of oil
- Edward Snowden: Here’s how we take back the Internet
- Edward Tenner: The paradox of efficiency, Unintended consequences
- Efosa Ojomo: Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment
- Einav Zamir Dembin: Did ancient Troy really exist?
- Einstein the Parrot: A talking, squawking parrot
- Elaine Morgan: I believe we evolved from aquatic apes
- Eldra Jackson: How I unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity
- Eldridge Adams: Can animals be deceptive?
- Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head
- Eleanor Nelsen: How to unboil an egg, Mary’s Room: A philosophical thought experiment, Why do your knuckles pop?, Would you sacrifice one person to save five?
- Eleni Gabre-Madhin: A commodities exchange for Ethiopia
- Eli Beer: The fastest ambulance? A motorcycle
- Eli Pariser: Beware online filter bubbles, What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?
- Elif Shafak: The politics of fiction, The revolutionary power of diverse thought
- Elise LeGrow: You Never Can Tell / Over the Mountain, Across the Sea
- Elise Roy: When we design for disability, we all benefit
- Elizabeth Blackburn: The science of cells that never get old
- Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez: What’s missing from the American immigrant narrative
- Elizabeth Cawein: How to build a thriving music scene in your city
- Elizabeth Cox: A day in the life of an ancient Egyptian doctor, Is fire a solid, a liquid, or a gas?, The surprising link between stress and memory, What causes hallucinations?, What is a coronavirus?, What is imposter syndrome and how can you combat it?, What really happened to the Library of Alexandria?
- Elizabeth Dunn: Helping others makes us happier – but it matters how we do it
- Elizabeth Gilbert: It’s OK to feel overwhelmed. Here’s what to do next, Success, failure and the drive to keep creating, Your elusive creative genius
- Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis: Why we love repetition in music
- Elizabeth Howell: How we can improve maternal healthcare – before, during and after pregnancy
- Elizabeth Leane: The dangerous race for the South Pole
- Elizabeth Lesser: Say your truths and seek them in others, Take the Other to lunch
- Elizabeth Lev: The unheard story of the Sistine Chapel
- Elizabeth Lindsey: Curating humanity’s heritage
- Elizabeth Loftus: How reliable is your memory?
- Elizabeth Lyle: How to break bad management habits before they reach the next generation of leaders
- Elizabeth Murchison: Fighting a contagious cancer
- Elizabeth Nyamayaro: An invitation to men who want a better world for women
- Elizabeth Pisani: Sex, drugs and HIV – let’s get rational
- Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor: Why it’s so hard to talk about the N-word
- Elizabeth Streb: My quest to defy gravity and fly
- Elizabeth Waters: The left brain vs. right brain myth
- Elizabeth Wayne: We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer
- Elizabeth White: An honest look at the personal finance crisis
- Ella Al-Shamahi: The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren’t exploring
- Ellen ‘t Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives
- Ellen Agler: Parasitic worms hold back human progress. Here’s how we can end them
- Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
- Ellen Gustafson: Obesity + hunger = 1 global food issue
- Ellen Jorgensen: Biohacking – you can do it, too, What you need to know about CRISPR
- Ellen Støkken Dahl: The virginity fraud
- Elliot Krane: The mystery of chronic pain
- Elon Musk: The future we’re building – and boring, The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, SolarCity …
- Elora Hardy: Magical houses, made of bamboo
- Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness – from the inside
- Eman Mohammed: The courage to tell a hidden story
- Emilie Wapnick: Why some of us don’t have one true calling
- Emily Balcetis: Why some people find exercise harder than others
- Emily Esfahani Smith: There’s more to life than being happy
- Emily F. Rothman: How porn changes the way teens think about sex
- Emily Levine: A theory of everything, How I made friends with reality
- Emily Nagoski: How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime, The keys to a happier, healthier sex life, The truth about unwanted arousal
- Emily Oster: 3 things new parents should consider before going back to work, Flip your thinking on AIDS in Africa
- Emily Parsons-Lord: Art made of the air we breathe
- Emily Pilloton: Teaching design for change
- Emily Quinn: The way we think about biological sex is wrong
- Emma Belcher: 3 questions we should ask about nuclear weapons
- Emma Bryce: How do your hormones work?, How does the immune system work?, How does the thyroid manage your metabolism?, How to use a semicolon, Should we eat bugs?, The case of the vanishing honeybees, The power of the placebo effect, What is a calorie?, What is HPV and how can you protect yourself from it?, What really happens to the plastic you throw away?, Why do we itch?
- Emma Lazarus: New Colossus
- Emma Marris: Nature is everywhere – we just need to learn to see it
- Emma Schachner: The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet
- Emma Teeling: The secret of the bat genome
- Emmanuel Jal: The music of a war child
- Emmett Shear: What streaming means for the future of entertainment
- Emtithal Mahmoud: A young poet tells the story of Darfur
- Enric Sala: Glimpses of a pristine ocean, Let’s turn the high seas into the world’s largest nature reserve
- Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars
- Enrique Peñalosa: Why buses represent democracy in action
- Erez Garty: Football physics: The impossible free kick
- Erez Lieberman Aiden: What we learned from 5 million books
- Erez Yoeli: How to motivate people to do good for others
- Eric Berlow: Mapping ideas worth spreading, Simplifying complexity, Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain
- Eric Berridge: Why tech needs the humanities
- Eric Dishman: Health care should be a team sport, Take health care off the mainframe
- Eric Dyer: The forgotten art of the zoetrope
- Eric Giler: A demo of wireless electricity
- Eric Liu: How to revive your belief in democracy, How to understand power, There’s no such thing as not voting, Why ordinary people need to understand power
- Eric Mead: The magic of the placebo
- Eric Sanderson: New York – before the City
- Eric Sannerud: Without farmers, you’d be hungry, naked and sober
- Eric Topol: The wireless future of medicine
- Eric Whitacre: A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong, Virtual Choir Live
- Eric X. Li: A tale of two political systems
- Erica Frenkel: The universal anesthesia machine
- Erica Stone: Academic research is publicly funded – why isn’t it publicly available?
- Erik Brynjolfsson: The key to growth? Race with the machines
- Erik Hersman: Reporting crisis via texting
- Erik Johansson: Impossible photography
- Erik Schlangen: A self-healing asphalt
- Erika Gregory: The world doesn’t need more nuclear weapons
- Erika Hamden: What it takes to launch a telescope
- Erika Pinheiro: What’s really happening at the US-Mexico border – and how we can do better
- Erin Marie Saltman: How young people join violent extremist groups – and how to stop them
- Erin McKean: Go ahead, make up new words!, The joy of lexicography
- Erin Sullivan: Does photographing a moment steal the experience from you?
- Ernest Madu: World-class health care
- Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
- Erricka Bridgeford: How Baltimore called a ceasefire
- Es Devlin: Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology
- Esha Alwani: What it’s like to have Tourette’s – and how music gives me back control
- Essam Daod: How we can bring mental health support to refugees
- Esta Soler: How we turned the tide on domestic violence (Hint: the Polaroid helped)
- Estelle Gibson: The true cost of financial dependence
- Esther Duflo: Social experiments to fight poverty
- Esther Meduna: Why our future relies on the genetic diversity of food
- Esther Perel: Rethinking infidelity … a talk for anyone who has ever loved, The secret to desire in a long-term relationship
- Esther Sullivan: America’s most invisible communities – mobile home parks
- Ethan Lindenberger: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines
- Ethan Lisi: What it’s really like to have autism
- Ethan Mann: How sharks could inspire a new generation of medical devices
- Ethan Nadelmann: Why we need to end the War on Drugs
- Ethan Zuckerman: Listening to global voices
- Ethel: (Nothing But) Flowers with string quartet
- Eugenia Cheng: An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math
- Euna Lee: What I learned as a prisoner in North Korea
- Euvin Naidoo: Why invest in Africa
- Eva Galperin: What you need to know about stalkerware
- Eva Vertes: Meet the future of cancer research
- Eva Zeisel: The playful search for beauty
- Eva-Maria Geigl: The history of the world according to cats
- Evan Grant: Making sound visible through cymatics
- Evan Williams: The voices of Twitter users
- Eve Abrams: The human stories behind mass incarceration
- Eve Ensler: Embrace your inner girl, Happiness in body and soul, Suddenly, my body, The profound power of an authentic apology, What security means to me
- Eve Pearlman: How to lead a conversation between people who disagree
- Evelien Borgman: What does it mean to be a refugee?
- Evelyn Glennie: How to truly listen
- Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships
- Ewandro Magalhaes: How interpreters juggle two languages at once
- Eythor Bender: Human exoskeletons – for war and healing
- eL Seed: A project of peace, painted across 50 buildings, Street art with a message of hope and peace
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- Fabian Hemmert: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone
- Fabian Oefner: Psychedelic science
- Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater
- Fabio Pacucci: Can a black hole be destroyed?, Could the Earth be swallowed by a black hole?, Hawking’s black hole paradox explained
- Fadi Chehadé: What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet
- Fahad Al-Attiya: A country with no water
- Faith Jegede Cole: What I’ve learned from my autistic brothers
- Faith Osier: The key to a better malaria vaccine
- Fang Ruan: Management lessons from Chinese business and philosophy
- Farida Nabourema: Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here’s how to know
- Farish Ahmad-Noor: Why colonialist stereotypes persist – and how to stop romanticizing history
- Fatima AlZahra’a Alatraktchi: To detect diseases earlier, let’s speak bacteria’s secret language
- Fawn Qiu: Easy DIY projects for kid engineers
- Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
- Fei-Fei Li: How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures
- Feisal Abdul Rauf: Lose your ego, find your compassion
- Felice Belle: How we became sisters
- Felix Dennis: Odes to vice and consequences
- Fernando Salem: Cómo los niños pueden aprender historia
- Fields Wicker-Miurin: Learning from leadership’s missing manual
- Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy
- Fiona Radford: From slave to rebel gladiator: The life of Spartacus
- Fiorenzo Omenetto: Silk, the ancient material of the future
- Floyd E. Romesberg: The radical possibilities of man-made DNA
- France Villarta: The gender-fluid history of the Philippines
- Frances Frei: How to build (and rebuild) trust
- Frances Larson: Why public beheadings get millions of views
- Francesca Fedeli: In our baby’s illness, a life lesson
- Francesco Sauro: Deep under the Earth’s surface, discovering beauty and science
- Francis Collins: We need better drugs – now
- Francis de los Reyes: Sanitation is a basic human right
- Francisco Díez-Buzo: Why should you read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
- Franco Sacchi: A tour of Nollywood, Nigeria’s booming film industry
- Frank Gehry: A master architect asks, Now what?, My days as a young rebel
- Frank Warren: Half a million secrets
- Franklin Leonard: How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
- Frans Lanting: Photos that give voice to the animal kingdom, The story of life in photographs
- Frans de Waal: Moral behavior in animals, The surprising science of alpha males
- Franz Freudenthal: A new way to heal hearts without surgery
- Françoise Mouly: The stories behind The New Yorker’s iconic covers
- Fred Jansen: How to land on a comet
- Fred Krupp: Let’s launch a satellite to track a threatening greenhouse gas
- Fred Swaniker: The leaders who ruined Africa, and the generation who can fix it
- Frederic Kaplan: How to build an information time machine
- Frederick Balagadde: Bio-lab on a microchip
- Fredros Okumu: Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth – mosquitoes
- Fredy Peccerelli: A forensic anthropologist who brings closure for the disappeared
- Freeman Dyson: Let’s look for life in the outer solar system
- Freeman Hrabowski: 4 pillars of college success in science
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- G.T. Bynum: A Republican mayor’s plan to replace partisanship with policy
- Gabby Giffords: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
- Gabby Rivera: The story of Marvel’s first queer Latina superhero
- Gabe Barcia-Colombo: My DNA vending machine
- Gabe Zichermann: How games make kids smarter
- Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art
- Gabriel Prieto: A day in the life of an ancient Peruvian shaman
- Gaby Barrios: Why gender-based marketing is bad for business
- Gail Reed: Where to train the world’s doctors? Cuba.
- Ganesh Pai: Can you solve the passcode riddle?
- Gangadhar Patil: How we’re helping local reporters turn important stories into national news
- Garik Israelian: How spectroscopy could reveal alien life
- Garrett Lisi: An 8-dimensional model of the universe
- Garry Kasparov: Don’t fear intelligent machines. Work with them
- Garth Lenz: The true cost of oil
- Garth Sundem: How to defeat a dragon with math
- Gary Flake: Is Pivot a turning point for web exploration?
- Gary Greenberg: The beautiful nano details of our world
- Gary Haugen: The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now
- Gary Kovacs: Tracking our online trackers
- Gary Lauder: Take Turns
- Gary Liu: The rapid growth of the Chinese internet – and where it’s headed, What the world can learn from China’s response to the coronavirus
- Gary Slutkin: Let’s treat violence like a contagious disease
- Gary Wolf: The quantified self
- Gavin Pretor-Pinney: Cloudy with a chance of joy
- Gavin Schmidt: The emergent patterns of climate change
- Gayle King: On tennis, love and motherhood
- Gayle Tzemach Lemmon: Meet the women fighting on the front lines of an American war, Women entrepreneurs, example not exception
- Ge Wang: The DIY orchestra of the future
- Geena Rocero: Why I must come out
- Geert Chatrou: A whistleblower you haven’t heard
- Gene Luen Yang: Comics belong in the classroom
- Genevieve von Petzinger: Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe?
- Geoff Mulgan: A short intro to the Studio School, Post-crash, investing in a better world
- Geoffrey Canada: Our failing schools. Enough is enough!
- Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations
- George Ayittey: Africa’s cheetahs versus hippos
- George Blair-West: 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce
- George Dyson: The birth of the computer, The story of Project Orion
- George Monbiot: For more wonder, rewild the world, The new political story that could change everything
- George Papandreou: Imagine a European democracy without borders
- George Smoot: The design of the universe
- George Steinmetz: Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair
- George Takei: Why I love a country that once betrayed me
- George Tulevski: The next step in nanotechnology
- George Whitesides: A lab the size of a postage stamp, Toward a science of simplicity
- George Zaidan: The case of the missing fractals, How do cancer cells behave differently from healthy ones?, The uncertain location of electrons, How do pain relievers work?, The bug that poops candy, What is fat?, Why is ketchup so hard to pour?
- Georges C. Benjamin: The secret weapon against pandemics
- Georgette Mulheir: The tragedy of orphanages
- Geraldine Hamilton: Body parts on a chip
- Gerard Ryle: How the Panama Papers journalists broke the biggest leak in history
- Gerd Gigerenzer: Why do people fear the wrong things?
- Gero Miesenboeck: Re-engineering the brain
- Gerry Wright: How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis?
- Gever Tulley: 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do, Life lessons through tinkering
- Ghada Wali: How I’m using LEGO to teach Arabic
- Giada Gerboni: The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots
- Gian Giudice: Why our universe might exist on a knife-edge
- Gil Weinberg: Can robots be creative?
- Giles Duley: When a reporter becomes the story
- Gill Hicks: I survived a terrorist attack. Here’s what I learned
- Gillian Gibb: Why can’t some birds fly?
- Gina Cooke: Why is there a b in doubt?
- Giorgia Lupi: How we can find ourselves in data
- Giulia Enders: The surprisingly charming science of your gut
- Glen Henry: What I’ve learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad
- Glenn Cantave: How augmented reality is changing activism
- Glenn Greenwald: Why privacy matters
- Golan Levin: Art that looks back at you, Software (as) art
- Gordon Brown: Global ethic vs. national interest, Wiring a web for global good
- Gordon Hamilton: Can you solve the Mondrian squares riddle?
- Grace Kim: How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)
- Grady Booch: Don’t fear superintelligent AI
- Graham Allison: Is war between China and the US inevitable?
- Graham Baird: How do crystals work?
- Graham Hawkes: A flight through the ocean
- Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness, Why I’m a weekday vegetarian
- Graham Shaw: Why people believe they can’t draw
- Greg Asner: Ecology from the air
- Greg Gage: Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate, How a dragonfly’s brain is designed to kill, How octopuses battle each other, How sound can hack your memory while you sleep, How to control someone else’s arm with your brain, How you can make a fruit fly eat veggies, The cockroach beatbox, The real reason why mosquitoes buzz, This computer is learning to read your mind
- Greg Lynn: Organic algorithms in architecture
- Greg Stone: Saving the ocean one island at a time
- Gregory Berns: What emotions look like in a dog’s brain
- Gregory Heyworth: How I’m discovering the secrets of ancient texts
- Gregory Petsko: The coming neurological epidemic
- Gregory Stock: To upgrade is human
- Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change
- Gretchen Carlson: Political common ground in a polarized United States, How we can end sexual harassment at work
- Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked
- Gus Casely-Hayford: The powerful stories that shaped Africa
- Gustavo Dudamel: El Sistema’s top youth orchestra
- Guy Hoffman: Robots with soul
- Guy Winch: How to fix a broken heart, How to turn off work thoughts during your free time, Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
- Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX’s plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes
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- Haas: How painting can transform communities
- Haaziq Kazi: A 13-year-old’s plan for removing plastic from the oceans
- Hadi Eldebek: Why must artists be poor?
- Hadyn Parry: Re-engineering mosquitos to fight disease
- Hahn: How painting can transform communities
- Hailey Hardcastle: Why students should have mental health days
- Hajer Sharief: How to use family dinner to teach politics
- Haley Van Dyck: How a start-up in the White House is changing business as usual
- Halima Aden: How I went from child refugee to international model
- Halla Tómasdóttir: A feminine response to Iceland’s financial crash, The crisis of leadership – and a new way forward, It’s time for women to run for office
- Hamdi Ulukaya: The anti-CEO playbook
- Hamish Jolly: A shark-deterrent wetsuit (and it’s not what you think)
- Handspring Puppet Co.: The genius puppetry behind War Horse
- Hank Willis Thomas: A mother and son united by love and art
- Hanna Rosin: New data on the rise of women
- Hanna-Ilona Härmävaara: The myth of the Sampo— an infinite source of fortune and greed
- Hannah Brencher: Love letters to strangers
- Hannah Bürckstümmer: A printable, flexible, organic solar cell
- Hannah Fry: Is life really that complex?, The mathematics of love
- Hannah Gadsby: Three ideas. Three contradictions. Or not.
- Hans: How not to be ignorant about the world
- Hans Block: The price of a clean internet
- Hans Rosling: Asia’s rise – how and when, Global population growth, box by box, Insights on HIV, in stunning data visuals, Let my dataset change your mindset, New insights on poverty, Religions and babies, The best stats you’ve ever seen, The good news of the decade? We’re winning the war against child mortality, The magic washing machine
- Harald Eia: Where in the world is it easiest to get rich?
- Harald Haas: Forget Wi-Fi. Meet the new Li-Fi Internet, Wireless data from every light bulb
- Hari Nef: The aesthetics of survival
- Harish Manwani: Profit’s not always the point
- Harry Baker: A love poem for lonely prime numbers
- Harry Cliff: Have we reached the end of physics?
- Harsha Bhogle: The rise of cricket, the rise of India
- Harvey Fineberg: Are we ready for neo-evolution?
- Hasan Elahi: FBI, here I am!
- Hasini Jayatilaka: How cancer cells communicate – and how we can slow them down
- Hawa Abdi: Mother and daughter doctor-heroes
- Hayley Levitt: Would you opt for a life with no pain?, Who decides what art means?
- Heather Barnett: What humans can learn from semi-intelligent slime
- Heather Brooke: My battle to expose government corruption
- Heather C. McGhee: Racism has a cost for everyone
- Heather J. Faust: Why haven’t we cured arthritis?
- Heather Knight: Silicon-based comedy
- Heather Lanier: Good and bad are incomplete stories we tell ourselves
- Heba Shaheed: Is it bad to hold your pee?
- Hector Garcia: We train soldiers for war. Let’s train them to come home, too
- Hector Lanz: How do focus groups work?
- Hector Ruiz: The thinking behind 50x15
- Heidi Boisvert: How I’m using biological data to tell better stories – and spark social change
- Heidi Grant: How to ask for help – and get a yes
- Heidi M. Sosik: The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean’s twilight zone
- Helder Guimarães: A magical search for a coincidence
- Helen Czerski: The fascinating physics of everyday life
- Helen Fisher: Technology hasn’t changed love. Here’s why, The brain in love, Why we love, why we cheat
- Helen Gillet: You Found Me
- Helen M. Farrell: The truth about electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), What is bipolar disorder?, What is depression?
- Helen Marriage: Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination
- Helen Pearson: Lessons from the longest study on human development
- Hendrik Poinar: Bring back the woolly mammoth!
- Henna-Maria Uusitupa: How the gut microbes you’re born with affect your lifelong health
- Henrietta Fore: How we can help young people build a better future
- Henry Evans: Meet the robots for humanity
- Henry Lin: What we can learn from galaxies far, far away
- Henry Markram: A brain in a supercomputer
- Herbie Hancock: An all-star set
- Heribert Watzke: The brain in your gut
- Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games
- Hetain Patel: Who am I? Think again
- Hilary Cottam: Social services are broken. How we can fix them
- Hillel Cooperman: LEGO for grownups
- Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Indigenous knowledge meets science to solve climate change
- His Holiness the Karmapa: The technology of the heart
- Hod Lipson: Building self-aware robots
- Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it’s home.
- Homaro Cantu: Cooking as alchemy
- Honor Harger: A history of the universe in sound
- Hortensia Jiménez Díaz: How Mendel’s pea plants helped us understand genetics
- Howard C. Stevenson: How to resolve racially stressful situations
- Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration
- Howard Taylor: A global initiative to end violence against children
- Huang Hung: How American and Chinese values shaped the coronavirus response
- Hubertus Knabe: The dark secrets of a surveillance state
- Hugh Evans: What does it mean to be a citizen of the world?
- Hugh Herr: How we’ll become cyborgs and extend human potential, The new bionics that let us run, climb and dance
- Hugo Mercier: How can you change someone’s mind?
- Hui-wen Sato: How grief helped me become a better caregiver
- Hyeonseo Lee: My escape from North Korea
- Hyunsoo Joshua No: How does chemotherapy work?
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- Iain Hutchison: Saving faces: A facial surgeon’s craft
- Ian Barnes: What archaeology and DNA can teach us about prehistoric migration
- Ian Bremmer: How the US should use its superpower status
- Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training
- Ian Firth: Bridges should be beautiful
- Ian Goldin: Navigating our global future
- Ian Ritchie: The day I turned down Tim Berners-Lee
- Ibram X. Kendi: The difference between being not racist and antiracist
- Iké Udé: The radical beauty of Africa, in portraits
- Ilan Stavans: Infinity according to Jorge Luis Borges, Romance and revolution: the poetry of Pablo Neruda, Why should you read Don Quixote?
- Ilona Stengel: The role of human emotions in science and research
- Ilona Szabó de Carvalho: 4 lessons I learned from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence
- Imogen Heap: Wait It Out
- Improv Everywhere: A TED speaker’s worst nightmare
- Indre Viskontas: How music makes me a better neuroscientist
- Inge Missmahl: Bringing peace to the minds of Afghanistan
- Ingrid Fetell Lee: Where joy hides and how to find it
- Ioannis Papachimonas: How computers translate human language
- Ione Wells: How we talk about sexual assault online
- Ipsita Dasgupta: To challenge the status quo, find a co-conspirator
- Iqbal Quadir: How mobile phones can fight poverty
- Irina Kareva: Math can help uncover cancer’s secrets
- Irwin Redlener: How to survive a nuclear attack
- Isaac Lidsky: What reality are you creating for yourself?
- Isaac Mizrahi: Fashion and creativity, How the button changed fashion
- Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age, Tales of passion
- Isabel Behncke: Evolution’s gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans
- Isabel Wijsen: Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali
- Isabel Wilkerson: The Great Migration and the power of a single decision
- Isadora Kosofsky: Intimate photos of a senior love triangle
- Iseult Gillespie: The legend of Annapurna, Hindu goddess of nourishment, Everything you need to know to read The Canterbury Tales, Frida Kahlo: The woman behind the legend, How to see more and care less: The art of Georgia O’Keeffe, The Irish myth of the Giant’s Causeway, The meaning of life according to Simone de Beauvoir, The myth of Jason and the Argonauts, The myth of Pandora’s box, The secret student resistance to Hitler, The tale of the doctor who defied Death, The wicked wit of Jane Austen, Why is this painting so shocking?, Why should you read A Midsummer Night’s Dream?, Why should you read Fahrenheit 451?, Why should you read Flannery O’Connor?, Why should you read Hamlet?, Why should you read Kafka on the Shore?, Why should you read Midnight’s Children?, Why should you read Shakespeare’s The Tempest?, Why should you read Sylvia Plath?, Why should you read Waiting for Godot?
- Ismael Nazario: What I learned as a kid in jail
- Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors
- Ivan Coyote: Why we need gender-neutral bathrooms
- Ivan Krastev: Can democracy exist without trust?
- Ivan Oransky: Are we over-medicalized?
- Ivan Poupyrev: Everything around you can become a computer
- Ivonne Roman: How policewomen make communities safer
- Iwan Baan: Ingenious homes in unexpected places
- Iyad Rahwan: What moral decisions should driverless cars make?
- iO Tillett Wright: Fifty shades of gay
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- J. Marshall Shepherd: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview
- J. V. Maranto: History’s deadliest colors
- J.D. Vance: America’s forgotten working class
- J.J. Abrams: The mystery box
- JD Schramm: Break the silence for suicide attempt survivors
- JP Rangaswami: Information is food
- JR: My wish: Use art to turn the world inside out, One year of turning the world inside out, Undocumented lives, inside out
- Jaap de Roode: How butterflies self-medicate
- Jac de Haan: Why do competitors open their stores next to one another?
- Jacek Utko: Can design save newspapers?
- Jack Andraka: A promising test for pancreatic cancer … from a teenager
- Jack Choi: On the virtual dissection table
- Jack Conte: How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age
- Jack Dorsey: How Twitter needs to change
- Jack Foster: Illusions for a better society
- Jack Horner: Building a dinosaur from a chicken, Where are the baby dinosaurs?
- Jackie Savitz: Save the oceans, feed the world!
- Jackie Tabick: The balancing act of compassion
- Jackson Bird: How to talk (and listen) to transgender people
- Jackson Browne: A song inspired by the ocean
- Jackson Katz: Violence against women – it’s a men’s issue
- Jacob Collier: A one-man musical phenomenon
- Jacob Soboroff: Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays?
- Jacqueline Novogratz: A third way to think about aid, An escape from poverty, Inspiring a life of immersion, Invest in Africa’s own solutions, Patient capitalism
- Jacqueline Woodson: What reading slowly taught me about writing
- Jacy Reese Anthis: Why we should end animal agriculture
- Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
- Jaime Lerner: A song of the city
- Jake Barton: The museum of you
- Jake Wood: A new mission for veterans – disaster relief
- Jakob Magolan: A crash course in organic chemistry
- Jakob Trollback: A new kind of music video
- Jamais Cascio: Tools for a better world
- James A. White Sr.: The little problem I had renting a house
- James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?
- James Balog: Time-lapse proof of extreme ice loss
- James Beacham: How we explore unanswered questions in physics
- James Bridle: The nightmare videos of children’s YouTube – and what’s wrong with the internet today
- James Burchfield: Playing invisible turntables
- James Cameron: Before Avatar … a curious boy
- James Earle: Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man of math
- James Flynn: Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents’
- James Forbes: Compassion at the dinner table
- James Geary: Metaphorically speaking
- James Gillies: Dark matter: The matter we can’t see
- James Green: 3 moons and a planet that could have alien life
- James Hansen: Why I must speak out about climate change
- James Howard Kunstler: The ghastly tragedy of the suburbs
- James Logan: Can dogs sniff out malaria?, How we’re using dogs to sniff out malaria
- James Lyne: Everyday cybercrime – and what you can do about it
- James Nachtwey: Moving photos of extreme drug-resistant TB, My wish: Let my photographs bear witness
- James Orsulak: Why we need to move manufacturing off-planet
- James Patten: The best computer interface? Maybe … your hands
- James Randi: Homeopathy, quackery and fraud
- James Stavridis: A Navy Admiral’s thoughts on global security
- James Surowiecki: The power and the danger of online crowds
- James Veitch: The agony of trying to unsubscribe, This is what happens when you reply to spam email
- James Watson: How we discovered DNA
- James Zucker: How do you know you exist?
- Jamie Bartlett: How the mysterious dark net is going mainstream
- Jamie Drummond: Let’s crowdsource the world’s goals
- Jamie Heywood: The big idea my brother inspired
- Jamie Oliver: Food revolutionaries, Teach every child about food
- Jamie Paik: Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves
- Jamil Abu-Wardeh: The Axis of Evil Middle East Comedy Tour
- Jamila Lyiscott: 3 ways to speak English
- Jamila Raqib: The secret to effective nonviolent resistance
- Jan Bill: What was so special about Viking ships?
- Jan Chipchase: The anthropology of mobile phones
- Jan Rader: In the opioid crisis, here’s what it takes to save a life
- Jane Chen: A warm embrace that saves lives
- Jane Fonda: A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship, Life’s third act, Why I protest for climate justice
- Jane Goodall: How humans and animals can live together, What separates us from chimpanzees?
- Jane Hirshfield: The art of the metaphor
- Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world, Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling?, The game that can give you 10 extra years of life
- Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2
- Janell Hobson: The breathtaking courage of Harriet Tubman
- Janelle Peters: How Romans flooded the Colosseum for sea battles
- Janelle Shane: The danger of AI is weirder than you think
- Janet Echelman: Taking imagination seriously
- Janet Iwasa: How animations can help scientists test a hypothesis, The wonders of the molecular world, animated, Why it’s so hard to cure HIV/AIDS
- Janet Stovall: How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- Janette Sadik-Khan: New York’s streets? Not so mean any more
- Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action, Biomimicry’s surprising lessons from nature’s engineers
- Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person
- Janine di Giovanni: What I saw in the war
- Janja Lalich: Why do people join cults?
- Janna Levin: The sound the universe makes
- Jared Diamond: How societies can grow old better, Why do societies collapse?
- Jared Ficklin: New ways to see music (with color! and fire!)
- Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet
- Jarrell Daniels: What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other
- Jarreth Merz: Filming democracy in Ghana
- Jarrett J. Krosoczka: How a boy became an artist, Why lunch ladies are heroes
- Jasmine Crowe: What we’re getting wrong in the fight to end hunger
- Jason B. Rosenthal: The journey through loss and grief
- Jason Clay: How big brands can help save biodiversity
- Jason Fried: Why work doesn’t happen at work
- Jason McCue: Terrorism is a failed brand
- Jason Pontin: Can technology solve our big problems?
- Jason Shen: Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience
- Jason deCaires Taylor: An underwater art museum, teeming with life
- Jaspal Ricky Singh: How playing sports benefits your body… and your brain
- Jay Bradner: Open-source cancer research
- Jay Silver: Hack a banana, make a keyboard!
- Jay Van Bavel: Do politics make us irrational?
- Jay Walker: My library of human imagination, The world’s English mania
- Jean-Baptiste Michel: What we learned from 5 million books, The mathematics of history
- Jean-Baptiste P. Koehl: Why are earthquakes so hard to predict?
- Jeanne Gang: Buildings that blend nature and city
- Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?
- Jeannie Suk Gersen: How understanding divorce can help your marriage
- Jedidah Isler: How I fell in love with quasars, blazars and our incredible universe, The untapped genius that could change science for the better
- Jeff Bezos: The electricity metaphor for the web’s future
- Jeff Dekofsky: Euclid’s puzzling parallel postulate, Is math discovered or invented?, The Infinite Hotel Paradox
- Jeff Fox: Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles
- Jeff Han: The radical promise of the multi-touch interface
- Jeff Hancock: The future of lying
- Jeff Hawkins: How brain science will change computing
- Jeff Iliff: One more reason to get a good night’s sleep
- Jeff Kirschner: This app makes it fun to pick up litter
- Jeff Leek: Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1), This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait
- Jeff Skoll: My journey into movies that matter
- Jeff Smith: Lessons in business … from prison
- Jeff Speck: 4 ways to make a city more walkable, The walkable city
- Jeff Steers: Who won the space race?
- Jeffrey Brown: How we cut youth violence in Boston by 79 percent
- Jeffrey Kluger: The sibling bond
- Jeffrey Siegel: What makes muscles grow?
- Jehane Noujaim: My wish: A global day of film
- Jen Gunter: Why can’t we talk about periods?
- Jenna McCarthy: What you don’t know about marriage
- Jenni Chang: This is what LGBT life is like around the world
- Jennifer 8. Lee: The hunt for General Tso, Why 1.5 billion people eat with chopsticks
- Jennifer Brea: What happens when you have a disease doctors can’t diagnose
- Jennifer Doudna: How CRISPR lets us edit our DNA
- Jennifer Golbeck: Your social media likes expose more than you think
- Jennifer Granholm: A clean energy proposal – race to the top!
- Jennifer Granick: How the US government spies on people who protest – including you
- Jennifer Healey: If cars could talk, accidents might be avoidable
- Jennifer Jacquet: Will the ocean ever run out of fish?
- Jennifer Kahn: Gene editing can now change an entire species – forever
- Jennifer L. Eberhardt: How racial bias works – and how to disrupt it
- Jennifer Lin: Improvising on piano, aged 14
- Jennifer Murphy: How we became sisters
- Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government
- Jennifer Pluznick: You smell with your body, not just your nose
- Jennifer Senior: For parents, happiness is a very high bar
- Jennifer Vail: The science of friction – and its surprising impact on our lives
- Jennifer Verduin: How do ocean currents work?
- Jennifer Wilcox: A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere
- Jennifer Zhu Scott: Why you should get paid for your data
- Jer Thorp: Make data more human
- Jeremy Forbes: How to start a conversation about suicide
- Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace
- Jeremy Heimans: What new power looks like
- Jeremy Howard: The wonderful and terrifying implications of computers that can learn
- Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean
- Jeremy Kasdin: The flower-shaped starshade that might help us detect Earth-like planets
- Jess Kutch: What productive conflict can offer a workplace
- Jess Thom: How I turned my Tourette’s tics into art
- Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle is nothing like what we do now
- Jesse Byock: The secret messages of Viking runestones
- Jessi Arrington: Wearing nothing new
- Jessica Green: You are your microbes, Are we filtering the wrong microbes?, We’re covered in germs. Let’s design for that.
- Jessica Jackley: Poverty, money – and love
- Jessica Ladd: The reporting system that sexual assault survivors want
- Jessica McCabe: This is what it’s really like to live with ADHD
- Jessica Ochoa Hendrix: How virtual reality turns students into scientists
- Jessica Oreck: Mysteries of vernacular: Robot
- Jessica Pryce: To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation
- Jessica S. Wieder: Can you survive nuclear fallout?
- Jessica Shortall: The US needs paid family leave – for the sake of its future
- Jessica Smith: Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived
- Jherek Bischoff: Space Oddity
- Ji-Hae Park: The violin, and my dark night of the soul
- Jia Jiang: What I learned from 100 days of rejection
- Jiabao Li: Art that reveals how technology frames reality
- Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
- Jill Dash: Why should you read Lord of the Flies by William Golding?
- Jill Farrant: How we can make crops survive without water
- Jill Heinerth: The mysterious world of underwater caves
- Jill Seubert: How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration
- Jill Shargaa: Please, please, people. Let’s put the ‘awe’ back in ‘awesome’
- Jill Sobule: Global warming’s theme song, Manhattan in January, The Jill and Julia Show
- Jill Tarter: Calculating the odds of intelligent alien life, Join the SETI search
- Jim Al-Khalili: How quantum biology might explain life’s biggest questions
- Jim Collins: How we’re using AI to discover new antibiotics
- Jim Fallon: Exploring the mind of a killer
- Jim Hemerling: 5 ways to lead in an era of constant change
- Jim Holt: Why does the universe exist?
- Jim Hudspeth: The beautiful, mysterious science of how you hear
- Jim Simons: The mathematician who cracked Wall Street
- Jim Toomey: Learning from Sherman the shark
- Jim Yong Kim: Doesn’t everyone deserve a chance at a good life?
- Jimmy Carter: Why I believe the mistreatment of women is the number one human rights abuse
- Jimmy Lin: A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early
- Jimmy Nelson: Gorgeous portraits of the world’s vanishing people
- Jimmy Wales: The birth of Wikipedia
- Jinha Lee: Reach into the computer and grab a pixel
- Jinsop Lee: Design for all 5 senses
- JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
- Joachim de Posada: Don’t eat the marshmallow!
- Joan Blades: Free yourself from your filter bubbles
- Joan Halifax: Compassion and the true meaning of empathy
- Joanne Chory: How supercharged plants could slow climate change
- Joao Pedro de Magalhaes: Why do animals have such different lifespans?
- Jocelyne Bloch: The brain may be able to repair itself – with help
- Jochen Wegner: What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics
- Jody Williams: A realistic vision for world peace
- Joe DeRisi: Solving medical mysteries
- Joe Gebbia: How Airbnb designs for trust
- Joe Kowan: How I beat stage fright
- Joe Landolina: This gel can make you stop bleeding instantly
- Joe Lassiter: We need nuclear power to solve climate change
- Joe Madiath: Better toilets, better life
- Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
- Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel
- Joel Jackson: A vehicle built in Africa, for Africa
- Joel Leon: The beautiful, hard work of co-parenting
- Joel Levine: Why we need to go back to Mars
- Joel Selanikio: The big-data revolution in health care
- Joelle Rabow Maletis: The psychology of post-traumatic stress disorder
- Joey Alexander: An 11-year-old prodigy performs old-school jazz
- Johan Rockström: 5 transformational policies for a prosperous and sustainable world, Let the environment guide our development
- Johann Hari: Everything you think you know about addiction is wrong, This could be why you’re depressed or anxious
- Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion’s free culture, Social media and the end of gender
- Johanna Figueira: Simple, effective tech to connect communities in crisis
- John Amory: How a male contraceptive pill could work
- John Bohannon: Dance vs. powerpoint, a modest proposal
- John C. Moore: Dead stuff: The secret ingredient in our food chain
- John Cameron: Why do we hiccup?
- John Cary: How architecture can create dignity for all
- John Delaney: Wiring an interactive ocean
- John Doerr: Salvation (and profit) in greentech, Why the secret to success is setting the right goals
- John Francis: Walk the earth … my 17-year vow of silence
- John Gable: Free yourself from your filter bubbles
- John Gerzema: The post-crisis consumer
- John Graham-Cumming: The greatest machine that never was
- John Green: The nerd’s guide to learning everything online
- John Hardy: My green school dream
- John Hockenberry: We are all designers, The painter and the pendulum
- John Hodgman: Aliens, love – where are they?, Design, explained.
- John Hunter: Teaching with the World Peace Game
- John Kasaona: How poachers became caretakers
- John Koenig: Beautiful new words to describe obscure emotions
- John La Grou: A plug for smart power outlets
- John Legend: Redemption Song
- John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible, An inventory of the invisible
- John Maeda: Designing for simplicity, How art, technology and design inform creative leaders, My journey in design
- John McWhorter: 4 reasons to learn a new language, A brief history of plural word…s, Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na’vi real languages?, Txtng is killing language. JK!!!
- John Q. Walker: Great piano performances, recreated
- John Searle: Our shared condition – consciousness
- John Underkoffler: Pointing to the future of UI
- John Varney: A different way to visualize rhythm
- John Wilbanks: Let’s pool our medical data
- John Wooden: The difference between winning and succeeding
- Johnny Lee: Free or cheap Wii Remote hacks
- Joi Ito: Want to innovate? Become a now-ist
- Joia Mukherjee: How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US
- Jok Church: A circle of caring
- Jon Bergmann: Just how small is an atom?
- Jon Boogz: A dance to honor Mother Earth
- Jon Bowers: We should aim for perfection – and stop fearing failure
- Jon Gosier: The problem with trickle-down techonomics
- Jon Gray: The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again, The power of the Afro pick
- Jon Lowenstein: Family, hope and resilience on the migrant trail
- Jon M. Chu: The pride and power of representation in film
- Jon Mooallem: How the teddy bear taught us compassion
- Jon Nguyen: Tour the solar system from home
- Jon Ronson: Strange answers to the psychopath test, When online shaming goes too far
- Jonas Eliasson: How to solve traffic jams
- Jonas Gahr Støre: In defense of dialogue
- Jonathan Butterworth: What’s the smallest thing in the universe?
- Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story, The beautiful tricks of flowers, What we think we know, Why we’re storing billions of seeds
- Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes
- Jonathan Foley: The other inconvenient truth
- Jonathan Haidt: Can a divided America heal?, How common threats can make common (political) ground, Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence, The moral roots of liberals and conservatives
- Jonathan Harris: The web as art, The Web’s secret stories
- Jonathan Klein: Photos that changed the world
- Jonathan Marks: In praise of conflict
- Jonathan Rossiter: A robot that eats pollution
- Jonathan Tepperman: The risky politics of progress
- Jonathan Trent: Energy from floating algae pods
- Jonathan Wilker: What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue
- Jonathan Williams: The story of a parent’s transition and a son’s redemption
- Jonathan Zittrain: The Web as random acts of kindness
- Jonny Sun: You are not alone in your loneliness
- Jordan Wirfs-Brock: The four things you need to know about the energy you use
- Jordana Moore Saggese: The chaotic brilliance of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Jorge Soto: The future of early cancer detection?
- Jose Miguel Sokoloff: How Christmas lights helped guerrillas put down their guns
- Joseph DeSimone: What if 3D printing was 100x faster?
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative
- Joseph Kim: The family I lost in North Korea. And the family I gained.
- Joseph Lekuton: A parable for Kenya
- Joseph Nye: Global power shifts
- Joseph Pine: What consumers want
- Joseph Ravenell: How barbershops can keep men healthy
- Joseph Redmon: How computers learn to recognize objects instantly
- Josette Sheeran: Ending hunger now
- Josh Luber: Why sneakers are a great investment
- Josh Samani: What can Schrödinger’s cat teach us about quantum mechanics?
- Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do
- Joshua Harvey: The evolution of the human eye
- Joshua Klein: A thought experiment on the intelligence of crows
- Joshua Prager: In search of the man who broke my neck, Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
- Joshua Prince-Ramus: Behind the design of Seattle’s library, Building a theater that remakes itself
- Joshua Roman: On violin and cello, Passacaglia
- Joshua Silver: Adjustable liquid-filled eyeglasses
- Joshua Smith: New nanotech to detect cancer early
- Joshua W. Pate: The fascinating science of phantom limbs, The mysterious science of pain
- Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough
- José Américano N L F de Freitas: How exactly does binary code work?
- José Andrés: How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
- José Antonio Abreu: The El Sistema music revolution
- José Bowen: Beethoven the businessman
- Joy Buolamwini: How I’m fighting bias in algorithms
- Joy Lin: If superpowers were real: Body mass, If superpowers were real: Flight, If superpowers were real: Immortality, If superpowers were real: Invisibility, If superpowers were real: Super speed, If superpowers were real: Super strength
- Joy Sun: Should you donate differently?
- Joy Wolfram: How nanoparticles could change the way we treat cancer
- Juan Enriquez: A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border, The age of genetic wonder, The life code that will reshape the future, The next species of human, Using biology to rethink the energy challenge, We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely, What will humans look like in 100 years?, Will our kids be a different species?, Your online life, permanent as a tattoo
- Judd A. Schorr: Can you solve the airplane riddle?
- Jude Kelly: Why women should tell the stories of humanity
- Judith Heumann: Our fight for disability rights – and why we’re not done yet
- Judith Jamison: Revelations from a lifetime of dance
- Judson Brewer: A simple way to break a bad habit
- Judy Cebra-Thomas: How turtle shells evolved… twice
- Judy Grisel: How does alcohol make you drunk?
- Judy MacDonald Johnston: Prepare for a good end of life
- Julia Bacha: How women wage conflict without violence, Pay attention to nonviolence
- Julia Dhar: How to disagree productively and find common ground
- Julia Galef: Why you think you’re right – even if you’re wrong
- Julia Shaw: A memory scientist’s advice on reporting harassment and discrimination, How memory science can help fight harassment, How to support witnesses of harassment and build healthier workplaces
- Julia Sweeney: The Jill and Julia Show, It’s time for The Talk, Letting go of God
- Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks
- Julian Baggini: Is there a real you?
- Julian Burschka: Could a breathalyzer detect cancer?, What your breath could reveal about your health
- Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better, How to speak so that people want to listen, Shh! Sound health in 8 steps, The 4 ways sound affects us, Why architects need to use their ears
- Juliana Machado Ferreira: The fight to end rare-animal trafficking in Brazil
- Juliana Rotich: Meet BRCK, Internet access built for Africa
- Julie Burstein: 4 lessons in creativity
- Julie Cordua: How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet
- Julie Lythcott-Haims: How to raise successful kids – without over-parenting
- Julie Taymor: Spider-Man, The Lion King and life on the creative edge
- Juliet Brophy: How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution
- Julio Gil: Future tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere
- Julius Maada Bio: A vision for the future of Sierra Leone
- Jun Wang: How digital DNA could help you make better health choices
- Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made
- Juno Mac: The laws that sex workers really want
- Justin Baldoni: Why I’m done trying to be man enough
- Justin Davidson: Why glass towers are bad for city life – and what we need instead
- Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
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- K. Erica Dodge: Gyotaku: The ancient Japanese art of printing fish
- Kade Crockford: What you need to know about face surveillance
- Kai-Fu Lee: How AI can save our humanity
- Kailash Satyarthi: How to make peace? Get angry
- Kaitlyn Sadtler: Why haven’t we cured arthritis?, How we could teach our bodies to heal faster, Your body vs. implants
- Kakenya Ntaiya: A girl who demanded school, Empower a girl, transform a community
- Kaki King: A musical escape into a world of light and color, Playing Pink Noise on guitar
- Kamal Meattle: How to grow fresh air
- Kamau Gachigi: Success stories from Kenya’s first makerspace
- Kanawat Senanan: How computer memory works, How do hard drives work?
- Kandice Sumner: How America’s public schools keep kids in poverty
- Kang Lee: Can you really tell if a kid is lying?
- Kara Logan Berlin: 3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser
- Kare Anderson: Be an opportunity maker
- Karen Armstrong: Let’s revive the Golden Rule, My wish: The Charter for Compassion, Passion for compassion
- Karen Bass: Unseen footage, untamed nature
- Karen D. Davis: How does your brain respond to pain?
- Karen DeSalvo: How tech companies can help combat the pandemic and reshape public health
- Karen Guillemin: You are your microbes
- Karen J. Meech: The story of ‘Oumuamua, the first visitor from another star system
- Karen Lloyd: The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth – and how they could help humanity, This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life
- Karen Thompson Walker: What fear can teach us
- Karen Tse: How to stop torture
- Karim Abouelnaga: A summer school kids actually want to attend
- Karima Bennoune: When people of Muslim heritage challenge fundamentalism
- Karin Öberg: The galactic recipe for a living planet
- Karissa Sanbonmatsu: The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain
- Karl Skjonnemand: The self-assembling computer chips of the future
- Karoliina Korppoo: How a video game might help us build better cities
- Kartick Satyanarayan: How we rescued the dancing bears
- Kary Mullis: A next-gen cure for killer infections, Play! Experiment! Discover!
- Kashfia Rahman: How risk-taking changes a teenager’s brain
- Kashmir Hill: What your smart devices know (and share) about you
- Kasiva Mutua: How I use the drum to tell my story
- Kate Adams: 4 larger-than-life lessons from soap operas
- Kate Bowler: Everything happens for a reason – and other lies I’ve loved
- Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots
- Kate Gardoqui: How did English evolve?
- Kate Hartman: The art of wearable communication
- Kate Marvel: Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?
- Kate Messner: How to build a fictional world
- Kate Orff: Reviving New York’s rivers – with oysters!
- Kate Raworth: A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
- Kate Slabosky: The three different ways mammals give birth
- Kate Stafford: How human noise affects ocean habitats
- Kate Stone: DJ decks made of … paper, The press trampled on my privacy. Here’s how I took back my story
- Kate Wagner: I hate McMansions – and you should too
- Katerina Kaouri: The sonic boom problem
- Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it
- Katharine Wilkinson: How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming
- Katherine Eban: A dose of reality about generic drugs
- Katherine Fulton: You are the future of philanthropy
- Katherine Hampsten: How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it)
- Katherine Kuchenbecker: The technology of touch
- Kathryn Bouskill: The unforeseen consequences of a fast-paced world
- Kathryn Schulz: Don’t regret regret, On being wrong
- Kathy Hull: Stories from a home for terminally ill children
- Katie Bouman: How to take a picture of a black hole
- Katie Hinde: What we don’t know about mother’s milk
- Katie Hood: The difference between healthy and unhealthy love
- Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile: How I’m bringing queer pride to my rural village
- Katrina Spade: When I die, recompose me
- Kaustav Dey: How fashion helps us express who we are – and what we stand for
- Kavita Ramdas: Radical women, embracing tradition
- Kay Almere Read: The Aztec myth of the unlikeliest sun god
- Kay M. Tye: What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health
- Kay Read: A day in the life of an Aztec midwife
- Kayla Briët: Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage
- Kees Moeliker: How a dead duck changed my life
- Keith Barry: Brain magic
- Keith Bellows: The camel’s hump
- Keith Chen: Could your language affect your ability to save money?
- Keith Eggener: The fascinating history of cemeteries
- Keith Kirkland: Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch
- Keith Lowe: Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II
- Keith Nolan: Deaf in the military
- Keith Schacht: Toys and materials from the future
- Keller Rinaudo: A mini robot – powered by your phone, How we’re using drones to deliver blood and save lives
- Kelli Anderson: Design to challenge reality
- Kelli Jean Drinkwater: Enough with the fear of fat
- Kelli Sandman-Hurley: What is dyslexia?
- Kelli Swazey: Life that doesn’t end with death
- Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend
- Kelly Richmond Pope: How whistle-blowers shape history
- Kelly Wanser: Emergency medicine for our climate fever
- Kelsey Johnson: The problem of light pollution – and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it
- Kelsey Leonard: Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans
- Ken Goldberg: 4 lessons from robots about being human
- Ken Jennings: Watson, Jeopardy and me, the obsolete know-it-all
- Ken Kamler: Medical miracle on Everest
- Kenichi Ebina: My magic moves
- Kenneth Cukier: Big data is better data
- Kenneth Lacovara: Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universe
- Kenneth Shinozuka: My simple invention, designed to keep my grandfather safe
- Kenny Coogan: Licking bees and pulping trees: The reign of a wasp queen, The wild world of carnivorous plants, Vultures: The acid-puking, plague-busting heroes of the ecosystem, Why are sloths so slow?
- Kent Larson: Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city
- Keolu Fox: Why genetic research must be more diverse
- Keren Elazari: Hackers: the Internet’s immune system
- Kevin Allocca: Why videos go viral
- Kevin B. Jones: Why curiosity is the key to science and medicine
- Kevin Bales: How to combat modern slavery
- Kevin Breel: Confessions of a depressed comic
- Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life
- Kevin Kelly: How AI can bring on a second Industrial Revolution, How technology evolves, Technology’s epic story, The next 5,000 days of the web
- Kevin Njabo: How we can stop Africa’s scientific brain drain
- Kevin Rudd: Are China and the US doomed to conflict?
- Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world
- Kevin Stone: The bio-future of joint replacement
- Kevin Surace: Eco-friendly drywall
- Khadija Gbla: My mother’s strange definition of empowerment
- Khalida Brohi: How I work to protect women from honor killings
- Kim Gorgens: Protecting the brain against concussion, The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime
- Kim Katrin Milan: A queer vision of love and marriage
- Kim Preshoff: What’s a smartphone made of?
- Kimberley Motley: How I defend the rule of law
- Kimberly Noble: How does income affect childhood brain development?
- Kimberlé Crenshaw: The urgency of intersectionality
- Kio Stark: Why you should talk to strangers
- Kiran Bedi: A police chief with a difference
- Kiran Sethi: Kids, take charge
- Kirby Ferguson: Embrace the remix
- Kirk Citron: And now, the real news
- Kirk Sorensen: Thorium, an alternative nuclear fuel
- Kirsty Duncan: Scientists must be free to learn, to speak and to challenge
- Kishore Mahbubani: How the West can adapt to a rising Asia
- Kitra Cahana: A glimpse of life on the road, My father, locked in his body but soaring free
- Klaus Stadlmann: The world’s smallest 3D printer
- Knut Haanaes: Two reasons companies fail – and how to avoid them
- Kola Masha: How farming could employ Africa’s young workforce – and help build peace
- Kostas Karpouzis: Can machines read your emotions?
- Kotchakorn Voraakhom: How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods
- Krishna Sudhir: How do cigarettes affect the body?, What happens during a heart attack?, What yoga does to your body and brain
- Krista Donaldson: The $80 prosthetic knee that’s changing lives
- Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion
- Kristalina Georgieva: How to rebuild the global economy
- Kristen Ashburn: The face of AIDS in Africa
- Kristen Marhaver: How we’re growing baby corals to rebuild reefs, Why I still have hope for coral reefs
- Kristen Wenz: What if a single human right could change the world?
- Kristie Ebi: How climate change could make our food less nutritious
- Kristie Overstreet: What doctors should know about gender identity
- Kristin Poinar: What’s hidden under the Greenland ice sheet?
- Kristina Gjerde: Making law on the high seas
- Kristine Tompkins: Let’s make the world wild again
- Kriti Sharma: How to keep human bias out of AI
- Krystian Aparta: One of the most difficult words to translate…
- Kwabena Boahen: A computer that works like the brain
- Kwame Anthony Appiah: Is religion good or bad? (This is a trick question)
- Kym Worthy: What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit
- Kyra Gaunt: How the jump rope got its rhythm
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- LB Hannahs: What it’s like to be a transgender dad
- LZ Granderson: The myth of the gay agenda
- LaToya Ruby Frazier: A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, A visual history of inequality in industrial America
- Lake Buckley: Illusions for a better society
- Lakshmi Pratury: The lost art of letter-writing
- Lalitesh Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies
- Lana Mazahreh: 3 thoughtful ways to conserve water
- Laolu Senbanjo: The Sacred Art of the Ori
- Lara Durgavich: An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease
- Lara Setrakian: 3 ways to fix a broken news industry
- Larry Brilliant: A global pandemic calls for global solutions, My wish: Help me stop pandemics, The case for optimism
- Larry Burns: The future of cars
- Larry Lagerstrom: Einstein’s miracle year
- Larry Page: Where’s Google going next?, The genesis of Google
- Larry Smith: Why you will fail to have a great career
- Lars Brownworth: The city of walls: Constantinople
- Latif Nasser: The amazing story of the man who gave us modern pain relief, You have no idea where camels really come from
- Laura Bates: Everyday sexism
- Laura Boushnak: For these women, reading is a daring act, The deadly legacy of cluster bombs
- Laura Boykin: How we’re using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases
- Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier
- Laura Galante: How (and why) Russia hacked the US election
- Laura Indolfi: Good news in the fight against pancreatic cancer
- Laura L. Dunn: It’s time for the law to protect victims of gender violence
- Laura Robinson: The secrets I find on the mysterious ocean floor
- Laura Rovner: What happens to people in solitary confinement
- Laura Schulz: The surprisingly logical minds of babies
- Laura Snyder: The Philosophical Breakfast Club
- Laura Trice: Remember to say thank you
- Laura Vanderkam: How to gain control of your free time
- Laura Wright: Why should you read The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy?
- Laura Yawanawá: The Amazon belongs to humanity – let’s protect it together
- Lauran Arledge: How our friendship survives our opposing politics
- Laurel Braitman: Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans, The mental health benefits of storytelling for health care workers
- Lauren Hodge: Award-winning teenage science in action
- Lauren Pharr: How vultures can help solve crimes
- Lauren Sallan: A brief tour of the last 4 billion years (dinosaurs not included), How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
- Lauren Zalaznick: The conscience of television
- Laurie Garrett: Lessons from the 1918 flu
- Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours
- Lawrence Lessig: Laws that choke creativity, Re-examining the remix, The unstoppable walk to political reform, We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim
- Leah Buechley: How to sketch with electronics
- Leah Chase: An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine
- Leah Georges: How generational stereotypes hold us back at work
- Leah Lagos: How playing sports benefits your body… and your brain
- Leana Wen: What your doctor won’t disclose
- Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive, Print your own medicine
- Lee Hotz: Inside an Antarctic time machine
- Lee Mokobe: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
- Lee Smolin: Science and democracy
- Lee Thomas: How I help people understand vitiligo
- LeeAnn Renninger: The secret to giving great feedback
- Leila Hoteit: 3 lessons on success from an Arab businesswoman
- Leila Pirhaji: The medical potential of AI and metabolites
- Leila Seth: Why I defend women’s inheritance rights
- Leila Takayama: What’s it like to be a robot?
- Leland Melvin: An astronaut’s story of curiosity, perspective and change
- Lemn Sissay: A child of the state
- Lemon Andersen: Please don’t take my Air Jordans
- Lennart Green: Close-up card magic with a twist
- Leo Igwe: Why I choose humanism over faith
- Leo Q. Wan: Why are human bodies asymmetrical?
- Leon Marchal: The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals
- Leonard Susskind: My friend Richard Feynman
- Leonora Neville: The princess who rewrote history
- Lera Boroditsky: How language shapes the way we think
- Lesley Hazleton: On reading the Koran, The doubt essential to faith
- Leslie Dodson: Don’t misrepresent Africa
- Leslie Kenna: The brilliance of bioluminescence
- Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why domestic violence victims don’t leave
- Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China’s workers
- Leticia Gasca: Don’t fail fast – fail mindfully
- Levon Biss: Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects
- Lewis Pugh: How I swam the North Pole, My mind-shifting Everest swim
- Leyla Acaroglu: Paper beats plastic? How to rethink environmental folklore
- Leymah Gbowee: Unlock the intelligence, passion, greatness of girls
- Li Wei Tan: The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne
- Lian Pin Koh: A drone’s-eye view of conservation
- Lidia Yuknavitch: The beauty of being a misfit
- Lieven Scheire: How quantum mechanics explains global warming
- Lil Buck: A dance to honor Mother Earth
- Lillian Faderman: Harvey Milk’s radical vision of equality
- Lily Tomlin: A hilarious celebration of lifelong female friendship
- Lina Marieth Hoyos: What is the coldest thing in the world?
- Linda Cliatt-Wayman: How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard
- Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity
- Linda Liukas: A delightful way to teach kids about computers
- Lindiwe Mazibuko: Why the African diaspora is crucial to the continent’s future
- Lindsay Amer: Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality
- Lindsay Malloy: Why teens confess to crimes they didn’t commit
- Lindsay Morcom: A history of Indigenous languages – and how to revitalize them
- Lindy Lou Isonhood: A juror’s reflections on the death penalty
- Linus Torvalds: The mind behind Linux
- Lisa Bu: How books can open your mind
- Lisa Dazols: This is what LGBT life is like around the world
- Lisa Dyson: A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food
- Lisa Feldman Barrett: You aren’t at the mercy of your emotions – your brain creates them
- Lisa Gansky: The future of business is the mesh
- Lisa Genova: What you can do to prevent Alzheimer’s
- Lisa Godwin: How teachers can help students navigate trauma
- Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing
- Lisa Janae Bacon: The life, legacy & assassination of an African revolutionary
- Lisa Kristine: Photos that bear witness to modern slavery
- Lisa Margonelli: The political chemistry of oil
- Lisa Mosconi: How menopause affects the brain
- Lisa Nip: How humans could evolve to survive in space
- Lisa Winer: Can you solve the locker riddle?, Can you solve the river crossing riddle?, Can you solve the virus riddle?
- Liv Boeree: 3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion
- Liz Coleman: A call to reinvent liberal arts education
- Liz Diller: A new museum wing … in a giant bubble, The Blur Building and other tech-empowered architecture
- Liz Fosslien: How to embrace emotions at work
- Liz Hajek: What rivers can tell us about the earth’s history
- Liz Kleinrock: How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics
- Liz Ogbu: What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?
- Liza Donnelly: Drawing on humor for change
- Lizzie Velásquez: How do you define yourself?
- Lloyd Pendleton: The Housing First approach to homelessness
- Lord Nicholas Stern: The state of the climate — and what we might do about it
- Loretta Napoleoni: The intricate economics of terrorism
- Lori Gottlieb: How changing your story can change your life
- Lorin Swint Matthews: The dust bunnies that built our planet
- Lorna Davis: A guide to collaborative leadership
- Lorrie Faith Cranor: What’s wrong with your pa$$w0rd?
- Lou Serico: The genius of Mendeleev’s periodic table
- Louie Schwartzberg: Hidden miracles of the natural world, Nature. Beauty. Gratitude., The hidden beauty of pollination
- Louise Fresco: We need to feed the whole world
- Louise Leakey: A dig for humanity’s origins
- Luca Turin: The science of scent
- Lucas Husted: Game theory challenge: Can you predict human behavior?
- Lucianne Walkowicz: Finding planets around other stars, Let’s not use Mars as a backup planet, Light waves, visible and invisible, Look up for a change
- Lucien Engelen: Crowdsource your health
- Lucy Clayton: The true power of a good outfit
- Lucy Cooke: Sloths! The strange life of the world’s slowest mammal
- Lucy Farey-Jones: A fascinating time capsule of human feelings toward AI
- Lucy Hone: 3 secrets of resilient people
- Lucy Kalanithi: What makes life worth living in the face of death
- Lucy King: How bees can keep the peace between elephants and humans
- Lucy Marcil: Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms
- Lucy McGowan: Can you spot the problem with these headlines? (Level 1), This one weird trick will help you spot clickbait
- Lucy McRae: How can technology transform the human body?
- Ludwick Marishane: A bath without water
- Luhan Yang: How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant
- Luis H. Zayas: The psychological impact of child separation at the US-Mexico border
- Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
- Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist
- Luka Seamus Wright: The mysterious origins of life on Earth
- Luke Sital-Singh: Afterneath / Killing Me
- Luke Syson: How I learned to stop worrying and love useless art
- Luma Mufleh: Don’t feel sorry for refugees – believe in them
- Luvvie Ajayi: Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
- Lux Narayan: What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
- Lynn Rothschild: The living tech we need to support human life on other planets
- Lynne Elvins: The myths of gay adoption
- Lyra McKee: How uncomfortable conversations can save lives
- Lýdia Machová: The secrets of learning a new language
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- M Jackson: How to grow a glacier
- Ma Yansong: Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes
- Maajid Nawaz: A global culture to fight extremism
- Mac Barnett: Why a good book is a secret door
- Mac Stone: Stunning photos of the endangered Everglades
- Macinley Butson: How ancient technology inspired my award-winning inventions
- Madame Gandhi: Music with a message should be accessible
- Madeleine Albright: On being a woman and a diplomat
- Madhumita Murgia: How data brokers sell your identity, How stress affects your brain
- Mae Jemison: Teach arts and sciences together
- Magatte Wade: Why it’s too hard to start a business in Africa – and how to change it
- Magda Sayeg: How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movement
- Magnus Larsson: Turning dunes into architecture
- Mai Lan: Autopilote / Pumper
- Maira Kalman: The illustrated woman
- Maisie Williams: Why talent carries you further than fame
- Majd Mashharawi: How I’m making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza
- Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship, Greening the ghetto
- Malcolm Gladwell: Choice, happiness and spaghetti sauce, The strange tale of the Norden bombsight, The unheard story of David and Goliath
- Malcolm London: High School Training Ground
- Malika Whitley: How the arts help homeless youth heal and build
- Mallika Sarabhai: Dance to change the world
- Mallory Freeman: Your company’s data could help end world hunger
- Malte Spitz: Your phone company is watching
- Manal al-Sharif: A Saudi woman who dared to drive
- Mandy Len Catron: A better way to talk about love, Falling in love is the easy part
- Mani Vajipey: How India’s local recyclers could solve plastic pollution
- Manoush Zomorodi: How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas, The US is addicted to incarceration. Here’s how to break the cycle
- Manu Prakash: A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami, Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper
- Manuel Lima: A visual history of human knowledge
- Manwar Ali: Inside the mind of a former radical jihadist
- Mara Mintzer: How kids can help design cities
- Marah J. Hardt: Are we interrupting the kinky sex lives of fish?
- Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think
- Marc Bamuthi Joseph: What soccer can teach us about freedom, You Have the Rite
- Marc Goodman: A vision of crimes in the future
- Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe
- Marc Kushner: Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by … you
- Marc Miskin: Tiny robots with giant potential
- Marc Pachter: The art of the interview
- Marc Raibert: Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
- Marcel Dicke: Why not eat insects?
- Marcelo Mena: The economic benefits of climate action
- Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization
- Marco A. Sotomayor: The surprising reason you feel awful when you’re sick
- Marco Alverà: The surprising ingredient that makes businesses work better
- Marco Annunziata: Welcome to the age of the industrial internet
- Marco Tempest: A cyber-magic card trick like no other, A magical tale (with augmented reality), A swarm of mini drones makes … magic!, And for my next trick, a robot, Augmented reality, techno-magic, The electric rise and fall of Nikola Tesla, The magic of truth and lies (and iPods)
- Marcus Byrne: The dance of the dung beetle
- Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality’s riddle
- Margaret Bourdeaux: Why civilians suffer more once a war is over
- Margaret Gould Stewart: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too), How the hyperlink changed everything, How YouTube thinks about copyright
- Margaret Hamilton: NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton
- Margaret Heffernan: Dare to disagree, Forget the pecking order at work, The dangers of willful blindness, The human skills we need in an unpredictable world
- Margaret Mitchell: How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us
- Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math of coral
- Margrethe Vestager: The new age of corporate monopolies
- Maria Bezaitis: Why we need strangeness
- Marian Bantjes: Intricate beauty by design
- Marian Wright Edelman: Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty
- Mariana Atencio: What makes you special?
- Mariana Mazzucato: Government – investor, risk-taker, innovator, What is economic value, and who creates it?
- Mariano Sigman: How can groups make good decisions?, Your words may predict your future mental health
- Marily Oppezzo: Want to be more creative? Go for a walk
- Marilyn Waring: The unpaid work that GDP ignores – and why it really counts
- Marina Abramović: An art made of trust, vulnerability and connection
- Marisa Fick-Jordan: The wonder of Zulu wire art
- Marjan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power
- Marjee Chmiel: Is there a center of the universe?
- Mark Applebaum: The mad scientist of music
- Mark Bezos: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter
- Mark Bittman: What’s wrong with what we eat
- Mark Changizi: Why do we see illusions?
- Mark Forsyth: What’s a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak
- Mark Kelly: Be passionate. Be courageous. Be your best.
- Mark Kendall: Demo: A needle-free vaccine patch that’s safer and way cheaper
- Mark Liddell: How statistics can be misleading
- Mark Lytle: How one scientist took on the chemical industry
- Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity
- Mark Plotkin: What the people of the Amazon know that you don’t
- Mark Pollock: A love letter to realism in a time of grief
- Mark Raymond: Victims of the city
- Mark Robinson: History vs. Henry VIII, How the Normans changed the history of Europe, Why is Aristophanes called The Father of Comedy?
- Mark Ronson: How sampling transformed music
- Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp
- Mark Shaw: One very dry demo
- Mark Tyndall: The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment
- Mark Z. Jacobson: Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?
- Markham Nolan: How to separate fact and fiction online
- Markus Fischer: A robot that flies like a bird
- Markus Mutz: How supply chain transparency can help the planet
- Marla Spivak: Why bees are disappearing
- Marlene Daut: The first and last king of Haiti
- Marlene Zuk: What we learn from insects’ sex lives
- Marlon Peterson: Am I not human? A call for criminal justice reform
- Martha Minow: How forgiveness can create a more just legal system
- Martin Danoesastro: What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?
- Martin Ford: How we’ll earn money in a future without jobs
- Martin Hanczyc: The line between life and not-life
- Martin Jacques: Understanding the rise of China
- Martin Pistorius: How my mind came back to life — and no one knew
- Martin Rees: Can we prevent the end of the world?, Is this our final century?
- Martin Reeves: How to build a business that lasts 100 years
- Martin Seligman: The new era of positive psychology
- Martin Villeneuve: How I made an impossible film
- Martine Rothblatt: My daughter, my wife, our robot, and the quest for immortality
- Marvin Minsky: Health and the human mind
- Marwa Al-Sabouni: How Syria’s architecture laid the foundation for brutal war
- Mary Bassett: Why your doctor should care about social justice
- Mary Ellen Hannibal: How you can help save the monarch butterfly – and the planet
- Mary Lou Jepsen: Could future devices read images from our brains?, How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains
- Mary Maker: Why I fight for the education of refugee girls (like me)
- Mary Norris: The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker’s Comma Queen
- Mary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm
- Mary Robinson: Why climate change is a threat to human rights
- Mary Staicu: The accident that changed the world
- Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?
- María Neira: This is your brain on air pollution
- Massimo Banzi: How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
- Mathias Basner: Why noise is bad for your health – and what you can do about it
- Mathias Jud: Art that lets you talk back to NSA spies
- Mathieu Lehanneur: Science-inspired design
- Matilda Ho: The future of good food in China
- Matt Anticole: Is radiation dangerous?, What’s the difference between accuracy and precision?, Why the metric system matters
- Matt Beane: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?
- Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days, What happens when a Silicon Valley technologist works for the government
- Matt Goldman: The search for aha! moments
- Matt Kenyon: A secret memorial for civilian casualties
- Matt Killingsworth: Want to be happier? Stay in the moment
- Matt Mills: Image recognition that triggers augmented reality
- Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business
- Matt Porter: NASA’s first software engineer: Margaret Hamilton
- Matt Ridley: When ideas have sex
- Matt Russo: What does the universe sound like? A musical tour
- Matt Walker: Sleep is your superpower
- Matteo Salvadore: The imaginary king who changed the real world
- Matthew A. Wilson: The health benefits of clowning around
- Matthew Borths: Claws vs. nails
- Matthew Broadhurst: What happens in your throat when you beatbox?
- Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces
- Matthew Childs: 9 life lessons from rock climbing
- Matthew O’Reilly: “Am I dying?” The honest answer.
- Matthew Williams: Special Olympics let me be myself – a champion
- Matthew Winkler: What makes a hero?
- Matthias Müllenbeck: What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy?
- Matthieu Ricard: How to let altruism be your guide, The habits of happiness
- Maurice Conti: The incredible inventions of intuitive AI
- Maurizio Seracini: The secret lives of paintings
- Max Little: A test for Parkinson’s with a phone call
- Max Tegmark: How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AI
- May El-Khalil: Making peace is a marathon
- Maya Beiser: A cello with many voices
- Maya Penn: Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist …
- Maysoon Zayid: I got 99 problems … palsy is just one
- Maz Jobrani: A Saudi, an Indian and an Iranian walk into a Qatari bar …, Did you hear the one about the Iranian-American?
- McKenna Pope: Want to be an activist? Start with your toys
- Meaghan Ramsey: Why thinking you’re ugly is bad for you
- Mechai Viravaidya: How Mr. Condom made Thailand a better place for life and love
- Meera Vijayann: Find your voice against gender violence
- Meg Jay: Why 30 is not the new 20
- Megan Campisi: The myth behind the Chinese zodiac, What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary
- Megan Davis: Underwater farms vs. climate change
- Megan Kamerick: Women should represent women in media
- Megan Ming Francis: We need to address the real roots of racial violence
- Megan Parker: How dogs help with conservation efforts
- Megan Phelps-Roper: I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church. Here’s why I left
- Megan Washington: Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking
- Mehdi Ordikhani-Seyedlar: What happens in your brain when you pay attention?
- Mei Lin Neo: The fascinating secret lives of giant clams
- Meklit Hadero: The unexpected beauty of everyday sounds
- Mel Robbins: How to stop screwing yourself over
- Mel Rosenberg: What causes bad breath?, What causes cavities?
- Melanie Nezer: The fundamental right to seek asylum
- Melati: Our campaign to ban plastic bags in Bali
- Melinda Epler: 3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace
- Melinda Gates: Why giving away our wealth has been the most satisfying thing we’ve done, Let’s put birth control back on the agenda, What nonprofits can learn from Coca-Cola
- Melissa Fleming: A boat carrying 500 refugees sunk at sea. The story of two survivors, Let’s help refugees thrive, not just survive
- Melissa Garren: The sea we’ve hardly seen
- Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me
- Melissa Walker: Art can heal PTSD’s invisible wounds
- Mellody Hobson: Color blind or color brave?
- Melody Smith: How bones make blood
- Melvin Russell: I love being a police officer, but we need reform
- Melvin Sanicas: What makes TB the world’s most infectious killer?, Why is meningitis so dangerous?
- Memory Banda: A warrior’s cry against child marriage
- Mena Trott: Meet the founder of the blog revolution
- Mennat El Ghalid: How fungi recognize (and infect) plants
- Menno Schilthuizen: The evolution of animal genitalia
- Meron Gribetz: A glimpse of the future through an augmented reality headset
- Mia Birdsong: The story we tell about poverty isn’t true
- Mia Nacamulli: How the food you eat affects your brain, The benefits of a bilingual brain, What is obesity?, What would happen if you didn’t drink water?, Why should you read Kurt Vonnegut?
- Michael Anti: Behind the Great Firewall of China
- Michael Archer: How we’ll resurrect the gastric brooding frog, the Tasmanian tiger
- Michael Benton: Mass extinctions and the future of life on Earth
- Michael Bierut: How to design a library that makes kids want to read, The genius of the London Tube Map
- Michael Bodekaer: This virtual lab will revolutionize science class
- Michael Botticelli: Addiction is a disease. We should treat it like one
- Michael C. Bush: This is what makes employees happy at work
- Michael Dickinson: How a fly flies
- Michael Green: How flags unite (and divide) us, How we can make the world a better place by 2030, The global goals we’ve made progress on – and the ones we haven’t, What the Social Progress Index can reveal about your country, Why we should build wooden skyscrapers
- Michael Hansmeyer: Building unimaginable shapes
- Michael Hendryx: The shocking danger of mountaintop removal – and why it must end
- Michael Kimmel: Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included
- Michael Mauser: What are those floaty things in your eye?
- Michael McDaniel: Cheap, effective shelter for disaster relief
- Michael Merzenich: Growing evidence of brain plasticity
- Michael Metcalfe: A provocative way to finance the fight against climate change, We need money for aid. So let’s print it.
- Michael Molina: What is déjà vu? What is déjà vu?
- Michael Moschen: Juggling as art … and science
- Michael Murphy: Architecture that’s built to heal
- Michael Nielsen: Open science now!
- Michael Norton: How to buy happiness
- Michael Patrick Lynch: How to see past your own perspective and find truth
- Michael Pawlyn: Using nature’s genius in architecture
- Michael Pollan: A plant’s-eye view
- Michael Porter: The case for letting business solve social problems
- Michael Pritchard: How to make filthy water drinkable
- Michael R. Stiff: Why is cotton in everything?
- Michael Rain: What it’s like to be the child of immigrants
- Michael Rubinstein: See invisible motion, hear silent sounds
- Michael S. A. Graziano: What is consciousness?
- Michael S.A. Graziano: How close are we to uploading our minds?
- Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate, Why we shouldn’t trust markets with our civic life
- Michael Shellenberger: How fear of nuclear power is hurting the environment
- Michael Shermer: The pattern behind self-deception, Why people believe weird things
- Michael Specter: The danger of science denial
- Michael Stevens: How much does a video weigh?
- Michael Tilson Thomas: Music and emotion through time
- Michael Tubbs: The political power of being a good neighbor
- Michel Dugon: The secrets of spider venom
- Michel Laberge: How synchronized hammer strikes could generate nuclear fusion
- Michele L. Sullivan: Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness
- Michele Wucker: Why we ignore obvious problems – and how to act on them
- Michelle Borkin: Can astronomers help doctors?
- Michelle Brown: What is a butt tuba and why is it in medieval art?
- Michelle Knox: Talk about your death while you’re still healthy
- Michelle Kuo: The healing power of reading
- Michelle Mehrtens: The historic women’s suffrage march on Washington
- Michelle Obama: A passionate, personal case for education
- Mick Cornett: How an obese town lost a million pounds
- Mick Ebeling: The invention that unlocked a locked-in artist
- Mick Mountz: What happens inside those massive warehouses?
- Miguel Nicolelis: A monkey that controls a robot with its thoughts. No, really., Brain-to-brain communication has arrived. How we did it
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness
- Miho Janvier: Lessons from a solar storm chaser
- Mikael Cho: The science of stage fright (and how to overcome it)
- Mike Biddle: We can recycle plastic
- Mike Brown: The search for our solar system’s ninth planet
- Mike Cannon-Brookes: How you can use impostor syndrome to your benefit
- Mike Davis: What causes opioid addiction, and why is it so tough to combat?
- Mike Gil: Could fish social networks help us save coral reefs?
- Mike Kinney: A pro wrestler’s guide to confidence
- Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book
- Mike Rowe: Learning from dirty jobs
- Mike Velings: The case for fish farming
- Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus
- Mikhail Zygar: What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media
- Mikko Hypponen: Fighting viruses, defending the net, How the NSA betrayed the world’s trust – time to act, Three types of online attack
- Mileha Soneji: Simple hacks for life with Parkinson’s
- Milton Glaser: Using design to make ideas new
- Mina Bissell: Experiments that point to a new understanding of cancer
- Minda Dentler: What I learned when I conquered the world’s toughest triathlon
- Mindy Scheier: How adaptive clothing empowers people with disabilities
- Ming Luke: What’s a squillo, and why do opera singers need it?, What’s the point(e) of ballet?
- Miriam Zoila Pérez: How racism harms pregnant women – and what can help
- Miru Kim: My underground art explorations
- Misha Glenny: Hire the hackers!, The real story of McMafia – how global crime networks work
- Mitch Resnick: Let’s teach kids to code
- Mitch Zeller: The past, present and future of nicotine addiction
- Mitchell Besser: Mothers helping mothers fight HIV
- Mitchell Joachim: Don’t build your home, grow it!
- Mitchell Katz: What the US health care system assumes about you
- Miwa Matreyek: Glorious visions in animation and performance
- Mohamad Jebara: This company pays kids to do their math homework
- Mohamed Ali: The link between unemployment and terrorism
- Mohammad Modarres: Why you should shop at your local farmers market
- Molly Crockett: Beware neuro-bunk
- Molly Stevens: A new way to grow bone
- Molly Webster: The weird history of the sex chromosomes
- Molly Winter: The taboo secret to better health
- Mona Chalabi: 3 ways to spot a bad statistic
- Monica Araya: A small country with big ideas to get rid of fossil fuels
- Monica Byrne: A sci-fi vision of love from a 318-year-old hologram
- Monica Lewinsky: The price of shame
- Monica Menesini: Why do our bodies age?
- Monika Bulaj: The hidden light of Afghanistan
- Monique W. Morris: Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school – and how to change that
- Moreangels Mbizah: How community-led conservation can save wildlife
- Morgan O’Neill: How to step up in the face of disaster
- Morgan Spurlock: The greatest TED Talk ever sold
- Morgan Vague: These bacteria eat plastic
- Morgana Bailey: The danger of hiding who you are
- Moriba Jah: The world’s first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system
- Moritz Riesewieck: The price of a clean internet
- Morley: Women of Hope
- Moshe Safdie: Building uniqueness, How to reinvent the apartment building
- Moshe Szyf: How early life experience is written into DNA
- Moya Bailey: Why should you read sci-fi superstar Octavia E. Butler?
- Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
- Mundano: Trash cart superheroes
- Munir Virani: Why I love vultures
- Murat Dalkilinç: The benefits of good posture, Why sitting is bad for you
- Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty, truth and … physics?, The ancestor of language
- Musimbi Kanyoro: To solve the world’s biggest problems, invest in women and girls
- Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam
- Muthoni Drummer Queen: Creativity builds nations
- Mwende FreeQuency Katwiwa: Black life at the intersection of birth and death
- Myriam Sidibe: The simple power of hand-washing
- members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Revelations from a lifetime of dance
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- NWHunter: How do contraceptives work?
- Nabila Alibhai: Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow
- Nadia Al-Sakkaf: See Yemen through my eyes
- Nadia Kalman: Three anti-social skills to improve your writing
- Nadia Lopez: Why open a school? To close a prison
- Nadine Burke Harris: How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
- Nadine Hachach-Haram: How augmented reality could change the future of surgery
- Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague
- Nadya Mason: How to spark your curiosity, scientifically
- Nagin Cox: What time is it on Mars?
- Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam
- Nalini Nadkarni: Conserving the canopy, Life science in prison
- Nancy Duarte: The secret structure of great talks
- Nancy Etcoff: Happiness and its surprises
- Nancy Frates: Meet the mom who started the Ice Bucket Challenge
- Nancy Kanwisher: A neural portrait of the human mind
- Nancy Lublin: Crisis support for the world, one text away, How data from a crisis text line is saving lives, Texting that saves lives
- Nancy Rabalais: The dead zone of the Gulf of Mexico
- Nandan Nilekani: Ideas for India’s future
- Nanfu Wang: What it was like to grow up under China’s one-child policy
- Naná Vasconcelos: Hidden music rituals around the world
- Naoko Ishii: An economic case for protecting the planet
- Naomi Klein: Addicted to risk, How shocking events can spark positive change
- Naomi McDougall Jones: What it’s like to be a woman in Hollywood
- Naomi Oreskes: Why we should trust scientists
- Naomi Shah: Award-winning teenage science in action
- Nassim Assefi: How in vitro fertilization (IVF) works
- Natalie Fratto: 3 ways to measure your adaptability – and how to improve it
- Natalie Jeremijenko: The art of the eco-mindshift
- Natalie MacMaster: Cape Breton fiddling in reel time, Fiddling in reel time
- Natalie Merchant: Singing old poems to life
- Natalie Panek: Let’s clean up the space junk orbiting Earth
- Natalie Warne: Being young and making an impact
- Natalya St. Clair: The unexpected math behind Van Gogh’s Starry Night
- Natasha Hurley-Walker: How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies
- Natasha Tsakos: A multimedia theatrical adventure
- Nate Silver: Does racism affect how you vote?
- Nathalie Cabrol: How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life
- Nathalie Miebach: Art made of storms
- Nathan Myhrvold: Archeology, animal photography, BBQ …, Cooking as never seen before, Could this laser zap malaria?
- Nathan S. Jacobs: How do schools of fish swim in harmony?, How optical illusions trick your brain
- Nathan Wolfe: The jungle search for viruses, What’s left to explore?
- Nathaniel Kahn: Scenes from My Architect
- Natsai Audrey Chieza: Fashion has a pollution problem – can biology fix it?
- Naturally 7: A full-band beatbox
- Navi Radjou: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits
- Ndidi Nwuneli: The role of faith and belief in modern Africa
- Negin Farsad: A highly scientific taxonomy of haters
- Neha Narula: The future of money
- Neil Burgess: How your brain tells you where you are
- Neil Gershenfeld: The interspecies internet? An idea in progress, Unleash your creativity in a Fab Lab
- Neil Harbisson: I listen to color
- Neil MacGregor: 2600 years of history in one object
- Neil Pasricha: The 3 A’s of awesome
- Neil Turok: My wish: Find the next Einstein in Africa
- Nellie McKay: Clonie, Mother of Pearl, If I Had You, The Dog Song
- Neri Oxman: Design at the intersection of technology and biology
- Netta Schramm: Why don’t perpetual motion machines ever work?
- Newton Aduaka: The story of Ezra
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Aid versus trade, How Africa can keep rising, Want to help Africa? Do business here
- Niall Ferguson: The 6 killer apps of prosperity
- Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index
- Nicaila Matthews Okome: This is the side hustle revolution
- Nicholas Christakis: How social networks predict epidemics, The hidden influence of social networks
- Nicholas Negroponte: 5 predictions, from 1984, A 30-year history of the future, One Laptop per Child, One Laptop per Child, two years on, Taking OLPC to Colombia
- Nick Bostrom: A philosophical quest for our biggest problems, How civilization could destroy itself – and 4 ways we could prevent it, What happens when our computers get smarter than we are?
- Nick Hanauer: Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming, The dirty secret of capitalism – and a new way forward
- Nick Pizzo: The physics of surfing
- Nick Sears: Demo: The Orb
- Nick Veasey: Exposing the invisible
- Nicola Jones: The dangers of a noisy ocean – and how we can quiet it down
- Nicola Sturgeon: Why governments should prioritize well-being
- Nicolas Perony: Puppies! Now that I’ve got your attention, complexity theory
- Nicole Avena: How sugar affects the brain
- Nicole Paris: A beatboxing lesson from a father-daughter duo
- Niels Diffrient: Rethinking the way we sit down
- Niels van Namen: Why the hospital of the future will be your own home
- Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work
- Nighat Dad: How Pakistani women are taking the internet back
- Niki Okuk: When workers own companies, the economy is more resilient
- Nikki Clifton: 3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking
- Nikki Webber Allen: Don’t suffer from your depression in silence
- Nikolai Begg: A tool to fix one of the most dangerous moments in surgery
- Nilay Kulkarni: A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes
- Nilofer Merchant: Got a meeting? Take a walk
- Nina Dølvik Brochmann: The virginity fraud
- Nina Fedoroff: A secret weapon against Zika and other mosquito-borne diseases
- Nina Jablonski: Skin color is an illusion
- Nina Tandon: Caring for engineered tissue, Could tissue engineering mean personalized medicine?
- Nirmalya Kumar: India’s invisible innovation
- Nita Farahany: When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?
- Niti Bhan: The hidden opportunities of the informal economy
- Nitish Padmanaban: Autofocusing reading glasses of the future
- Nizar Ibrahim: How we unearthed the Spinosaurus
- Nnedi Okorafor: Sci-fi stories that imagine a future Africa
- Noa Kageyama: How to stay calm under pressure
- Noah Charney: The art forger who tricked the Nazis
- Noah Feldman: Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship, Politics and religion are technologies
- Noah Tavlin: What Orwellian really means
- Noah Wilson-Rich: Every city needs healthy honey bees, How you can help save the bees, one hive at a time
- Noah Zandan: The language of lying
- Noel Bairey Merz: The single biggest health threat women face
- Noeline Kirabo: 2 questions to uncover your passion – and turn it into a career
- Noelle Martin: Online predators spread fake porn of me. Here’s how I fought back
- Nonny de la Peña: The future of news? Virtual reality
- Nora Atkinson: Why art thrives at Burning Man
- Nora Brown: East Virginia / John Brown’s Dream
- Nora McInerny: We don’t move on from grief. We move forward with it
- Nora York: Singing What I Want
- Noreena Hertz: How to use experts – and when not to
- Noriko Arai: Can a robot pass a university entrance exam?
- Norma Pimentel: Restoring human dignity at the US southern border
- Norman Foster: My green agenda for architecture
- Norman Lear: An entertainment icon on living a life of meaning
- Norman Spack: How I help transgender teens become who they want to be
- Noy Thrupkaew: Human trafficking is all around you. This is how it works
- Nyle DiMarco: Why we need to make education more accessible to the deaf
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- P.J. Parmar: How doctors can help low-income patients (and still make a profit)
- P.W. Singer: Military robots and the future of war
- Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift
- Pall Thordarson: Which is better: Soap or hand sanitizer?
- Pam Warhurst: How we can eat our landscapes
- Pamela Meyer: How to spot a liar
- Pamela Ronald: The case for engineering our food
- Pamelia Kurstin: The untouchable music of the theremin
- Pankaj Ghemawat: Actually, the world isn’t flat
- Panti Bliss: The necessity of normalizing queer love
- Paola Antonelli: Design and the Elastic Mind, The 3,000-year history of the hoodie, Treat design as art, Why I brought Pac-Man to MoMA, Why pasta comes in all shapes and sizes
- Paolo Bortolameolli: ¿Por qué nos emociona la música?
- Paolo Cardini: Forget multitasking, try monotasking
- Parag Khanna: How megacities are changing the map of the world, Mapping the future of countries
- Pardis Sabeti: A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic, How we’ll fight the next deadly virus
- Parul Sehgal: An ode to envy
- Pat Mitchell: An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine, Dangerous times call for dangerous women
- Patience Mthunzi: Could we cure HIV with lasers?
- Patricia Burchat: Shedding light on dark matter
- Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies
- Patricia Ryan: Don’t insist on English!
- Patrick Awuah: How to educate leaders? Liberal arts
- Patrick Chappatte: A free world needs satire, The power of cartoons
- Patrick Lin: The ethical dilemma of self-driving cars
- Patrick McGinnis: How to make faster decisions
- PatrickJMT: The origin of countless conspiracy theories
- Patrisse Cullors: An interview with the founders of Black Lives Matter
- Patrícia Medici: The coolest animal you know nothing about … and how we can save it
- Pattie Maes: Meet the SixthSense interaction
- Patty McCord: 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for
- Paul A. Kramer: Our immigration conversation is broken – here’s how to have a better one
- Paul Bennett: Design is in the details
- Paul Bloom: Can prejudice ever be a good thing?, The origins of pleasure
- Paul Collier: New rules for rebuilding a broken nation, The bottom billion
- Paul Conneally: How mobile phones power disaster relief
- Paul Debevec: Animating a photo-real digital face
- Paul Ewald: Can we domesticate germs?
- Paul Gilding: The Earth is full
- Paul Greenberg: The four fish we’re overeating – and what to eat instead
- Paul Hessburg: Why wildfires have gotten worse – and what we can do about it
- Paul Kemp-Robertson: Bitcoin. Sweat. Tide. Meet the future of branded currency.
- Paul Knoepfler: The ethical dilemma of designer babies
- Paul Lewis: How mobile phones helped solve two murders
- Paul MacCready: A flight on solar wings, Nature vs. humans
- Paul McEuen: Tiny robots with giant potential
- Paul Moller: My dream of a flying car
- Paul Nicklen: Animal tales from icy wonderlands
- Paul Pholeros: How to reduce poverty? Fix homes
- Paul Piff: Does money make you mean?
- Paul Romer: The world’s first charter city?, Why the world needs charter cities
- Paul Root Wolpe: It’s time to question bio-engineering
- Paul Rothemund: DNA folding, in detail, Playing with DNA that self-assembles
- Paul Rucker: How my mom inspired my approach to the cello, The symbols of systemic racism – and how to take away their power
- Paul S. Kindstedt: A brie(f) history of cheese
- Paul Sereno: Digging up dinosaurs
- Paul Snelgrove: A census of the ocean
- Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- Paul Tasner: How I became an entrepreneur at 66
- Paul Tudor Jones II: Why we need to rethink capitalism
- Paul Zak: Trust, morality – and oxytocin?
- Paula Hammond: A new superweapon in the fight against cancer
- Paula Johnson: His and hers … health care
- Paula Scher: Great design is serious, not solemn
- Paula Stone Williams: The story of a parent’s transition and a son’s redemption
- Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature!
- Pawan Sinha: How brains learn to see
- Pazit Cahlon: What Machiavellian really means
- Pearl Arredondo: My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher
- Pedro Brugarolas: Why do hospitals have particle accelerators?
- Peggy Andover: The difference between classical and operant conditioning
- Peggy McIntosh: How to recognize your white privilege — and use it to fight inequality
- Peggy Orenstein: What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure
- Pen-Pen Chen: The myth behind the Chinese zodiac, What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary, How to stay calm under pressure
- Penelope Boston: There might just be life on Mars
- Penelope Jagessar Chaffer: The toxic baby
- Penny Chisholm: The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet
- Per Espen Stoknes: How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming
- Peta Greenfield: History vs. Augustus, Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job?
- Pete Alcorn: The world in 2200
- Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem?
- Peter Beck: Small rockets are the next space revolution
- Peter Calthorpe: 7 principles for building better cities
- Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future, Our next giant leap, Stephen Hawking’s zero g flight
- Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics
- Peter Doolittle: How your working memory makes sense of the world
- Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt
- Peter Gabriel: The interspecies internet? An idea in progress, Fight injustice with raw video
- Peter Haas: When bad engineering makes a natural disaster even worse
- Peter Hirshberg: The web is more than better TV
- Peter Mende-Siedlecki: Should you trust your first impression?
- Peter Molyneux: Meet Milo, the virtual boy
- Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom
- Peter Ouko: From death row to law graduate
- Peter Reinhart: The art and craft of bread
- Peter Saul: Let’s talk about dying
- Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism
- Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals
- Peter Ward: A theory of Earth’s mass extinctions
- Peter Weinstock: Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer
- Peter van Manen: Better baby care – thanks to Formula 1
- Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun
- Petter Johansson: Do you really know why you do what you do?
- Phil Borges: Photos of endangered cultures
- Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake
- Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids, The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes
- Philip A. Chan: How close are we to eradicating HIV?
- Philip Evans: How data will transform business
- Philip Freeman: A day in the life of an ancient Celtic Druid
- Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system
- Philip Rosedale: Life in Second Life
- Philip Zimbardo: The demise of guys?, The psychology of evil, The psychology of time
- Philippa Neave: The unexpected challenges of a country’s first election
- Philippe Petit: The journey across the high wire
- Philippe Starck: Design and destiny
- Phyllis Rodriguez: The mothers who found forgiveness, friendship
- Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era
- Pico Iyer: The art of stillness, The beauty of what we’ll never know, What ping-pong taught me about life, Where is home?
- Pierre Barreau: How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life
- Pierre Thiam: A forgotten ancient grain that could help Africa prosper
- Plankton Chronicles Project: The secret life of plankton
- Ples Felix: What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness
- Poet Ali: The universal languages of human being
- Poppy Crum: Technology that knows what you’re feeling
- Pranav Mistry: Meet the SixthSense interaction, The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology
- Prateek Singh: What causes economic bubbles?
- Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease
- Preston Reed: A young guitarist meets his hero
- Priscilla Pemu: A personal health coach for those living with chronic diseases
- Priti Krishtel: Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system
- Priya Parker: 3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings
- Priya Vulchi: What it takes to be racially literate
- Priyanka Jain: How to make applying for jobs less painful
- Prosanta Chakrabarty: Clues to prehistoric times, found in blind cavefish, Four billion years of evolution in six minutes, What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry?
- Prumsodun Ok: The magic of Khmer classical dance
- Puqun Li: Zen kōans: unsolvable enigmas designed to break your brain
- Péter Fankhauser: Meet Rezero, the dancing ballbot
- phillip agnew: A love story about the power of art as organizing
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- R. Luke DuBois: Insightful human portraits made from data
- R.A. Mashelkar: Breakthrough designs for ultra-low-cost products
- Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks: How we can face the future without fear, together
- Rabiaa El Garani: Hope and justice for women who’ve survived ISIS
- Rachael Teel: Mysteries of vernacular: Robot
- Rachel Armstrong: Architecture that repairs itself?
- Rachel Botsman: The case for collaborative consumption, The currency of the new economy is trust, We’ve stopped trusting institutions and started trusting strangers
- Rachel Kleinfeld: A path to security for the world’s deadliest countries
- Rachel Pike: The science behind a climate headline
- Rachel Sussman: The world’s oldest living things
- Rachel Wurzman: How isolation fuels opioid addiction
- Rachelle Garniez: La Vie en Rose
- Radhika Nagpal: What intelligent machines can learn from a school of fish
- Raffaello D’Andrea: Meet the dazzling flying machines of the future, The astounding athletic power of quadcopters
- Raghava KK: My 5 lives as an artist, Shake up your story, What’s your 200-year plan?
- Rahaf Harfoush: How burnout makes us less creative
- Rahul Mehrotra: The architectural wonder of impermanent cities
- Rainer Strack: The workforce crisis of 2030 – and how to start solving it now
- Rainn Wilson: Ideas worth dating
- Raj Jayadev: Community-powered criminal justice reform
- Raj Panjabi: Community health heroes, No one should die because they live too far from a doctor
- Rajesh Rao: A Rosetta Stone for a lost language
- Rajiv Maheswaran: The math behind basketball’s wildest moves
- Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon
- Ramanan Laxminarayan: The coming crisis in antibiotics
- Ramesh Raskar: Imaging at a trillion frames per second
- Ramon Glazov: Ancient Rome’s most notorious doctor
- Ramona Pierson: An unexpected place of healing
- Ramsey Musallam: 3 rules to spark learning
- Rana Abdelhamid: 3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer
- Rana el Kaliouby: This app knows how you feel – from the look on your face
- Randall Hayes: At what moment are you dead?
- Randall Munroe: Comics that ask what if?
- Raphael Arar: How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions
- Rashad Robinson: The path to ending systemic racism in the US
- Raspyni Brothers: Juggle and jest
- Raul Midon: Peace on Earth, Tembererana
- Ravin Agrawal: 10 young Indian artists to watch
- Ray Anderson: The business logic of sustainability
- Ray Dalio: How to build a company where the best ideas win, What coronavirus means for the global economy
- Ray Kurzweil: A university for the coming singularity, Get ready for hybrid thinking, The accelerating power of technology
- Ray Laurence: A glimpse of teenage life in ancient Rome, Four sisters in Ancient Rome
- Ray Zahab: My trek to the South Pole
- Rayma Suprani: Dictators hate political cartoons – so I keep drawing them
- Raymond Tang: Be humble – and other lessons from the philosophy of water
- Raymond Wang: How germs travel on planes – and how we can stop them
- Read Montague: What we’re learning from 5,000 brains
- Rebeca Hwang: The power of diversity within yourself
- Rebecca Brachman: A new class of drug that could prevent depression and PTSD, Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD?
- Rebecca Knill: How technology has changed what it’s like to be deaf
- Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet!, We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights
- Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason
- Rebecca Onie: What Americans agree on when it comes to health, What if our health care system kept us healthy?
- Rebecca Saxe: How we read each other’s minds
- Rebecca Tarvin: Why don’t poisonous animals poison themselves?
- Reed Hastings: How Netflix changed entertainment – and where it’s headed
- Reed Kroloff: A tour of modern architecture
- Reggie Watts: Beats that defy boxes
- Regina Dugan: From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone
- Regina Hartley: Why the best hire might not have the perfect resume
- Rei: my mama / BLACK BANANA
- Renata Salecl: Our unhealthy obsession with choice
- Rene Laufer: How far would you have to go to escape gravity?
- Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials – and who we leave out
- Renny Gleeson: 404, the story of a page not found, Our antisocial phone tricks
- Renzo Piano: The genius behind some of the world’s most famous buildings
- Renzo Vitale: What should electric cars sound like?
- Renée Hlozek: The death of the universe
- Renée Lertzman: How to turn climate anxiety into action
- Reshma Saujani: Teach girls bravery, not perfection
- Reuben Margolin: Sculpting waves in wood and time
- Reynaldo Lopes: The infinite life of pi
- Rhiannon Giddens: Songs that bring history to life, St. James Infirmary Blues
- Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed
- Ricardo Semler: How to run a company with (almost) no rules
- Riccardo Sabatini: How to read the genome and build a human being
- Rich Benjamin: My road trip through the whitest towns in America
- Richard Baraniuk: The birth of the open-source learning revolution
- Richard Branson: Life at 30,000 feet
- Richard Browning: How I built a jet suit
- Richard Coffin: What causes an economic recession?
- Richard Dawkins: Militant atheism, Why the universe seems so strange
- Richard E. Cytowic: What color is Tuesday? Exploring synesthesia, What percentage of your brain do you use?
- Richard J. Berry: A practical way to help the homeless find work and safety
- Richard J. Wood: How do carbohydrates impact your health?
- Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden’s TED Talk
- Richard Preston: The mysterious lives of giant trees
- Richard Pyle: A dive into the reef’s Twilight Zone
- Richard Resnick: Welcome to the genomic revolution
- Richard Sears: Planning for the end of oil
- Richard Seymour: How beauty feels
- Richard St. John: 8 secrets of success, Success is a continuous journey
- Richard Turere: My invention that made peace with lions
- Richard Weller: Could the sun be good for your heart?
- Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
- Riché D. Richardson: The hidden life of Rosa Parks
- Rick Doblin: The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
- Rick Falkvinge: I am a pirate
- Rick Guidotti: From stigma to supermodel
- Rick Smolan: The story of a girl
- Rick Warren: A life of purpose
- Risa Wechsler: The search for dark matter – and what we’ve found so far
- Rishi Manchanda: What makes us get sick? Look upstream
- Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
- Rives: A mockingbird remix of TED2006, A story of mixed emoticons, If I controlled the Internet, Reinventing the encyclopedia game, The 4 a.m. mystery, The Museum of Four in the Morning
- Rob Cooke: The cost of work stress – and how to reduce it
- Rob Dunbar: Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice
- Rob Forbes: Ways of seeing
- Rob Harmon: How to keep rivers and streams flowing
- Rob Hopkins: Transition to a world without oil
- Rob Knight: How our microbes make us who we are
- Rob Legato: The art of creating awe
- Rob Reid: How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity – and how we can stop it, The $8 billion iPod
- Robb Willer: How to have better political conversations
- Robert Ballard: The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean
- Robert Fischell: My wish: Three unusual medical inventions
- Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
- Robert Full: Learning from the gecko’s tail, Robots inspired by cockroach ingenuity, The secrets of nature’s grossest creatures, channeled into robots, The sticky wonder of gecko feet
- Robert Gordon: The death of innovation, the end of growth
- Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine, On violin and cello, Passacaglia, Music is medicine, music is sanity
- Robert Hakiza: Refugees want empowerment, not handouts
- Robert Hammond: Building a park in the sky
- Robert Lang: The math and magic of origami
- Robert Lustig: Sugar: Hiding in plain sight
- Robert Muggah: How to protect fast-growing cities from failing, The biggest risks facing cities – and some solutions
- Robert Neuwirth: The age-old sharing economies of Africa – and why we should scale them, The hidden world of shadow cities, The power of the informal economy
- Robert Palmer: The Panama Papers exposed a huge global problem. What’s next?
- Robert Reffkin: 5 ways to create stronger connections
- Robert Sapolsky: The biology of our best and worst selves
- Robert Swan: Let’s save the last pristine continent
- Robert Thurman: Expanding your circle of compassion, We can be Buddhas
- Robert Waldinger: What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness
- Robert Wright: Progress is not a zero-sum game, The evolution of compassion
- Roberto D’Angelo: In our baby’s illness, a life lesson
- Robin Chase: Excuse me, may I rent your car?, The idea behind Zipcar (and what comes next)
- Robin Hanson: What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?
- Robin Ince: Science versus wonder?
- Robin Morgan: 4 powerful poems about Parkinson’s and growing older
- Robin Murphy: These robots come to the rescue after a disaster
- Robin Nagle: What I discovered in New York City trash
- Robin Steinberg: The US is addicted to incarceration. Here’s how to break the cycle, What if we ended the injustice of bail?
- Robyn Stein DeLuca: The good news about PMS
- Rocío Lorenzo: How diversity makes teams more innovative
- Rod Phillips: A brief history of alcohol
- Rodin Lyasoff: How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel
- Rodney Brooks: Robots will invade our lives, Why we will rely on robots
- Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie and innovate!
- Rodrigo Bijou: Governments don’t understand cyber warfare. We need hackers
- Rodrigo Canales: The deadly genius of drug cartels
- Rodrigo y Gabriela: An electrifying acoustic guitar performance
- Roey Tzezana: Could human civilization spread across the whole galaxy?
- Roger Antonsen: Math is the hidden secret to understanding the world
- Roger Doiron: My subversive (garden) plot
- Roger Ebert: Remaking my voice
- Roger Hanlon: The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods
- Roger McNamee: 6 ways to save the internet
- Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research
- Rogier van der Heide: Why light needs darkness
- Rola Hallam: The doctors, nurses and aid workers rebuilding Syria
- Rolf Landua: What happened to antimatter?
- Romain Lacombe: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you’re breathing
- Romaine Seguin: When goods cross borders, armies stay home
- Roman Mars: Why city flags may be the worst-designed thing you’ve never noticed
- Romulus Whitaker: The real danger lurking in the water
- Ron Eglash: The fractals at the heart of African designs
- Ron Finley: A guerrilla gardener in South Central LA
- Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling
- Ron McCallum: How technology allowed me to read
- Ron Shaneyfelt: Is space trying to kill us?
- Ronald Rael: An architect’s subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall
- Ronald Sullivan: How I help free innocent people from prison
- Ronny Edry: Israel and Iran: A love story?
- Rory Bremner: A one-man world summit
- Rory Stewart: Time to end the war in Afghanistan, Why democracy matters
- Rory Sutherland: Life lessons from an ad man, Perspective is everything, Sweat the small stuff
- Rosalind Picard: An AI smartwatch that detects seizures
- Rose Eveleth: How do we smell?, The loathsome lethal mosquito, The mystery of motion sickness, The science of spiciness
- Rose George: Inside the secret shipping industry, Let’s talk crap. Seriously.
- Rose Goslinga: Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding
- Rose M. Mutiso: How to bring affordable, sustainable electricity to Africa
- Roselinde Torres: What it takes to be a great leader
- Rosie King: How autism freed me to be myself
- Ross Lovegrove: Organic design, inspired by nature
- Roxane Gay: Confessions of a bad feminist
- Roy Bahat: How do we find dignity at work?
- Roy Gould: A preview of the WorldWide Telescope
- Roz Savage: Why I’m rowing across the Pacific
- Ruby Sales: How we can start to heal the pain of racial division
- Ruby Wax: What’s so funny about mental illness?
- Rufus Cappadocia: Watch me fold origami (blindfolded)
- Rufus Griscom: Let’s talk parenting taboos
- Rupal Patel: Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints
- Rusha Modi: What causes heartburn?
- Russ Altman: What really happens when you mix medications?
- Russell Foster: Why do we sleep?
- Russell Wilson: My secret to staying focused under pressure
- Rutger Bregman: Poverty isn’t a lack of character; it’s a lack of cash
- Ruth Chang: How to make hard choices
- Ryan Gravel: How an old loop of railroads is changing the face of a city
- Ryan Holladay: To hear this music you have to be there. Literally
- Ryan Lobo: Photographing the hidden story
- Ryan Martin: Why some anger can be good for you, Why we get mad – and why it’s healthy
- Ryan Merkley: Online video – annotated, remixed and popped
- Ryan Pfluger: The therapeutic value of photography
- Rébecca Kleinberger: Why you don’t like the sound of your own voice
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- Sabine Doebel: How your brain’s executive function works – and how to improve it
- Safeena Husain: A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India
- Safia Elhillo: To Make Use of Water
- Safwat Saleem: Why I keep speaking up, even when people mock my accent
- Sajan Saini: How do self-driving cars see?, How light technology is changing medicine, The hidden network that makes the internet possible, What is the universe expanding into?
- Sajay Samuel: How college loans exploit students for profit
- Sakena Yacoobi: How I stopped the Taliban from shutting down my school
- Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets
- Sal Khan: Let’s teach for mastery – not test scores, Let’s use video to reinvent education
- Salil Dudani: How jails extort the poor
- Sally Kohn: Don’t like clickbait? Don’t click, Let’s try emotional correctness, What we can do about the culture of hate
- Salvatore Iaconesi: What happened when I open-sourced my brain cancer
- Sam Berns: My philosophy for a happy life
- Sam Harris: Can we build AI without losing control over it?, Science can answer moral questions
- Sam Kass: Want kids to learn well? Feed them well
- Sam Kean: What happens when you remove the hippocampus?
- Sam Martin: Claim your manspace
- Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy
- Sam Rodriques: What we’ll learn about the brain in the next century
- Sam Van Aken: How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit
- Samantha Agoos: 5 tips to improve your critical thinking
- Samantha Nutt: The real harm of the global arms trade
- Samantha Power: A complicated hero in the war on dictatorship
- Samuel Cohen: Alzheimer’s is not normal aging — and we can cure it
- Samy Nour Younes: A short history of trans people’s long fight for equality
- Sana Amanat: The importance of diversity in the comic book universe
- Sandeep Jauhar: How your emotions change the shape of your heart
- Sandi Toksvig: A political party for women’s equality
- Sandra Aamodt: Why dieting doesn’t usually work
- Sandrine Thuret: You can grow new brain cells. Here’s how
- Sanford Biggers: An artist’s unflinching look at racial violence
- Sangeeta Bhatia: This tiny particle could roam your body to find tumors
- Sangu Delle: In praise of macro – yes, macro – finance in Africa, There’s no shame in taking care of your mental health
- Sanjay Dastoor: A skateboard, with a boost
- Sanjay Pradhan: How open data is changing international aid
- Sara DeWitt: 3 fears about screen time for kids – and why they’re not true
- Sara Garofalo: The psychology behind irrational decisions
- Sara Jones: My story of love and loss as a transracial adoptee
- Sara Lewis: The loves and lies of fireflies
- Sara Menker: A global food crisis may be less than a decade away
- Sara Ramirez: Rollercoaster
- Sara Sanford: How to design gender bias out of your workplace
- Sara Seager: The search for planets beyond our solar system
- Sara Valencia Botto: When do kids start to care about other people’s opinions?
- Sara-Jane Dunn: The next software revolution: programming biological cells
- Sarah Barmak: The uncomplicated truth about women’s sexuality
- Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
- Sarah Corbett: Activism needs introverts
- Sarah Donnelly: How work kept me going during my cancer treatment
- Sarah Gray: How my son’s short life made a lasting difference
- Sarah Jones: A one-woman global village, One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future, What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answers
- Sarah Kay: A Bird Made of Birds, How many lives can you live?, If I should have a daughter …
- Sarah Lewis: Embrace the near win
- Sarah Montana: Why forgiveness is worth it
- Sarah Murray: A playful solution to the housing crisis
- Sarah Parcak: Archaeology from space, Armchair archaeologist, Help discover ancient ruins – before it’s too late, Hunting for Peru’s lost civilizations – with satellites
- Sarah Sze: How we experience time and memory through art
- Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory
- Sarah-Jayne Blakemore: The mysterious workings of the adolescent brain
- Sarthak Sinha: How a wound heals itself, Why do some people go bald?
- Sasa Vucinic: Why we should invest in a free press
- Sascha Morrell: Why should you read Moby Dick?
- Saul Griffith: Everyday inventions, High-altitude wind energy from kites!
- Sauti Sol: The rhythm of Afrobeat
- Sayu Bhojwani: Immigrant voices make democracy stronger
- Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with nonviolence
- Scott A. Mellor: How Thor got his hammer
- Scott Dinsmore: How to find work you love
- Scott Fraser: Why eyewitnesses get it wrong
- Scott Galloway: How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions
- Scott Gass: How big is the ocean?, The survival of the sea turtle
- Scott Kim: The art of puzzles
- Scott McCloud: The visual magic of comics
- Scott Peeples: Why should you read Edgar Allan Poe?
- Scott Rickard: The beautiful math behind the world’s ugliest music
- Scott Summit: Beautiful artificial limbs
- Scott Williams: The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care
- Sean Carroll: Distant time and the hint of a multiverse
- Sean Davis: Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer
- Sean Follmer: Shape-shifting tech will change work as we know it
- Sean Gourley: Mapping ideas worth spreading, The mathematics of war
- Sebastian Deterding: What your designs say about you
- Sebastian Guo: Why we need to pay attention to Chinese millennials
- Sebastian Junger: Our lonely society makes it hard to come home from war, Why veterans miss war
- Sebastian Kraves: The era of personal DNA testing is here
- Sebastian Seung: I am my connectome
- Sebastian Thrun: What AI is – and isn’t, Google’s driverless car
- Sebastian Wernicke: 1,000 TED Talks in six words, How to use data to make a hit TV show, Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks)
- Sebastien de Halleux: How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean
- Sebastião Salgado: The silent drama of photography
- Seema Bansal: How to fix a broken education system … without any more money
- Sendhil Mullainathan: Solving social problems with a nudge
- Serena Williams: On tennis, love and motherhood
- Sergei Lupashin: A flying camera … on a leash
- Sergey Brin: The genesis of Google, Why Google Glass?
- Sergio Feferovich: La música de las ideas
- Seth Berkley: HIV and flu – the vaccine strategy, The quest for the coronavirus vaccine, The troubling reason why vaccines are made too late … if they’re made at all
- Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread, The tribes we lead
- Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world
- Seth Shostak: ET is (probably) out there – get ready
- Sethembile Msezane: Living sculptures that stand for history’s truths
- Severine Autesserre: To solve mass violence, look to locals
- Seyi Oyesola: A hospital tour in Nigeria
- Shabana Basij-Rasikh: Dare to educate Afghan girls
- Shad Begum: How women in Pakistan are creating political change
- Shaffi Mather: A new way to fight corruption
- Shah Rukh Khan: Thoughts on humanity, fame and love
- Shai Agassi: A new ecosystem for electric cars
- Shai Marcu: The benefits of a good night’s sleep
- Shai Reshef: An ultra-low-cost college degree
- Shaka Senghor: How to co-parent as allies, not adversaries, Why your worst deeds don’t define you
- Shameem Akhtar: To learn is to be free
- Shane Koyczan: To This Day … for the bullied and beautiful
- Shane Wickes: Why I came out as a gay football coach
- Shannon Lee: What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully
- Shantell Martin: How drawing can set you free
- ShaoLan: Learn to read Chinese … with ease!, The Chinese zodiac, explained
- Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: How film transforms the way we see the world, Inside a school for suicide bombers
- Sharon Brous: It’s time to reclaim religion
- Sharon Horesh Bergquist: How stress affects your body
- Sharon Terry: Science didn’t understand my kids’ rare disease until I decided to study it
- Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue soft power
- Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work
- Shaylin Schundler: Why does your voice change as you get older?
- Shea Hembrey: How I became 100 artists
- Sheena Iyengar: How to make choosing easier, The art of choosing
- Sheikha Al Mayassa: Globalizing the local, localizing the global
- Sheila Marie Orfano: Why should you read Dante’s Divine Comedy?, Why should you read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan?
- Sheila Nirenberg: A prosthetic eye to treat blindness
- Sheila Patek: The shrimp with a kick!
- Shekhar Kapur: We are the stories we tell ourselves
- Sheperd Doeleman: Inside the black hole image that made history
- Shereen El Feki: A little-told tale of sex and sensuality, Pop culture in the Arab world
- Shereen El-Feki: HIV – how to fight an epidemic of bad laws
- Sherry Turkle: Connected, but alone?
- Sherwin Nuland: How electroshock therapy changed me, The extraordinary power of ordinary people
- Sheryl Sandberg: So we leaned in … now what?, Why we have too few women leaders
- Sheryl WuDunn: Our century’s greatest injustice
- Shigeru Ban: Emergency shelters made from paper
- Shih Chieh Huang: Sculptures that’d be at home in the deep sea
- Shilo Shiv Suleman: Using tech to enable dreaming
- Shilpa Ravella: How the food you eat affects your gut
- Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course, What a bike ride can teach you
- Shimon Steinberg: Natural pest control … using bugs!
- Shirin Neshat: Art in exile
- Shivani Siroya: A smart loan for people with no credit history (yet)
- Shlomo Benartzi: Saving for tomorrow, tomorrow
- Shohini Ghose: A beginner’s guide to quantum computing, The genius of Marie Curie
- Shonda Rhimes: The future of storytelling, My year of saying yes to everything
- Shrabani Basu: From pacifist to spy: WWII’s surprising secret agent
- Shree Bose: Award-winning teenage science in action
- Shubhendu Sharma: An engineer’s vision for tiny forests, everywhere, How to grow a forest in your backyard
- Shukla Bose: Teaching one child at a time
- Shunan Teng: How the Monkey King escaped the underworld, The Chinese myth of the immortal white snake, The Chinese myth of the white snake and the meddling monk, The history of Tea
- Shyam Sankar: The rise of human-computer cooperation
- Siamak Hariri: How do you build a sacred space?
- Sian Leah Beilock: Why we choke under pressure – and how to avoid it
- Siddhartha Mukherjee: Soon we’ll cure diseases with a cell, not a pill
- Siddhartha Roy: Science in service to the public good
- Siddharthan Chandran: Can the damaged brain repair itself?
- Siegfried Woldhek: The search for the true face of Leonardo
- Silk Road Ensemble: St. James Infirmary Blues
- Silvia Moreno-García: Titan of terror: the dark imagination of H.P. Lovecraft
- Simon Anholt: Which country does the most good for the world?, Who would the rest of the world vote for in your country’s election?
- Simon Berrow: How do you save a shark you know nothing about?
- Simon Lewis: Don’t take consciousness for granted
- Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action, Why good leaders make you feel safe
- Simona Francese: Your fingerprints reveal more than you think
- Simone Bianco: The wonderful world of life in a drop of water
- Simone George: A love letter to realism in a time of grief
- Simone Giertz: Why you should make useless things
- Sinan Aral: How we can protect truth in the age of misinformation
- Sinéad Burke: Why design should include everyone
- Siphumeze Khundayi: How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex
- Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!, Do schools kill creativity?, How to escape education’s death valley
- Sirena Huang: An 11-year-old’s magical violin
- Sisonke Msimang: If a story moves you, act on it
- Sitawa Wafula: Why I speak up about living with epilepsy
- Siyanda Mohutsiwa: How young Africans found a voice on Twitter
- Skye C. Cleary: Why do we love? A philosophical inquiry
- Skylar Tibbits: A new way to grow islands and coastlines, Can we make things that make themselves?, The emergence of 4D printing
- Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Bluegrass virtuosity from … New Jersey?, Teen wonders play bluegrass
- Smruti Jukur Johari: What if the poor were part of city planning?
- Sofi Tukker: Awoo
- Sofia Jawed-Wessel: The lies we tell pregnant women
- Soka Moses: For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn’t over
- Sonaar Luthra: Meet the Water Canary, We need to track the world’s water like we track the weather
- Sonia Shah: 3 reasons we still haven’t gotten rid of malaria
- Sophal Ear: Escaping the Khmer Rouge
- Sophia Wallace: A case for cliteracy
- Sophie Andrews: The best way to help is often just to listen
- Sophie Scott: Why we laugh, Why we should take laughter more seriously
- Sophie Zadeh: Are there universal expressions of emotion?
- Soraya Chemaly: The power of women’s anger
- Soraya Field Fiorio: The murder of ancient Alexandria’s greatest scholar, Who was the world’s first author?
- Sougwen Chung: Why I draw with robots
- Soyapi Mumba: Medical tech designed to meet Africa’s needs
- Spencer Wells: A family tree for humanity
- Srdja Popovic: How to topple a dictator
- Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness
- Stacey Abrams: 3 questions to ask yourself about everything you do
- Stacey Baker: This is what enduring love looks like
- Stacey Kramer: The best gift I ever survived
- Stacie Bosley: How to spot a pyramid scheme
- Stacy Smith: The data behind Hollywood’s sexism
- Stan Lee: What makes a superhero?
- Stanley McChrystal: Listen, learn … then lead, The military case for sharing knowledge
- Stefan Al: What happens if you cut down all of a city’s trees?, Why isn’t the Netherlands underwater?, Will there ever be a mile-high skyscraper?
- Stefan C. Dombrowski: The dark history of IQ tests
- Stefan Larsson: What doctors can learn from each other
- Stefan Sagmeister: 7 rules for making more happiness, Happiness by design, The power of time off, Things I’ve learned in my life so far
- Stefan Wolff: The path to ending ethnic conflicts
- Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy
- Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence
- Stefon Harris: There are no mistakes on the bandstand
- Stella Young: I’m not your inspiration, thank you very much
- Stephanie Busari: An interview with Mauritius’s first female president, How fake news does real harm
- Stephanie Sardelis: Why do whales sing?
- Stephanie Warren: The chemistry of cookies
- Stephen Bax: The world’s most mysterious book
- Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry
- Stephen Cave: The 4 stories we tell ourselves about death
- Stephen Coleman: Non-lethal weapons, a moral hazard?
- Stephen DeBerry: Why the wrong side of the tracks is usually the east side of cities
- Stephen Friend: The hunt for unexpected genetic heroes
- Stephen Hawking: Questioning the universe
- Stephen Lawler: Tour Microsoft’s Virtual Earth
- Stephen Palumbi: Hidden toxins in the fish we eat
- Stephen Petranek: 10 ways the world could end, Your kids might live on Mars. Here’s how they’ll survive
- Stephen Ritz: A teacher growing green in the South Bronx
- Stephen Webb: Where are all the aliens?
- Stephen Wilkes: The passing of time, caught in a single photo
- Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of all knowledge
- Steve Boyes: How we’re saving one of Earth’s last wild places
- Steve Howard: Let’s go all-in on selling sustainability
- Steve Jurvetson: Model rocketry
- Steve Keil: A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond
- Steve McCarroll: How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain
- Steve Ramirez: A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory.
- Steve Silberman: The forgotten history of autism
- Steve Simpson: How ocean noise destroys marine ecosystems
- Steve Truglia: A leap from the edge of space
- Steven Addis: A father-daughter bond, one photo at a time
- Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy’s future
- Steven Johnson: How the ghost map helped end a killer disease, The playful wonderland behind great inventions, The Web as a city, Where good ideas come from
- Steven Levitt: Surprising stats about child carseats, The freakonomics of crack dealing
- Steven Petrow: 3 ways to practice civility
- Steven Pinker: The long reach of reason, Human nature and the blank slate, Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers, The surprising decline in violence, What our language habits reveal
- Steven Schwaitzberg: A universal translator for surgeons
- Steven Strogatz: The science of sync
- Steven Wise: Chimps have feelings and thoughts. They should also have rights
- Steven Zheng: How does anesthesia work?
- Stew: Black Men Ski
- Stewart Brand: 4 environmental ‘heresies’, Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist, Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?, The dawn of de-extinction. Are you ready?, The Long Now, What squatter cities can teach us
- Sting: How I started writing songs again
- Stuart Brown: Play is more than just fun
- Stuart Duncan: How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism
- Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance
- Stuart Oda: Are indoor vertical farms the future of agriculture?
- Stuart Russell: 3 principles for creating safer AI
- Su Kahumbu: How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time
- Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin: What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes
- Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair
- Sue Desmond-Hellmann: A smarter, more precise way to think about public health
- Sue Jaye Johnson: What we don’t teach kids about sex
- Sue Klebold: My son was a Columbine shooter. This is my story
- Sugata Mitra: Build a School in the Cloud, Kids can teach themselves, The child-driven education
- Suheir Hammad: Poems of war, peace, women, power
- Suki Kim: This is what it’s like to go undercover in North Korea
- Suleika Jaouad: What almost dying taught me about living
- Sunitha Krishnan: The fight against sex slavery
- Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite!
- Sunni Patterson: Wild Women
- Supasorn Suwajanakorn: Fake videos of real people – and how to spot them
- Surya Mattu: What your smart devices know (and share) about you
- Susan Blackmore: Memes and temes
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts
- Susan Colantuono: The career advice you probably didn’t get
- Susan David: The gift and power of emotional courage
- Susan Emmett: This simple test can help kids hear better
- Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data?
- Susan Lim: Transplant cells, not organs
- Susan Pinker: The secret to living longer may be your social life
- Susan Robinson: How I fail at being disabled
- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh: The gentle genius of bonobos
- Susan Shaw: The oil spill’s toxic trade-off
- Susan Solomon: The promise of research with stem cells
- Suzana Herculano-Houzel: What is so special about the human brain?
- Suzanne Barakat: Islamophobia killed my brother. Let’s end the hate
- Suzanne Lee: Grow your own clothes, Why biofabrication is the next industrial revolution
- Suzanne Simard: The secret language of trees, How trees talk to each other
- Suzie Sheehy: The case for curiosity-driven research
- Svante Pääbo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal
- Sydney Chaffee: How teachers can help kids find their political voices
- Sydney Jensen: How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?
- Sylvain Duranton: How humans and AI can work together to create better businesses
- Sylvia Earle: My wish: Protect our oceans
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- T. Boone Pickens: Let’s transform energy – with natural gas
- T. Morgan Dixon: The most powerful woman you’ve never heard of, The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change…
- TED staff: It’s TED, the Musical
- TED-Ed: The Maya myth of the morning star, Why do women have periods?
- Tabetha Boyajian: The most mysterious star in the universe
- Taiye Selasi: Don’t ask where I’m from, ask where I’m a local
- Takaharu Tezuka: The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen
- Tal Danino: Hacking bacteria to fight cancer, Programming bacteria to detect cancer (and maybe treat it)
- Tal Golesworthy: How I repaired my own heart
- Tali Sharot: The optimism bias
- Talithia Williams: Own your body’s data
- Tamas Kocsis: The case for a decentralized internet
- Tamekia MizLadi Smith: How to train employees to have difficult conversations
- Tammy Lally: Let’s get honest about our money problems
- Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves, My immigration story
- Taneka Jones: How to 3D print human tissue
- Tania Douglas: To design better tech, understand context
- Tania Luna: How a penny made me feel like a millionaire
- Tania Simoncelli: Should you be able to patent a human gene?
- Tanya Khovanova: Can you solve the Leonardo da Vinci riddle?
- Tanya Menon: The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven’t met yet
- Tapiwa Chiwewe: You don’t have to be an expert to solve big problems
- Tara Djokic: This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life
- Tara Houska: The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights
- Tara Winkler: Why we need to end the era of orphanages
- Tarana Burke: Me Too is a movement, not a moment
- Taryn Simon: Photographs of secret sites, The stories behind the bloodlines
- Tasha Eurich: Increase your self-awareness with one simple fix
- Tashka: The Amazon belongs to humanity – let’s protect it together
- Tasos Frantzolas: Everything you hear on film is a lie
- Tasso Azevedo: Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests
- Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out
- Taylor Wilson: My radical plan for small nuclear fission reactors, Yup, I built a nuclear fusion reactor
- Tea Uglow: An Internet without screens might look like this
- Ted Halstead: A climate solution where all sides can win
- Teddy Cruz: How architectural innovations migrate across borders
- Teitur: Home is a song I’ve always remembered
- Temple Grandin: The world needs all kinds of minds
- Teresa Bejan: Is civility a sham?
- Teresa Njoroge: What I learned serving time for a crime I didn’t commit
- Terisa Folaron: Comma story
- Terry Moore: How to tie your shoes, Why is ‘x’ the unknown?
- Thandie Newton: Embracing otherness, embracing myself
- Thandiswa Mazwai: Iyeza / Zabalaza
- Thasunda Duckett: 6 ways to improve your relationship with money
- The LXD: In the Internet age, dance evolves …
- The Lady Lifers: A moving song from women in prison for life
- The Nature Conservancy: An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection
- The Soul Rebels: Rebelosis / Rebel Rock / Rebel on That Level
- Thea Holcomb: How peer educators can transform sex education
- Theaster Gates: How to revive a neighborhood: with imagination, beauty and art
- Thelma Golden: How art gives shape to cultural change
- Theo E.J. Wilson: A black man goes undercover in the alt-right
- Theo Jansen: My creations, a new form of life
- Theresa A. Yugar: History’s worst nun
- They Might Be Giants: Wake up! It’s They Might Be Giants!
- Thom Mayne: How architecture can connect us
- Thomas Barnett: Let’s rethink America’s military strategy
- Thomas Boothby: Meet the tardigrade, the toughest animal on Earth
- Thomas Curran: Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse
- Thomas Dolby: (Nothing But) Flowers with string quartet, Love Is a Loaded Pistol
- Thomas Goetz: It’s time to redesign medical data
- Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral
- Thomas Hellum: The world’s most boring television … and why it’s hilariously addictive
- Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness
- Thomas Lloyd: Why am I so gay?
- Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
- Thomas Peschak: Dive into an ocean photographer’s world
- Thomas Piketty: New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century
- Thomas Pogge: Medicine for the 99 percent
- Thomas Suarez: A 12-year-old app developer
- Thomas Thwaites: How I built a toaster – from scratch
- Thordis Elva: Our story of rape and reconciliation
- Thulasiraj Ravilla: How low-cost eye care can be world-class
- Tiana Epps-Johnson: What’s needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century
- Tierney Thys: The secret life of plankton, Swim with the giant sunfish
- Tiffany Kagure Mugo: How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex
- Tiffany Watt Smith: The history of human emotions
- Tim Adams: An antihero of one’s own
- Tim Berners-Lee: A Magna Carta for the web, The next web, The year open data went worldwide
- Tim Brown: Designers – think big!, Tales of creativity and play
- Tim Ferriss: Smash fear, learn anything, Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
- Tim Flannery: Can seaweed help curb global warming?
- Tim Hansen: How to read music
- Tim Harford: A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity, How frustration can make us more creative, Trial, error and the God complex
- Tim Jackson: An economic reality check
- Tim Kruger: Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air?
- Tim Leberecht: 3 ways to (usefully) lose control of your brand, 4 ways to build a human company in the age of machines
- Tim Seibles: First Kiss
- Tim Smith: Big Data
- Tim Urban: Inside the mind of a master procrastinator
- Tim Verstynen: Diagnosing a zombie: Brain and body (Part one)
- Timothy Bartik: The economic case for preschool
- Timothy Ihrig: What we can do to die well
- Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards
- Tina Arrowood: A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean
- Tina Seelig: The little risks you can take to increase your luck
- Tiq Milan: A queer vision of love and marriage
- Tito Deler: My Fine Reward
- Titus Kaphar: Can art amend history?
- Toby Eccles: Invest in social change
- Toby Kiers: Lessons from fungi on markets and economics
- Toby Shapshak: You don’t need an app for that
- Tod Machover: Inventing instruments that unlock new music
- Todd Coleman: A temporary tattoo that brings hospital care to the home
- Todd Dufresne: History vs. Sigmund Freud
- Todd Humphreys: How to fool a GPS
- Todd Kuiken: A prosthetic arm that feels
- Todd Scott: An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillator
- Tom Chatfield: 7 ways games reward the brain
- Tom Griffiths: 3 ways to make better decisions – by thinking like a computer
- Tom Gruber: How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives
- Tom Honey: Why would God create a tsunami?
- Tom Hulme: What can we learn from shortcuts?
- Tom Nash: The perks of being a pirate
- Tom Rielly: A comic sendup of TED2006
- Tom Rivett-Carnac: How to shift your mindset and choose your future
- Tom Shannon: Anti-gravity sculpture, The painter and the pendulum
- Tom Stranger: Our story of rape and reconciliation
- Tom Thum: What happens in your throat when you beatbox?, The orchestra in my mouth
- Tom Whyntie: The fundamentals of space-time: Part 2, The beginning of the universe for beginners
- Tom Wujec: 3 ways the brain creates meaning, Build a tower, build a team, Got a wicked problem? First, tell me how you make toast, Learn to use the 13th-century astrolabe
- Tom Zimmerman: The wonderful world of life in a drop of water
- Tommy McCall: The simple genius of a good graphic
- Tomás Chor: Turbulence: one of the great unsolved mysteries of physics
- Toni Griffin: A new vision for rebuilding Detroit
- Tony Buffington: Why do cats act so weird?
- Tony Fadell: The first secret of design is … noticing
- Tony Luciani: A mother and son’s photographic journey through dementia
- Tony Porter: A call to men
- Tony Wyss-Coray: How young blood might help reverse aging. Yes, really
- Topher White: What can save the rainforest? Your used cell phone
- Torsten Reil: Animate characters by evolving them
- Touria El Glaoui: Inside Africa’s thriving art scene
- Tracee Ellis Ross: A woman’s fury holds lifetimes of wisdom
- Tracie Keesee: How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together
- Tracy Chevalier: Finding the story inside the painting
- Travis Kalanick: Uber’s plan to get more people into fewer cars
- Travis Rieder: The agony of opioid withdrawal – and what doctors should tell patients about it
- Trevor Aaronson: How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists
- Trevor Copp: Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles
- Trevor Maber: Rethinking thinking
- Trevor Owens: Is there a center of the universe?
- Trevor Timm: How free is our freedom of the press?
- Tricia Wang: The human insights missing from big data
- Triona McGrath: How pollution is changing the ocean’s chemistry
- Tristan Harris: How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day, How better tech could protect us from distraction
- Tristram Stuart: The global food waste scandal
- Tristram Wyatt: The smelly mystery of the human pheromone
- Trita Parsi: Iran and Israel: Peace is possible
- Tshering Tobgay: An urgent call to protect the world’s Third Pole, This country isn’t just carbon neutral – it’s carbon negative
- Tucker Hiatt: How fast are you moving right now?
- Tyler Cowen: Be suspicious of simple stories
- Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers – make it fun
- Tyrone Hayes: The toxic baby
- the Teresa Carreño Youth Orchestra: El Sistema’s top youth orchestra
- tobacco brown: What gardening taught me about life
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- W. Keith Campbell: The psychology of narcissism
- Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
- Wade Davis: Dreams from endangered cultures, The worldwide web of belief and ritual
- Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution, Let’s design social media that drives real change
- Wajahat Ali: The case for having kids
- Wajdi Mohamed Ratemi: The mathematical secrets of Pascal’s triangle
- Walter Hood: How urban spaces can preserve history and build community
- Walter R. Tschinkel: Mating frenzies, sperm hoards, and brood raids: the life of a fire ant queen
- Walé Oyéjidé: Fashion that celebrates African strength and spirit
- Wanda Diaz Merced: How a blind astronomer found a way to hear the stars
- Wanis Kabbaj: How nationalism and globalism can coexist, What a driverless world could look like
- Wanjira Mathai: 3 ways to uproot a culture of corruption
- Wanuri Kahiu: Fun, fierce and fantastical African art
- Washington Wachira: For the love of birds
- Wayne McGregor: A choreographer’s creative process in real time
- Wendy Chung: Autism — what we know (and what we don’t know yet)
- Wendy De La Rosa: 3 psychological tricks to help you save money
- Wendy Freedman: This telescope might show us the beginning of the universe
- Wendy Suzuki: The brain-changing benefits of exercise
- Wendy Troxel: Why school should start later for teens
- Wendy Woods: The business benefits of doing good
- Werner Reich: How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust
- Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about war
- Will Hurd: A wall won’t solve America’s border problems
- Will MacAskill: What are the most important moral problems of our time?
- Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth’s surface, Tiny satellites show us the Earth as it changes in near-real-time
- Will Potter: The secret US prisons you’ve never heard of before, The shocking move to criminalize nonviolent protest
- Will Wright: Spore, birth of a game
- Willard Wigan: Hold your breath for micro-sculpture
- William Black: How to rob a bank (from the inside, that is)
- William Butler Yeats: The Second Coming
- William D. Desmond: The philosophy of cynicism
- William Kamkwamba: How I built a windmill, How I harnessed the wind
- William Li: Can we eat to starve cancer?
- William McDonough: Cradle to cradle design
- William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
- William Shakespeare: All the World’s a Stage
- William Ury: The walk from no to yes
- Willie Smits: How to restore a rainforest
- Wilton L. Virgo: How does your smartphone know your location?
- Wingham Rowan: A new kind of job market
- Winnie Harlow: How I define beauty
- Winona Guo: What it takes to be racially literate
- Wisecrack: Plato’s best (and worst) ideas
- Wolfgang Kessling: How to air-condition outdoor spaces
- Woody Norris: Hypersonic sound and other inventions
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