TEDTalks

Adam Garske: How designing brand-new enzymes could change the world

Jen Gunter: Why can't we talk about periods?

Rachel Kleinfeld: A path to security for the world's deadliest countries

Priti Krishtel: Why are drug prices so high? Investigating the outdated US patent system

Markus Mutz: How supply chain transparency can help the planet

David J. Bier: How guest worker visas could transform the US immigration system

Tom Nash: The perks of being a pirate

Colette Pichon Battle: Climate change will displace millions. Here's how we prepare

Anna Piperal: What a digital government looks like

Emma Schachner: The secret weapon that let dinosaurs take over the planet

Leon Marchal: The urgent case for antibiotic-free animals

Risa Wechsler: The search for dark matter -- and what we've found so far

Mitch Zeller: The past, present and future of nicotine addiction

Anindya Kundu: The "opportunity gap" in US public education -- and how to close it

Ipsita Dasgupta: To challenge the status quo, find a "co-conspirator"

Pat Mitchell: Dangerous times call for dangerous women

Cara E. Yar Khan: The beautiful balance between courage and fear

Valorie Kondos Field: Why winning doesn't always equal success

Guy Winch: How to turn off work thoughts during your free time

Nick Bostrom: How civilization could destroy itself -- and 4 ways we could prevent it

Jasmine Crowe: What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars

Henna-Maria Uusitupa: How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health

Kelsey Leonard: Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans

Bright Simons: To help solve global problems, look to developing countries

Lorna Davis: A guide to collaborative leadership

Christiana Figueres and Chris Anderson: How we can turn the tide on climate

Mariana Mazzucato: What is economic value, and who creates it?

Edward Tenner: The paradox of efficiency

Jane Fonda: Why I protest for climate justice

Eve Ensler: The profound power of an authentic apology

Cornelia Geppert: A video game that helps us understand loneliness

Kelsey Johnson: The problem of light pollution -- and 5 ridiculously easy ways to fix it

Heidi Boisvert: How I'm using biological data to tell better stories -- and spark social change

Alejandro Durán: How I use art to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans

Cathy Mulzer: The incredible chemistry powering your smartphone

Deepa Narayan: 7 beliefs that can silence women -- and how to unlearn them

Sougwen Chung: Why I draw with robots

Mike Brown: The search for our solar system's ninth planet

Daniel Bögre Udell: How to save a language from extinction

LaToya Ruby Frazier: A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan

David Asch: Why it's so hard to make healthy decisions

Arunabha Ghosh: 5 steps for clean air in India

Jean-Manuel Izaret: A new Netflix-style pricing model that could make medical treatments affordable for all

Dan Ariely: How to change your behavior for the better

Gaby Barrios: Why gender-based marketing is bad for business

Erika Pinheiro: What's really happening at the US-Mexico border -- and how we can do better

Sydney Jensen: How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers?

Cady Coleman: What it's like to live on the International Space Station

Robert Gupta: Music is medicine, music is sanity

Peter Beck: Small rockets are the next space revolution

Mani Vajipey: How India's local recyclers could solve plastic pollution

Rabiaa El Garani: Hope and justice for women who've survived ISIS

Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin: A historical musical that examines black identity in the 1901 World's Fair

Ma Yansong: Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes

Eli Pariser: What obligation do social media platforms have to the greater good?

Martha Redbone: "Sleep Sleep Beauty Bright"

Maria Popova: An excerpt from "Figuring"

Morley: "Follow the Sound"

Paul A. Kramer: Our immigration conversation is broken -- here's how to have a better one

Tashka and Laura Yawanawá: The Amazon belongs to humanity -- let's protect it together

Bhakti Sharma: What open water swimming taught me about resilience

Bob Langert: The business case for working with your toughest critics

Sara-Jane Dunn: The next software revolution: programming biological cells

Lori Gottlieb: How changing your story can change your life

Daniel Streicker: What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics

Jess Kutch: What productive conflict can offer a workplace

Toby Kiers: Lessons from fungi on markets and economics

Leila Pirhaji: The medical potential of AI and metabolites

Rose M. Mutiso: How to bring affordable, sustainable electricity to Africa

Andrew Nemr: The sounds and sights of tap dance

Hiromi Ozaki: How I bring myth and magic to life

Alexis Gambis: Why we need more (real) science in fiction

Beau Lotto and Cirque du Soleil: How we experience awe -- and why it matters

Claire Wardle: How you can help transform the internet into a place of trust

Ashwin Naidu: The link between fishing cats and mangrove forest conservation

Jon M. Chu: The pride and power of representation in film

Abhishek Gopalka: How motivation can fix public systems

Janelle Shane: The danger of AI is weirder than you think

Becca McCharen-Tran: Fashion that celebrates all body types -- boldly and unapologetically

Bjarke Ingels: An architect's guide to living on Mars

Julie Cordua: How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet

David Deutsch: After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up

First Aid Kit: "King of the World" / "Nothing Has to Be True" / "My Silver Lining"

The Bloom Twins: "Wrong" / "Small Town Weirdos"

Adena Friedman: What's the future of capitalism?

Judith Jamison and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Revelations from a lifetime of dance

Shannon Lee: What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully

Laura Boykin: How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases

Juan Enriquez: A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border

Andrew Forrest: A radical plan to end plastic waste

Gangadhar Patil: How we're helping local reporters turn important stories into national news

Herman Narula: The transformative power of video games

Tara Djokic: This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life

Paul Rucker: "Criminalization of Survival"

Efosa Ojomo: Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment

David Peterson: Why language is humanity's greatest invention

Camilla Arndal Andersen: What happens in your brain when you taste food

Mitchell Katz: What the US health care system assumes about you

Moreangels Mbizah: How community-led conservation can save wildlife

Mohammad Modarres: Why you should shop at your local farmers market

Sarah Sze: How we experience time and memory through art

Muthoni Drummer Queen: Creativity builds nations

Sam Van Aken: How one tree grows 40 different kinds of fruit

Will Hurd: A wall won't solve America's border problems

Yaniv Erlich: How we're building the world's largest family tree

Emily Nagoski: How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime

Tim Flannery: Can seaweed help curb global warming?

Safeena Husain: A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India

Sonaar Luthra: We need to track the world's water like we track the weather

Richard Bona: "Tumba La Nyama" / "Mulema"

Christer Mjåset: 4 questions you should always ask your doctor

Johann Hari: This could be why you're depressed or anxious

Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems

Patrick Chappatte: A free world needs satire

Kristie Ebi: How climate change could make our food less nutritious

Emmett Shear: What streaming means for the future of entertainment

Nick Hanauer: The dirty secret of capitalism -- and a new way forward

Raj Jayadev: Community-powered criminal justice reform

Jacqueline Woodson: What reading slowly taught me about writing

Danielle Citron: How deepfakes undermine truth and threaten democracy

Sandeep Jauhar: How your emotions change the shape of your heart

Carl June: A "living drug" that could change the way we treat cancer

Phillip Atiba Goff: How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing

Luisa Neubauer: Why you should be a climate activist

Andrew Marantz: Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists

Anthony Veneziale: "Stumbling towards intimacy": An improvised TED Talk

Emily F. Rothman: How porn changes the way teens think about sex

Jochen Wegner: What happened when we paired up thousands of strangers to talk politics

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe: A climate change solution that's right under our feet

Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea

Lee Thomas: How I help people understand vitiligo

Dessa: Can we choose to fall out of love?

Kelly Wanser: Emergency medicine for our climate fever

Britt Wray: How climate change affects your mental health

Kishore Mahbubani: How the West can adapt to a rising Asia

Pico Iyer: What ping-pong taught me about life

Bina Venkataraman: The power to think ahead in a reckless age

Jon Lowenstein: Family, hope and resilience on the migrant trail

Joseph Gordon-Levitt: How craving attention makes you less creative

Sara Valencia Botto: When do kids start to care about other people's opinions?

Marc Bamuthi Joseph: "You Have the Rite"

Margaret Heffernan: The human skills we need in an unpredictable world

Victor Vescovo: What's at the bottom of the ocean -- and how we're getting there

Nanfu Wang: What it was like to grow up under China's one-child policy

Ivonne Roman: How policewomen make communities safer

Nicola Sturgeon: Why governments should prioritize well-being

George Monbiot: The new political story that could change everything

Tshering Tobgay: An urgent call to protect the world's "Third Pole"

Albert-László Barabási: The real relationship between your age and your chance of success

Hajer Sharief: How to use family dinner to teach politics

Rahul Mehrotra: The architectural wonder of impermanent cities

Douglas Thomas: How a typeface helped launch Apollo

Elizabeth Howell: How we can improve maternal healthcare -- before, during and after pregnancy

Claudia Miner: A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten

Melanie Nezer: The fundamental right to seek asylum

Derren Brown: Mentalism, mind reading and the art of getting inside your head

Ella Al-Shamahi: The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy: How film transforms the way we see the world

Amy Padnani: How we're honoring people overlooked by history

Jamie Paik: Origami robots that reshape and transform themselves

Rick Doblin: The future of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy

Barbara J. King: Grief and love in the animal kingdom

Natalie Fratto: 3 ways to measure your adaptability -- and how to improve it

Julius Maada Bio: A vision for the future of Sierra Leone

Moriba Jah: The world's first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system

Glenn Cantave: How augmented reality is changing activism

Jon Gray: The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again

Jonny Sun: You are not alone in your loneliness

Heidi Grant: How to ask for help -- and get a "yes"

Ethan Lindenberger: Why we need to fight misinformation about vaccines

Lindsay Amer: Why kids need to learn about gender and sexuality

Brandon Clifford: The architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders

Sarah Kay: "A Bird Made of Birds"

Lynn Rothschild: The living tech we need to support human life on other planets

Suleika Jaouad: What almost dying taught me about living

Rob Reid: How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop it

David Baker: 5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins

Michael Tubbs: The political power of being a good neighbor

Daniel Lismore: My life as a work of art

Ryan Martin: Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy

Priya Parker: 3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings

Karen Lloyd: The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity

Juna Kollmeier: The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made

Michelle Kuo: The healing power of reading

David Brooks: The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live

Kate Bowler: "Everything happens for a reason" -- and other lies I've loved

Bjarke Ingels: Floating cities, the LEGO House and other architectural forms of the future

Roger Hanlon: The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods

Reniqua Allen: The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out

Erika Hamden: What it takes to launch a telescope

Baratunde Thurston: How to deconstruct racism, one headline at a time

Morgan Vague: These bacteria eat plastic

Jarrell Daniels: What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other

America Ferrera: My identity is a superpower -- not an obstacle

Hamdi Ulukaya: The anti-CEO playbook

Bruce Friedrich: The next global agricultural revolution

Lucy Cooke: Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal

Brittany Packnett: How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others

Katie Hood: The difference between healthy and unhealthy love

Arnav Kapur: How AI could become an extension of your mind

Suchitra Krishnan-Sarin: What you should know about vaping and e-cigarettes

Carson Bruns: Could a tattoo help you stay healthy?

Doug Roble: Digital humans that look just like us

Matt Walker: Sleep is your superpower

Sabine Doebel: How your brain's executive function works -- and how to improve it

Wajahat Ali: The case for having kids

Halla Tómasdóttir and Bryn Freedman: The crisis of leadership -- and a new way forward

Eric Liu: How to revive your belief in democracy

Ivan Poupyrev: Everything around you can become a computer

Es Devlin: Mind-blowing stage sculptures that fuse music and technology

Joanne Chory: How supercharged plants could slow climate change

Michele Wucker: Why we ignore obvious problems -- and how to act on them

Yana Buhrer Tavanier: How to recover from activism burnout

Hannah Gadsby: Three ideas. Three contradictions. Or not.

Elizabeth Dunn: Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it

Kim Gorgens: The surprising connection between brain injuries and crime

Leah Georges: How generational stereotypes hold us back at work

David R. Liu: Can we cure genetic diseases by rewriting DNA?

Romain Lacombe: A personal air-quality tracker that lets you know what you're breathing

Danielle N. Lee: How hip-hop helps us understand science

Sheperd Doeleman: Inside the black hole image that made history

Jack Dorsey: How Twitter needs to change

Carole Cadwalladr: Facebook's role in Brexit -- and the threat to democracy

Christoph Keplinger: The artificial muscles that will power robots of the future

Kakenya Ntaiya: Empower a girl, transform a community

Rana Abdelhamid: 3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer

Kashfia Rahman: How risk-taking changes a teenager's brain

Keith Kirkland: Wearable tech that helps you navigate by touch

Nora McInerny: We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it

Eve Pearlman: How to lead a conversation between people who disagree

Rosalind Picard: An AI smartwatch that detects seizures

Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives

Helen Marriage: Public art that turns cities into playgrounds of the imagination

Kimberly Noble: How does income affect childhood brain development?

Alexander MacDonald: How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight

Chuck Murry: Can we regenerate heart muscle with stem cells?

Nora Brown: "East Virginia" / "John Brown's Dream"

Samy Nour Younes: A short history of trans people's long fight for equality

Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi: To detect diseases earlier, let's speak bacteria's secret language

Rebecca Brachman: A new class of drug that could prevent depression and PTSD

Esha Alwani: What it's like to have Tourette's -- and how music gives me back control

Marjan van Aubel: The beautiful future of solar power

Olympia Della Flora: Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school

Noah Wilson-Rich: What's killing bees -- and how to save them

Amanda Williams: Why I turned Chicago's abandoned homes into art

Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes

Kriti Sharma: How to keep human bias out of AI

Crush Club: "My Man" / "Bohanna" / "We Dance"

Thomas Curran: Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse

Sarah T. Stewart: Where did the Moon come from? A new theory

Tom Thum and Matthew Broadhurst: What happens in your throat when you beatbox?

Yvonne van Amerongen: The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care

Eugenia Cheng: An unexpected tool for understanding inequality: abstract math

T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison: The most powerful woman you've never heard of

Dina Zielinski: How we can store digital data in DNA

César Hidalgo: A bold idea to replace politicians

Majd Mashharawi: How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza

Juliet Brophy: How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution

Farida Nabourema: Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here's how to know

Karl Skjonnemand: The self-assembling computer chips of the future

Lindy Lou Isonhood: A juror's reflections on the death penalty

Ronald Rael: An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall

Dolores Huerta: How to overcome apathy and find your power

Ashweetha Shetty: How education helped me rewrite my life

Liz Kleinrock: How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics

Jeanne Pinder: What if all US health care costs were transparent?

Roy Bahat and Bryn Freedman: What is the meaning of work?

Juan Enriquez: The age of genetic wonder

Aja Monet and phillip agnew: A love story about the power of art as organizing

Steven Petrow: 3 ways to practice civility

P.J. Parmar: How doctors can help low-income patients (and still make a profit)

Mathias Basner: Why noise is bad for your health -- and what you can do about it

Shad Begum: How women in Pakistan are creating political change

Anirudh Sharma: Ink made of air pollution

Julian Burschka: What your breath could reveal about your health

Danielle R. Moss: How we can help the "forgotten middle" reach their full potential

Amy Nicole Baker: 7 common questions about workplace romance

Patty McCord: 8 lessons on building a company people enjoy working for

Nicaila Matthews Okome: This is the side hustle revolution

Priyanka Jain: How to make applying for jobs less painful

Matt Mullenweg: Why working from home is good for business

Wendy De La Rosa: 3 psychological tricks to help you save money

Soraya Chemaly: The power of women's anger

Sarah Barmak: The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality

Matt Beane: How do we learn to work with intelligent machines?

Ruby Sales: How we can start to heal the pain of racial division

Leland Melvin: An astronaut's story of curiosity, perspective and change

Emily Quinn: The way we think about biological sex is wrong

Greta Thunberg: The disarming case to act right now on climate change

Marian Wright Edelman: Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty

Sean Davis: Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer

Casey Gerald: Embrace your raw, strange magic

Tim Harford: A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity

Mai Lan: "Autopilote" / "Pumper"

Débora Mesa Molina: Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials

Jonathan Wilker: What sticky sea creatures can teach us about making glue

Tiana Epps-Johnson: What's needed to bring the US voting system into the 21st century

Kotchakorn Voraakhom: How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods

LADAMA: How music crosses cultures and empowers communities

Akash Manoj: A life-saving device that detects silent heart attacks

Katharine Wilkinson: How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming

Monique W. Morris: Why black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that

Deutsche Philharmonie Merck: "Part II. The Journey Through Time" / "Ruslan and Lyudmila"

Gunjan Bhardwaj: How blockchain and AI can help us decipher medicine's big data

Shohini Ghose: A beginner's guide to quantum computing

Karissa Sanbonmatsu: The biology of gender, from DNA to the brain

Renzo Vitale: What should electric cars sound like?

Chiki Sarkar: How India's smartphone revolution is creating a new generation of readers and writers

Martin Danoesastro: What are you willing to give up to change the way we work?

Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams: The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption

Lýdia Machová: The secrets of learning a new language

Elizabeth Lyle: How to break bad management habits before they reach the next generation of leaders

Jan Rader: In the opioid crisis, here's what it takes to save a life

Ariana Curtis: Museums should honor the everyday, not just the extraordinary

Dana Kanze: The real reason female entrepreneurs get less funding

Darrick Hamilton: How "baby bonds" could help close the wealth gap

Eldra Jackson: How I unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity

Li Wei Tan: The fascinating science of bubbles, from soap to champagne

Katharine Hayhoe: The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it

Madame Gandhi and Amber Galloway-Gallego: "Top Knot Turn Up" / "Bad Habits"

Douglas Rushkoff: How to be "Team Human" in the digital future

Carla Harris: How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work

Nadjia Yousif: Why you should treat the tech you use at work like a colleague

J. Marshall Shepherd: 3 kinds of bias that shape your worldview

Alan Crickmore: How storytelling helps parents in prison stay connected to their kids

Ai-jen Poo: The work that makes all other work possible

Amy Herman: A lesson on looking

Chieh Huang: Confessions of a recovering micromanager

Tarana Burke: Me Too is a movement, not a moment

Gabby Rivera: The story of Marvel's first queer Latina superhero

Nita Farahany: When technology can read minds, how will we protect our privacy?

Floyd E. Romesberg: The radical possibilities of man-made DNA

Aparna Mehta: Where do your online returns go?

Paul Rucker: How my mom inspired my approach to the cello

Sebastien de Halleux: How a fleet of wind-powered drones is changing our understanding of the ocean

Julia Dhar: How to disagree productively and find common ground

Teresa Bejan: Is civility a sham?

Alex Edmans: What to trust in a "post-truth" world

Tamas Kocsis: The case for a decentralized internet

Michael Green: The global goals we've made progress on -- and the ones we haven't

Mara Mintzer: How kids can help design cities

Franklin Leonard: How I accidentally changed the way movies get made

Özlem Cekic: Why I have coffee with people who send me hate mail

Suzie Sheehy: The case for curiosity-driven research

Julia Shaw: A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination

Dolly Chugh: How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person

Brian Olson: How an algorithm can fight election bias so every vote counts

David Fleischer: How to fight prejudice through policy conversations

Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad: How tech companies deceive you into giving up your data and privacy

Graham Allison: Is war between China and the US inevitable?

Keith Eggener: The fascinating history of cemeteries

Joan C. Williams: We won't fix American politics until we talk about class — here's why

Fadi Chehadé and Bryn Freedman: What everyday citizens can do to claim power on the internet

Brian D. Avery: How rollercoasters affect your body

Rachel Wurzman: How isolation fuels opioid addiction

Shane Wickes: Why I came out as a gay football coach

Alexis Jones: Redefining manhood—one locker room talk at a time

Charles C. Mann: How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion?

A Tribe Called Red: "We Are the Halluci Nation"

Dennis Shasha: Can you solve the stolen rubies riddle?

Elizabeth Streb: My quest to defy gravity and fly

Darieth Chisolm: How revenge porn turns lives upside down

Henrietta Fore: How we can help young people build a better future

Andrew Zimmerman Jones: Does time exist?

Wanis Kabbaj: How nationalism and globalism can coexist

Leonora Neville: The princess who rewrote history

Vinay Shandal: How conscious investors can turn up the heat and make companies change

Matt Russo: What does the universe sound like? A musical tour

Gillian Gibb: Why can't some birds fly?

Congrui Jin: What if cracks in concrete could fix themselves?

Faith Osier: The key to a better malaria vaccine

Kate Darling: Why we have an emotional connection to robots

Iseult Gillespie: Why should you read "Waiting for Godot"?

Juan Enriquez: La selección latinoamericana de cerebros

David Lang: Let's protect the oceans like national parks

Chris A. Kniesly: History through the eyes of a chicken

Kelly Richmond Pope: How whistle-blowers shape history

Chip Conley: What baby boomers can learn from millennials at work — and vice versa

Rebecca Onie: What Americans agree on when it comes to health

David Korins: 3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer

Ashwini Anburajan: How cryptocurrency can help start-ups get investment capital

Alex Honnold: How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes

Michel Dugon: The secrets of spider venom

Camille A. Brown: "New Second Line"

Magatte Wade: Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it

Melinda Epler: 3 ways to be a better ally in the workplace

Christine Porath: Why being respectful to your coworkers is good for business

Kristie Overstreet: What doctors should know about gender identity

DeAndrea Salvador: How we can make energy more affordable for low-income families

Liv Boeree: 3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion

Isadora Kosofsky: Intimate photos of a senior love triangle

Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes: "Chasms"

Kym Worthy: What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit

Tracie Keesee: How police and the public can create safer neighborhoods together

Tommy McCall: The simple genius of a good graphic

Catherine Mohr: How I became part sea urchin

Luke Sital-Singh: "Afterneath" / "Killing Me"

Chip Colwell: Why museums are returning cultural treasures

Kaitlyn Sadtler: How we could teach our bodies to heal faster

Niels van Namen: Why the hospital of the future will be your own home

Kate Stone: The press trampled on my privacy. Here's how I took back my story

Sian Leah Beilock: Why we choke under pressure -- and how to avoid it

Simona Francese: Your fingerprints reveal more than you think

The Soul Rebels: "Rebelosis" / "Rebel Rock" / "Rebel on That Level"

Tom Griffiths: 3 ways to make better decisions -- by thinking like a computer

Luhan Yang: How to create a world where no one dies waiting for a transplant

Ghada Wali: How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic

Will MacAskill: What are the most important moral problems of our time?

Elise LeGrow: "You Never Can Tell" / "Over the Mountain, Across the Sea"

Benedetta Berti: Did the global response to 9/11 make us safer?

Andrew Bastawrous: A new way to fund health care for the most vulnerable

Pierre Barreau: How AI could compose a personalized soundtrack to your life

Mark Pollock and Simone George: A love letter to realism in a time of grief

Nikki Clifton: 3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking

Esther Sullivan: America's most invisible communities -- mobile home parks

Steve McCarroll: How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain

Tammy Lally: Let's get honest about our money problems

Sunni Patterson: "Wild Women"

Alexandra Sacks: A new way to think about the transition to motherhood

Angel Hsu: How China is (and isn't) fighting pollution and climate change

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil: A rare galaxy that's challenging our understanding of the universe

Nora Atkinson: Why art thrives at Burning Man

Dread Scott: How art can shape America's conversation about freedom

Mary Lou Jepsen: How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains

Leticia Gasca: Don't fail fast -- fail mindfully

Janet Stovall: How to get serious about diversity and inclusion in the workplace

Jessica Pryce: To transform child welfare, take race out of the equation

Stephen DeBerry: Why the "wrong side of the tracks" is usually the east side of cities

Chetna Gala Sinha: How women in rural India turned courage into capital

Yelle: "Interpassion" / "Ba$$in"

Walter Hood: How urban spaces can preserve history and build community

Hasini Jayatilaka: How cancer cells communicate -- and how we can slow them down

DK Osseo-Asare: What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation

Tina Seelig: The little risks you can take to increase your luck

Kai-Fu Lee: How AI can save our humanity

Christoph Niemann: You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it)

Bronwyn King: You may be accidentally investing in cigarette companies

Supasorn Suwajanakorn: Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them

Christina Wallace: How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps

Pratik Shah: How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease

Lucy Marcil: Why doctors are offering free tax prep in their waiting rooms

Tamekia MizLadi Smith: How to train employees to have difficult conversations

Boy Girl Banjo: "Dead Romance"

Stephen Webb: Where are all the aliens?

Mikhail Zygar: What the Russian Revolution would have looked like on social media

Halima Aden: How I went from child refugee to international model

Mary Maker: Why I fight for the education of refugee girls (like me)

Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu: What your smart devices know (and share) about you

Rebeca Hwang: The power of diversity within yourself

Will Marshall: The mission to create a searchable database of Earth's surface

Renzo Piano: The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings

Lili Haydn: "The Last Serenade"

Elizabeth White: An honest look at the personal finance crisis

Dina Katabi: A new way to monitor vital signs (that can see through walls)

Dan Gibson: How to build synthetic DNA and send it across the internet

Dan Knights: How we study the microbes living in your gut

Kola Masha: How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace

Gary Liu: The rapid growth of the Chinese internet -- and where it's headed

Jakob Magolan: A crash course in organic chemistry

Jennifer Wilcox: A new way to remove CO2 from the atmosphere

Steve Boyes: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places

Lindsay Malloy: Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit

Steve Boyes: How we're saving one of Earth's last wild places

Lindsay Malloy: Why teens confess to crimes they didn't commit

Penny Chisholm: The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet

Rodin Lyasoff: How autonomous flying taxis could change the way you travel

Travis Rieder: The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it

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