60 creative thinking talks from conference stages on Mezzo — ranked by views, including Your elusive creative genius by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Your elusive creative geniusElizabeth Gilbert
The art of askingAmanda Palmer- A performance of "Mathemagic"Arthur Benjamin
- Hidden miracles of the natural worldLouie Schwartzberg
- Build a tower, build a teamTom Wujec
- Close-up card magic with a twistLennart Green
Success, failure and the drive to keep creatingElizabeth Gilbert- What causes headaches?Daniel Kwartler
- The clues to a great storyAndrew Stanton
- What causes insomnia?Daniel Kwartler
- Why we laughSophie Scott
- The mystery boxJJ Abrams
- Why you should make useless thingsSimone Giertz
- Why is 'x' the unknown?Terry Moore
- Why should you read "Dune" by Frank Herbert?Daniel Kwartler
- Hunting for dinosaurs showed me our place in the universeKenneth Lacovara
- Are we born to run?Christopher McDougall
- The art of stillnessPico Iyer
- Can we create new senses for humans?David Eagleman
- The shared experience of absurdityCharlie Todd
- My love letter to cosplayAdam Savage
- The math and magic of origamiRobert Lang
- Talk nerdy to meMelissa Marshall
- Teach statistics before calculus!Arthur Benjamin
Why humor is key to creativityTaika Waititi- A one-woman global villageSarah Jones
- The greatest TED Talk ever soldMorgan Spurlock
- Don't regret regretKathryn Schulz
Go ahead, dream about the futureCharlie Jane Anders
What ping-pong taught me about lifePico Iyer- The untouchable music of the thereminPamelia Kurstin
- Go ahead, make up new words!Erin McKean
- A delightful way to teach kids about computersLinda Liukas
- How computers are learning to be creativeBlaise Agüera y Arcas
- The passing of time, caught in a single photoStephen Wilkes
- Math is foreverEduardo Sáenz de Cabezón
- What does the future hold? 11 characters offer quirky answersSarah Jones
- How kids can help design citiesMara Mintzer
- We the People, and the Republic we must reclaimLawrence Lessig
The invisible life hidden beneath Antarctica's iceAriel Waldman- The spellbinding art of human anatomyVanessa Ruiz
- Wry photos that turn stereotypes upside downUldus Bakhtiozina
- Designing for simplicityJohn Maeda
A science award that makes you laugh, then thinkMarc Abrahams- How yarn bombing grew into a worldwide movementMagda Sayeg
- The beauty and diversity of Muslim lifeBassam Tariq
- Hack a banana, make a keyboard!Jay Silver
- Why people need poetryStephen Burt
- The dancer, the singer, the cellist ... and a moment of creative magicBill T. Jones
- Music is medicine, music is sanityRobert Gupta
- Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoonBob Mankoff
- Why the pencil is perfectCaroline Weaver
- To hear this music you have to be there. LiterallyRyan Holladay
- Life lessons through tinkeringGever Tulley
- What is consciousness?Michael Graziano
- How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life)Beth Malone
- An artist's unflinching look at racial violenceSanford Biggers
- Symmetry, reality's riddleMarcus du Sautoy
- How to go to space, without having to go to spaceAngelo Vermeulen
- An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillatorTodd Scott