60 fiction literary writing talks from conference stages on Mezzo — ranked by views, including Strange answers to the psychopath test by Jon Ronson.
- Strange answers to the psychopath testJon Ronson
The happy secret to better workShawn Achor- Depression, the secret we shareAndrew Solomon
What explains the rise of humans?Yuval Harari
The unheard story of David and GoliathMalcolm Gladwell- We need to talk about an injusticeBryan Stevenson
- Is our universe the only universe?Brian Greene
- The riddle of experience vs. memoryDaniel Kahneman
The mathematics of loveHannah Fry- Moral behavior in animalsFrans de Waal
- This is what it's really like to live with ADHDJessica McCabe
Dare to disagreeMargaret Heffernan- When online shaming goes too farJon Ronson
- How AI can save our humanityKai-Fu Lee
Forget the pecking order at workMargaret Heffernan- The surprising science of alpha malesFrans de Waal
The unpaid work that GDP ignores -- and why it really countsMarilyn Waring
A cleanse won't detox your body -- but here's what willJen Gunter- The beauty of data visualizationDavid Mccandless
Why it's so hard to make healthy decisionsDavid Bach- We're building a dystopia just to make people click on adsZeynep Tufekci
- The $8 billion iPodRob Reid
- You are fluent in this language (and don't even know it)Christoph Niemann
The pattern behind self-deceptionMichael Shermer- How shocking events can spark positive changeNaomi Klein
Why you should be a climate activistLuisa Neubauer
3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatheringsPriya Parker- Your social media "likes" expose more than you thinkJennifer Golbeck
- What are animals thinking and feeling?Carl Safina
The profound power of an authentic apologyEve Ensler
The strange tale of the Norden bombsightMalcolm Gladwell
How synthetic biology could wipe out humanity -- and how we can stop itRob Reid
The paradox of efficiencyEdward Tenner
Lessons from past presidentsDoris Kearns Goodwin
The case to infect volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate vaccine testingNir Eyal
Why you shouldn't worry about pooping once a dayJen Gunter
The dangers of willful blindnessMargaret Heffernan- Machine intelligence makes human morals more importantZeynep Tufekci
- The unheard story of the Sistine ChapelElizabeth Lev
- A police chief with a differenceKiran Bedi
- How to seek truth in the era of fake newsChristiane Amanpour
- The voices of China's workersLeslie T. Chang
How to reduce bias in your workplaceKim Scott
Embrace your inner girlEve Ensler- My friend Richard FeynmanLeonard Susskind
Stand with Ukraine in the fight against evilGarry Kasparov- The smelly mystery of the human pheromoneTristram Wyatt
How to get empowered, not overpowered, by AIMax Tegmark- Online social change: easy to organize, hard to winZeynep Tufekci
- Life in the "digital now"Abha Dawesar
The age-old sharing economies of Africa -- and why we should scale themRobert Neuwirth- Fighting with nonviolenceScilla Elworthy
- The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for Indigenous rightsTara Houska
- A forgotten ancient grain that could help Africa prosperPierre Thiam
- How I work to protect women from honor killingsKhalida Brohi
- An economic reality checkTim Jackson
- Addicted to riskNaomi Klein
- Actually, the world isn't flatPankaj Ghemawat
- Duelo por la muerte del padreHernán Casciari
- Transition to a world without oilRob Hopkins