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216 talks·216 with video·216 speakers·Vancouver, Canada·April 2017

How I'm using LEGO to teach Arabic
by Ghada Wali
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Inside Africa's thriving art scene
by Touria El Glaoui
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"Awoo"
by Sofi Tukker
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"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves
by Heather Lanier
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"RainMakers"
by Qudus Onikeku
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"San Francisco"
by The Ferocious Few
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"Wild Women"
by Sunni Patterson
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"You Found Me"
by Helen Gillet
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3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem
by Amit Kalra
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3 fears about screen time for kids -- and why they're not true
by Sara DeWitt
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3 principles for creating safer AI
by Stuart Russell
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3 things I learned from my intellectually disabled son
by Emilie Weight
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3 ways to fix a broken news industry
by Lara Setrakian
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7 principles for building better cities
by Peter Calthorpe
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8 steps to understanding information (and maybe the universe)
by Phil Tetlow
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A bold plan to house 100 million people
by Gautam Bhan
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A climate solution where all sides can win
by Ted Halstead
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A dance to honor Mother Earth
by Jon Boogz
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A data translation toolkit that anyone can use
by Jonathan Koch
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A forgotten ancient grain that could help Africa prosper
by Pierre Thiam
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A funny look at the unintended consequences of technology
by Chuck Nice
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A lyrical bridge between past, present and future
by David Whyte
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A new class of drug that could prevent depression and PTSD
by Rebecca Brachman
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A one-man musical phenomenon
by Jacob Collier
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A playful solution to the housing crisis
by Sara Murray
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A rite of passage for late life
by Bob Stein
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A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early
by Jimmy Lin
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A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs
by Daan Roosegaarde
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A summer school kids actually want to attend
by Karim Abouelnaga
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A teen scientist's invention to help wounds heal
by Anushka Naiknaware
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A tribute to West Virginia coal miners
by Johnny Staats
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An intergalactic guide to using a defibrillator
by Todd Scott
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An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine
by Leah Chase
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Can a robot pass a university entrance exam?
by Noriko Arai
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Can art amend history?
by Titus Kaphar
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Can we "print" smart objects?
by Dan Walker
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Can we design cities for happiness?
by Thomas Madrecki
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Can we protect AI from our biases?
by Robin Hauser
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Can we stop climate change by removing CO2 from the air?
by Tim Kruger
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Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system
by Bhu Srinivasan
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Could fish social networks help us save coral reefs?
by Mike Gil
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Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them
by Garry Kasparov
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Don't feel sorry for refugees -- believe in them
by Luma Mufleh
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Don't suffer from your depression in silence
by Nikki Webber Allen
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Electrical experiments with plants that count and communicate
by Greg Gage
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Facing the future together
by Rowan Fitzpatrick
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Fashion has a pollution problem -- can biology fix it?
by Natsai Audrey Chieza
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Finding music in mundanity
by Tim Exile
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For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over
by Soka Moses
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For the love of birds
by Washington Wachira
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For women in pursuit of motherhood and a career
by Irene Mora
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From death row to law graduate
by Peter Ouko
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Fun, fierce and fantastical African art
by Wanuri Kahiu
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Future tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere
by Julio Gil
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Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
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Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship
by Noah Feldman
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How (and why) Russia hacked the US election
by Laura Galante
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How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day
by Tristan Harris
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How a male contraceptive pill could work
by John Amory
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How adaptive clothing empowers people with disabilities
by Mindy Scheier
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How Africa can use its traditional knowledge to make progress
by Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu
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How AI can enhance our memory, work and social lives
by Tom Gruber
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How AI is making it easier to diagnose disease
by Pratik Shah
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How architecture can create dignity for all
by John Cary
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How artists can (finally) get paid in the digital age
by Jack Conte
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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas
by Manoush Zomorodi
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How China is changing the future of shopping
by Angela Wang
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How cohousing can make us happier (and live longer)
by Grace Kim
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How computers learn to recognize objects instantly
by Joseph Redmon
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How data is driving the future of fashion
by Steve Brown
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How data is helping us unravel the mysteries of the brain
by Steve McCarroll
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How diversity makes teams more innovative
by Rocío Lorenzo
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How do we bridge the "anxiety gap" at work?
by Erica Joy Baker
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How do you build a sacred space?
by Siamak Hariri
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How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime
by Alastair Gray
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How fake news does real harm
by Stephanie Busari
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How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace
by Kola Masha
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How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for
by Kaustav Dey
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How fiction can help us better understand our reality
by Christian Wickert
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How I became an entrepreneur at 66
by Paul Tasner
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How I built a jet suit
by Richard Browning
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How I use art to bridge misunderstanding
by Adong Judith
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How I use the drum to tell my story
by Kasiva Mutua
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How language shapes the way we think
by Lera Boroditsky
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How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life)
by Beth Malone
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How Pakistani women are taking the internet back
by Nighat Dad
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How protest is redefining democracy around the world
by Zachariah Mampilly
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How shocking events can spark positive change
by Naomi Klein
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How the arts help homeless youth heal and build
by Malika Whitley
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How the military fights climate change
by David Titley
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How to build a company where the best ideas win
by Ray Dalio
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How to design a library that makes kids want to read
by Michael Bierut
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How to find a wonderful idea
by OK Go
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How to fix a broken heart
by Guy Winch
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How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex
by Tiffany Kagure Mugo
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How to inspire every child to be a lifelong reader
by Alvin Irby
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How to put the power of law in people's hands
by Vivek Maru
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How to seek truth in the era of fake news
by Christiane Amanpour
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How to start a conversation about suicide
by Jeremy Forbes
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How to talk (and listen) to transgender people
by Jackson Bird
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How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming
by Per Espen Stoknes
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How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
by Lauren Sallan
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How we became sisters
by Felice Belle
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How we can face the future without fear, together
by Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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How we can find ourselves in data
by Giorgia Lupi
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How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time
by Su Kahumbu
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How we'll earn money in a future without jobs
by Martin Ford
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How we'll predict the next refugee crisis
by Rana Novack
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How we're using drones to deliver blood and save lives
by Keller Rinaudo
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How work kept me going during my cancer treatment
by Sarah Donnelly
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It's (past) time to appreciate cultural diversity
by Hayley Yeates
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Lessons from a solar storm chaser
by Miho Janvier
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Lessons from the longest study on human development
by Helen Pearson
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Let's end ageism
by Ashton Applewhite
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Lifesaving scientific tools made of paper
by Manu Prakash
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Living sculptures that stand for history's truths
by Sethembile Msezane
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Looking for a job? Highlight your ability, not your experience
by Jason Shen
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Mammoths resurrected, geoengineering and other thoughts from a futurist
by Stewart Brand
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Meet Spot, the robot dog that can run, hop and open doors
by Marc Raibert
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Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face
by Anne Madden
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Meet the robot designed like an octopus tentacle
by Carl Vause
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Mind-blowing, magnified portraits of insects
by Levon Biss
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No one should die because they live too far from a doctor
by Raj Panjabi
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On tennis, love and motherhood
by Serena Williams
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One dad's mission to rebuild bonds between kids and their fathers
by Dwight Stitt
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Photos of Africa, taken from a flying lawn chair
by George Steinmetz
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Portraits that transform people into whatever they want to be
by Uldus Bakhtiozina
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Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash
by Rutger Bregman
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Refugees want empowerment, not handouts
by Robert Hakiza
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See how the rest of the world lives, organized by income
by Anna Rosling Rönnlund
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Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth?
by Danny Hillis
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Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace
by Kamau Gachigi
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Talk about your death while you're still healthy
by Michelle Knox
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The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico
by Nancy Rabalais
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The 4 superpowers of design
by Kevin Bethune
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The best way to help is often just to listen
by Sophie Andrews
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The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions
by Robert Muggah
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The biology of our best and worst selves
by Robert Sapolsky
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The boost students need to overcome obstacles
by Anindya Kundu
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The brain-changing benefits of exercise
by Wendy Suzuki
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The business benefits of doing good
by Wendy Wood
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The dangerous evolution of HIV
by Edsel Salvaña
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The fascinating secret lives of giant clams
by Mei Lin Neo
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The future of storytelling
by Shonda Rhimes
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The future we're building -- and boring
by Elon Musk
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The gift and power of emotional courage
by Susan David
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The gift of words
by Javed Akhtar
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The global learning crisis -- and what to do about it
by Amel Karboul
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The hidden messages in multiplication
by Uma Adwani
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The hidden opportunities of the informal economy
by Niti Bhan
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The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care
by Scott Williams
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The importance of visual literacy
by David Hooker
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The inspiring truth in fiction
by Tomas Elemans
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The magic of Khmer classical dance
by Prumsodun Ok
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The radical beauty of Africa, in portraits
by Iké Udé
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The refugee crisis is a test of our character
by David Miliband
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The rhythm of Afrobeat
by Sauti Sol
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The rhythmic beauty of collaboration
by Shadé Zahrai
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The role of faith and belief in modern Africa
by Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli
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The role of human emotions in science and research
by Ilona Stengel
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The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for Indigenous rights
by Tara Houska
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The stories behind The New Yorker's iconic covers
by Françoise Mouly
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The surprising science of alpha males
by Frans de Waal
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The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change...
by T. Morgan Dixon
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The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings
by Anna Heringer
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There's more to life than being happy
by Emily Esfahani Smith
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There's no shame in taking care of your mental health
by Sangu Delle
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This company pays kids to do their math homework
by Mohamad Jebara
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This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life
by Karen Lloyd
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This is what democracy looks like
by Anthony D. Romero
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Thoughts on humanity, fame and love
by Shah Rukh Khan
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To design better tech, understand context
by Tania Douglas
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To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift
by Andrew Dent
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To learn is to be free
by Shameem Akhtar
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Using Aboriginal traditions to teach tech
by Michael Mieni
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Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers
by Dayo Ogunyemi
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Want to get great at something? Get a coach
by Atul Gawande
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War and what comes after
by Clemantine Wamariya
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We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer
by Elizabeth Wayne
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We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
by Zeynep Tufekci
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What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation
by DK Osseo-Asare
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What a world without prisons could look like
by Deanna Van Buren
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What AI is -- and isn't
by Sebastian Thrun
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What businesses can learn from refugee communities
by Christine Thach
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What happens when we take humans out of work?
by Tomer Garzberg
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What I learned from 2,000 obituaries
by Lux Narayan
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What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?
by Liz Ogbu
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What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy?
by Matthias Müllenbeck
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What it's like to be the child of immigrants
by Michael Rain
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What soccer can teach us about freedom
by Marc Bamuthi Joseph
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What we can do about the culture of hate
by Sally Kohn
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What we're missing in the debate about immigration
by Duarte Geraldino
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What would happen if we upload our brains to computers?
by Robin Hanson
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What you can do to prevent Alzheimer's
by Lisa Genova
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What's hidden under the Greenland ice sheet?
by Kristin Poinar
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Where are we trying to end up?
by Rach Ranton
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Why design should include everyone
by Sinéad Burke
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Why do I make art? To build time capsules for my heritage
by Kayla Briët
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Why glass towers are bad for city life -- and what we need instead
by Justin Davidson
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Why I choose humanism over faith
by Leo Igwe
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Why I speak up about living with epilepsy
by Sitawa Wafula
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Why I still have hope for coral reefs
by Kristen Marhaver
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Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes
by Fredros Okumu
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Why I train grandmothers to treat depression
by Dixon Chibanda
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Why it's too hard to start a business in Africa -- and how to change it
by Magatte Wade
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Why our screens make us less happy
by Adam Alter
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Why schools should teach entrepreneurship
by Linda Zhang
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Why the only future worth building includes everyone
by His Holiness Pope Francis
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Why we need to imagine different futures
by Anab Jain
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Why we need to pay attention to Chinese millennials
by Sebastian Guo
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Why you should define your fears instead of your goals
by Tim Ferriss
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Why your business needs dissenters
by Andrew Millar
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Would you live in a floating city in the sky?
by Tomás Saraceno
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You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
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You don't have to be an expert to solve big problems
by Tapiwa Chiwewe
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Your brain hallucinates your conscious reality
by Anil Seth
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