Daphne Bavelier studies how the brain adapts to changes in experience, either by nature or by training.

Matthew White is a young master of the euphonium, an instrument in the brass family with an ineffably lovely tone.

By challenging long-held legal notions of “personhood”, Steven Wise seeks to grant cognitively advanced animals access to a full spectrum of fundamental rights.

Preston Reed’s hands have an otherworldly coordination. The fingers, nails, thumbs, and palms of both left and right dance, pluck, strum, and slap his guitar, which bursts with a full sound.

What makes us incessantly check our phones? Adam Alter dives into the fascinating psychology that drives our tech addictions.

Priyanka Jain heads up product for pymetrics, an NYC-based startup that uses neuroscience and AI to make hiring more diverse and effective.

Ji-Hae Park spreads the joy of classical to music to those who might not otherwise hear it -- and in the process shows that you can rock out on the violin.

Nora Brown sings ballads and plays traditional old-time music with a heavy interest in eastern Kentucky banjo playing.

Marian Wright Edelman fights for a level playing field for all children, so their chances to succeed don't have to depend on the lottery of birth.

For the last 30 years, Richard Bona has toured the world and become one of the rare African artists to have achieved global recognition.

Mischievous and deeply original, accordionist Rachelle Garniez plays her own witty songs and gives a beautiful swing to the classics.

Rainn Wilson is an actor, writer and co-creator of media and production company SoulPancake.

Qi Zhang is a Master's candidate at University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music, and an award-winning international organist.

Kitra Cahana is a Canadian photographer who blurs the line between anthropologist and journalist.

David R. Liu leads a research group that combines chemistry and evolutionary techniques to create revolutionary new medicines.

David Byrne builds an idiosyncratic world of music, art, writing and film.

TED Resident Dan Gartenberg has spent his adult life trying to make seven and a half hours feel like eight hours.

Renzo Piano is a builder of shelters for human beings. And communities.

Aaron O'Connell is the first person to experimentally induce and measure quantum effects in the motion of a humanmade object, bridging the quantum and classical worlds.

Siphumeze Khundayi is founder and artistic director of HOLAAfrica, sparking conversations about sex and sexuality.

Risa Wechsler uses computer simulations of the entire universe to explore questions about our existence on the largest scales.

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history's most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences.

Software entrepreneur John Q. Walker uses computers to bring piano legends back to life -- digitally reconstructing their performances from audio tracks and playing them on real instruments, live.

Globe-trotting, genre-hopping cellist Rufus Cappadocia plays the music of our sphere.

Beardyman, “ruler of beats and destroyer of dance floors,” has developed a real-time music-production system that places live looping at the center of a new musical paradigm.

As president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Dan Gross seeks to cut US gun deaths in half by 2025.

Powerhouse singer Elise LeGrow plays with the classic sounds of R&B.

An outspoken feminist, Justin Baldoni has been doubling down on his efforts to start a dialogue with men to redefine masculinity.

After a much-awarded career as a film producer, Lord David Puttnam now works at the intersection of education, media and policy.

With a rich voice and an equally rich sense of history, Rhiannon Giddens animates American folk tradition with her electrifying song interpretations.