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13:48

Joanne Chory

How supercharged plants could slow climate change

Posted May 2019

5:10

Gary Wolf

The quantified self

Posted Sep 2010

13:33

John Cary

How architecture can create dignity for all

Posted Feb 2018

3:35

Daniel Garrie

Defining cyberwarfare... in hopes of preventing it

Posted Aug 2013

5:28

Katerina Kaouri

The sonic boom problem

Posted Feb 2015

5:53

Gowri Shankar

A king cobra bite — and a scientific discovery

Posted Dec 2021

10:22

Al Gore

This is the moment to take on the climate crisis

Posted May 2022

58:23

Gary Liu

What the world can learn from China's response to the coronavirus

Posted Mar 2020

17:08

Cary Fowler

One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

Posted Aug 2009

14:08

Gary Slutkin

Let's treat violence like a contagious disease

Posted Oct 2013

27:54

Al Gore

New thinking on the climate crisis

Posted Apr 2008

38:05

John Kerry and Al Gore

The US is back in the Paris Agreement. What's next?

Posted Feb 2021

13:48

Katharine Wilkinson

How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming

Posted Jan 2019

14:01

Joan Halifax

Compassion and the true meaning of empathy

Posted Sep 2011

11:03

Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll

How I learned to read — and trade stocks — in prison

Posted Apr 2017

11:09

Caro Verbeek

The historical significance of smell

Posted Mar 2019

22:08

Gary Haugen

The hidden reason for poverty the world needs to address now

Posted Apr 2015

5:03

Chiara Decaroli

The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work

Posted Aug 2019

12:01

Chera Kowalski

The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis

Posted Jun 2018

16:17

Al Gore

Averting the climate crisis

Posted Jun 2006

12:58

Carrie Poppy

A scientific approach to the paranormal

Posted Mar 2017

12:41

Gary Liu

The rapid growth of the Chinese internet — and where it's headed

Posted Jul 2018

3:33

Jon Gray

The power of the Afro pick

Posted Feb 2020

56:45

Al Gore

The new urgency of climate change

Posted Jun 2020

15:20

Garry Kasparov

Don't fear intelligent machines. Work with them

Posted May 2017

3:35

Kyra Gaunt

How the jump rope got its rhythm

Posted Mar 2018

4:01

Cláudio Guerra

Why the octopus brain is so extraordinary

Posted Dec 2015

10:51

Betül Kaçar

We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we?

Posted Apr 2022

6:53

Kyra Gaunt

How Black girls can reclaim their voice in music

Posted Jun 2022

11:14

Chris Jordan

Turning powerful stats into art

Posted Jun 2008

0:00

Andrea Driessen

The profound power of gratitude and "living eulogies"

Posted Jul 2022

17:05

Judith Jamison and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Revelations from a lifetime of dance

Posted Oct 2019

13:38

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho

4 lessons I learned from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence

Posted Mar 2015

5:05

Peta Greenfield & Alex Gendler

History vs. Augustus

Posted Jul 2018

12:02

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

The US can move past immigration prisons — and towards justice

Posted Jul 2022

10:35

Nora Flanagan

What COVID-19 revealed about US schools — and 4 ways to rethink education

Posted Jan 2021