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56:37

Celina de Sola, Edith Elliott and Nonette Royo

How everyday people can tackle the world's biggest problems

Posted Jun 2022

9:12

Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam

The most powerful untapped resource in health care

Posted May 2022

8:29

Amanda Renteria

A bold plan to transform access to the US social safety net

Posted May 2022

7:58

Anushka Ratnayake

A transparent, easy way for smallholder farmers to save

Posted May 2022

8:47

Tiana Epps-Johnson

An election redesign to restore trust in US democracy

Posted May 2022

8:08

Celina de Sola

Mental health care that disrupts cycles of violence

Posted May 2022

8:12

Sue Natali

How ancient Arctic carbon threatens everyone on the planet

Posted May 2022

8:54

Nonette Royo

Why Indigenous forest guardianship is crucial to climate action

Posted May 2022

11:09

Becca Heller

A safe pathway to resettlement for migrants and refugees

Posted May 2022

11:26

Monica Araya

The billion-dollar campaign to electrify transport

Posted Oct 2021

6:39

David Gruber

Can we learn to talk to sperm whales?

Posted Apr 2021

6:27

Andrew Youn

The seeds of change helping African farmers grow out of poverty

Posted Mar 2021

8:07

Kiah Williams

You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills

Posted Sep 2020

7:09

Shameran Abed

4 steps to ending extreme poverty

Posted Sep 2020

8:35

Rebecca Firth

Can we call it a "world map" if it's missing a billion people?

Posted Aug 2020

6:36

Kwame Owusu-Kesse

5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet

Posted Jul 2020

5:44

Chrystina Russell

A path to higher education and employment for refugees

Posted Jun 2020

15:17

Joia Mukherjee

How to quickly scale up contact tracing across the US

Posted Jun 2020

17:38

Robin Steinberg and Manoush Zomorodi

The US is addicted to incarceration. Here's how to break the cycle

Posted May 2020

5:54

Pardis Sabeti and Christian Happi

A virus detection network to stop the next pandemic

Posted May 2020

7:15

Jim Collins

How we're using AI to discover new antibiotics

Posted May 2020

11:30

Nancy Lublin

Crisis support for the world, one text away

Posted Apr 2020

4:48

Ellen Agler

Parasitic worms hold back human progress. Here's how we can end them

Posted Jan 2020

13:50

Julie Cordua

How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet

Posted Oct 2019

9:59

Safeena Husain

A bold plan to empower 1.6 million out-of-school girls in India

Posted Sep 2019

12:13

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff

How we can make racism a solvable problem — and improve policing

Posted Sep 2019

9:36

Claudia Miner

A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten

Posted Jul 2019

10:19

David Baker

5 challenges we could solve by designing new proteins

Posted Jun 2019

5:19

The Nature Conservancy

An ingenious proposal for scaling up marine protection

Posted Jun 2019

13:48

Joanne Chory

How supercharged plants could slow climate change

Posted May 2019

13:17

T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison

The most powerful woman you've never heard of

Posted Mar 2019

8:33

Fred Krupp

Let's launch a satellite to track a threatening greenhouse gas

Posted Sep 2018

10:12

Caroline Harper

What if we eliminated one of the world's oldest diseases?

Posted Jun 2018

10:01

Heidi M. Sosik

The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone

Posted Jun 2018

14:24

Robin Steinberg

What if we ended the injustice of bail?

Posted Apr 2018

20:30

Raj Panjabi

No one should die because they live too far from a doctor

Posted Jun 2017