Podcasts
Is remote work better than being in the office? It's complicated | Mark Mortensen
Published: July 18, 2023, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 21 seconds
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4 ways to make hybrid work better for everyone | Tsedal Neeley
Published: April 12, 2023, 2:24 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 11 seconds
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The surprising psychology behind your urge to break the rules | Paul Bloom
Published: March 16, 2023, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 29 seconds
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Demystifying the wild world of crypto | Laura Shin
Published: Dec. 5, 2022, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 25 seconds
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How to tackle the stigma of living with HIV | Gareth Thomas
Published: Dec. 1, 2022, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 27 seconds
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The truth about faking orgasms | Karen Gurney
Published: Oct. 17, 2022, 3:28 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 35 seconds
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I'm terrified of wanting to be a billionaire | Pardis Parker
Published: Oct. 14, 2022, 2:48 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 31 seconds
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4 ways to design a disability-friendly future | Meghan Hussey
Published: Oct. 11, 2022, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes
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The online community supporting queer Africans | Okong'o Kinyanjui
Published: Sept. 29, 2022, 4:01 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 38 seconds
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How to build an equitable and just climate future | Peggy Shepard
Published: Aug. 18, 2022, 2:39 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 12 seconds
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A new understanding of human history and the roots of inequality | David Wengrow
Published: July 22, 2022, 2:36 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 24 seconds
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An invitation to reexamine your familiar world | Gillian Tett
Published: June 28, 2022, 2:40 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 51 seconds
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A creator-led internet, built on blockchain | Adam Mosseri
Published: May 17, 2022, 2:39 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 32 seconds
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How to heal a divided world | Michele Lamont
Published: April 29, 2022, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds
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What my gender transition taught me about womanhood | Paula Stone Williams
Published: March 29, 2022, 3:16 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds
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The future will be shaped by optimists | Kevin Kelly
Published: March 23, 2022, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds
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3 things men can do to promote gender equity | Jimmie Briggs
Published: March 15, 2022, 2:55 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
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The origins of blackface and Black stereotypes | Dwan Reece
Published: Feb. 7, 2022, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 39 seconds
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I'm tired of people telling me to "grind" | Pardis Parker
Published: Jan. 10, 2022, 5:19 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 57 seconds
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Why a free and fair internet is more vital than ever | Priscilla Chomba-Kinywa
Published: Dec. 23, 2021, 4:08 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 19 seconds
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How to escape the cynicism trap | Jamil Zaki
Published: Dec. 21, 2021, 3:34 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 40 seconds
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The forest is our teacher. It's time to respect it | Nemonte Nenquimo
Published: Nov. 23, 2021, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 12 seconds
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The haunting truth of ghost stories | Coya Paz Brownrigg
Published: Oct. 29, 2021, 8:04 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
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How humanity doubled life expectancy in a century | Steven Johnson
Published: Oct. 8, 2021, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 49 seconds
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The inaccurate link between body ideals and health | Nancy N. Chen
Published: Sept. 14, 2021, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 34 seconds
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A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition | German Santillan
Published: Sept. 1, 2021, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 58 seconds
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The radical, revolutionary resilience of Black joy | Miracle Jones
Published: July 27, 2021, 4:11 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds
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3 myths about racism that keep the US from progress | Candis Watts Smith
Published: July 16, 2021, 3:21 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 21 seconds
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Why aren't there more Native American restaurants? | Sean Sherman
Published: July 6, 2021, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds
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The anxiety that comes from being treated like an outsider | Valerie Purdie-Greenaway
Published: June 3, 2021, 8:01 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 20 seconds
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The infinite alchemy of storytelling | Zahra Al-Mahdi
Published: May 24, 2021, 1:37 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 32 seconds
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The real-life superheroes helping Syrian refugees | Feras Fayyad
Published: May 24, 2021, 1:35 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 33 seconds
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A feminist reimagining of Kenya's public transport | Naomi Mwaura
Published: May 24, 2021, 1:13 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 22 seconds
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What's your happiness score? | Dominic Price
Published: May 7, 2021, 3:38 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 46 seconds
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An honest history of an ancient and "nasty" word | Kate Lister
Published: April 1, 2021, 3:06 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 11 seconds
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Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has) | Archie Crowley
Published: March 31, 2021, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 14 seconds
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What if mental health workers responded to emergency calls? | Leslie Herod
Published: March 15, 2021, 3:12 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 43 seconds
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Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjrlykhaug
Published: March 9, 2021, 8:12 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 50 seconds
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Why there's no such thing as objective reality | Greg Anderson
Published: Feb. 23, 2021, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds
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How to get everyone to care about a green economy | Angela Francis
Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 4:29 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds
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3 ways companies can support grieving employees | Tilak Mandadi
Published: Jan. 5, 2021, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
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Who counts as a speaker of a language? | Anna Babel
Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 55 seconds
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A playful exploration of gender performance | Jo Michael Rezes
Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 9:20 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 12 seconds
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The psychology of inequality and political division | Keith Payne
Published: Sept. 14, 2020, 3:26 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 9 seconds
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Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally | Dwinita Mosby Tyler
Published: July 15, 2020, 8:18 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds
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Want a more just world? Be an unlikely ally | Nita Mosby Tyler
Published: July 15, 2020, 8:18 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds
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How to disrupt philanthropy in response to crisis | Darren Walker
Published: July 10, 2020, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 35 seconds
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The new urgency of climate change | Al Gore
Published: June 25, 2020, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 45 seconds
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A vision for the future of Afghanistan | Ashraf Ghani
Published: June 23, 2020, 7:47 p.m.Duration: 45 minutes 29 seconds
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Why is colonialism (still) romanticized? | Farish Ahmad-Noor
Published: June 23, 2020, 3:20 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it | Jennifer L. Eberhardt
Published: June 18, 2020, 4:51 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 17 seconds
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3 secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone
Published: June 15, 2020, 3:11 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 5 seconds
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How to turn your dissatisfaction into action | Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Published: June 10, 2020, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 1 second
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The difference between being "not racist" and antiracist | Ibram X. Kendi
Published: June 9, 2020, 9:36 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 14 seconds
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How flags unite (and divide) us | Michael Green
Published: June 9, 2020, 3:27 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 18 seconds
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How to channel your presence and energy into ending injustice | Rashad Robinson
Published: June 8, 2020, 9:52 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 29 seconds
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The bill has come due for the US's history of racism | Dr. Phillip Atiba Solomon
Published: June 8, 2020, 9:49 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 22 seconds
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The path to ending systemic racism in the US | Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, Rashad Robinson, Dr. Bernice King, Anthony D. Romero
Published: June 3, 2020, 9:40 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 31 seconds
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How the US can address the tragedy of veteran suicide | Charles P. Smith
Published: May 22, 2020, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 53 seconds
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The language of being human | Poet Ali
Published: May 15, 2020, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds
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The injustice of "policing for profit" -- and how to end it | Dick M. Carpenter II
Published: April 28, 2020, 3:12 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 54 seconds
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Racism has a cost for everyone | Heather C. McGhee
Published: April 16, 2020, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 21 seconds
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In uncertain times, think like a mother | Yifat Susskind
Published: April 6, 2020, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 24 seconds
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How we can navigate the coronavirus pandemic with courage and hope | Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Published: March 30, 2020, 11:37 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 38 seconds
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How to create meaningful connections while apart | Priya Parker
Published: March 30, 2020, 3:39 p.m.Duration: 50 minutes 10 seconds
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How to be your best self in times of crisis | Susan David
Published: March 24, 2020, 3:08 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 3 seconds
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Without farmers, you'd be hungry, naked and sober | Eric Sannerud
Published: March 18, 2020, 3:10 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 1 second
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Why it's so hard to talk about the N-word | Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Published: March 12, 2020, 3:19 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds
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The gender-fluid history of the Philippines | France Villarta
Published: March 9, 2020, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds
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How women are revolutionizing Rwanda | Agnes Binagwaho
Published: March 6, 2020, 3:56 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds
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3 ways to uproot a culture of corruption | Wanjira Mathai
Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 8:57 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 47 seconds
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For the love of fangirls | Yve Blake
Published: Feb. 18, 2020, 4:08 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 3 seconds
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The real story of Rosa Parks -- and why we need to confront myths about Black history | David Ikard
Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 4:25 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds
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How the magic of kindness helped me survive the Holocaust | Werner Reich
Published: Jan. 27, 2020, 4:28 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 1 second
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Why can't we talk about periods? | Jen Gunter
Published: Jan. 17, 2020, 3:59 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 42 seconds
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How guest worker visas could transform the US immigration system | David J. Bier
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 9:19 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
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The perks of being a pirate | Tom Nash
Published: Jan. 14, 2020, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 55 seconds
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Climate change will displace millions. Here's how we prepare | Colette Pichon Battle
Published: Jan. 10, 2020, 3:47 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 47 seconds
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The beautiful balance between courage and fear | Cara E. Yar Khan
Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 3:54 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 55 seconds
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Will the ocean ever run out of fish? | Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet
Published: Dec. 19, 2019, 8:26 p.m.Duration: 4 minutes 7 seconds
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What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger | Jasmine Crowe
Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 3:51 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 11 seconds
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Why I protest for climate justice | Jane Fonda
Published: Dec. 10, 2019, 3:57 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 15 seconds
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The profound power of an authentic apology | Eve Ensler
Published: Dec. 6, 2019, 4 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds
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7 beliefs that can silence women -- and how to unlearn them | Deepa Narayan
Published: Nov. 25, 2019, 9:01 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 59 seconds
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How to save a language from extinction | Daniel Bogre Udell
Published: Nov. 21, 2019, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 46 seconds
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3 questions we should ask about nuclear weapons | Emma Belcher
Published: Nov. 19, 2019, 8:49 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 2 seconds
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How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? | Sydney Jensen
Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 8:49 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 31 seconds
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How India's local recyclers could solve plastic pollution | Mani Vajipey
Published: Nov. 11, 2019, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 36 seconds
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What open water swimming taught me about resilience | Bhakti Sharma
Published: Nov. 4, 2019, 8:07 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 56 seconds
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After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up | David Deutsch
Published: Oct. 14, 2019, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 10 seconds
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A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border | Juan Enriquez
Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 15 seconds
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A radical plan to end plastic waste | Andrew Forrest
Published: Oct. 8, 2019, 9 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 46 seconds
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This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life | Tara Djokic
Published: Oct. 7, 2019, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 30 seconds
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Why language is humanity's greatest invention | David Peterson
Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 33 seconds
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Why you should shop at your local farmers market | Mohammad Modarres
Published: Oct. 1, 2019, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds
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How we're building the world's largest family tree | Yaniv Erlich
Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
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How couples can sustain a strong sexual connection for a lifetime | Emily Nagoski
Published: Sept. 24, 2019, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 57 seconds
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A free world needs satire | Patrick Chappatte
Published: Sept. 17, 2019, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds
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Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists | Andrew Marantz
Published: Sept. 5, 2019, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 36 seconds
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What ping-pong taught me about life | Pico Iyer
Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 2:41 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 43 seconds
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The power to think ahead in a reckless age | Bina Venkataraman
Published: Aug. 22, 2019, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 10 seconds
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How we're honoring people overlooked by history | Amy Padnani
Published: July 11, 2019, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes
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The next big thing is coming from the Bronx, again | Jon Gray
Published: June 28, 2019, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 48 seconds
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What almost dying taught me about living | Suleika Jaouad
Published: June 19, 2019, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 23 seconds
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Why we get mad -- and why it's healthy | Ryan Martin
Published: June 12, 2019, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 6 seconds
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3 steps to turn everyday get-togethers into transformative gatherings | Priya Parker
Published: June 11, 2019, 2:26 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds
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The lies our culture tells us about what matters -- and a better way to live | David Brooks
Published: June 5, 2019, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds
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The story we tell about millennials -- and who we leave out | Reniqua Allen
Published: May 30, 2019, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 28 seconds
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My identity is a superpower -- not an obstacle | America Ferrera
Published: May 23, 2019, 2:51 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 2 seconds
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The difference between healthy and unhealthy love | Katie Hood
Published: May 17, 2019, 2:48 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 13 seconds
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How to recover from activism burnout | Yana Buhrer Tavanier
Published: April 30, 2019, 2:48 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 56 seconds
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Helping others makes us happier -- but it matters how we do it | Elizabeth Dunn
Published: April 26, 2019, 11:12 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds
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3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer | Rana Abdelhamid
Published: April 12, 2019, 2:55 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 11 seconds
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How centuries of sci-fi sparked spaceflight | Alexander MacDonald
Published: April 1, 2019, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 15 seconds
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A short history of trans people's long fight for equality | Samy Nour Younes
Published: March 28, 2019, 2:39 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 14 seconds
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Our dangerous obsession with perfectionism is getting worse | Thomas Curran
Published: March 14, 2019, 3:02 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 54 seconds
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How to overcome apathy and find your power | Dolores Huerta
Published: Feb. 22, 2019, 3:41 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 27 seconds
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A love story about the power of art as organizing | Aja Monet and phillip agnew
Published: Feb. 14, 2019, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds
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3 ways to practice civility | Steven Petrow
Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 3:39 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds
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An astronaut's story of curiosity, perspective and change | Leland Melvin
Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 8:32 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 5 seconds
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The way we think about biological sex is wrong | Emily Quinn
Published: Jan. 31, 2019, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 1 second
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The power of women's anger | Soraya Chemaly
Published: Jan. 28, 2019, 3:51 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 43 seconds
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How to transform sinking cities into landscapes that fight floods | Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Published: Jan. 22, 2019, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 30 seconds
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Embrace your raw, strange magic | Casey Gerald
Published: Jan. 17, 2019, 3:46 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 3 seconds
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How empowering women and girls can help stop global warming | Katharine Wilkinson
Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 3:47 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 48 seconds
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3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce | George Blair-West
Published: Jan. 14, 2019, 8:54 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds
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The joyful, perplexing world of puzzle hunts | Alex Rosenthal
Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 3:53 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds
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How I unlearned dangerous lessons about masculinity | Eldra Jackson
Published: Dec. 18, 2018, 3:48 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 21 seconds
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How to motivate people to do good for others | Erez Yoeli
Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds
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Me Too is a movement, not a moment | Tarana Burke
Published: Nov. 30, 2018, 3:56 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 15 seconds
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My journey to thank all the people responsible for my morning coffee | A.J. Jacobs
Published: Nov. 13, 2018, 3:45 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 29 seconds
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A memory scientist's advice on reporting harassment and discrimination | Julia Shaw
Published: Nov. 2, 2018, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 41 seconds
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How revenge porn turns lives upside down | Darieth Chisolm
Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 7:41 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes
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How we can help young people build a better future | Henrietta Fore
Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds
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How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes | Alex Honnold
Published: Oct. 8, 2018, 2:49 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 49 seconds
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3 lessons on decision-making from a poker champion | Liv Boeree
Published: Oct. 1, 2018, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds
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What happened when we tested thousands of abandoned rape kits in Detroit | Kym Worthy
Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds
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Why museums are returning cultural treasures | Chip Colwell
Published: Sept. 20, 2018, 7:17 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 1 second
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The press trampled on my privacy. Here's how I took back my story | Kate Stone
Published: Sept. 18, 2018, 7:51 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 18 seconds
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What are the most important moral problems of our time? | Will MacAskill
Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 2:42 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 54 seconds
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How I went from child refugee to international model | Halima Aden
Published: Aug. 30, 2018, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 58 seconds
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Why the "wrong side of the tracks" is usually the east side of cities | Stephen DeBerry
Published: Aug. 21, 2018, 2:50 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 50 seconds
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How women in rural India turned courage into capital | Chetna Gala Sinha
Published: Aug. 20, 2018, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds
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How urban spaces can preserve history and build community | Walter Hood
Published: Aug. 17, 2018, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 14 seconds
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How AI can save our humanity | Kai-Fu Lee
Published: Aug. 13, 2018, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 49 seconds
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How to stop swiping and find your person on dating apps | Christina Wallace
Published: July 24, 2018, 7:59 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 19 seconds
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An honest look at the personal finance crisis | Elizabeth White
Published: July 12, 2018, 7:57 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 12 seconds
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How I'm bringing queer pride to my rural village | Katlego Kolanyane-Kesupile
Published: June 14, 2018, 7:50 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 49 seconds
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What gardening taught me about life | tobacco brown
Published: May 31, 2018, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 41 seconds
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How I made friends with reality | Emily Levine
Published: May 23, 2018, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 27 seconds
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The truth about unwanted arousal | Emily Nagoski
Published: May 11, 2018, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 16 seconds
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Why it's worth listening to people you disagree with | Zachary R. Wood
Published: April 19, 2018, 2:53 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
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The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison
Published: April 13, 2018, 12:56 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 17 seconds
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How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky
Published: April 11, 2018, 3:54 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 12 seconds
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To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift | Andrew Dent
Published: April 4, 2018, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 34 seconds
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Why I choose humanism over faith | Leo Igwe
Published: March 29, 2018, 7:42 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 19 seconds
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The Great Migration and the power of a single decision | Isabel Wilkerson
Published: March 15, 2018, 2:02 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 55 seconds
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The best way to help is often just to listen | Sophie Andrews
Published: March 9, 2018, 12:07 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 23 seconds
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How we became sisters | Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy
Published: March 2, 2018, 3:53 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 45 seconds
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Be humble -- and other lessons from the philosophy of water | Raymond Tang
Published: Feb. 27, 2018, 3:42 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 42 seconds
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The virginity fraud | Nina Dlvik Brochmann and Ellen Stkken Dahl
Published: Feb. 13, 2018, 8:53 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 41 seconds
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How to fix a broken heart | Guy Winch
Published: Feb. 5, 2018, 3:54 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds
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Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
Published: Feb. 1, 2018, 3:53 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 49 seconds
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My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar
Published: Jan. 31, 2018, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 11 seconds
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The gift and power of emotional courage | Susan David
Published: Jan. 30, 2018, 11:41 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds
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How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage | Alexis Charpentier
Published: Jan. 11, 2018, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 29 seconds
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"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves | Heather Lanier
Published: Dec. 21, 2017, 8:38 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 36 seconds
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The history of human emotions | Tiffany Watt Smith
Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 9:04 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 20 seconds
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How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit | Devita Davison
Published: Dec. 7, 2017, 8:56 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 22 seconds
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Why I'm done trying to be "man enough" | Justin Baldoni
Published: Dec. 4, 2017, 4 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
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An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine | Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell
Published: Nov. 22, 2017, 9:28 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds
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How can groups make good decisions? | Mariano Sigman and Dan Ariely
Published: Nov. 22, 2017, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 37 seconds
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The Housing First approach to homelessness | Lloyd Pendleton
Published: Nov. 14, 2017, 8:51 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 45 seconds
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How to talk (and listen) to transgender people | Jackson Bird
Published: Nov. 14, 2017, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 24 seconds
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The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions | Robert Muggah
Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 9:01 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 10 seconds
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We should aim for perfection -- and stop fearing failure | Jon Bowers
Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 3:59 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 54 seconds
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Why women stay silent after sexual assault | Ines Hercovich
Published: Nov. 7, 2017, 3:55 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 46 seconds
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The powerful stories that shaped Africa | Gus Casely-Hayford
Published: Oct. 20, 2017, 3:11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 54 seconds
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The revolutionary power of diverse thought | Elif Shafak
Published: Oct. 13, 2017, 2:28 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 58 seconds
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Lessons from the longest study on human development | Helen Pearson
Published: Oct. 2, 2017, 3:11 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 25 seconds
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The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings | Anna Heringer
Published: Sept. 28, 2017, 2:44 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 1 second
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Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow | Nabila Alibhai
Published: Sept. 26, 2017, 7:57 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds
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There's more to life than being happy | Emily Esfahani Smith
Published: Sept. 12, 2017, 2:42 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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Would you live in a floating city in the sky? | Tomás Saraceno
Published: Sept. 7, 2017, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 3 seconds
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A smog vacuum cleaner and other magical city designs | Daan Roosegaarde
Published: Sept. 5, 2017, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 18 seconds
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Dare to refuse the origin myths that claim who you are | Chetan Bhatt
Published: Sept. 1, 2017, 2:29 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 16 seconds
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How boredom can lead to your most brilliant ideas | Manoush Zomorodi
Published: Aug. 15, 2017, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
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You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse | David Baron
Published: Aug. 10, 2017, 2:37 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds
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How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day | Tristan Harris
Published: July 26, 2017, 3:02 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes
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How I fail at being disabled | Susan Robinson
Published: July 21, 2017, 2:57 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds
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How we can face the future without fear, together | Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Published: July 11, 2017, 2:54 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 36 seconds
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A celebration of natural hair | Cheyenne Cochrane
Published: June 22, 2017, 3:03 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes
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Why you should define your fears instead of your goals | Tim Ferriss
Published: June 12, 2017, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 21 seconds
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To understand autism, don't look away | Carina Morillo
Published: June 7, 2017, 3 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 9 seconds
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How to see past your own perspective and find truth | Michael Patrick Lynch
Published: June 5, 2017, 2:59 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds
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Poverty isn't a lack of character; it's a lack of cash | Rutger Bregman
Published: May 22, 2017, 3:06 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 58 seconds
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What makes life worth living in the face of death | Lucy Kalanithi
Published: May 16, 2017, 3:01 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 9 seconds
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Thoughts on humanity, fame and love | Shah Rukh Khan
Published: May 11, 2017, 10:44 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
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The biology of our best and worst selves | Robert Sapolsky
Published: May 9, 2017, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 51 seconds
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On tennis, love and motherhood | Serena Williams and Gayle King
Published: April 27, 2017, 6:50 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds
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We should all be feminists | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published: April 14, 2017, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 28 seconds
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3 ways to plan for the (very) long term | Ari Wallach
Published: April 10, 2017, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 42 seconds
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What we don't know about mother's milk | Katie Hinde
Published: March 28, 2017, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 59 seconds
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Asking for help is a strength, not a weakness | Michele L. Sullivan
Published: March 21, 2017, 2:55 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 55 seconds
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What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure | Peggy Orenstein
Published: March 15, 2017, 3 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes
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Why women should tell the stories of humanity | Jude Kelly
Published: March 8, 2017, 3:53 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds
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To raise brave girls, encourage adventure | Caroline Paul
Published: March 7, 2017, 3:56 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 41 seconds
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This app makes it fun to pick up litter | Jeff Kirschner
Published: Feb. 28, 2017, 4:04 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 10 seconds
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A few ways to fix a government | Charity Wayua
Published: Feb. 23, 2017, 3:49 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 51 seconds
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How to practice safe sexting | Amy Adele Hasinoff
Published: Feb. 14, 2017, 4:03 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 25 seconds
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Our story of rape and reconciliation | Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger
Published: Feb. 7, 2017, 11:44 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 6 seconds
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How to get better at the things you care about | Eduardo Briceño
Published: Feb. 1, 2017, 4:05 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 22 seconds
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What we don't know about Europe's Muslim kids | Deeyah Khan
Published: Jan. 26, 2017, 4:02 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds
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A better way to talk about love | Mandy Len Catron
Published: Jan. 9, 2017, 4:06 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 17 seconds
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The lies we tell pregnant women | Sofia Jawed-Wessel
Published: Jan. 6, 2017, 4:15 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 56 seconds
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Do kids think of sperm donors as family? | Veerle Provoost
Published: Dec. 9, 2016, 4:10 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 26 seconds
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Say your truths and seek them in others | Elizabeth Lesser
Published: Dec. 8, 2016, 4:18 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 44 seconds
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A queer vision of love and marriage | Tiq Milan and Kim Katrin Milan
Published: Dec. 5, 2016, 4:24 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are) | Danny Dorling
Published: Nov. 30, 2016, 4:06 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 7 seconds
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The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw
Published: Nov. 14, 2016, 4:21 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 49 seconds
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Can a divided America heal? | Jonathan Haidt
Published: Nov. 8, 2016, 3:03 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds
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Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate | Suzanne Barakat
Published: Nov. 7, 2016, 4:10 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 48 seconds
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Enough with the fear of fat | Kelli Jean Drinkwater
Published: Oct. 28, 2016, 4:55 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 20 seconds
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The unexpected challenges of a country's first election | Philippa Neave
Published: Oct. 21, 2016, 3:10 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 51 seconds
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The beauty of what we'll never know | Pico Iyer
Published: Oct. 11, 2016, 3:10 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 5 seconds
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What reality are you creating for yourself? | Isaac Lidsky
Published: Oct. 6, 2016, 3:07 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 46 seconds
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We can fight terror without sacrificing our rights | Rebecca MacKinnon
Published: Sept. 23, 2016, 2:17 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 56 seconds
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Why some people are more altruistic than others | Abigail Marsh
Published: Sept. 16, 2016, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 21 seconds
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Architecture that's built to heal | Michael Murphy
Published: Sept. 15, 2016, 3:03 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 38 seconds
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The new American Dream | Courtney E. Martin
Published: Sept. 7, 2016, 2:52 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 32 seconds
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Why you should talk to strangers | Kio Stark
Published: Aug. 31, 2016, 3:02 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 52 seconds
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How Argentina's blind soccer team became champions | Gonzalo Vilariño
Published: Aug. 19, 2016, 2:14 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds
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A letter to all who have lost in this era | Anand Giridharadas
Published: Aug. 18, 2016, 3:02 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds
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How to grow a forest in your backyard | Shubhendu Sharma
Published: July 14, 2016, 2:42 p.m.Duration: 9 minutes 11 seconds
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Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | Julia Galef
Published: June 29, 2016, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 37 seconds
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Who are you, really? The puzzle of personality | Brian Little
Published: June 23, 2016, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 15 seconds
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A highly scientific taxonomy of haters | Negin Farsad
Published: June 10, 2016, 3:22 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 5 seconds
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The Chinese zodiac, explained | ShaoLan
Published: June 8, 2016, 2:55 p.m.Duration: 6 minutes 4 seconds
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An entertainment icon on living a life of meaning | Norman Lear
Published: June 2, 2016, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
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The beauty of being a misfit | Lidia Yuknavitch
Published: May 23, 2016, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 12 minutes 58 seconds
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The laws that sex workers really want | Juno Mac
Published: May 19, 2016, 3:09 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 50 seconds
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This is your brain on communication | Uri Hasson
Published: May 10, 2016, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds
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How my son's short life made a lasting difference | Sarah Gray
Published: May 2, 2016, 2:58 p.m.Duration: 10 minutes 17 seconds
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A taboo-free way to talk about periods | Aditi Gupta
Published: April 21, 2016, 3 p.m.Duration: 11 minutes 10 seconds
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TED's secret to great public speaking | Chris Anderson
Published: April 19, 2016, 3:58 p.m.Duration: 7 minutes 55 seconds
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What does it mean to be a citizen of the world? | Hugh Evans
Published: April 11, 2016, 12:24 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds
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How megacities are changing the map of the world | Parag Khanna
Published: April 5, 2016, 3:04 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant
Published: April 1, 2016, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
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How economic inequality harms societies | Richard Wilkinson
Published: Oct. 24, 2011, 3:05 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds
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