1) Why every world map is wrong | Kayla Wolf 2) Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over Europe? | Genevieve von Petzinger 3) What makes the Great Wall of China so extraordinary 4) Why should you read "One Hundred Years of Solitude"? - Francisco Díez-Buzo 5) This is what it's like to go undercover in North Korea | Suki Kim 6) The haunting truth of ghost stories | Coya Paz Brownrigg
1) Why having fun is the secret to a healthier life | Catherine Price 2) Scientists are obsessed with this lake | Nicola Storelli and Daniele Zanzi 3) A love letter to realism in a time of grief | Mark Pollock and Simone George 4) Why are there so many insects? - Murry Gans 5) 3 ways to make flying more climate-friendly | Ryah Whalen
1) Star Wars changed visual effects — AI is doing it again | Rob Bredow 2) How can creativity help us heal? A doctor and a cartoonist answer | Amy Baxter and Navied Mahdavian 3) Forget hustle culture. Behold the Artist Corporation | Yancey Strickler
1) How I imitate nature's voices | Snow Raven 2) The secret to telling a great story — in less than 60 seconds | Jenny Hoyos 3) How my (slightly annoying) art went viral | Joshua Schachter 4) The fine art of fibbing | Athena Kugblenu 5) What if you could give a TED Talk? An inside look at “My Big Idea,” an original series from TED | TED 6) The tale of the Monkey King and the Buddha | Ji Hao 7) The myth of Medusa | Laura Aitken-Burt
1) Why do we feel nostalgia? - Clay Routledge 2) How to be a good ancestor | Roman Krznaric 3) How compassion could save your strained relationships | Betty Hart 4) Should you trust your first impression? - Peter Mende-Siedlecki 5) You are not alone in your loneliness | Jonny Sun 6) How to raise successful kids -- without over-parenting | Julie Lythcott-Haims
1) How to come out at work, about anything | Micah Eames 2) How do we determine the value of a life? | Rebecca L. Walker 3) How comic strips create better health care | Sam Hester 4) This is what LGBT life is like around the world | Jenni Chang and Lisa Dazols 5) Inside OKCupid: The math of online dating | Christian Rudder 6) A brief history of divorce | Rod Phillips 7) The science of attraction | Dawn Maslar
1) No. You cannot touch my hair! | Mena Fombo 2) How we can end sexual harassment at work | Gretchen Carlson 3) A bold plan to transform access to the US social safety net | Amanda Renteria 4) Why Black girls are targeted for punishment at school -- and how to change that | Monique W. Morris
1) The breakthrough power of young leaders | Mohan Sivaloganathan 2) US politics isn't broken. It's fixed | Katherine M. Gehl 3) How entrepreneurs can unlock their full potential | Jay Bailey 4) How to recover from activism burnout | Yana Buhrer Tavanier
1) Where does gold come from? | David Lunney 2) Humanity's planet-shaping powers -- and what they mean for the future | Achim Steiner 3) The battle that formed the universe | Fabio Pacucci 4) The world's first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system | Moriba Jah 5) 6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth | Danielle Wood 6) What in the world is topological quantum matter? - Fan Zhang 7) What the discovery of gravitational waves means | Allan Adams
1) You owe it to yourself to experience a total solar eclipse | David Baron 2) Why the Sun could crash your internet | Fabio Pacucci 3) How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration | Jill Seubert 4) How radio telescopes show us unseen galaxies | Natasha Hurley-Walker 5) The death of the universe -- and what it means for life | Katie Mack
1) Hacking bacteria to fight cancer | Tal Danino 2) The mysterious microbes living deep inside the earth -- and how they could help humanity | Karen Lloyd 3) You are your microbes - Jessica Green and Karen Guillemin 4) How synthetic biology can improve our health, food and materials | Emily Leproust 5) What can DNA tests really tell us about our ancestry? 6) Why healthy soil matters now more than ever | Jane Zelikova
1) How our microbes make us who we are | Rob Knight 2) How we can use light to see deep inside our bodies and brains | Mary Lou Jepsen 3) Meet the microscopic life in your home -- and on your face | Anne Madden 4) Meet the microbes that could eat your trash | Tierney Thys and Christian Sardet
1) A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan | LaToya Ruby Frazier 2) An innovative way to support children with special needs | Billy Samuel Mwape 3) What does my headscarf mean to you? | Yassmin Abdel-Magied 4) The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption | Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams
1) Education is a fundamental right for every child | Makhtoum Abdalla 2) The journey through loss and grief | Jason B. Rosenthal 3) Ugly History: Japanese American incarceration camps | Densho 4) Restoring human dignity at the US southern border | Norma Pimentel 5) A foster care system where every child has a loving home | Sixto Cancel
1) 3 ways community creates a healthy life | Olivia Affuso 2) The benefits of good posture | Murat Dalkilinç 3) How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others | Brittany Packnett Cunningham 4) The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink 5) Using your voice is a political choice | Amanda Gorman
(1) 3 secrets of resilient people | Lucy Hone (2) The danger of a single story | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (3) The power of introverts | Susan Cain
1) We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson 2) The tale of the doctor who defied Death 3) Do schools kill creativity? | Sir Ken Robinson 4) How to outsmart the Prisoner's Dilemma | Lucas Husted
1) How I found myself -- by impersonating other people | Melissa Villaseñor 2) How to squeeze all the juice out of retirement | Riley Moynes 3) When we design for disability, we all benefit | Elise Roy 4) Love, sorrow and the emotions that power climate action | Knut Ivar Bjørlykhaug
1) The beauty of human skin in every color | Angélica Dass 2) A day in the Islamic Golden Age | Birte Kristiansen and Petra Sijpesteijn 3) Live drawings of the human experience | Jarrett J. Krosoczka 4) The rebel radio that brought down a war criminal | Diana Sierra Becerra 5) Documentary films that explore trauma -- and make space for healing | Almudena Toral 6) The trans story includes you | Nicole Maines
1) Inside the massive (and unregulated) world of surveillance tech | Sharon Weinberger 2) How do jetpacks work? And why don't we all have them? | Richard Browning 3) The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design | Manu Peni 4) How do you build a sacred space? | Siamak Hariri 5) Why do beavers build dams? | Glynnis Hood 6) Autofocusing reading glasses of the future | Nitish Padmanaban