1) Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar 2) How we see color | Colm Kelleher 3) Why theater is essential to democracy | Oskar Eustis 4) What's the point(e) of ballet? | Ming Luke 5) Sculptures that'd be at home in the deep sea | Shih Chieh Huang 6) How volumetric video brings a new dimension to filmmaking | Diego Prilusky
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1) What really caused the Irish Potato Famine | Stephanie Honchell Smith 2) History vs. Egypt's "most powerful" pharaoh | Jessica Tomkins 3) A day in the life of a Celtic Druid | Philip Freeman 4) One of history's most dangerous myths | Anneliese Mehnert 5) Why did the US try to kill all the bison? | Andrew C. Isenberg 6) How horses changed history | William T. Taylor 7) What few people know about the program that "saved" America | Meg Jacobs 8) How did Apartheid happen, and how did it finally end? | Thula Simpson 9) What happened when the United States tried to ban alcohol | Rod Phillips 10) How does impeachment work? - Alex Gendler
1) The most notorious scientific feud in history | Lukas Rieppel 2) When did slavery actually end in the United States? | Karlos Hill and Soraya Field Fiorio 3) The gory history of barber surgeons | Stephanie Honchell Smith 4) The imaginary king who changed the real world 5) The dark history of the overthrow of Hawaii | Sydney Iaukea 6) The merciless mercenaries of the Italian Renaissance | Stephanie Honchell Smith 7) History vs. Henry VIII - Mark Robinson and Alex Gendler 8) Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend? - Peter Paccone 9) What caused the Rwandan Genocide? | Susanne Buckley-Zistel 10) The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire - Anne F. Broadbridge
1) What if advertising was honest? | Sylvester Chauke 2) How to write less but say more | Jim VandeHei 3) What is verbal irony? - Christopher Warner 4) The timeless, ancient language of art | Wangechi Mutu 5) Which box do I check? | Mona Chalabi 6) A rite of passage for late life | Bob Stein
1) The nit-picking glory of The New Yorker's Comma Queen | Mary Norris 2) Go ahead, make up new words! | Erin McKean 3) Why is there a "b" in doubt? - Gina Cooke 4) How to take the BS out of business speak | Bob Wiltfong 5) What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak | Mark Forsyth 6) How computers translate human language - Ioannis Papachimonas
1) How the button changed fashion | Isaac Mizrahi 2) How the world's longest underwater tunnel was built 3) How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza | Majd Mashharawi 4) Epic Engineering: Building the Brooklyn Bridge | Alex Gendler 5) Architectural secrets of the world's ancient wonders | Brandon Clifford 6) Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam | Alex Gendler 7) A smart bra for better heart health | Alicia Chong Rodriguez 8) The next generation of African architects and designers | Christian Benimana
1) 3 ways to create a space that moves you, from a Broadway set designer | David Korins 2) The Taj Mahal: A monument to eternal love | Stephanie Honchell Smith 3) The genius of the London Tube Map | Michael Bierut 4) Bridges should be beautiful | Ian Firth 5) Meet the inventor of the electronic spreadsheet | Dan Bricklin 6) How the Suez Canal changed the world | Lucia Carminati
1) How play helps a kid's brain grow | Jesse Ilhardt 2) Where does your sense of self come from? A scientific look | Anil Ananthaswamy 3) How playing an instrument benefits your brain - Anita Collins 4) Could a drug prevent depression and PTSD? | Rebecca Brachman 5) What is Alzheimer's disease? - Ivan Seah Yu Jun
1) Poems of war, peace, women, power | Suheir Hammad 2) A lyrical bridge between past, present and future | David Whyte 3) Metaphorically speaking | James Geary 4) Why should you read Dante's "Divine Comedy"? | Sheila Marie Orfano 5) Can a computer write poetry? | Oscar Schwartz
1) Miles from Any Shoreline | Sarah Kay 2) Insults by Shakespeare - April Gudenrath 3) Suddenly, my body | Eve Ensler 4) The power of unconventional thinking | David McWilliams 5) A meditation on Rumi and the power of poetry | Leili Anvar
1) The cost of work stress -- and how to reduce it | Rob Cooke 2) Prepare for a good end of life | Judy MacDonald Johnston 3) What fear can teach us | Karen Thompson Walker 4) Older people are happier | Laura Carstensen 5) Ethical dilemma: What makes life worth living? 6) Remember to say thank you | Laura Trice 7) 8 secrets of success | Richard St. John
1) How to gain control of your free time | Laura Vanderkam 2) For parents, happiness is a very high bar | Jennifer Senior 3) The science of falling in love | Shannon Odell 4) Want to be happier? Stay in the moment | Matt Killingsworth 5) What's the smartest age? | Shannon Odell
1) The vital data you flush down the toilet | Newsha Ghaeli 2) Why you should ditch deadly fossil-fuel appliances | Donnel Baird 3) The beauty of building with mud and trash | Vinu Daniel 4) What is a gift economy? - Alex Gendler 5) How is your city tackling the climate crisis? | Marvin Rees
1) How wind energy could power Earth ... 18 times over | Dan Jørgensen 2) How urban agriculture is transforming Detroit | Devita Davison 3) Is Chandigarh a perfectly planned city? | Vikramāditya Prakāsh 4) How we can design timeless cities for our collective future | Vishaan Chakrabarti 5) How much clean electricity do we really need? | Solomon Goldstein-Rose
1) Falling in love is the easy part | Mandy Len Catron 2) 3 ways to build a happy marriage and avoid divorce | George Blair-West 3) The wicked wit of Jane Austen | Iseult Gillespie 4) Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved | Esther Perel
1) How tsunamis work | Alex Gendler 2) Whoever builds something here will be rich beyond measure | Fabio Pacucci 3) How to grow a glacier | M Jackson 4) How light technology is changing medicine | Sajan Saini 5) How do ocean currents work? | Jennifer Verduin 6) What makes volcanoes erupt? | Steven Anderson 7) If superpowers were real: Immortality | Joy Lin 8) The science of symmetry | Colm Kelleher 9) Why is this 2,500 year old shipwreck so well-preserved? | Helen Farr and Jon Adams 10) Dark matter: The matter we can't see | James Gillies 11) The sonic boom problem | Katerina Kaouri
1) How to support and celebrate living artists | Swizz Beatz 2) Why should you read "Kafka on the Shore"? | Iseult Gillespie 3) Life lessons from Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 | Benjamin Zander 4) Wild, intricate sculptures — made out of my hair | Laetitia Ky 5) An architect's subversive reimagining of the US-Mexico border wall | Ronald Rael
1) Can art amend history? | Titus Kaphar 2) How we see color | Colm Kelleher 3) Why theater is essential to democracy | Oskar Eustis 4) What's the point(e) of ballet? | Ming Luke 5) Sculptures that'd be at home in the deep sea | Shih Chieh Huang 6) How volumetric video brings a new dimension to filmmaking | Diego Prilusky
1) How to design a library that makes kids want to read | Michael Bierut 2) Fake videos of real people -- and how to spot them | Supasorn Suwajanakorn 3) Can machines read your emotions? - Kostas Karpouzis 4) Inside Africa's thriving art scene | Touria El Glaoui 5) Why must artists be poor? | Hadi Eldebek 6) What is color? | Colm Kelleher 7) 3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem | Amit Kalra
1) 24 hours on Earth -- in one image | Stephen Wilkes 2) The power of an image -- and the mind behind it | Misan Harriman 3) In the age of AI art, what can originality look like? | Eileen Isagon Skyers 4) Test yourself: Can you tell the difference between music and noise? | Hanako Sawada 5) How to 3D print human tissue | Taneka Jones 6) The forgotten art of the zoetrope | Eric Dyer 7) How AI can help shatter barriers to equality | Jamila Gordon 8) How will AI change the world? | TED-Ed
1) What is the universe expanding into? | Sajan Saini 2) Is our universe the only universe? | Brian Greene 3) The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made | Juna Kollmeier 4) Can a black hole be destroyed? | Fabio Pacucci 5) What Saturn's most mysterious moon could teach us about the origins of life | Elizabeth "Zibi" Turtle
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