With his art, photographer Platon seeks to strip away assumptions and leave viewers with a window into his subject's character, filling our eyes with wonder and curiosity. Sharing extraordinary stories of what it's like to photograph some of the world's most prominent figures -- from Michelle Obama and Pussy Riot to Vladimir Putin and Muhammad A...

Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She's teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers' minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.

Only four percent of construction workers are female -- that's totally unacceptable, but it's also a huge opportunity both for women and for the trades, says youth educator and builder Emily Pilloton-Lam. She makes the case for putting power (and power tools) into the hands of young women and gender-expansive youth, dreaming of inclusive constru...

Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of "The Republic." [Directed by John R. Dilwo...

Few individuals have influenced the world and many of today's thinkers like Plato. He created the first Western university and was teacher to Ancient Greece's greatest minds, including Aristotle. But even he wasn't perfect. Along with his great ideas, Plato had a few that haven't exactly stood the test of time. Wisecrack gives a brief rundown of...

Your government has introduced a plan to address record-breaking rates of traffic tickets and deadly hovercar accidents. They propose assigning “driver credit scores” to every citizen, but would need to install cameras and microphones in every vehicle. While it would make the roads safer, is this undeniable benefit worth the cost to drivers’ pri...

Socrates, one of the founding fathers of Western philosophical thought, was on trial. Many believed he was an enemy of the state, accusing the philosopher of corrupting the youth and refusing to recognize their gods. But Socrates wasn't feared for claiming to have all the answers, but rather, for asking too many questions. Erick Wilberding digs ...

More than 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosopher Plato recounted the legend of the Ring of Gyges in "Republic." The story of the ring surfaces as the philosopher, Socrates, and his student discuss why people act justly: is it because it's what's right? Or because it's a convention that's enforced through punishment and reward? Alex Gendler share...

In the city of Alexandria in 415 CE, the bishop and the governor were in a fight. It started with a disagreement over the behavior of a militia of monks, and ended with an accusation of witchcraft leveled against one of the most powerful figures in the city: Hypatia, philosopher and advisor to the city's leaders. Who was Hypatia and why was she ...

Jessica Plattner aka Jessiquoi grew up between two different cultures. She calls herself a third culture kid. Listen to her music and how she was affected by growing up between different cultures.

Claudia Paladini è un’astronoma italiana esperta di interferometria e Astrofisica Stellare. La sua attività’ di ricerca si concentra sull’evoluzione di stelle di massa fra 1-8 masse solari, atmosfere di giganti rosse, vento stellare e polveri. Laureata all’Università di Padova, ha ottenuto il dottorato all’Università di Vienna, dopo 4 anni all’U...

How does perception shape the way you see the world? This is the central question that Brence examines through the art of magic. In his TEDxTalk, Brence first performs some magic tricks and then delivers insights about how his trip to South Africa gave him an understanding about storytelling as a magical craft that shapes perception.

An image from the childhood can evoke many feelings, it can define you and form you. Dimitris Platanias creates images and stories. On the stage of TEDxPanteionUniversity, he will narrate the story of an image... an image that changed his perspective.

A shopping experience these days can seem overwhelming. As a customer, you have to make what seem like an endless set of choices and sort through a lot of data. Dr. Lidija Polutnik, a Professor in the Economics Division at Babson College, Boston, MA, discusses three topics in her speech: why do we see changes in pricing options and distributio...

"Dacă nu știi unde mergi orice drum te duce acolo."

World population is growing faster than ever, more and more people are gaining access to leisure transportation and e-commerce, and air traffic is expected to double in less than 20 years. How can we manage this drastic, worldwide change? Could a subsonic levitating train be the answer to the upcoming transportation crisis?

Tornando indietro di 2000 anni, è possibile scoprire la laguna veneta in un periodo storico in cui Venezia ancora non esisteva. Le protagoniste di questa storia? Altino e Torcello, due realtà fortemente legate al territorio, crocevia tra la terra, e l’acqua. Tra il Mediterraneo, e l’Europa continentale.

Andrey Platonov will tell why he believes that art by nature is subjective, communicative and reflexive – and why that’s the most important thing. Why a documentary story is more important than a written one.

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Everything is text. But text comprehension and its impact are the result of many different wavelengths and signals passing by. In this piece, Entrance to the Universe, composer Platons Buravickis plays with electrical signals. The piece is created for an uncommon trio of instruments – the piano, the modular synthesizer, and computer electronics....

Entrepreneur Tiffany Pauldon-Banks and Chef Kenyatta Ashford share the stage alongside emcee Briana Garza to shed light on their beginnings, hardships, and successes in the food entrepreneurship world in Chattanooga, TN and beyond.