Taking cues from soft robotics and the natural world, conceptual artist Anicka Yi builds lighter-than-air machines that roam and react like autonomous life forms. Her floating "aerobes" inspire us to think about new ways of living with machines -- and to ponder how they could evolve into living creatures. "What if our machines could be more than...

Anouk Yeh, a 17-year-old from Saratoga, California, talks about her journey with spoken word poetry and how she is using it to start important conversations in her community.