This year, explorer Ben Saunders attempted his most ambitious trek yet. He set out to complete Captain Robert Falcon Scott's failed 1912 polar expedition — a four-month, 1,800-mile round trip journey from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole and back. In the first talk given after his adventure, just five weeks after his return, Saunders off...

Explorer Ben Saunders wants you to go outside! Not because it’s always pleasant and happy, but because that’s where the meat of life is, “the juice that we can suck out of our hours and days.” Saunders’ next outdoor excursion? To try to be the first in the world to walk from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back again.

Arctic explorer Ben Saunders recounts his harrowing solo ski trek to the North Pole, complete with engaging anecdotes, gorgeous photos and never-before-seen video.

Jimmy Wales recalls how he assembled "a ragtag band of volunteers," gave them tools for collaborating and created Wikipedia, the self-organizing, self-correcting, never-finished online encyclopedia.

At her first museum job, art historian Sarah Lewis noticed something important about an artist she was studying: Not every artwork was a total masterpiece. She asks us to consider the role of the almost-failure, the near win, in our own lives. In our pursuit of success and mastery, is it actually our near wins that push us forward?

Ben Saunders spent two decades leading polar expeditions. He is one of three people in history to ski solo to both the North and South poles, and he holds the world record for the longest ever polar journey on foot. Speaking at TEDx Archivorum, Ben Saunders shares his journeys to the poles, and what lessons they gave him on both human nature and...

A potência das palavras e também das escutas. Dez anos de histórias que ganham forma, voz e corpo. Poesia, ancestralidade e psicologia. Se te toca, se tem emoção, então tem saída. Ìyá Sandrali de Oxum. Filha da Dona Tuli, mãe da Winnie Bueno e da Ayanna Bueno, vó da Virginia. Ìyalorixá, psicóloga, especialista em criminologia, servidora públic...

Díada brings the idea of a conversation between two instruments, two musicians, wind and strings vibrating simultaneously. In this musical conversation, the most spoken language is Irish traditional music. Díada consists of Colm Larkin on bouzouki (Greek mandolin popularized in Ireland) and Sandro Bueno on the tine whistle (Irish flute).