The Afro pick is much more than a styling tool. It's a major player in Black history, explains artist Jon Gray.

"The hood is good," says Jon Gray of the Bronx, New York-based creative collective Ghetto Gastro. Working at the intersection of food, design and art, Gray and his team honor the soul and history of their community while applying their unbridled creativity and expansive imagination to unexpected, otherworldly collaborations. Learn more about how...

If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long bathroom lines again. Lines like these are representative of a more serious issue, Cary says: the lack of diversity in design that leads to thoughtless, compassionless spaces. Design has a unique ability to dignify and make people feel valued, respe...

Plants are amazing machines -- for millions of years, they've taken carbon dioxide out of the air and stored it underground, keeping a crucial check on the global climate. Plant geneticist Joanne Chory is working to amplify this special ability: with her colleagues at the Salk Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology Laboratory, she's creating plant...

Is there a definitive line that divides crazy from sane? With a hair-raising delivery, Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test, illuminates the gray areas between the two. (With live-mixed sound by Julian Treasure and animation by Evan Grant.)

On his first day as president, Joe Biden signed a letter of acceptance that set in motion the 30-day process for the United States to re-join the Paris Agreement on climate. On the day the US returns to the accord, John Kerry, the US Special Envoy for Climate, sits down with Nobel Laureate Al Gore to discuss the make-or-break decade ahead of us....

John La Grou unveils an ingenious new technology that will smarten up the electrical outlets in our homes, using microprocessors and RFID tags. The invention, Safeplug, promises to prevent deadly accidents like house fires -- and to conserve energy.

Join head of TED Chris Anderson for a very special conversation with legendary inventor and computer scientist Ray Kurzweil, recorded live onstage at TED2018. Listen in to hear what the man who makes a living from predicting the future arc of technology thinks is coming our way next -- including a specific prediction of when he thinks technology...

In the 1960s, the FBI amassed almost 2,000 documents in an investigation into one of America's most celebrated minds. The subject of this inquiry was a writer named James Baldwin, one of the best-selling Black authors in the world at the time. What made him loom so large in the imaginations of both the public and the authorities? Christina Gree...

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the March on Washington to nearly a quarter million people. None of it would have been possible without the march's chief organizer – a man named Bayard Rustin. Christina Greer details his life of advocacy as a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, and the challenges he face...

Have you played with Google Labs' Ngram Viewer? It's an addicting tool that lets you search for words and ideas in a database of 5 million books from across centuries. Erez Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel show us how it works, and a few of the surprising things we can learn from 500 billion words.

Ever since middle school, people have asked Thomas Lloyd the same question repeatedly. "If I had a dime for every time I was asked, 'Why am I so gay?' I could probably pay for one credit at Georgetown." In this humorous talk, Lloyd explores the intricacies of social "covering" as a gay man, finding community and the importance of identity owners...

John Kerr grew up along the upper Hudson River, went to good schools, had three wonderful children, and worked happily for decades as the main fundraiser for WGBH, Boston’s public television & radio station. At 65, he shifted to entirely new work as a seasonal Park Ranger/EMT in Yellowstone National Park and is currently living his dream. ...

Ser razonable es una excusa para ser mediocres. Juan Guerra nos cuenta cómo ha preferido aventarse a hacer cosas que parecían imposibles, antes de quedarse con la duda y nos invita a hacer lo mismo.

In these dangerous polarized times, we can keep fighting or we can change the way we see and treat each other. By learning the practice of true compassion we can actually unleash a power that will heal ourselves, build healthy communities and save the planet.

Ghandi used creativity to lead people to reject injustice and bring about change. Creativity is a way to solve problems. We all have untapped creative potential that can be used to make change in the world.

Jane Grey Battle’s talk explores how a hyperconnected globe causes dangerous bias.

With a boast-worthy 140, 000 followers on Instagram, Cherry Jain is an emerging personality on social media popularly known to be a video coordinator on POPxo. Her notable writeups on fashion, lifestyle, hairstyle and trends on her blog Much, Too Much has gained a lot of attention.

Con Juan Diego vamos a descubrir cómo a través de tus pensamientos vas a transfromar tu escenario real. Basado en una historia de su vida.

Jana Žiljak Gršić Diplomirala je na Studiju dizajna Arhitektonskog fakulteta, a doktorirala na Grafičkom fakultetu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu. Pročelnica je Informatičko - računalnog odjela Tehničkog veleučilišta u Zagrebu. Dobitnica je Godišnje državne nagrade za znanost, za znanstveno otkriće te Nagrade za izvrsnost MZOŠ-a, Godišnje nagrade Nikola ...

When it comes to change – getting started and taking those first steps can be the hardest thing to do. In Jean MacAskill Kerr’s experience, she found sustaining change was, in fact, much harder than starting. Thirteen years of fresh starts built a pretty strong starting muscle. What Jean really needed was a sustaining muscle! Only when Jean ha...

children who live in places where the words war, bullet and dead are common as the words life, bread and live. It encourages to take responsibility and start acting to support those kids.