Dan Katz: Can you solve the cheating royal riddle?
You're the chief advisor to an eccentric king who needs to declare his successor. He wants his heir to be good at arithmetic, lucky, and above all else, honest. So he's devised a competition to test his children, and ordered you to choose the winner. The future of the kingdom is in your hands. Can you find the worthiest successor? Dan Katz shows...
Dan Goods: How NASA invented a ventilator for COVID-19 ... in 37 days
Get the behind-the-scenes story from visual strategist Dan Goods about how a single question launched NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab into action at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, propelling an unprecedented pivot from space-exploring robots to live-saving ventilators. It'll inspire you to wonder: "Is what I'm doing right now the most importa...
Dan Katz: Can you solve the basketball riddle?
You’ve spent months creating a basketball-playing robot, the Dunk-O-Matic, and you’re excited to demonstrate its capabilities. Until you read an advertisement: “See the Dunk-O-Matic face human players and automatically adjust its skill to create a fair game for every opponent!” That’s not what you were told to create. Can you recalibrate your ro...
Dan Katz and Alex Rosenthal: Can you solve the sorting hat riddle?
It's your first day at Magnificent Marigold's Magical Macademy. But before you can learn your first spell you must get through the sorting ceremony. And the sorting hat has chosen you for a special challenge. The Macademy had 8 founders who established four houses, and there was once a mysterious fifth house. Can you figure out who founded what?...
Tainá Guedes: Big problems are solved by many small steps
Tainá Guedes is a cookbook author, artist, curator and mastermind behind Berlin Food Art Week. Furthermore she is the CEO of Entretempo Kitchen Gallery. Tainá believes that food systems provide a key entry point for dealing with the greatest crises of our time, from poverty to climate change. She combines food with artistic expression in order...
Dan Goods: NASA Switches Gears