How the arts help homeless youth heal and build | Malika Whitley
Malika Whitley is the founder of ChopArt, an organization for homeless teens focused on mentorship, dignity and opportunity through the arts. In this moving, personal talk, she shares her story of hom...
11 Huhti 20186min
How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria | Jose Andres
After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, chef José Andrés traveled to the devastated island with a simple idea: to feed the hungry. Millions of meals served later, Andrés shares the remarkable s...
10 Huhti 201821min
The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights | Tara Houska
Still invisible and often an afterthought, indigenous peoples are uniting to protect the world's water, lands and history -- while trying to heal from genocide and ongoing inequality. Tribal attorney ...
9 Huhti 201811min
How I use the drum to tell my story | Kasiva Mutua
In this talk-performance hybrid, drummer, percussionist and TED Fellow Kasiva Mutua shares how she's breaking the taboo against female drummers in Kenya -- and her mission to teach the significance an...
6 Huhti 201812min
Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth? | Danny Hillis
In this perspective-shifting talk, Danny Hillis prompts us to approach global issues like climate change with creative scientific solutions. Taking a stand for solar geoengineering, he looks at contro...
5 Huhti 20187min
To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift | Andrew Dent
There's no such thing as throwing something away, says Andrew Dent -- when you toss a used food container, broken toy or old pair of socks into the trash, those things inevitably end up in ever-growin...
4 Huhti 201810min
My $500 house in Detroit -- and the neighbors who helped me rebuild it | Drew Philp
In 2009, journalist and screenwriter Drew Philp bought a ruined house in Detroit for $500. In the years that followed, as he gutted the interior and removed the heaps of garbage crowding the rooms, he...
3 Huhti 201813min
Math can help uncover cancer's secrets | Irina Kareva
Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that describe the dynamics of cancer, with the goal of developing new drugs that target tumors. "The pow...
3 Huhti 20187min
