The most powerful woman you've never heard of | T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison
Everyone's heard of Martin Luther King Jr. But do you know the woman Dr. King called "the architect of the civil rights movement," Septima Clark? The teacher of some of the generation's most legendary...
7 Maalis 201913min
How we can store digital data in DNA | Dina Zielinski
From floppy disks to thumb drives, every method of storing data eventually becomes obsolete. What if we could find a way to store all the world's data forever? Bioinformatician Dina Zielinski shares t...
6 Maalis 201912min
A bold idea to replace politicians | César Hidalgo
CésarHidalgo has a radical suggestion for fixing our broken political system: automate it! In this provocative talk, he outlines a bold idea to bypass politicians by empowering citizens to create pers...
5 Maalis 201913min
How I'm making bricks out of ashes and rubble in Gaza | Majd Mashharawi
Majd Mashharawi was walking through her war-torn neighborhood in Gaza when an idea flashed in her mind: What if she could take the rubble and transform it into building materials? See how she designed...
4 Maalis 201910min
How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution | Juliet Brophy
In 2013, a treasure trove of unusual fossils were uncovered in a cave in South Africa, and researchers soon realized: these were the remains of a new species of ancient humans. PaleoanthropologistJuli...
1 Maalis 201911min
Is your country at risk of becoming a dictatorship? Here's how to know | Farida Nabourema
Farida Nabourema has dedicated her life to fighting the military regime in Togo, Africa's oldest autocracy. She's learned two truths along the way: no country is destined to be oppressed -- and no cou...
28 Helmi 201911min
The self-assembling computer chips of the future | Karl Skjonnemand
The transistors that power the phone in your pocket are unimaginably small: you can fit more than 3,000 of them across the width of a human hair. But to keep up with innovations in fields like facial ...
27 Helmi 201912min
A juror's reflections on the death penalty | Lindy Lou Isonhood
Lindy Lou Isonhood grew up in a town where the death penalty was a fact of life, part of the unspoken culture. But after she served as a juror in a capital murder trial -- and voted "yes" to sentencin...
26 Helmi 201915min
