The pursuit of happiness requires free time | Danielle Roberts
Do you feel short on time? Writer and work expert Danielle Roberts would like to help you with that. In this quick talk, she makes the case that free time isn't a reward you earn but a civil right you...
24 Loka 32min
Can you spot the lies in your news feed? | Laura Smythe
Laura Smythe spent years in legacy newsrooms, and she thinks the habits journalists use to vet information should belong to all of us. Using Fyre Festival as a cautionary tale, she explains why media ...
23 Loka 14min
I can't speak. Here's how I get people to listen | Jessica Irwin
Jessica Irwin is many things: a photographer, artist, author, performer. She also happens to be nonverbal, born with cerebral palsy that affects the muscles she needs to talk. Speaking through a devic...
22 Loka 9min
How would you design your dream city? | James Rojas
Urban planner James Rojas has led hundreds of workshops where participants creatively design their ideal communities with small objects — and he's noticed that people of every age, income and backgrou...
21 Loka 14min
Why the best learners talk to themselves | Tania Lombrozo
With more information at our fingertips than ever before, learning should be getting easier ... yet the opposite seems to be true, says cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo. Drawing on her research into...
20 Loka 18min
What if you could read the DNA of your future child? | Noor Siddiqui
For all of human history, a baby's DNA was determined by chance at conception: the so-called genetic lottery. "That era is over," says Noor Siddiqui, whose company builds screening tools to read the w...
19 Loka 15min
Sunday Pick: How to reclaim your narrative (w/ Monica Lewinsky) | from How to Be a Better Human
Monica Lewinsky is an anti-bullying activist and host of Reclaiming with Monica, a podcast that shines her guests’ unguarded conversations about how they make sense of the world. In this episode filme...
18 Loka 54min
Inside Venezuela's uncertain path to freedom | Leopoldo López
Activist Leopoldo López learned the true value of freedom in a solitary confinement cell, when someone else decided if he would eat or see sunlight. In this searching conversation, he explains why dem...
17 Loka 44min
