The human stories behind mass incarceration | Eve Abrams
The United States locks up more people than any other country in the world, says documentarian Eve Abrams, and somewhere between one and four percent of those in prison are likely innocent. That's 87,...
23 Mar 201813min
Dear billionaire, I give you a D-minus
In most workplaces, criticizing your boss is a great way to lose your job. At Bridgewater Associates, you can be fired for NOT criticizing your boss. We grill founder Ray Dalio and a series of employe...
22 Mar 201835min
Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known | Vittorio Loreto
"Where do great ideas come from?" Starting with this question in mind, Vittorio Loreto takes us on a journey to explore a possible mathematical scheme that explains the birth of the new. Learn more ab...
22 Mar 201816min
For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over | Soka Moses
In 2014, as a newly trained physician, Soka Moses took on one of the toughest jobs in the world: treating highly contagious patients at the height of Liberia's Ebola outbreak. In this intense, emotion...
21 Mar 201814min
A new rite of passage for later in life | Bob Stein
We use rituals to mark the early stages of our lives, like birthdays and graduations -- but what about our later years? In this meditative talk about looking both backward and forward, Bob Stein propo...
20 Mar 20185min
What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them? | Liz Ogbu
Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources and services is a human right. In San Francisco, she's que...
20 Mar 201814min
How I use art to bridge misunderstanding | Adong Judith
Director and playwright Adong Judith creates provocative art that sparks dialogue on issues from LGBTQ rights to war crimes. In this quick but powerful talk, the TED Fellow details her work -- includi...
19 Mar 20184min
Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE | Chris Nowinski
Something strange and deadly is happening inside the brains of top athletes -- a degenerative condition, possibly linked to concussions, that causes dementia, psychosis and far-too-early death. It's c...
19 Mar 201811min
