The online community supporting queer Africans | Okong’o Kinyanjui
Feeling safe is a human right -- but in many African countries, colonial-era laws make it dangerous for LGBTQIA+ people to gather and share their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expressi...
29 Sep 20229min
Work is not your family | Gloria Chan Packer
You may need to hear this (if you haven't already): your job is not your family. While you can develop meaningful relationships with your colleagues, calling work your family can actually breed burnou...
28 Sep 202215min
How AI could empower any business | Andrew Ng
Expensive to build and often needing highly skilled engineers to maintain, artificial intelligence systems generally only pay off for large tech companies with vast amounts of data. But what if your l...
27 Sep 202211min
How to build for human life on Mars | Melodie Yashar
We’re going to be building on the Moon this decade -- and next will be Mars, says space architect Melodie Yashar. In a visionary talk, she introduces her work designing off-world shelters with autonom...
26 Sep 202211min
Is there a link between cancer and heart disease? | Nicholas Leeper
Does the key to stopping cancer lie in the heart? Cardiologist Nicholas Leeper digs into emerging scientific research on the link between the world's two leading causes of death, heart disease and can...
23 Sep 202212min
Is the pandemic actually over? It's complicated | Anthony Fauci
“Be spreaders of facts and truths,” says scientist and immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci. Having advised seven US presidents on various disease outbreaks including COVID-19, he shares insights on the pre...
22 Sep 202229min
You don't have to leave your neighborhood to live in a better one | Majora Carter
Low-status neighborhoods in the US are often stuck between stagnating assistance from the government and gentrification at the hands of real estate developers. The result is that the brightest minds a...
21 Sep 202222min
Your invitation to become a philanthropist | Sara Lomelin
Philanthropy disruptor Sara Lomelin thinks communities can build power through collective giving, or what she calls “giving circles”: groups of people with shared values who come together to make chan...
20 Sep 202214min
