How a handful of fishing villages sparked a marine conservation revolution | Alasdair Harris
We need a radically new approach to ocean conservation, says marine biologist Alasdair Harris. In a visionary talk, he lays out a surprising solution to the problem of overfishing that could both revi...
17 Okt 201911min
A circular economy for salt that keeps rivers clean | Tina Arrowood
During the winter of 2018-2019, one million tons of salt were applied to icy roads in the state of Pennsylvania alone. The salt from industrial uses like this often ends up in freshwater rivers, makin...
16 Okt 201913min
How family separation at the US-Mexico border affects children’s mental health | Luis H. Zayas
How does psychological trauma affect children's developing brains? In this powerful talk, social worker Luis H. Zayas discusses his work with refugees and asylum-seeking families at the US-Mexico bord...
15 Okt 201914min
How we can eliminate child sexual abuse material from the internet | Julie Cordua
Social entrepreneur Julie Cordua works on a problem that isn’t easy to talk about: the sexual abuse of children in images and videos on the internet. At Thorn, she’s building technology to connect the...
15 Okt 201913min
The cosmic war between monotony and creativity | David Deutsch
Theoretical physicist David Deutsch delivers a mind-bending meditation on the "great monotony" -- the idea that nothing novel has appeared in the universe for billions of years -- and shows how humani...
14 Okt 201914min
What Bruce Lee can teach us about living fully | Shannon Lee
Most of us know Bruce Lee as the famous martial artist and action film star -- but he was also a philosopher who taught “self-actualization”: the practice of how to be yourself in the best way possibl...
10 Okt 201911min
Laura Boykin: How we're using DNA tech to help farmers fight crop diseases 10, 2019
Nearly 800 million people worldwide depend on cassava for survival -- but this critical food source is under attack by entirely preventable viruses, says computational biologist and TED Senior Fellow ...
10 Okt 201912min
A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border | Juan Enriquez
In this powerful, personal talk, author and academic Juan Enriquez shares stories from inside the immigration crisis at the US-Mexico border, bringing this often-abstract debate back down to earth -- ...
9 Okt 201910min
