The shared experience of absurdity – Charlie Todd
Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, “gho...
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How cyberattacks threaten real-world peace – Guy-Philippe Goldstein
More and more, nations are waging attacks with cyber weapons — silent strikes on another country’s computer systems that...
Finding life we can’t imagine – Christoph Adami
How do we search for alien life if it’s nothing like the life that we know? Christoph Adami shows how he uses his research int...
A civil response to violence – Emiliano Salinas
In this passionate talk that’s already caused a sensation in Mexico, Emiliano Salinas, son of former president Carlos Salinas...
We need a “moral operating system” – Damon Horowitz
Damon Horowitz reviews the enormous new powers that technology gives us: to know more — and more about each other — than...
Faith versus tradition in Islam – Mustafa Akyol
Journalist Mustafa Akyol talks about the way that some local cultural practices (such as wearing a headscarf) have become linked, in...
Distant time and the hint of a multiverse – Sean Carroll
Cosmologist Sean Carroll attacks — in an entertaining and thought-provoking tour through the nature of time and the universe &...
A lab the size of a postage stamp – George Whitesides
Traditional lab tests for disease diagnosis can be too expensive and cumbersome for the regions most in need. George Whitesides̵...
How to make work-life balance work – Nigel Marsh
Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. Marsh lays out an ideal day balanced...
Are we born to run? – Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall explores the mysteries of the human desire to run. How did running help early humans survive — and what...