Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
The truth about unwanted arousal | Emily Nagoski
11 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sex educator Emily Nagoski breaks down one of the most dangerous myths about sex and introduces us t...
What it's like to be a transgender dad | LB Hannahs
10 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
LB Hannahs candidly shares the experience of parenting as a genderqueer individual -- and what it ca...
Confessions of a depressed comic | Kevin Breel
09 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Breel didn't look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But...
A playful solution to the housing crisis | Sarah Murray
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Frustrated by her lack of self-determination in the housing market, Sarah Murray created a computer ...
How Baltimore called a ceasefire | Erricka Bridgeford
08 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In one day, in one city, in one neighborhood -- what if everyone put their guns down? Erricka Bridge...
What it takes to be racially literate | Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi
07 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last year, Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo traveled to all 50 US states, collecting personal st...
To design better tech, understand context | Tania Douglas
03 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What good is a sophisticated piece of medical equipment to people in Africa if it can't handle the c...
It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence | Laura L. Dunn
02 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
To make accountability the norm after gender violence in the United States, we need to change tactic...
How a male contraceptive pill could work | John Amory
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andrologist John Amory is developing innovative male contraception that gives men a new option for t...
Why tech needs the humanities | Eric Berridge
01 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to build a team of innovative problem-solvers, you should value the humanities just as m...
TBD | Glen Henry
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Glen Henry got his superpowers through fatherhood. After leaving behind a job he hated and a manager...
How work kept me going during my cancer treatment | Sarah Donnelly
26 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When lawyer Sarah Donnelly was diagnosed with breast cancer, she turned to her friends and family fo...
A woman's fury holds lifetimes of wisdom | Tracee Ellis-Ross
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The global collection of women's experiences can no longer be ignored, says actress and activist Tra...
Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers | Dayo Ogunyemi
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
By expanding boundaries, exploring possibilities and conveying truth, films have helped change Afric...
War and what comes after | Clemantine Wamariya
24 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when the Rwandan Civil War forced her and her sister to flee t...
SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell
23 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What's up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk's pioneering ae...
The "dead zone" of the Gulf of Mexico | Nancy Rabalais
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ocean expert Nancy Rabalais tracks the ominously named "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico -- where th...
The harm reduction model of drug addiction treatment | Mark Tyndall
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we still think that drug use is a law-enforcement issue? Making drugs illegal does nothing to...
A printable, flexible, organic solar cell | Hannah Bürckstümmer
17 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Unlike the solar cells you're used to seeing, organic photovoltaics are made of compounds that are d...
What's missing in the global debate over refugees | Yasin Kakande
16 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the ongoing debate over refugees, we hear from everyone -- from politicians who pledge border con...
How the arts help homeless youth heal and build | Malika Whitley
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Malika Whitley is the founder of ChopArt, an organization for homeless teens focused on mentorship, ...
How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria | Jose Andres
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, chef José Andrés traveled to the devastated island ...
The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for indigenous rights | Tara Houska
09 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Still invisible and often an afterthought, indigenous peoples are uniting to protect the world's wat...
How I use the drum to tell my story | Kasiva Mutua
06 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this talk-performance hybrid, drummer, percussionist and TED Fellow Kasiva Mutua shares how she's...
Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth? | Danny Hillis
05 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this perspective-shifting talk, Danny Hillis prompts us to approach global issues like climate ch...
To eliminate waste, we need to rediscover thrift | Andrew Dent
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There's no such thing as throwing something away, says Andrew Dent -- when you toss a used food cont...
My $500 house in Detroit -- and the neighbors who helped me rebuild it | Drew Philp
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2009, journalist and screenwriter Drew Philp bought a ruined house in Detroit for $500. In the ye...
Math can help uncover cancer's secrets | Irina Kareva
03 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Irina Kareva translates biology into mathematics and vice versa. She writes mathematical models that...
How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions | Raphael Arar
02 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can we make AI that people actually want to interact with? Raphael Arar suggests we start by mak...
Our fight for disability rights -- and why we're not done yet | Judith Heumann
30 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Four decades ago, Judith Heumann helped to lead a groundbreaking protest called the Section 504 sit-...
Why I choose humanism over faith | Leo Igwe
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention -- but he does believe in the power o...
The role of faith and belief in modern Africa | Ndidi Nwuneli
29 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ndidi Nwuneli has advice for Africans who believe in God -- and Africans who don't. To the religious...
Academic research is publicly funded -- why isn't it publicly available? | Erica Stone
28 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the US, your taxes fund academic research at public universities. Why then do you need to pay exp...
How fungi recognize (and infect) plants | Mennat El Ghalid
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Each year, the world loses enough food to feed half a billion people to fungi, the most destructive ...
How quantum physics can make encryption stronger | Vikram Sharma
27 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As quantum computing matures, it's going to bring unimaginable increases in computational power alon...
What if we paid doctors to keep people healthy? | Matthias Mullenbeck
26 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What if we incentivized doctors to keep us healthy instead of paying them only when we're already si...
The human stories behind mass incarceration | Eve Abrams
23 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The United States locks up more people than any other country in the world, says documentarian Eve A...
Dear billionaire, I give you a D-minus
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In most workplaces, criticizing your boss is a great way to lose your job. At Bridgewater Associates...
Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known | Vittorio Loreto
22 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Where do great ideas come from?" Starting with this question in mind, Vittorio Loreto takes us on a...
For survivors of Ebola, the crisis isn't over | Soka Moses
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 2014, as a newly trained physician, Soka Moses took on one of the toughest jobs in the world: tre...
A new rite of passage for later in life | Bob Stein
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We use rituals to mark the early stages of our lives, like birthdays and graduations -- but what abo...
What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them? | Liz Ogbu
20 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Ogbu is an architect who works on spatial justice: the idea that justice has a geography and tha...
How I use art to bridge misunderstanding | Adong Judith
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Director and playwright Adong Judith creates provocative art that sparks dialogue on issues from LGB...
Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE | Chris Nowinski
19 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Something strange and deadly is happening inside the brains of top athletes -- a degenerative condit...
What we can do about the culture of hate | Sally Kohn
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We're all against hate, right? We agree it's a problem -- their problem, not our problem, that is. B...
Why must artists be poor? | Hadi Eldebek
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The arts bring meaning to our lives and spirit to our culture -- so why do we expect artists to stru...
3 myths about the future of work (and why they're not true) | Daniel Susskind
14 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Will machines replace humans?" This question is on the mind of anyone with a job to lose. Daniel Su...
How to inspire every child to be a lifelong reader | Alvin Irby
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
According to the US Department of Education, more than 85 percent of black fourth-grade boys aren't ...
What a world without prisons could look like | Deanna Van Buren
13 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Deanna Van Buren designs restorative justice centers that, instead of taking the punitive approach u...
What would happen if you didn’t sleep? | Claudia Aguirre
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the United States, it’s estimated that 30 percent of adults and 66 percent of adolescents are r...
Tales of passion | Isabel Allende
12 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, o...
The best way to help is often just to listen | Sophie Andrews
09 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A 24-hour helpline in the UK known as Samaritans helped Sophie Andrews become a survivor of abuse ra...
To solve the world's biggest problems, invest in women and girls | Musimbi Kanyoro
08 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As CEO of the Global Fund for Women, Musimbi Kanyoro works to support women and their ideas so they ...
The wonderful world of life in a drop of water | Simone Bianco and Tom Zimmerman
07 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Hold your breath," says inventor Tom Zimmerman. "This is the world without plankton." These tiny or...
How fashion helps us express who we are -- and what we stand for | Kaustav Dey
06 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
No one thinks twice about a woman wearing blue jeans in New York City -- but when Nobel laureate Mal...
What soccer can teach us about freedom | Marc Bamuthi Joseph
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"Soccer is the only thing on this planet that we can all agree to do together," says theater maker a...
What I learned when I conquered the world's toughest triathlon | Minda Dentler
05 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride and then a full-length marathon on hot, dry ground -- with ...
How to connect with depressed friends | Bill Bernat
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller...
How we became sisters | Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy
02 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Poets Felice Belle and Jennifer Murphy perform excerpts from their play "Other Women," which is crea...
To learn is to be free | Shameem Akhtar
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Shameem Akhtar posed as a boy during her early childhood in Pakistan so she could enjoy the privileg...
How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet | Dustin Schroeder
01 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Antarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to stat...
The role of human emotions in science and research | Illona Stengel
26 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do human emotions have a role to play in science and research? Material researcher Ilona Stengel sug...
You don't have to be an expert to solve big problems | Tapiwa Chiwewe
23 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Driving in Johannesburg one day, Tapiwa Chiwewe noticed an enormous cloud of air pollution hanging o...
Refugees want empowerment, not handouts | Robert Hakiza
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The prevailing image of where refugees live is of temporary camps in isolated areas -- but in realit...
How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex | Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi
22 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From our fear of women's bodies to our sheepishness around the word "nipple," our ideas about sex ne...
A life-saving invention that prevents human stampedes | Nilay Kulkarni
21 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Every three years, more than 30 million Hindu worshippers gather for the Kumbh Mela in India, the wo...
How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us | Margaret Mitchell
20 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As a research scientist at Google, Margaret Mitchell helps develop computers that can communicate ab...
How (and why) Russia hacked the US election | Laura Galante
19 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in...
The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet | Tanya Menon
16 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We often find ourselves stuck in narrow social circles with similar people. What habits confine us, ...
3 creative ways to fix fashion's waste problem | Amit Kalra
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What happens to the clothes we don't buy? You might think that last season's coats, trousers and tur...
Fashion that celebrates African strength and spirit | Wale Oyejide
15 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"To be African is to be inspired by culture and to be filled with undying hope for the future," says...
The virginity fraud | Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen Støkken Dahl
13 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The hymen is still the most misunderstood part of the female body. Nina Dølvik Brochmann and Ellen ...
Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system | Bhu Srinivasan
12 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bhu Srinivasan researches the intersection of capitalism and technological progress. Instead of thin...
How protest is redefining democracy around the world | Zachariah Mampilly
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The democratic process is messy, complicated and often inefficient -- but across Africa, activists a...
This company pays kids to do their math homework | Mohamad Jebara
08 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mohamad Jebara loves mathematics -- but he's concerned that too many students grow up thinking that ...
How architecture can create dignity for all | John Cary
07 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long ba...
How we can help hungry kids, one text at a time | Su Kahumbu
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Su Kahumbu raises badass cows -- healthy, well-fed animals whose protein is key to solving a growing...
This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life | Karen Lloyd
06 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How deep into the Earth can we go and still find life? Marine microbiologist Karen Lloyd introduces ...
How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism | Stuart Duncan
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The internet can be an ugly place, but you won't find bullies or trolls on Stuart Duncan's Minecraft...
How I earned a law diploma while on death row | Peter Ouko
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Ouko spent 18 years in Kamiti Prison in Kenya, sometimes locked up in a cell with 13 other gro...
How we can use space technology to improve life on Earth | Danielle Wood
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Wood leads the Space Enabled research group at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to tear d...
Black life at the intersection of birth and death | Mwende "FreeQuency" Katwiwa
01 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"It is the artist's job to unearth stories that people try to bury with shovels of complacency and t...
My failed mission to find God -- and what I found instead | Anjali Kumar
31 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, fun...
Could the social lives of fish help us save coral reefs? | Mike Gil
30 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Gil spies on fish: using novel multi-camera systems and computer vision technology, the TED Fel...
Why I study the most dangerous animal on earth -- mosquitoes | Fredros Okumu
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What do we really know about mosquitoes? Fredros Okumu catches and studies these disease-carrying in...
The thrilling potential for off-grid solar energy | Amar Inamdar
26 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
There's an energy revolution happening in villages and towns across Africa -- off-grid solar energy ...
What's it like to be a robot? | Leila Takayama
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We already live among robots: tools and machines like dishwashers and thermostats so integrated into...
What if you could turn plastic trash into cash? | David Katz
25 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Can we solve the problem of ocean plastic pollution and end extreme poverty at the same time? That's...
The dangerous evolution of HIV | Edsel Salvana
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Think we're winning the battle against HIV? Maybe not, as the next wave of drug-resistant viruses ar...
The business benefits of doing good | Wendy Woods
23 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
"The only way we're going to make substantial progress on the challenging problems of our time is fo...
An economic case for protecting the planet | Naoko Ishii
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We all share one planet -- we breathe the same air, drink the same water and depend on the same ocea...
What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness | Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix
19 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On one awful night in 1995, Ples Felix's 14-year-old grandson murdered Azim Khamisa's son in a gang ...
American bipartisan politics can be saved -- here's how | Bob Inglis
18 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Former Republican member of the U.S. Congress Bob Inglis shares an optimistic message about how cons...
The hidden role informal caregivers play in health care | Scott Williams
17 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Once a cared-for patient and now a caregiver himself, Scott Williams highlights the invaluable role ...
Talk about your death while you're still healthy | Michelle Knox
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know what you want when you die? Do you know how you want to be remembered? In a candid, hear...
The search for "aha!" moments | Matt Goldman
16 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In 1988, Matt Goldman and a few friends created the Blue Man Group, an off-Broadway production that ...
We need to talk about an injustice | Bryan Stevenson
15 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In an engaging and personal talk -- with cameo appearances from his grandmother and Rosa Parks -- hu...
How to put the power of law in people's hands | Vivek Maru
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do when the wheels of justice don't turn fast enough? Or when they don't turn at all? V...
How record collectors find lost music and preserve our cultural heritage | Alexis Charpentier
11 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For generations, record collectors have played a vital role in the preservation of musical and cultu...
How we can stop Africa's scientific brain drain | Kevin Njabo
10 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
How can Africans find solutions to Africa's problems? Conservation biologist Kevin Njabo tells his p...