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The doctor on a mission to build a healthier South Sudan | Yohanis Riek
Yohanis Riek went from herding cattle and fighting as a child soldier to becoming the first doctor in his community in South Sudan. He shares his jou…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
The pressure that makes Olympians perform worse | Dominique Condo
Why do we celebrate appearance over ability in sports? Performance scientist Dominique Condo explores why so many elite female athletes — women with …
8 months, 4 weeks ago
How competition is stifling AI breakthroughs | Llion Jones
Llion Jones cowrote "Attention Is All You Need," the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI…
9 months ago
The 6 essential ingredients of loving relationships | Sara Nasserzadeh
How do you build a lifetime of love? After analyzing 450 couples across more than 40 countries, relational psychotherapist Sara Nasserzadeh discovere…
9 months ago
The brilliance of bridges and roads that repair themselves | Mark Miodownik
Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? Scientist and engineer Mark Miod…
9 months ago
Sunday Pick: The Truth About "The Zone" (with Steph Curry) | Good Sport
When it comes to sports, is there anything more evocative -- and elusive -- than "the zone"? That mythical place an athlete goes to where focus is la…
9 months ago
A songwriting battle with my AI clone | Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Elise Hu
As AI tools get better at making music, will there be a time when machines move people more than musicians? Putting that question to the test, legend…
9 months ago
A different way to measure success in health care | Andrew Bastawrous
After building a smartphone app to bring eye care to millions of people in remote areas, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous confronted a ne…
9 months ago
Will AI take your job in the next 10 years? Wrong question | Vinciane Beauchene
As AI agents take over more tasks at work, the question isn’t whether or not humans matter — it’s how we make our impact count. Leadership expert Vin…
9 months ago
What ancestral intelligence can teach us about AI | Nanjira Sambuli
There's a common African proverb: "When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers." Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thin…
9 months, 1 week ago