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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…
2 months, 3 weeks 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…
2 months, 3 weeks 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…
2 months, 3 weeks 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…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
How a dung beetle inspired a better AI model | 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…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
1 thing you can do today to be happier | Sonja Lyubomirsky
Can anyone become happier? Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky studies this question in her lab, doing experiments on "happiness interventions" to see wha…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
In defense of hip-hop | Roland Fryer
Hip-hop often gets blamed for its controversial lyrics. What if there was a way to actually measure its impact on people's lives? Analyzing 40 years'…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Sunday Pick: How to think critically about history — and why it matters (w/ David Ikard)
Have you ever recalled a story only to have someone point out "that's not how it went"? Well, what happens when what we misrepresent are our historic…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
The language you're fluent in — but forgot how to hear | Louis VI
What if the calm you feel when you hear birdsong isn't a coincidence, but ancient evolutionary wiring ... a signal that once meant safety? Musical ec…
3 months ago
Why can't we better prepare for extreme weather? | Catherine Nakalembe
Thanks to advanced technology, we can now see droughts and crop failures months before they hit. So why are millions of people still going hungry? TE…
3 months ago