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Sunday Pick: Ai Weiwei | Design Matters

Ai Weiwei joins to discuss his new memoir “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,” depi...

How to make learning as addictive as social media | Lui...

When technologist Luis von Ahn was building the popular language-learning platfo...

Life is hard. Art helps | Liana Finck (re-release)

Cartoonist Liana Finck's drawings hold our hands through life's predicaments, bi...

How to recapture the joy of the early internet | Michae...

Before algorithms ruled our feeds, the internet was a mess — glitchy, chaotic an...

The blueprint for serving a million school lunches — ev...

With a genius combination of smart tech, local food and bold partnerships, Wawir...

The multidimensional magic of modern maps | Peter Wilcz...

Maps have long helped us understand the world — now, they can help us shape it. ...

A small nation’s surprising solution to unemployment | ...

How did a small, economically vulnerable country become a trailblazer in sustain...

Sunday Pick: Unsolicited Advice: How to get your mojo b...

Are you feeling overwhelmed, uninspired, or burned out at work? In this special ...

Go ahead, dream about the future | Charlie Jane Anders ...

"You don't predict the future -- you imagine the future," says sci-fi writer Cha...

Why building new proteins from scratch is our new super...

The rapidly evolving field of protein design is revealing solutions to some of t...

Are we heading toward World War III? | Heni Ozi Cukier

In this urgent talk, political scientist Heni Ozi Cukier analyzes the social, ec...

How to get people to do what you want | Barry Sonnenfeld

As a film and television director, Barry Sonnenfeld had millions of dollars ridi...

700 million people still live without electricity. Here...

Impact investor and Acumen CEO Jacqueline Novogratz unveils a bold vision to bri...

Sunday Pick: How to be a better friend (w/ Rhaina Cohen...

What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance? R...

What silence can teach you about sound | Dallas Taylor ...

What can you hear in silence? In this exploration of sound, host of the podcast ...

Sunday Pick: How to value friendship (w/ Rhaina Cohen) ...

What would it look like if we took friendship as seriously as we take romance? R...

Stories of photographing monumental people -- from Mich...

With his art, photographer Platon seeks to strip away assumptions and leave view...

The jokes AI won’t tell | Jena Friedman

Could a robot ever be funny? In a sharp standup act, comedian Jena Friedman lamb...

Why good people become bad bosses | Jamie Woolf and Chr...

You’ve probably had a bad boss, but you might not realize how easy it is to beco...

We don't "move on" from grief. We move forward with it ...

In a talk that's by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora...

Why you should be able to vote on your phone | Bradley ...

The US political system is broken — and the solution might be in the palm of you...

An unexpected plan for peace in the Middle East | Nada ...

The Middle East is a climate hotspot, with many parts of the region set to exper...

Sunday Pick: Barcelona: streetwear with a political twi...

Barcelona is a city that can’t be separated from its art–you might picture Gaudí...

How to find humor in life's absurdity | Maira Kalman (r...

With levity and profound insight, artist Maira Kalman reflects on life, death, d...

The most powerful predictor of team success | Rafael Ch...

Remember that gut-clenching fear of speaking up in class? Organizational psychol...

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