culture

Mansa Musa, one of the wealthiest people who ever lived

Chimps have feelings and thoughts. They should also have rights

One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future

How we're priming some kids for college — and others for prison

Rethinking infidelity ... a talk for anyone who has ever loved

This is what enduring love looks like

The forgotten history of autism

Street art with a message of hope and peace

What does my headscarf mean to you?

Not good with names: Local name customs in a global village

The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

A different way to visualize rhythm

History vs. Christopher Columbus

Social maps that reveal a city's intersections — and separations

My mother’s strange definition of empowerment

What the people of the Amazon know that you don't

Gorgeous portraits of the world's vanishing people

Don't ask where I'm from, ask where I'm a local

What makes tattoos permanent?

For parents, happiness is a very high bar

Why your worst deeds don’t define you

The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk

How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too)

For more tolerance, we need more ... tourism?

The psychology of your future self

The bridge between suicide and life

What I learned from going blind in space

What makes a word "real"?

How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives

How the worst moments in our lives make us who we are

The science of spiciness

The importance of diversity in the comic book universe

3 ways to speak English

How to build a fictional world

Should we eat bugs?

What makes a superhero?