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Liz Ogbu
What if gentrification was about healing communities instead of displacing them?
6:23
John Amory
How a male contraceptive pill could work
12:24
Dixon Chibanda
Why I train grandmothers to treat depression
10:54
Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable
11:03
Tara Houska
The Standing Rock resistance and our fight for Indigenous rights
17:46
Sally Kohn
What we can do about the culture of hate
11:37
Tiffany Kagure Mugo and Siphumeze Khundayi
How to have a healthier, positive relationship to sex
14:23
Sophie Andrews
The best way to help is often just to listen
22:12
Valarie Kaur
3 lessons of revolutionary love in a time of rage
12:01
Chera Kowalski
The critical role librarians play in the opioid crisis
12:22
Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo
What it takes to be racially literate
14:17
Travis Rieder
The agony of opioid withdrawal -- and what doctors should tell patients about it
19:05
Scott Galloway
How Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google manipulate our emotions
6:10
Bhu Srinivasan
Capitalism isn't an ideology -- it's an operating system
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Matt Goldman
The search for "aha!" moments
16:20
Franklin Leonard
How I accidentally changed the way movies get made
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Elaine Fong
My mother's final wish -- and the right to die with dignity
15:09
Amel Karboul
The global learning crisis -- and what to do about it
13:36
Heather Lanier
"Good" and "bad" are incomplete stories we tell ourselves
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Rocío Lorenzo
How diversity makes teams more innovative
15:35
Wendy Woods
The business benefits of doing good
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Margaret Mitchell
How we can build AI to help humans, not hurt us
11:22
Lana Mazahreh
3 thoughtful ways to conserve water
13:38
Angela Wang
How China is changing the future of shopping
21:58
Elif Shafak
The revolutionary power of diverse thought
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Naomi Klein
How shocking events can spark positive change
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Per Espen Stoknes
How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming
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Robert Muggah
The biggest risks facing cities -- and some solutions
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Naoko Ishii
An economic case for protecting the planet
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Zeynep Tufekci
We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
9:50
Sean Davis
Can we solve global warming? Lessons from how we protected the ozone layer
11:51
Nabila Alibhai
Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow
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Susan Emmett
This simple test can help kids hear better
13:15
Sethembile Msezane
Living sculptures that stand for history's truths
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Nighat Dad
How Pakistani women are taking the internet back
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Dayo Ogunyemi
Visions of Africa's future, from African filmmakers
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