(Full English subtitles are available for this talk — click the CC button in the bottom right of your screen to turn subtitles on.) Why do women who experience sexual assault rarely speak up about […]
"We all feel a compelling need to watch stories, to tell stories … to discuss the things that tell each one of us that we are not alone in the world," says TV titan Shonda […]
Forget all the shallow celebrities and cultural icons. The REAL heroes of America are the men and women in uniform, both on the front lines of local law enforcement as well as soldiers serving overseas. […]
What we see in movies matters: it affects our hobbies, our career choices, our emotions and even our identities. Right now, we don't see enough women on screen or behind the camera — but waiting […]
In the vast sweep of history, even an empire can be forgotten. In this wide-ranging talk, Gus Casely-Hayford shares origin stories of Africa that are too often unwritten, lost, unshared. Travel to Great Zimbabwe, the […]
Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu wants to see Africans unleash their suppressed creative and innovative energies by acknowledging the significance of their indigenous, authentic knowledge. In this powerful talk, she shares examples of untapped, traditional African knowledge in […]
"From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shafak. "From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism" A […]
Digital archaeologist Chance Coughenour is using pictures — your pictures — to reclaim antiquities that have been lost to conflict and disaster. After crowdsourcing photographs of destroyed monuments, museums and artifacts, Coughenour uses advanced technology […]
Meet Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker's art director. For the past 24 years, she's helped decide what appears on the magazine's famous cover, from the black-on-black depiction of the Twin Towers the week after 9/11 […]
The Health Ranger conducted an anthropology experiment by observing youthful human primates who live in urban environments, discovering that the male gender has been culturally obliterated. Learn more at and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmN4kGTWuVU
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