We all want to save more money -- but overall, people today are doing less and less of it. Behavioral scientist Wendy De La Rosa studies how everyday people make decisions to improve their financial well-being. What she's found can help...

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Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most diversely talented individuals of all time. His "unquenchable curiosity" led him to make discoveries and inventions that were beyond his time, not to mention his numerous artistic masterpieces. Today...

Ideas can and do change the world, says historian Rutger Bregman, sharing his case for a provocative one: guaranteed basic income. Learn more about the idea's 500-year history and a forgotten modern experiment where it actually worked --...

Whooping cough used to infect hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. and kill thousands of children every year. Join us as we learn about the women who developed the vaccine that has since saved thousands of lives.

Do popsicles give you toothaches? Do you wonder why that special toothpaste makes it all better? We've got you covered!

If you want to build a business that lasts, there may be no better place to look for inspiration than your own immune system. Join strategist Martin Reeves as he shares startling statistics about shrinking corporate life spans and...

FLA head Auret van Heerden talks about the next frontier of workers' rights -- globalized industries where no single national body can keep workers safe and protected. How can we keep our global supply chains honest? Van Heerden makes...

If you’ve ever had a tattoo, you know that putting them on is pretty easy: just press on them with a wet towel for 30 seconds and they stick right on! But there’s a whole lot of science going on in that 30 seconds!

An ancient, abandoned alien space station has been discovered. Can you beat everyone in the galaxy and reach it first? -- It’s an incredible discovery: an abandoned alien space station filled with precursor technology. Now every...

In this far-seeing talk, Seth Priebatsch shows how game dynamics are reshaping the world -- from a classroom where students "level up" instead of being graded ,to a pervasive game called "happy hour" that you may already be playing. Get...

Tech communities are booming all over Africa, says Nairobi-based Juliana Rotich, cofounder of the open-source software Ushahidi. But it remains challenging to get and stay connected in a region with frequent blackouts and spotty Internet...

Behind the everyday bargains we all love -- the $10 manicure, the unlimited shrimp buffet -- is a hidden world of forced labor to keep those prices at rock bottom. Noy Thrupkaew investigates human trafficking – which flourishes in the US...

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Around the world, black girls are being pushed out of schools because of policies that target them for...

A summertime look at why we sweat, why we burn, and why our fingers wrinkle in the pool

Adam Grosser talks about a project to build a refrigerator that works without electricity -- to bring the vital tool to villages and clinics worldwide. Tweaking some old technology, he's come up with a system that works.

* Viewer discretion advised. This video includes discussion of mature topics and may be inappropriate for some audiences. From the EG conference: Productivity guru Tim Ferriss' fun, encouraging anecdotes show how one simple question --...

When Andres Ruzo was a young boy in Peru, his grandfather told him a story with an odd detail: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it. Twelve years later, after training as a geoscientist, he set...

For sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor, the ocean is more than a muse -- it's an exhibition space and museum. Taylor creates sculptures of human forms and mundane life on land and sinks them to the ocean floor, where they are subsumed by the...

The MIT Media Lab's John Maeda lives at the intersection of technology and art, a place that can get very complicated. Here he talks about paring down to basics.

Underneath every shiny new megacity, there's often a story of communities displaced. In this moving, poetic talk, OluTimehin Adegbeye details how government land grabs are destroying the lives of thousands who live in the coastal...

Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can -- and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments -- and...

Négociation: ne cherchez pas le compromis



Lorsqu'il s'agit de négocier, il faut chercher à comprendre plutôt qu'à convaincre, propose Julien Pelabere. Une bonne négociation n'est pas une question de compromis, car pour...

As the founder of a startup, Tracy Young often worried that employees and investors valued male CEOs more -- and that being a woman compromised her position as a leader. In this brave, personal talk, she gives an honest look at the...