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How I earned a law diploma while on death row | Peter Ouko
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How I use Minecraft to help kids with autism | Stuart Duncan
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How architecture can create dignity for all | John Cary
If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long...
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How to resolve racially stressful situations | Howard C. Stevenson
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The role of human emotions in science and research | Ilona Stengel
Do human emotions have a role to play in science and research? Material researcher Ilona Stengel...
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The best way to help is often just to listen | Sophie Andrews
A 24-hour helpline in the UK known as Samaritans helped Sophie Andrews become a survivor of abuse...
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Need a new idea? Start at the edge of what is known | Vittorio Loreto
"Where do great ideas come from?" Starting with this question in mind, Vittorio Loreto takes us...
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How to tame your wandering mind | Amishi Jha
Amishi Jha studies how we pay attention: the process by which our brain decides what's important...
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My descent into America's neo-Nazi movement -- and how I got out | Christian Picciolini
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How we can teach computers to make sense of our emotions | Raphael Arar
How can we make AI that people actually want to interact with? Raphael Arar suggests we start by...
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SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes | Gwynne Shotwell
What's up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk's pioneering...
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What I've learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad | Glen Henry
Glen Henry got his superpowers through fatherhood. After leaving behind a job he hated and a...
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How I turn negative online comments into positive offline conversations | Dylan Marron
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How urban spaces can preserve history and build community | Walter Hood
Can public spaces both reclaim the past and embrace the future? Landscape architect Walter Hood...
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A new way to think about the transition to motherhood | Alexandra Sacks
When a baby is born, so is a mother -- but the natural (and sometimes unsteady) process of...
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How will we survive when the population hits 10 billion? | Charles C. Mann
By 2050, an estimated 10 billion people will live on earth. How are we going to provide everybody...
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How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person | Dolly Chugh
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Science can answer moral questions | Sam Harris
Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam...
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