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Paul Nicklen: Animal tales from icy wonderlands - test

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Paul Romer: The world's first charter city? - test

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• Triona McGrath How pollution is changing the ocean's chemistry (41) test

Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world - test

• David Andrew Quist Could fungi actually be the key to humanity's survival? (38) test
• Colin Averill How to harness the ancient partnership between forests and fungi (28) test
• Lynn Rothschild The living tech we need to support human life on other planets (26) test
• E.O. Wilson My wish Build the Encyclopedia of Life (25) test
• Peter Ward A theory of Earth's mass extinctions (24) test

Paul Tasner: How I became an entrepreneur at 66 - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (36) test
• Ernesto Sirolli Want to help someone? Shut up and listen! (35) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (34) test
• Dan Buettner How to live to be 100+ (34) test
• David Lee Why jobs of the future won't feel like work (33) test

Paul Tudor Jones II: Why we need to rethink capitalism - test

• Wendy Woods The business benefits of doing good (32) test
• Chrystia Freeland The rise of the new global super-rich (29) test
• Geoff Mulgan Post-crash, investing in a better world (29) test
• Thomas Piketty New thoughts on capital in the twenty-first century (28) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (28) test

Paul Zak: Trust, morality -- and oxytocin? - test

• Michael Norton How to buy happiness (39) test
• Kara Logan Berlin 3 ways to be a more effective fundraiser (34) test
• Dan Ariely Our buggy moral code (34) test
• Tanya Menon The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet (33) test
• Jonathan Haidt The moral roots of liberals and conservatives (33) test

Paula Hammond: A new superweapon in the fight against cancer - test

• David Agus A new strategy in the war on cancer (52) test
• Adam de la Zerda We can start winning the war against cancer (48) test
• Jay Bradner Open-source cancer research (48) test
• Jimmy Lin A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early (46) test
• Elizabeth Murchison Fighting a contagious cancer (46) test

Paula Johnson: His and hers ... health care - test

• Noel Bairey Merz The single biggest health threat women face (61) test
• Alyson McGregor Why medicine often has dangerous side effects for women (61) test
• Cecile Richards The political progress women have made -- and what's next (55) test
• Sarah Barmak The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality (53) test
• Shad Begum How women in Pakistan are creating political change (50) test

Paula Scher: Great design is serious, not solemn - test

• Rob Forbes Ways of seeing (39) test
• Paola Antonelli Treat design as art (38) test
• Stuart Brown Play is more than just fun (34) test
• David Kelley Human-centered design (33) test
• Steve Keil A manifesto for play, for Bulgaria and beyond (32) test

Paula Stone Williams and Jonathan Williams: The story of a parent's transition and a son's redemption - test

• Beth Malone How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life) (35) test
• Glen Henry What I've learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad (33) test
• Cesar Kuriyama One second every day (30) test
• Paula Stone Williams I've lived as a man and as a woman — here's what I've learned (30) test
• LB Hannahs What it's like to be a transgender dad (29) test

Paula Stone Williams: I've lived as a man and as a woman — here's what I've learned - test

• Paula Stone Williams What my gender transition taught me about womanhood (97) test
• Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine (36) test
• Lilly Singh "A seat at the table" isn't the solution for gender equity (35) test
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We should all be feminists (34) test
• Sarah Jones One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future (33) test

Paula Stone Williams: What my gender transition taught me about womanhood - test

• Paula Stone Williams I've lived as a man and as a woman — here's what I've learned (97) test
• Lilly Singh "A seat at the table" isn't the solution for gender equity (36) test
• Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine (36) test
• Sarah Jones One woman, five characters, and a sex lesson from the future (35) test
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We should all be feminists (35) test

Pavan Sukhdev: Put a value on nature! - test

• John Doerr Salvation (and profit) in greentech (33) test
• Tasso Azevedo Hopeful lessons from the battle to save rainforests (32) test
• Enric Sala A bold plan to protect 30 percent of the Earth's surface and ocean floor (32) test
• Ma Jun An interactive map to track (and end) pollution in China (31) test
• Bill Gates The innovations we need to avoid a climate disaster (30) test

Pawan Sinha: How brains learn to see - test

• Georgette Mulheir The tragedy of orphanages (35) test
• Kiran Sethi Kids, take charge (35) test
• Helen Pearson Lessons from the longest study on human development (34) test
• Ami Klin A new way to diagnose autism (32) test
• Claudia Miner A new way to get every child ready for kindergarten (31) test

Pazit Cahlon and Alex Gendler: What "Machiavellian" really means - test

• Joseph Nye Global power shifts (20) test
• Eric Liu How to understand power (20) test
• Jeremy Heimans What new power looks like (18) test
• Eric Liu Why ordinary people need to understand power (18) test
• Charlie Jane Anders Go ahead, dream about the future (15) test

Peachy Liv: How to protect your mental well-being online -- from a Gen-Zer - test

• Tanya Menon The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet (51) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (50) test
• Henrietta Fore How we can help young people build a better future (50) test
• Yasmin Green How technology can fight extremism and online harassment (50) test
• Jonny Sun You are not alone in your loneliness (48) test

Pearl Arredondo: My story, from gangland daughter to star teacher - test

• Olympia Della Flora Creative ways to get kids to thrive in school (59) test
• Linda Cliatt-Wayman How to fix a broken school? Lead fearlessly, love hard (55) test
• Sydney Jensen How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? (48) test
• Karim Abouelnaga A summer school kids actually want to attend (48) test
• Nora Flanagan What COVID-19 revealed about US schools -- and 4 ways to rethink education (48) test

Pedro Brugarolas: Why do hospitals have particle accelerators? - test

• Matt Anticole Is radiation dangerous? (29) test
• Adam de la Zerda We can start winning the war against cancer (28) test
• Hyunsoo Joshua No Performing brain surgery without a scalpel (24) test
• Jimmy Lin A simple new blood test that can catch cancer early (23) test
• David Agus A new strategy in the war on cancer (22) test

Peggy Andover: The difference between classical and operant conditioning - test

• Aparna Pallavi What foods did your ancestors love? (20) test
• Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli The future of the food ecosystem -- and the power of your plate (20) test
• Emily Nagoski The truth about unwanted arousal (20) test
• Tristram Stuart The global food waste scandal (19) test
• Mark Bittman What's wrong with what we eat (18) test

Peggy McIntosh: How to recognize your white privilege — and use it to fight inequality - test

• Eugenia Cheng An unexpected tool for understanding inequality abstract math (42) test
• Eugenia Cheng How abstract mathematics can help us understand the world (42) test
• Michael Kimmel Why gender equality is good for everyone — men included (38) test
• Jackson Katz Violence against women -- it's a men's issue (37) test
• Jimmie Briggs 3 things men can do to promote gender equity (34) test

Peggy Orenstein: What young women believe about their own sexual pleasure - test

• Karen Gurney The truth about faking orgasms (45) test
• Robin Buckley Why I gave my teenage daughter a vibrator (44) test
• Kaz Sex education should start with consent (42) test
• Aditi Gupta A taboo-free way to talk about periods (41) test
• Sarah Barmak The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality (40) test

Peggy Shepard: How to build an equitable and just climate future - test

• Ozawa Bineshi Albert Climate action needs new frontline leadership (42) test
• Majora Carter Greening the ghetto (41) test
• Angela Mahecha Adrar The people who caused the climate crisis aren't the ones who will fix it (41) test
• David Lammy and Justin J. Pearson How to be a leader for climate justice (36) test
• Colette Pichon Battle Climate change will displace millions. Here's how we prepare (35) test

Pekka Hämäläinen: The rise and fall of the Lakota Empire - test

• Aaron Huey America's native prisoners of war (32) test
• Ned Blackhawk and Jeffrey D. Means The dark history of Mount Rushmore (31) test
• Dustin Tahmahkera The last chief of the Comanches and the fall of an empire (16) test
• Amma Y. Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin A historical musical that examines black identity in the 1901 World's Fair (16) test
• Lindsey Schneider Whose land are you on? What to know about the Indigenous Land Back movement (15) test

Penelope Boston: There might just be life on Mars - test

• Nathalie Cabrol How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life (65) test
• Sarah Rugheimer The search for microscopic aliens (50) test
• Betül Kaçar We could kick-start life on another planet. Should we? (50) test
• Tara Djokic This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life (50) test
• Armando Azua-Bustos The most Martian place on Earth (49) test

Penny Chisholm: The tiny creature that secretly powers the planet - test

• Karen Lloyd This deep-sea mystery is changing our understanding of life (34) test
• Angelicque White What ocean microbes reveal about the changing climate (33) test
• Paul Snelgrove A census of the ocean (33) test
• Craig Venter Sampling the ocean's DNA (32) test
• Peter Ward A theory of Earth's mass extinctions (32) test

Per Espen Stoknes: How to transform apocalypse fatigue into action on global warming - test

• Ayana Elizabeth Johnson How to find joy in climate action (48) test
• Britt Wray How climate change affects your mental health (48) test
• Al Gore, Gloria Kasang Bulus, Nana Firman, Ximena Loría and Tim Guinee Climate change is our reality. Here's how we're taking action (47) test
• Sophia Kianni Language shouldn't be a barrier to climate action (46) test
• Luisa Neubauer Why you should be a climate activist (45) test

Pere Estupinyà: The science of sex - test

• Karen Gurney The truth about faking orgasms (46) test
• Sarah Barmak The uncomplicated truth about women's sexuality (43) test
• Sofia Jawed-Wessel The lies we tell pregnant women (36) test
• Emily Nagoski The truth about unwanted arousal (36) test
• Christopher Ryan Are we designed to be sexual omnivores? (35) test

Peta Greenfield & Alex Gendler: History vs. Augustus - test

• Eric Liu How to understand power (22) test
• Eric Liu Why ordinary people need to understand power (22) test
• Jeremy Heimans What new power looks like (22) test
• Joseph Nye Global power shifts (21) test
• Graham Allison Is war between China and the US inevitable? (18) test

Peta Greenfield: Who were the Vestal Virgins, and what was their job? - test

• Dan Buettner How to live to be 100+ (18) test
• Pico Iyer The art of stillness (18) test
• Alua Arthur Why thinking about death helps you live a better life (17) test
• Cesar Kuriyama One second every day (17) test
• Kelli Swazey Life that doesn't end with death (17) test

Pete Alcorn: The world in 2200 - test

• Charlie Jane Anders Go ahead, dream about the future (30) test
• Jennifer D. Sciubba The truth about human population decline (27) test
• Soraya Field Fiorio The infamous overpopulation bet Simon vs. Ehrlich (27) test
• Anab Jain Why we need to imagine different futures (27) test
• Parag Khanna Where on Earth will people live in the future? (27) test

Peter Attia: Is the obesity crisis hiding a bigger problem? - test

• Brooke Bennett Why the price of insulin is a danger to diabetics (38) test
• Richard J. Wood How do carbohydrates impact your health? (34) test
• Mads Tang-Christensen The brain science of obesity (31) test
• Mia Nacamulli What is obesity? (28) test
• Dean Ornish Healing through diet (27) test

Peter Beck: Small rockets are the next space revolution - test

• Gwynne Shotwell SpaceX's plan to fly you across the globe in 30 minutes (40) test
• Jennifer Heldmann SpaceX's supersized Starship rocket -- and the future of galactic exploration (34) test
• Moriba Jah The world's first crowdsourced space traffic monitoring system (34) test
• James Orsulak Why we need to move manufacturing off-planet (34) test
• Steve Jurvetson Model rocketry (33) test

Peter Bohacek: How does work... work? - test

• Ali Hajimiri How wireless energy from space could power everything (41) test
• Jordan Wirfs-Brock The four things you need to know about the energy you use (38) test
• Henry Richardson What does the world's largest machine do? (35) test
• Varun Sivaram How India could pull off the world's most ambitious energy transition (35) test
• Eric Liu How to understand power (35) test

Peter Calthorpe: 7 principles for building better cities - test

• Kent Larson Brilliant designs to fit more people in every city (48) test
• Travis Kalanick Uber's plan to get more people into fewer cars (43) test
• Julio Gil Future tech will give you the benefits of city life anywhere (41) test
• Jeff Speck 4 ways to make a city more walkable (40) test
• Dean Kamen To invent is to give (40) test

Peter Diamandis: Abundance is our future - test

• Dean Kamen To invent is to give (39) test
• Natalie Cargill How to solve the world's biggest problems (38) test
• Steven Pinker Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers (38) test
• Angus Hervey Why are we so bad at reporting good news? (37) test
• Danny Dorling Maps that show us who we are (not just where we are) (36) test

Peter Diamandis: Our next giant leap - test

• Burt Rutan The real future of space exploration (37) test
• Bill Stone Inside the world's deepest caves (34) test
• Phnam Bagley Gourmet food for the final frontier (34) test
• Marc Abrahams A science award that makes you laugh, then think (32) test
• James Orsulak Why we need to move manufacturing off-planet (32) test

Peter Diamandis: Stephen Hawking's zero g flight - test

• Phnam Bagley Gourmet food for the final frontier (31) test
• Peter Diamandis Our next giant leap (29) test
• Danielle Wood 6 space technologies we can use to improve life on Earth (28) test
• Cady Coleman What it's like to live on the International Space Station (28) test
• Burt Rutan The real future of space exploration (27) test

Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics - test

• Robert Full Learning from the gecko's tail (32) test
• Rhiannon Giddens Songs that bring history to life (24) test
• Chris Nowinski Can I have your brain? The quest for truth on concussions and CTE (24) test
• Bill Gates Mosquitos, malaria and education (23) test
• Nicholas Negroponte One Laptop per Child, two years on (22) test

Peter Doolittle: How your "working memory" makes sense of the world - test

• Amy Milton Can we edit memories? (42) test
• Lisa Genova How your memory works -- and why forgetting is totally OK (39) test
• Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu A mouse. A laser beam. A manipulated memory. (38) test
• Joshua Foer Feats of memory anyone can do (37) test
• Sam Kean What happens when you remove the hippocampus? (35) test

Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt - test

• Efosa Ojomo Reducing corruption takes a specific kind of investment (39) test
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Want to help Africa? Do business here (34) test
• Hans Rosling Let my dataset change your mindset (34) test
• Charmian Gooch Meet global corruption's hidden players (34) test
• Gordon Brown Global ethic vs. national interest (33) test

Peter Gabriel: Fight injustice with raw video - test

• Cleo Wade Want to change the world? Start by being brave enough to care (41) test
• Jane Goodall What separates us from chimpanzees? (38) test
• Nancy Duarte The secret structure of great talks (38) test
• Giles Duley When a reporter becomes the story (37) test
• Fields Wicker-Miurin Learning from leadership's missing manual (37) test

Peter Haas: When bad engineering makes a natural disaster even worse - test

• Thomas Heatherwick The rise of boring architecture -- and the case for radically human buildings (39) test
• Marc Kushner Why the buildings of the future will be shaped by ... you (35) test
• Shigeru Ban Emergency shelters made from paper (33) test
• Ma Yansong Urban architecture inspired by mountains, clouds and volcanoes (31) test
• Renzo Piano The genius behind some of the world's most famous buildings (30) test

Peter Hirshberg: The web is more than "better TV" - test

• David Perry Are games better than life? (32) test
• John Maeda My journey in design (32) test
• John Maeda How art, technology and design inform creative leaders (31) test
• Tom Graham The incredible creativity of deepfakes -- and the worrying future of AI (31) test
• Nicholas Negroponte A 30-year history of the future (30) test

Peter McIndoe: Birds aren't real? How a conspiracy takes flight - test

• Shari Davis What if you could help decide how the government spends public funds? (33) test
• Washington Wachira For the love of birds (32) test
• David Cameron The next age of government (32) test
• Johann Hari This could be why you're depressed or anxious (32) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (32) test

Peter Mende-Siedlecki: Should you trust your first impression? - test

• Colin Camerer When you're making a deal, what's going on in your brain? (27) test
• Dolly Chugh How to let go of being a "good" person -- and become a better person (27) test
• Seth Priebatsch The game layer on top of the world (26) test
• Sebastian Deterding What your designs say about you (25) test
• Kay M. Tye What investigating neural pathways can reveal about mental health (25) test

Peter Molyneux: Meet Milo, the virtual boy - test

• Rébecca Kleinberger Why you don't like the sound of your own voice (28) test
• Rupal Patel Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints (25) test
• Beardyman The polyphonic me (24) test
• Roger Ebert Remaking my voice (22) test
• Torsten Reil Animate characters by evolving them (21) test

Peter Norvig: The 100,000-student classroom - test

• Daphne Koller What we're learning from online education (54) test
• Tyler Dewitt Online learning could change academia -- for good (41) test
• Trish Millines Dziko How schools can nurture every student's genius (41) test
• Anant Agarwal Why massive open online courses (still) matter (39) test
• Liz Kleinrock How to teach kids to talk about taboo topics (38) test

Peter Ouko: From death row to law graduate - test

• Jarrell Daniels What prosecutors and incarcerated people can learn from each other (36) test
• Dan Pacholke How prisons can help inmates live meaningful lives (36) test
• Teresa Njoroge What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit (35) test
• Cristina Domenech Poetry that frees the soul (31) test
• Karen Tse How to stop torture (28) test

Peter Paccone: How do US Supreme Court justices get appointed? - test

• Neal Katyal How to win an argument (at the US Supreme Court, or anywhere) (31) test
• Alex Gendler How does impeachment work? (27) test
• Belinda Stutzman How is power divided in the United States government? (26) test
• Mark Forsyth What's a snollygoster? A short lesson in political speak (26) test
• Victoria Pratt How judges can show respect (25) test

Peter Paccone: Why is the US Constitution so hard to amend? - test

• Nicki Beaman Griffin The fight for the right to vote in the United States (27) test
• Belinda Stutzman How is power divided in the United States government? (26) test
• Barbara F. Walter Is the US headed towards another civil war? (24) test
• Noah Feldman Hamilton vs. Madison and the birth of American partisanship (24) test
• Laura L. Dunn It's time for the law to protect victims of gender violence (23) test

Peter Reinhart: The art and craft of bread - test

• Louise Fresco We need to feed the whole world (39) test
• Jackie Tabick The balancing act of compassion (28) test
• Stephanie Warren The chemistry of cookies (21) test
• David Logan Tribal leadership (19) test
• AnnMarie Thomas Hands-on science with squishy circuits (18) test

Peter Saul: Let's talk about dying - test

• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (44) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (44) test
• Linus Torvalds The mind behind Linux (44) test
• Gus Worland Is someone you love suffering in silence? Here's what to do (43) test
• Alison Killing There’s a better way to die, and architecture can help (42) test

Peter Singer: A modern argument for the rights of animals - test

• Emma Marris Are wild animals really "wild"? (41) test
• Robyn J. Crook How do animals experience pain? (41) test
• Jacy Reese Anthis Why we should end animal agriculture (41) test
• Derek Sarno The many reasons to eat a plant-based diet (31) test
• Laurel Braitman Depressed dogs, cats with OCD — what animal madness means for us humans (30) test

Peter Singer: The why and how of effective altruism - test

• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (50) test
• Erez Yoeli How to motivate people to do good for others (47) test
• Esther Duflo Social experiments to fight poverty (47) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (46) test
• Dan Ariely Our buggy moral code (45) test

Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals - test

• Nicola Jones The dangers of a noisy ocean -- and how we can quiet it down (48) test
• Stephanie Sardelis Why do whales sing? (44) test
• Kate Stafford How human noise affects ocean habitats (32) test
• Asha de Vos Why you should care about whale poo (32) test
• Karen Bakker Could an orca give a TED Talk? (31) test

Peter Ward: A theory of Earth's mass extinctions - test

• Tara Djokic This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life (39) test
• Johan Rockström 10 years to transform the future of humanity -- or destabilize the planet (38) test
• Stephen Petranek 10 ways the world could end (38) test
• Stuart Kauffman The "adjacent possible" -- and how it explains human innovation (36) test
• Nathalie Cabrol How Mars might hold the secret to the origin of life (35) test

Peter Weinstock: Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer - test

• Eric Dishman Health care should be a team sport (33) test
• Atul Gawande How do we heal medicine? (30) test
• Edith Elliott and Shahed Alam The most powerful untapped resource in health care (29) test
• Steven Schwaitzberg A universal translator for surgeons (29) test
• Catherine Mohr Surgery's past, present and robotic future (28) test

Peter van Manen: Better baby care -- thanks to Formula 1 - test

• Tim Berners-Lee The next web (54) test
• Giorgia Lupi How we can find ourselves in data (53) test
• Mainak Mazumdar How bad data keeps us from good AI (46) test
• Kenneth Cukier Big data is better data (46) test
• Jennifer Zhu Scott Why you should get paid for your data (45) test

Peter van Uhm: Why I chose a gun - test

• Dan Gross Why gun violence can't be our new normal (38) test
• Diane Wolk-Rogers A Parkland teacher's homework for us all (36) test
• Rachel Kleinfeld A path to security for the world's deadliest countries (31) test
• Zarlasht Halaimzai What it's like to be a war refugee (30) test
• Keith Lowe Why we need to stop obsessing over World War II (30) test

Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen: The rise and fall of the medieval Islamic Empire - test

• Mostafa Minawi The rise of the Ottoman Empire (24) test
• Anne F. Broadbridge The rise and fall of the Mongol Empire (23) test
• Eric Liu Why ordinary people need to understand power (22) test
• Karen Armstrong Let's revive the Golden Rule (21) test
• Karen Armstrong My wish The Charter for Compassion (21) test

Petter Johansson: Do you really know why you do what you do? - test

• Sheena Iyengar The art of choosing (38) test
• Sheena Iyengar How to make choosing easier (37) test
• Renata Salecl Our unhealthy obsession with choice (36) test
• Barry Schwartz The paradox of choice (32) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (32) test

Phil Borges: Photos of endangered cultures - test

• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (44) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (43) test
• Juan Enriquez A personal plea for humanity at the US-Mexico border (40) test
• Giles Duley When a reporter becomes the story (38) test
• Fields Wicker-Miurin Learning from leadership's missing manual (38) test

Phil Hansen: Embrace the shake - test

• Laolu Senbanjo "The Sacred Art of the Ori" (45) test
• Wangechi Mutu The timeless, ancient language of art (38) test
• Shea Hembrey How I became 100 artists (36) test
• Lucas Rizzotto Why I built my own time machine (36) test
• Daniel Lismore My life as a work of art (36) test

Phil Plait: How to defend Earth from asteroids - test

• Stephen Petranek 10 ways the world could end (38) test
• Carrie Nugent Adventures of an asteroid hunter (36) test
• Peter Ward A theory of Earth's mass extinctions (32) test
• Bill Stone Inside the world's deepest caves (26) test
• Charles Elachi The story behind the Mars Rovers (26) test

Phil Plait: The secret to scientific discoveries? Making mistakes - test

• Tabetha Boyajian The most mysterious star in the universe (50) test
• Sara Seager The search for planets beyond our solar system (41) test
• Lucianne Walkowicz Look up for a change (39) test
• Jessie Christiansen What the discovery of exoplanets reveals about the universe (38) test
• Mike Brown The search for our solar system's ninth planet (38) test

Philip A. Chan: How close are we to eradicating HIV? - test

• Janet Iwasa Why it's so hard to cure HIV/AIDS (70) test
• Shereen El Feki HIV -- how to fight an epidemic of bad laws (64) test
• Edsel Salvaña The dangerous evolution of HIV (56) test
• Gareth Thomas How to tackle the stigma of living with HIV (55) test
• Arik Hartmann Our treatment of HIV has advanced. Why hasn't the stigma changed? (52) test

Philip Evans: How data will transform business - test

• Michael Porter The case for letting business solve social problems (36) test
• Leticia Gasca Una nueva manera de hablar del fracaso en los negocios (34) test
• Tim Berners-Lee The next web (33) test
• Jennifer Zhu Scott Why you should get paid for your data (33) test
• Tricia Wang The human insights missing from big data (33) test

Philip Freeman: A day in the life of a Celtic Druid - test

• Philip Freeman The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors (19) test
• Bunker Roy Learning from a barefoot movement (17) test
• Marian Wright Edelman Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty (13) test
• Gabriel Prieto A day in the life of a Peruvian shaman (13) test
• Glen Henry What I've learned about parenting as a stay-at-home dad (13) test

Philip Freeman: The rise and fall of the Celtic warriors - test

• David Logan Tribal leadership (19) test
• Philip Freeman A day in the life of a Celtic Druid (19) test
• Kate Gardoqui How did English evolve? (16) test
• Adrienne Mayor Did the Amazons really exist? (16) test
• Dan Adams A brief history of goths (14) test

Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system - test

• Vivek Maru How to put the power of law in people's hands (44) test
• Martha Minow How forgiveness can create a more just legal system (35) test
• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (35) test
• John Lewis and Bryan Stevenson The fight for civil rights and freedom (35) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (34) test

Philip Lubin: How humanity can reach the stars - test

• Jill Seubert How a miniaturized atomic clock could revolutionize space exploration (34) test
• Harald Haas Wireless data from every light bulb (32) test
• Heidi Hammel and Nadia Drake The marvels and mysteries revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (31) test
• Lucianne Walkowicz Finding planets around other stars (31) test
• Miguel Alcubierre ¿Cómo podríamos viajar más rápido que la velocidad de la luz? (31) test

Philip Renaud and Kenneth Kostel: Could you survive the real Twilight Zone? - test

• Heidi M. Sosik The discoveries awaiting us in the ocean's twilight zone (35) test
• Edith Widder The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence (32) test
• Edith Widder Glowing life in an underwater world (31) test
• Lieven Scheire How quantum mechanics explains global warming (30) test
• Lucianne Walkowicz Light waves, visible and invisible (29) test

Philip Rosedale: Life in Second Life - test

• Christoph Adami Finding life we can't imagine (47) test
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