Why do we celebrate appearance over ability in sports? Performance scientist Dominique Condo explores why so many elite female athletes — women with Olympic medals, world records and championship trophies — report body image concerns…
Llion Jones cowrote “Attention Is All You Need,” the seminal paper that introduced the transformer — the architecture that launched the generative AI revolution. Now he warns that the industry that grew out of this…
How do you build a lifetime of love? After analyzing 450 couples across more than 40 countries, relational psychotherapist Sara Nasserzadeh discovered six essential ingredients for successful relationships (hint: it’s not just about sexual chemistry)….
Your skin heals after a scratch. What if our roads, bridges and cities could self-repair after getting damaged, too? Scientist and engineer Mark Miodownik describes a new class of materials — animate matter — with…
When it comes to sports, is there anything more evocative — and elusive — than “the zone”? That mythical place an athlete goes to where focus is laser-sharp, nothing can go wrong and time just…
As AI tools get better at making music, will there be a time when machines move people more than musicians? Putting that question to the test, legendary hitmaker Jason “Poo Bear” Boyd joins journalist Elise…
After building a smartphone app to bring eye care to millions of people in remote areas, eye surgeon and TED Fellow Andrew Bastawrous confronted a new question: What do we lose when health care chases…
As AI agents take over more tasks at work, the question isn’t whether or not humans matter — it’s how we make our impact count. Leadership expert Vinciane Beauchene challenges some commonly held assumptions about…
There’s a common African proverb: “When elephants fight, it’s the grass that suffers.” Policy researcher Nanjira Sambuli says we must apply this thinking to today’s AI evolution, asking: When tech giants battle for dominance, who…
Can anyone become happier? Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky studies this question in her lab, doing experiments on “happiness interventions” to see what kinds of actions elicit this sought-after emotion. In a quick talk, she shares the…
