Humans

Elizabeth Gilbert shares a new perspective on traditional creative careers.

Books
Arts

Where Does Creativity Come From?

10:57am May 06, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Writer Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses. She shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius.

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Charmian Gooch of Global Witness explains why anonymous companies need to be exposed.

How Do You Expose An Anonymous Company?

10:38am May 06, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Charmian Gooch's mission is to "out" corrupt companies. She details how global corruption trackers follow the money — to some surprisingly familiar places.

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Ash Beckham speaking at TEDxBoulder about how we all have our own closets.

Arts

What's Your Coming Out Story?

10:34am May 06, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Equality advocate Ash Beckham offers a fresh story about empathy and openness — and it involves pancakes.

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Since November 2004, PostSecret founder Frank Warren has received more than 500,000 postcards with secrets written on them.

Why Would You Share A Secret With A Stranger?

10:34am May 06, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

"Secrets ... can be shocking, or silly, or soulful," says Frank Warren, the founder of PostSecret. He shares a few of the half-million secrets that strangers have sent him on postcards.

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Science

Baltimore Police Shooting That Wasn't 'Illustrates Malleable Nature Of Memories'

7:32pm May 05, 2015

NPR's Robert Siegel speaks to Elizabeth Loftus, professor of psychology at the University of California, Irvine, about inventing memories. False reports Monday said a man was shot by Baltimore police.

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Jeopardy Know-it-All Ken Jennings reveals how losing to a supercomputer crushed his pride.

Arts

What Does Losing To A Computer Tell Us About Pride?

4:22pm May 05, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Ken Jennings has made a career of being the know-it-all. But then he challenged a supercomputer, Watson — and lost. Jennings explains how it felt to have a computer beat him and crush his pride.

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Parul Sehgal, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, says literature would hardly exist without the "grim thrill" of envy.

Books
Arts

How Does Envy Help Us Better Understand Ourselves?

4:22pm May 05, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Parul Sehgal, an editor at The New York Times Book Review, says as dangerous as envy can be, it can teach us a lot about who we are and what we really want.

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Nick Hanauer says increasing the minimum wage would be good for the poor and the super rich.

Arts
Economy

How Should We Distribute Our Wealth?

4:21pm May 05, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Nick Hanauer is a rich guy with several houses, but is he greedy? He argues that an increase in minimum wage would be good for everyone.

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Activist Dave Meslin says even though we're apathetic about local politics, we're hardly sloths.

What's The Antidote To Political Apathy?

4:21pm May 05, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

Activist Dave Meslin says even though we're apathetic about local politics, we're hardly sloths.

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Dr. Gary Slutkin says we should think of violence as a contagious disease.

Why Should We Treat Violence Like A Contagious Disease?

4:21pm May 05, 2015

by NPR/TED Staff

While looking at the problem of gun violence, Dr. Gary Slutkin wondered — what if it could be treated like a communicable disease? His program, Cure Violence, aims to do just that, with real results.

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