Would you try to solve problem in mathematics by popular vote. Probably not. And if most people don't know much about math, why do we assume that they know better about politics.Those questions were asked by one of the best writers ever, Horgei Vorhees, and they came in the aftermath of a military coupe that led to the deadliest dictatorship in the history of my country, Argentina. Bores believed that democracy was a superstition, that it has no value. The idea is simple and even intuitive.If most people ar ...

[music] >> Have you ever wondered what it feels like to not hear anything. A break, we are the murmur of your classmate. A soccer field, we are the noise of the fans. A walk through a city, we are the noise of the buses and the car horns.I know what absolute silence is. I was born with profound hearing loss. In other words, if someone puts me on a blind serving near my ear, I can't hear it.So, I'm deaf. When I was 1 and 1/2 years old, I had both of my ears operated on and had implants placed. For most peopl ...

That was a small part of Adios Nino, a famous tangle written by Astro Pasola when his father died and he was away in Puerto Rico and he couldn't be there for to him. Music helped him transcend distance. When our loved ones are sick, distance makes everything worse.My patients, they travel long journeys to undergo difficult surgeries at our center and today that's a great option for them. In fact, in countries like Netherlands, they've taken that to the next level and they've centralized complex surgeries so ...

[music] I got into a brutal argument last week. It nearly ended with a slap in the face. Except the other party sadly didn't have a face.It was an AI bot. But let me give you the context. I run a company that works with think tanks and NOS's that talk about climate, migration, poverty, gender.For the past 15 years, we've helped them get their ideas out and influence public policy. And we did well, until we didn't. Now, many of my clients feel lost in the wilderness.They suspect that no one is listening to t ...

If every love letter was written in Helvetica, would your heart still race? Designer Martina Flor shows how the "gestures" of language, letterforms, quietly dictate what we trust, how we feel, and how we navigate the world. Martina Flor es diseñadora especializada en lettering, autora y educadora, con múltiples premios en su trayectoria. Oriunda de Sudamérica, se radicó en Berlín en 2010, donde fundó su propio estudio especializado en lettering y tipografía personalizada. Desde entonces, colaboró con client ...

[music] Six years ago when I was in high school, I gave a talk on a stage much like this one. I was asked to say what I thought Gen Z superpower was. And my answer was politics.specifically our determination to politicize every aspect of our lives, including our relationships and to confront anyone we knew was wrong. A few years later in college, I did a study abroad program in England. I was three weeks into the semester busy making friends.And then on October 7th, 2023, Hamas attacked Israel. One of my ne ...

[music] I'm a child psychologist, former professor, and tech founder. But none of those titles prepared me for the hardest and most fulfilling role of my life, the role of being a mom. I have dedicated my career to studying children, how they learn, how they heal, how they thrive.My mission has been clear. Help raise generations of happy, resilient kids. And here is the scientific truth.Happy, resilient kids don't come from nowhere. They come from emotionally healthy families. And emotionally healthy famili ...

In 2024, I signed up to do the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Signing up for the 29029 Everesting Challenge in Sun Valley, Idaho. This is an ultra endurance hiking event in which you attempt to climb the vertical equivalent of Mount Everest.29,029 ft. But you do it at a ski run in the summer. You hike 2,000 ft up the mountain and you take the gondola down and you head right back on up.Sounds fun, huh. Well, you do that 15 times and you've got 36 hours on the clock to get it done. In my case, I was ...

[music] In my journey as a student of music, an educator, and a professional musician, I've experienced many shifts in my perspective. One of the most powerful things I've felt and witnessed is what becomes possible when someone is given permission, guidance to explore and express themselves without judgment. When working with students, one of the most meaningful moments is when they stop trying to get it right and begin using music to understand themselves.In that moment, creativity becomes communication. ...

[applause] Yeah. So, I'm here to talk about the climate and how a smarter electric grid is going to help accelerate the transition to a lower carbon energy source. But before I do that, I want to talk about a very different type of smart infrastructure.One that has, I think, a lot of lessons for how these smart grid can evolve. And that is, you probably heard for decades people have talked about smart highways. that the idea is you'd put sensors in the roadways that could measure traffic conditions, have so ...