Ping Fu knows what it’s like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of…
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Don’t make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar…
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in…
Celebrated author Bill Bryson presents a lecture on the history of science in the Great Hall at the Guildhall in honor of the 350th anniversary of the…
On Sept. 18, 2007, only a month after doctors told him that he had three-to-six months to live following a recurrence of pancreatic cancer, professor and alumnus…
Explorer Ben Saunders wants you to go outside! Not because it’s always pleasant and happy, but because that’s where the meat of life is, “the juice that…
Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking. The author explores the tyranny of positive thinking, and offers a history…
Marco Tempest describes himself as a “cyber-illusionist”. The New Yorker has impressed audiences around the world by mixing traditional magic with technological wizardry. Some have called his…
Most of us believe that the best way to motivate ourselves and others is with external rewards like money-carrot-stick approach. That’s a mistake. The secret to high…
Sir Ken Robinson returns to the RSA to share new thinking on ‘The Element‘ – the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive…
We believe that we should work to be happy, but could that be backwards? In this fast-moving and entertaining talk from TEDxBloomington, psychologist Shawn Achor argues that…
