Play this word game to come up with original ideas | Shimpei Takahashi
Shimpei Takahashi always dreamed of designing toys. But when he started work as a toy developer, he found that the pressure to produce squas...
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Why a good book is a secret door | Mac Barnett
Childhood is surreal. Why shouldn't children's books be? In this whimsical talk, award-winning author Mac Barnett speaks about writing that...
How our stories cross over | Colin Grant
Colin Grant has spent a lifetime navigating the emotional landscape between his father’s world and his own. Born in England to Jamaican pare...
Why lunch ladies are heroes | Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Children's book author Jarrett Krosoczka shares the origins of the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, in which undercover school heroes serve...
Two nerdy obsessions meet -- and it's magic | David Kwong
David Kwong is a magician who makes crossword puzzles -- in other words, a pretty nerdy guy. And for his next trick ...
Two poems about what dogs think (probably) | Billy Collins
What must our dogs be thinking when they look at us? Poet Billy Collins imagines the inner lives of two very different companions. It’s a ch...
And for my next trick, a robot | Marco Tempest
Marco Tempest uses charming stagecraft to demo EDI, the multi-purpose robot designed to work very closely with humans. Less a magic trick th...
For parents, happiness is a very high bar | Jennifer Senior
The parenting section of the bookstore is overwhelming -- it's "a giant, candy-colored monument to our collective panic," as writer Jennifer...
Hidden miracles of the natural world | Louie Schwartzberg
We live in a world of unseeable beauty, so subtle and delicate that it is imperceptible to the human eye. To bring this invisible world to l...
My daughter, Malala | Ziauddin Yousafzai
Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth that many don't want to hear: Women and men deserve equal opportun...
What I learned from going blind in space | Chris Hadfield
There's an astronaut saying: In space, “there is no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse.” So how do you deal with the complexity, th...
What we can learn from galaxies far, far away | Henry Lin
In a fun, exciting talk, teenager Henry Lin looks at something unexpected in the sky: distant galaxy clusters. By studying the properties of...
Meet a young entrepreneur, cartoonist, designer, activist ... | Maya Penn
Maya Penn started her first company when she was 8 years old, and thinks deeply about how to be responsible both to her customers and to the...
Want to be an activist? Start with your toys | McKenna Pope
McKenna Pope's younger brother loved to cook, but he worried about using an Easy-Bake Oven -- because it was a toy for girls. So at age 13,...
How I beat stage fright | Joe Kowan
Humanity's fine-tuned sense of fear served us well as a young species, giving us laser focus to avoid being eaten by competing beasts. But i...
My glacier cave discoveries | Eddy Cartaya
Snow Dragon. Pure Imagination. Frozen Minotaur. These are the names Eddy Cartaya and his climbing partner Brent McGregor gave three glacier...
Massively multi-player… thumb-wrestling? | Jane McGonigal
What happens when you get an entire audience to stand up and connect with one another? Chaos, that's what. At least, that's what happened wh...
The art of misdirection | Apollo Robbins
Hailed as the greatest pickpocket in the world, Apollo Robbins studies the quirks of human behavior as he steals your watch. In a hilarious...
How a penny made me feel like a millionaire | Tania Luna
As a young child, Tania Luna left her home in post-Chernobyl Ukraine to take asylum in the US. And one day, on the floor of the New York hom...
A promising test for pancreatic cancer ... from a teenager | Jack Andraka
Over 85 percent of all pancreatic cancers are diagnosed late, when someone has less than two percent chance of survival. How could this be?...