 Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right back up -- and grow up to be brave women. Learn how to spark a little productive risk-taking and raise confident girls, with stories and advice from firefighter, paraglider and all-around adventurer Caroline Paul. Watch »  MIT grad student Joy Buolamwini was working with facial recognition software when she noticed a problem: the software didn't recognize her own face -- because the people who coded the algorithm hadn't taught it to identify a range of skin tones and facial structures. In this eye-opening talk, hear about the need for accountability in algorithms (as they take over more and more aspects of our lives). Watch » |  For many previous centuries (and for many reasons), creative storytelling has generally come from men, and from a male perspective. As director Jude Kelly points out, there's a more useful, more inclusive way to look at the world, and she calls on artists -- women and men -- to paint, draw, write about, film and imagine a gender-equal society. Watch »  John Koenig loves finding words that express our unarticulated feelings -- like "lachesism," the hunger for disaster, and "sonder," the realization that everyone else's lives are as complex and unknowable as our own. Here, he meditates on the meaning we assign to words and how these meanings latch onto us. Watch » | |
