 All in the Family. The Jeffersons. Good Times -- if you loved these classic, boundary-breaking TV sitcoms, you can thank legendary TV producer Norman Lear. In this intimate, smart conversation with Eric Hirshberg, he, shares with humility and humor, how his tough childhood, and his relationship with "the foolishness of the human condition," has shaped his life and creative vision to this day. Watch »  In some parts of the world, it's easier to get an automatic rifle than a glass of clean drinking water. Is this just the way it is? Physician Samantha Nutt has spent her life treating the young victims of the global arms trade -- and suggests a bold, commonsense solution for ending the cycle of violence. "War is ours," she says. "We buy it, sell it, spread it and wage it. We are therefore not powerless to solve it." Watch » |  Sue Desmond-Hellmann advocates for precision public health -- combining big data, gene sequencing and other high-tech tools with good old-fashioned patient care. As she shows, the approach has already helped cut HIV transmission from mothers to babies by nearly half in sub-Saharan Africa, and now it's being used to fight infant death all over the world. Learn how this new approach to medicine is helping moms have healthier babies. Watch »  Can the way you speak and write today predict your future mental state? In this fascinating talk, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman investigates how the words we use can hint at our inner lives in ways we aren't conscious of -- and details a word-mapping algorithm that could predict the development of schizophrenia. (And listen for a fascinating detour into the very origin of consciousness itself.) Watch » | |
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