Playlist

TED MacArthur Grant winners

A collection of talks from creative individuals striving to bring light to some of the world's most pressing issues.

Rhiannon Giddens

Songs that bring history to life

Kate Orff

Reviving New York's rivers -- with oysters!

Bonnie Bassler

How bacteria "talk"

Bryan Stevenson

We need to talk about an injustice

Manu Prakash

A 50-cent microscope that folds like origami

Colin Camerer

When you're making a deal, what's going on in your brain?

Angela Belcher

Using nature to grow batteries

Joe DeRisi

Solving medical mysteries

LaToya Ruby Frazier

A visual history of inequality in industrial America

Elyn Saks

A tale of mental illness -- from the inside

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The danger of a single story