👁Could CBD help opioid users overcome addiction?
🧠Yasmin Hurd
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Could CBD, a chemical compound found in the cannabis plant, help treat opioid addiction? Neuroscientist Yasmin Hurd discusses why current treatment strategies, such as methadone, aren't enough to end the opioid epidemic -- and shares how CBD could help reduce the cravings and anxiety associated with drug use and relapse, potentially providing a new, safe and nonaddictive therapy.
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👁The Black history of twerking -- and how it taught me self-love
🧠Lizzo
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Twerking is mainstream now ... but do you know where it came from? Superstar Lizzo traces booty shaking to a traditional West African dance and tells how Black women across generations kept the rhythm alive, from blues and jazz singers to modern rap and hip-hop performers. With her characteristic energy, she shares how twerking empowered her to love her own body -- and explains why understanding its origins helps protect Black culture from erasure and misappropriation. (And, yes, she twerks on stage.)
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👁A riddle of ice and fire dragons
🧠Henri Picciotto
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣It's your first day as Center Realm's official cartographer, and you've already got a big problem. Center Realm is home to three elder dragons: two ice, one fire, and they've lived in harmony for centuries. But scouts have sighted three fire dragons and five ice dragons flying towards the region. Can you figure out where to place the new dragons? Henri Picciotto shows how. [Directed by Igor Coric, Artrake Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Cem Misirlioglu, Greg Chudzik].
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👁The courage to live with radical uncertainty
🧠Shekinah Elmore
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣When your future is uncertain, how do you keep moving forward? In this courageous talk, oncologist and cancer survivor Shekinah Elmore shares how she embraced life after a rare genetic diagnosis -- and explains why she believes doctors have a duty to help their patients learn to live with radical uncertainty.
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👁Stop being a bystander in your own life
🧠Tracy Edwards
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣"Life doesn't go from A to B -- it's messy," says sailing legend Tracy Edwards. In this inspiring talk, she tells how she went from teenage misfit to skipper of the first all-female crew in the toughest race on the seas -- and how she now helps young people around the world achieve their dreams, too.
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👁History vs. Tamerlane the Conqueror
🧠Stephanie Honchell Smith
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣He was born in the 1330s in the Chaghatayid Khanate, formerly the Mongol Empire. On the steppe, he rose from a lowly sheep thief to become one of history's greatest conquerors, uniting nearly all of Central Asia, Afghanistan, and Iran under his rule. But was he a great state builder or a bloodthirsty tyrant? Stephanie Honchell Smith puts this controversial figure on trial in History vs. Tamerlane. [Directed by Brett Underhill, PorkchopBob Studio, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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👁How to support and celebrate living artists
🧠Swizz Beatz
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Legendary hip-hop producer Swizz Beatz is on a mission to revolutionize the way artists do business. In this glorious talk, he shares some of the ways he's helping fellow creatives thrive, including a roving art fair that gives artists 100 percent of their sales, a new commission system for galleries to fund living visual artists and Verzuz, online musical celebrations that bring joy to fans -- and sales to musicians. "If we're not protecting the arts, we're not protecting our future," he says.
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👁If you're scared of snakes, watch this
🧠Andrew Whitworth
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣As of 2021, there are 368 species of viper worldwide. The name comes from the term viviparity, which means giving birth to live young. Vipers are often highly venomous, with two hollow, extra long fangs that unfold into imposing weapons when the viper prepares to strike. So, which are the most dangerous? Andrew Whitworth travels around the world to visit some of nature's most incredible snakes. [Directed by Billie Baxter, narrated by Jack Cutmore-Scott].
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👁A path to higher education and employment for refugees
🧠Chrystina Russell
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Out of the more than 70 million displaced people worldwide, only three percent have access to higher education. The Global Education Movement (GEM) is on a mission to change that with the first large-scale initiative of its kind to help refugee learners get bachelor's degrees and create pathways toward employment. Hear from students and the program's executive director, Chrystina Russell, about how GEM's flexible, competency-based model sets graduates up for success and empowerment wherever they are.
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👁How racial bias works -- and how to disrupt it
🧠Jennifer L. Eberhardt
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Our brains create categories to make sense of the world, recognize patterns and make quick decisions. But this ability to categorize also exacts a heavy toll in the form of unconscious bias. In this powerful talk, psychologist Jennifer L. Eberhardt explores how our biases unfairly target Black people at all levels of society -- from schools and social media to policing and criminal justice -- and discusses how creating points of friction can help us actively interrupt and address this troubling problem.
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👁Ethical dilemma: Who should you believe?
🧠Alex Worsnip
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣You're sitting on the couch, when you hear a knock on the door. The police have arrived to arrest your spouse— for murder. This accusation comes as a total shock, but their fingerprints were found on the murder weapon. Your spouse insists they're innocent. Should you believe your spouse, even though the evidence against them looks damning? Alex Worsnip takes a look at this classic ethical dilemma. [Directed by Emily Howells and Aaron Brady, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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👁Ukraine's fight to keep educating its children
🧠Zoya Lytvyn
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed so much -- including hundreds of schools, where the country's children were forging their futures -- but it has not stopped Ukrainians from pursuing knowledge and curiosity. In a deeply moving talk, education leader Zoya Lytvyn shares her first-hand experience evacuating Kyiv and takes us inside the ongoing effort to continue educating children amid war and destruction. "As long as our children keep learning and our teachers keep teaching -- even while they are starving in shelters under bombardment, even in refugee camps -- we are undefeated," she says.
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👁The myth of Hades and Persephone
🧠Iseult Gillespie
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣One day, Persephone was frolicking in a meadow with the nymph, Cyane. As they admired a flower, they noticed it tremble in the ground. Suddenly, the earth split, and a terrifying figure arose. It was Hades, god of the underworld. He wrenched Persephone from Cyane, dragged her into his inky chariot, and blasted back through the earth. Iseult Gillespie shares the myth of the goddess of spring. [Directed by KERO Animation Studio, narrated by Susan Zimmerman, music by Stephen LaRosa].
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👁A dose of reality about generic drugs
🧠Katherine Eban
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Investigative journalist Katherine Eban set out to report on a seemingly straightforward question: Are generic drugs really identical to their brand-name counterparts? The answer sparked a decade of interviews, meetings with whistleblowers, on-the-ground reporting across four continents and digging into confidential FDA documents. In this alarming talk, she takes us inside overseas manufacturing plants and exposes the fraud behind many low-cost generic medicines.
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👁Why are cockroaches so hard to kill?
🧠Ameya Gondhalekar
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣In ancient Egypt, there was a spell that declared, "Be far from me, O vile cockroach." Thousands of years later, we're still trying to oust these insects. But from poison traps to brandished slippers, cockroaches seem to weather just about everything we throw at them. So, what makes cockroaches so hard to kill? Ameya Gondhalekar digs into the genetic wonders of this troublingly tenacious creature. [Directed by Irida Zhonga, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Phil Brookes].
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👁How drawing can set you free
🧠Shantell Martin
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Who are you? To answer this question, artist Shantell Martin followed her pen. In this brilliantly visual talk featuring her signature freestyle line work -- drawn across everything from the screens of Times Square to the bodies of New York City Ballet dancers -- Martin shares how she found freedom and a new perspective through art. See how drawing can connect your hand to your heart and deepen your connection with the world.
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👁How to turn your dissatisfaction into action
🧠Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣After the devastating rebel invasion of Freetown in 1999 and the Ebola epidemic in 2014, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of the city, refused to be paralyzed by her frustration with the status quo. Instead, she used her anger as a catalyst for action. In this inspiring talk, she shares how she transformed her city by taking the risks necessary to bring about dramatic change -- and shows how you can find power in your dissatisfaction.
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👁The dark history of zombies
🧠Christopher M. Moreman
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣Zombies have a distinct lineage— one that traces back to Equatorial and Central Africa. For three centuries, African people were enslaved and brought to the Caribbean Islands. There, a religion known as vodou developed, along with the belief that a person's soul can be captured and stored, becoming a body-less zombie. Christopher M. Moreman uncovers the true origins of the undead. [Directed by Kaspar Jancis, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Salil Bhayani, cAMP Studio].
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👁The link between climate change, health and poverty
🧠Cheryl Holder
🗣Subtitle: 🇹🇷Turkish | 🇬🇧English

👣For the poor and vulnerable, the health impacts of climate change are already here, says physician Cheryl Holder. Unseasonably hot temperatures, disease-carrying mosquitoes and climate gentrification threaten those with existing health conditions, while wealthier people move to higher ground. In an impassioned talk, Holder proposes impactful ways clinicians can protect their patients from climate-related health challenges -- and calls on doctors, politicians and others to build a care system that incorporates economic and social justice.
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How the James Webb Space Telescope will unfold the universe