Looping the planet by pedal, paddle, and perseverance
Adventurer, author, and speaker Sarah Outen recently completed an epic five-year, 25,000 mile journey cycling, rowing, and kayaking across the globe. Watch Sarah’s 2016 TEDMED Talk to learn …
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Understanding extreme altruism
Larissa MacFarquhar, staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998, explores the mindset of the magnanimous—particularly of those who find themselves endlessly compelled to help those in need—even …
You smell with your body, not just your nose
Jennifer Pluznick and her lab at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine study the role of our body’s olfactory signaling system. While we generally think of olfactory receptors …
How 3D modeling is reshaping facial prosthetics and rebuilding confidence
Maxillofacial prosthodontist Sujey Morgan creates facial prostheses for people with birth defects, as well as skin cancer survivors and others who have endured traumatic experiences. In her 2016 …
Child sexual abuse is preventable, not inevitable
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Professor Elizabeth Letourneau has devoted her life’s work to changing how people view child sexual abuse. In her 2016 TEDMED Talk, …
Seeing song through the ears of a synesthete
Kaitlyn Hova is not only a professional violinist, composer, full stack web developer, designer, neuroscientist, and core team member of Women Who Code, but she is also a …
Combating infectious diseases with next-generation sequencing
Infectious disease physician and clinical microbiologist Charles Chiu is the director of the Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center at the University of California, San Francisco. Check out …
Science didn’t understand my kids’ rare disease until I decided to study it
Sharon Terry is President and CEO of Genetic Alliance, a network of more than 10,000 organizations, and the founding CEO of PXE International, a research advocacy organization for …
The Housing First approach to homelessness
Lloyd Pendleton began his career as Director of Utah’s Homeless Task Force in 2006 with the goal of functionally eliminating the state’s chronic homelessness problem within 10 years. …
What if robots could process visual information the way humans do?
Sheila Nirenberg, Professor of Neuroscience at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and founder of two startup companies – Bionic Sight LLC and Nirenberg Neuroscience LLC – …