- Eva Vertes, And The Future of Medicine
- Richard Dawkins urges all atheists to openly state their position -- and to fight the incursion of the church into politics and science. A fiery, funny, powerful talk.
- Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco flies us all to Saturn
- Brian Cox on CERN's supercollider
- Paul Stamets and, 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
- Steven Pinker and, the myth of violence
- Susan Blackmore, Memes and "Temes" - Susan Blackmore studies memes: ideas that replicate themselves from brain to brain like a virus. She makes a bold new argument: Humanity has spawned a new kind of meme, the teme, which spreads itself via technology -- and invents ways to keep itself alive.
- Mark Bittman weighs in on what's wrong with the way we eat now.
- "Renegade lunch-lady," Ann Cooper talks school lunches.
- Michael Pollan's plant's-eye View.
- Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on Apes
- Erin McKean and the Dictionary: As the CEO and co-founder of new online dictionary Wordnik, McKean is reshaping not just dictionaries, but how we interact with language itself.
- Steven Levitt shares data that shows car seats are no more effective than seatbelts in protecting kids from dying in cars; however, during the question and answer session, he makes one crucial caveat
- Adam Grosser and the sustainable fridge
- Sugata Mitra's experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they're motivated by curiosity and…
- Linguist Steven Pinker questions the very nature of our thoughts -- the way we use words, how we learn, and how we relate to others.
- Chris Abani on Humanity
- Nellie McKay
- Patricia Burchat shedding light on Dark Matter
- Garrett Lisi, physicist and surfer, presents a controversial new model of the universe
- Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
Acclaimed Chilean economist Manfred Max-Neef; he won the Right Livelihood Award in 1983, two years after the publication of his book Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics.
