Political polarization and the dysfunctional rhetoric it spawns doesn’t stop at the classroom door. If we are going to encourage students to engage the complex issues of our age, we need to create spaces of curiosity and productive vulnerability where listening and reflection are prized skills. We need to teach brave, drawing on our own courage even as we make space for students to lean into theirs.

Antibiotics are one of the best tools that modern medicine has, saving millions of lives throughout the years. Unfortunately, the rise of antibiotic resistance bacteria is diminishing their efficacy and endangering the feasibility of most modern medical procedures. Although there has been scarce antibiotic development by the pharmaceutical industry, there are promising innovations coming from basic science research. Irene explains how while trying to understand a bacterial mechanosensor, her team ended up validating a new antibiotic target with very promising properties.

In the eyes of medicine, every one is a life, and every life is worth saving. Dr. Amy Faith Ho explores what it means to be an emergency medicine physician in the face of racism and bias.

A new decade is upon us. Innovation and new ideas are key to expressing culture. However this cannot be done without giving homage to our pasts and human connection. In this performance, Lewis Warren, Jr. celebrates the 250th birthday of Beethoven.

Have you ever wondered why some areas of town seem to have chronic crime? Have you ever felt uneasy when a commentator's analysis of a community ends with "it's been like that for decades"? Have you ever noticed that often the same communities with high crime also suffer from other disparities that impact social determinants of health? Learn how racial inequity and segregation play a key role in creating public health disparities that ultimately threaten public safety.

In this talk, TEDx organizer Klaudia Oliver explains how TEDx helped to make a difference in the world.

For the past two and a half years, two playwrights have been "creatively auditing" the last legacy paper of North Texas, The Dallas Morning News. These writers have turned this investigation into an interactive, theatrical experiment for their community.

Video games are the largest entertainment industry in the world, with a larger combined revenue than the music and movie industries combined. The interactivity and engagement created by video games provides a new way to harness the creativity and ingenuity of humans through entertainment. This talk with show how video games and their techniques have been integrated into you everyday life and are disrupting industries from social media, to education and even machine learning.

Lewis Warren, Jr. and DJ SkinPolitik (RonAmber Deloney) perform a rendition of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata with a spoken word component. The first poems in the piece are by Rita Dove.

Social capital is about building relationships, associations and networks. So often, our focus is transactional and not intentional to build relationships that could be transformative and our proximity has everything to do with it.

Where did the new coronavirus originate, how did it spread so fast -- and what's next? Sharing insights from the outbreak, global health expert and TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh traces the spread of COVID-19, discusses why travel restrictions aren't effective and highlights the medical changes needed worldwide to prepare for the next pandemic. "We need to make sure that every country in the world has the capacity to identify new diseases and treat them," she says.

Teacher Eric Hale talks about what it was like growing up with trauma, and how he has channeled that into his work as an elementary school teacher.

What do the manifestos, diaries, police confessions, and court records of activists who committed violent attacks tell us about aggression in political movements? Based on findings from a multi-country study of political violence in the 1940s and 1950s, Dr. Abu Sarah reveals how daily habits reshape our environment, and why learning the history of human aggression is critical for our future.

Technology has created a new learning economy where graduates will be valued less by what they know and more by what they can learn. Content still matters, but we now need to focus more on the process of change. If we want students to become more skeptical, better able to integrate new information and adaptable to jobs that do not yet exist, then we need to focus education on a new 3Rs of Relationships, Resilience and Reflection. José Antonio Bowen has been leading innovation and change for over 35 years at Stanford, Georgetown and the University of Southampton (UK), then as a dean at Miami University and SMU and as President of Goucher College (voted a Top 10 Most Innovative College under his leadership). Bowen has appeared on five continents as a pianist and conductor and withStan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Liberace, and many others. His compositions include a symphony(nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music in 1985), and music for Jerry Garcia. Bowen holds four degrees from Stanford University, has written over 100 scholarly articles, is editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting (2003), and an editor of the 6-CD set, Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (2011).

How does an indigenous woman end up as a National Geographic photographer, TED Senior Fellow, Stanford Knight Fellow and most recently Cinereach FIR Fellow? Come enjoy the skillful story telling of Camille Seaman as she shares the inspirational and serendipitous details of her life’s journey. Camille Seaman is a photographer whose work focuses on the fragile environments, extreme weather, and stark beauty of the natural world—from the deep greys of supercell storm clouds to the shocking blue of icebergs. As a TED Fellow and speaker, she urges us to connect to our surroundings: “I was taught from a very young age that we are connected to everything, that everything has a life force.”

Camille strongly believes in capturing photographs that articulate that humans are not separate from nature. Her work has been featured globally in publications, including National Geographic and TIME and The New York Times. She has won many awards, is a Senior TED Fellow as well as a Stanford Knight Fellow. Seaman advocates the importance of recognizing the relationship between humans and their natural surroundings. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

Archaeologist Becca Peixotto is part of a team of six women scientists who helped uncover an ancient human relative, Homo naledi, from deep underground in a cave in South Africa. She shares the journey through the complex and narrow passages of the cave and her own winding path to archaeology as well as the spirit of curiosity, exploration, and risk taking that lead to both ground-breaking discoveries and personal ones. Becca Peixotto, Ph.D., remembers as a child finding artifacts around her grandparents’ old farmhouse in Vermont and keeping them in a "museum" on shelves in the garage. However, it wasn’t until Peixotto went back to graduate school after a career as an outdoor educator that her passion for archaeology flourished. She earned her BA from the University of Alabama-Huntsville, an MA from the Universiteit van Amsterdam, and an MA in public anthropology and her Ph.D. at American University in Washington, DC, where she later served as Archaeologist in Residence. In between, she taught at outdoor science schools, managed high ropes courses, led wilderness expeditions in mountain and desert environments for youth and adults, and enjoyed many personal adventures in the United States and abroad.

There's a problem inherent in the climate crisis: We don't live long enough to truly feel it. Academics call this "shifting baseline syndrome" -- the idea that environmental change happens too slowly to trip our alarm bells. Journalist and filmmaker John D. Sutter is directing a longitudinal film series -- BASELINE -- that aims to be an antidote by documenting four locations on the frontlines of change every five years, until 2050. John D. Sutter is an EMMY-nominated documentary filmmaker who is directing “Baseline,” a film series that tells the story of the climate crisis beyond a human lifetime. He is an Explorer with the National Geographic Society, where he is developing the “Baseline” project. Sutter spent 10 years as a reporter, columnist and producer at CNN, most recently as a senior investigative reporter. He continues to work for CNN as a climate analyst. Sutter’s work has twice been nominated for an EMMY — for science reporting and new approaches to documentary. He is the recipient of the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, the Peabody Award, the Batten Medal for Public Service, the Foreign Press Association Media Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award, among others. He’s a former fellow at Harvard’s Nieman Foundation for Journalism and at UnionDocs, a center for documentary art in Brooklyn.

Geologist and explorer David Gallo shares jaw-dropping photography and videography from under the surface of the ocean, including footage from the Titanic wreckage. David Gallo is the senior adviser for Strategic Initiative at the Center for Climate Life Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University. For more than 25 years, David Gallo has been at the forefront of ocean exploration, participating in and being witness to the development of new technologies and scientific discoveries that shape our view of planet earth.

Artist Alicia Eggert explores how the concepts of time have influenced her work, which is often ephemeral in nature. Alicia Eggert is an interdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the relationship between language, image and time. Alicia's work has been exhibited at notable institutions nationally and internationally, including the CAFA Art Museum in Beijing, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Corning Museum of Glass in New York, the Amsterdam Light Festival, the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA2012) at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History in New Mexico, Sculpture By the Sea in Sydney, Australia, and many more. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Galeria Fernando Santos (Porto, Portugal), The MAC (Dallas, TX), T+H Gallery (Boston, MA), Harvard Medical School (Boston, MA), and Artisphere (Arlington, VA). Alicia’s work is represented by Galeria Fernando Santos in Porto, and Liliana Bloch Gallery in Dallas.