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Melissa Ferrick
Salon Performance: Melissa Ferrick
Max Krasnow
Altruism Is Selfish, And That’s Ok
Bethany Burum
Why Is Morality So Puzzling?
Boston Dance Theater
Salon Performance: Boston Dance Theater
Erik Thulin
Saving Nature With Behavioral Science
Scott Lindell
Farming The Ocean To Feed The World
Sonia Olla & Olivia Pérez Collellmir
Salon Performance: Sonia Olla & Olivia Pérez Collellmir
Cansu Canca
How To Solve AI’s Ethical Puzzles
Kade Crockford
Why Face Surveillance Must Be Banned
2019
Ruby Rose Fox
Event Performance: Ruby Rose Fox
Anthony Jack
On Diversity: Access Ain’t Inclusion
Dorsa Amir
How Industrialization Changed Childhood
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Why We Should Be More Sexist
Ashley Whillans
A Simple Strategy For Happiness
Erin Kelly
Who Belongs In Prison?
Rafael Campo
How Poetry Heals Us
Will Dailey
Event Performance: Will Dailey
2018 Salons
Anjimile
Salon Performance: Anjimile
Laura Gee
Certainty Inspires Action
David Rand
How You Can Help Combat Fake News
Molly Zenobia
Salon Performance: Molly Zenobia
Esteban Moro
Overcoming Urban Isolation
Matthew Claudel
Civic Innovation: A Future For Cities & Technology
Kate Jeffrey
Why Are Diseases Of Affluence & Age Rising?
Robert Moir
Are Infections Causing Alzheimer’s Disease?
2018
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Cultivating Wisdom: The Power Of Mood
Sebastian Buckup
Breaking Big: Fixing Our Godzilla Problem
Joel Salinas
We’re All Weird And That’s Normal
Andrew McAfee
Dematerialization: Humanity’s Biggest Surprise
Andrea Lauer
“Untitled” The Future Of How We Work
Erez Yoeli
Harnessing Reputations To Inspire Altruism
Tony Luciani
A Visual Diary: On Dementia & Caregiving
2017 Salons
Daniela Rus
Unleashing Your Inner Maker
Andrew Lo
Hacking Humanity
Jessika Trancik
How To Make Technology Solve Big Problems?
Polina Anikeeva
Why You Shouldn’t Upload Your Brain To A Computer
Iyad Rahwan
Why We Need A New, Algorithmic Social Contract
Kevin Esvelt
Can We Engineer Social Ecosystems?
R.D. King
Salon Performance: R.D. King
2017
Michael & Amy Port
How To Perform During Life’s High Stakes Moments
Glenn Cohen
Are There Non-human Persons? Are There Non-person Humans?
Mike Boston
What Freedom Of Expression Really Means
Tsedal Neeley
Why Global Success Depends On Separating Language & Culture
Dheeraj Roy
Do We Really Forget In Alzheimer’s?
Phunk Phenomenon
Event Performance: Phunk Phenomenon
2016 / Fall
David Autor
Why Are There Still So Many Jobs?
Iyad Rahwan
The Social Dilemma Of Driverless Cars
Tricia Wang
The Cost Of Missing Something
Laura Gassner Otting
Stop Asking “How Can I Help?”
Mark Gendreau
How To Stay Healthy
Janet Wu
Redefining Happiness
MASARY Studios
Event Performance: MASARY Studios
2016 / Spring
Luminarium Dance
Event Performance: Luminarium
Brian Olson
Engineering Elections Without Bias
Rebecca Saxe
Baby Brains: Unlocking Our Humanity
Susan Schneider
Can A Robot Feel?
Jon Feinman
Stopping The Cycle Of Incarceration
Kevin Esvelt
Openly Engineering Our Ecosystems
Adam Melonas
Food As A Religion
MASARY Studios
Event Performance: MASARY Studios
2015 / Fall
Daniel Koh
What Government Can Learn From Baseball
Andrew Lo
Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?
Mina Cikara
When ‘I’ Becomes ‘We’
Primavera De Filippi
From Competition To Cooperation
Adam Cohen
Lighting Up The Brain
Julie Shah
Engineering Intelligent Machine Teammates
2015 / Spring
Gina Razón
Learning To Breathe Again
Bernat Olle
Ending The War On Microbes
Kayla Montgomery
Multiple Sclerosis Made Me A Better Runner
Hasier Larrea
What If Furniture Had Superpowers?
Sebastian Wernicke
Better Decision Making, As Seen On TV
Polina Anikeeva
Rethinking The Brain Machine Interface
Sep Kamvar
Cultivating Organic Learning Environments
2014 / Fall
Lotfi Merabet
Blindness Is Just Another Way Of Seeing
Tali Sharot
How To Motivate Yourself To Change Your Behavior
Gabriel Stulman
A Winning Recipe: Lessons From Restaurants On Engaging Your Team
Tyler Jacks
Life Lessons From 34 Years Of Fighting Cancer
Colleen Macklin
What We Learn From Recess
Linda Hill
Collective Genius: The Key To Leading Innovation
Peter Hurley
Anna Rowley
Bridging The Self-Acceptance Gap With “Psyphotology”
2014 / Spring
Sebastien Christian
How Words Create Worlds
Hamid Ghanadan
Persuading The Scientific Mind
Tobias Otting
We All Have A Voice
Max Tegmark
Consciousness Is A Mathematical Pattern
Maggie Campbell
Living A Life Without Compromise
Tom Asacker
Why TED Talks Don’t Change People’s Behaviors
Christopher Ahlberg
Navigating The Future With Web Data
2013
Sara Seager
A Real Search For Alien Life
Bruce Schneier
The Battle For Power On The Internet
Todd Rogers
Turning Mass Intention Into Mass Action
Deepak Jagdish
Daniel Smilkov
The Power Of Metadata
Zeynep Ton
The Good Jobs Strategy
Manolis Kellis
Decoding A Genomic Revolution
Ariel Diaz
Inverting The Curriculum