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Yen Pham: Why should you read Toni Morrison's "Beloved"? - test

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Yeonmi Park: What I learned about freedom after escaping North Korea - test

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Yifat Susskind: In uncertain times, think like a mother - test

• Hawa Abdi + Deqo Mohamed Mother and daughter doctor-heroes (38) test
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Yoav Medan: Ultrasound surgery -- healing without cuts - test

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Yochai Benkler: The new open-source economics - test

• Tanya Menon The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet (38) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (37) test
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• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (37) test
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Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche: How to tap into your awareness -- and why meditation is easier than you think - test

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Yoram Yovell: Why broken hearts hurt — and what heals them - test

• Karen D. Davis How does your brain respond to pain? (56) test
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Yordanos Eyoel: How to build a global pro-democracy movement - test

• Timothy Snyder Is democracy doomed? The global fight for our future (56) test
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Yoruba Richen: What the gay rights movement learned from the civil rights movement - test

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Yossi Elran: Can you solve the prisoner boxes riddle? - test

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Yossi Vardi: We're worried about local warming ... in your lap - test

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Young-ha Kim: Be an artist, right now! - test

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Yuko Morita: Why we need more dogs in hospitals - test

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Yuko Munakata: The science behind how parents affect child development - test

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Yuval Noah Harari: Nationalism vs. globalism the new political divide - test

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Yuval Noah Harari: The actual cost of preventing climate breakdown - test

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Yuval Noah Harari: The war in Ukraine could change everything - test

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Yuval Noah Harari: What explains the rise of humans? - test

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Yuval Noah Harari: Why fascism is so tempting -- and how your data could power it - test

• Tim Berners-Lee The next web (37) test
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Yve Blake: For the love of fangirls - test

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Yves Béhar: A supercharged motorcycle design - test

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Yves Béhar: Designing objects that tell stories - test

• Paola Antonelli Design and the Elastic Mind (39) test
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Yves Béhar: How surfboards connect us to nature - test

• Kelsey Leonard Why lakes and rivers should have the same rights as humans (42) test
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Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify - test

• Paul Hudson and Lindsay Levin Leadership in the age of AI (30) test
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Yves Morieux: How too many rules at work keep you from getting things done - test

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Yves Rossy: Fly with the Jetman - test

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Yvette Alberdingk Thijm: The power of citizen video to create undeniable truths - test

• Peter Gabriel Fight injustice with raw video (36) test
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Yvette Cabrera: The hidden danger of lead in soil - test

• Trevor Copp and Jeff Fox Ballroom dance that breaks gender roles (29) test
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Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: How to turn your dissatisfaction into action - test

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• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (34) test
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• Edi Rama Take back your city with paint (32) test
• Ricardo Semler How to run a company with (almost) no rules (32) test

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: The city planting a million trees in two years - test

• Stefan Al What happens if you cut down all of a city's trees? (42) test
• Carolyn Beans Does planting trees actually cool the planet? (38) test
• Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr How to turn your dissatisfaction into action (37) test
• Willie Smits How to restore a rainforest (36) test
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Yvonne Newbold: How to meet your child's difficult behavior with compassion - test

• Scott Dinsmore How to find work you love (29) test
• Andrew Solomon Love, no matter what (27) test
• Yuko Munakata The science behind how parents affect child development (27) test
• Olivia Remes How to cope with anxiety (25) test
• Judith Heumann Our fight for disability rights -- and why we're not done yet (25) test

Yvonne van Amerongen: The "dementia village" that's redefining elder care - test

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• Gus Worland Is someone you love suffering in silence? Here's what to do (49) test
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• Tanya Menon The secret to great opportunities? The person you haven't met yet (48) test

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