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Sahar Zand is a freelance journalist, television and radio presenter, and documentary maker. Zand has worked for the BBC, Channel 4, and other broadcasters covering both breaking news and in-depth investigations, and specializing in hostile environments. Her work has appeared in The Times, Financial Times, The Spectator, Huffington Post and NPR. | Host | |
Steven Johnson is a popular science author and media theorist. | Host | |
Chris Anderson is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing. | Host | |
David Biello is an award-winning journalist who has been reporting on the environment and energy since 1999. David is currently the science curator for TED. | Host | |
Elise Hu is journalist. She is currently working as a reporter for NPR.Hu began journalism as an intern at WFAA-TV in Dallas between high school and college. She was a founding journalist at the Texas Tribune and a reporter for KVUE-TV and WYFF-TV in Texas. She joined NPR as an international correspondent and Seoul bureau chief for NPR.In addition to reporting for NPR, Hu is also a guest co-anchor on Tech News Today on TWIT, an adjunct instructor for Georgetown University, and an adviser and blogger for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. She hosts a video series on NPR called "Elise Tries."Hu was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She received her B.A. in journalism from the University of Missouri. | Host | |
Whitney Pennington Rodgers is a current affairs curator at TED. | Host | |
Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan entrepreneur and a Consulting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University, he is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. | Guest | |
Yvonne Newbold is a writer, speaker and trainer. | Guest | |
Amy Baxter is the Chief Medical Officer, CEO, and founder at Pain Care Labs. | Guest | |
Alexandr Wang is the Founder & CEO at Scale AI. | Guest | |
Dr. Shane Campbell Staton is an evolutionary biologist. | Guest | |
Ramez Naam is a technologist and science fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the Nexus Trilogy. His other books include The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet and More than Human: Embracing the Promises of Biological Enhancement. He is currently co-chair for energy and the environment at Singularity University. | Guest | |
Dr. Marisa G. Franco is a psychologist and friendship expert. | Guest | |
Sam Hester is a graphic recorder, artist, and comics creator. | Guest | |
Nick Turner is the President of Vera Institute of Justice. | Guest | |
Dan Jørgensen is a politician. | Guest | |
Li-Huei Tsai is a neuroscientist and the director of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. | Guest | |
Hien Nghiem (aka Sister True Dedication) is a nun, editor, author, and former journalist. | Guest | |
Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he studies consciousness and its role in health and disease. He co-directs the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness. | Guest | |
Chen Qiufan is a science fiction writer, columnist, and scriptwriter. | Guest |
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