In his #1 bestseller, Salt Sugar Fat, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Moss traces the rise of the trillion dollar processed food industry and its link to the obesity epidemic. In powerful keynotes, he shows us how corporations knowingly use salt, sugar, and fat—and the latest in food science—to...

Emily Bazelon is the author of Sticks and Stones, a major new contribution to the national conversation on bullying. Clear-eyed and accessible, Stones was hailed in the New York Times as an "authoritative and important book [that] should not only be read by educators and parents alike, but should...

Adam Alter studies how we think and decide—and how consumers spend and save, doctors diagnose, judges punish, and investors invest. In the New York Times bestseller, Drunk Tank Pink, Alter shows us that so many of those thoughts and decisions are deeply influenced by forces that escape our attention...

Carl Schoonover became a neuroscientist because, simply put, he is fascinated by how the brain works. And he wants to share that enthusiasm (and his findings) with as large of an audience as possible. A TED Fellow mapping the line between art and science, he’s also the co-founder of NeuWrite, a collaboration between...

Is it possible to think like Sherlock Holmes? Psychologist and journalist Maria Konnikova says yes. In her bestselling book, Mastermind, Konnikova skillfully weaves Holmes' fictional persona with modern neuroscience to show how anyone can sharpen their perception, problem solving, and creative skills to become...

Sheila Heti is an acclaimed author of five books. Her latest work, How Should a Person Be?—a “novel from life” about friendship, art, and much else—has struck a chord with a young generation of women and men, for whom this “original, and nearly unclassifiable book” (New York...