Guardian columnist and best-selling author Glenn Greenwald spoke on “Endless War, Radical Presidential Power, and a Rotted Political Culture” and then participated in a roundtable conversation moderated…
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Can we feed a population that will grow to nine billion by 2050? Are we running out of land and water? Can we rely on free markets…
This conference concerns the recent innovations and insights for the study of ontologies and socialities engendered through the “species turn” – that is, the intellectual turn to,…
Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for twentysomethings: Contrary to popular belief, your 20s are not a throwaway decade. In this provocative talk, Jay says…
D-Wave Systems builds the world’s first and only commercial quantum computers. The scientists, engineers and executives here are among the many people who have contributed to this…
Distinguished human rights lawyer, barrister and academic, Professor Conor Gearty argues that a new vision of universal freedom is urgently required. In his latest book Liberty and…
Sir Ken Robinson outlines 3 principles crucial for the human mind to flourish – and how current education culture works against them. In a funny, stirring talk…
Cenk Uygur (The Young Turks) sits down with Peter Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist movement and creator of Zeitgeist, The Movie. The Zeitgeist movement’s goal is to…
Richard Wolff is an economist who has studied class issues for more than 40 years. In this animation and audio presentation, Wolff explains what class is all…
What did Charles Darwin, middling schoolboy and underachieving second son, do to become one of the earliest and greatest naturalists the world has known? What were the…
As a child growing up in North Korea, Hyeonseo Lee thought her country was “the best on the planet.” It wasn’t until the famine of the 90s…
