Don’t make people pay for music, says Amanda Palmer. Let them. In a passionate talk that begins in her days as a street performer (drop a dollar…
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Pioneering paleontologist Neil Shubin reveals the deep connections between the cosmos and the human body – from today right back to the Big Bang. Against the epic…
Media that spy on and data-mine the public are capable of destroying humanity’s most precious freedom: freedom of thought. Ensuring that media remain structured to support rather…
The lecture honores the memory and work of Aaron Swartz, the programmer and activist who took his own life on Jan. 11, 2013 at the age of…
Tracing the evolution of the human diet from our earliest ancestors can lead to a better understanding of human adaptation in the past. It may also offer…
An insect’s ability to fly is perhaps one of the greatest feats of evolution. Michael Dickinson looks at how a common housefly takes flight with such delicate…
Since the publication of the human genome in 2001, there has been a fundamental shift in molecular biology research from small scale, hypothesis focused science to larger…
Jerry Porrass research interests are the characteristics of visionary companies in both the United States and Europe; the dynamics of planned organizational change process; organizational vision and…
Susskind explains what he thinks would happen to the information and matter stored in a black hole when it evaporates. This theory sparked from a debate that…
Legendary producer John Lloyd is renowned for his voracious appetite for ideas. In a bid to know ever more about the universe and our place in it,…
Mr. Chomsky gives to us an eloquent historical, present and future perspectives as to the public educational system in the US how he believes it has been…
