Dr. Serena Koenig, director of Haiti programs for Partners in Health, isn't afraid to ask the searing questions, especially about global inequalities in health care. With a simple philosophy-equal lives deserve equal treatment-she addresses the dilemma head-on.
Zinhle Thabethe has faced the prospect of her own death. Her personal stories about survival and family loss reflect a nation's epidemic in a sobering and inspirational wake-up call.
Author, futurist, activist and visionary, the inimitable Stewart Brand puts a lens to the next 30 years of the green movement. He sees increasing urbanization, new cities full of young people, the expansion of environmentalism and more.
Hear how executive director of SELF, Robert Freling, is lighting up the developing world and empowering self-sufficiency by delivering solar power to more than 2 billion people on the planet living without electricity.
The creative force behind The Sims series believes a complex way of understanding the world can be gained through very simple rules. Will Wright unveils his next game, Spore, where players are creators who build-and react to-ever-more complexity within their environments.
Twenty minutes may not really be enough time to fully understand the implications of the so-called Fab Lab, invented by the director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms. But it’s a mind-blowing place to start!
A foremost interpreter of religion and culture says we're missing a rest-of-world perspective about faith. Martin Marty invites a broader definition of religion as well as a closer look at its meaning for the majority of the world.
Lester Brown, preeminent environmentalist and head of the Earth Policy Institute, warns that society is too dependent on fossil fuels, and consumption habits must change to maintain a healthy social, economic and environmental balance in the world.
Get inspired by Richard Alley's optimistic view on global warming. This world-renowned paleoclimatologist does have some bad news about climate change, although he'll convince you that we not only have the tools to solve the problem, but we can make money doing it too.
Musician, producer and artist Brian Eno shows how simple things can give rise to complex things—in art and life. See how he uses Darwin’s ecological model of the world as a roadmap for human culture now and in the future.
Profound respect for collective wisdom and traditional skills permeate Bunker Roy's tale of how his Barefoot College empowers local people to improve their communities by demystifying technology and recognizing the dignity of labor.
Neema Mgana is a social entrepreneur, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Pop!Tech Fellow. She gives us an insider's view into work she started last year with Architecture for Humanity in a Pop!Tech match-up. Together, they're creating a community-based health center in the rural Singida region of Tanzania.
As artistic director of the New York-based performance and media ensemble The Builders Association, Marianne Weems shows us how she puts technology at center stage to extend the boundaries of contemporary theater.
Strategist and expert on national security affairs Tom Barnett takes command and focuses in on the role of the United States in a geopolitical world of "core" and "gap" states. As you were, soldier.
Since being detained and interrogated by the FBI as a suspected terrorist, Hasan Elahi has documented his every move in maps and images on the web. He walks us through his "little" self-surveillance experiment, where he's found that the more public his personal information, the more protected he is.
Hear how executive director of SELF, Robert Freling, is lighting up the developing world and empowering self-sufficiency by delivering solar power to more than 2 billion people on the planet living without electricity.
Twenty minutes may not really be enough time to fully understand the implications of the so-called Fab Lab, invented by the director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. But it's a mind-blowing place to start!
Self-proclaimed word geek Erin McKean, editor-in-chief of U.S. Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, is on a mission to debunk common misconceptions and elevate the use-and cool factor-of dictionaries. And what's this about dictionaries being "the vodka of literature"?
Malcolm Gladwell takes the lessons of psychology and sociology and applies them to business in ways we've never thought of before. Here, he deep-dives into the world of office chair invention and soft drink taste tests to answer the question, "Can we believe what people tell us?"
You say you want a revolution? Ivan Marovic's got one for you-a nonviolent one, that is. This Serbian activist is connecting the virtual world to the real world with a video game to promote nonviolent strategies. It's an interactive approach that teaches in a way books and films can't.
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