Wadah Khanfar: A Historic Moment in the Arab World

March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

Wadah Khanfar explains how responsible journalism and the internet became one of the biggest factors for the Arab world to change history.

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David Brooks: The Social Animal

March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

David Brooks explains the roots of the human's socal behavior and how importaint it is that we recognize that we are not rational but in fact, social.

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Sarah Kay: If I Should Have a Daughter

March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

Sarah Kay shares spoken poetry through samples of her own work and through anecdotes of how she became a poet.

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Roger Rosenblatt: Get a Job

April 23, 1998 (about 26 years ago)

Roger Rosenblatt presents the 1998 graduates of Brigham Young University a satirical list of jobs they can dare pursue after graduation.

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Ursula Le Guin: A Left-Handed Commencement Address

May 22, 1983 (almost 41 years ago)

Ursula K. Le Guin urges the women of the graduating class of 1983 at Mills College to see past the common definitions and notions of success and live life on their own terms.

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Roger Ebert: Remaking My Voice

March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

After several accidents and operations, Roger Ebert totally lost his voice, but through technology and the internet, he has found it again. Through Mac's Alex computer voice and the world wide web's social and media platforms.

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Eli Pariser: Beware Online "Filter Bubbles"

March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)

Eli Pariser explains the social and moral implications of filter bubbles that the internet imposes on its users to automatically tailor-fit our searches and clicks without consent.

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Toni Morrison: Be Your Own Story

May 28, 2004 (almost 20 years ago)

Toni Morrison speaks of history, responsibility, happiness and art in her speech to ignite artful hearts within the Wellesley class of 2005.

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Paul Hawken: University of Portland Commencement Address

May 3, 2009 (about 15 years ago)

Paul Hawken gives an unforgettable speech on how to feel alive and acknowledge life to be able to have the heart to actually save life and the planet in which life thrives.

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William Gass: Learning to Talk

June 4, 1979 (almost 45 years ago)

William Gass makes a delightful lyrical exploration of men's inner speech.

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