Lesley Hazleton: On Reading the Koran
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Upon writing a biography of Muhammad, Lesley Hazleton decides to read the Koran. She then realizes the quotes and misquotes that a lot of people today are hearing and being exposed to.
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Liza Donnelly: Drawing Upon Humor for Change
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Liza Donnelly used her cartoons to make people laugh and to make them aware of the rules women have unconsciously followed through the years.
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Eleanor Roosevelt: Speech to the India League
April 6, 1952 (about 72 years ago)Eleanor Roosevelt shares her impressions of India, marvelling and musing at the inspiring developments she had witnessed during her trip there.
0 people like thisNelson Mandela: KWV Award February 2003
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)In this speech, Nelson Mandela accepts the KMV Award in February 2003. He does so with great pride and in the name of the South African people. He states that the Wine Industry is steeped in tradition and history, the challenge is to unite in our diversity in spite of the past.
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Heather Knight: Silicon-Based Comedy
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Heather Knight presents "Data" - a robot filled with jokes and can perform in front of an audience according to the audience's preferences.
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Barack Obama: Remarks by the President at U.S. Coast Guard Academy Commencement
May 18, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)President Barack Obama delivers a commencement address to the US Coast Guard Academy for the class of 2011.
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Bruce Feiler: The Council of Dads
October 2, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Bruce Feiler shares his story of how being diagnosed with cancer changed his life and led him to reach out to his friends and family. He shares how the Council of Dads was brought about to help him nurture his daughters in case he loses to the disease.
0 people like thisNelson Mandela: Address by Former President Nelson Mandela during AIDS Awareness Campaign
November 4, 2000 (over 23 years ago)In this address, Nelson Mandela leads an Awareness campaign against the AIDS epidemic. He talks about HIV/AIDS and its devastating impact. He calls for self-reliance, the African resolve to fight this war. He also stresses the need to take immediate action and to focus on what works against this ...
0 people like thisRobert Leestamper: Richmond College Commencement Address
May 11, 1989 (almost 35 years ago)Robert E. Leestamper shares a well outlined speech that follows all characteristics of a traditional commencement address but added to it is the whimsical yet courage-provoking story of King Arthur and Camelot that aims to inspire the graduates to live up to the Richmond College virtues.
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Thomas Goetz: It's Time to Redesign Medical Data
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Thomas Goetz tries to redesign the modern heathcare system by providing ready information to patients that will encourage them to take action on their health needs without compromising their actual execution.
0 people like thisSpiro Agnew: Television News Coverage
November 13, 1969 (over 54 years ago)U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew questions the civic ethics that underlie television news coverage. Harking back to the broadcast of President Nixon's "Silent Majority" address, he lambasts the networks for their instant commentaries and "querulous criticism."
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Timothy Geithner: Timothy Geithner's Detroit Economic Club Address
April 4, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner speaks to the Detroit Economic Club about the country's economic and financial status. He stipulates the things that the country must put focus on in order to improve the economy.
0 people like thisNelson Mandela: Appeal by Mandela for help in solving Thames murder of a young boy
April 19, 2002 (about 22 years ago)In this speech, Nelson Mandela appeals for help in solving a gruesome murder. An African child was found floating in the Thames river in London and the body was heavily mutilated. He makes this appeal for any information as no one has come forth to identify "Adam" (as the boy was named by Scotlan...
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Mitchell Daniels: Hudson Institute Herman Kahn Award Dinner
October 14, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Mitchell Daniels gives an insightful speech about the ideals of Herman Kahn during the Herman Kahn Award Dinner. He speaks of how Kahn viewed challenges and problems that made him a good and realistic problem solver.
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Barack Obama: Moment of Opportunity: American Diplomacy in the Middle East & North Africa
May 19, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)President Barack Obama speaks to America's foreign policy toward the Middle East amidst the "Arab Spring" as protests and regime changes sweep the region.
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Steve Ballmer: 2011 Commencement Address at the University of Southern California
May 13, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Microsoft's Steven Anthony Ballmer shares three things that the USC graduates should look for and acquire during their professional life to live successfully.
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Cynthia Breazeal: The Rise of Personal Robots
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Cynthia Breazeal talks about the possibility of robots going a notch higher and penetrating the human social life to improve creativity, health and social interaction.
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Michael Pawlyn: Using Nature's Genius in Architecture
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Michael Pawlyn discusses the use of biomimicry in architecture to save energy, recycle resources and improve the environment.
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Chesley Sullenberger: 2011 Commencement Address at the Purdue University
May 15, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)The hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger shares his life story to the Purdue University graduates and advises them to keep their values intact in whatever field they pursue.
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Amit Sood: Building a Museum of Museums on the Web
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Amit Sood demos the GoogleArtProject that contains the different paintings from different museums around the world in billion megapixel resolution.
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Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with Compassion
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Krista Tippett aims to resurrect compassion and give it a more tangible meaning through photographs that stir up this virtue in the hearts of the audience.
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Lisa Gansky: The Future of Business is the "Mesh"
January 1, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Lisa Gansky talks about sharing of technology and amenities the way mesh companies do will help save the environment and our finances.
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Best Man: Max's Best Man Speech
June 3, 2006 (almost 18 years ago)The Best Man shares a short but memorable comedic moment from his friendship with the groom.
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Harvey Fineberg: Are We Ready for Neo-Evolution?
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Harvey Fineberg presents the technology that can induce evolution to favor the characteristics that we choose to have on our offspring. He challenges the human society to be ready for this so-called neo-evolution that may leverage the longevity of the future generations.
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Courtney Martin: Reinventing Feminism
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Courtney Martin talks about hiw feminism is not about hating but making a change through the means you know how to do best.
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John Llewellyn Lewis: Labor and the Nation
September 6, 1937 (over 86 years ago)American labor leader John L. Lewis talks about the struggles of the Committee for Industrial Organization and clarifies its thrust and objectives in response to the various criticisms and allegations that had been leveled against the federation of unions since its establishment. A commentary on...
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Sebastian Thrun: Google's Driverless Car
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Sebastian Thrun introduces self-driving cars that when perfected, may be the future of transportation.
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Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian Revolution
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)The internet has been a powerful tool in the modern world. Wael Ghonim tells about how the Egyptians used this tool to attain the freedom they so longed to have from the people in power.
0 people like thisNelson Mandela: Address at Launch of the HIV/AIDS awareness strategy for the construction industry
October 21, 2002 (over 21 years ago)In this speech, Nelson Mandela speaks on the occasion of the launch of the HIV/AIDS awareness strategy for the construction industry. He declares his pride in being associated in this effort against the pandemic he has described as a war. He ends with the message that the battle starts with aware...
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Susan Lim: Transplant Cells, Not Organs
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Susan Lim's experiences as a surgeon caused her to rethink organ transplanting and shift to thinking about stem cell transplants for safer healing and rebuilding of the human body's diseases and impairments.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Moving Fast and Breaking Things
October 14, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Mark Zuckerberg answers questions from Henry Blodget on how he runs Facebook as a company, having started out the Social Network at nineteen and eventually dropping out from Harvard to become the CEO of a billion-dollar company.
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Suzanne Lee: Grow Your Own Clothes
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Suzanne Lee designs clothes grown from microbes and tea. She expresses her awe at the possibilities in the future this technology may bring about.
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John Boehner: Address to the Economic Club of New York on Jobs, Debt, Gas Prices
May 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)House Speaker John Boehner delivers a speech to the Economic club of New York that depicts his opposition to the current government's ways of solving the economic state in the US. He also says that the only way to solve the economic crisis is to make sure significant cuts are made, allow the coun...
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William Jennings Bryan: Against Imperialism
August 8, 1900 (over 123 years ago)In his acceptance of the Democratic nomination for President, William Jennings Bryan made a stand against the Republican Party's policy towards the Philippines, boldly proclaiming that to establish rule over an unwilling people was to go against the very ideals out of which the American nation em...
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Eric Whitacre: A Virtual Choir 2,000 Voices Strong
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Eric Whitacre creates a virtual choir from Youtube videos of over two thousand people singing a piece from his music composition.
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Paul Root: It's Time to Question Bio-Engineering
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Paul Root shows the progress of bio-engineering through recent discoveries and experiments that invoke some moral questions.
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Rob Harmon: How the Market Can Keep Streams Flowing
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Rob Harmon shows how the stream in Montana survived being dried up with the help of farmers and beer business owners.
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Bruce Schneier: The Security Mirage
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Bruce Schneier explains biases that cause people to make poor trade-offs when it come to security.
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Carlo Ratti: Architecture That Senses and Responds
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Carlo Ratti shows the fying pixel, a way to go from the physical to the digital world but still work with something tangible and not completely virtual.
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Caroline Casey: Looking Past Limits
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Caroline Casey
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Noreena Hertz: How To Use Experts and When Not To
November 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Noreena Hertz encourages people to keep their own decision-making skills on even when consulting experts to avoid mistakes.
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Angela Belcher: Using Nature to Grow Batteries
January 1, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Angela Belcher explains how nature creates materials through its living and non-living components. She ultimately uses viruses to assemble a power source such as a battery.
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Salman Khan: Let's Use Video to Reinvent Education
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Salman Khan changes the way education is perceived in the classroom and creates a whole new virtual learning experience that started from a YouTube video he made for his cousins.
0 people like thisVaclav Havel: Civilization's Thin Veneer
May 1, 1995 (about 29 years ago)Vaclav Havel speaks about politics and the thin sheath of moral that our civilization is covered with in his speech to the 1995 Harvard University graduates.
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Rogier van der Heide: Why Light Needs Darkness
October 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Rogier van der Heide explains how light can be used to enhance art and architecture. He believes that darkness is light's twin that can double the beauty of the architecture.
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Maid of Honor: Best Wedding Speech Ever
March 24, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Little sister Alyssa gives her maid of honor speech for Diana and her new big brother Darren during their wedding.
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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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Madeleine Albright: On Being a Woman and a Diplomat
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Madeleine Albright talks in an interview about how she balanced being the U.S. Secretary of State and being a woman. She tells about how both statuses helped her make heard the issues concerning women rights and the importance of women in the society.
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Mark Zuckerberg: Web 2.0 Summit - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
November 7, 2008 (over 15 years ago)In his interview at the Web 2.0 Summit with John Batelle, Mark Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's revenue, income and the future it is leading the world wide web into.
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Ron Gutman: The Hidden Power of Smiling
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Ron Gutman shoes how smiling can become humanitiy's superpower in order to make one's life better and healthier.
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Isabel Behncke: Evolution's Gift of Play, From Bonobo Apes to Humans
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Isabel Behncke shows how play is important in the lives of the bonobos and how play must also be given importance in human social interactions to increase creativity and diversity.
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JR : Use Art to Turn the World Inside Out
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)JR takes pictures of people and pastes black and white photos around the world to incite change in perspective and try to create a better world through street art.
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Shirley Chisholm: The Twin Jeopardies of Race and Sex
January 1, 1974 (over 50 years ago)Shirley Chisholm gives a rousing speech at the University of Missouri in 1974 on the subject of the black woman in contemporary America.
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Shirley Chisholm: Announcement of Her Run for President
January 25, 1972 (over 52 years ago)Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, announces her Presidential candidacy in 1972 in Brooklyn, NY.
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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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Paul Ewald: Can We Domesticate Germs?
March 1, 2007 (about 17 years ago)Pathogens have always caused great distress to health but Paul Ewald tries to decrease pathogenicity in a practical way such that future generations wouldn't have to be afraid of mutations or resistance from the use of antibiotics.
0 people like thisRoger 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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Nelson Mandela: Message to the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC
June 1, 1985 (almost 39 years ago)In this message, Nelson Mandela expresses his joy for the ANC's second national conference. He tells us of the pride he feels that inspite of distance and time, through effective communication channels the ANC remains a closely knit organization. He is certain that the ANC will come out of this c...
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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.
0 people like thisSting : Berklee University Commencement Address
May 24, 1994 (almost 30 years ago)Sting goes in front of a new crowd, not an audience waiting for a rock band but a group of young people with knowledge-thirsty minds and a bonfire ablaze of passion for music. He challenges them to keep melody, metaphor and silence together as they make their way into music's mysterious heart.
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Bill Gates: How State Budgets are Breaking US Schools
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Bill Gates talks about how the US government is applying budget cuts that will affect education and America's whole future.
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Nelson Mandela: I am Prepared to Die
April 20, 1964 (about 60 years ago)Nelson Mandela gives this statement at the opening of the Rivonia trial. In this speech, Nelson Mandela endeavors to explain what Umkhonto we Sizwe and the African National Congress are, how they were formed and what their goals are. He also lets us take a personal look at his life and what drove...
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Stanley McChrystal: Listen, Learn ... then Lead
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Stanley McChrystal shares his army experiences - both successes and failures - in order to establish what leadership is all about.
0 people like thisNewton Minow: Television and the Public Interest
May 9, 1961 (almost 63 years ago)Newton Minow challenges broadcasters to stop pandering to ratings and to instead produce material that puts to good use the immensely powerful medium they've been entrusted with.
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Nancy Etcoff: The Surprising Science of Happiness
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Nancy Etcoff talks about the science that governs happiness and the factors that hinder a person from feeling or attaining it.
0 people like thisNelson Mandela: Address on Behalf of the ANC Delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa
February 3, 1962 (over 62 years ago)In this address, Nelson Mandela talks before the Pan-African Freedom Movement on behalf of the ANC delegation. He decided to go out of his country to deliver the latest events and provide an accurate account of the situation in South Africa. He talks about their struggle for freedom, what the peo...
0 people like thisWilliam 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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Nelson Mandela: Extracts from Nelson Mandela's Testimony at the Treason Trial 1956-60
January 1, 1956 (over 68 years ago)These are some extracts from Nelson Mandela's testimonies at the Treason Trial, between 1956 and 1960. These entries mostly deal with topics about white supremacy, apartheid, the ANC, the Pan-Africanist Congress, and the current south African government. He also talks about the various means that...
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Juan Enriquez: Mindboggling Science
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Juan Enriquez shows how science, biological engineering and evolution can surprise the world in an ultimate reboot of what we now call the present.
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Eve Ensler: Security
July 1, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)Eve Ensler contemplates on the true meaning of security in the lives of the people she met in her travels and in the stories she compiled for the Vagina Monologues.
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Eve Ensler: Happiness in Body and Soul
February 1, 2004 (over 20 years ago)Eve Ensler talks about how she started the Vagina Monologues: the places she'd been to, the people she met and the realization of what happiness is that came along with it.
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Martha Nussbaum: Compassion and Global Responsibility
May 16, 2003 (almost 21 years ago)Martha C. Nussbaum urges the graduating class to recall and put to heart the cry of Hecuba during the fall of the Trojan Empire. That way, they may realize their role as ambassadors of peace, justice and equality as they move out into the world..
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Charles Elachi: The Mars Rovers
May 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Charles Elachi shows how creativity is important in building and testing vehicles such as the Mars rover in order to gather more information and gain a deeper understanding of our solar system and the universe as a whole.
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Juan Enriquez: Wanting to Grow Energy
September 1, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Juan Enriquez talks about how energy from biofuels can be preserved for the future generations wihtout compromising the energy needs of the present.
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David Christian: Big History
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)David Christian explains the creation of the universe through simple scientific terms in order to help us understand that despite the complexity of our habitat, there exists a law that governs all existence.
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Meg Greenfield: A Better Truth, Williams College, 1987
June 14, 1987 (almost 37 years ago)Meg Greenfield's commencement speech dwells on the search for a better truth through journalism by using the knowledge the human species should have gathered from past mistakes.
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Deb Roy: The Birth of a Word
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Deb Roy describes how an experiment on how his son learned new words led to the ability to take the entire pulse of a nation in common conversation.
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Kathryn Schulz: On Being Wrong
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Kathryn Schulz tells how being wrong is being normal and being wrong is actually accepting that all humanity is in for greater surprise for all the rights that could arise from all the wrongs.
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Corneille Ewango: Hero of the Congo Forest
June 1, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Corneille Ewango tells the story of how he became a botanist and how he strived hard to preserve plant species despite their being ravaged by the wars in Congo.
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Juan Enriquez: Genomics and Our Future
February 1, 2003 (over 21 years ago)Juan Enriquez talks about how important the impact of sequencing genomes can be in the course of life now and in the future.
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Elie Wiesel: The Perils of Indifference
April 12, 1999 (about 25 years ago)Holocaust survivor, author and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel talks about the inhumanity of indifference and expresses hope that society has reaped lessons from its traumatic past. This speech was given during the Seventh Millenium Evening hosted by then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary...
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Daniel Webster: The Dignity and Importance of History
February 23, 1852 (about 172 years ago)Daniel Webster speaks of how history is more than just the elaborate statement of truths and facts but also a reflection of a country's freedom and morals.
0 people like thisDavid Foster Wallace: This is Water
May 21, 2005 (almost 19 years ago)In an address to Kenyon College's Class of 2005, David Foster Wallace shares his understanding of what it means to learn how to think.
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Ken Burns: A Vanguard Against this New Separatism
May 20, 2006 (almost 18 years ago)Georgetown University class of 2006 got inspired by Ken Burns to live with a past to be able to live with a future by strengthening their grasp of history and their love for the arts.
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Douglas MacArthur: Farewell Address to Congress
April 19, 1951 (about 73 years ago)General Douglas MacArthur faces Congress after being relieved of his command due to his public expression of disagreement with the foreign policy of the United States. He defends his position on the Korean War and reiterates a portion of the very statement for which he was dismissed.
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Daniel Webster: The Seventh of March Speech
March 7, 1850 (about 174 years ago)In the midst of the northern states' opposition to southern slavery, Daniel Webster speask to the congress about how peaceful secession is not the answer to the concern on slavery. divding the union will merely result in war and in more tightly-bound slaves.
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Michael Jackson: Heal The Kids
March 4, 2001 (about 23 years ago)Michael Jackson speaks at Oxford about the importance of love in the lives of the young generation to hone them into whole, confident and successful human beings who will shape the world's future.
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Emma Goldman: Address to the Jury
July 9, 1917 (almost 107 years ago)Emma Goldman speaks to the jury about the accusation that they have convinced young men to refuse getting drafted for the war.
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Kofi Annan: Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
December 10, 2001 (over 22 years ago)Kofi Annan speaks during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance about the goal of the UN to contunue upholding human rights in order to keep amity between nations and peoples.
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Angelina Jolie: World Refugee Day 2009 Address
June 20, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Angelina Jolie's opening speech to the 2009 World Refugee Day brought tears to her eyes and earned her a standing ovation after talking about tales of survival of those people she met and who touched her life.
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Herbert Hoover: Remarks Upon Proclaiming the Treaty for the Renunciation of War (Kellog-Briand Pact)
July 24, 1929 (almost 95 years ago)In Herbert Clark Hoover's Remarks Upon Proclaiming the Treaty for the Renunciation of War (Kellog-Briand Pact), he joins the U.S. with the Nations of the World. This treaty represents the entire world coming together to do away with war and reaching settlement of international disputes through pe...
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Nelson Mandela: General Strike
May 1, 1961 (about 63 years ago)In this speech, Nelson Mandela talks about the three day stay-at-home protest in May of 1961. He shows us the economic power that the non-white South African people wield in the face of apartheid and the success of this non-violent protest. He also tells us the many ways in which the government h...
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Nelson Mandela: Black Man in a White Man's Court
October 15, 1962 (over 61 years ago)In these statements made by Nelson Mandela during his trial, he reflects upon himself as a Black man in a White man's court. Nelson Mandela's words are spoken as he defends himself from charges of treason and terrorism. In his defense, he shows us how racial discimination and White supremacy unde...
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C. S. Lewis: The Inner Ring
December 14, 1944 (over 79 years ago)C. S. Lewis, celebrated author of The Chronicles of Narnia, The Screwtape Letters and numerous other works, delivered this speech as a memorial lecture at King's College, University of London. Here, he advises the students to be wary of a great human desire that insidiously turns life into a mad...
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Alice Greenwald: Why Does Memory Matter?
May 18, 2007 (almost 17 years ago)Alice Greenwald mainly speaks to the parents of the graduating class of Sarah Lawrence College in her commencement address for the class of 2007. She speaks of the importance of memory and how it could help us survive as a people who have learned from mistakes and as a people who honor their hist...
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Margaret Thatcher: Speech to Joint Houses of Congress
February 20, 1985 (about 39 years ago)Uk Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher speaks to the joint congress of the United States of America about the peace that both the UK and the US are striving to protect. She stands together with the American nation in helping oppressed and developing countries to attain the freedom and progress they ...
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Michelle Obama: Remarks to the International Olympic Committee
October 2, 2009 (over 14 years ago)First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to the International Olympic Committee to persuade them to have the next Olympic Games in Chicago, not for what the city may get from the Games but for what the Games may offer to change the city.
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Winston Churchill: To the Italian People
December 23, 1940 (over 83 years ago)Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivers a message to the people of Italy stating that despite the good relations of Britain and Italy, war sprung between them as a result of one man's thirst for bloodshed and power.
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Mother Teresa: Keynote Address at the 42nd National Prayer Breakfast
February 3, 1994 (over 30 years ago)Mother Teresa talks about the love that brings peace and condemns abortion as the greatest destroyer of this peace.
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Margaret Thatcher: Speech to Conservative Party Conference 1986
October 10, 1986 (over 37 years ago)Margaret Thatcher campaigns for the conservative party in her speech. She tells about the achievements that the Conservatices have helped achieve for Britain and the opposition of the Labour Party that has not been an effective action towards keeping Britain afloat all the crises they claim the c...
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