Nelson Mandela: Speech by President Mandela at the opening of the "One City Many Cultures" Project
March 1, 1999 (about 25 years ago)In this speech, Nelson Mandela opens the "One City Many Cultures" project. He talks about apartheid, colonialism, and division in Cape Town. Due to the city's diversity, he calls upon reconciliation and the building up of the various cultures in this society. He urges us to repair and unite as on...
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Nina Tandon: Caring for Engineered Tissue
March 1, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Nina Tandon talks about the importance of cells in the human ability to survive. She also hints on the research she is doing about electrically stimulating engineered organs for experimentation and replication.
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Jacqueline Novogratz: Inspiring a Life of Immersion
December 1, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Jacqueline Novogratz lived in different places with different people to understand their culture. She shares the things she learned and the stories of the people she met whom she believed tried to make the the world a better place.
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Jennifer 8. Lee: Jennifer 8. Lee Hunts for General Tso
July 1, 2008 (almost 16 years ago)Jennifer 8. Lee recounts the common misconceptions about Chineses food in the American culture.
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Denis Dutton: A Darwinian Theory of Beauty
February 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Dennis Dutton talks about how beauty is an innate and ancient tagging of our minds to soemthing done with excellence and perfection.
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James Howard Kunstler: Dissecting Suburbia
February 1, 2004 (about 20 years ago)In this talk, Social critic James Howard Kunstler tells us about Suburbia. He shows us places in the US which are not worth caring about. He stresses that America needs to have it's sense of identity and culture depicted in it's public spaces to transform it into a country worth defending.
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Liz Coleman: Call to Reinvent Liberal Arts Education
February 1, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Liz Coleman talks about how students are losing touch with the human heart as technology requires the neutrality and the unbiased thinking for technical mastery.
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Wade Davis: The Worldwide Web of Belief and Ritual
February 1, 2008 (about 16 years ago)Wade Davis shows humanity's rich cultural diversity that we should learn to preserve despite the aspiration to become a modern society of people.
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Ben Cameron: The True Power of the Performing Arts
February 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Ben Cameron talks about how the performing arts could be annihilated by the overflow of technology at the same time pushed forward into a new era of more creativity and opportunities once the performing arts industry realizes that it is better to go with the flow of modernity.
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Virginia Postrel: On Glamour
February 1, 2004 (about 20 years ago)In this talk, Journalist Virginia Postrel tells us about glamour. She describes the different kinds of glamour and what goes on behind-the-scenes to achieve this. She also defines the changing meaning of this word.
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