Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)In this talk, Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells us about the danger of the Single story. She narrates how she got started in writing and the many experiences she's had with the African Single story. She emphasizes that stories contain power and that we need many stories to get a tue measure of wh...
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Brian Cox: Why We Need the Explorers
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Brian Cox brings the audience with hime to outer spcae through breath taking photographs from explorations to show just how important our planet is to us despite it being just a pale blue dot.
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Alain de Botton: A Kinder, Gentler Philosophy of Success
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Alain de Botton's insights on success sheds light on the pros and cons of a meriticratic society.
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Craig Venter: On the Verge of Creating Synthetic Life
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Craig Venter shows new techology and techniques to make an entirely different single-celled organism into a new species by replacing the genome.
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Doris Kearns: Learning from Past Presidents
February 1, 2008 (over 16 years ago)Doris Kearns recounts the lives of two past US prsidents and shares her own experiences to define what life should all be about.
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Randy Pausch: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
September 18, 2007 (over 16 years ago)In this wonderful talk, Professor Randy Pausch tells us about fulfilling childhood dreams and living life. He narrates his childhood dreams and explains how he got to making them come true. He talks about his project that helped countless students to never give up trying to reach for their dreams...
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life
April 9, 1967 (about 57 years ago)Martin Luther King talks about the completeness of life in terms of length, breadth and depth as the perfection of God's kingdom in the day of Jesus' return.
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Garik Israelian: How Spectroscopy Could Reveal Alien Life
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Discovery of life outside Earth is deemed possible through spectroscopy as explained by Garik Israelian.
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Carolyn Porco: Could a Saturn Moon Harbor Life?
February 1, 2009 (over 15 years ago)In this short yet exciting talk, Planetary scientist Carolyn Porco reports to us that a Saturn Moon can possibly harbor life. She tells us about the discoveries that they have found on Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons - leading us to imagine a future destination in our solar system.
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Becky Blanton: The Year I Was Homeless
July 1, 2009 (almost 15 years ago)Journalist Becky Blanton recounts how she chose to be homelss, fell into depressions and finally seeing hope, got back up again to write and live a more meaningful life.
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