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Robert Sapolsky is an American neuroendocrinologist and author. He is currently a professor of biology, and professor of neurology and neurological sciences and, by courtesy, neurosurgery, at Stanford University. Recorded: May 2017
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On the 8th of March - International Women's Day - here are 8 steps decision makers must take to support women and girls fighting for their rights in the most difficult places on Earth.
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Sabine Lichtenfels, born in 1954, is a theologian, peace activist, author, and co-founder of Tamera, a peace research and education center and intentional community in Portugal. She leads Tamera’s Global Love School which works on the ethical foundations for a new culture
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Trump supporters and immigrants come together to find middle ground. Together, they discuss President Trump's policies and media bias in portraying both sides.
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In order to shift the broken meat and dairy system, Greenpeace has one ambitious goal: the reduction of meat and dairy production and consumption by at least 50% by 2050. If left unchecked, agriculture is projected to produce 52% of global greenhouse gas emissions in the...
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This video will ask the question “Do we live in a patriarchy?” In order to answer the question we examine the ideas of three different cultural critics: Angela Nagle, Jordan Peterson, and Nina Power.
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Game of Thrones is all about power games. What many people don't realize is that behind those power games are clashes of the way people see the world. There are clashes of frames. The people who can control these frames (like Tyrion Lannister and Tywin Lannister) tend to win...
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Have you seen the Jordan Peterson and Cathy Newman debate? We've all found ourselves in conversation and felt attacked like we started off talking about one thing and then the other person twisted our words and before we knew it, we lost our cool, lost respect in their eyes...
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So I took my camera to the Nordic Men's Gathering... to capture the birth of what is being called Men's Movement 2.0. This is a brilliant discussion between two people I am proud to call friends and mentors - Rafia Morgan and Alexander Bard. -
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Jordan Peterson sits down with the CBC’s Wendy Mesley to talk about political polarization, Pepe the Frog and his support from the far right. He has a new book called 12 Rules for Life: an Antidote to Chaos. Peterson sparked controversy in 2016, when he spoke against a...
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Big trucks, tough sports, not being allowed to cry at Toy Story? Geez. It must be really hard to be a man, man. And while the patriarchy DEFINITELY hurts women, toxic masculinity harms dudes, too. And that affects us all.
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The amount of political disagreement in the nation is matched only by righteous indignation. But in order to disagree without disrespecting each other, we need to look hard at our own positions, and Van Jones does just that.
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For almost the past 100 years, mental health professionals have told us that that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. However, there's a much more realistic theory that depression happens due to an imbalance happening outside of your cranium. New York...
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What is causing a worldwide Boy Crisis and how do we resolve it. A sobering look at the current state of Boys in our society and what we must understand before we can help them.
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Sue Klebold is the mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two shooters who committed the Columbine High School massacre, murdering 12 students and 1 teacher. She's spent years excavating every detail of her family life, trying to understand what she could have done to prevent...
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There are 26 registered lobbyists for every elected representative on the Hill, with experts suggesting the true amount is closer to 100,000.
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This uplifting spoken word film has an important message for bystanders about how we all have the power to shape the culture around us. Let’s all do our part to put an end to harassment and stand up for each other.
Written, Performed & Directed by Gary Turk.
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Arkan Lushwala has allowed himself to be photographed for the first time ever, so that he could make the video you see here. His message is critical for us, human creatures of the Earth. Powerful and intelligent as we are, we sometimes consider ourselves the rulers of all...
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“Can you imagine? Can you imagine our society if we placed the children’s fire at the center of all institutions of power in our government, in our corporations, in our religions, in all institutions of power, if we rekindled the children’s fire and the chiefs of those...
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"In the past five years we have watched the rise of two distinct movements expressing popular outrage at the political status quo in the US. Both movements decried the nexus of power that has developed in the fascistic relationship of big banks and big government. Both...
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Jordan Peterson recently expertly handled a debate during an interview with BBC's Channel 4 news (The video was called: Jordan Peterson debate on the gender pay gap, campus protests and postmodernism). And JBP did it without being a bull or being aggressive. So how do we get...
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A collection of poignant love stories from the areas of Wandsworth, Battersea and Tooting in London. Stories of connection, of belonging, of home and identity. A collaboration between the project A Human Love Story and the Wandsworth Fringe in 2016.
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ProPublica obtained chat logs capturing the members and aims of Atomwaffen Division, a notorious white supremacist group. When Sam Woodward was charged with killing 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein last month in California, other Atomwaffen members cheered the death, concerned...
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The vast majority of Americans are fed up with money corrupting politics — but how do we fix it? We've got some ideas. Learn more and help make it happen at https://represent.us/action/thesolution-2/
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On top of overtly genocidal threats, the Trump Administration has announced new terms: that they "will never accept a nuclear North Korea." But, the Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea already has nuclear weapons. Does that mean a war is imminent?
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On the little island of Kihnu, seven miles off the coast of Estonia, women run the show. The island still functions as one of the last matriarchal societies left in the world. Historically, Kihnu’s men spend most of the year fishing at sea in order to provide for their...
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was a hugely important kids' show, but for more than you may think.
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Powerful words from Indigenous Elder, Miliwanga Wurrben, on the only true way to overcome obstacles and fighting in the world.
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Max Weber on The Protestant Ethic & The Spirit of Capitalism.
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Reminder: blind allegiance to authority is responsible for some of humanity's most evil actions.
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"My job is to talk about periods every day."
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Thousands of people delay going to their GP because they have a Fear Of Finding Out (FOFO). FOFO makes up a third of conscious reasons why people delay visiting their doctor. Getting symptoms checked out early can save lives. Don't let FOFO stand in the way of your health.
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The idea of manliness has grown indelibly associated with the idea of being cool. We’d be wiser to shift the masculine ideal towards a new idea: warmth.
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"We believe that everyone is equal. We are all human. We all deserve the world. And we can build that equality by sharing what love, knowledge and magic we have, with others. So we reached out to filmmakers and artists around the world and asked them, “What does it mean to be...
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Dombrowski's project 'Tropic Ice' focuses on educating people about the effects of climate change on all continents through her beautiful photographs. "They understood it completely what I wanted to say"
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Machines that can think, learn and adapt are coming -- and that could mean that we humans will end up with significant unemployment. What should we do about it? In a straightforward talk about a controversial idea, futurist Martin Ford makes the case for separating income...
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Nice guys too often finish last; they need to read the advice of one of the wisest and most realistic thinkers in the history of philosophy: Niccolo Machiavelli. // The School of Life
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We’re given very little guidance on how to choose our partners and tend to leave it to that mysterious force we know as ‘instinct’. However, it truly pays to be a little more rational in this area and work out how our instincts operate and why they push us towards some people...
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In theory, we're nowadays allowed to get together with pretty much anyone we like. And yet, at a psychological level, we aren't free to love just any suitable person. We have a type - and strangely and awkwardly, these types are often not those who stand a chance of making us...
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"Please don’t let the jarring title of this video dissuade you from watching the video. Within a few minutes you will realize that this conversation is exactly what is needed instead of the conversation that preaches separable grievances." - Teodrose Fikre
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Tawai is a word in the language of the Penan people of Borneo. It has to do with the connection they feel to their landscape. “When you first go to the old forest during the fruit season, it’s like when I’m with my mother, I know I can rely on her to breastfeed me. That’s why...
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We notice something percolating. Have you felt it in yourself? A rising sense that there's so much more richness and depth to this life than we are told? Are you feeling the underpinnings of discontent, fear, uncertainty, imbalance, and apathy that have become pandemic in...
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The next generation needs a paradigm and a code of identity that bind with a sense of purpose, community, and mission; an idea and a feeling that transcend superficial characteristics (like skin color, gender and orientation).
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Nilüfer (Turkey) is the winner of the 2017 Transformative Action Award.
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"Science is the process by which we understand nature, by which we understand our place in the world, how we all fit in," Nye says in the human sexuality episode of Bill Nye Saves the World. "We used to think it was pretty straightforward. X and a Y chromosome for males. Two...
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I went to the theatre to talk to people who saw the movie, “The Post”. It’s about Daniel Ellsberg’s famous “Pentagon Papers” leak that exposed the US Government’s lies about the war in Vietnam. I was curious now that people consider Daniel Ellsberg a hero, what do they think...
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Has the time come to move beyond our obsession with measurement? Charles Eisenstein, author of several books on human culture and identity, compares science to religion, and makes the case for moving beyond the belief that only the measurable is real.
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An inspiring declaration for our times.
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Donald's life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house payments. As his frustration turns into despair Donald discovers a seemingly sympathetic voice coming from his radio named Glenn Beck. Will...
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Charles Derber, Author and Sociologist, discusses the failings of the American left through intersectionality. Charles is the author of Welcome to the Revolution: Universalizing Resistance for Social Justice and Democracy in Perilous Times (links to a preview of the book).
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“What many failed to understand is that it doesn’t have to be rape to ruin your life, and it doesn’t have to ruin your life to be worth speaking out about,” Samantha notes early on. She closes with a simple request: “Men, if you say you’re a feminist, then fuck like a...
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Turns out, Greenland isn't just melting from above—it's also melting from below. Eventually, it could raise sea levels by 24 feet. How long until we're all underwater? NASA's OMG mission is trying to find out.
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The night before his assassination, MLK delivered his most suspenseful, surprising, and inspiring speech — and it’s not “I Have a Dream”. In “If I Had Sneezed” MLK tells the mostly forgotten story of his near death experience — an attempt on his life, several years earlier...
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Are we wholly responsible for our actions? We don’t choose our brains, our genetic inheritance, our circumstances, our milieu – so how much control do we really have over our lives? Philosopher Raoul Martinez argues that no one is truly blameworthy. Our most visionary...
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When it comes to the internet, our connections are generally controlled by telecom companies. But a group of people in Detroit is trying to change that. Motherboard met with the members of the Equitable Internet Initiative (EII), a group that is building their own wireless...
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Recently, the struggle for Palestinian human rights gained international attention surrounding a new icon of resistance--16 year old Ahed Tamimi.
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In 2017, murders of social leaders, union organizers and indigenous activists in Colombia hit a new high since the historic peace agreement. In the past three years, more than 3,000 unionists have been murdered in a disturbing new trend which threatens all social progress.
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"If our goal is to never get angry, that is probably unrealistic, and not even desirable. But if we can get angry less? Surely that's a worthy aim, because anger - if held on to - usually only poisons the self.
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Despite being different concepts, patriotism and nationalism have increasingly been used synonymously. But blurring the lines between good and bad loyalty for one's country can lead to radicalisation.
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