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17 min

MLK: Road to Revolution and the Promised Land

17 min · Most Americans are taught a sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man with a dream. The peaceful marcher. The national holiday.

21 min

Our Democracy No Longer Represents the People. Here's How We Fix It

21 min · Harvard Professor Lawrence Lessig makes the case that our democracy has become corrupt with money, leading to inequality that means only 0.02% of the United States population actually...

4 min

The Great Realisation

4 min · A bedtime story of how it started, and why hindsight’s 2020 🛌 🧸 by Probably Tomfoolery.

12 min

Converting an Old Van into a Home & Office on Wheels

12 min · In June this year, I spent two and a half months converting a 1986 Toyota Hiace into my home and office. Watch the camper conversion process and also see a tour of the finished van...

23 min

Depression is a Disease of Civilization: Stephen Ilardi at TEDxEmory

23 min · Dr. Stephen Ilardi is a professor of clinical psychology and the author of The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs.

13 min

The Boy Crisis: A Sobering look at the State of our Boys - Warren Farrell Ph.D.

13 min · 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.

16 min

My Son Was a Columbine Shooter. This is My Story.

16 min · 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...

3 min

Earth Overshoot Day Explained

3 min · This video explains our Ecological Footprint and Earth Overshoot Day with a particular focus on the #movethedate campaign to move back the day of ecological overshoot.

18 min

Be the Change in the Messed up World - Rob Greenfield at Tedx

18 min · Individual actions can amount to change at a large scale. In his talk, Rob explains how this applies to environmentally friendly living. His extreme activism initiatives, such as the...

5 min

The Philosophy of Stoicism - Massimo Pigliucci

5 min · What is the best life we can live? How can we cope with whatever the universe throws at us and keep thriving nonetheless? The ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism explains that...

15 min

How Good Boundaries Can Free You

15 min · Your story is shaped by what you are saying ‘yes’ and ‘no’ to. Every single person on the planet knows the challenge of boundary setting. But being clear about what you will, and will...

12 min

Universal Wisdom Meditation

12 min · This guided meditation is offered as a way of connecting to our deeper purpose as a unique expression of the Universal Wisdom to support the co-creation for a new planetary story...

5 min

The Wizard of Oz Could Be A Subversive Critique of Capitalism

5 min · In his introduction to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," L. Frank Baum claims that the book is simply an innocent children's story. But some scholars have found hidden criticisms of...

4 min

How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?

4 min · In 1995, scientists pointed the Hubble Telescope at an area of the sky near the Big Dipper. The location was apparently empty, and the whole endeavor was risky – what, if anything, was...

4 min

What Is a Gift Economy? - Alex Gendler

4 min · What if, this holiday season, instead of saying "thank you" to your aunt for her gift of a knitted sweater, the polite response expected from you was to show up at her house in a week...

4 min

Why Are We so Attached to Our Things?

4 min · After witnessing the "violent rage" shown by babies whenever deprived of an item they considered their own, Jean Piaget - a founding father of child psychology - observed something...

5 min

The Psychology of Narcissism, Explained in This 5 Minute Animated Film

5 min · Narcissism isn't just a personality type that shows up in advice columns; it's actually a set of traits classified and studied by psychologists. But what causes it? And can narcissists...

6 min

How Dystopian Stories Provide Cautionary Tales for Now and the Future

6 min · The genre of dystopia – the ‘not good place’– has captured the imaginations of artists and audiences alike for centuries. But why do we bother with all this pessimism? Alex Gendler...

24 min

The Future of Race in America: Michelle Alexander at Tedx

24 min · Michelle Alexander posits that mass incarceration perpetuates a racial caste system in the United States. After the Civil Rights Movement, a “wave of punitive” legislation swept across...

5 min

How Did Hitler Rise to Power?

5 min · Decades after the fall of the Third Reich, it feels impossible to understand how Adolf Hitler, the tyrant who orchestrated one of the largest genocides in human history, could ever have...

15 min

How to Build a Place-Based Economy Where You Live

15 min · How can communities rethink ownership to remedy poverty? In this powerful talk, Eric Kornacki shares the story of his journey carrying lessons learned from Central American sweatshops to...

6 min

What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee?

6 min · About 60 million people around the globe have been forced to leave their homes to escape war, violence and persecution. The majority have become Internally Displaced Persons, meaning...

4 min

The Origin of Countless Conspiracy Theories

4 min · Why can we find geometric shapes in the night sky? How can we know that at least two people in London have exactly the same number of hairs on their head? And why can patterns be found...

6 min

5 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do

6 min · In his humorous and uplifting style, Gever Tulley debunks classic myths of childhood safety. With rampant fear mongering, is it any wonder that children are actually over-protected?...

4 min

How Stress Affects Your Brain

4 min · Stress isn’t always a bad thing; it can be handy for a burst of extra energy and focus, like when you’re playing a competitive sport or have to speak in public. But when it’s continuous...

12 min

Where Were You When You Fell In Love With Nature?

12 min · Marine scientist and ocean advocate Wallace "J." Nichols explores the neuroscience of our brains on nature, and posits that our love of the natural world holds the key to preserving it.

7 min

Robots Stealing My Jobs

7 min · Every Job I've Ever Had Has-Been (or Will-Be) Automated

2 min

US Police Killings in 2015: Inside the Shocking Numbers in 2 Minutes

2 min · The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and, as of 1 July 2015, 547 people have been killed by law enforcement. (This video shows the figures up to 29 June...

19 min

Understanding The Peace Code In The Human Brain

19 min · Ground-breaking discoveries about early childhood and the human brain have offered vital clues about the roots of human violence and social disharmony. Our brains’ empathy centres grow –...

17 min

Why We Should Give Everyone a Basic Income

17 min · This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Rutger Bregman (1988) studied at Utrecht University and the University of California in Los...

10 min

Pay Attention to Nonviolence

10 min · Where is the Palestinian Gandhi? Filmmaker Julia Bacha has spent the last 8 years documenting Israelis and Palestinians who are trying to end the conflict using peaceful means. There are...

4 min

Clint Smith: The Danger of Silence

4 min · "We spend so much time listening to the things people are saying that we rarely pay attention to the things they don't," says slam poet and teacher Clint Smith. A short, powerful piece...

17 min

How to Start an Empathy Revolution

17 min · Empathy can be a force for radical social change, but only if we understand how to unleash it.

13 min

Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx

13 min · Over the centuries, our culture has been slowly but gradually extending its circle of compassion. Our capacity to have compassion for those 'not like us' (whether the difference be...

19 min

Jackson Katz: A Paradigm-Shifting Perspective On The Violence That Harms Both Women and Men

19 min · This should really get your brain thinking in entirely new ways.

12 min

The 'Sexy Lie' We Should Be Talking About

12 min · "I am here today to talk about a lie." That's how politics professor Caroline Heldman opened her Jan. 2013 TEDxYouth San Diego talk on the topic of sexual objectification. "I'd like to...

11 min

TEDx Speaker Gives Priceless Talk About How TED Talks Are Worthless

11 min · With all due respect to Lizzie Velasquez, the vast majority of TED and TEDx talks are complete bullshit, and it's high time someone called them out on it.

10 min

Your Life is a Gift - Inspiring Profound Gratitude Through Nature: Louie Schwartzberg at TEDx

10 min · Nature's beauty can be easily missed - but not through Louie Schwartzberg's lens. His stunning time-lapse photography, accompanied by powerful words from Benedictine monk Brother David...

13 min

How To Occupy The Noosphere: Ian MacKenzie @ TEDxVictoria 2013

13 min · Ian MacKenzie An ardent filmmaker and media activist, Ian MacKenzie is dedicated to capturing and sharing glimpses of emerging human paradigms. MacKenzie's most recent film, Occupy Love...

16 min

LILAC: A Model for Truly Affordable Green Cohousing

16 min · The triple bottom line for business is people, planet, profit. What is it for housing? A group of people in Leeds, England have built a cohousing project that sets a triple-benefit bar...

15 min

Michael Sandel: Why We Shouldn't Trust Markets with Our Civic Life

15 min · In the past three decades, says Michael Sandel, the US has drifted from a market economy to a market society; it's fair to say that an American's experience of shared civic life depends...

17 min

The World Becomes What You Teach

17 min · This video is a popular TEDx talk by Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (www.HumaneEducation.org). She is a pioneer in the comprehensive humane...

4 min

Open-Sourced Blueprints for Civilization

4 min · Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from...

12 min

Justin Hall-Tipping: "The Future of the Power Plant Is No Power Plant"

12 min · What would happen if we could generate power from our windowpanes? In this moving talk, entrepreneur Justin Hall-Tipping shows the materials that could make that possible, and how...

10 min

TEDxOjai - Peter Joseph: The Big Question

10 min · Peter Joseph is a director, writer, producer, editor, composer and creator of the Zeitgeist movies series. He is an independent filmmaker who has written, directed, narrated, scored and...

14 min

Turning the Farm Bill into the Food Bill - TEDxManhattan - Ken Cook

14 min · By tradition, it’s called “the farm bill.” To EWG it ought to be the “food bill.” And instead of spending billions of your dollars in ways that harm water quality and wildlife, it should...

7 min

Dave Meslin: Redefining Apathy

7 min · In this Tedx talk, Dave Meslin argues that it isn't apathy that keeps people from engaging in politics. People do care, he argues, but the barriers to participation make it prohibitively...

18 min

Rob Hopkins: Transition to a World Without Oil

18 min · Rob Hopkins reminds us that the oil our world depends on is steadily running out. He proposes a unique solution to this problem -- the Transition response, where we prepare ourselves for...

15 min

It's Not All Hopeless! Here Are Seven Ways We Can Win the Sustainability Endgame

15 min · Think it's all hopeless? Think there are too many problems and our children's future is doomed? In 16 minutes, renowned and inspiring speaker Guy Dauncey explains why pessimism is the...

18 min

Paul Stamets: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World

18 min · Mycologist Paul Stamets breaks down many of the discoveries he's made studying mycelium - and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world.

22 min

James Howard Kunstler: The Tragedy of Suburbia

22 min · In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is...

9 min

Howard Zinn's Speech on Civil Disobedience

9 min · Part 1:

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