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25:20

Al Gore

The case for optimism on climate change

Posted Feb 2016

9:46

Kare Anderson

Be an opportunity maker

Posted Nov 2014

7:44

Al Gore

What comes after An Inconvenient Truth?

Posted May 2009

12:06

Gary Greenberg

The beautiful nano details of our world

Posted Nov 2012

12:50

Jessica Kerr

Who makes judges?

Posted Jun 2021

15:46

Al Gore

How to make radical climate action the new normal

Posted Nov 2021

17:08

Cary Fowler

One seed at a time, protecting the future of food

Posted Aug 2009

27:54

Al Gore

New thinking on the climate crisis

Posted Apr 2008

14:08

Gary Slutkin

Let's treat violence like a contagious disease

Posted Oct 2013

58:23

Gary Liu

What the world can learn from China's response to the coronavirus

Posted Mar 2020

38:05

John Kerry and Al Gore

The US is back in the Paris Agreement. What's next?

Posted Feb 2021

13:11

Parul Sehgal

An ode to envy

Posted Oct 2013

11:03

Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll

How I learned to read — and trade stocks — in prison

Posted Apr 2017

13:09

Ryan Martin

Why some anger can be good for you

Posted Sep 2018

17:23

Suleika Jaouad

What almost dying taught me about living

Posted Jun 2019

13:38

Ilona Szabó de Carvalho

4 lessons I learned from taking a stand against drugs and gun violence

Posted Mar 2015

5:05

Peta Greenfield & Alex Gendler

History vs. Augustus

Posted Jul 2018

10:35

Nora Flanagan

What COVID-19 revealed about US schools — and 4 ways to rethink education

Posted Jan 2021

11:13

Richard Thompson Ford

A tailored history of who wears what — and why

Posted Nov 2021

17:05

Judith Jamison and members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Revelations from a lifetime of dance

Posted Oct 2019

12:51

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

Why immigration prisons aren't the answer

Posted Feb 2020

13:19

Wendy MacNaughton

The art of paying attention

Posted Sep 2021

15:46

Diane Wolk-Rogers

A Parkland teacher's homework for us all

Posted Apr 2018

23:17

C.K. Williams

Poetry of youth and age

Posted Mar 2009

16:37

Joseph Shin

How doctors can help fix the broken US asylum system

Posted Aug 2020

15:54

Iain Hutchison

Saving faces: A facial surgeon's craft

Posted Feb 2011

15:45

Jessica Shortall

The US needs paid family leave — for the sake of its future

Posted Dec 2015

56:38

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Cheryl Strayed

Posted Feb 2021

13:06

Azim Khamisa and Ples Felix

What comes after tragedy? Forgiveness

Posted Jan 2018

19:32

Tom Honey

Why would God create a tsunami?

Posted Apr 2007

15:55

Anne Lamott

12 truths I learned from life and writing

Posted Jun 2017

15:33

T. Morgan Dixon and Vanessa Garrison

The trauma of systematic racism is killing Black women. A first step toward change...

Posted May 2017

14:48

Suzanne Barakat

Islamophobia killed my brother. Let's end the hate

Posted Nov 2016

19:48

Sherry Turkle

Connected, but alone?

Posted Apr 2012

13:06

Ryan Martin

Why we get mad — and why it's healthy

Posted Jun 2019

18:38

James Forbes

Compassion at the dinner table

Posted Oct 2008