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8:30

Richard Wilkinson

The link between inequality and anxiety

Posted Sep 2021

13:59

Stephanie Kelton

The big myth of government deficits

Posted Sep 2021

5:58

Germán Santillán

A taste of Mexico's ancient chocolate-making tradition

Posted Sep 2021

11:51

Ma Jun

An interactive map to track (and end) pollution in China

Posted Aug 2021

14:14

Loretta J. Ross

Don't call people out — call them in

Posted Aug 2021

4:32

Zahra Al-Mahdi

The infinite alchemy of storytelling

Posted Jun 2021

13:14

Luvvie Ajayi Jones

How to be a professional troublemaker

Posted Jun 2021

5:57

Bianca Tylek

The multibillion-dollar US prison industry — and how to dismantle it

Posted Jun 2021

11:20

Valerie Purdie-Greenaway

The anxiety that comes from being treated like an outsider

Posted Jun 2021

11:45

Anu Puusa

The case for co-ops, the invisible giant of the economy

Posted May 2021

5:15

Rumaitha Al Busaidi

Women and girls, you are part of the climate solution

Posted May 2021

16:21

Kalika Bali

The giant leaps in language technology — and who's left behind

Posted Apr 2021

16:49

Katherine M. Gehl

US politics isn't broken. It's fixed

Posted Apr 2021

13:14

Archie Crowley

Language around gender and identity evolves (and always has)

Posted Mar 2021

9:43

Leslie Herod

What if mental health workers responded to emergency calls?

Posted Mar 2021

27:30

How to Be a Better Human

How to challenge conventional wisdom — and change any industry

Posted Mar 2021

6:46

Al Gore, Gloria Kasang Bulus, Nana Firman, Ximena Loría and Tim Guinee

Climate change is our reality. Here's how we're taking action

Posted Mar 2021

12:38

Angela Mahecha Adrar

The people who caused the climate crisis aren't the ones who will fix it

Posted Feb 2021

4:32

Rahwa Ghirmatzion and Zelalem Adefris

Community-powered solutions to the climate crisis

Posted Feb 2021

12:44

R. Alan Brooks

When the world is burning, is art a waste of time?

Posted Feb 2021

7:39

Carlos Moreno

The 15-minute city

Posted Jan 2021

5:48

Amanda Gorman

"The Hill We Climb"

Posted Jan 2021

13:02

His Holiness Pope Francis

Our moral imperative to act on climate change — and 3 steps we can take (English voiceover)

Posted Jan 2021

13:02

Su Santidad el Papa Francisco

Nuestro imperativo moral para actuar sobre el cambio climático — y 3 pasos que podemos dar

Posted Jan 2021

9:29

Achim Steiner

Humanity's planet-shaping powers — and what they mean for the future

Posted Jan 2021

5:39

Angélique Parisot-Potter

How to be an upstander instead of a bystander

Posted Dec 2020

10:59

Wale Elegbede

It takes a community to eradicate hate

Posted Dec 2020

4:43

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr

The city planting a million trees in two years

Posted Nov 2020

10:28

María Teresa Kumar

How the new generation of Latinx voters could change US elections

Posted Nov 2020

5:44

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya

How to be fearless in the face of authoritarianism

Posted Nov 2020

5:20

Sophie Howe

Lessons on leaving the world better than you found it

Posted Nov 2020

9:32

Ishan Bhabha

How to foster productive and responsible debate

Posted Oct 2020

3:31

Andri Snær Magnason

On time and water

Posted Oct 2020

7:01

Roman Krznaric

How to be a good ancestor

Posted Oct 2020

13:28

Kristin Jones

Why children stay silent following sexual violence

Posted Oct 2020

13:53

Dame Vivian Hunt

How businesses can serve everyone, not just shareholders

Posted Oct 2020