Protecting the Queendoms
AdultsAnimalsLifeNatureSociety Female leaders will stop at nothing to protect their empires! Animal queens across the globe and under the sea must remain fierce to ensure the survival of themselves and their lineage.
A Comedian’s Take on How to Save Democracy
AdultsHumanPoliticsWorldHumorSociety Conversation is a battlefield with only one winner. Or is it? Comedian and author Jordan Klepper believes we can get better at talking to each other (and perhaps save democracy) by learning how to lose.
Changes To Animal Rights In 2023
YouthAnimalsEqualityWorldSociety Press play for a quick roundup of some of the biggest developments from this year for animal rights.
Why Korea is Dying Out
AdultsHistoryHumanScienceSocietyPolitics Every two years one million Japanese disappear, China’s population will halve by the end of the century, the median age in Italy has reached 48. All around the world birth rates are crashing – Is humanity dying out? What is going on and how bad is it?
How Uber won by messing up | Emil Michael
AdultsCitiesDesignSocietyBusinessLeadership “You’re not punished for failing, you’re punished for not trying.” Former Uber exec Emil Michael on how to truly achieve success.
North American Indigenous Games
YouthCultureHistorySportsSociety The 10th edition of the North American Indigenous Games is a celebration and exchange of the various cultures the athletes come from.
Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED
AdultsBiologyHumanScienceDisabilityHealthSociety When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.
Greenwashing
YouthEnvironmentGlobal WarmingSociety Do you ever see companies using terms like “sustainable” or “eco-friendly?” It could be a clue that they are doing something called greenwashing.
A Little Spot Of Compromise
KidsBooksReadingEducationSociety This book teaches young readers how to use compromise to resolve conflicts that they may come across in everyday life.
Truth Decay
AdultsHistoryLifePsychologyCultureMediaSociety Trust is eroding, in part, due to the over-abundance of opinion-based content; we must all develop better tools and habits for consuming information to regain a shared understanding of what is true.
What if you experienced every human life in history?
AdultsHistoryHumanLifePhilosophySociety Examine the ethical stance known as longtermism, which is the idea that we should be doing more to protect future generations.
Stories Of Young Changemakers
YouthFutureSocietyWorldEducation These stories help everyone see the new reality — that everything is changing, and this requires redefining what “growing up” means.