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- Will Modern Civilization be the Death of Us? (Part 2 — with Ruben Nelson) July 5, 2020
- Will Modern Civilization be the Death of Us? (Part 1 — with Dr. William Rees) July 5, 2020
- Former Secretary of Defense William Cohen on the Election | Amanpour and Company July 5, 2020
- Are We on the Brink of Revolutionary Environmental Change? | Amanpour and Company July 5, 2020
- A New Unauthorized Biography on Melania Trump | Amanpour and Company July 5, 2020
- Coronavirus Pandemic’s Impact on Climate and Humanity | NowThis July 5, 2020
- Paul Robeson Speaks! 1958 KPFA Radio Interview July 5, 2020
- To sell or not to sell? | Nigeria protests Christie’s auction of looted sculptures July 5, 2020
- Republicans Prepare To Tank The Economy Because They Think Workers Are Lazy July 5, 2020
- Obama Blasts Trump Admin for Denying COVID-19 Reality | NowThis July 5, 2020
- Southern Florida Has Broken 120+ Heat Records In 2020 Alone | NowThis July 5, 2020
- Historic July 5, 2020
- Trump’s campaign strategy to focus on statues, ‘traditional American values’ July 5, 2020
- Experts focus on ‘superspreaders’ to study virus transmissions July 5, 2020
- Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election July 5, 2020
- Trump Retweets Video of Supporter Shouting ‘White Power’ | NowThis July 5, 2020
- Public show of support for NHS on 72nd anniversary – BBC News July 5, 2020
- Fourth of July weekend marred by COVID-19 in Southern California as coronavirus cases surge July 5, 2020
- Breaking new ground | Baltimore protesters topple Columbus statue July 5, 2020
- US Celebrates Independence Day as Coronavirus Spreads July 5, 2020
- Paul Robeson: On colonialism, African-American rights (Spotlight, ABC,1960) July 5, 2020
- Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, June 12, 1956 July 5, 2020
- Nina Simone: Strange Fruit July 5, 2020
- Marvin Gaye – What’s Going On July 5, 2020
- Sam Cooke – A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video) July 5, 2020
- BBC World Service – Newshour, President Trump attacks ‘radical left’ in 4th July speech July 5, 2020
- What is Man – Prologue to Half-Earth: A Planet’s Fight for Life (full) July 5, 2020
- Demonstrators gather at the Malcolm X Park in Washington D.C. to protest July 5, 2020
- Self Education and the Dropout Stigma | Andrew Morris | TEDxYouth@ColumbiaSC July 5, 2020
- College Is(n’t) for Everyone | Gabriel Fotsing | TEDxMemphis July 5, 2020
- Higher Ed’s not in the business you think it is | Glenn Platt | TEDxMi amiUniversity July 5, 2020
- Higher education is not about getting a job | Fred D’Agostino | TEDxUQ July 5, 2020
- Re-thinking college: Alec Macmillen at TEDxMiddlebury July 5, 2020
- Rethinking Access and Success in Higher Education | Timothy Renick | TEDxGeorgiaStateU July 5, 2020
- One Trillion Dollars, Student Debt and Higher Education: Greg Gottesman at TEDxSeattle July 5, 2020
- Is College Worth It? Re-Imagining Higher Education | Janine Davidson | TEDxMSUDenver July 5, 2020
- What do we really mean when we say college isn’t for everyone? | Alex Bernadotte | TEDxBYU July 5, 2020
- Dad, why should I go to college? | Abel Sanchez | TEDxNatick July 5, 2020
- The Future of Higher Education | Kevin Manning | TEDxBaltimore July 5, 2020
- Designing a university for the new millennium: David Helfand at TEDxWestVancouverED July 5, 2020
- Blending technology and classroom learning: Jessie Woolley-Wilson at TEDxRainier July 5, 2020
- A different way to think about technology in education: Greg Toppo at TEDxAshburn July 5, 2020
- Elon Musk will take us to Mars – will it be home? | Reinier Zeldenrust | TEDxL ondonBusinessSchool July 5, 2020
- The Exploration and Colonization of Mars: Why Mars? Why Humans? | Dr. Joel Levine | TEDxRVA July 5, 2020
- A.I. will never replace human teachers | Soufiane Amzur | TEDxUCLouvain July 5, 2020
- The Missing Century of Black History in the Americas: Jane Landers at TEDxNashville July 5, 2020
- Should technology replace teachers? | William Zhou | TEDxKitchenerED July 5, 2020
- Why Technology Can’t Fix Education | Mary Jo Madda | TEDxChicago July 5, 2020
- Flipping the classroom — my journey to the other side: Jenn Williams at TEDxRockyViewSchoolsED July 5, 2020
- Click here– blended learning and the future of education: Monique Markoff at TEDxIthacaCollege July 5, 2020
Daily Archives: August 26, 2017
The Scientific Method Made Easy (re-uploaded to fix copyright problem)
Published on Aug 26, 2017
Instead of donating to me, please donate to a charity that impressed me greatly when I saw it in operation in Borneo. It’s an organization called ASRI (Alam Sehat Lestari). It is not religious! The founders are an American doctor and an Indonesian dentist, and their idea is to offer cheap health care to villagers in exchange for an end to deforestation of the rainforest that surrounds them. The result has been better health for local people AND a huge drop in illegal logging.
You can visit their website here:
http://www.alamsehatlestari.org/
But a better overview comes from this article written in 2012…
https://psmag.com/social-justice/save…
…or you could listen to the 30-minute package I did for the BBC last year:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hnly0
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How Did Corporate Power Become So Dominant?
Published on Aug 25, 2017
Thom takes your calls and gets to the real problem at the heart of our democracy, namely corporate power, but how did it become so strong?
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Land struggle for indigenous people in Brazil
Published on Aug 25, 2017
Competing claims over farmland in Brazil have led to divisions and in some cases violence between indigenous people and farmers. This week, Brazil’s Ministry of Justice revoked a decree that had enlarged the smallest indigenous reservation in the country. CGTN’s Paulo Cabral reports.
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