Rick Steves: The Value of Travel

Rick Steves: The Value of Travel

After spending 4 months a year for the last 30 years living out of a suitcase, Rick Steves reflects on the value of thoughtful travel.
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Leroy Hood: P4 Medicine

Leroy Hood: P4 Medicine

Genomics pioneer Leroy Hood describes our medical future to ready us for personalized, protective, predictive, patient-guided wellness.
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Andrew Himes: Emerging from Fundamentalism

Andrew Himes: Emerging from Fundamentalism

Andrew Himes reviews the roots and offshoots of Christian Fundamentalism.
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Chrystie Hill: Libraries Past & Future

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Akhtar Badshah: Harnessing Technologies

Akhtar Badshah: Harnessing Technologies


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David Horsey: Missed Perceptions

David Horsey: Missed Perceptions


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Daria Musk: You Move Me

Daria Musk: You Move Me

Singer songwriter Daria Musk share the music that ignited a global audience, and her pioneering use of Google Hangouts for live worldwide concerts.
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Adnan Mahmud: This Generation

Adnan Mahmud: This Generation

Adnan Mahmud shows how today's youth are making profound social change across the globe.
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Dimitri Christakis: Media & Children

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Interfaith Amigos: Beyond Exclusivity

Interfaith Amigos: Beyond Exclusivity

Pastor Don Mackenzie, Rabbi Ted Falcon, and Imam Jamal Rahman discuss how faiths overcome exclusivity and connect after going astray.
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Chris Bliss: This is Your Brain on Comedy

Chris Bliss: This is Your Brain on Comedy

Chris Bliss explores the inherent challenge of communication, and how comedy opens paths to new perspectives.
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Chris Jordan: Midway Journey

Chris Jordan: Midway Journey

Chris Jordan documents the impact of contemporary civilization on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
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AmyJo Martin: Innovate Your Life

AmyJo Martin: Innovate Your Life

Amy Jo Martin applies the business practices of innovation to navigating our personal lives.
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Michelle Bates: Toying with Creativity

Michelle Bates: Toying with Creativity

Michelle Bates shows how play and a plastic Holga camera can yield stunningly wonderful results.
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Joe Justice: Team WikiSpeed

Joe Justice: Team WikiSpeed

Joe Justice applies current software development principles to manufacture, achieving extraordinary results in designing a high efficiency and high performance automobile.
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Erik Lindbergh: Prize Innovations

Erik Lindbergh: Prize Innovations

Erik Lindbergh presents an overview of how prize philanthropy is evolving, innovations it is generating, and how prize incentives have and can leverage the unimagined into reality.
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Peter Blomquist: Embrace the Guinea Pig

Peter Blomquist: Embrace the Guinea Pig

Peter Blomquist shares stories of global development projects and what makes for meaningful impact and inspired local engagement.
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Scott Oki

Scott Oki

Serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, author and community activist, Scott Oki aims to marry his passion for philanthropy and entrepreneurship in ways that encourage others to do the same. Oki has founded or co-founded 18 non-profit organizations.
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Jackie Heinricher: Bamboo Futures

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Jim Sorensen: Life Lessons

Jim Sorensen: Life Lessons

Master facilitator Jim Sorensen shares life lessons learned the hard way.
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Jenn Lim: Can we Nudge the World?

Jenn Lim: Can we Nudge the World?

Chief Happiness Officer Jenn Lim applies the studies on what makes people happy and asks how we can nudge the world to be a more happy place.
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Sarah Stuteville: Journalism Revived

Sarah Stuteville: Journalism Revived

Sarah Stuteville shares how her global media organization was born at the crossroads of a dying profession and spirited new potential unleashed.
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Paul Shoemaker

Paul Shoemaker

Executive Connector Paul Shoemaker shares how social capital and engagement is transformational vital for societal efforts, even more so than funds.
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Alyssa Royse: Your Sexuality: Ask & Tell

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Patti Dobrowolski: Draw Your Future

Patti Dobrowolski: Draw Your Future

Our brains see, and they know who we are. This talk shows how constructive visualizing through drawing can help make dreams become real.
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Diane Douglas: America's Big Tent

Diane Douglas: America's Big Tent

Diane Douglas explore what's beyond the big sort that keeps Americans apart and shows how we all belong together with our differences.
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Pepper Schwartz: The Next Sexual Revolution

Pepper Schwartz: The Next Sexual Revolution

Professor of sociology, researcher and ambassador of love and relationships for AARP, Pepper Schwartz shares what's up and coming later in life.
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Amory Lovins: Reinventing Fire

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Will Hewett: Singing Yourself Alive

Will Hewett: Singing Yourself Alive

Vocalist Will Hewett mines a rich vein of musical communication that transcends ordinary language, while also describing what 15 minutes a day can give to an idea.
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Gideon Rosenblatt: The Soulful Company

Gideon Rosenblatt: The Soulful Company

Gideon Rosenblatt explores how companies can better succeed by more genuinely valuing people first and foremost as soulful beings.
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