Scott Sonnon overcame dyslexia so severe that he was hospitalized in a children's psychiatric institution. He was advised that he should not set very high hi...

At TEDxMiddlebury 2013 Polly Young-Eisendrath discusses the idea that we can control and manage our lives as counter to our happiness. After considering the ...

In unserer zunehmend lauten Welt sagt Geräuschexperte Julian Treasure: "Wir verlieren unser Hören". In diesem kurzen, faszinierenden Vortrag teilt Treasure f...

Private sector companies need to be proactive about identifying where they can play the most effective role in emergency preparedness and humanitarian response, says Deloitte Consulting LLP's Dr. Sally Stansfield in this video interview from the World Humanitarian Summit.

Pete Masters, MSF, presents on the Missing Maps project and how engaging humanitarian and tech volunteer communities in the project can provide NGOs with much needed mapping data; for epidemiology, disaster risk preparedness and intelligent resource allocation and decision making. Remote volunteers trace satellite images onto OpenStreetMap, local community volunteers add details (street names, medical centres,

After breaking his leg, undergraduate student Luke Durward used his time to return home and mentor his little brother on healthy eating. While illustrating h...

In this session of the April 7-9, 2011 conference "Science and Technology Studies: The Next Twenty," Theodore Porter (UCLA) and Andrew Jewett (Harvard) discu...

Cmax is an Emergency Shelter System Prototype that provides immediate housing for refugees. It is created to dignify and improve the quality of life of peopl...