As a physicist, Max Tegmark sees people as "food, rearranged." That makes his answer to complicated questions like "What is consciousness?" simple: It's just...
Stephen speaks about recent changes in the nonprofit sector, and how we can work to provide better humanitarian aid....
Stephen speaks about recent changes in the nonprofit sector, and how we can work to provide better humanitarian aid. Stephen Ladek is an international develo...
When your health is a top priority, trying to make sense of all the information on nutrition can be quite...
When your health is a top priority, trying to make sense of all the information on nutrition can be quite confusing.In this talk, Dr. Mike Israetel summarize...
As the president & CEO of a non-profit, Teva Sienicki has experienced first-hand the devastating, cyclical nature of...
As the president & CEO of a non-profit, Teva Sienicki has experienced first-hand the devastating, cyclical nature of intergenerational poverty. In this inspi...
Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about...
Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity, she takes us on a spiritual pilgrimage to meet witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, an infamous "healer" in Brazil and others, sharing an important lesson: what binds us together is far stronger than what separates us, and our differences are not insurmountable.
Integrating climate-smart agriculture into policies in Ethiopia across all levels and landscapes is key, not just...
Integrating climate-smart agriculture into policies in Ethiopia across all levels and landscapes is key, not just for building greater resilience for farmers, but also for meeting our global climate goals.
James S. Henry introduces a hot topic: offshore banking. The G8 and G20 are planning meetings to discuss it. Even...
James S. Henry introduces a hot topic: offshore banking. The G8 and G20 are planning meetings to discuss it. Even the Netherlands is a tax haven for certain types of companies. The huge amount of numbers and graphs tells us that we are confronted with nothing less than a global tax haven industry. For example, Apple makes 100 billion dollars a year of tax free profits because of the games private bankers know how to play.
In medieval times people couldn't hide their wealth when tax collectors came to inventory it. Nowadays they can. It is said that 64 percent of the global profits are parked offshore, for an important part by multinationals from the first world.
The third world is the victim of this practise. An example from the banana industry: exporting a banana from the Cayman Islands costs 13 pence. When it arrives in the UK to be consumed, the costs have grown to 60 pence. All of this money goes to other parties than the Cayman Islands.
Because of the tax havens, countries from the Third World are not able to receive the tax incomes they are entitled to. Henry even concludes that the debt problem of the third world is not a debt problem, but a tax problem. Both amount to almost the same.
It's hard to believe the disturbing facts that our earth is suffering from extreme weather & so many terrible...
It's hard to believe the disturbing facts that our earth is suffering from extreme weather & so many terrible environmental changes. Subscribe to American Ey...
"I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received," says Elise Roy. As a disability...
"I believe that losing my hearing was one of the greatest gifts I've ever received," says Elise Roy. As a disability rights lawyer and design thinker, she kn...