Betty Palmer is the Executive Director of the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter. On Febrary 23, 2013, TEDxColbyCollege will explore new ideas through the lens of fa...

We can now hold governments accountable for acts of war and human rights violations, with the aid of optical analysis of publicly available satellite imagery...

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious experience, your experienc...

Adam Pearson is on a mission to explore disability hate crime - to find out why it goes under-reported, under-recorded and under people's radar. In this docu...

How do we make sure that development and aid money actually goes to the people who most need it? Sanjay Pradhan of the World Bank Institute lays out three gu...

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The United Nations is an embodiment of a continually evolving international order and UN peace operations are the physical manifestation of that order. Thoug...