Listening to Deb Roy!

Listening to Deb Roy!

MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language — so he wired up his house with video cameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water."...

Listening to Dan Pallotta!

Listening to Dan Pallotta!

Dan Pallotta is best known for creating the multi-day charitable event industry, and a new generation of philanthropists with the AIDS Rides and Breast Cancer 3-Day events, which raised $582 million in nine years. He is president of Advertising for Humanity, which...

Listening to Ron!

Listening to Ron!

We think of what Ron said about kids that plant kale or tomatoes .... he said that kids that do the work of planting and caring for kale or tomatoes .. actually eat kale and tomatoes! Ron Finley plants vegetable gardens in South Central Los Angeles, in abandoned lots,...

The Watson’s Go To Birmingham!

Based on the bestselling book, The Watson's Go To Birmingham, the film chronicles the ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, and how they are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma...

Listening to Sam Berns!

Listening to Sam Berns!

About three months before he passed away, 17-year-old Sam Berns gave this speech explaining his dislike for obstacles and his strategies for beating them. When he was 2 years old, Sam was diagnosed with the rare disease progeria, which causes rapid aging and various...

Listening to Maysoon Zayid!

Listening to Maysoon Zayid!

A Palestinian woman from New Jersey, Zayid jokes about her family, global culture, and her life with cerebral palsy. Along with Dean Obeidallah, she founded the New York Arab-American Comedy Festival, now in its 10th year. She spends several months of the year in the...

Diana Nyad

Diana Nyad

Talk about never quitting! For ten years (1969-1979), Diana Nyad was known as the greatest long-distance swimmer in the world. In 1979, she stroked the then-longest swim in history, making the 102.5-mile journey from the island of Bimini (Bahamas) to Florida. She also...

Taking a lesson from Boyd Varty!

Taking a lesson from Boyd Varty!

In our quest to build a more caring community - we take a lesson from Boyd Varty. In the cathedral of the wild, we get to see the best parts of ourselves reflected back to us." Boyd Varty, a wildlife activist, shares stories of animals, humans and their...

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