- Brian Greene: Why is our universe fine-tuned for life, 21.48 min, on TED talks, April 2012: At the heart of modern cosmology is a mystery: Why does our universe appear so exquisitely tuned to create the conditions necessary for life? In this tour de force tour of some of science’s biggest new discoveries, Brian Greene shows how the mind-boggling idea of a multiverse may hold the answer to the riddle …
- Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine? 19.19 min, on TED talks, April 2012: Our medical systems are broken. Doctors are capable of extraordinary (and expensive) treatments, but they are losing their core focus: actually treating people. Doctor and writer Atul Gawande suggests we take a step back and look at new ways to do medicine – with fewer cowboys and more pit crews …
- Put the financial aid in the bag, 5.05 min, on TED talks, April 2012: At TEDYouth 2011, performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea – as in this spoken-word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible …
- Video: Better Cotton, Better Livelihoods, 2.09 min, on Nourishing the Planet TV, April 25, 2012;
- Transforming Cultures, from consumerism to sustainability, a blog of the World Watch Institute;
- State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet, An incisive account of the global food crisis – and how it can be solved, on World Watch Institute, April 25, 2012;
- The dirty picture of neoliberalism: India’s New Economic Policy, on Links.org.au, by Raju J. Das, April 11, 2012. (Photo: Wealth and poverty in India, by Dave Wilson).
- Austerity in Europe: Susan George on the rise of neoliberal and undemocratic Europe, 9.28 min, on Links.org.au, March 1, 2012 – (also on YouTube).
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