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Back to SearchCharles C. Mann: The Wizard and the Prophet
## Two ways to save humanity **Mann titled his talk “The Edge of the Petri Dish.”** He explained, “If you drop a couple protozoa in a Petri dish fill…
8 years, 3 months ago
Louis Hyman: The New Deal You Don't Know
Historian Louis Hyman's work focuses on the history of American capitalism. In his book _[Borrow: The American Way of Debt](https://www.amazon.com/Bo…
8 years, 4 months ago
Elena Bennett: Seeds of a Good Anthropocene
As humans increasingly dominate Earth’s natural systems over the coming centuries (“the Anthropocene”), how can we ensure that it becomes a “good Ant…
8 years, 4 months ago
Nathaniel Persily: Can Democracy Survive the Internet?
The Internet was once seen as a democratizing force, but today social media platforms have become exploitable intermediaries of political discourse. …
8 years, 4 months ago
Rose McDermott: Ideology in our Genes: The Biological Basis for Political Traits
While traditionally social factors have been considered to have primary influence on political behaviors and preferences, more recent research shows …
8 years, 5 months ago
Renee Wegrzyn: Engineering Gene Safety
Genome editing technologies provide the unprecedented ability to modify genetic material in a manner that is targeted, rapid, adaptable, and broadly …
8 years, 5 months ago
Jason Scott: The Web In An Eye Blink
Jason Scott is an activist archiver who preserves artifacts of digital culture for the future. Users today have many ways to create content online, b…
8 years, 6 months ago
The Refugee Reality: Thinking Long-term About the Evolving Global Challenge
With a complex and truly global problem like this, we can only scratch the surface in an hour. But we hoped to reframe some aspects and include persp…
8 years, 7 months ago
David Grinspoon: Earth in Human Hands
## Cognitive planet **Thanks to the growing human domination** of natural systems on Earth, people say we are entering an Anthropocene Epoch, Grinspo…
8 years, 7 months ago
Nicky Case: Seeing Whole Systems
### How to finesse complexity **HE BEGAN, “Hi, I’m Nicky Case, and I explain complex systems in a visual, tangible, and playful way.”** He did exactl…
8 years, 8 months ago