TED Talks
TED: A for-profit mindset for nonprofit success | Tolu Oyekan
How can nonprofits accelerate their impact and move the needle on intractable problems? Looking to bring the urgency of a profit motive to every initiative, inclusive finance promoter Tolu Oyekan shows how scalable, data-driven solutions...
TED Talks
TED: How global virtual communities can help kids achieve their dreams | Matthew Garcia
How do we make historically exclusive fields like classical music, fine arts or academic research more accessible to everyone? Education equalizer and violist Matthew Garcia thinks one way to remove barriers is to create free, virtual...
PBS
Nonprofit Helping Low-Income Patients Describes Itself As 'Match.Com Meets The Peace Corps'
Physician shortages, as well as cost and distance, can make specialty care prohibitive for many low-income patients. A nonprofit aims to tackle those challenges by utilizing telehealth technology and retiring, volunteer doctors. Special...
PBS
Inmates get federal grants for higher ed in experimental progam
In a pilot project announced this summer, the Department of Education will partner with dozens of colleges to provide higher education to prisoners who can't afford to pay; eligible inmates will be able to apply for federal grants under...
PBS
Inequities In Care, Misinformation Fuel Covid Deaths Among Poor, Indigenous Brazilians
All across Brazil, slums — known as Favelas — have long been places of
crime and poverty, marked by overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. They
are among the hardest hit by the pandemic, in a country where the death
toll just passed...
PBS
What one ass't principal learned from shadowing a student
Karen Ritter, an assistant principal at a high school just outside of Chicago, wanted to see her school through a student's eyes. So she decided to follow 9th grader Alan Garcia, who came to her asking to be switched out of the many...
Curated Video
Organic farming provides fesh food in Cuba ++First run 13th August 2016++
LEAD IN: Cuba's former President Fidel Castro celebrates his 90th birthday today (August 13, 2016).Things have changed on the island nation since Castro's brother Raul replaced him as president in February 2008.Cuba's urban organic farms...
Curated Video
Michael Jackson's personal doctor administered the powerful anesthetic to help him sleep, and authorities reportedly believe the drug killed the pop singer
HEADLINE: First Person: Doctor explains how Diprivan works
CAPTION: A cardiologist demonstrates how Diprivan, the brand name for the drug propofol, should be administered. Authorities are working under the theory that the drug may have...
Curated Video
UN warns that Nigeria on the brink of famine
The United Nations has warned that if the international community and Nigerian authorities don't address an ongoing humanitarian crisis in the country there would be a large-scale famine.Speaking in Brussels on Thursday, Toby Lanzer, the...
Curated Video
Curfew lifted briefly and aid convoy arrives
0000 Street scene
0004 Residents buying food inside supermarket
0011 Children in supermarket
0016 Tank on street
0018 Bakery
0020 Customers at bakery
0023 Christian Aid truck with supplies
0027 Residents unloading truck
0034 Set up shot...
Curated Video
NTSB Says Probe into Train Crash is Progressing
Federal investigators say the probe into a train that crashed into a rail station in New Jersey is in the fact-gathering phase and it may be up to two days before there is full access to the site.Bella Dinh-Zarr, a vice chair for the...
Curated Video
NTSB Says Probe Into Train Crash is Progressing
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus064205Federal investigators say the probe into a train that crashed into a rail station in New Jersey is in the fact-gathering phase and it may be up to two days before there is full access to the...
Curated Video
NTSB says probe into train crash progressing
Federal investigators say the probe into a train that crashed into a rail station in New Jersey is in the fact-gathering phase and it may be up to two days before there is full access to the site.Bella Dinh-Zarr, a vice chair for the...
MinuteEarth
Is It Safe To Get Your DNA Tested?
Once it’s out of your body, your genetic information is valuable to a variety of people, but you can keep it safe(ish) with a few simple steps. ___________________________________________ To learn more, start your googling with these...
TED Talks
TED: You shouldn't have to choose between filling your prescriptions and paying bills | Kiah Williams
As prescription drug costs skyrocket in the US, thousands of people are forced to forgo lifesaving medications -- all while manufacturers and health care facilities systematically destroy perfectly good, surplus pills. Kiah Williams...
Crash Course
How Does Disease Move? Crash Course Geography
From outbreaks of measles in the United States and cholera in Haiti to patterns of lead poisoning near gold mines in Nigeria, medical geographers play an important role in tracking disease in the landscape. Today, we're going to look at...
TED Talks
Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions
Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can -- and should -- be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a...
TED Talks
TED: How cryptocurrency can help startups get investment capital | Ashwini Anburajan
We're living in a golden era of innovation, says entrepreneur Ashwini Anburajan -- but venture capital hasn't evolved to keep up, and startups aren't getting the funding they need to grow. In this quick talk, she shares the story of how...
TED Talks
TED: 5 needs that any COVID-19 response should meet | Kwame Owusu-Kesse
Crisis interventions often focus on a single aspect of a big, complicated problem, failing to address the broader social and economic context. Kwame Owusu-Kesse describes how the Harlem Children's Zone is taking a more holistic approach...
PBS
Is There a Fifth Fundamental Force? + Quantum Eraser Answer
Has a fifth fundamental force been discovered and how will this effect our understanding of the universe?
TED Talks
Ellen 't Hoen: Pool medical patents, save lives
Patenting a new drug helps finance its immense cost to develop -- but that same patent can put advanced treatments out of reach for sick people in developing nations, at deadly cost. Ellen 't Hoen talks about an elegant, working solution...
TED Talks
TED: Language shouldn't be a barrier to climate action | Sophia Kianni
Most scientific literature is written only in English, creating an alarming knowledge gap for the 75 percent of the world who don't speak it. That's a big problem for climate change -- because it's hard to take action on something you...
TED Talks
TED: The powerful women on the front lines of climate action | Farwiza Farhan
When it comes to big problems like climate change, we tend to focus on big solutions -- but many of the best ideas come from people on the ground, facing day-to-day conservation battles. Sharing her effort to protect the Leseur ecosystem...
TED Talks
Technology can't fix inequality -- but training and opportunities could | 'Gbenga Sesan
Centuries of inequality can't be solved with access to technology alone -- we need to connect people with training and support too, says tech inclusionist 'Gbenga Sesan. Sharing the work behind the Paradigm Initiative, a social...