Political scientist Josiah Ober describes how we might concretely improve our ability to make political decisions within a democratic framework, highlighting so-called deliberative and epistemic approaches to decision-making.

University of Michigan business school professor Andrew Hoffman relates how we are currently in the midst of an energy renaissance and muses on ways in which we might be able to make change happen even faster.

Airport security is moving away from boarding passes and towards facial recognition. What does this mean for you?

In a channel first, we're watching the docu-drama The Social Dilemma and discussing how it portrays tech ethics, artificial intelligence, and more!

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In the second part of this series on Algorithmic Bias and Fairness, we're looking at how we can make artificial intelligence and algorithms fairer.

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The First Continental Congress explains the purpose of the First Continental Congress by identifying and summarizing what it accomplished and what agreement was made among the participants.

UC Berkeley's Martin Jay discusses how intellectual history offers tools to understand and contextualize contemporary positions by exploring the historical evolution of concepts like lying and politics. He delves into the complex...

Princeton University historian David Cannadine describes his belief that the standard historical categorisations of religion, nation, class, gender, race or civilisation that have been often used to understand history might not actually...

UC Berkeley historian Martin Jay describes how he is constantly looking to demonstrate how our contemporary views are far less black and white than many suppose, and how focusing on the evolution of language helps puts things into their...

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Direct and Representative Democracies analyzes the purposes, structure, and functions of various types of direct and representative democracies.

Nobel Laureate Antony Leggett, University of Illinois, describes how the field of foundations of quantum theory changed from being a "fringe activity" to one squarely within the academic mainstream thanks to the work of a few "mavericks".

Imperial College cosmologist Claudia de Rham shares her personal experiences of becoming a female theoretical physicist, stressing the importance of breaking down stereotypes of what a physicist is and does.

Caltech theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate David Politzer shares his excitement at re-appraising information loss in black holes and re-examining the mathematics of gauge theories.

Princeton University physicist Paul Steinhardt shares his novel idea of how scientific prizes can be improved to the benefit of all.

USC legal scholar and author Elyn Saks gives her views on ways of straddling the ethical divide between respecting the autonomy of mental health patients while finding ways to provide appropriate treatment for their conditions.

Elyn Saks, Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at USC, relates how we need to develop a better-funded culture of aggressive outreach to help homeless people who suffer from mental illness.

Psychologist and memory scientist Elizabeth Loftus (UC Irvine) describes how the law is beginning to explicitly recognize the malleability of memory for eyewitness testimony.

UCLA Chinese cultural studies expert Michael Berry describes his personally transformative experiences of living as a student in China in the early 1990s.

Nobel Laureate Anthony Leggett (Illinois) shares his excitement about the field of topological quantum computing.

"Compare Types of Democracy" analyzes the purposes, structure, and functions of various types of direct and representative democracies.

Educators, discover how and why you should incorporate the production of video into social studies classes, and how your students can make a real impact in the world around them by using these skills to become citizen journalists.