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TED-Ed
TED-ED: Why should you read "The Handmaid's Tale"? - Naomi R. Mercer
Margaret Atwood's speculative fiction masterpiece The Handmaid's Tale explores the consequences of complacency and how power can be wielded unfairly. Atwood's chilling vision of a dystopian regime has captured readers' imaginations since...
The Guardian
'The revolution is inside us all' | After Capitalism | Guardian Animations
After capitalism: 'There is no reason to wait for revolution. It is here already in each of us' Author Rebecca Walker outlines a utopian vision of a world after capitalism underpinned by a moral and spiritual revolution. Her words are...
Curated Video
Inside the Japanese Hotel Staffed by Robots
If there’s one place on Earth you can already get a glimpse of our robot-assisted future, it’s Japan. Routinely at the forefront of robotics research, the country has brought us some of the weirdest automatons, most lifelike androids,...
NASA
On a Mission: Season 3, Episode 10: A Voyager’s View of Earth
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has traveled farther away from Earth than any human-made object. Candy Hansen and David Grinspoon talk about the Voyager mission, and its humbling perspective of our planet as a tiny blue dot in the blackness of...
The Cynical Historian
What is the End of History?
This is a brief overview of how people have thought of the end of history. In two tracks, utopian and apocalyptic, one can get a sense of what is meant by "the end of history." ------------------------------------------------------------...
Curated Video
Where Do We Go From Here? | Rutger Bregman
We have taken huge steps towards tackling some of the biggest threats on humanity throughout history, and in many ways our lives have never been better! So where do we go from here? Author and historian Rutger Bregman argues that in...