TEDxBerlin brings the artist and musician Nik Nowak to talk about how sound claims space and its use as a weapon, particularly against civil demonstrators. He includes a discussion of the use of the "human microphone" and the speechlessness of the system.

This is "a really really really short history of nearly everything", in four amazing facts that reveal important and fundamental things about the world and our lives within it.
The first is that we exist, under the circumstances of inestimable chance within the history of the universe, the three others follow with telling consequences about how we should think about our lives on this planet. (2010)

Why is it so hard to give it back? Citizen dividends in oil rich countries. Johnny West is a social entrepreneur and writer with 20 years professional experience in and around the oil industry. He began covering energy markets as a Reuters correspondent in the Middle East in the early 1990s.  He is founder of OpenOil and a transparency activist.

KONY 2012 is a film and campaign by Invisible Children that aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice. It is the most successful viral video to date on YouTube with over 72M views as of February 11th. More information on Invisible Children site.

Did you know that conflict minerals from Congo are in all cell phones, smart phones, and other electronics? Join Jewish World Watch in taking action to demand that electronics companies produce conflict-free products.

Eastern Congo is the most dangerous place in the world and this is an introduction of the minerals from this region and how it is part of the electronics we use everyday from phones to laptops.

Visit www.raisehopeforcongo.org to find out how you can help end the world's deadliest war in the Congo.

Video directed and produced by Robert Padavick. Editing and animation by Jeff Trussell.

The world's worst human rights abuses require permanent solutions. The Enough Project uses cutting-edge research, advocacy and campaigning to work toward ending genocide and crimes against humanity.

Joseph Stiglitz talks about Occupy Wall Street. Joseph E. Stiglitz is a graduate of Amherst College, he received his PHD from MIT and became a full professor at Yale in 1970.  He has taught at Princeton, Stanford, MIT and was the Drummond Professor and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is now University Professor at Columbia University in New York and Co-Chair of Columbia University's Committee on Global Thought. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his analyses of markets with asymmetric information.

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets. In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas. Peter Singer, Judith Butler, Cornel West, Kwame Appiah and in this segment, Avital Ronel, literary critic, philosopher and feminist.

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