Social Innovation Conversations: Pura Vida Coffee
From the Social Innovations Podcast comes a talk from John Sage, co-founder and CEO of Pura Vida Coffee. John tells the story of his friend Chris, a friend he met through a Christian fellowship group...
View ArticleThe Last Lecture of Randy Pausch, it’s a good one
Computer Science Professor Randy Pausch, who has terminal pancreatic cancer, delivered what is expected to be his last lecture at Carnegie Mellon University entitled “Really Achieving Your Childhood...
View ArticleHigh Marks for Teach for America
From the Wall Street Journal’s Amazing Teacher Facts – Eleven per cent of Yale’s senior class, 9% of Harvard’s and 10% of Georgetown’s applied for a job whose salary ranges from $25,000 (in rural South...
View ArticleCharlie Rose talks with Teach for America Founder Wendy Kopp
Charlie Rose featured an interview with Wendy Kopp, the Founder of Teach for America (official website) last week. For anyone interested in education the conversation is a fascinating one, following...
View ArticleAnswer Questions, get Free Rice for UN Food Program
Free Rice is a website that allows you to answer questions and earn 20 grains of rice for each right answer, to be donated to the United Nations World Food Program. In the past year over 43,564,381,610...
View ArticleCharles Murray on Education
Charles Murray of Bell Curve fame, has a series of excerpts in the Washington Times of his new book on education, Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality. The...
View ArticleSan Francisco Street Preacher Ministers to Homeless by Becoming Like Them
The Street Preacher in San Francisco is profiled in the Chronicle, Kevin Fagan, Spreading the Word on the Street, San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 2008 (audio) “I’ve never heard of a street preacher...
View ArticleDavid Batstone on Human Trafficking, Q Talks
David Batstone discusses his encounter with and subsequent passion for ending Human Trafficking on Q Talks. More on his cause website Not for Sale: End Human Trafficking and Slavery Bookmark this Page:
View ArticleJeffrey Sachs on Representing the Voiceless
The good people at the Situationist have uploaded many of their videos to YouTube. Included below is Jeffrey Sachs’ talk “Representing the Voiceless: The Poor, the Excluded, and the Future.” On...
View ArticleJuan Enriquez: Beyond the crisis, mindboggling science and the arrival of...
Somehow this is the first time I’ve come across Juan Enriquez who brings a fascinating and very funny perspective on where we are (as a species) in the grand scheme of things. Juan Enriquez: Beyond the...
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