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The significance of Jon Stewart

Earlier this month, Jon Stewart announced that he was leaving Comedy Central’s The Daily Show after 16 years as host.  For much of that time, The Daily Show set (and continues to) the gold standard for television satire in t...
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Infographic: Dense for a Reason? Urban Density and Ecological Sustainability

Tim de Chant, founder of Per Square Mile, made an infographic illustrating the densities of some of the world’s major cities. It shows the amount of land those cities would occupy if they had to accommodate the world’s popu...
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Health

WATCH: One Step Closer to a Cure for Cancer?

At age 5, Emma Whitehead was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Two years ago it looked like the disease would kill her; she had relapsed twice after chemotherapy and all conventional treatments had failed. This extr...
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WATCH: The Story of International Adoption

Stuck is a new award-winning documentary film covering the real-life stories of children and parents navigating the international adoption system – a frequently tumultuous sea of bureaucratic and legal hazards in which famil...
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Option 6: Eat Fewer Hamburgers

If you’re looking for a snapshot of where we’re at on climate change, take a look at this helpful and entertaining flowchart by ClimateDesk. Catering for presidents, mad scientists and individuals alike, it presents three s...
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Health

WATCH: The Worst Case Scenario & Tips For Prevention For Viral Pandemics

Bird Flu, Swine Flu, SARS: ever wondered how they work, what dangers they face, or what can be done to prevent them? This short, funny and stylish film by public information group TakePart outlines the worst-case scenario for a...
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WATCH: China’s Booming Appetite for Ivory, and What it Means for the Elephant

After hearing that last year alone, more than 12% of the world’s elephants were killed for their tusks, a team from National Geographic decided to make a special on the threats to the world’s largest land animal. Why is the...
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WATCH: Holistic Planned Grazing: Is This the Solution to Climate Change?

Burning fossil fuels isn’t the only way to pour carbon into the atmosphere. In this TED talk, Zimbabwean ecologist Allan Savory explains how desertification – the process of land turning into desert – is an equal if not...
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WATCH: We Need Male Leaders Against Gender Abuse

Jackson Katz PhD is an anti-sexist activist, filmmaker, author and educator. In this TED talk he discusses his “bystander approach” to eradicating sexist abuse, in which witnesses of abuse – and male ones in particular ...
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