A motivational speaker and humorist, Roche shares his journey from shame to self-acceptance. Born with a severe facial deformity, Roche’s life has been anything but easy. But over time, he’s learned to see that often our gifts and our flaws are one and the same. Anne Lamott says, “he built a church inside of himself. There is no physical church, but his own life” – Book Passage
ONE, Todos Somos Uno’ se creo para incrementar la conciencia de las conexiones que todos compartimos. Para recordarnos cuales son nuestras similitudes y celebrar, al mismo tiempo, nuestras diferencias. Para dejar que la energía positiva emerja en un mundo cada vez mas desconectado y fracturado. El concepto de la pelicula es simple: preguntar 20 de las cuestiones mas trascendentales de la vida a los grandes maestros y a gente común de hoy en dia. Luego simplemente dejar que fluya el diálogo. El resultado es una película que ha provocado el dialogo en los seis continentes y en todos los lugares donde se ha proyectado – desde graneros a prisiones pasando por universidades y salas de cine – ‘ONE Todos somos uno’ nos recuerda que todos estamos unidos en un viaje hacia la mutua compresión, que forje nuestras conexiones con los otros y clarifique nuestro destino y el sentido mismo de la vida. En esta película, todos somos uno.
Professor Randy Pausch made a surprise return to Carnegie Mellon University to deliver an inspirational speech to the Class of 2008 at the Commencement ceremony on May 18, 2008.
Pausch was included in TIME Magazine’s 2008 list of the world’s 100 most influential people. His book, “The Last Lecture,” co-written by Jeff Zaslow of the Wall Street Journal and based on Pausch’s now-famous talk “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” is a New York Times #1 bestseller.
Steve Jobs delivering his commencement speech to the graduates of Stanford University in 2005. In it he talks about getting fired from Apple in 1985, life & death.
David Reimer (August 22, 1965 as Bruce Reimer – May 4, 2004) was a Canadian man who was born as a healthy male, but was sexually reassigned and raised as female after his penis was accidentally destroyed during circumcision. Psychologist John Money oversaw the case and reported the reassignment as successful, and as evidence that [...]
Drugs to improve soldiers abilities? To confuse enemies? Devices controlled by or controlling peoples minds? Will neuroscience provide the weapons of the future? Jonathan Moreno, nationally distinguished bioethicist, discusses the connections between national security and brain research and argues that there is a need to contemplate the ethical, political and social implications of these advances.
Sicko is a 2007 documentary film by American film maker Michael Moore. The film investigates the American health care system, focusing on its health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the for-profit, non-universal U.S. system with the non-profit universal health care systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba. (Wikipedia)
From his childhood in Valparaiso to his death during the Pinochet military coup on September 11, 1973, the life and works of Chilean president Salvador Allende.
Creativity and play are closely connected, and play can be a form to arrive at collaborative creativity. In this session, Dr Sugata Mitra, known from the ‘Hole in the Wall’ project, will share with us how Indian children have explored new technology and found compelling ways to use it.
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