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Bucking the System - Interview with Laurence Gonzales

Bucking the System

Journalist and author Laurence Gonzales has been studying accidents and their roots in human behavior for more than 35 years, culminating in the 2003 publication of Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why...

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Forgiving Catholic Pedophiles - Interview with Brent BecVar

Forgiving Catholic Pedophiles

Brent BecVar is an extraordinary man. He has accomplished a level of universal forgiveness and self-responsibility that very few people ever achieve, even though he suffered what many would consider as...

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Real Wealth - Interview with Riane Eisler

Real Wealth

“Macrohistorian” is a term used to describe thinkers whose study encompasses the totality of human events, from our earliest beginnings to modern times, in search of patterns and laws of social change. Riane Eisler is such a thinker...

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Rebuilding Value in Our Lives

Rebuilding Value in Our Lives

It was Christmas Eve when award-winning author and documentarian Douglas Rushkoff was mugged in front of his “hip” Park Slope neighborhood apartment in Brooklyn while taking out his trash. He immediately did what any responsible neighbor would do...

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Searching for Level VI

Searching for Level VI

With experience, patience, and lessons learned from failure, you can create a classroom based on trust. The students know you to be fair. You’re dependable. The kids know that....

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Motivation 3.0

Motivation 3.0: Interview with Daniel Pink

Bestselling author Daniel Pink considers himself a “data geek.” His drive to compile and analyze information has led him to identify the trends that are shaping....

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Future Minds

Future Minds: Interview with Harvard Professor Howard Gardner

In educational circles, Harvard developmental psychologist Howard Gardner is something of a rock star. His theory of multiple intelligences challenged....

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Local Producer Merges Consciousness with Media

Local Producer Merges Consciousness with Media

Betsy Chasse is an unlikely poster child for spiritual media. Prior to co-directing and producing What the Bleep Do We Know....

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Tested by Fire

Tested by Fire

In the world of humanitarian aid, Medicins Sans Frontiers, a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders, is a bit of an outlaw. Shunning the silence imposed on volunteers by organizations like the Red Cross....

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Interview with Eva Mozes Kor

Forgiving the Holocaust

Nine-year-old Eva Mozes and her identical twin sister Miriam, their two older sisters, mother and father, along with thousands of other Romanians, were relocated....

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