Here’s Mitchell Joachim, TED Fellow and urban designer, talking about his ONE Lab, which he hopes to turn into a “university without walls.”

Adam Alter, author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors, in The Huffington Post on why we should be more concerned about global warming.

Samuel Arbesman’s fascinating new book, The Half-Life of Facts, is brought to life in this quirky animated short.

“Every woman in this room is powerful and every man in this room is powerful too,” Jessica Jackley says in a keynote at the One Young World Summit 2012, “[and] we have to be careful because sometimes that power goes unused.” This is especially true, she says, if you don’t believe in yourself and don’t believe in the potential of others. As the co-founder of the micro-loaning website KIVA explains, you can have the best ideas and tools at your disposal—but none of that matters in you don’t believe that you have the potential to make a change.

“People matter,” says leadership speaker Bill Strickland in a recent keynote. “People are assets, not liabilities…[and] it is all in the way that you treat people that drives performance and drives behavior.”

Education speaker Ninive Calegari in Good Magazine.

Candy Chang’s “Before I Die” project—where public space in New Orleans was turned into a collaborative blackboard for residents to share their life dreams—was recently recreated in Denver. This stunning video shows the project being built.

“I dabble in modernity,” says legendary author Margaret Atwood on CBC’s George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight. Judging by her twitter following and her active participation in the development of new digital technologies, we think Atwood is being more than a little modest.

Is Canada’s pharmaceutical system broken? Healthcare speaker and Chronic Condition author Jeffrey Simpson believes it is—and knows how to fix it.

Here’s investigative journalist Charles Fishman talking with CNBC about the return of manufacturing jobs to America from overseas. He also recently penned a cover story for The Atlantic on the subject.