Sidney Rittenberg: Use Your Head and Follow Your Heart
Sidney Rittenberg is an American journalist, Chinese-English interpreter, and scholar who lived in China from 1944 to 1979. He worked closely with People’s Republic of China (PRC) founder Mao Zedong, military leader Zhu De, statesman Zhou Enlai, and other leaders of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the war, and was with these central Communist […]
Rebecca Onie: What if our Healthcare System kept us Healthy?
Rebecca Onie asks audacious questions: What if waiting rooms were a place to improve daily health care? What if Doctors could prescribe food, housing and heat in the winter? She describes Health Leads, an organisation that does just that and does it by building a volunteer base as elite and dedicated as a college sports […]
Philippe Petit: The Journey Across the High Wire
Even a death-defying magician has to start somewhere. High-wire artist Philippe Petit takes you on an intimate journey from his first card trick at age 6 to his tightrope walk between the Twin Towers. High-wire artist Philippe Petit surprised the world when he walked illegally between the Twin Towers in 1974.
Bryant Austin: Photographing Whales
Bryant Austin is an artist working to affect change through the creation of life-size photographs of whales. His work has been met with critical acclaim, and has been received enthusiastically during exhibits worldwide, including shows in Norway and Japan, countries that continue to hunt whales. These full body composite photographs only become possible when a […]
Mark Guzdial: 21st Century Literacy includes Computing for Everyone
Computing Education Research is about how people come to understand computing, and how people like Professor Mark Guzdial can facilitate that understanding. He is a Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
