A few years ago,

an American defense consultant I know

told me about a trip he took to Uzbekistan.

His role there was to help sell technology

that the Uzbek government could use to spy on its own citi

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Transcriber: Joseph Geni Reviewer: Camille Martínez

A few years back,

my friend's dad asked me to show him my mom's house on the map.

I knew we didn't have Street View in Zimbabwe yet,

but I looked an

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When I was six years old,

growing up in Medellín, Colombia,

I made one of the most impactful decisions of my life.

I asked my mother to change my school,

to the school where she was teac

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Did you know that there is a global experiment performed

on approximately 1.6 billion people

across 75 countries twice a year?

It’s called daylight saving

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Why is it so hard

to change the direction of our civilization?

I'd like to suggest that what's missing at this point

is not more facts and information or even technology.

We have more than enough.

Wha

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Everything is everywhere these days.

Check out the supermarket -- orange juice from China, nuts from India,

swordfish from Japan, lagers from Czechoslovakia,

scores of European cheeses.

You na

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If you think of culture as an iceberg,

only a small fraction of it is visible.

Food, flags, and festivals, which are often talked about in schools,

are the visible parts that we rightly celebrate.

How

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Translator: tom carter Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar

The universe contains about 100 billion galaxies.

Each of those galaxies contains about 100 billion stars.

Many of those stars have planets orbiting the

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this is a photograph by the artist

Michael Najjar and it's real in the

sense that he went there to Argentina to

take the photo but it's also a fiction

there's a lot of work that went into it

after tha

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Transcriber: Andrea McDonough Reviewer: Bedirhan Cinar

What is a cartoon really?

Many of us love cartoons,

most of us grew up reading them

or having them read to us.

The fact is, cartoons have been ar

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