Bestselling author, political advisor and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and opens the way to end our enthrallment by outdated concepts and half-baked beliefs in what our human nature is supposed to be.

Adapted from a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson, world-renowned education and creativity expert and recipient of the RSA’s Benjamin Franklin award. There is more information on Sir Ken’s work at: http://www.sirkenrobinson.co

You can be happy and not know it. Listen to Robert Thurman explain how true happiness occurs exactly when we are not even able to think about it. Check out more on Robert Thurman, Professor of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University; President, Tibet House U.S. at: http://bigthink.com/robertthurman

At the end of yet another jaw-dropping TED talk education scientist Sugata Mitra makes a this “guess”: “Education is self-organizing system, where learning is an emergent phenomenon.” He says that this should take a few years to prove, experimentally. Yet it is worth the try. In the meanwhile, his “Hole in the Wall” experiments show [...]

They are a product of “liquid networks”. New ideas are truly born out of chaos, actually, chaotic environments, like those of London’s original coffee houses. They also have notoriously long incubation periods, like Darwin’s theory, for example, which Steven Johnson calls his “slow hunch”. Learn here how innovation happens. You will find out, “Chance favours [...]

Photo: www.bazpics.com Where do you look for help and advice, when you decide to follow your creative dreams? The best advice someone like David Horvath will give you these days is, to get as much input as you can, and then not follow any of it. He may also share with you his “scientifically proven method [...]

Sir Ken Robinson’s 2010 TED talk picks up from his 18 -minute talk four years ago on contemporary education and creativity to make a new case for a radical shift in the way children learn. Now he urges for involvement in a movement in education that would “rise with” the extraordinary resources offered by current technologies [...]

And this bigger world we will soon live in will be “user-generated” as well.

Do you think it would be cool, if you could just download the Whole Known Universe to your own computer? Now you can do just that. Here.