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There was a very important study done a while ago at Princeton Theological Seminary that speaks to why

You know, I'm struck by how one of the implicit themes of TED is compassion

I'm a psychologist, but rest assured, I will not bring it to the scrotal.

The more interesting question is: Did it matter they were contemplating the parable of the Good Samaritan?

That is to say, if we attend to the other person, we automatically empathize, we automatically feel with them

I was doing my taxes the other day, and I got to the point where I was listing all of the donations I gave, and I had an epiphany

I think it's quite apt

And I think that that is very troubling, and in a sense, I've been reflecting on turning that part of us off.

Right now, as Bill McDonough has pointed out, the objects that we buy and use have hidden consequences

So, I'm going to show you a demo of a virtual reality film: a full-screen version of all the information that we capture when we shoot virtual reality

And that's where I think we just start to scratch the surface of the true power of virtual reality.

And you'll suddenly discover what it would be like to be unable to speak your own language.

Now, if you begin to look at the idea that these cultures could create different realities, you could begin to understand some of their extraordinary discoveries

So, what we're trying to do at the National Geographic, finally, is, we believe that politicians will never accomplish anything

A fact came out of MIT, couple of years ago

That hit me so hard, telling these people that had been through this experience.

The other thing: I wanted to give indigenous people a voice

So what I'd like to show you now, in the couple of minutes I have left, is a film that a student made in Guatemala

Climb Credit, a new entrant into the student lending market which just received a $400 million lending facility, is taking a different approach

Another twist on the traditional lending model is that

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