Language As a Window into Human Nature is an RSA Animate about the three different types of relationships people have with each other and how those relationships impact how people communicate. Taken from a lecture given by Steven Pinker, a psychology professor at Harvard, and animated by Cognitive Media, it’s an excellent visualization of why we say what we say and what that means for everyone else.

The Power of Networks is an RSA Animate about the evolution of organizing information from knowledge trees to knowledge networks. Taken from a lecture given by Manuel Lima, senior UX design lead at Microsoft Bing, and animated by Cognitive Media, it’s an excellent visualization of everything’s relationship within our increasingly complicated and networked world.

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Choice is an RSAnimate by Renata Salecl about the effects of limitless choice and how, by being given infinite possibilites, we end up paralyzed, anxious and/or stuck. Animated by Cognitive Media for RSA, it’s an interesting look at how more options can and does result in less action.

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Evgeny Morozov’s RSA Animate looks at internet freedoms and proliferation from a global perspective and critiques the assumption that internet access will result in democracy. Specifically, he discusses some very interesting things about the myths surrounding internet freedom, the realities of how different governments have adopted newer technology, and how most people actually use the internet (Spoiler alert: it may or may not involve cat videos).

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This past January, the RSA put together this solid animation of Bill Gates’s talk about the incredible value of vaccines, both from a humanitarian and economic standpoint. While the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on the vaccination of many diseases, this talk is focused on Polio, which is 99% eradicated and incredibly close to becoming the second disease completely eliminated from our planet (the first was Smallpox).

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Changing Education Paradigms is a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson at The RSA. Tackling the incredibly complex problem of what to do with the current education crisis and how we got here, Sir Ken Robinson puts forward some incredible ideas.

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us was a talk given by Dan Pink at The RSA. As they are wont to do, The RSA animates this talk to spice up the already interesting idea of why we do what we do.

Steven Johnson brilliantly explains “where good ideas come from”/”what kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas” in this RSA animation.