Mike Masnick from TechDirt on the innovator’s dilemma.

Irena Sendler, Febuary 15th, 1910 – May 12th, 2008

During World War II, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.

Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids. Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi’s broke both of her legs and arms and bear her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smiggled out, in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007, Irena was up for the Nobel peace prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on global warming.

Thank you Irena.

Professor Sowell understood the economic and social dynamics of drug illegality more than 25 years ago. Check out LibertyPen on YouTube and on the web.

You think you know American history? Think again. Drunks, slackers, prostitutes, and pirates were the real heroes of the American Revolution. Slaves created a culture that made America free. Prostitutes, not feminists, were the pioneers of women’s liberation. Gangsters helped establish Hollywood, birth control, Las Vegas, legal alcohol, and gay rights. And zoot-suiters and rock-and-rollers, not generals or the Air Force, brought down the Soviet Union.

Thaddeus Russell is a historian and cultural critic and the author of A Renegade History of the United States (Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 2010). He teaches American history and cultural studies at Occidental College and has taught history, American Studies, and the history of philosophy at Columbia University, Barnard College, the New School for Social Research, and Eugene Lang College. He is a frequent contributor to Reason Magazine and The Daily Beast and has written for The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Christian Science Monitor, and Salon.

Economist Jeff Herbener discusses deflation with author Tom Woods. For more on deflation, see libertyclassroom.com/prices

Bestselling author Tom Woods makes the case for economic and monetary freedom to a general audience. Visit Tom at tomwoods.com and libertyclassroom.com. Subscribe to his free e-letter at woodsletter.com.

In this documentary we have tried to capture the thoughts and feelings of ordinary Cypriots after their bank accounts got frozen in March of 2013. We’ve also asked them to think about alternative ways to see and use money. We’d like to thank them for their participation.

We believe everyone should have the right to choose their own currency.

Produced by the Gold Money Foundation (website and Twitter) and Bitcoin Magazine (website and Twitter).

Cody R. Wilson has figured out how to print a semi-automatic rifle from the comfort of his own home. Now he’s putting all the information online so that others will join him.

This is a story about the rapid evolution of a technology that has forced the American legal system to play catch up. Cody Wilson, a 24 year old University of Texas Law student, is an advocate for the open source production of firearms using 3D printing technology. This makes him a highly controversial figure on both sides of the gun control issue. MOTHERBOARD sat down with Cody in Austin, Texas to talk about the constitution, the legal system, and to watch him make and test-fire a 3D-printed gun.

Directed and produced By Erin Lee Carr, edited by Chris O’Coin.

Read more on MOTHERBOARD here and find out what the ATF says about 3D-printed guns here.

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When most well-intentioned aid workers hear of a problem they think they can fix, they go to work. This, Ernesto Sirolli suggests, is naïve. In this funny and impassioned talk, he proposes that the first step is to listen to the people you’re trying to help, and tap into their own entrepreneurial spirit. His advice on what works will help any entrepreneur.

TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design — plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.

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Entrepreneur Elon Musk is a man with many plans. The founder of PayPal, Tesla Motors and SpaceX sits down with TED curator Chris Anderson to share details about his visionary projects, which include a mass-marketed electric car, a solar energy leasing company and a fully reusable rocket.

Elon Musk is the CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX).

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At Verizon, we believe in the power of technology to solve just about anything. Because the world’s biggest challenges deserve even bigger solutions.

Watch Cathy discuss this video from a libertarian perspective here.

UC Irvine neuroscientist James Fallon had already been studying the brains of psychopathic killers for years when his mother told him that he comes from a long line of murderers (including his infamous cousin, Lizzie Borden). After studying himself, Fallon discovered that he has two of the three ingredients for psychopathology.

Fallon sat down with Reason.tv to explain why he’s not a murderer, why others are, and what it is about libertarians that—just might—keep them peaceful.

Interview by Paul Detrick; shot by Zach Weissmueller; edited by Detrick.

Chapter 10: Inflation. Dr. Chris Martenson establishes inflation as a monetary phenomenon, defined as the decrease of the value of money, caused by too much money around in relation to goods and services. From 1665 to 1776, 111 years, there was absolutely no inflation. From 1665 to 1905, 240 years, the cost of living stayed roughly the same, aside from brief jumps during wars. Unfortunately for us, there was no settling in terms of inflation after World War I or World War II. The military apparatus was not dismantled, and inflation has accelerated to astonishingly high levels.

Watch part 2 of the video on inflation here and the playlist for the entire Crash Course here.

On June 7, 2011 Professor Ivan Pongracic of Hillsdale College lectured at the Freedom University: Austrian Economics Summer Seminar. In this video Dr. Pongracic discusses Ludwig von Mises and the Calculation Debate.

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Casey Research chairman Doug Casey interviews financial pundit and author Peter Schiff. Their conversation covers a range of issues: gold, the validity of the US dollar, the Federal Reserve system and the Schiff family’s fight with the IRS.

Professor David Friedman’s lecture to the Oxford Libertarian Society on 15 January 2013 in Christ Church, Oxford.

More information about this event on our website: http://oxlib.org.uk/event/david-friedman-on-climate-change/

The documentary about the founders of the Pirate Bay, by Simon Klose. Share it with the world! Support the filmmakers of this free film at www.tpbafk.tv.

Rick Rule, one of the most successful investors anywhere, talks about how our erroneous and irrational beliefs and emotions lead us down a self-destructive path. While Mr Rule points the blame for a lot of social ills on the State, he insists that our biggest personal enemy is between our two ears. Mr Rule shows how his value-system is the only way to create an abundance mentality, with its inevitable consequences on the wealth and well-being of the individual.

This speech was given at The Capitalism & Morality Conference in Vancouver, Canada, July 28, 2012.

Other speakers:

• Stefan Molyneux – Ethics of Capitalism I
• Stefan Molyneux – Ethics of Capitalism II
• Frank Holmes – The Need for Abundance Mentality
• Nancy Rhyme Snelson – Taming the Violence of Faith
• Lilija Valis – Poetry from Freedom on the Fault Line
• Doug Casey – Socialism and Psychological Aberration
• Walter Block – Austro-libertarianism

Capitalism & Morality Seminar 2013 will take place on July 27, 2013 in Vancouver, Canada and feature Bill Bonner, Doug Casey, Rick Rule, Stefan Molyneux, and Walter Block. For more info, check Facebook.