Jeffrey Sachs, the economics professor who is the director of the institute, talked about how artists could help with the widespread miscommunication about this issue in a way that politicians and journalists could not.
Last month, the Philippines and Japan announced that they would undertake increased joint naval exercises and institute regular talks between maritime defense officials.
Andrew Fazekas, our Canadian editor and correspondent, profiles the institute and talks to its director, Howard Burton.
Almost everywhere Mr. Varela, 46, went during his weeks here, including at universities and policy institutes, small talk about music gave way to pressing, albeit polite, questions on policy.
At the institute, despite freewheeling talk, the goal of staff members and clients alike seems to be fostering loving and lasting relationships.
But the institute is now talking to venture capitalists about teaching students to invest in green technologies, and is setting up projects for students in China and elsewhere.
On this year's Holocaust Remembrance Day, psychologist Dr. Kurt Gruenberg of the Sigmund-Freud-Institute in Frankfurt, Germany talks of the sometimes disturbing force of unconscious memory.
The subjective tests carried out in our institute show that the talking head generated by using the database of TNT performs better than the talking head generated by using the database of LIPS2008.
They instituted a series of talks known as "confessionals".
It turned out that the institute had endorsed a talking watch, and its name appeared in every advertisement for the watch.
