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Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Watch "A Controversial Play — and What It Taught Me About the Psychology of Climate | David Finnigan | TED" on YouTube

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via TED2024 :  "When playwright David Finnigan launched a new play in 2014, controversially titled " Kill Climate Deniers ," ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Explaining the Dunning-Kruger effect and overcoming overconfidence with David Dunning (audio)

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the Dunning-Kruger effect Via Adam Grant & The Re: Thinking podcast :  "The Dunning-Kruger effect is a rare psychological concept t...
Friday, July 12, 2024

Watch "How the US Is Destroying Young People’s Future | Scott Galloway | TED" on YouTube

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Via TED Talks    "In a scorching talk, marketing professor and podcaster Scott Galloway dissects the data showing that, by many measur...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Adam Grant's discussion with Yuval Noah Harari includes "the tension between justice and peace" (audio)

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Adam Grant's ReThinking podcast is a regular listen for me. In this episode, the discussion around "justice" and "peace...
Saturday, April 6, 2024

From the Crazy Reading Ladies - Save the Date - May 4 for "Pen to Picture" with Jarrett Krosoczka

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Spend #starwarsday celebrating #graphicnovels with @StudioJJK !   Join us for Pen to Picture @FrkPublicLib May 4 at 1 PM.   Thanks to a...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

TED Ed: "The surprisingly long history of electric cars - Daniel Sperling and Gil Tal" (video)

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"Let’s Begin…   By the end of the 19th century, nearly 40% of American cars were electric. But these vehicles had a few major problems ...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Is the US Headed Towards Another Civil War? | Barbara F. Walter | TED (video)

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"Based on her work for a CIA task force aimed at predicting civil wars, political scientist Barbara F. Walter examines the rise in ext...
Saturday, November 12, 2022

The TED Interview: "A future without pandemics? with Mark Smolinski"

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"In 2011, when medical doctor and epidemiologist Mark Smolinski was working as a science advisor for the blockbuster film “Contagion,”...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

TED Talks: "Don't Be 'Not Racist.' Be Antiracist"

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"Today, it's not enough to simply be "not racist"; here's why we should all strive to be anti-racist instead." W...
Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Frank's Music with Frank Falvey: "Rhiannon Giddens" (audio)

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Frank Falvey  has a radio show called "Frank's Music". Self described as 'eclectic' you hear some good music and info ...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

George Monbiot at TED: "The new political story that could change everything"

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"To get out of the mess we're in, we need a new story that explains the present and guides the future, says author George Monbiot....
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Watch "The disarming case to act right now on climate change | Greta Thunberg" on YouTube

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Worth a few minutes of time (actually about 11 minutes) https://youtu.be/H2QxFM9y0tY "Now we're almost at the end of my tal...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Real vs. fake - work for good can be misused

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"I think these results seem very realistic and intriguing, but at the same time frightening, even to me. Our goal was to build an acc...
Saturday, July 28, 2018

"So we have the remembering self and the experiencing self, and they're really quite distinct"

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"Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our ...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

How (and why) Russia Hacked the US Election (Video)

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"Hacking, fake news, information bubbles ... all these and more have become part of the vernacular in recent years. But as cyberspace ...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Songs that bring history to life - Rhiannon Giddens (video)

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"Rhiannon Giddens pours the emotional weight of American history into her music. Listen as she performs traditional folk ballads — in...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

How does Franklin consider itself?

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The downtown traffic flow has been redesigned. Before we go and create another charter commission to review how we operate as a government, ...
Monday, March 28, 2016

"pushing the boundaries of autonomous flight"

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"When you hear the word "drone," you probably think of something either very useful or very scary. But could they have aes...
Saturday, November 7, 2015

"You can make a mess, but you have to clean up after yourself."

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Not just another TED Talk . This caught my eye for a couple of reasons. I will be in Hong Kong for work next month. Cesar's approach to ...
Friday, November 6, 2015

"Text is unbelievably private. No one hears you talking."

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Sounds like this would be key another resource to turn for help When a young woman texted DoSomething.org with a heartbreaking cry for h...