Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!
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. He believes […]
Sandro Galea: Rebounding After Trauma
Sandro Galea has researched the role of traumatic events in shaping population health; particularly the health of urban populations. His research programme seeks to uncover how determinants at multiple levels of influence including policies, features of the social environment, molecular and genetic factors jointly produce the health of populations.
Pat Aufderheide: Making Copyright Your Friend: Journalism and Fair Use
The biggest problem that American Journalists have with copyright today is that they actually do not know the law well enough and in particular the part of the law that they do not know, is fair use. She shares the three ways in which Judges take the vague expression of ‘fair use’ in the law […]
A Burger a Day
Stephen Dubner “Is the host of Freakonomics Radio, co-host of No Stupid Questions, and co-author of the Freakonomics books, that have won many awards and sold millions of copies around the world. He is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life — from cheating and crime to parenting and sports — […]
Jinha Lee: Reach into the Computer and Grab a Pixel
The border between our physical world and the digital information surrounding us has been getting thinner and thinner. Designer and engineer Jinha Lee wants to dissolve it altogether. As he demonstrates in this short, gasp-inducing talk, his ideas include a pen that penetrates into a screen to draw 3D models and SpaceTop, a computer desktop […]
