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Larry Morris: Independent Music Professional

April 9, 2011 by  
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New Zealand music will always be indebted to Larry’s mother for speaking to Johnny Watson who arranged an audition with Auckland Agent Benny Levin who thought he ‘was nothing special’ but who the backing band thought was great! Who were these band of men? Well, back in the ’60’s they were called ‘The Rebels’.

Ralph Langner: Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

April 4, 2011 by  
Filed under VidStyle

When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead’s final target and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.

Jordan Theriot: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out

March 27, 2011 by  
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In this day and age, Jordan Theriot is a breath of fresh air. On January 14, 2011, Caltech hosted an exciting one-day event to honour Richard Feynman: Nobel Laureate, Caltech physics professor, iconoclast, visionary, and all-around ‘curious character’. Jordan shares her experience of the value of extraordinary teaching, extraordinary mentorship and what it can really […]

Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian Revolution

March 27, 2011 by  
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Wael Ghonim is the Google Executive who helped jump start Egypt’s democratic revolution with a Facebook page memorialising a victim of the regime’s violence. He tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that ‘the power of the people is stronger than the people in power’.

David Brooks: The Social Animal

March 27, 2011 by  
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Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humour, he shows how you can’t hope to understand humans as separate individuals making […]

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