- -: Peter Reinhart: The art of baking bread
January 16, 2009 (over 15 years ago)http://www.ted.com Batch to batch, crust to crust ... In tribute to the beloved staple food, baking master Peter Reinhart reflects on the cordial couplings (wheat and yeast, starch and heat) that give us our daily bread. Try not to eat a slice. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks...
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- -: Peter Eigen: How to expose the corrupt
April 1, 2010 (about 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Some of the world's most baffling social problems, says Peter Eigen, can be traced to systematic, pervasive government corruption, hand-in-glove with global companies. At TEDxBerlin, Eigen describes the thrilling counter-attack led by his organization Transparency International...
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- -: Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals
June 16, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Peter Tyack of Woods Hole talks about a hidden wonder of the sea: underwater sound. Onstage at Mission Blue, he explains the amazing ways whales use sound and song to communicate across hundreds of miles of ocean. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and perform...
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- -: Peter Haas: Haiti's disaster of engineering
October 14, 2010 (over 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com "Haiti was not a natural disaster," says TED Fellow Peter Haas: "It was a disaster of engineering." As the country rebuilds after January's deadly quake, are bad old building practices creating another ticking time bomb? Haas's group, AIDG, is helping Haiti's builders learn mod...
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- -: Authors@Google: Peter Greenberg
January 9, 2009 (over 15 years ago)Peter Greenberg visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book "The Complete Travel Detective Bible: The Consummate Insider Tells You What You Need to Know in an Increasingly Complex World!" This event took place on December 8, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. This...
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- -: Authors@Google: Peter Schiff
May 6, 2009 (about 15 years ago)The Authors@Google program welcomed Peter Schiff to Google's NY office to discuss his book, "Crash Proof: How to Profit from the Coming Economic Collapse". "Peter Schiff is an American economic commentator, author and licensed stock broker who currently serves as president of Euro Pacific Capita...
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- -: Musicians@Google: Peter Bjorn and John
August 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Peter Bjorn and John visit Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to perform songs off of their album "Living Thing." This event took place on August 13, 2009, as part of the Musicians@Google series. Peter Bjorn and John were formed in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1999. Made up of members Peter Morén ...
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- -: Authors@Google: Peter Nowak
April 20, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Peter Nowak visits Google's Waterloo office to present his book "Sex, Bombs & Burgers". This event took place on March 11, 2010, as part of the Authors@Google series. The talk will focus on the main theme of the book, which is how the military, porn and food industries have been the biggest dri...
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- -: Authors@Google: Peter Sims
May 14, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Peter Sims spoke to Googlers in Mountain View on May 10, 2011 about his book Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries. Peter Sims is introduced by Alana Weiss. About the book: "What do Apple CEO Steve Jobs, comedian Chris Rock, prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the s...
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- -: Practical Common Lisp
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google TechTalks May 10, 2006 Peter Seibel ABSTRACT In the late 1920's linguists Edward Sapir and Benjamin Whorf hypothesized that the thoughts we can think are largely determined by the language we speak. In his essay "Beating the Averages" Paul Graham echoed this notion and invented a hypothe...
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