TEDxConejo - Reza Aslan - Unity in Diversity
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Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, tells his own story of growing up as an Iranian-born emigre and explores the common narrative of what it means to be an American, the unity that we find in our diversity. At a time of unparalleled anti-Muslim sentiment in America, Aslan explores the current climate in... Read more
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- -: TEDxConejo - Reza Aslan - Unity in Diversity
May 20, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Dr. Reza Aslan, an internationally acclaimed writer and scholar of religions, tells his own story of growing up as an Iranian-born emigre and explores the common narrative of what it means to be an American, the unity that we find in our diversity. At a time of unparalleled anti-Muslim sentiment...
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- -: TEDxLansing-Ivy Hughes-The Bible Told Me So
June 7, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Ivy started reading the Bible — cover-to-cover — in June 2010. Not a religious person (she says 'God hates me') but because she wanted to understand why religion breeds so much hate and why her sister, who was going to church at the time, wanted nothing to do with her. Ivy documented her journey ...
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- -: Devdutt Pattanaik: East vs west -- the myths that mystify
November 19, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye-opening look at the myths of India and of the West -- and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks ...
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- -: Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy
April 19, 2011 (about 13 years ago)http://www.ted.com By leading the Americans in his audience at TEDxPSU step by step through the thought process, sociologist Sam Richards sets an extraordinary challenge: can they understand -- not approve of, but understand -- the motivations of an Iraqi insurgent? And by extension, can anyone t...
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- -: TEDxNorrkoping - Peter Gärdenfors - How to Motivate Students?
October 11, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Peter Gärdenfors is a professor of cognitive science at the University of Lund, Sweden. He received his PhD from Lund University in 1974. Internationally, he is one of Sweden's most notable philosophers and has had visiting positions at and receweived many awards from numerous universities and in...
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- -: Authors@Google: Helen Fisher
March 5, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Helen Fisher visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book "Why Him? Why Her?: Finding Real Love by Understanding Your Personality Type." This event took place on February 20, 2009, as part of the Authors@Google series. In Why Him? Why Her?, Fisher unlocks the hidden code of...
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- -: Aesthetic Science: Understanding Preferences for Color...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks May 22, 2007 ABSTRACT Artists and graphic designers of all stripes continually face the problem of how to compose their works in aesthetically pleasing ways. Despite its importance and generality, the perceptual basis of aesthetic response has not been adequately studied. I wi...
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- -: Understanding SVG with Inkscape
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks June 19, 2006 ABSTRACT SVG is an XML vector graphics standard that is gaining momentum on the web. It is supported by most browsers (IE with a plug-in) and fills a need for vector graphics in the high resolution environments that webpages are finding themselves in while stil...
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- -: Understanding and Evaluating Technology
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks November 15, 2006 ABSTRACT What is it about technology that does not change? What persistent patterns can we learn—can society at large learn—in order to understand and evaluate the technologies underlying our important personal, political, social, and economic decisions? The ...
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- -: Understanding Urban Environments Through the Use of...
October 9, 2007 (over 16 years ago)Google Tech Talks December 13, 2006 ABSTRACT For 3D global visualization systems, it is important to be able to render city-sized collections of relatively simple building models at fast speeds without losing spatial coherence. Since traditional mesh simplification algorithms are not designed f...
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