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12:48:00 05/23/12
Prof Marcus Munafo
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Prof Marcus Munafo
Professor Marcus Munafo speaks at Authors at Google about recognition and interpretation of emotions in faces From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 0 4 ratings Time: 45:03 More in Science & Technology
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04:40:43 05/22/12
Jake Godby and Sean Vahey: "Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book", Talks at Google
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Jake Godby and Sean Vahey: "Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream Book", Talks at Google
With more than 310000 Twitter followers, a heaping helping of controversy, and a rich supply of attitude and humor, Humphry Slocombe is not your average ice cream shop. Yet the ice cream is what matters, and they make it in dozens of glorious, unique, and delightful flavors. This tasty book collects 50 recipes for these idolized and iconoclastic flavors, as well as surprising sundae combinations and popular toppings such as marshmallow and crumbled curry cookie. More than 50 color photographs, dozens of graphics and drawings, and first-person essays and scenes from the shop present a delicious foray into this scoop of San Francisco s incredible food scene. Learn more about the store at www.humphryslocombe.com . You can follow @HumphrySlocombe on Twitter. The link to their entry on Google Books is here goo.gl Title artwork by Sophia Foster-Dimino. From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 472 6 ratings Time: 33:23 More in Howto & Style
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04:37:02 05/22/12
Patrick Awuah:: "Fostering Innovation as the Key to Lasting Change in Africa", Talks at Google
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Patrick Awuah:: "Fostering Innovation as the Key to Lasting Change in Africa", Talks at Google
After a successful career at Microsoft, Patrick looked back to his native Ghana and decided that the ills of the country could only by solved by educating the next generation of business and government leaders, providing them with training in critical thinking and ethics that the current generation lacked. To put his plan into action, he founded Ashesi University in Accra, West Africa's first liberal arts school. Now in its 10th year, Ashesi empowers young Africans to develop the motivation and the skills they need to create their own solutions to Africa's challenges. Ashesi students are known worldwide for applying their computer science and business skills in innovative ways to address local challenges. Nearly all Ashesi graduates have chosen to stay in Africa (over 95%), where they are known for ethical integrity and for their innovative and entrepreneurial talents. From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 310 10 ratings Time: 55:46 More in Howto & Style
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21:39:20 05/21/12
Authors at Google: Peter Bergen
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Authors at Google: Peter Bergen
"Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad" Here are riveting new details of bin Laden's flight after the crushing defeat of the Taliban to Tora Bora, where American forces came startlingly close to capturing him; his grim, Spartan life in hiding; and his struggle to maintain control of al-Qaeda even as American drones systematically picked off his key lieutenants. Half a world away, CIA analysts haunted by the intelligence failures that led to 9/11 and the WMD fiasco pored over the tiniest of clues before homing in on the man they called "the Kuwaiti"--who led them to a peculiar building with twelve-foot-high walls and security cameras less than a mile from a Pakistani military academy. This was the courier who would unwittingly steer them to bin Laden, now a prisoner of his own making but still plotting to devastate the United States. Bergen takes us inside the Situation Room, where President Obama considers the COAs (courses of action) presented by his war council and receives conflicting advice from his top advisors before deciding to risk the raid that would change history--and then inside the Joint Special Operations Command, whose "secret warriors," the SEALs, would execute Operation Neptune Spear. From the moment two Black Hawks take off from Afghanistan until bin Laden utters his last words, Manhunt reads like a thriller. Based on exhaustive research and unprecedented access to White House officials, CIA analysts, Pakistani intelligence ... From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 449 17 ratings Time: 58:15 More in Howto & Style
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21:38:13 05/21/12
Authors at Google: Ed Yourden, "CIOs at Work"
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Authors at Google: Ed Yourden, "CIOs at Work"
In CIOs at Work, noted author Ed Yourdon interviews many of the world's most influential chief information officers. You will gain insights from the first CIO of the USA, take a peek into the future with the CIO at Google, learn the unique role IT plays in testing Microsoft applications, and much more. Yourdon focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of managing information in their organizations while revealing much more: How they got there, how they manage and allocate resources, and how they interact with business units and assure that their companies take advantage of technologies and automation to make employees even more productive. Surveying a variety of unique corporations, you'll get a great sense of what can be done and what is being done now in organizations around the world. From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 250 3 ratings Time: 57:11 More in Howto & Style
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21:36:28 05/21/12
Chefs at Google: ?uestlove
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Chefs at Google: ?uestlove
Acclaimed drummer, DJ, producer, culinary entrepreneur, and Co-Founder of the The Roots - Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson, is making his way into the culinary world with ?uest Loves Food and his signature "Love's Drumsticks." ?uestlove is the unmistakable heartbeat of The Roots, Philadelphia's most influential hip-hop band. Beyond that, this Grammy award-winning musician's indisputable reputation has landed him musical directing positions with everyone from D'Angelo to Eminem to Jay-Z. He is the Musical Director for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and his beloved Roots crew serves as house band. In addition to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,?uestlove is also the Musical Director for the Comedy Awards on Comedy Central and will be in several commercials this year. ?uest Loves Food begins its culinary quest in 2011, featuring Creole and Korean inspired soul food with a focus on locally sourced ingredients and "on-a-stick" decadence, for high profile industry events. ?uest Loves Food has battled David Chang of momofuku on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, taken over the cafeteria at Google, featured at Food & Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs Event, and "Love's Drumsticks have been featured in Food & Wine Magazine and Bon Appetit Magazine; listed in their "Top 25 Things to Eat, Drink, and Cook in 2012". From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 410 11 ratings Time: 57:53 More in Howto & Style
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16:43:56 05/21/12
Tina Seelig: "InGenius", Authors at Google
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Tina Seelig: "InGenius", Authors at Google
Internationally bestselling author and award-winning Stanford University educator Tina Seelig has taught creativity to the best and brightest students at Stanford and to business leaders around the world. With inGenius she expertly decodes creativity, revealing an approach that everyone can use to enhance their own creative genius. In today's world, innovation and creative problem solving are more important than ever to succeed. For many of us, however, this process is a mystery. Whether we are attempting to generate fresh ideas or struggling with problems with no solutions in sight, the innovative spark is out of reach. inGenius offers a revolutionary new model, the Innovation Engine, which explains how creativity is generated on the inside and how it is influenced by the outside world. Describing the variables that work together to catalyze or inhibit our creative abilities, Seelig provides a set of tools we can each use right away to radically enhance our own ingenuity as well as that of our colleagues, teams, organizations, and communities. Seelig's groundbreaking work reveals that creativity is an endless renewable resource we can tap into at any time. It is as natural as breathing, and just as necessary for leading a successful and fulfilling life. About the author: Tina Seelig has a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Stanford University Medical School. She is the executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the director of the National Center for ... From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 892 19 ratings Time: 40:32 More in Education
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16:16:30 05/21/12
Authors@Google: Richard Moore, Ned Boulting, and Dan Friebe
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Authors@Google: Richard Moore, Ned Boulting, and Dan Friebe
Authors@ Presents... Stories From the Tour de France Join us for for what is sure to be a lively & candid discussion from three of Cycling's top journalists: Daniel Friebe, Ned Boulting and Richard Moore. Ned Boulting has covered every Tour de France for ITV since 2003, and in 2011 authored How I Won the Yellow Jumper, which the Guardian has called, 'a hugely enjoyable behind-the-scenes look at the Tour de France.' In addition to best-selling book, Slaying The Badger, Richard Moore has written books on Robert Millar and Sir Chris Hoy. His new book, The Dirtiest Race in History: Ben Johnson, Carl Lewis and the Seoul Olympic 100m Final, is due out this June. After working as features editor for Pro Cycling magazine, Daniel Friebe ghost-wrote the critically acclaimed Mark Cavendish autobiography, Boy Racer. His recently published third book, Eddy Merckx: The Cannibal is already receiving rave reviews. From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 290 4 ratings Time: 01:00:58 More in Sports
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23:35:05 05/19/12
Authors@Google: Lisa Earle McLeod
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Authors@Google: Lisa Earle McLeod
Author Lisa Earle McLeod visited Google in Atlanta on February 23, 2012. Lisa Earle McLeod, author of The Triangle of Truth, which the Washington Post named as a "Top Five Book for Leaders," discusses how organizations can increase revenue, improve margin, and ignite innovation by focusing on a purpose larger than just money. Here Lisa shares: - Why purpose-driven salespeople out perform product-driven salespeople - How to get others passionate about your purpose - How to reignite your own passion when you feel frustrated and have lost your sense of purpose Lisa Earle McLeod is a sales leadership consultant. Companies like Apple, Kimberly-Clark and Pfizer hire her to help them create passionate, purpose-driven sales forces. She has appeared on The Today Show, and has been featured in Forbes, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. More info - www.LisaEarleMcLeod.com From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 685 9 ratings Time: 01:09:04 More in Howto & Style
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23:12:25 05/18/12
Authors@Google: Julie Clow
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Authors@Google: Julie Clow
Former Googler Julie Clow visited Google on May 16, 2012 to talk about her book The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All. About the book: We live in a new age of global companies, hyper-access to information, and accessibility to tools that enable us to bring any idea life. Strangely, our workplaces are lagging behind the promise of this open and collaborative world. Most organizations are rule-based, top-down, dreary environments optimized for conformity and little else. The Work Revolution creates a compelling portrait of a different kind of work. "I believe freedom in the workplace is worth fighting for and every person and every organization can be excellent." Julie Clow articulates the rules we follow today in our work force, the reasons they no longer work, and what we can do instead. The Work Revolution deconstructs the magic behind thriving, liberated organizations (such as Google) into clear principles that any individual, leader, and organization can adopt to create sustainable and engaging lives. The Work Revolution... - Provides actionable changes anyone can make, regardless of where they work, to create a more sustainable work-life blend. - Details concrete ways to influence existing organizations to change. - Guides leaders to make tangible changes in their teams to enable greater autonomy and impact. - Outlines organizational culture principles that support and nurture high-performance and healthy environments, providing clear options for ... From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 708 15 ratings Time: 41:47 More in Education
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18:29:29 05/18/12
Authors at Google: Gabi Moskowitz, "Brokeass Gourmet"
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Authors at Google: Gabi Moskowitz, "Brokeass Gourmet"
Author of "The Brokeass Gourmet Cookbook, recipes to keep your tase buds happy and your wallet thick," Gabi Moskowitz, visits the Google Los Angeles, to demonstrate a recipe from her book, discuss her food blog, and answer audience questions. From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 466 0 ratings Time: 37:23 More in Entertainment
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23:38:32 05/16/12
Leading@Google: Chip Conley
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Leading@Google: Chip Conley
"Chip Conley visits Google in Mountain View to talk about his book - Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success. Using brilliantly simple math to explore and articulate the one thing that challenges and connects us all %mdash our emotions %mdash Emotional Equations takes us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency, offering a new way to manage our internal world. emotionalequations.com From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 1707 28 ratings Time: 01:06:51 More in Education
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17:24:27 05/16/12
Authors@Google: Hallie Ephron, "Come and Find Me"
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Authors@Google: Hallie Ephron, "Come and Find Me"
Author Hallie Ephron visits Google Cambridge to discuss writing and her new novel "Come and Find Me." From the book's description: "Computer security expert and reformed hacker Diana Highsmith has not ventured beyond her home for more than a year%mdashnot since that fateful climbing vacation in Switzerland took Daniel's life. Haunted by the sound of Daniel's cries echoing across the gorge as he fell, Diana cannot stop thinking about the life they'll never have%mdashgrief that has transformed her into a recluse. "Diana doesn't have to shut herself off completely from the world, though; she and Daniel's best friend run a thriving Internet security company. From her home, in her pajamas, Diana assesses security breaches, both potential and real, and offers clients a way to protect themselves from hackers%mdashthe kind of disruptions Diana herself used to create. Once Diana has a game plan she is able to meet with clients in OtherWorld, an Internet-based platform, using Nadia, an avatar she created for herself. Diana knows she'll have to rejoin the 'real world' eventually, but right now a few steps from her door each morning is all she can handle." From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 410 6 ratings Time: 53:35 More in Entertainment
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20:55:42 05/12/12
Authors@Google: Michael Erard
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Authors@Google: Michael Erard
Michael Erard visited Google on May 3, 2012 to talk about his book Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners. About the book: "If you've ever tried to learn another language, you know how much time, energy, and brain power is required. Imagine a person who can pick up languages very easily. Someone who can navigate our world's multilingual hullaballoo. Who can leap language barriers with a single bound. Who can learn without effort and remember indelibly. Such people aren't parrots. They're not computers. They're language superlearners. "Michael Erard searched for these people, and when he found them -- in history books and living among us -- he tried to make sense of their linguistic feats and their mental powers. His book answers the age-old question, What are the upper limits of the human ability to learn, remember, and use languages?" [from www.babelnomore.com From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 1424 28 ratings Time: 58:59 More in Education
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20:06:33 05/09/12
Authors@Google: Tim Harford
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Authors@Google: Tim Harford
Time Harford speaks to Googlers in Mountain View on May 25, 2011 about his book Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure. About the book: Tim Harford, the Undercover Economist, shows us a new and inspiring approach to solving the most pressing problems in our lives. When faced with complex situations, we have all become accustomed to looking to our leaders to set out a plan of action and blaze a path to success. Harford argues that today's challenges simply cannot be tackled with ready-made solutions and expert opinion; the world has become far too unpredictable and profoundly complex. Instead, we must adapt. Deftly weaving together psychology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, physics, and economics, along with the compelling story of hard-won lessons learned in the field, Harford makes a passionate case for the importance of adaptive trial and error in tackling issues such as climate change, poverty, and financial crises%mdashas well as in fostering innovation and creativity in our business and personal lives. Taking us from corporate boardrooms to the deserts of Iraq, Adapt clearly explains the necessary ingredients for turning failure into success. It is a breakthrough handbook for surviving%mdashand prospering%mdash in our complex and ever-shifting world. Adapt is available at the Google eBookstore: books.google.com From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 743 19 ratings Time: 52:15 More in People & Blogs
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20:06:00 05/09/12
Musicians@Google: She Wants Revenge
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Musicians@Google: She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge performed for Googlers in Mountain View on Tuesday, March 29, 2011. About the band: Los Angeles DJs Justin Warfield and Adam "Adam 12" Bravin formed the moody, Joy Division-inspired She Wants Revenge in 2003. A fortuitous combination of word of mouth, industry connections, and airplay on Sirius Satellite Radio and West Coast airwave giant KCRW provided the duo with enough exposure to snag a record deal with Geffen, resulting in a 2006 self-titled release that has drawn comparisons to Interpol, early Depeche Mode, and the Bravery, as well as their aforementioned eternally depressed post-punk heroes from England. After touring with Depeche Mode, they returned with 2007's This Is Forever. Their new album, Valley Heart, is due in May. From: AtGoogleTalks Views: 284 10 ratings Time: 01:11:25 More in Music
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