Posts Tagged ‘TED Talks’

What Physics teaches about Marketing

Friday, August 27, 2010 21:23 No Comments

Just watched Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing – Dan Cobley (2010) on Active Player. Physics and marketing don’t seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton’s second law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of [...]

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TEDTalks : The game layer on top of the world

Monday, August 23, 2010 23:32 No Comments

Just watched Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world – Seth Priebatsch (2010) on Active Player. By now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web — building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer [...]

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TEDTalks: The beauty of data visualization

Monday, August 23, 2010 23:03 No Comments

Just watched David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization – David McCandless (2010) on Active Player. David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — [...]

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Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

Monday, August 16, 2010 23:58 No Comments

Just watched Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory – Daniel Kahneman (2010) on Active Player. Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — [...]

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The Riverside School : Infecting India With “I CAN”

Sunday, July 18, 2010 19:28 No Comments

  Kiran Bir Sethi shows how her groundbreaking Riverside School in India teaches kids life’s most valuable lesson: "I can." Watch her students take local issues into their own hands, lead other young people, even educate their parents. Such a simple and inspiring motto : “One Idea. One Week. One Billion lives to change.”

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