Ideas Worth Spreading: TEDTalks Discussion Series

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Thursday, October 14
12:15 PM

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Thursday, October 14
12:45 PM

Drop in. No registration required. The TEDTalks Discussion Series at EPL is based on the wildly popular Internet site TED.com. TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is an eclectic lecture series with something for everyone and is devoted to ideas worth spreading. Drop in to watch a TEDTalk with us and then participate in a lively discussion that might have you changing your attitude, your life and even the world. Admission is always FREE! <hr /> September 9, 2010 | 12:15pm and 2:30pm Centre for Reading and the Arts - Main Floor Stanley A. Milner Library TEDTalks Discussion Series are approximately 45 minutes...bring your lunch! <h2>Are schools killing creativity?</h2>Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Come watch the TEDTalk, then participate in a lively discussion and share your thoughts and opinions! Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. A visionary cultural leader, Sir Ken led the British government's 1998 advisory committee on creative and cultural education, a massive inquiry into the significance of creativity in the educational system and the economy, and was knighted in 2003 for his achievements. His latest book, <a href="http://epl.bibliocommons.com/search?q=The+Element%3A+How+Finding+Your+Passion+Changes+Everyth&suppress=true&t=bkw&title=The+Element%3A+How+Finding+Your+Passion+Changes+Everyth">The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything</a>, a deep look at human creativity and education, was published in January 2009. <hr /> October 14, 2010 | 12:15pm and 2:30pm Centre for Reading and the Arts - Main Floor Stanley A. Milner Library TEDTalks Discussion Series are approximately 45 minutes...bring your lunch! <h2>The oil spill's unseen culprits,victims</h2>The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it's bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf -- and many so-called solutions are making the situation worse. Come watch the TEDTalk, then participate in a lively discussion and share your thoughts and opinions! <a href="http://epl.bibliocommons.com/search?t=smart&q=Carl+Safina">Carl Safina</a> explores how the ocean is changing, and what those changes mean for wildlife and for people. In the 1990s he helped lead campaigns to ban high-seas driftnets, re-write US federal fisheries law, work toward international conservation of tunas, sharks and other fishes, and achieve passage of a UN global fisheries treaty. <hr /> December 9, 2010 | 12:15pm and 2:30pm Centre for Reading and the Arts - Main Floor Stanley A. Milner Library TEDTalks Discussion Series are approximately 45 minutes...bring your lunch! <h2>Is this how tomorrow's computers will be controlled?</h2>Remember the data interface from the Tom Cruise movie <a href="http://epl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/757652005_minority_report">Minority Report</a>? Well, it's real, John Underkoffler invented it -- as a point-and-touch interface called g-speak -- and it's about to change the way we interact with data. In this TEDTalk, Underkoffler demonstrates g-speak -- the real-life version of the film's eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Come watch the TEDTalk, then participate in a lively discussion and share your thoughts and opinions! John Underkoffler led the team that came up with this interface, called the g-speak Spatial Operating Environment. His company, Oblong Industries, was founded to move g-speak into the real world. Oblong is building apps for aerospace, bioinformatics, video editing and more. But the big vision is ubiquity: g-speak on every laptop, every desktop, every microwave oven, TV, dashboard. "It has to be like this," he says. "We all of us every day feel that. We build starting there. We want to change it all." <hr />

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