In February, Michael Specter gave a talk at TED, which can now be seen online, on the subject of denialism, and how irrational thinking hurts progress and is bad for science.
By Thessaly La Force April 13 , 2010In February, Michael Specter gave a talk at TED, which can now be seen online, on the subject of denialism, and how irrational thinking hurts progress and is bad for science.
In one of his stories, a… In February, Michael Specter gave a talk at TED, which can now be seen online, on the subject of denialism, and how irrational thinking hurts… In "The Ask," Milo Burke is a development officer at what he calls "Mediocre university".
In 2013, speaking to the Yale Political Union, Ms. Alexander recalled an earlier talk at which someone in the audience had brought her up short by asking, "What use is poetry?" In the Yale talk, she explored that question and lamented the struggle for the poetic voice to be indulged and heard.
But this means confronting illegal fisherman, something Ferreira urges the local community to do during a talk at a school which sits on stilts above the muddy river bank.
On Mar. 7 Kanan gave a talk at Harvard in which he called on the U.S. to suspend its ceasefire negotiations with the Iraqi military & instead march on Baghdad at once & flush out Saddam once & for all.
If you think that was a unique way to enliven statistics, consider the 2007 TED talk at which Dr. Rosling wanted to show attendees that the seemingly impossible was possible — so he swallowed a sword.
I gave a talk at their Norges Bank, which is the central bank of Norway.
Last month, Cegłowski was invited to give a talk at the US Library of Congress in which he proposed a novel metaphor.
Then, in 2005, he gave a talk at the American Geophysical Union in which he argued that the year was the warmest on record and that industrial carbon emissions were to blame.
I went and gave a talk at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, which is one of the most conservative Christian seminaries on the East Coast, and I was talking about Harry Potter.
