MONROVIA Hans Rosling is a global health celebrity, a former head of the Division of Global Health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm whose riveting lectures have made him a star of TED talks, and a fixture of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
► In this week's Science, Kai Kupferschmidt profiled "global health celebrity" Hans Rosling, "a former head of the Division of Global Health at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm whose riveting lectures have made him a star of TED talks, and a fixture of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland".
Last week in the space of days, I was able to see choreographer William Forsythe present a riveting lecture-demonstration about his process with his wildly talented multi disciplinary sophomore class at the new Glorya Kaufman School of Dance at USC and Benjamin Millepied instruct the ballet conservatory class at the Colburn School.
A riveting, memorable speech?
Baseball is just one riveting 30 minutes out of a 48-lecture course beginning with America's Great Epidemic of 1617 and ending with The Age of Terror and the 911 Attacks.
It was unlike any lecture that has gone before and it riveted the audience at the London College of Communication (LCC).
But the lecture that I found the most compelling, the most riveting, was Prof. Lazcano's bilingual tour-de-force at his home university in Mexico City just a few years ago.
The four episodes of the series provided for early review are riveting and never for a moment feel like a boring classroom lecture on the subject.
Primitive staples-and-glue residue will be the subject of a lecture on Wednesday at the New York Ceramics Fair, "Simply Riveting: A Look at Broken and Mended Ceramics," by Angelika Kuettner, a curator at Colonial Williamsburg.
Parents who have read his books to their children, and all those transfixed by War Horse, were riveted when he stood up on BBC1 to give the Dimbleby Lecture.
Though both Packer's lecture and her acting are infused with her obvious love for Shakespeare's heroines, neither is riveting.
