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In this day and age, Jordan Theriot is a breath of fresh air. On January 14, 2011, Caltech hosted an exciting one-day event to honour Richard Feynman: Nobel Laureate, Caltech physics professor, iconoclast, visionary, and all-around ‘curious character’. Jordan shares her experience of the value of extraordinary teaching, extraordinary mentorship and what it can really […]
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Wael Ghonim is the Google Executive who helped jump start Egypt’s democratic revolution with a Facebook page memorialising a victim of the regime’s violence. He tells the inside story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that ‘the power of the people is stronger than the people in power’.
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Tapping into the findings of his latest book, NYTimes columnist David Brooks unpacks new insights into human nature from the cognitive sciences insights with massive implications for economics and politics as well as our own self-knowledge. In a talk full of humour, he shows how you can’t hope to understand humans as separate individuals making […]
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Having lost one brother to the world of autism and another to a terminal illness, Alicia Arenas never knew a normal childhood. Expected to always put on a brave face, Arenas played the role of good girl on the outside. One the inside, however, she was dying. In this heart-wrenching talk, Arenas tells parents of […]
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Lighting architect Rogier van der Heide offers a beautiful new way to look at the world, by paying attention to light (and to darkness). Examples from classic buildings illustrate a deeply thought-out vision of the play of light around us.
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