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Diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler worried first about his young family. So, as he shares in this funny, rambling and ultimately thoughtful talk he asked his closest friends to become a “Council of Dads,” bringing their own lifetimes of wisdom to advise his twin daughters as they grow.
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“11Ants Analytics is determined to make data mining technology accessible to less-technical users. Ordinary people like me and you. They got rid of the intimidation-factor most people like us experience when attempting data mining by integrating their Model Builder into Microsoft Excel so it also provides some seamless workflow conditions.
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Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education, the best teachers and schools don’t exist where they’re needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionise how we think about […]
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We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she’s met in her work in ‘patient capital’, people who have immersed themselves in a Cause, a Community, a passion for justice. These human stories carry powerful moments of inspiration.
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Clifford Stoll captivates his audience with a wildly energetic sprinkling of anecdotes, observations, asides and even a science experiment. After all, by his own definition, he’s a scientist: “Once I do something, I want to do something else.”
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