Talks at Google (videos of June 2017)

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 45:51 Gigi Gorgeous: "This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous" | Talks at Google For Pride at Google, YouTuber Gigi Gorgeous came to Talk about her documentary on coming out as trans "This is Everything: Gigi Gorgeous" and her rise to YouTube stardom.
More about Gigi: Gigi Go...
 44:21 Kevin Kwan: "Rich People Problems" | Talks at Google Live from Google Los Angeles, Kevin Kwan, author of “Crazy Rich Asians” and his latest novel “Rich People Problems", discusses his wayward creative journey, books, “Crazy Rich Asians” movie, Asians...
 44:36 Zim Ugochukwu: "Building An Unconventional Company" | Talks at Google Zim Ugochukwu discusses some of what inspired and motivated her to create Travel Noire (https://travelnoire.com/), an award winning boutique travel company where the unconventional traveler can fin...
 53:50 Brian Olson: "Algorithmic Gerrymandering" | Talks at Google Brian Olson is a professional software engineer who has worked at tiny startups and giants of tech on everything from tiny embedded computers to server farms. He presents his passion project of ove...
 1:00:47 Cecil Baldwin: "Welcome to Night Vale" | Talks at Google The Voice of Night Vale - actor Cecil Baldwin - visited Google's NYC office to discuss the creation and development of "Welcome to Night Vale".
"Welcome to Night Vale" is a twice-monthly podcast i...
 48:53 Michael Bhaskar: "Curation: The Power of Selection in a World of Too Much" | Talks at Google Michael Bhaskar joined us on London to discuss the places in which Curation - a simple but forceful skill - is increasingly felt: in art and on the web, but also in retail, high finance and governm...
 1:25:34 Richard Wolff: "Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism" | Talks at Google Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program i...
 57:47 Jeffrey Kluger: "Apollo 8" | Talks at Google Jeffrey Kluger is the author of several books including Apollo 13 originally published as Lost Moon, co-authored with Jim Lovell, and The Sibling Effect. He has been a science editor and senior wr...
 35:11 Karsh Kale: "Blending Music with Virtual Reality" | Talks at Google Karsh Kale stops by the Googleplex to talk about his musical journey and new experiments blending with Virtual Reality with music.
Karsh Kale is an Indian American musician, producer and composer,...
 40:45 JD Stier, Kwame Marfo and Jim N.: "Tech: An Emerging Humanitarian Leader in Congo" | Talks at Google The #StandWithCongo movement and Young African MBAs join to discuss the intersection of technology and human rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and 3 concrete steps all can take to increas...
 58:49 Jeffery Gettleman: "Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War and Survival" | Talks at Google Jeffrey Gettleman is the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times. He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting for his work from Africa. He has covered warlords and pirates, rebels...
 52:48 Seth Stephens-Davidowitz: "EVERYBODY LIES: Big Data, New Data, and What the [...]" | Talks at Google Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is a Harvard-trained economist, a visiting lecturer at Wharton, a former Google data scientist and a writer for The New York Times on big data. Seth sat down to talk with...
 53:03 "Queer Faith: Navigating Intersecting Identities" | Talks at Google Faith communities and the LGBTQ+ community are often thought of as distinct, separate, and sometimes even in conflict with one another, but in reality, there is significant overlap and intersection...
 56:46 Omar Hatamleh: "A Future With Innovation" | Talks at Google Meet Dr. Omar Hatamleh, the new Executive Director of the Space Studies Program at ISU. With 20 years at NASA behind him, Dr. Hatamleh has some interesting perspectives to share on how to increase ...
 43:37 Michael Ruhlman: "Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America" | Talks at Google Michael Ruhlman is a classically trained chef, author, inventor, speaker, and blogger. He has written or collaborated on over 20 books, including The Soul of a Chef, Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind ...
 53:33 Susan Maycock, Charles Sullivan: "Building Old Cambridge" | Talks at Google Cambridge, Massachusetts started as a small village on the Charles River. How did this small settlement surrounded by mud flats, with a tiny college and few resources, become an industrial powerhou...
 1:13:04 Mohnish Pabrai: "Intensive Stock Research Can Be Injurious to Financial Health" | Talks at Google In this talk, Mohnish Pabrai discusses how the plethora of deeply entrenched biases and flawed evolutionary brain wiring makes us prone to make plenty of mistakes when picking stocks. Specifically,...
 56:46 Sharon Salzberg: "Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection" | Talks at Google Real Love is a creative tool kit of mindfulness exercises and meditation techniques that help you to truly engage with your present experience and create deeper love relationships with yourself, yo...
 55:55 David Kwong: "Spellbound" | Talks at Google As a magician and New York Times crossword constructor, David Kwong mixes puzzles and illusion. With a background in film (and a Harvard degree in the history of magic), he’s the founder of the Mis...
 51:59 Stephen Roche: "The Tour de France Champion" | Talks at Google Former Tour de France Champion Stephen Roche talks about his career in professional cycling and how he won the biggest race in the world.
Moderated by Gareth Morgan.
 1:02:44 John Mackey: "The Whole Foods Diet: [...]" | Talks at Google John Mackey is the co-founder and current CEO of Whole Foods. John visits Google headquarters in Mountain View to talk about his latest book, "The Whole Foods Diet". The book details John's journey...
 1:00:57 Joel Primack: New Insights on Galaxy Formation from Comparing Simulations [...] | Talks at Google Prof. Joel Primack from UC Santa Cruz is a theoretical physicist best known for his research in cosmology and galaxy formation. In this talk Primack gives a brief introduction to modern cosmology a...
 48:36 Ellen Gunning: "Ten Red Hot Tips for Promoting Your Business" | Talks at Google 'Ellen Gunning is the director of the Irish Academy of Public Relations, which she established in 1992. She has been training students and corporate agencies ever since. In this talk Ellen reveals ...
 44:41 Irit Wald: "Creating a Winning Mindset for Success, Happiness, and Satisfaction" | Talks at Google Irit Wald is the co-founder and CEO of ThinkUp, a leading app for developing a winning mindset, proven through over 2 million user sessions to date. Irit is a wellness specialist, Pilates instructo...
 55:05 Matt Schrader & Joe Kraemer: "Score: A Film Music Documentary" | Talks at Google “SCORE” takes an unprecedented look at the creative process of film score composition with some of the best-known artists in the field including Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Danny Elfman, Trent Rezn...
 1:01:22 Beau Lotto: "Deviate" | Talks at Google World-renowned neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and two-time TED speaker Beau Lotto draws on over two decades of research to reveal startling truths about the brain and how it perceives the world. In...
 56:06 Simon Sinek: "The Finite and Infinite Games of Leadership: [...]" | Talks at Google The Finite and Infinite Games of Leadership:
Leadership, Business and Finding Purpose in the Workplace.
Simon Sinek is the bestselling author of Start With Why and Leaders Eat Last, which have hel...
 1:03:51 Stephanie Gray: "Abortion: From Controversy to Civility" | Talks at Google Stephanie Gray, internationally renowned speaker and author, applies the Socratic method and storytelling to the debate surrounding abortion. She invites the audience to be "pro-conversation" on a...
 57:35 Geoffrey West: "Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity [...] | Talks at Google Scale: The Search for Simplicity and Unity in the Complexity of Life, from Cells to Cities, Companies to Ecosystems, Milliseconds to Millennia
Dr. Geoffrey West is a theoretical physicist whose pr...
51:37 Chris Hayes: "A Colony in a Nation" | Talks at Google Chris Hayes is the host of *All In with Chris Hayes* on MSNBC and an editor-at-large at *The Nation*. Ta-Nehisi Coates called his first
book, *Twilight of the Elites*, “a stunning polemic.” Hayes’ ...
55:02 Prof. Sara Seager: "Mapping Nearby Stars for Habitable Exoplanets" | Talks at Google Sara Seager is a professor of planetary science and physics at MIT and a contributor to a recent collection of essays on the current state of the search for life beyond Earth.
Here she gives an in...
50:50 Arjun Rampal: Fitness, Films, and His Latest Production "Daddy" | Talks at Google We welcome Arjun Rampal to Google for a "Talk at Google" event at Google's global headquarters. Arjun is joining us to unveil the theatrical trailer of his upcoming production "Daddy".
Check out t...
52:14 Sarah Williams Goldhagen: "Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment [...]" | Talks at Google Welcome to Your World: How the Built Environment Shapes Our Lives
Join us to hear Sarah Williams Goldhagen, one of the nation's chief architect critics, draw on new discoveries in cognitive psycho...
52:27 Sanjeev Kapoor: "The Art of Cooking" | Talks at Google Celebrity Chef Sanjeev Kapoor is the star of Indian culinary art. He owns a TV food network, cookery shows, over 130 restaurants globally and is an entrepreneur par excellence. Chef Kapoor talks ab...
39:05 Murad Awawdeh: "New York Immigration Coalition" | Talks at Google Murad Awawdeh is the Director of Political Engagement at the New York Immigration Coalition, where he leads the organization's local, state, and federal legislative and policy campaigns.
In this ...
1:03:11 Ned Block: "Why AI Approaches to Cognition Won't Work for Consciousness" | Talks at Google Professor Block's research is at the center of the vibrant academic debate about the true nature of consciousness. His work often straddles the boundary of philosophy of mind and cutting edge neuro...
38:51 Garry Kasparov: "Deep Thinking" | Talks at Google Garry Kasparov and DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis discuss Garry’s new book “Deep Thinking”, his match with Deep Blue and his thoughts on the future of AI in the world of chess.
Get the book here: h...
1:09:18 Adam Foss: "The Role of Technology in Criminal Justice Reform" | Talks at Google Adam discusses the prosecutor's role in criminal justice reform and how the technology industry plays a critical role in solving for this challenge.
Adam Foss spent eight years as an assistant dis...
56:01 Jeremiah Tower & Lydia Tenaglia: "Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent" | Talks at Google Chef Jeremiah Tower and director Lydia Tenaglia come to Google to discuss their documentary, "Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent."
JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT explores the remarkable li...
57:34 Bassem Youssef and Sara Taksler: "Tickling Giants" | Talks at Google In the midst of the Egyptian Arab Spring, Bassem Youssef leaves his job as a heart surgeon to become a full-time comedian. Dubbed, “The Egyptian Jon Stewart,” Bassem creates the satirical show, Al ...
38:40 Phillip Baribeau, Eduardo Garcia, & Jennifer Jane: "Charged: [...]" | Talks at Google Eduardo Garcia is an outdoorsman, chef and co-founder of the “Montana Mex” food company. In 2011, he got electrocuted in a freak accident in the Montana backcountry--losing one hand, ribs, muscle m...
54:56 Al Franken: "Al Franken, Giant of the Senate" | Talks at Google What happens when a comedian runs for Senate, squeaks out a win, and turns out to be… really great at it?
In his new book, Al Franken, Giant of the Senate, Senator Al Franken (D-MN) takes readers ...
46:30 Pamela Paul: "My Life With Bob" | Talks at Google Pamela Paul is the editor of The New York Times Book Review and the author of five books. Her latest is My Life With Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues.
In My Life With Bob, Paul...
25:56 Maurice Turner: "What's in a Name: Journey to Remove Racist Place [...]" | Talks at Google Maurice Turner visited Google’s office in Mountain View to discuss his journey to change more than 1400 federally recognized offensive place names.
Senate fellow Maurice Turner discovered a racist...
1:02:17 Dean Buonomano: "Your Brain is a Time Machine" | Talks at Google In YOUR BRAIN IS A TIME MACHINE, UCLA neuroscientist Dean Buonomano investigates the relationship between the brain and time: What is time? Why does time seem to speed up or slow down? Is our sense...
40:34 Caley Shoemaker & Chris Fogliatti: "From Fog to Bottle: Hangar 1 Vodka" | Talks at Google Caley Shoemaker discusses innovation in distillation and the origin story of her cult classic creation: Fog Point. Joined by Chris Fogliatti of FogQuest, the conversation focuses on the discovery a...
41:12 Brendan Edwards: "Be A Good Host, Be A Good Guest" | Talks at Google Chef Brendon Edwards joins us to discuss the ever changing dynamics of what makes a good restaurant host and what makes a good restaurant guests in today's technology-filled, high expectation ecos...
46:48 Vanessa Van Edwards: "Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People" | Talks at Google As a human behavior investigator, Vanessa Van Edwards studies the hidden forces that drive our behavior patterns in her lab—and she’s cracked the code. In Captivate she shares a wealth of valuable ...
52:02 Matthew Reinhart: "How Does One Make Pop-Up Books?" | Talks at Google Renowned paper engineer and New York Times bestselling author/artist Matthew Reinhart (The Lego Pop-Up Book) talks about how he came to be a paper engineer and the process for how pop-up books are ...
1:01:35 William Paul Young: "The Shack and its Aftermath" | Talks at Google William Paul Young wrote *The Shack* to his children, hoping it would give them a better picture of God. He first printed 15 copies at a local copy center thinking this was enough to share with fam...
54:03 Clara Hemphill: "Why Choose Public School and How to Navigate the NYC [...]" | Talks at Google Why Choose Public School and How to Navigate the NYC Public School System (PreK and Kindergarten)
Clara Hemphill is the Founder and Senior Editor of Inside Schools. She
leads The News School's Cen...
1:00:10 Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google For the past forty years Noam Chomsky's writings on politics and language have established him as a preeminent public intellectual and as one of the most original and wide-ranging political and soc...
50:31 Lawrence M. Krauss: "The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far" | Talks at Google Dr. Lawrence Krauss - -professor of physics and cosmology at Arizona State University-- celebrates the beauty and wonders of the natural world, details our place within it, and discusses how this s...
55:10 Michael Block: "We Are Chicago" | Talks at Google Inspired by stories and books around the cultural climate in Chicago from the 80’s through the present day, Michael Block and Culture Shock Games team developed the game to cultivate a conversation...
52:45 Demetri Martin: "Dean" | Talks at Google Writer/Director/Comedian Demetri Martin is visitis Google to discuss his directorial debut film DEAN. The film won the Tribeca Film Festival’s Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature and tells th...
49:18 Andrew Horn: "The Art of Meaningful Conversation" | Talks at Google Andrew Horn is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tribute.co, which the NewYorker calls "Hallmark 2.0." The site makes it easy to create a collaborative video montage of a group of people sharing their appr...
35:46 Lisa Lewtan: "Busy, Stressed, and Food Obsessed!" | Talks at Google Lisa Lewtan is a Health & Lifestyle Coach, the founder of Healthy, Happy, and Hip, an award-winning author, and the host of Busy, Stressed, and Food Obsessed Radio on VoiceAmerica.com (named after ...
54:16 Barry Friedman: "Unwarranted: Policing Without Permission" | Talks at Google Barry Friedman talks about his latest book UNWARRANTED: Policing Without Permission. Barry is a professor at New York University School of Law and the director of the Policing Project. For thirty ...
34:26 Katie Cantrell: "Hidden in Plain Bite: The Power of Our Food Choices" | Talks at Google Katie Cantrell is Executive Director of the Factory Farming Awareness Coalition, which she founded to educate people about the ecological and social justice hazards of industrial animal agriculture...
1:10:16 Pejman Nozad & Mar Hershenson: “Immigrants with Big Ideas” | Talks at Google Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson are the founders of Pear, a venture capital firm specializing in early stage investments. They’ve invested together in over 30 startups, including DoorDash, Guardant...