Talks at Google (videos of July 2017)

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55:05 Malkia Cyril: "Digital Sanctuary: An Antidote to Authoritarianism" | Talks at Google Malkia Cyril, a poet and activist who is best known as the executive director of the Center for Media Justice and for spearheading national grassroots efforts of the Net Neutrality campaign, framin...
58:29 Marc Brackett: "Emotional Intelligence as a Superpower" | Talks at Google Marc Brackett stops by to kick off Google Empathy Lab’s Series on
Designing for Feelings.
Emotions Matter. They inform our thinking and decisions, the quality of our relationships, our physical ...
36:27 Michael Hartl: "The Tau Manifesto" | Talks at Google Michael Hartl visits Google LA to talk about why pi is wrong! Join us to learn why pi is a confusing and unnatural choice for the circle constant.
Michael is the author of The Tau Manifesto (http...
44:37 Rakesh Satyal: "No One Can Pronounce My Name" | Talks at Google Rakesh Satyal is an award-winning novelist, book editor, and cabaret singer. His second novel, *No One Can Pronounce My Name*, just came out in May from Picador to incredible reception. It has been...
59:14 Resistance & Resiliance - Achieving Acceptance without Exception | Talks at Google Ruth Hunt is Chief Executive at Stonewall, Britain’s leading charity for lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality. The charity works with 750 businesses across the UK and abroad, as well as running tran...
54:11 Evan Davis: "Why We Have Reached Peak Bullsh*t and What We Can Do About It" | Talks at Google We were joined in London by journalist and economist Evan Davis, discussing the low-level dishonesty, selective use of facts and economy with the truth all around us, across both US and UK politics...
57:01 Emmanuel Schanzer: "Bootstrap: A Scalable Approach to Computer Science for All" | Talks at Google What would it take to scale computer science (CS) education to reach every child in the US? Not in the next few decades, but in the next 5 years? Adding a new subject into the core curriculum requi...
56:26 Andy Tobias: "LGBT Activism from the 70's through to Today" | Talks at Google Description to be used for the YouTube video (see go/how-to-write-a-description) - Andy Tobias is a well-known LGBT writer and activist, who reads from his upcoming sequel to the seminal works "The...
41:55 Irene Villa: "Saber Que Se Puede" | Talks at Google English Desc: Irene Villa is a Spanish author and journalist who became a political figure after losing both legs in an ETA (terrorism group) attack in Madrid at the age of 12. Irene affirms that ...
56:54 Mandy Catron: "How to Fall in Love with Anyone" | Talks at Google Mandy Len Catron joins us for the latest edition of our "Modern Romance" series. Catron is the author of the new memoir, How To Fall In Love With Anyone, which stems from her wildly popular Modern ...
56:50 Yaa Gyasi: "Homegoing: A Novel" | Talks at Google Award winning, Ghanaian-American Author, Yaa Gyasi, discusses her New York Times best seller Homegoing. And how the legacy of slavery affects relationships between Africans, African-americans and t...
52:34 Rajeeva Karandikar: "Power and Limitations of Opinion Polls" | Talks at Google Rajeeva Karandikar is mathematician, probabilist, psephologist, and the Director of Chennai Mathematical Institute in India. In the wake of the British general election he talks about the power and...
56:54 Dr. Amishi Jha: "The Impact of Mindfulness on Your Brain & Your Business" | Talks at Google Dr. Amishi Jha is neuroscientist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, and Director of Contemplative Neuroscience for the UMindfulness Initiative, prio...
59:24 Andrew O'Hagan: "The Secret Life: Three True Stories" | Talks at Google Andrew O'Hagan is described as one of his generation's most exciting and serious chroniclers of contemporary Britain. In "Ghosting" he tells the story about how he tried – and failed – to be the gh...
37:44 Ulrich Boser: "Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life [...] | Talks at Google Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or, How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything
For centuries, experts have argued that learning was about memoriz...
1:03:16 John McConnell: “Speechwriting for the President: Tales from the Trenches” | Talk at Google A longtime senior speechwriter for President George W. Bush, John McConnell was part of the three-person team responsible for all of the 43rd President’s major addresses, including the speech to th...
47:14 Sean Young: "Stick With It: A Scientifically Proven Process for Changing [...]" | Talks at Google STICK WITH IT: The Science of Lasting Changes (Harper; June 20, 2017). Dr. Young offers a fascinating look into the science of how people actually alter their behavior and providing practical advic...
52:32 Richard Harris: "Rigor Mortis" | Talks at Google Richard Harris is one of the nation's most-celebrated science journalists, covering science, medicine, and the environment for twenty-nine years for NPR, and the three-time winner of the AAAS Scien...
53:08 D.J. Flynn & Brendan Nyhan: "Why Facts and Science Don't Always Change [...]" | Talks at Google Why Facts and Science Don't Always Change People's Minds
Why do people hold so many false or unsupported beliefs and why are so those beliefs so hard to change? Brendan Nyhan and D.J. Flynn came t...
1:08:57 Dan Harmon | Talks at Google Dan Harmon (Rick and Morty, Community, Harmontown) stops by Google to Talk about his creative process, his ongoing projects - including the upcoming season 3 of Rick and Morty, Dungeons and Dragons...
41:20 Shanthi Sekaran: "Lucky Boy" | Talks at Google Shanthi Sekaran's new novel, Lucky Boy, tells a story of borders: borders between countries, between classes, between possibility and impossibility, and borders of the body. Lucky Boy, follows two ...
53:00 Dave Rudden: "Knights Of The Borrowed Dark" | Talks at Google Award winning author Dave Rudden talks to us of the highs and lows of becoming a published writer. He also treats us to some brilliant readings of extracts from his first novel, Knights of the Borr...
58:54 Graham Allison: "Destined for War: Can America and China Escape [...]" | Talks at Google Graham Allison, director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, discusses his latest book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap...
59:59 Dr. Paul Cohen: "Vintage Saxophones" | Talks at Google Classical saxophonist Dr. Paul Cohen visits Google to discuss the history of the saxophone and demonstrate rare instruments from his collection. Learn more about Dr. Paul Cohen and his saxophone c...
53:07 Sam Tsui | Talks at Google Live from Google Los Angeles, Sam Tsui, YouTube singer and personality, discusses how he's been able to harness the ever-changing tools of the digital music age to independently create an internati...
37:24 Sydney Padua: "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" | Talks at Google Sydney Padua is the author and artist behind the steampunk graphic novel and winner of the Neumann Prize for the History of Mathematics, "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Most...
52:11 Chris Edwards: "BALLS: It Takes Some to Get Some" | Talks at Google Chris Edwards made his advertising debut in 1993 as a copywriter at Arnold Worldwide. There, he used what he learned working in advertising, along with his ever-present sense of humor, to rebrand h...
59:15 Christian Picciolini: "Life After Hate" | Talks at Google Author, speaker, television producer, and reformed extremist Christian Picciolini (Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead) discusses his work as co-founder Life After Hate, a nonprofit ...
52:28 Eric Liu: "You're More Powerful Than You Think: [...]" | Talks at Google Eric Liu talks about his new book, "You’re More Powerful than You Think". In this book, Eric illuminates the various sources of power—violence, wealth, ideas, strength in numbers—and explains how o...
48:27 Daniel Drezner: "The Ideas Industry" | Talks at Google The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas
The public intellectual, as a person and ideal, has a long and storied history. Writing in v...
58:30 Jami Curl: "Candy is Magic: Real Ingredients, Modern Recipes" | Talks at Google Dubbed “the new Willy Wonka” by Bon Appetit magazine, FoodTalks welcomes Jami Curl to the teaching kitchen to show that the sweet spot for candy is when real, fresh ingredients meet modern recipes....
54:17 Jonathan Safran Foer: "Here I Am: A Novel" | Talks at Google Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of two bestselling, award-winning novels, "Everything Is Illuminated" and "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close," and a bestselling work of nonfiction, "Eating Ani...
53:53 Nathan Albert: "Embracing Love: My Journey to Hugging a Man in His Underwear" | Talks at Google Nathan Albert stood with friends along the Chicago Pride Parade route, bearing signs of apology on behalf of Christians who had failed to represent Christ's love to the LGBTQ community. Little did ...
57:20 Donna Kennedy: "The Confidence to Succeed" | Talks at Google Best selling author Donna Kennedy, talks us through her own experience to success and teaches us how to pull ourselves back up again, no matter how big the fall. A qualified psychologist and life c...
56:45 Mike Hoefflinger: "Becoming Facebook" | Talks at Google Becoming Facebook: The 10 Challenges That Defined the Company That's Disrupting the World. Facebook’s founding is legend: In a Harvard dorm, wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg invented a new way to connec...
51:21 Saroo Brierley: "The Real-Life Subject of 'Lion'" | Talks at Google Lion brings to life the story of Saroo Brierley, who was separated from his family when he was only five years old in rural India. Saroo was eventually adopted and raised in Australia. As a young m...
1:02:11 Wyclef Jean & Madeline Nelson: "The Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee" | Talks at Google Wyclef Jean stops by the Google NYC office to perform a variety of work and talk 20 years of Carnival.
Wyclef’s newest EP J’ouvert, meaning the official start of Carnival, comes in advance of a fu...
1:15:03 Kimberly Papillon: "Implicit Bias and Microaggressions" | Talks at Google Implicit Bias and Microaggressions: Bringing Your Whole Self to Work
“Can I touch your hair?” “So where are you REALLY from?” “So, what are you?” “Where are your wife and kids?” Everyday microaggr...
50:31 Tom Siddell: "Fire Girl and The Wood Wolf: Working on Gunnerkrigg Court" | Talks at Google Tom Siddell discusses his ongoing, critically acclaimed webcomic Gunnerkrigg Court (http://gunnerkrigg.com/).
Siddell opens with an introduction to Gunnerkrigg Court before focusing on his work bu...
52:35 Scott Hartley: "The Fuzzie and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule [...]" | Talks at Google Scott Hartley first heard the terms fuzzy and techie while studying political science at Stanford University. If you majored in the humanities or social sciences, you were a fuzzy. If you majored i...
1:04:48 Dr. Pascal Bokar Thiam: "From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta" | Talks at Google From Timbuktu to the Mississippi Delta: How West African Standards of Aesthetics Shaped the Music of the Delta Blues
Pascal Bokar Thiam was born in Paris, France, and raised in France and in Seneg...
57:09 Broadway's "Bandstand" | Talks at Google A performance and Q&A by cast and creatives from Broadway's Bandstand. Joining us are cast members Laura Osnes, Corey Cott, Geoff Packard, Joe Carroll , Brandon Ellis, Patrick Connaghan, and Andrew...
57:51 Mitch Dobrowner: "Still Earth" | Talks at Google PART 1
Since picking up a camera after a 20-year hiatus, Mitch Dobrowner has done much more than make up for lost time; he’s secured a place for himself in the annals of landscape photography. He s...
39:15 Jen Sincero: "You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth" | Talks at Google Several years ago, Jen Sincero was member of an unsuccessful rock band and living in a converted garage with tumbleweeds blowing through her bank account. Now she is a #1 NY Times Bestselling Autho...
43:32 Linden Schaffer: "Living Well on the Road: Business Travel" | Talks at Google Linden Schaffer is a wellness travel expert and consultant. Early on in her fashion career, she realized the way she worked was turning her into a tightly wound little ball of stress and tension. S...
42:37 Dean Karnazes & Prof. Paul Cartledge: "The Road to Sparta" | Talks at Google Ultramarathon runner Dean Karnazes ran 50 marathons in 50 US states on 50 consecutive days, 560 km in 81 hours without sleep, and a marathon to the South Pole without snowshoes. He is the author of...
58:45 AAPI in the Public Eye: White House Commissioners on Civic Engagement | Talks at Google As part of the Asian Google Network's celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, AGN invited two former and two current commissioners of the White House Initiative on...
50:40 "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", Broadway Cast & Creatives | Talks at Google Willy Wonka himself, Christian Borle along with Marc Shaiman (music and lyrics), Scott Wittman (lyrics), and Mark Kaufman (executive producer) join us for a performance and Q&A from the hit Broadwa...
58:22 Jarrod McClean: "Quantum Computation for the Discovery of New Materials and [...]" | Talks at Google Quantum computing is an exciting new technology that promises to accelerate the solution of some problems beyond our wildest imagination.
In this talk, I start from the ground up and explain what...
46:44 Jack Nolan: "Firewall: The Propagandist's Guide to Self-Defense" | Talks at Google Jack Nolan discusses his book "Firewall: The Propagandist's Guide to Self-Defense" at Google Los Angeles.
Former military propagandist Jack Nolan talks about what propaganda is, and how to recogni...