,1,Christina Ho (何紫婷) discusses her journey from fine arts graduate and cabin crew member to becoming a pilot. Her story inspires and reminds us to stay curious and dare to try.
Christina Ho is currently an airline pilot at one of the world’s leading airlines based in Hong Kong and one of the few female pilots in the industry. Before becoming a pilot, she was a fine arts graduate and former cabin crew member without an engineering background or flying experience. She discovered her passion in aviation and decided to sign up for the cadet pilot program after seeing pilots in action at the cockpit jumpseats. As of today, she has accumulated 4 years of flying experience. Her dedication and confidence in flying further developed after she calmly managed an emergency situation during her solo flight training. She described her journey as “intensive and challenging yet rewarding.”
She is passionate in empowering and inspiring youth and women to pursue their dreams, using her story of turning impossible to possible through learning with passion and courage. Christina is an avid volunteer and works with the Hong Kong Youth Aviation Academy as an instructor, at Female Pilot Advisory Group, and the Peer Assistant Network (PAN) within her company. She and her colleagues at the Female Pilot Advisory Group successfully advocated for updating the operation menu by aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and Airbus, from "He should" to "Pilot should," which is the first step toward eliminating stereotypes.
Outside of aviation, she continues to create – creating the #christtina_meow character and launching a series called #LifeLessonsFromTheSky (#天空教會我的事) with motivation quotes – and promote positive thinking. In her own words, “Everyone has roles and responsibilities to make our society a better place, whether you are at work, at home or in the community.”
Moderated by Ada Au.
,1,Leading theoretical physicist Antonio Padilla discusses his new book, "Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them: A Cosmic Quest from Zero to Infinity" – a combination of popular and cutting-edge science, and a lively, entertaining, and even funny exploration of the most fundamental truths about the universe.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3AWhS6u.
For particularly brilliant theoretical physicists like James Clerk Maxwell, Paul Dirac, or Albert Einstein, the search for mathematical truths led to strange new understandings of the ultimate nature of reality. But what are these truths? What are the mysterious numbers that explain the universe? In Fantastic Numbers and Where to Find Them, Antonio takes us on an irreverent cosmic tour of nine of the most extraordinary numbers in physics, offering a startling picture of how the universe works.
These strange numbers include Graham’s number, which is so large that if you thought about it in the wrong way, your head would collapse into a singularity; TREE(3), whose finite nature can never be definitively proved, because to do so would take so much time that the universe would experience a Poincaré Recurrence―resetting to precisely the state it currently holds, down to the arrangement of individual atoms; and 10^{-120}, measuring the desperately unlikely balance of energy needed to allow the universe to exist for more than just a moment, to extend beyond the size of a single atom―in other words, the mystery of our unexpected universe.
Leading us down the rabbit hole to a deeper understanding of reality, Antonio explains how these unusual numbers are the key to understanding such mind-boggling phenomena as black holes, relativity, and the problem of the cosmological constant―that the two best and most rigorously tested ways of understanding the universe contradict one another.
Antonio Padilla is a leading theoretical physicist and cosmologist at the University of Nottingham. In 2016, he and his team shared the Buchalter Cosmology Prize for their work on the cosmological constant. He is also a star of the YouTube channel Numberphile, where his most popular videos include a discussion of Ramanujan’s sum of all positive integers, which has been viewed more than eight million times.
Moderated by Gabe Gaster.
,1,In partnership with #IamRemarkable Week, tennis superstar Venus Williams discusses what being remarkable means to her, and discuss the importance of recognizing our own achievements. She will also talk about her dedication to “playing it forward” by using her voice to empower others to make a difference.
With 7 Grand Slam titles, 5 Wimbledon championships and 4 Olympic gold medals, tennis champion Venus Williams is arguably one of the most accomplished and inspiring women in the history of sports. Beginning with her rise to the top at the age of 14, she quickly took the world of tennis by storm, climbing to the top-ranked position, breaking countless records, and winning numerous championships.
Encouraged by her mother at an early age to explore her creative side, Williams enrolled in fashion school where she was instantly drawn to the world of fashion and interior design. Venus parlayed her business acumen with her healthy competitive spirit into two successful design ventures. In 2002, after obtaining an Interior Decorator certification, she founded V Starr, a full-service commercial and residential design firm, which recently announced their partnership with Airbnb partner Niido. And in 2012, Venus obtained an Associate of Science in Fashion Design and launched the fashion-forward activewear brand, EleVen by Venus Williams. Her entrepreneurship has continued in the health, wellness and beauty spaces and includes her role as Chief Brand Officer to Asutra as well as her plant-based protein company, Happy Viking, which she launched in 2020.
In 2009, Venus, along with her sister Serena, became the first female African-Americans to have a stake in an NFL franchise after joining the ownership group of the Miami Dolphins. The following year, Venus published her motivational book, Come to Win which reached number five on The New York Times Best Sellers list.
Throughout her career, Venus has been a steadfast advocate for equality. In 2006, UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural organization, titled her as the first Promoter of Gender Equality. In 2007 she led an unwavering fight, which resulted in Wimbledon awarding female players the same pay as their male counterparts. Most recently, she launched an awareness initiative called the #PrivilegeTax in conjunction with EleVen to bring attention to wage inequality and unveiled a platform of resources for young women to get inspired and address the issue on a grassroots level.
Venus' achievements throughout her legendary career have merited her a plethora of additional accolades, including the Americanism Award, honored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Glamour Magazine’s "Woman of the Year," ESPN’s "WTA Player of the Year," and Forbes’ "Celebrity 100," among others.
Moderated by Nelson Boyce.
#IamRemarkable Week, 28-30 September 2022, is a digital experience celebrating the power of diversity, inclusion and allyship. Get inspired through virtual talks, online workshops and confidence boosting challenges. Join us and celebrate your achievement. Learn more & sign up!
,1,Aliza Knox discusses her book "Don't Quit Your Day Job: The 6 Mindshifts You Need to Rise and Thrive at Work," which presents the six empowering, essential mindshifts necessary to rise and thrive in your career – and to love your life at the same time. Driven by Aliza’s four decades working in and leading some of the world’s most celebrated firms, and featuring candid accounts of other people’s successes and missteps in global tech, consumer goods, healthcare, academia, social services and more, this book is an essential guide to integrating your professional and personal goals to build a fulfilling, complete life. "Don’t Quit Your Day Job" provides a global outlook that reveals how to excel in today’s hybrid, often dispersed world of work. Whether you’re just starting your first job or you’re ready to rise to the C-suite, it will help you advance and flourish in the workplace.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3JYAbfa.
Aliza Knox built and led APAC businesses for three of the world's top technology firms—Google, Twitter and Cloudflare. Named 2020 APAC IT Woman of The Year and Top 100 Women in IT (Singapore), she spent decades as a global finance and consulting executive, and is currently a non-executive board director and a senior advisor for Boston Consulting Group. Aliza now shares her passion and lessons learned with the next generation of business leaders, guiding companies across new frontiers while building and maintaining strong connections between teams around the world. Aliza has been featured in outlets like Business Insider, Quartz, The Muse, TechCrunch and The Economic Times, and is a regular columnist for Forbes, where she shares her wisdom (and humor) to help professionals who dream of "doing it all."
Moderated by Madhuri Duggirala.
#talksatgoogle #womeninbusiness
,1,Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett discuss their book "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection". Curious about something? Google it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to "Curious Minds", what gets left out in the conventional understanding of curiosity are the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection. It connects ideas into networks of knowledge and it connects the knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.
Perry and Dani—identical twins who write that their book “represents the thought of one mind and two bodies”—harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences (specifically, philosophy and neuroscience) to identify three distinct styles of curiosity: the butterfly, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks; and the dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy networks.
They go on to explain that many of us are all three types but to differing degrees, and that those degrees can change over the course of our lives and even daily, depending on the task at hand. What’s more, they suggest that a true understanding of what happens in the curious brain can pave the way for a curiosity-centric education—an inclusive one that embraces everyone’s innate style of learning. Just think of the possibilities such a paradigm shift would engender.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3KiMnHS.
Perry Zurn is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University and the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.
Moderated by Sanders Kleinfeld.
#talksatgoogle #connection #curious
,1,Kathy Rastle, a leading expert on skilled reading and learning to read, to discuss how her lab’s research has had a major influence on how children around the world are taught to read. Learning to read is the most important milestone of a child’s education. Yet, reading is not a universal part of human experience. Writing is a recent cultural invention and reading is a learned skill whose mastery requires years of instruction, dedication, and practice. Kathy will walk us through what psychological science has discovered about this fascinating process, and share her reflections on how we can use this knowledge to improve literacy for children around the world.
Kathy’s research is focused on reading acquisition, skilled reading, and the relationship between reading and spoken language. She has a particular interest in characterizing the information that is present in written language(s), and in understanding how this information is learned through instruction and text experience. Recently, she conducted a number of artificial language learning experiments investigating how acquired knowledge is influenced by properties of languages and writing systems, the quality of prior knowledge, and the nature of instruction. Her work capitalizes on a variety of behavioral, neuroimaging, and computational modeling approaches. In 2020, Kathy and her collaborators were awarded the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Celebrating Impact Prize, for their work which focuses on bringing the science of reading to how children are taught to read in classrooms around the world.
Kathy completed her PhD in psychology at Macquarie University (Sydney) in 1997. She then undertook postdoctoral appointments at the University of Cambridge and at Macquarie University, before accepting an academic position at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2002, where she is now professor and Head of Department. Kathy is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Memory and Language and President of the Experimental Psychology Society. Previously, she served on the ESRC Strategic Advisory Board, the ESRC Research Committee, and was Chair of the ESRC grants assessment panels for Psychology, Linguistics, and Education (2010-2014) and for Psychology, Economics, & Management (2014-2015). She served on the Medical & Health Sciences panel for the Excellence in Research for Australia in 2015.
Moderated by Yang Gao.
#talksatgoogle #reading #childeducation
,1,Singer and Grammy winning artist Lila Downs discusses her journey, career and how we can celebrate and acknowledge the intersectionalities within the Latinx community.
Lila Downs is one of the most influential artists in Latin America, with one of the most unique voices in the world. She is known for her charismatic performances and her own compositions that combine genres and rhythms as diverse as Mexican rancheras and corridos, boleros, jazz standards, hip-hop, cumbia and popular American music.
Having grown up in both Minnesota and Oaxaca, Mexico, Lila’s mother is from the Mixtec indigenous group and her father was Scottish-American. She sings in Spanish, English and several Native American languages such as Zapotec, Mixtec, Nahuatl, Mayan and Purepecha. She has recorded duets with artists such as Mercedes Sosa, Caetano Veloso, Juanes, Nora Jones, Juan Gabriel, Carla Morison, Natalia LaFourcade, Santana, The Boss, Nina Pastori, Soledad, Diego La Cigala, Aida Cuevas, Toto La Momposina, and Bunbury.
Throughout her career, Lila has been invited to sing with symphonies such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony and the UNAM Symphony in Mexico, as well as the Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. Lila has recorded nine studio albums, was nominated for nine Grammy awards and won six.
Moderated by Ileana Ovalle.
,1,Educator, mentor, and peace advocate Maya Soetoro-Ng discusses her work as a peace educator, a peace activist and The Peace Studio, a non-profit organization that develops artists and journalists to inspire hope and catalyze transformative social change.
Since its founding, The Piece Studio has invested in over 250 artists and journalists through its educational programs, and distributed positive, strengths-based stories and performances on global, national, and local media platforms such as NowThis News, PBS – WNET, ABC Localish, The Boston Globe, CNN International, and Yahoo, among others.
Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng is a faculty specialist in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. She also serves as the university’s liaison to the Obama Foundation, and works with the foundation’s Leaders program and Global Girls Alliance on outreach initiatives in Hawaiʻi and the Asia-Pacific region. Previously, she was the director of the Matsunaga Institute for Peace at the University of Hawaiʻi. In addition to leading the institute’s outreach and development initiatives, she taught and mentored students in leadership for social change, peace movements, peace education, and conflict management. For many years, she worked at the university’s College of Education, where she taught multicultural education, social studies methods, and peace education at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Dr. Soetoro-Ng sits on several volunteer boards and is co-founder of the nonprofit organizations Ceeds of Peace, The Peace Studio, and The Institute for Climate and Peace. In 2021, she launched the podcast The Bravethrough Series: Courageous Conversations on Community in partnership with KTUH Honolulu.
Moderated by Lyn Mehe'ula.
#talksatgoogle #worldpeace #MayaSoetoroNg
,1,The cast & creatives of Broadway’s The Kite Runner discuss their critically acclaimed play, based on Khaled Hosseini’s internationally best-selling novel. The production is currently playing on Broadway through October 30, 2022. Learn more at www.thekiterunnerbroadway.com.
Originally published in 2003, The Kite Runner became a bestseller across the globe and has since been published in 70 countries, selling 31.5 million copies in 60 languages. Now this powerful story has been adapted into a stunning stage production. One of the best-loved and most highly acclaimed novels of our time, The Kite Runner is a powerful tale of friendship spanning cultures and continents, that follows one man’s journey to confront his past and find
redemption. Afghanistan is a divided country on the verge of war and two childhood friends are about to be torn apart. It’s a beautiful afternoon in Kabul and the skies are full of the excitement and joy of a kite flying tournament. But neither of the boys can foresee the terrible incident which will shatter their lives forever.
About the Panelists
Amir Arison co-leads the cast and is best known for nine seasons on “The Blacklist.” He’s had additional roles in “The Dropout,” “Ramy,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “American Horror Story,” “Billions,” “Bull,” “Homeland,” “Girls,” 20 Weeks, The Visitor.
Faran Tahir co-leads the cast. He has appeared in over 50 stage productions across the US and the world. Recently, he played the title roles of Othello at Shakespeare Theatre Co. and Richard III at Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. His film credits include over 30 films, including Iron Man and Star Trek. His 100s of television credits include roles on “Scandal,” “12 Monkeys,” “Warehouse 13,” “Once A Upon Time,” “American Crime,” “Dallas” among many others.
Azita Ghanizada is a political asylum seeker from Afghanistan who has broken many cultural barriers in Hollywood. Currently recurring on CBS’s “United States of AL,” her recent television work includes Freeform’s “Good Trouble” and HBO’s “Ballers.” Her recent film work includes Complete Unknown, The Friend, and We Broke Up. She is also the founder of MENA Arts Advocacy Coalition, and an Ambassador for Women for Women International.
Salar Nader is hailed as Afghanistan’s tabla virtuoso. He is a percussionist, composer, educator, and producer. Groomed by Grammy Award winner, Zakir Hussain, he currently tours with legendary bassist Stanley Clarke. Salar composed the music and played tabla in six other Kite Runner productions throughout the U.S. and Canada.
Eric Sirakian (Hassan/Sohrab) is thrilled to be making his Broadway debut in The Kite Runner! Theater credits include The Jungle (West End), Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, and Pericles (Shakespeare’s Globe). Television includes “Masters of the Air” (Apple TV+), and film includes Havoc (Netflix), both upcoming. He studied at Yale and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Moderated by Elissa Lerner.
,1,Gerd Gigerenzer discusses his latest book "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World: Why Human Intelligence Still Beats Algorithms", a comprehensive guide on how to stay in charge in a world populated by algorithms that beat us in chess, find us romantic partners, and tell us to “turn right in 500 yards.”
Doomsday prophets of technology predict that robots will take over the world, leaving humans behind in the dust. Tech industry boosters think replacing people with software might make the world a better place—while tech industry critics warn darkly about surveillance capitalism. Despite their differing views of the future, they all agree: machines will soon do everything better than humans. In "How to Stay Smart in a Smart World", Gerd Gigerenzer shows why we shouldn’t trust smart technology unconditionally, but we shouldn’t fear it unthinkingly, either.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3SZpXj1.
Gerd Gigerenzer is Director Emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the author of "Calculated Risks", "Gut Feelings", and "Risk Savvy" and the co-editor of Better Doctors, Better Patients, Better Decisions and Classification in the Wild. He has trained judges, physicians, and managers in decision-making and understanding risk. The Swiss Duttweiler Institute has distinguished Gerd as one of the Top 100 Global Thought Leaders worldwide.
Moderated by Matt Bongiovi.
#talksatgoogle #technology #artificialintelligence
,1,Award-winning scientist Russell Foster discusses his book "Life Time: Your Body Clock and Its Essential Roles in Good Health and Sleep," a fascinating journey through our circadian rhythms, sleep, and health, by a world-leading expert on circadian neuroscience. The routines of our modern lives—home working, night shifts, technology—are playing havoc with our body clocks, sleep patterns, and health. Packed with cutting edge science, Russell takes the reader on a journey through our days and nights, and explains how we can get back into rhythm and live healthier, sharper lives.
In the past few decades, there has been an explosion of discoveries around the science of the body clock and our twenty-four-hour biological cycles. Sleep and daily rhythms emerge from our genetics, physiology, behavior, and the environment. Like most of our behaviors, they are not fixed. These rhythms are modified by our actions, how we interact with the environment, and how we progress from birth to old age. Cutting through long-standing myths, Russell empowers readers by providing concrete information and guidance that can be used to understand what makes the body clock “tick.”
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3Qr7IBt.
Russell Foster is a Professor of Circadian Neuroscience, the Head of Oxford’s Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology, the founder and Director of the Sleep and Circadian Research Institute and is a Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford. His research addresses how circadian rhythms and sleep are generated and regulated and what happens when these systems fail as a result of societal pressures, aging and disease. A key finding has been his discovery and characterisation of an unrecognised light-detecting system within the eye that regulates circadian rhythms and sleep and, most recently, the translation of these findings to the clinic.
For his work, Professor Foster was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2008, the Royal Society of Biology in 2011 and the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2013. Russell was honored by being appointed as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in 2015 for services to Science. He has been a member of the Governing Council of the Royal Society and he established and led for six years the Royal Society Public Engagement Committee. He was the Chair of the Cheltenham Science Festival for six years and is currently a Trustee of the Science Museum. Professor Foster has published over 290 scientific papers and has received multiple national and international awards, including most recently the Daylight Prize.
Moderated by Kaitlyn Venezia.
,1,Professor Cassie Holmes discusses her book "Happier Hour: How to Beat Distraction, Expand Your Time, and Focus on What Matters Most." Our most precious resource isn’t money. It’s time. We are allotted just twenty-four hours a day, and we live in a culture that keeps us feeling “time poor” —like we never have enough. Since we can’t add more hours to the day, how can we experience our lives as richer? Is it possible to spend our days so they aren’t just full, but are fulfilling?
Based on her wildly popular MBA class at UCLA, Cassie demonstrates how to immediately improve our lives by changing how we perceive and invest our time. Happier Hour teaches you how small changes can have an enormous impact, helping you feel less overwhelmed, more present, and more satisfied with your life overall. It all starts by transforming just one hour into a happier hour.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3w7CqXW.
Cassie Holmes is a professor at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, where she is an award-winning teacher and researcher. Cassie’s work on the intersection of time and happiness has been widely published in lead academic journals and featured in such outlets as NPR, The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, and more.
Moderated by Danielle Perszyk.
,1,Astrophysicist and folklorist Moiya McTier discusses her book "The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy." An approachable and utterly fascinating autobiography of the titular galaxy, detailing what humans have discovered about everything from its formation to its eventual death, and what more there is to learn about this galaxy we call home.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3bCBp3h.
After a few billion years of bearing witness to life on Earth, of watching one hundred billion humans go about their day-to-day lives, of feeling unbelievably lonely, and of hearing its own story told by others, The Milky Way would like a chance to speak for itself. All one hundred billion stars and fifty undecillion tons of gas of it. It all began some thirteen billion years ago, when clouds of gas scattered through the universe's primordial plasma just could not keep their metaphorical hands off each other. They succumbed to their gravitational attraction, and the galaxy we know as the Milky Way was born. Since then, the galaxy has watched as dark energy pushed away its first friends, as humans mythologized its name and purpose, and as galactic archaeologists have worked to determine its true age (rude). The Milky Way has absorbed supermassive (an actual technical term) black holes, made enemies of a few galactic neighbors, and mourned the deaths of countless stars. Our home galaxy has even fallen in love. After all this time, the Milky Way finally feels that it's amassed enough experience for the juicy tell-all we've all been waiting for. Its fascinating autobiography recounts the history and future of the universe in accessible but scientific detail, presenting a summary of human astronomical knowledge thus far that is unquestionably out of this world.
Dr. Moiya McTier is an astrophysicist, folklorist, and science communicator based in New York City. After graduating from Harvard as the first person in the school’s history to study both astronomy and mythology, Moiya earned her PhD in astrophysics at Columbia University where she was selected as a National Science Foundation research fellow. She has consulted with companies like Disney and PBS on their fictional worlds, helped design exhibits for the New York Hall of Science, and given hundreds of talks about science around the globe (including features on MSNBC, NPR, and NowThis News). To combine her unique set of expertise, Moiya hosts and produces the Explore podcast that explores fictional world-building through the lens of science.
Moderated by Helen Riley.
#talksatgoogle #womeninstem #themilkyway
,1,Rapper M.I Abaga discusses his journey, career and his new album The Guy, an album inspired by his reinvented persona.
Widely heralded as one of Africa's most successful rappers, M.I Abaga’s first encounter with mainstream success was with his debut album, Talk About It. The album was a watershed moment for Nigeria’s hip-hop community, laying out the much-needed blueprint for commercial success selling rap in the country. Born Jude Abaga in Jos, Plateau State, he experimented with music in high school while in Nigeria but as he earned his Business Degree in Calvin College in the US, the American rap culture became a huge part of his life, falling in love with the craft of rappers such as Jay-Z and DMX. His Ml2 album remains Nigeria's best selling hip-hop album and MI holds the record for the most albums charting at one time on Apple Music in Nigeria. His company TASCK is focused on building a lasting revenue pipeline for creatives.
Moderated by Paul Olorunnisola.
#talksatgoogle
,1,Albert Tate discusses the intersection of faith and technology and his book "How We Love Matters", a series of nine moving letters that educate, enlighten, and reimagine discipleship. Albert believes that the only way to make change is by telling the truth about where we are—relationally, internally, and spiritually, and that it is important that we love each other, but even more important how we love each other.
Albert Tate is the founding and lead pastor of Fellowship Church in Los Angeles County California. He began his ministry pastoring just a few families at Sweet Home Church in Mississippi before serving the historic Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena, California. Albert and his wife, LaRosa, launched Fellowship Church in January 2012. He serves on the Board of Trustees at Azusa Pacific University, the Global Leadership Network, and Global Church Planting Organization, Stadia. Albert is the Founder and CEO of The Greatest Story, Inc, and President of Harambee Ministries.
Moderated by Tyler Fischella.
#talksatgoogle
,1,Jenn Fujikawa and Marc Sumerak discuss their latest book "Avengers Campus: The Official Cookbook", a compilation of a variety of recipes inspired by the wider world of the Avengers. Featuring recipes for appetizers, main courses, desserts, and drinks, this cookbook is the ultimate guide for Marvel foodies.
Cassie and Scott Lang (better known as Ant-Man) sought to use the shrinking and growing technology of Pym Particles to solve global hunger. At Pym’s Test Kitchen, guests can try sampling the Langs’ experiments, such as a massive Quantum Pretzel with cheese sauce, and the Not so Little Chicken Sandwich. Now, Cassie shares the recipes for these dishes, as well as the cuisine of Avengers Campus at large, in this in-universe cookbook!
About the panelists
Jenn Fujikawa is the lifestyle and pop culture author of Star Wars: The Life Day Cookbook: Official Holiday Recipes from a Galaxy Far, Far Away, Gudetama: The Official Cookbook: Recipes for Living a Lazy Life, The I Love Lucy Cookbook: Classic Recipes Inspired by the Iconic TV Show, and The Goldbergs Cookbook. She has created content for Disney, Lucasfilm, Marvel, and more. As a contributing author to the official Star Wars website, she has created over 120 recipes on starwars.com.
Marc Sumerak is an Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated writer and editor whose work over the past two decades has been featured in comics, books, and video games showcasing some of pop culture’s most beloved franchises, including Marvel, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Back to the Future, and many more.
Get the book at the following locations, or anywhere books are sold!
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Moderated by Carmen Ramos.
,1,Fireblocks co-founder and CEO Michael Shaulov meets with CapitalG founder David Lawee to discuss Fireblocks and how the company is well-positioned to win the institutional custody market. The entrance point for any individual to the world of Web3 is a crypto wallet. For institutions, that first step is custody, which enables the secure storage and transfer of digital assets. Eventually every major institution in the world–from the Fortune 1000 to small businesses and even nonprofits–will interact with Web3. Plug-and-play custody solutions will be their mission-critical gateway to this multi-trillion-dollar market.
Fireblocks has emerged as the winner in the institutional custody market, thanks to their differentiated strategy of being infrastructure-only, security-first, and product-oriented. As a result, Fireblocks has created the industry’s largest over-the-counter crypto settlement network. Through its API-based infrastructure and growing network of trading parties, Fireblocks is strategically placed to expand deeper into DeFi, trade settlement, lending, tokenization and potentially a host of other exciting new digital assets businesses.
Michael Shaulov is the CEO and co-founder of Fireblocks, a secure digital asset infrastructure company. Prior to Fireblocks, he co-founded Lacoon Mobile Security, which was acquired by Check Point, and was then appointed the Head of Products, Mobile and Cloud Security for Check Point. Michael is a serial cybersecurity entrepreneur and investor. He is also a recognized industry speaker, delivering talks at RSA Conference, BlackHat and Infosec. Before his commercial endeavors, Michael pioneered the mobile security field in an elite military technological unit (8200), where he received the Israeli Presidential Excellency Honor for his contributions. He holds a BSc in Computer Sciences and Physics from Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
Moderated by David Lawee.
David Lawee founded CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, in 2013, drawing on his experience at Google and as a serial entrepreneur. Since then, he has helped transform high-potential startups into some of the most highly-valued businesses of our generation, including Airbnb, Lyft, Snap, Robinhood, Credit Karma, Niantic, Digital Currency Group, and Fireblocks. Previously, David played a pivotal role in Google’s growth story, first as Google’s CMO and then as the company’s first VP of corporate development where his team led more than 100 acquisitions for the company. Before joining Google, David successfully founded a number of startup ventures including Xfire, a leading online gaming community acquired by Viacom, and Mosaic Venture Partners, a Toronto-based venture capital firm.
For more information on CapitalG please visit https://capitalg.com/.
,1,Steve Magness discusses his book "Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness." A radical rethinking of how we perceive toughness and what it means to achieve our high ambitions in the face of hard things.
Toughness has long been held as the key to overcoming a challenge and achieving greatness, whether it is on the sports field, at a boardroom, or at the dining room table. Yet, the prevailing model has promoted a mentality based on fear, false bravado, and hiding any sign of weakness. In other words, the old model of toughness has failed us. In Do Hard Things, Steve teaches us how we can work with our body – how experiencing discomfort, leaning in, paying attention, and creating space to take thoughtful action can be the true indications of cultivating inner strength.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3BOtJWi.
Steve Magness is a world-renowned expert on performance, well-being, and sustainable success. In his coaching practice, Steve works with executives, entrepreneurs, and athletes on their performance and mental skills. He's served as a consultant on mental skills development for professional sports teams, including some of the top teams in professional sports. His writing has appeared in Outside, Runner's World, Forbes, Sports Illustrated, Men's Health, and a variety of other outlets.
Moderated by Jordy Smilde.
,1,Deborah Liu discusses her book "Take Back Your Power: 10 New Rules for Women at Work." We live in a world where women only make up 20% of Russell 300 company board seats; where for every 100 hundred men hired into management, only 86 women are promoted; where women earn six in ten of the college degrees, but make less money. And while we can't make the world fair, we can take back our power. As a woman in Silicon Valley who worked her way to the top of the corporate ladder—Deborah Liu knows firsthand the challenges and obstacles in the workplace that keep the deck stacked against women in the workplace . . . and the ways to overcome them.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3BSgLqs.
Deborah Liu is a seasoned technology executive based in Silicon Valley. She is currently the president and CEO of Ancestry, the company at the forefront of family history and consumer genomics. Prior to this, she served on the leadership team of Facebook, where she was the Vice President of Facebook App Commerce. During her time there, she founded Facebook Marketplace and created Facebook Pay, Facebook Audience Network, and App Ads. Previously, she spent several years at PayPal, where she led the eBay marketplace product team, created the charitable donations and social commerce teams, and worked in corporate strategy. She also serves on the board of Intuit and is cofounder of the nonprofit Women in Product.
Moderated by Elise Birkhofer.
,1,Charles Clover discusses his latest book "Rewilding the Sea: How to Save Our Oceans", an essential and revelatory book from one of the leading figures in marine conservation, urging us to rethink our relationship with nature, save our oceans and save our own life support system.
The world’s oceans have never faced more challenges—from ruthless overfishing, plastic pollution and acidification. And if that wasn’t enough, overfishing is accelerating climate change. The latest scientific research shows that trawling and dredging creates more CO2 than the aviation industry, and damages vast areas of our continental shelves, stopping them soaking up carbon. But change is achievable, and change is happening. "Rewilding the Sea" celebrates what happens when fishermen and communities engage with each other and allow nature to repair the damage.
Charles Clover is a co-founder of Blue Marine Foundation, an impactful and influential marine conservation charity. Charles made his name as an author and environmental journalist writing principally for The Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph for which he was environment editor for twenty-two years. His book The End of The Line (Ebury, 2004) and the award-winning major documentary film of the same name (presented by Clover) highlighted overfishing as a global problem and inspired the foundation of Blue Marine Foundation.
For more information on Blue Marine Foundation, please visit https://www.bluemarinefoundation.com/.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3oC7nQ1.
Moderated by Matt Bongiovi.
,1,Sue Ann Pien, Rick Glassman and Albert Rutecki discuss the Amazon Original series As We See It, which follows Jack, Harrison and Violet, three roommates on the autism spectrum, as they strive to get and keep jobs, make friends, fall in love, and navigate the strange world of adulthood world that eludes them.
About the Panelists
Sue Ann Pien stars as Violet on the Amazon Original series As We See It. Through her journey of understanding what it means to be on the autism spectrum, Pien has welcomed a greater acceptance of what makes her unique, and the freedom to express that. She followed her myriad dreams through Hollywood and beyond, having worked with Academy and Emmy award winners, presented for a Nobel Laureate and U.S. Secretary of State on climate change solutions, and even gained global attention as a Mars One candidate.
Rick Glassman stars as Jack on the Amazon Original series As We See It. A Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian, writer, and actor, Glassman’s notable credits include a leading role in Bill Lawrence’s NBC ensemble sitcom, Undateable, as well as playing Harold Ramis in David Wain’s National Lampoon biopic, A Futile and Stupid Gesture. He also wrote, directed, and starred in an award-winning five-episode series, The Sixth Lead, based on his experience starring on Undateable.
Glassman can also be seen (and heard) on his weekly podcast, Take Your Shoes Off, whose guests include Dax Shepard, Kristen Bell, and Marc Maron. Other TV credits include a recurring role on Paramount Network’s Nobodies, produced by Melissa McCarthy, FX’s The Comedians, produced by Billy Crystal, Comedy Central’s @Midnight, and Adam Devine’s House Party.
Albert Rutecki makes his television debut as Harrison on the Amazon Original series As We See It. An actor from Pennsylvania, he studied drama at Hofstra University. Before joining this cast, he appeared in the web series Aged Fruit (Fiorillo Productions). As an adolescent, Rutecki was diagnosed on the autism spectrum, and is excited to portray those characters authentically.
Moderated by Jim Hogan.
,1,Diane Kochilas discusses her culinary career and her show My Greek Table, where she highlights traditional Greek foods and how they impact our health and longevity, in addition to being a sustainable food supply. She also discusses her book of the same name, inspired by her travels and family gatherings.
My Greek Table spotlights Greece, the birthplace of the Mediterranean Diet and a wisdom embracing environmental, physical, and emotional well-being, as the backdrop for this unique 13-part tapestry of culture, travel, food and lifestyle. Diane Kochilas guides viewers in search of authentic ingredients and traditions that are part of the Greek kitchen—easy, delicious and healthy recipes any cook at any skill level can make.
It was a Greek tomato, warm off the vine, messy, mouthwatering honeycomb, and the mystery of an August fig that set native New Yorker Diane Kochilas on her journey as a cook, starting from the time she was a young girl and first visited her father’s native village on the remote Greek island of Ikaria. Little did she know that this island, a rocky speck of land in the eastern Aegean now renowned as a Blue Zone, would influence every part of her life, both personal and professional.
Diane is the host and co-creator of the award-winning cooking-travel show My Greek Table on Public Television, and has made guest appearances on many major network shows, most recently on CBS Sunday Morning, Beat Bobby Flay as a judge, and The Dish. She also runs the Glorious Greek Kitchen on Ikaria, a recreational cooking school and cultural immersion program where she teaches people the delights of a mostly plant-based Blue-Zone longevity diet and the wonders of island life and Greek food culture. Aside from her successful cooking career, Diane is an award-winning author of more than a dozen books on Greek and Mediterranean cooking.
Learn more about Diane by visiting https://www.dianekochilas.com/.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/3c0SGDb.
Moderated by Ida Shen.
,1,As we commemorate Kwibuka, a period of remembrance meant to honor the lives lost in the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi, Consolee Nishimwe shares her story of resilience and hope as a survivor of the genocide, and her journey as an avid defender of human rights.
Consolee Nishimwe is an author, motivational speaker and a survivor. In 2012, she released her memoir Tested to the Limit: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Pain, Resilience, and Hope. In recognition of her courage and accomplishments, Consolee has been awarded numerous accolades, including the 2013 ASALH Living Legacy Award, Her Hero Lifetime Achievement Award from Huntington National Bank, and the New York City Citation Award. She was also hailed by the Together for Girls Organization in SAFE Magazine as one of the 50 Global Heroes who help stop sexual violence against children.
Consolee has been featured on FOX 5 TV New York, The Huffington Post, Al Jazeera America, Voice of America, UN Africa Renewal Magazine, The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Women's Media Center, The Salt Lake Tribune, Observer, New York Amsterdam News, Igihe News, several radio programs, podcasts and other media outlets, national institutions, faith-based communities, conferences, and more.
For more information on Consolee, please visit https://www.consolee.org/.
Moderated by Eunice Ishimwe.
,1,Dr. Anton Treuer to discuss his book "Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask." What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you think you should already know the answers—or suspect that your questions may be offensive? In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and historical, Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist Anton Treuer gives a frank, funny, and sometimes personal tour of what's up with Indians. His book cuts through the emotion and builds a foundation for true understanding and positive action.
Dr. Anton Treuer (pronounced troy-er) is Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State University and author of many books. He has a B.A. from Princeton University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. He is Editor of the Oshkaabewis (pronounced o-shkaah-bay-wis) Native Journal, the only academic journal of the Ojibwe language. Dr. Treuer has presented all over the U.S. and Canada and in several foreign countries on Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, Cultural Competency, Racial Equity, Strategies for Addressing the “Achievement” Gap, and Tribal Sovereignty, History, Language, and Culture. He has sat on many organizational boards and received more than 40 prestigious awards and fellowships, including ones from the American Philosophical Society, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, the Bush Foundation, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.
His published works include Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask, The Language Warrior’s Manifesto: How to Keep Our Languages Alive No Matter the Odds, The Cultural Toolbox: Traditional Ojibwe Living in the Modern World, Warrior Nation: A History of the Red Lake Ojibwe (Winner of Caroline Bancroft History Prize and the American Association of State and Local History Award of Merit), Ojibwe in Minnesota (“Minnesota’s Best Read for 2010” by The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress), The Assassination of Hole in the Day (Award of Merit Winner from the American Association for State and Local History), Atlas of Indian Nations, The Indian Wars: Battles, Bloodshed, and the Fight for Freedom on the American Frontier, and Awesiinyensag.
Dr. Treuer is a member of the United Nations Technical Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals through Inclusive, Just Energy Solutions and the governing board for the Minnesota State Historical Society. In 2018, he was named Guardian of Culture and Lifeways and recipient of the Pathfinder Award by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums.
Learn more about Dr. Treuer here: https://antontreuer.com/.
Moderated by Cait Stevens.
,1,Matthew Walker discusses the importance and impact of sleep. In a time where we struggle to detach ourselves from our daily responsibilities, our recommended amount of sleep suffers. With a lack of sleep, our ability to be high-functioning throughout the day is limited. Matthew Walker will highlight how prioritizing your sleep can be the ultimate factor that increases your energy level, productivity, and general mindset on the power of sleep, and answer the question: What can you do with more sleep?
Dr. Matthew Walker is a former Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and currently is Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science. Dr. Walker’s research examines the impact of sleep on human health and disease. He has received numerous funding awards from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and is a Kavli Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences. To date, Walker has published over 100 scientific research studies.
Dr. Walker helped create the recent National Geographic documentary, Sleepless in America, and the PBS NOVA special, Memory Hackers. Most recently, he contributed to the BBC Horizon documentary, Curing Alzheimer’s. His numerous presentations include radio features on the BBC and NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross, City Arts & Lectures, Hidden Brain, Science Friday, and Forum: NPR. Previously, Dr. Walker served as Chief Scientist and scientific counsel for numerous technology companies, including Hello and Fitbit.
Moderated by Rebecca Whiting-Holliday.
,1,As the most active time for our brains and the most important element to a calmer, happier life, sleep has become the topic of our times. Drawing on the success of Calm, the #1 app for sleep, meditation and relaxation, Michael Acton Smith writes the ultimate guide to good sleep. Beautifully illustrated and packed with fascinating facts and anecdotes, this book contains life-changing tips for a well balanced life. The Magic of Sleep will be your solution to a better sleeping life, while also improving each of your waking hours.
Since its inception, Calm has grown to 70 million downloads, was Apple's 2017 app of the year and is the world’s first mental health unicorn! In this talk, you'll hear more about the magic of sleep with co-founder and co-CEO of Calm, Michael Acton Smith.
Moderated by Maggie Stanphill - UX Director, Digital Wellbeing
,1,Here's a mashup of great moments from the Talks at Google event with Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, as he discusses the latest discoveries about sleep and how it impacts our life, wellness, and lifespan.
Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXflBZXAucQ&feature=youtu.be.
#MatthewWalker #WhyWeSleep #SleepScience
,1,2019 marks the 20th anniversary of what is arguably one of the best Science fiction movies ever made - The Matrix. It popularized an ancient idea that the world we live in may not be real. In other words, our world is just an illusion, a simulation -- a video game.
So, Are we really living in a video game?
Game industry veteran Rizwan (Riz) Virk believes this could be true.
Rizwan (“Riz”) Virk is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, bestselling author, video game industry pioneer, and indie film producer. Virk currently runs Play Labs @ MIT (www.playlabs.tv) a startup accelerator for playful technologies held on campus at the MIT Game Lab and Bayview Labs (www.bayviewlabs.com).
Virk’s books include: Startup Myths and Models: Secrets They Don't Teach You at Stanford Business School, from Columbia University Press (2020), Zen Entrepreneurship: Walking the Path of the Career Warrior (2013), and Treasure Hunt: Follow Your Inner Clues to Find True Success (2017).
Virk’s video games have been played by millions, including Tap Fish, and games based on TV shows like Penny Dreadful and Grimm. Virk has been an investor in many video game companies, including Telltale Games (creator of narrative games based on The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones), Disruptor Beam (creator of Star Trek: Timelines game), Pocket Gems, Tapjoy, Sliver.tv, and Discord.
Get the book here: https://goo.gle/315Run5
,1,Sleep is one of the most important aspects of our life, health and longevity and yet it is increasingly neglected in twenty-first-century society, with devastating consequences: every major disease in the developed world - Alzheimer's, cancer, obesity, diabetes - has very strong causal links to deficient sleep.
Until very recently, science had no answer to the question of why we sleep, or what good it served, or why its absence is so damaging to our health. Compared to the other basic drives in life - eating, drinking, and reproducing - the purpose of sleep remained elusive.
Professor Matthew Walker discusses with Matt Brittin twenty years of cutting-edge research to solve the mystery of why sleep matters, how caffeine and alcohol affect sleep and why our sleep patterns change across a lifetime -- this is a talk that will change how you think about bedtime!
Moderated by Matt Brittin.
,1,Dr. Sophie Bostock is a Sleep Evangelist at Sleepio, whose research interests include the links between sleep, well-being, health and performance. She has been awarded an NHS Innovation Accelerator Fellowship, collaborates with colleagues at the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute at the University of Oxford, and has featured as a sleep expert for the BBC, The Times, ITV, and TEDx.
Sleep is a cornerstone of mental health and well-being. Yet as the case for sleep grows, so do the temptations not to! Why do so many of us find it so hard to stick to the recommended 7+ hours of slumber? What can we do when the mind won't stop racing? This talk delves into the social, environmental, psychological and biological barriers to good sleep, and suggests strategies to optimize your sleep time, no matter how much you get.
,1,Finnish Funguy, Tero Isokauppila, is the founder of Four Sigmatic, a nature-centric company specializing in functional mushrooms, superfoods, and adaptogens. He is a subject matter expert on all things mushrooms and natural health and was selected as one of the TOP 50 Food Activists by the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. He is the author of Healing Mushrooms and most recently, Santa Sold Shrooms: The Origin Story of the World's Most Famous Person.
Everything you ever wanted to know about the fungi kingdom, why, and which, mushrooms are some of the most functional and powerful superfoods, and how Tero overcame his challenges and mistakes and invented a category that is now the envy of the supplement industry.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/xVqW4S
,1,Paul Davies is an English physicist, writer and broadcaster, a professor at Arizona State University as well as the Director of the Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science. His research spans fields like cosmology, quantum field theory, and astrobiology.
For Talks at Google he discusses his new book "The Demon in the Machine" about how hidden webs of information are solving the mysteries of life. For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of the fundamental question "what is life?". On the boundary of science and philosophy, Paul Davies wonders if life can be explained by known physics and chemistry, or whether we do need something fundamentally new?
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/uDZJ9i
,1,The film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves?
Talks at Google welcomes Darryl Jones, professor for English at Trinity College Dublin, to give us a tour of this expansive genre, discussing its history but also what its modern incarnations tell us about our generation.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/u6WACp
,1,Dani Higgins is a licensed professional counselor who specializes in trauma-informed therapy and working with clients from diverse backgrounds. In this talk, they debunk some of the common myths around mental health and therapy, and explains what people can really expect when seeking out a therapist.
,1,Waiting for your baby to sleep through the night? Battling bedtime with your toddler? Christina Gantcher is a developmental psychologist and certified Gentle Sleep Coach. She will offer insights for parents of children looking for better sleep, including guidance based on basic counseling and child development, sleep science and behavioral modification techniques, secure attachment theory, and support for the breastfeeding mother.
Moderated by Henry Wei, M.D..
,1,Author and financial blogger JL Collins brings his refreshingly unique and approachable take on investing to Google.
The author of "The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life", JL offers easy-to-understand, effective tips and resources to understand investing with confidence.
In this interview with Googler Rachel Smith, JL Collins discusses money and investing, including: how to think about money and investing to build wealth, how to avoid debt, how to simplify the world of 401(k), 403(b), TSP, IRA and Roth accounts, TRFs (Target Retirement Funds), HSAs (Health Savings Accounts) and RMDs (Required Minimum Distributions).
He also talks about what the stock market really is and how it really works, How to invest in a raging bull, or bear, market, and specific investments to implement financial strategies.
Learn more at jlcollinsnh.com or get the book here: https://goo.gl/bvWZLq
Moderated by Rachel Smith.
,1,Professor Matthew Walker, Director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab discusses the latest discoveries about sleep and how it impacts our life, wellness, and lifespan.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/Xc4aFh
,1,For Google's Security and Privacy Month, we are honored to present the real Frank Abagnale, Renowned Cybersecurity And Fraud Prevention Expert, Bestselling Author & Subject of Catch Me If You Can.
His transformation from one of the world’s most notorious con men to an international cybersecurity expert trusted by the FBI has been mythologized in film and literature – but the takeaways he shares are the real deal.
Frank's contributions to the world of security are immeasurable. He has become a hero to hundreds of public and private sector organizations for his indispensable counsel and strategic insight on safeguarding information systems and combating cyber-fraud.
With an eye on the latest techniques developed by high-tech criminals to deceive and defraud, Frank leaves audiences with a deep understanding of today’s evolving security landscape, and more importantly, a vision of how to make the world a safer place.
,1,Everyone needs a good night’s sleep, and many of us will experience some difficulty sleeping or staying awake. Dr. Kryger’s latest book The Mystery of Sleep is for a general audience, citing examples from those who have sleep problems/disorders, and for those just curious on how to improve their own sleep. Using his extensive experience in the field, Dr. Kyger provides an overview to the world of sleep and the mysterious disorders that affect it.
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/hlNZnt
,1,Shawn Stevenson is a bestselling author and creator of The Model Health Show, featured as the #1 Health podcast in the world on iTunes. With a university background in biology and kinesiology, Shawn is the founder of Advanced Integrative Health Alliance, providing wellness services for both individuals and organizations. Shawn is also a dynamic keynote speaker who has spoken for TEDx, universities, and numerous organizations.
In his book, Shawn breaks down why physiologically sleep is so critical, how many people approach getting optimal sleep wrong, and quick hacks to get the best sleep of your life. Topics include:
1. Why timing your sleep is like timing an investment
2. How your devices impact your sleep quality
3. What toxic chemicals are in most mattresses and how to avoid them
4. How alcohol affects your sleep
5. The connection between sex, orgasm, and sleep
6. How to hack your bedroom to create a sleep sanctuary
Get the book here: https://goo.gl/RdyyEZ
,1,Arianna Huffington stopped by YouTube HQ to discuss her latest book "The Sleep Revolution: Transforming Your Life, One Night at a Time."
Arianna Huffington is the co-founder, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, author of 15 books, and has been named to both the Forbes Most Powerful Women list and Time Magazine's list of the world’s 100 most influential people.
Arianna Huffington's "The Sleep Revolution" is available now on Google Play at http://goo.gl/cz2kLl
Talk moderated by Erin Schaefer
About "The Sleep Revolution"
We are in the midst of a sleep deprivation crisis, and this has profound consequences – on our health, our job performance, our relationships and our happiness. What is needed is nothing short of a sleep revolution. Only by renewing our relationship with sleep can we take back control of our lives.
In "The Sleep Revolution", Arianna shows how our cultural dismissal of sleep as time wasted compromises our health and our decision-making and undermines our work lives, our personal lives -- and even our sex lives. She explores all the latest science on what exactly is going on while we sleep and dream. She takes on the dangerous sleeping pill industry, and all the ways our addiction to technology disrupts our sleep. She also offers a range of recommendations and tips from leading scientists on how we can get better and more restorative sleep, and harness its incredible power.
In today's fast-paced, always-connected, perpetually-harried and sleep-deprived world, our need for a good night’s sleep is more important – and elusive -- than ever. "The Sleep Revolution" both sounds the alarm on our worldwide sleep crisis and provides a detailed road map to the great sleep awakening that can help transform our lives, our communities, and our world.
,1,How do the most effective engineers make their efforts, their teams, and their careers more successful?
In this talk, Edmond will share the most valuable insights that leaders from various top tech companies learned and the most common and costly mistakes that they've seen engineers — sometimes themselves — make. He will distill down some of the key themes and share a unifying framework called leverage that you can use to identify activities that produce disproportionate results.
,1,Description:
The Mindful Geek tells you how to derive the real world benefits of hardcore mindfulness meditation without having to drink anyone’s metaphysical Kool-Aid. In the book, Michael Taft gives you step-by-step instructions in the powerful and reliable techniques of mindfulness meditation, and outlines the psychological and neuroscientific research underpinning these practices — all without you having to believe in reincarnation, karma, or other sacred cows.
About Michael:
Michael W. Taft is an author, editor, meditation teacher, and neuroscience junkie. He often teaches at Google and has worked on curriculum development for SIYLI.
He is currently a meditation coach specializing in secular, science-based meditation training in corporate settings.
Michael is the author of several books, including Nondualism: A Brief History of a Timeless Concept, and Ego (which he co-authored), as well as the editor of such books as Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson and the upcoming The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young.
Michael is also an official advisor to the Therapeutic Neuroscience Lab.
More info: http://themindfulgeek.net/
,1,Journalist Annie Jacobsen visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to discuss her book "The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency".
Ms. Jacobsen has written the first history of the the Defense Department's most secret, most powerful, and most controversial military science R&D agency. She draws on inside sources, exclusive interviews, private documents, and declassified memos to paint a picture of DARPA from its Cold War inception in 1958 to the present.
Annie Jacobsen is an investigative journalist and bestselling author who writes about war, weapons, U.S. national security and government secrecy. Her 2011 non-fiction bestseller, AREA 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, has been published in five languages and is being made into an AMC scripted television series. Her 2014 non-fiction bestseller, OPERATION PAPERCLIP: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, has been published in five languages and is being adapted for television.
,1,Storytelling is an essential leadership skill. It will enable you to be more influential and persuasive and less technical and boring. It will set you apart and make you and your ideas memorable.
Doug Stevenson is a former actor who has brought lessons from the theater and great storytelling to the corporate world. He has translated these techniques into what he calls The Story Theater Method for Strategic Storytelling in Business. While he has no intention of making you into a great actor, he does want to make you a “star”.
In this interactive session, Doug will model effective business storytelling and show you how to apply his storytelling technology to your role in Google. He’ll even coach a few people on their stories to illustrate how you can be a better storyteller. If you want to be more engaging, interesting and convincing, Doug Stevenson will show you how.
,1,In The Zero Marginal Cost Society, New York Times bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin describes how the emerging Internet of Things is speeding us to an era of nearly free goods and services, precipitating the meteoric rise of a global Collaborative Commons and the eclipse of capitalism.
Rifkin uncovers a paradox at the heart of capitalism that has propelled it to greatness but is now taking it to its death—the inherent entrepreneurial dynamism of competitive markets that drives productivity up and marginal costs down, enabling businesses to reduce the price of their goods and services in order to win over consumers and market share. (Marginal cost is the cost of producing additional units of a good or service, if fixed costs are not counted.) While economists have always welcomed a reduction in marginal cost, they never anticipated the possibility of a technological revolution that might bring marginal costs to near zero, making goods and services priceless, nearly free, and abundant, and no longer subject to market forces.
Now, a formidable new technology infrastructure—the Internet of things (IoT)—is emerging with the potential of pushing large segments of economic life to near zero marginal cost in the years ahead. Rifkin describes how the Communication Internet is converging with a nascent Energy Internet and Logistics Internet to create a new technology platform that connects everything and everyone. Billions of sensors are being attached to natural resources, production lines, the electricity grid, logistics networks, recycling flows, and implanted in homes, offices, stores, vehicles, and even human beings, feeding Big Data into an IoT global neural network. Prosumers can connect to the network and use Big Data, analytics, and algorithms to accelerate efficiency, dramatically increase productivity, and lower the marginal cost of producing and sharing a wide range of products and services to near zero, just like they now do with information goods.
Rifkin concludes that capitalism will remain with us, albeit in an increasingly streamlined role, primarily as an aggregator of network services and solutions, allowing it to flourish as a powerful niche player in the coming era. We are, however, says Rifkin, entering a world beyond markets where we are learning how to live together in an increasingly interdependent global Collaborative Commons. --macmillan.com
About the Author: Jeremy Rifkin is the bestselling author of twenty books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. He has been an advisor to the European Union for the past decade.
Mr. Rifkin also served as an adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, Prime Minister Jose Socrates of Portugal, Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of Spain, and Prime Minister Janez Janša of Slovenia, during their respective European Council Presidencies, on issues related to the economy, climate change, and energy security.
Mr. Rifkin is a senior lecturer at the Wharton School's Executive Education Program at the University of Pennsylvania where he instructs CEOs and senior management on transitioning their business operations into sustainable Third Industrial Revolution economies.
Mr. Rifkin holds a degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a degree in international affairs from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
This Authors@Google talk was hosted by Boris Debic.
,1,Mindful Ways to Overcome Mindless Habits: The Neuroscience of our Deeper Yearning
All the yoga, meditation, deep breathing, and exercise won't keep you conscious when you're in the grips of your mindless habits--your soft addictions. We all have soft addictions--whether it's procrastinating, over-shopping, overeating, texting, video games, too much TV...the list is endless. These seemingly harmless habits that we so often overdo not only cost time, money, and energy, but they also drain our productivity, numb our feelings, and mute our consciousness. It's not really a question of if you have soft addictions, but which ones do you have.
The only reason we turn to our soft addictions is that they are trying to let us know about something we yearn for -- it's just that they don't deliver on that yearning. But if you wake up and pay attention, you can learn to design your life around these deeper needs. And when you do, amazing things happen. Not only do your bad habits start to drop away, you also save money, lose weight, have more energy, get more time in your day, and....you design a life of consciousness and mindfulness.
In this compelling keynote presentation, Dr. Judith Wright, shares the research and neuroscience behind our deeper yearning and how you can use that information to not only let go of your soft addictions, but also to create a spectacular life.
ABOUT DR. JUDITH
A media favorite, sought-after speaker, respected leader, best-selling author, world-class coach, and corporate consultant in the area of personal transformation, leadership development, and personal goal fulfillment, Dr. Judith Wright wrote There Must Be More Than This, The One Decision, The Soft Addiction Solution, and soon-to-be-released Transformed! The Science of Spectacular Livingto share her personal transformation and proven methodologies with a broader audience. Dr. Wright's ground-breaking research into the fundamental process by which human beings learn, grow, and develop is the core of the curriculum at Wright and the Wright Graduate Institute, which she co-founded. Dr. Wright has appeared on more than 500 radio programs, and 80 TV programs including Oprah, ABC's 20/20 and the Today show.
Check out the following published works by Dr. Judith Wright:
The One Decision: Make the Single Choice That Will Lead to a Life of More
The Soft Addictions Solution
Transformed: The Science of Spectacular Living
For additional information: http://www.judithwright.com
,1,Eric Abrahamson, Author and Professor of Management at Columbia Business School, visits Google's Santa Monica, CA office to discuss his book "A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder." This event took place on March 12, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series.
,1,Sara Mednick visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book, "Take a Nap! Change Your Life." This event took place on October 15, 2007 as part of the Authors@Google series.