I know I have one of the coolest jobs on the planet. I run a spaceship company -- here comes the mic -- and I get to fire big rocket engines all the time, and I now have my first ride on the...
Hi there. It's a great pleasure to be here and I'm really excited, actually, to see so many familiar faces. And I wanted to tell about my story and how I came to work in anonymity. 18...
When I was in University of Saskatchewan, as an undergraduate student, I was involved in a group project like many of you have been involved, and our study was gender. We wanted to look at how gender...
As instruments go, you might say, the viola drew an unlucky number in the musical lottery. It's the middle child of the string family. Often overlooked in favor of it's flashier sister...
Today, we live in the most troubled times. All the nations of the world seem to be undergoing some degree of change. And in order to avoid the problems that we've had for years --...
I'll tell you a little a bit about irrational behavior -- (Laughter) I want to talk about one particular problem which is self control. There were two sisters, in Northern Carolina, the...
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle, leaving only the details to be filled in. This is a very widespread belief in our society....
I've been a journalist for 32 years, and I'm going to tell you about the saddest story that I've ever heard. Inside Camp 14, 13-year-old inmate named Shin Dong-hyuk betrayed...
Hedy Kober: "What we can accomplish with mindfulness" At the end of this talk, I'm going to ask you a very important question. But before I do that I'm going to give...