Authors@Google

Authors@google: Richard Thaler

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead...

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• Продолжительность: 56:57
• Метки: Richard  Thaler  Cass  R.  Sunstein  behavioral  economics  social  psychology  atgoogle  nudge 

Authors@Google: Penn Jillette

Penn Jillette visited Google's Santa Monica office on August 19, 2011 to discuss his book "God No! Signs You Already May Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales." This talk took place as part of the Authors@Google series. Warning: This talk contains adult language.

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• Продолжительность: 64:48
• Метки: Penn Jillette  God No!  Authors@Google 

Authors@Google: George RR Martin

George RR Martin, the acclaimed author of the Game of Thrones novels -- also a recent hit HBO series -- came to Google for a live-streamed interview where he answered your questions submitted online. The interview, part of the Authors@Google series as well as Martin's book tour promoting his...

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• Продолжительность: 61:49
• Метки: Fantasy  George RR Martin 

Authors@Google: Christopher Hitchens

Author Christopher Hitchens discusses his book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor, a Slate columnist, and a...

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• Продолжительность: 67:41
• Метки: Authors@Google  Christopher Hitchens  yt:cc=on 

Authors@Google: Tina Fey

Tina Fey joins Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt for a fireside chat about her new book, Bossypants. This event took place on April 20th, 2011 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA.

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• Продолжительность: 56:37
• Метки: authors@google  tina fey  eric schmidt  google  30 rock  bossypants  snl  saturday night live  interview 

Authors@Google: Dario Nardi - Neuroscience of Personality

UCLA professor and author, Dario Nardi, has discovered that people of different personality types don't merely rely on different brain regions -- they use their brains in fundamentally different ways. Using colorful anecdotes and brain imagery, Dr. Nardi shares key insights from his lab. Among...

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• Продолжительность: 85:27
• Метки: neuroscience  personality  personality type  personality types  MBTI  Myers-Briggs  Myers-Briggs Type Indicator  Dario Nardi 

Authors@google: Sam Gosling

Author Sam Gosling visits Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA, to discuss his book "Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You". This event took place June 17, 2008, as part of the authors@google series. Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell...

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• Продолжительность: 61:4
• Метки: Sam  Gosling  Snoop  what  your  stuff  says  about  you  atgoogle  google  psychology 

Authors@Google: Jeffrey Sachs, "The Price of Civilization"

"The Price of Civilization" As he has done in dozens of countries around the world in the midst of economic crises, Sachs turns his unique diagnostic skills to what ails the American economy. He finds that both political parties—and many leading economists—have missed the big picture,...

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• Продолжительность: 64:2
• Метки: Jeffrey  Sachs  @Google  11  16 

Authors@Google: Kelly McGonigal

Neuroscientists talk about how we have one brain but two minds. We have a mind that acts on impulse and seeks immediate gratification, and we have another mind that controls our impulses and delays gratification to fulfill our long-term goals. We face willpower challenges when the two minds have...

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• Продолжительность: 54:3
• Метки: Kelly mcgonigal  willpower 

Authors@Google: Garry Kasparov

Garry Kasparov was the highest-rated chess player in the world for over twenty years and is widely considered the greatest chess player that ever lived. On Thursday, 10th March, 2005 Kasparov announced his retirement from competitive chess. He remains the highest-rated player in the history of...

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• Продолжительность: 64:7
• Метки: Garry Kasparov  The Man and the Computer  Authors@Google 

Authors@Google: Michael Erard

Michael Erard visited Google on May 3, 2012 to talk about his book Babel No More: The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners. About the book: "If you've ever tried to learn another language, you know how much time, energy, and brain power is required. Imagine a person who can...

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• Продолжительность: 58:59
• Метки: Michael Erard  language learning  hyperpolyglots 

Authors@Google: David Graeber, DEBT: The First 5000 Years

DEBT: The First 5000 Years While the "national debt" has been the concern du jour of many economists, commentators and politicians, little attention is ever paid to the historical significance of debt. For thousands of years, the struggle between rich and poor has largely taken the form of...

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• Продолжительность: 81:10
• Метки: David Graeber  DEBT: The First 5000 Years  Authors@Google 

Authors@Google: Julie Clow

Former Googler Julie Clow visited Google on May 16, 2012 to talk about her book The Work Revolution: Freedom and Excellence for All. About the book: We live in a new age of global companies, hyper-access to information, and accessibility to tools that enable us to bring any idea life. Strangely,...

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• Продолжительность: 41:47
• Метки: management  business  training 

Authors@Google: Lisa Earle McLeod

Author Lisa Earle McLeod visited Google in Atlanta on February 23, 2012. Lisa Earle McLeod, author of The Triangle of Truth, which the Washington Post named as a "Top Five Book for Leaders," discusses how organizations can increase revenue, improve margin, and ignite innovation by focusing on a...

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• Продолжительность: 69:4
• Метки: authors@google  Lisa Earle mcleod  sales 

Authors@Google: Craig Ramsay

Craig Ramsay, fitness expert, visited Google Los Angeles to discuss his book "Anatomy of Muscle Building." This talk took place on February 3, 2012 as part of the Authors@Google series

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• Продолжительность: 58:5
• Метки: craig ramsay  fitness Physical Fitness 

Authors@Google: Charles Seife

Charles Seife visits Google's New York, NY office to discuss his book "Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception." This event took place on December 1, 2011, as part of the Authors@Google series. "Proofiness," as Charles Seife explains in this eye-opening book, is the art of using pure...

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• Продолжительность: 62:2
• Метки: Charles  Seife  Authors@Google  atgoogletalks  Proofiness  The  Dark  Arts  of  Mathematical  Deception 

Authors@Google: John Jeavons

"John Jeavons spoke at Google in Mountain View on April 12, 2012 about his four decades pioneering biointensive farming and what we can do for food security in the future. He is introduced by Google Executive Chef Olivia Wu. About the Author: John Jeavons has been the Director of the GROW...

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• Продолжительность: 59:20
• Метки: John Jeavons  Grow Biointensive  organic farming  food security 

Authors@Google: Michael Ellsberg

"The Education of Millionaires: It's Not What You Think and It's Not Too Late " Get Rich Investing in Your Own Human Capital The richest billionaire executive on the planet and the lowest-status minimum-wage worker have at least one thing in common when it comes to work: they both have 24 hours...

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• Продолжительность: 53:47
• Метки: Michael  Ellsberg 

Authors@Google: Kyle Johnson 'Inception and Philosophy'

The book explores the movie's key questions and themes, including how we can tell if we're dreaming or awake, how to make sense of a paradox, and whether or not inception is possible. It also gives new insights into the nature of free will, time, dreams, and the unconscious mind. In addition, it...

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• Продолжительность: 42:58
• Метки: Inception  inception and philosophy  pop culture and philosophy  philosophy  book  interpretation of inception  did the top fall  is inception a dream  the spinning top  Limbo  Dom Cobb  analysis  Cobb's wedding ring  totem  totems  how totems work  educational  analysis of inception  unraveling inception  David Kyle Johnson  tyler shores 

Authors@Google: Bruce Philp, "Consumer Republic"

In the tradition of Malcolm Gladwell, and for the same people who read Seth Godin and bought The Black Swan and How We Decide, this book breaks down the myth of brands and puts the power back in consumers' hands. The foundation of Consumer Republic's message is this single, inarguable truth:...

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• Продолжительность: 52:2
• Метки: Bruce Philp 

Authors@Google: Sam Harris

Sam Harris is the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation. The End of Faith won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. Mr. Harris' writing has been published in over fifteen languages. He and his work have been discussed in Newsweek, TIME, The New...

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• Продолжительность: 76:3
• Метки: Sam Harris  Letter to a Christian Nation  Authors@Google 

Authors@Google: Ann Lee

What the US Can Learn from China: An Open-Minded Guide to Treating Our Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher Ann Lee provides an unvarnished assessment of China's political economy and governance structure, analyzing the sources of China's success and identifying lessons that can be applied...

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• Продолжительность: 42:11
• Метки: Ann Lee  China  education 

Authors@google: Daphne Miller

Doctor Daphne Miller visits Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book, "The Jungle Effect." This event took place on May 23, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Dr. Miller, please visit www.drdaphne.com Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide...

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• Продолжительность: 51:55
• Метки: authors@google  atgoogle  daphne  miller  jungle  effect  medicine  health 

Authors@google: Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vaynerchuk visits Google's Mountain View, CA, headquarters to host a wine tasting and discuss his website tv.winelibrary.com . This event took place on April 3, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series. In 2006, Gary Vaynerchuk launched Wine Library TV (WLTV), a free daily video blog in...

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• Продолжительность: 62:51
• Метки: Gary  Vaynerchuk  atgoogle  google  authors@google  wine  winelibrary  tasting