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    How Technology Allowed Me To Read

    How Technology Allowed Me To Read

    Months after he was born, in 1948, Ron McCallum became blind. In this charming, moving talk, he shows how he reads -- and celebrates the progression of clever tools and adaptive computer technologies that make it possible. With their help, and the help of volunteers, he's become a lawyer, an academic, and, most of all, a voracious reader. Welcome to the blind reading revolution.

    Subjects:
    Technology, Electronic and Information Engineering, and Computing
    Keywords:
    Assistive computer technology Reading -- Aids devices Blind -- Books reading
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Can Technology Solve Our Big Problems?

    Can Technology Solve Our Big Problems?

    In 1969, Buzz Aldrin’s historical step onto the moon leapt mankind into an era of technological possibility. The awesome power of technology was to be used to solve all of our big problems. Fast forward to present day, and what's happened? Are mobile apps all we have to show for ourselves? Journalist Jason Pontin looks closely at the challenges we face to using technology effectively ... for problems that really matter.

    Subjects:
    Technology
    Keywords:
    Technological innovations Technology -- Political aspects Technology -- Social aspects
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math

    Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man of math

    What's so special about Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man? With arms outstretched, the man fills the irreconcilable spaces of a circle and a square -- symbolizing the Renaissance-era belief in the mutable nature of humankind. James Earle explains the geometric, religious and philosophical significance of this deceptively simple drawing.

    Subjects:
    History and Mathematics and Statistics
    Keywords:
    Mathematics -- Social aspects Vitruvian man (Leonardo da Vinci)
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    Video
     
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    Economics And Art

    Economics And Art

    What lessons can economics learn from art? Megan Wilkens examines how, historically, trends in the art world have offered a prescient window into wide-ranging socio-economic shifts in society. If economists look closely at art, they might be privy to unexpected changes in cultural behavior.

    Subjects:
    Society and Culture
    Keywords:
    Art -- Economic aspects Art society
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice

    Our Unhealthy Obsession with Choice

    We face an endless string of choices, which leads us to feel anxiety, guilt and pangs of inadequacy that we are perhaps making the wrong ones. But philosopher Renata Salecl asks: Could individual choices be distracting us from something bigger—our power as social thinkers? A bold call for us to stop taking personal choice so seriously and focus on the choices we're making collectively.

    Subjects:
    Psychology and Philosophy
    Keywords:
    Medical care Choice (Psychology)
    Resource Type:
    Video
     
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    Anatomy of a New Yorker Cartoon

    Anatomy of a New Yorker Cartoon

    The New Yorker receives around 1,000 cartoons each week; it only publishes about 17 of them. In this hilarious, fast-paced, and insightful talk, the magazine's longstanding cartoon editor and self-proclaimed "humor analyst" Bob Mankoff dissects the comedy within just some of the "idea drawings" featured in the magazine, explaining what works, what doesn't, and why.

    Subjects:
    Visual Arts
    Keywords:
    New Yorker (New York N.Y. : 1925) Wit humor Caricatures cartoons
    Resource Type:
    Video