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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.
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- Technology, Electronic and Information Engineering, and Computing
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- Assistive computer technology Reading -- Aids devices Blind -- Books reading
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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.
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- Technology
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- Technological innovations Technology -- Political aspects Technology -- Social aspects
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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.
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- History and Mathematics and Statistics
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- Mathematics -- Social aspects Vitruvian man (Leonardo da Vinci)
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- Video
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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.
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- Society and Culture
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- Art -- Economic aspects Art society
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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.
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- Psychology and Philosophy
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- Medical care Choice (Psychology)
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- Video
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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.
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- Visual Arts
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- New Yorker (New York N.Y. : 1925) Wit humor Caricatures cartoons
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課程應用大量具體生動的史實資料，再現近百年來這一跌宕起伏、波瀾壯闊的歷史進程，特別是重現這一過程中那些激蕩人心、感天動地的重大事件和人物，並在此基礎上總結這一過程的根本經驗和啟示。
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- CC312P Women in China
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- Chinese Studies
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- China History Women
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- Video