[Neasis-l] Links to the TED Talks we showed and info for our next event

[Luke Gaudreau]

Thanks to all of  who attended the NEASIS&T TED Talks Event Tuesday night!

We have another event on  December 1 – please join us at the Russell
House Tavern for our Winter meet-up:
“How America's Revolutionaries Imagined Intellectual Property”
http://neasist.org/2011/11/02/winter-meet-up-how-americas-revolutionaries-imagined-intellectual-property/

Below, I've included links to the 5 TED Talks we showed Tuesday night:

1 Raghava KK: Shake up your story 4:31
http://www.ted.com/talks/raghava_kk_shake_up_your_story.html
Artist Raghava KK demos his new children's book for iPad with a fun
feature: when you shake it, the story – and your perspective --
changes. In this charming short talk, he invites all of us to shake up
our perspective a little bit.

2 Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian Revolution 10:08
http://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_inside_the_egyptian_revolution.html
Wael Ghonim is the Google executive who helped jumpstart Egypt's
democratic revolution … with a Facebook page memorializing a victim of
the regime's violence. Speaking at TEDxCairo, he tells the inside
story of the past two months, when everyday Egyptians showed that "the
power of the people is stronger than the people in power."

3 Eli Parisier: Beware Online Filter Bubbles 9:05
http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html
As web companies strive to tailor their services (including news and
search results) to our personal tastes, there's a dangerous unintended
consequence: We get trapped in a "filter bubble" and don't get exposed
to information that could challenge or broaden our worldview. Eli
Pariser argues powerfully that this will ultimately prove to be bad
for us and bad for democracy.

4 Sunni Brown: Doodlers, unite! 5:51
http://www.ted.com/talks/sunni_brown.html
Studies show that sketching and doodling improve our comprehension --
and our creative thinking. So why do we still feel embarrassed when
we're caught doodling in a meeting? Sunni Brown says: Doodlers, unite!
She makes the case for unlocking your brain via pad and pen.

5 Hans Rosling and the Magic Washing Machine 9:16
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_and_the_magic_washing_machine.html
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans
Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. He shows us the magic
that pops up when economic growth and electricity turn a boring wash
day into an intellectual day of reading.

cheers,
Luke Gaudreau
NEASIS&T - Program Committee Chair