Penny Kreitzer is a remarkable person, teacher, actor, writer, and mother. Penny is also a close friend; we teach together at UC Berkeley. Penny’s life changed four years ago when her daughter Annais was killed; Penny’s personal journey has been one of openness and grief, which she now shares in this profound TEDx Talk. All …
Why the hell do I write this blog? Why have written one called “rules rules” since 2005? Why have I written another one, “e-travels with e. rules blog,” since 2002, with stories as ancient as 1970? What for? It’s not like I get a lot of feedback, positive or negative. Does anyone read it? Does anyone …
I’ve had the good fortune and privilege of traveling abroad twice as a Fulbright Scholar – once to Islamic Malaysia in 2002 shortly after 9/11, and a second time to Bucharest, Romania in 2010. The first time I was a Fulbright Senior Scholar, the second, a Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Studies (Theater). Unlike most …
TEDxFulbright 2015, in LA September 26 at The Broad Read More »
“Translating Transformation” is a TEDx Bushwick event scheduled to take place Saturday, March 21. Why? I don’t know. That’s just one of the questions I would ask TED and TEDx Bushwick organizers. Here are a few more. First: Whose idea was this? The organizer who initiated planning for TEDx Bushwick, Minda Aguhob, is “based in …
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Robert Mankoff is a cartoonist, author, and the current cartoon editor for The New Yorker Magazine, where he’s worked for over 20 years. In this illuminating video for TED Talks, Bob discusses why, out of the 1,000+ cartoons the magazine receives each week, the 17 they select are published. A self-proclaimed “humor analyst,” Bob dissects …
I have come to believe that coming true is not the only purpose of a dream. Its most important purpose is to get us in touch with where dreams come from, where passion comes from, where happiness comes from. The first TED staffer to present on stage, Lisa Bu shares her story of how books …
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Something big broken in your community? This TEDxUSC video features Jennifer Pahlka of Code for America explaining how new technology start-ups can revolutionize the way cities operate. Instead of top-down decision-making, this talk enables the individual to discover empowered solutions based on social action initiatives and community based engagement. A must for any one interested …
A manifesto for great creativity.
The last time Roger Ebert and I talked, which as at Sundance, we didn’t talk about movies… and of course we didn’t talk. Since cancer took the lower part of his jaw, Roger couldn’t talk, but he wrote incessantly. Our “talk” was done by emails and tweets, and Roger’s written voice was so much a …
You’ve heard of Big Data? Here’s Big History. Historian and social scientist David Christian tells the story of our world set against the backdrop of the cosmic flow of the universe… all in less than 18 minutes.
It’s all about good design, his father said.
Know your punch-line, from the director whose film is today’s.
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