I enjoy listening to college commencement addresses. A lot of them -- perhaps most of them -- are just a a string of cliches. But occasionally I come across a real gem. I had the pleasure of hearing Anna Quindlen at the Kenyon College graduation of 2008. She was wonderful This year she gave the commencement address at Grinnell College.(Transcript.) It is well worth a listen.
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British comedian Bill Bailey presents "A Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra."
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Facebook's COO Sheryl Sandberg gave an important talk at TED Women in December 2009. She offers three pieces of advice for women who aspire to be leaders in their companies.
This weeks On The Media focused on the role of online gaming in our society. I found this story, called "The Future of Gaming" very interesting for its discussion of the role gaming is shaping the future of collaboration.
The story includes a sound clip from a TED talk by Jane McGonigal, the head of research and development at the the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit forecasting firm.
The story also includes this clip of Jesse Schell speaking at DICE. Schell is founder of Schell Games and a professor at Carnegie Mellon. This is Schell's full presentation, in which he explains the psychology behind the success of online games. Schell maintains that online games are breaking through to a reality where games are used to incent behavior.
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Bill Hammack, of the University of Illinois and www.engineerguy.com, explains why you always seem to get in the slowest line.
