Norton opens with “If you think money can’t buy happiness, you’re not spending it right,” then proceeds to talks about some novel research into correlations between money and happiness.
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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration
You know those annoying boxes at the bottom of web forms that are filled with garbled text that is hard to read but you have to type in the words in a box in order to submit the form? von Ahn dispels the mystery of those words and explains how those text boxes are helping to digitize human knowledge.
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Joe Sabia: The technology of storytelling
Sabia capture the evolution of storytelling in a fun, sasync way.
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Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
Haidt suggests that most of experience a point in our lives where our mortal framework melts away and we transcend our normal state of being. He shows how we compete within and across teams: we compete with each other within the team, jockeying for position and rank, while also competing against teams of other people.Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
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Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations
West points out that for all the problems that cities create (getting a bunch of people to live in close proximity) but also has potential for great solutions because many of the people are creatives and problem solvers.He draws some fascinating parallels between biological ecosystems and planning cities.Geoffrey West: The surprising math of cities and corporations