The Talks at Google podcast - where great minds meet. Talks at Google brings the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and doers all to one place. Every episode is taken from a video that can be seen at YouTube.com/TalksAtGoogle. DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions expressed by the guest speakers are solely their own and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Google, Inc. The comments on this channel belong only to the person who posted them. We do, however, reser ...
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Ep479 - Adrienne Mayor | The Amazons
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Professor Adrienne Mayor of Stanford visits Google to discuss her book, "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World". This book is the first comprehensive account of warrior women in myth and history across the ancient world, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Great Wall of China. Amazons―fierce warrior women dwelling o…
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Ep478 - Nadina Galle | The Nature of our Cities
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Ecological engineer Dr. Nadina Galle visits Google to discuss her book “The Nature of our Cities: Harnessing the Power of the Natural World to Survive a Changing Planet.” The book describes her journey to show how scientists and citizens from around the world are harnessing emerging technologies to unlock the power of the natural world to save thei…
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Ep477 - Alexander Meyer | Ancient Greece & Rome: Time & Culture
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Professor Alexander Meyer visits Google to share the ways ancient Greeks and Romans kept time and their reasons for doing so. He discusses various time-keeping artifacts and works of literature to show that the manner in which time was kept and tracked reflected and continues to reflect much broader cultural issues, including imperialism, commercia…
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Ep476 - Kara Loewentheil | Take Back Your Brain
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Master Certified life coach Kara Loewentheil visits Google to discuss her book “Take Back Your Brain: How A Sexist Society Gets in Your Head – and How to Get It Out,” Her book weaves cognitive psychology and feminist theory with practical thought-work exercises to awaken new possibilities for all. Kara Lowentheil is a founder of The School of New F…
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Ep475 - Robert Frank | The Economic Naturalist
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Author Robert Frank visits Google to discuss his book "The Economic Naturalist: In Search of Explanations for Everyday Enigmas". Why do the keypads on drive-up cash machines have Braille dots? Why are round-trip fares from Orlando to Kansas City higher than those from Kansas City to Orlando? For decades, Robert Frank has been asking his economics s…
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Ep474 - Stephanie Harrison | The New Happy
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Stephanie Harrison visits Google to discuss her book “New Happy: Getting Happiness Right in a World That’s Got It Wrong” where she draws upon hundreds of studies to offer a life-changing guide to finding happiness. Through an inspiring blend of art and science, “New Happy” could forever change the way you see yourself and the world. Stephanie Harri…
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Ep473 - Wendy Kopp | Teach for America
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Teach For America founder and CEO Wendy Kopp visits Google for a conversation with former Google vice president Sheryl Sandberg. From her dorm room at Princeton University, twenty-one-year-old college senior Wendy Kopp decided to launch a movement to improve public education in America. In this Talk, she shares the remarkable story of Teach For Ame…
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Ep472 - Emma Roberts & Liz Garcia | Prime Video's Space Cadet
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Emma Roberts and Liz Garcia visit Google to discuss Prime Video’s new film “Space Cadet,” premiering July 4th, 2024. Played by Emma Roberts, Tiffany “Rex” Simpson has always dreamed of going to space, but life isn’t going quite as planned. Determined to turn things around, she aims high and with the embellishing touch of her supportive best friend,…
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Ep471 - Monique Maddy | Learning to Love Africa
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Monique Maddy visits Google to discuss her memoir, "Learning to Love Africa." From the remote mountains of Liberia to the epicenter of New York City, Monique Maddy's life has been an extraordinary journey from an idyllic community to the chaos of city living. But Learning to Love Africa is far more than an exile's dream of return. Sent to the west …
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Ep470 - Levy Rozman | GothamChess: The Internet's Chess Teacher
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Levy Rozman aka GothamChess, the creator behind the most subscribed-to chess channel on YouTube, discusses his New York Times bestseller “How to Win at Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond.” Filled with practical and easy-to-follow tips for improving your game, the book includes over 500 instructional gameplay illustrations to help yo…
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Ep469 - Ann Cooper | Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children
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Ann Cooper visits Google to discuss her book "Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children". Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have something from every major food group, run around the playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the American crisis of c…
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Ep468 - Annie Eaton | The Extended Reality Blueprint
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Annie Eaton, CEO of the extended-reality focused company Futurus, visits Google to discuss her book “The Extended Reality Blueprint,” The book dives into the discovery and product development process through an immersive technology lens. “The Extended Reality Blueprint” focuses on design for non-gaming or gaming adjacent applications in extended re…
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Ep467 - Don Tapscott | Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything
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Author Don Tapscott visits Google to discuss his book "Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything". In just the last few years, traditional collaboration in a meeting room, a conference call, even a convention center has been superseded by online collaborations on an astronomical scale. Today, apps, jetliners, operating systems, mutual f…
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Ep466 - Eric Siegel | The AI Playbook
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Leading consultant and former Columbia University professor Eric Siegel visits Google to discuss his book “The AI Playbook: Mastering the Rare Art of Machine Learning Deployment.” The book explains how machine learning works and how to successfully operationalize it. The greatest tools are often the hardest to use. Machine learning is the world’s m…
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Ep465 - Lawrence Lessig | Free Culture
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Lawrence Lessig visits Google's New York office to discuss his book “Free Culture.” Lawrence Lessig could be called a cultural environmentalist. One of America’s most original and influential public intellectuals, his focus is the social dimension of creativity, or how creative work builds on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that bui…
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Everybody look around, there’s reason to rejoice! "The Wiz," the Tony Award®-winning Best Musical that took the world by storm in 1975 is back. Based on L. Frank Baum’s children’s book, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," "The Wiz" returns home to the stage with an all-new adaptation. This beloved Broadway musical sets Dorothy’s adventures in the Land of…
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Ep463 - Fred Kofman | Conscious Business
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Fred Kofman visits Google to discuss his book “Conscious Business”. Consciousness is the main source of organizational greatness. Conscious business means finding your passion and expressing your essential values through your work. A conscious business seeks to promote the intelligent pursuit of happiness in all its stakeholders. It produces sustai…
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