Caroline Creado-Perez [ 24 APR 2020 | Data Literacy | 1:02:29 ] I’ve got Poppy in a bag and I’m just going to give her her own throne. . . if the gender data gap ever becomes too depressing you
Faking News
Supasorn Suwajanakorn [ 25 JUL 2018 | Data Literacy | 7:15 ] Look at these images and tell me which Obama here is real. . . . to help families refinance their homes, to invest in things like high-tech manufacturing,
Zhang Yimou
One of the most interesting things web 2.0 has given me is a healthy disrespect for all things pretending to be authoritative. And Wikipedia has been one of my most reliable professors. I’m not sure where the Zhang Yimou Exploit
Field Guide to Lies
Daniel Levitin [ 27 SEP 2016 | Data Literacy| 1:13:33 ] I started writing the book in 2001, because my job was to teach students at McGill University how to think critically. Both undergraduates and graduate students. We used a
Staying Calm
Daniel Levitin [ 23 NOV 2015 | Prospective Thinking | 12:20 ] A few years ago, I broke into my own house. I had just driven home, it was around midnight in the dead of Montreal winter, I had
Weapons of Math Destruction
Kathy O’Neil [ 7 JUN 2015 | Data Literacy| 12:15 ] Imagine that you’re seeing Mathematics. I stole this from my husband’s desk yesterday. Mathematicians use notation like that — hope you can see it — because mathematicians are lazy.
The Organized Mind
Daniel Levitin [ 28 OCT 2014 | Attention Economics | 53:23 ] I want to talk about three big ideas, and then I’d be happy to take some questions. The three big ideas are multitasking, brain extenders, and decision making
Spambot Due Diligence
Those of you familiar with Ronson’s work will know parts of this talk like the back of their hand, but this is the tube where he zooms in on a rather extraordinary phenomenon currently finding shelter in the academic community.
Tokens to Tablets
Denise Besserat-Schmadt [ 18 JUN 2014 | Data Literacy | 3:26 ] We learn to count at such an early age that we tend to take the notion of abstract numbers for granted. We know the word “two” and the
Systems Thinking
Derek Cabrera [ 10 DEC 2012 | Systems Thinking | 17:38 ] There’s a lot of talk recently about the 21st century skills or 21st century thinking. What do we need to know in the 21st century? It strikes me