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
Superheroes Revisited
Back in 2008, with the publication of Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell pointed out how important historical events can be to the possibility and character of Real Life Superheroes — giving as examples Sun Microsystem’s Bill Joy, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and The
How Racism Makes Us Sick
David R. Williams [ 7 APR 2017 | Bias Mapping ] An article in the Yale Alumni Magazine told the story of Clyde Murphy, a black man who was a member of the Class of 1970. Clyde was a success
Hollywoods
Stacy Smith [ 21 MAR 2017 | Bias Mapping | 15:44 ] Today, I want to tell you about a pressing social issue. Now, it’s not nuclear arms, it’s not immigration, and it’s not malaria. I’m here to talk about
Discovery Channeling
Mahzarin Banaji [ 4 APR 2016 | Bias Mapping ] discusses the ways in which we are not good at knowing our own hidden prejudices and preferences. But those beliefs shape how we collaborate, run businesses, and assess colleagues. Learn
Justice & Redemption
Bryan Stevenson [ 18 FEB 2016 | Bias Mapping ] one of America’s leading human rights lawyers and clinical law professors, offered his reflections and vision on how to confront injustice and build a just society at a public lecture
Waking Up White
Debbi Irving [ 20 JUL 2015 | Bias Mapping ] Seven years ago, I had a series of wake-up calls that were so profound — that was in this course Racial and Cultural Identities that Mina just told us about.
Stevenson’s SXSW
Bryan Stevenson [ 29 APR 2015 | Bias Mapping | 45:23 ] — The United States is a very different country that it was 30 years ago. In 1970, we had a prison population of 200,000 and today we
Renting A House
James A. White, Sr. [ 19 APR 2015 | Bias Mapping ] The little problem I had renting a house. An 18-year-old, African-American male joined the United States Air Force and was assigned to Mountain Home Air Force Base and
Epigenetics
Nessa Carey [ 8 APR 2015 | Bias Mapping ] You can’t talk about epigenetics without talking about genetics. This is the representation of the famous DNA double helix and back in 2001, when the human genome sequence was first