Joy Buolamwini – TRANSCRIPT Hello, I’m Joy, a poet of code, on a mission to stop an unseen force that’s rising, a force that I called “the coded gaze,” my… Read More »Code4Rights, Code4All: Joy Buolamwini at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Colin Stokes – TRANSCRIPT You are the Chosen One! That’s right, you, yeah. No, not the person sitting next to you, sorry. Actually you know what, you are too. You… Read More »Why is Hollywood so White? by Colin Stokes at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Nagin Cox – TRANSCRIPT So many of you have probably seen the movie “The Martian.” But for those of you who did not, it’s a movie about an astronaut who… Read More »Living on Two Planets: Mars Time: Nagin Cox at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Alex Wissner-Gross – TRANSCRIPT Intelligence, what is it? If we take a look back at the history of how intelligence is being viewed, one seminal example has been Edsger Dijkstra’s… Read More »An Equation for Intelligence: Alex Wissner-Gross at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Michael Scott Moore – TRANSCRIPT When this picture ran on a story I published last year about being held hostage by Somali pirates, one British soccer fan wrote in to… Read More »Humor, Survival, and Somali Pirates: Michael Scott Moore at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Kathleen Murphy – TRANSCRIPT Unfortunately, I am going to be discussing something you’re not supposed to talk about in a polite conversation: money. Now as the song goes, “you work… Read More »Get Serious, Get Smart, Get Going! Kathleen Murphy at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Doug Ambrose – TRANSCRIPT We are in an Alexander Hamilton moment. Not only do we have the musical that you all – I hope, have heard of. That little showdown in… Read More »Perils of Posterity: Alexander Hamilton and a Sex Scandal: Doug Ambrose at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Susan Colantuono – TRANSCRIPT Women represent 50 percent of middle management and professional positions but the percentages of women at the top of organizations, like Kathleen Murphy, whom you’ve heard,… Read More »Closing the Leadership Gender Gap: Susan Colantuono at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Ani Liu – TRANSCRIPT What if our plants could sense the toxicitya levels in the soil and express that toxicity through the color of its leaves? What if those plants… Read More »Synthetic Biology for the Senses: Ani Liu at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)
Erika Ebbel Angle – TRANSCRIPT Good morning everybody and welcome. I’m very excited to be here today to talk with you about this idea that cool things do happen at… Read More »Cool Things Happen at the Edges: Erika Ebbel Angle at TEDxBeaconStreet (Transcript)