Mitchell McKenna - tagged with speech http://mitchmckenna.com/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress mitchellmckenna@gmail.com Neil Gaiman Inspirational Convocation Speech 2012 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/11470/neil-gaiman-addresses-the-university-of-the-arts-class-of-2012

Mandatory listening for anyone who hopes to be creatively successful. Neil Gaiman, the fiction author famous for "The Sandman" and "Coraline" gave a commencement speech at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts which is particularly inspiring.

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MIT researcher Deb Roy wanted to understand how his infant son learned language -- so he wired up his house with videocameras to catch every moment (with exceptions) of his son's life, then parsed 90,000 hours of home video (200 terabytes of data!) to watch "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water." Astonishing, data-rich research with deep implications for how we learn.

This is one of the more interesting and visually appealing talks on TED and I was blown away with the videos and images presented. The research combines communication, child psychology, visual imaging, and complex networks. One aspect of their research that I personally found interesting focuses on the feedback loops between and around mass media and social media.

]]> Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:50:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9264/deb-roy-the-birth-of-a-word/deb-roy-the-birth-of-a-word RSA Animate - Language as a Window into Human Nature http://mitchmckenna.com/post/9098/rsa-animate-language-as-a-window-into-human-nature

In this new RSAnimate Steven Pinker shows us how the mind turns the finite building blocks of language into infinite meanings. Taken from the RSA's free public events programme www.thersa.org/events

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]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:31:00 -0400 http://mitchmckenna.com/post/6925/the-video-game-bosses-lament/the-video-game-bosses-lament Colbert roasts Bush http://mitchmckenna.com/post/131/colbert-roasts-bush

Colbert roasts Bush

Steven Colbert grills President to his face at the White House Press Corps Dinner From: Leaderofwhat Views: 753892

3760 ratings Time: 10:19 More in Comedy

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