Socrates at Newtonbrook Secondary School: Be Unreasonable!

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Yesterday I went to speak to a class of grade 12 students from the Newtonbrook Secondary School in Toronto. I have been looking forward to this opportunity to challenge and be challenged by the next generation of bright young minds, and was not going to be prevented from going there, be it by a Canadian winter storm of by any other of life’s tragedies. Needless to say, I enjoyed speaking to the students very much and hope that they benefit from talking to me as much [...]

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15 Steps Towards Your Podcasting Success: Socrates At Podcamp Toronto 2013

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Yesterday I spoke at this year’s edition of the annual Podcamp Toronto at Ryerson University. Since people often ask me for tips on podcasting, I decided to record my presentation so that it is always available to anyone interested in knowing how I started or what in my view are the most important elements for a successful podcast. Accidentally, the presentation ended up being filmed by two separate cameras: front view – by Peter Mykusz from Tribute Video; and side view – by my friend and [...]

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Ayesha Khanna on Singularity 1 on 1: Take Education Into Your Own Hands!

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Ayesha Khanna is the co-founder of the Hybrid Reality Institute and co-author of Hybrid Reality book for Kindle. During my Singularity 1 on 1 interview with Ayesha Khanna we discuss a variety of topics such as: women and technology; whether men are from Mars and women from Venus; her book Hybrid Reality and what she calls the hybrid age;  smart cities; the philosophy and politics of technology; big brother and hacktivism; government policy, higher education and unemployment; technological progress and freedom; her recent start-up Urban Intel… In addition [...]

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Robotic Poetry: Robot Puppeteer Amit Drori’s Digital Safari

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Amit Drori teaches puppetry at the School of Visual Theatre in Jerusalem. He has become renowned worldwide for practising what he calls “robotic poetry”, blending traditional hand-operated puppets, with self-made robots, made with designer Noam Dover. With his dedicated troupe – all puppeteers who have become amateur engineers, learning their robotic arts through open source technology online – he has travelled the world with his electronic stage shows. BBC News caught up with him at the Barbican in London as he rehearsed his touring show Savanna, [...]

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Robin Hanson on Singularity 1 on 1 (part 2): Social Science or Extremist Politics in Disguise?!

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My second interview with economist Robin Hanson was by far the most vigorous debate ever on Singularity 1 on 1. I have to say that I have rarely disagreed more with any of my podcast guests before. So, why do I get so fired up about Robin’s ideas you may ask?! Well, here is just one reason why I do: “The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly believed. Indeed, the [...]

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NASA Astrobiologist David Morrison Discusses Asteroids and The End of The World

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It’s been 25 years since David Morrison – a NASA Space scientist who also works for the SETI institute, first pointed out that near Earth asteroids pose a substantial hazard to our planet. The discovery that the dinosaur extinction about 65 million years ago was caused by an asteroid was part of the impetus behind that. So David was among the first advocates that we need a system to track, identify and eventually deflect any larger asteroids which might pose danger to our planet. The recent [...]

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Robot Patients Help Doctors Practice Their Skills

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Life-like robotic patients are being used by doctors and nurses who want to practice their clinical skills. They are designed to display symptoms such as asthma, heart attacks and infections. The staff can film themselves treating the robots to see how they do. Original story by James Cook for BBC News:

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