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For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. Today, truth is buried under soundbites and spin, and seeing clearly is more important than ever. In this talk, Eugenia Cheng will show how anyone can think like a mathematician to understand what people are really telling us – and how we can argue back. Taking a careful scalpel to fake news, politics, privilege, sexism and dozens of other real-world situations, she will teach us how to find clarity without losing nuance.Eugenia Cheng is Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She won tenure in Pure Mathematics at the University of Sheffield, UK, where she is now Honorary Fellow. She has previously taught at the Universities of Cambridge, Chicago and Nice and holds a PhD in pure mathematics from the University of Cambridge. Alongside her research in Category Theory and undergraduate teaching, her aim is to rid the world of “math phobia”. Her first popular math book, How to Bake Pi, was published by Basic Books in 2015 to widespread acclaim including from the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and she was interviewed around the world including on the BBC, NPR and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Her second book, Beyond Infinity, was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize.This talk and Q&A was filmed in the Ri on 2 July 2018.

How you define Stephen Duneier depends on how you came to know him. Some define him as an expert institutional investor, while others know him as a large scale installation artist, avid outdoorsman, professor, decision strategist, coach, business leader, mindfulness extremist, author, speaker, daredevil or Guinness world record holder. In his talk, Stephen explains that what truly defines him aren't titles, but an approach to decision making that transformed him from someone who struggled with simple tasks to a guy who is continuously achieving even his most ambitious dreams. For thirty years, he has applied cognitive science to investing, business and life. The result has been the turnaround of numerous institutional businesses, career best returns for managers who have adopted his methods, the development of a $1.25 billion dollar hedge fund and a rapidly shrinking bucket list. Mr. Duneier teaches graduate courses on Decision Analysis in UCSB’s College of Engineering. His book, AlphaBrain is due for release in early 2017 from Wiley & Sons. Through Bija Advisors, he helps business leaders improve performance by applying proven, proprietary decision-making methods to their own processes. His artwork has been featured around the world and is represented by the Sullivan Goss Gallery. As Commissioner of the League of Professional Educators, Duneier is using cognitive science to alter the landscape of American education. He is the former Head of Currency Option Trading at Bank of America and Emerging Markets at AIG International.

Entrepreneur Andrew Yang answers questions from two undecided Democratic voters. NPR’s Noel King hosts. Click "Show More" below for topic time codes. INTRO 2:05 - Yang sings Prince 2:34 - Yang discusses riding his bike in New York City UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME - 3:42 4:22 - What is universal basic income and the freedom dividend? 11:08 - Yang defends his preference for VAT taxes over wealth taxes 21:00 - Yang on “winners and losers” in an economically divided country 24:09 - Will people have to choose between welfare and the freedom dividend? 28:53 - How would the freedom dividend combat inequality in education? 33:05 - Why not set an income threshold for the freedom dividend? CLIMATE CHANGE - 37:01 39:04 - “[Climate change] is already changing lives and destroying lives.” 40:12 - Yang on thorium, a “next-generation fuel for nuclear reactors” 43:16 - How will he reach people who “don’t believe in climate change”? 47:18 - What does he mean by moving people to “higher ground”? 50:16 - Is the idea for people to use their freedom dividends to prepare for climate change? OUTRO 51:32 - Yang’s views on impeachment 52:08 - Yang on Asian-American identity 53:56 - “Are you running for president to win?” 55:44 - “Why you're so averse to a wealth tax?” 57:21 - “If you don’t become president, how are you going to continue to work on these ideas?”

Award-winning expert in negotiation, Deepak Malhotra, leads an interactive session to give you the tools to negotiate with confidence. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsaxtLqh4h0

Former FBI Hostage Negotiator Chris Voss of The Black Swan Group and author of “Never Split The Difference” Keynote at AREC 2017 Australian Real Estate Conference Brisbane Australia May 29, 2017 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPfhZsAGsEI