Lunch Talk schedule for the week of 12/11-12/17

Sunday, the 11th. Exercise and Brain. John Ratey, M.D., of Harvard Medical School talks about the relationship between physical and mental activities.

Monday, the 12th. Predictably Irrational. Professor Dan Ariely gives a talk at Google about his 2008 book.

Tuesday, the 13th. A UC Berkeley sociology lecture about Status. Important for understanding the fundamental dynamics of social networking as well.

Wednesday, the 14th. A lecture at Yale by Robert J. Shiller about Behavioral Finance, a field of economics he helped create.

Thursday, the 15th. A 3-minute TED talk about the practical aspects of goal setting.

Friday, the 16th. Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner - Diverging Thinking and the need to see a problem from a different perspective.

Saturday, the 17th. The secret history of Silicon Valley - a talk at Google about the link between Silicon Valley pioneers and the military.

Lunchtalk schedule for the week of 12/4 - 12/10/2011

Sunday, 12/4/11/.  Military robots and the future of war. 

Monday, 12/5/11. Cognitive Biases, a UC Berkeley lecture.

Tuesday, 12/6/11. Snack Talk: Secrets of success in 8 words, 3 minutes.

Wednesday, 12/7/11. Paul Romer's radical idea: Charter cities.

Thursday, 12/8/11. Philip Tetlock on the fallability of experts.

Friday, 12/9/11. Randal Munroe, of xkcd fame.

Saturday, 12/10/11. Intellectual Property rights, Howard Anawalt.