2008 December | Spoken Gems: Speeches, Lectures, Monologues

Jo Glanville:
Internet Censorship is now a Commercial Enterprise

Dec 82008Category: Politics
Speech Tags: Jo Glanville, Politics, Society, Technology

Jo Glanville argues in a discussion at “Battle of Ideas” called “Caught in the Web” that the internet has been a revolution not only for free speech but also for censorship.

The full discussion is available at Fora.tv.

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Jon Stewart:
Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary

Dec 52008Category: Comedy,Media & Arts
Speech Tags: commencement speech, Jon Stewart

In 2004 Jon Stewart delivered the commencement address at the College of William & Mary.

An audio version and the transcript can be found at American Rhetoric.

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Robert Lang:
Idea + square = origami

Dec 42008Category: Science & Technology
Speech Tags: mathematics, Robert Lang, Science & Technology

Who would have thought that the art of origami would someday turn out too be important. Robert Lang demonstartes in this great TED talk, that if combined with mathematics, origami can help solve real world problems.