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Category: Presentation
Coffee from Bush to Cup
How coffee beans are harvested and the different ways of preparing coffee.
Behind the Scenes at the Olympics
I worked at the past 3 Olympics games in sports marketing and will share some stories and behind the scenes insights of what makes a monumental event like the Olympics run.
Buying Used Cars
A car’s worth depreciates a lot over time, so getting a car used means you can get a decent one for cheap. Used cars you can search online for the ones you like, or even better you can hop dealer to dealer and compare.
In this talk, Xuehai addresses what are factors to consider when shopping for a used car and what to look for when you go for a test drive.
What’s the Deal with ISIS?
Who are they, how much power do they actually have, how did they get so much of it?
The Pixar Pipeline
Explaining the first steps in animation – story & art, modelling, rigging, simulation, sets & cameras, lighting.
From Servers to the Big Screen
The final step of animation: rendering. Turning ideas into pixels using math. Rasterization vs vectorization, raytracing, and several other concepts in the process explained.
Sustainable Fashion… WTF?!
What is non-sustainable fashion / fast fashion? What is sustainable fashion? Why does it matter? What can we do right now? How can we tackle it economically? How can we tackle it culturally?
The Pixar Pipeline
Explaining the first steps in animation – story & art, modelling, rigging, simulation, sets & cameras, lighting.
How to Survive Existential Crises: Logotherapy in a Nutshell
An explanation of the concept of logotherapy from Viktor Frankl’s book “Man’s Search for Meaning“. In particular, how there are three ways to find meaning in life:
- Working towards (not completing) a great work.
- Loving someone else.
- Finding meaning in unavoidable suffering
Notice how there’s no mention of explicitly pursuing happiness or peace. To Viktor, those things were side effects.
The first two are pretty basic, but the last one requires some explanation.
Life is filled with (often cruel) randomness. Consequently, it’s not uncommon to find yourself in an unpleasant and inescapable state. Maybe you have cancer, maybe you just got kicked out of school or maybe you’re jewish and you just got put in a concentration camp. Viktor maintained that even in these states, with hard work, you could still find meaning and a reason to continue on.
In the book, Viktor explains that as long as action or meaning can be found in this suffering, it becomes manageable and instead of being omnipresent and all-consuming, it becomes an understandable burden to learn and grow from.
He has applied this concept to victims of rape, sufferers of grief and those with suicidal tendencies.
