What is a gun? How does a gun work? What are the different types of guns?
Category: Presentation
Soylent: 75% Hype, 25% Awesome
Soylent is a powdered food replacement, that’s been getting a lot of hype. Although there are some real benefits (it’s kind of cheap, it is nutritionally complete) and food is actually problematic, there’s still a long ways to go until Soylent’s mission of cooking only being for the rich is achieved.
Stuttering
What causes stuttering? How do you overcome it?
Introduction to Reading Tarot
An introduction to reading tarot cards. Archetypes vs. Stereotypes, the origins of Tarot, and how to “read a spread”.
Life Lessons from Traveling 3 Continents
Stories and life lessons from traveling the past year.
Accelerating Wine Learning
A talk about how to accelerate the speed at which you learn about wine. Includes tips on how to buy wine, getting the right glass, and sipping the wine to get the most flavour out of it.
Khantemplations, a series of lessons learned from coworkers
A talk about life lessons learned from a bunch of people from Khan Academy. More information here: http://david-hu.com/2015/01/14/khantemplations.html
Introduction to Churning Credit Cards
A talk about credit cards, getting frequent flyer miles, your credit score, and how to combine all of these things to travel (mostly) for free.
How to Build a Brain
The world’s largest functional brain model, Spaun, recently came out of a laboratory in Waterloo. But how was it made and why is it important? This presentation describes the tools (the Neural Engineering Framework and Nengo) that allowed for the creation of Spaun and what lies in the future of brain modelling.
Urban Exploration
Urban exploration – what it is, why its cool, how you should prepare, and what to think about while you’re doing it.
