French Canadian’s have an interesting approach to improvisational comedy. Rather than have a bunch of comedians collaborate, they have two teams compete with each other to find out who’s the best at winning over the crowd, by using an intriguing stories and funny jokes.
Tag: Has Slides
Diet and the Environment
Pescatarian, vegetarian, meatatarian, what kind of damage do we do to our planet when we eat in these ways? A non-preachy, data-driven talk on the subject
Sports Overlays
The first down line in football, the world record pace in the Olympics. How these overlays work, the history of them, how they’ve changed the game
3D Printers
An introduction of how they work, different kinds on the market, his experience building one, and the state of the art / up and coming
Hair Colour and Treatment
If you’re bored of your natural hair colour, there’s a ton of products out there to help you, but the process isn’t that straightforward. Daisy shows us how to get the hair colour you want and how to recuperate your hair after sending it through a chemical hell.
How to Learn Chinese
Chinese is a super international language. Chinese people, they’re everywhere and you should talk to them! But how? Daniel talks about his journey acquiring the language and gives tips. Learn Mandarin and Simplified Chinese using the Pleco dictionary by practising with people in real life or on the Internet with HelloTalk. Over-enunciate when starting and get a learning partner. With these tools and A LOT of practice, people will think you’re a genius for learning Chinese.
Jingju: Peking Opera
Opera is pretty hard to navigate for an outsider. It sounds, looks and feels foreign even if you’re from the culture that it originates from. Mason guides us through Jingju opera by showing it’s motivations, methods and some of the legendary actors that have brought it to fame.
Learned Helplessness
An inside look through a depressed person’s eyes and, at one point, from a hospital psych wing. I will discuss depression under social and psychological lenses: methods of treatment, what makes it an illness and not an emotion, why it is just as crippling as physical chronic conditions, how to support people with depression.
Slides available on Prezi.
Play With My Tools – Designing Interaction at the Exploratorium
Last year, a team of 30 neuroscientists, engineers, designers, and artists created the world’s first interactive laboratory of brain technology at the Exploratorium museum. In this talk, I will offer an inside view into our design process, and takeaways for how to creatively communicate scientific topics
Slides available on Google Slides.
The Singing Instrument
Singing comes from a musical instrument just like piano or trumpet music – but the instrument is you! Everyone can sing – learn about how the voice works with lots of interactive activities.
