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• A reply on Talk: Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair

  Feb 3 2013: Robin, one proselytizing message is enough, don't you think?

• A reply on Talk: Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair

  Feb 3 2013: God bless what? Where was God when she lost her legs?

• A reply on Talk: Sue Austin: Deep sea diving … in a wheelchair

  Feb 3 2013: God bless the power-chair? When God took away the use of her legs to being with?
  
  How about, Let's praise the scientists and engineer who created the wheelchair, and let's admire the will and drive of Sue Austin?

• A comment on Talk: Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

  Mar 3 2012: Here's the New Scientist article on the experiment:
  http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18669-first-quantum-effects-seen-in-visible-object.html
  
  It's worth noting that the metal strip was in a quantum superposition state for only a few nanoseconds, and it wasn't actually visible.
  
  Well-prepared and charismatic speaker though. Perhaps too charismatic for a scientist? :)

• A comment on Talk: Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp

  Mar 3 2012: As Edward Michaelis pointed out - the two clinical trials conducted by Roth's company, Ikaria, have been withdrawn or terminated.
  http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01007461
  http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00858936
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  A comment on Talk: Gary Vaynerchuk: Do what you love (no excuses!)

  May 6 2011: You rock Gary! These are some lines I liked a lot;
  
  @2:19: "Listen to your users" - absolutely. But giving a shit about your users is way better.
  
  @2:37: Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself: "What do I want to do every day for the rest of my life?" Do that. I promise you can monetize that shit.
  
  @6:58: If you're pumping out good shit, people will follow.
  
  @8:38: You need to build brand equity in yourself, because you never know what will happen - Lehman brothers, anything can happen. But if you have brand equity, you'll be fine.
  
  @11:10: "What do I want to do?" So many people will kill it if they do [what they love]. I don't care how small your niche is. I'm serious. Niches can go crazy.
  
  @12:04: I don't want to hear about this "9 to 5, I don't have time" thing. If you want this, if you have a passion, work 9 to 5, spend a couple hours with your family, **7[pm] to 2 in the morning it's plenty of time to do damage**. But that's it; it's not gonna happen any other way.
  
  @14:19: How do you get money to do what you love? You don't. What you do is you position yourself to succeed. For example, if you're doing something else and you want to do this thing that you love, you do it after hours. You work 9 to 6, you get home, you kiss the dog, and you go to town [i.e. work very hard]. Everybody has time. Stop watching fucking Lost. If you want this, if you want bling-bling, if you want to buy the Jets, work. That's how you get it.
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  A reply on Talk: Dan Dennett: The illusion of consciousness

  Jul 6 2010: Deceiving title. The talk is almost not at all about consciousness, and mostly about visual perception (more precisely, optical illusions and in particular, change detection).
  
  The only parallel between the two is: we think we understand perception but actually don't; the same applies to consciousness.
  
  That said, the examples for change detection were quite impressive, and I enjoyed the talk. I just think it should have a more accurate title, perhaps "Dan Dennett on visual cognition".
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  A reply on Talk: Seth Godin: How to get your ideas to spread

  Jun 30 2010: I think remarkableness is not a sufficient condition for "value". Adding "timelessness" (or "standing the test of time") brings us closer. Mozart's music wasn't just "remarkable" at its time. It remained so throughout centuries.
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  A reply on Talk: Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory

  Mar 30 2010: Indeed. See Dan Gilbert's talk "Why are we happy?", where he shows how people with anterograde amnesia (who can't form new memories) still prefer a particular painting that they choose, even though they don't remember choosing it.

• A comment on Talk: Dean Ornish: Your genes are not your fate

  Dec 3 2009: The slide on what increases and decreases brain cells is at 1:19.