This American Life recently ran a show called Birds & Bees about explaining tricky things to children. The first act focuses on university freshmen attending presentations about sexual consent. The presenters' goal is to get students to internalize that explicit, specific, verbal consent is required before having sex. But the students are ( Read more... )

Here's something I've been working on recently at work: captions for videos in Google Docs. In addition to helping deaf and hard of hearing viewers understand your video, automatic translation lets anyone grok your video in their native language. Plus, having captions or a transcript associated with your video makes search easier.

Edit: oh yeah ( Read more... )

Ignite Boulder 14 videos are up! You can watch my talk, Money and Other Useful Myths, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WnmVuglpTQ or you can watch the whole event at http://www.youtube.com/igniteboulder/Read more... )

The feature I've been working on for the last several months launched today: Upload and watch videos from anywhere with Google Docs. From family videos to corporate meetings, videos can move from your desktop to the cloud!

(Via this Coding Horror blog post):

This video is a fantastic illustration and explanation of motivation and reward. The speaker is Daniel Pink, author of Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. He says that money is a good motivator for mechanical tasks. If you pay people for each pound of tomatoes they pick, they'll pick more ( Read more... )

YouTube videos in honor of the day:
Chocolate City (Parliament-Funkadelic)
One Nation Under A Groove (Parliament-Funkadelic)
Funky President (James Brown)

It's a beautiful day in America.

Jennifer 8 Lee gives a great talk about Chinese food. Highlights include giving fortune cookies to people in China, comparing Chinese food to Linux, disclosing the origins of General Tso's chicken, and translating Chop Suey. 16 awesome minutes of video.

I'd like a paw-long turkey on honey oat.

(heads up: video plays when page loads, so switch to that tab right away)

Two friends sent the free hugs campaign video to me while I was in China. Check it out!