Wants all-female Court
Ginsburg tells law students at Georgetown University about the challenges of finding a job in the legal profession as a woman in the early days of her career.
People ask me sometimes when do you think it will be enough? When will there be enough women on the court? And my answer is when there are nine.
DIscusses abortion rights, campaign finance
Ginsburg says that young women may have to fight to preserve abortion rights for the poor in the face of new limits. Speaking to students at Georgetown University Law Center, Ginsburg also expresses her worry about “our system being polluted” by money pouring into election campaigns—including judicial elections. She says she is hard-pressed to explain to foreign audiences why elections in the United States can be so dominated by powerful donors.
I can’t say when, but one day sensible restrictions on campaign finance will be the law of the land. There will never be a time when women of means won’t have a choice. In the worst case scenario, a woman who can afford a plane ticket or a bus ticket will have a choice. Women who won’t have that choice are poor women.
Think Big video
To promote, You Have A Brain, A Teen’s Guide To T.H.I.N.K. B.I.G., Carson appears in a video outlining the meaning of his philosophy:
K is for knowledge, which is the thing that makes you into a more valuable person. Things don’t mean anything. It’s knowledge that allows you to be able to acquire things, it allows you to be able to move to the place that you want to move to, and to accomplish the things that you want to do. That is really why Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived, talked so glowingly about what knowledge can do for a person.
Forest Whitaker interview
Whitaker stops by LIVE with Kelly and Michael to promote Taken 3. He also discusses how he is ready for Broadway.
I’m talking to different producers right now to figure out what I might be able to do, I’m excited. When I was in college, that was my goal.
Nicole Kidman interview
The actress stops by the show to promote her movie, Paddington. Kidman tells Fallon how he missed his chance to date her.
I just remember I really liked you. Our mutual friend was like, Jimmy really wants to meet you. You can go over to his apartment. I’m single and I’m like, OK!
Keshia Knight Pulliam interview
Pulliam visits The Wendy Williams Show after being fired from Celebrity Apprentice and discusses her reason on why she chose not to contact Bill Cosby to help her raise money for her charity.
For me to pick up the phone, having not talked to him for five years, except for when we run into each other for a Cosby event, I feel that’s not my place to do.
TED talk
Canavero talks about head transplantation at TED.
The brain is merely a director, and we all know that an orchestra can pay without a director.
Nick Jonas interview
Jonas discusses Christmas shopping, going on tour with Iggy Azalea and his show Kingdom on LIVE with Kelly and Michael.
The writing to me is beautiful and I had to really fight to get the role.
Chinese Q&A at Beijing college
Zuckerberg speaks Mandarin Chinese during a 30 minute Q & A session with students at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Zuckerberg is a newly appointed member of the University’s School of Economics and Management. Zuckerberg talks about talking about innovation in China, Facebook’s presence in the country. He says Facebook is already in China, helping Chinese companies increase foreign buyers by using Facebook ads and running tourism ads for two Chinese cities, and says it wants to expand there. He also says he learned Chinese to ask his wife Priscilla Chan’s grandmother, who only speaks Chinese, for her hand in marriage.
Priscilla and I decided to get married, so I told her grandmother in Chinese, and she was very surprised.
Startups are counterintuitive
Graham says in Lecture 3 of the Stanford course that startups are counterintuitive in many ways, including that many founders don’t know the mechanics of investing or fund raising. He says founders also can’t game the system:
They always want to know, since apparently the measure of success for a startup is fundraising, another noob mistake. They always want to know, what are the tricks for convincing investors? And we have to tell them the best way to convince investors is to start a startup that is actually doing well, meaning growing fast, and then simply tell investors so.
We, The People convention speech
Kirk gives a speech at the We, The People convention is Columbus Ohio.
I get to communicate with a lot of young people, I get to meet with a lot of college students and a lot of high school kids, and I can tell you that after voting for this President twice there is a lot of… they are reconsidering their decision in more ways than one. And it’s up to us to paint an alternative and be able to construct a vision for them to plug into.
Social Good Summit
Carter speaks at the Social Good Summit in New York City. The Summit is a two-day conference examining the impact of technology and new media on social good initiatives around the world. This year’s theme #2030NOW, asks the question, “What type of world do I want to live in by the year 2030?”
There’s a social call built into a lot of the businesses we are seeing. The partnership between entrepreneurs and the UN…there’s a lot we can do together. We’re probably at step one of many steps but it’s a great start for the UN.
First Startup School lecture
Altman delivers the first lecture:
…if you try to do these things in a lot of big companies or non-startups, it won’t work.
HBO defends adult content
At the Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, HBO’s president of programming, Michael Lombardo, defends scenes of sex, violence, and rape in Thrones:
I personally don’t see myself as a libertine. I don’t think [graphic scenes] have ever been without any purpose. Dan [Weiss] and Dave [Benioff] are two very sober, thoughtful men. They have books as a map. Which involve wars, violence, sex. We have certainly not given them an edict or a note that they need to tone down the sexual content in the show.
According to Lombardo, HBO is a responsible broadcaster and those in programming have two responsibilities: to be responsible and not to have gratuitous sex and violence. He also points out that as an adult, pay-TV channel, HBO has more freedom than free-to-air broadcasters.
As long as I feel that [violence] isn’t the reason [people] are watching the show, that it isn’t a show trying to attract viewers with sex and violence, I am not going to play police.
Addresses Ferguson situation
President Obama addresses the nation and asks for local police to be open and transparent about Brown’s death investigation. Obama criticizes police for detaining two journalists during protests.
Now’s the time for healing. Now’s the time for peace and calm on the streets of Ferguson.
Aspen Institute Putin discussion
Former Secretary of Defense Gates and former Secretaries of State Rice and Albright discuss Vladimir Putin’s perception of history and world affairs at The Aspen Institute.
College course
University of Virginia will offer a four week course on the HBO series Game of Thrones. The course will be taught by Associate Professor of English Lisa Woolfork.
One of the goals behind this class was to teach students how the skills that we use to study literature are very useful skills for reading literature and TV in conjunction. Game of Thrones is popular, it’s interesting, but it’s also very serious. There are a lot of things in the series that are very weighty, and very meaningful and can be illuminated through the skills of literary analysis.
Jill Shargaa
Jill Shargaa, comedian and designer, presents a talk to challenge her audience to reconsider the usage of the word “awesome”. She points out that we are no longer using it properly in the English language. Shargaa seeks to return the “awe” back into the word.
So when you use the word “awesome” to describe the most mundane of things, you’re taking away the very power of the word. This author says, “Snowy days or finding money in your pants is awesome.”
Joi Ito
Ito, head of MIT Media Labs, leads a discussion on the concept of being a “now-ist”. As en entrepreneur and an investor in some of the biggest social media outlets on the internet, Ito tells future entrepreneur-hopefuls to stop looking towards the future and conceptualizing on what it might be and instead choose to focus on the here and now.
The amount of money and the amount of permission that you need to create an idea has decreased dramatically.
Nature exploitation ‘sin of modern times’
The Pope brands the destruction of rain forests in South America and other forms of environmental exploitation as a sin of our time. He calls for more respect for nature and urges the attendees of his address at the University of Molise to convert themselves: to a type of development that knows how to respect creation.
This is our sin, exploiting the Earth and not allowing her to her give us what she has within her.