Spring 2019 OLLI Catalog

PEER-LED CLASSES (Omnilore)
(FAC) Factfulness: Hans Rosling Brings Us
The Facts of Life
Hans Rosling, medical doctor, professor of international health,
and renowned public educator with over 35 million views of his
TED talks, explains how media bias, ideological preconceptions and
statistical illiteracy make most people (in rich countries) believe in a
gloomy and spectacularly wrong worldview. The famed TED talker
and statistician uses evidence-based reasoning and global statistics
for myth busting. Rosling categorizes the 10 most important
sources of bias and misconceptions as well as explaining strategies
on how to avoid them. He describes his methods of evaluating data
and the truths he has found about our world in the 21st century.
Common Reading:
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re
Wrong About the World—and Why
Things Are Better Than You Think
by Hans Rosling (April 2018)
(GOO) Talks at Google:
Where Great Minds Meet
No Common Reading.
A click on talksat.withgoogle.com will take you to an unusual
and fascinating website—Talks at Google. At this website you will
find the world’s most influential thinkers, creators, makers, and
doers all in one place. This is a regular speaker series, one of the
company’s most beloved perks and a staple of our unique culture.
They invited anyone at Google to attend, recorded the talks and
put them on YouTube so that—following Google’s mission—the
talks would be universally accessible and useful. Many categories
of talks are offered. Example categories are Art & Culture,
Authors, Chefs & Food, Entertainment, Fitness & Sports, Health
& Well-being, History, Leaders, Science, and Technology. This
extremely popular website is being offered as an Omnilore S/DG
for the first time.
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