Daddoo! » Reviews http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com My life as a dad. Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 TED Talks – 18 minutes of fascination http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com/2008/11/19/ted-talks-18-minutes-of-fascination/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com/2008/11/19/ted-talks-18-minutes-of-fascination/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:59:51 +0000 daddoo http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com/?p=444 I’ve just come across this cool site and, while I haven’t viewed any of the videos yet, I’m impressed with the speakers and topics. Maybe I’ll post a review in bit. From www.TED.com:

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

This site makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free. More than 200 talks from our archive are now available, with more added each week. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

Go see TED

]]> http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com/2008/11/19/ted-talks-18-minutes-of-fascination/feed/ 0 blackpast.org and Quintard Taylor http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com/2008/08/03/blackpastorg-and-quintard-taylor/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com/2008/08/03/blackpastorg-and-quintard-taylor/#comments Sun, 03 Aug 2008 20:02:32 +0000 admin http://daddoo.jeffreykaye.com/?p=109 Prof. Quintard Taylor is the Scott and Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History at University of Washington. While I was attending University of Oregon, Dr. Taylor’s class, African Americans in the West, opened my eyes to a new look at African American/black history, and history in general. I wasn’t a big fan of history prior to Dr. Taylor’s class but his teachings and teaching style woke me from my self-imposed boredom with the subject.

Three years ago, Dr. Taylor created a non-profit organization and website at www.blackpast.org. Self-described as An Online Reference Guide to African American History, the site contains over 2500 pages of information. This is truly a fabulous resource for anyone interested specifically in African American history or history in general.

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