In my last post, I wrote about Sandra de Castro Buffington who heads Hollywood, Health & Society. I promised a piece where Sandra described things in greater detail. In this audio clip, Sandra provides some detailed examples of how TV has been used to increase awareness of health and safety issues: Sandra–de-Castro-Buffinton_WF2011_ The results have Read the full article…
The best session I attended at World Future Society was called “Conscious Evolution”. The overall theme was leveraging the arts and broadcast media to create positive change in society. Who knew? One of the panelists was Sandra de Castro Buffington, Director of Hollywood Health & Society program at the USC Annenberg Norman Lear Center. A Read the full article…
Are there any differences between male and female brains? Yes. Male superiority in math is not one of them.
Are the brain structures of men and women the same or different? Does it matter? Here are my thoughts…. what are yours?
With the spread of mobile services to remote areas devoid of internet capability, new opportunities abound. Several talks at TEDxBayArea TEDWomen related to the incredible potential of the mobile market and how women have used and can use it to improve the lives of themselves and others.
The last several weeks I’ve been totally immersed in helping organize TEDxBayArea TEDWomen (designed to coincide with the first global TEDWomen event in Wash, DC). We had about 150 attendees plus an unknown number watching the livestream. Breaks were filled with energized conversations about all manner of topics. It was an exciting day. Like the Read the full article…
Whenever I talk to women- including very successful executives and entrepreneurs- a common concern is lack of self-confidence (a condition know as the Imposter Syndrome). Lack of confidence keeps many women from taking the risks needed to move up within an organization or move out to create companies of their own. [I will be writing Read the full article…
Wise words from Randy Komisar in closing last night’s VLAB session at Stanford in response to a request to provide a lesson on innovation in 6 words It aptly summed up the entire session of “Entrepreneurs Uncensored”. It’s better to test early and often, quickly discovering what won’t work, correcting and improving upon what will. Read the full article…
There have been several provocative articles lately around gender issues. For example, Atlantic Monthly’s “The End of Men“, The Shriver report “A Woman’s Nation“, or Newsweek’s “Women Will Rule the World.” Needless to say, the titles are designed to get a rise from readers – and they do. That’s a different issue. What struck me, Read the full article…
Back in the 70’s, the only identified biological difference in cognitive ability between men and women was spatial visualization. That is, in general, males are better at mentally manipulating two-and three-dimensional figures. We also knew that the corpus callosum that connects the 2 halves of the brain is thicker in females than males meaning the Read the full article…