Larry Brilliant

1. In what ways are you “smart” at math? Highlight all of the things you’re good at. (Everyone is good at some of these things and no one is good at all of them!) • making observations • making predictions • finding patterns • drawing diagrams • remembering vocabulary • estimating • organizing information into tables or charts • using symbols • visualizing • making conjectures • tinkering with problems • using math language • thinking abstractly • explaining my thinking out loud • explaining

Technology genius and business mogul Eddy Zhong, in his Ted Talk “How school makes kids less intelligent”, 6 Feb 2015, argues that school is restrictive on the capabilities of many kids brilliant minds, due to their uniqueness. He first supports his claim by first presenting a profound statement to the audience which requires a logical interpretation. Then Zhong establishes a contrast between High school and elementary kids, by proving their creativity differences and finally he utilizes a metaphor

Beginning in 1984, a nonprofit called TED was started with a mission to spread ideas. The most important way this nonprofit spreads ideas is through short and powerful talks conducted by speakers. Various topics are discussed in these talks such as science, technology, and entertainment. Each speaker when talking about their topic uses different elements to make their speech effective. Some speeches are more effective than others because of the elements they utilize. Lizzie Velasquez is a TED talk

Research Reflection Before I began researching I was really passionate about the ability to persevere and I knew I wanted to talk about perseverance and explain why it was such an essential characteristic to have. I especially wanted to find examples of many others that had to persevere to get through their own tough times. But when I originally started researching my topic I did not exactly have anything in mind about what I was exactly looking for. This was mainly due to that I had the ideas in

In January 2016, Dr. Peter Weinstock who is an Intensive Care Unit physician and Director of the Pediatric Simulator Program at the Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School delivered a speech at the TED conference. The topic of his speech was “Lifelike simulations that make real-life surgery safer”, in which he presented how important in difficult surgeries can be the use of current computer special effects and 3D prints. In his speech, he in an amazing way underlines how important it

The pear shape diamond cut is known as a modified brilliant cut diamond, which is a combination of two different cuts. Those cuts are the marquise cut and the round brilliant. It combines the best of both cuts into an interesting diamond shape. Pear shape diamonds have to be evenly cut since the parts of the curve should match on the shoulders. The typical length of the pear cut ranges from 1.40 to 1.70, and the choice of ratio is often a personal preference. Some women like long diamonds while

We've covered a few cuts like cushion or emerald, but the brilliant round is the one with which most people are familiar. It's been around since the early 1900s, and has been extremely popular as an engagement ring. When people think of engagement rings, they'll often envision a simple round brilliant solitaire as the choice of ring. Pros of Round Brilliant Diamond Engagement Rings The round brilliant cut has many benefits to them including how great it looks by itself as well as as part of a halo

A mans best friend is a dog and girl's Diamonds. Marilyn Monroe said it best, "diamonds are a girl's best friend." This timeless saying makes Tiffany's & Co, Cartier, and Harry Winston very happy and helps the sale of diamonds more than Ms. Monroe will ever know. A diamond is not just the "4c's" anymore, color, carat weight, clarity and cut. Diamonds are revolving into something more than the hardest mineral. The diamond says more than words could express. A symbol of love is worn on the left

Everyone has heard the term Diamonds are a girl’s best friend; referring to the four thousand dollar clear cut rock that sits on a girl’s hand. In this case the diamond is orange and doesn’t just sit pretty on your finger. The countless hours of scrubbing the orange and green stains from your pants to the bruises and cuts I get from diving and sliding. This diamond has taught me valuable lessons that I will take into my future career. The sun beating down on the top of my head; the sweat pouring

Two brilliant students from Stanford University founded Google, the largest search engine in the world in the year 1998. The founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin first met each other in the year 1995 at Stanford. Within a year they had already built a search engine called BackRub, this was their initial step into creating Google. The name later changed to “Google”, which is derived from the word “googol”, a mathematical term for the number represented by the numeral 1 followed by 100 zeros. There