Mute Records recording artist José González visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, office for a conversation with the @Google Team’s Boone Spooner and to play a set of live songs from his albums, “Veneer” and “In Our Nature.” This event took place on October 9, 2007, as part of the Live@Google series. More information about José [...]
Doctor Daphne Miller visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss her book, “The Jungle Effect.” This event took place on May 23, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. For more information about Dr. Miller, please visit www.drdaphne.com Dr. Daphne Miller undertook a worldwide quest to find diets that are both delicious and healthy. [...]
Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we all are susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes [...]
Gary Vaynerchuk visits Google’s Mountain View, CA, headquarters to host a wine tasting and discuss his website tv.winelibrary.com . This event took place on April 3, 2008, as a part of the Authors@Google series. In 2006, Gary Vaynerchuk launched Wine Library TV (WLTV), a free daily video blog in which he tastes and reviews wines. [...]
Professor Dan Ariely visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book “Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions.” This event took place on July 1, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series. In a series of illuminating, often surprising experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the common assumption that we [...]
Edward Lucas visits Google’s Mountain View, CA headquarters to discuss his book, “The New Cold War”. This event took place on May 2, 2008, as part of the Authors@google series. For more information about Edward Lucas, please visit www.edwardlucas.com In late 1999 when Vladimir Putin was named Prime Minister, Russia was a budding democracy. Multiple [...]