Wednesday, September 21st, 2011
It’s been a busy week at UP! We hit 100 followers on Facebook this week, posted so many past UP talks on YouTube and dove into all the details that need to be ironed out with The UP Experience just over a month away!
We imagine our UP alumni and UP 11 speakers have also been busy, here are some of their activities making headlines this week:
Learn how to improve your memory skills from expert Ron White at UP 11. Image courtesy of Flickr/therichbrooks
UP 11 speaker and memory expert Ron White was featured in SUCCESS Magazine this week. White had an MRI taken at the University of Texas this week, while he memorized information. The results showed that White uses 35 percent more of his brain when memorizing than the average person! Don’t miss him at UP 2011 when he shares his tips and tricks!
UP 08 speaker Craig Kielburger took to the Huffington Post to talk about the incredible difference education can make for a child in their article, “An Education Takes Kids from Slums to Schools.”
On a light note, UP 10 speaker and New York Times tech columnist David Pogue took some time to help us all get up to speed on the latest cultural references in his guide, “Internet Memes 101: A Guide to Online Wackiness.”
Labels: Craig Kielburger, David Pogue, Education, Facebook, Huffington Post, internet memes, memory, New York Times, Rob White, SUCCESS Magazine, The UP Experience, University of Texas, UP 11, UP Alumni, YouTube
Categories: 2008 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, 2011 Speakers, Current events, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News, Uncategorized, What is UP?
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Another Wednesday and another great installment of UP alumni in the news!
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“Math needs better marketing,” says UP 09 speaker Neil deGrasse Tyson in an interview with Soledad O’Brien on CNN on the drivers of tomorrow’s economy. A hint – math and science literacy today is the key to a successful tomorrow.
UP 09 speaker Peter Diamandis‘ X-Prize Foundation has partnered with Qualcomm Incorporated to launch the Tricorder X-Prize, “a $10 million prize to develop a mobile solution capable of diagnosing patients better than or equal to a panel of board certified physicians.”
UP 10 speaker and Blue Zones author Dan Buettner was cited in the an article detail the influence we have on our social networks and our network’s effect on us. “The ripples of our health behaviors travel much farther than anyone might expect,” says Aditi Nerurkar in The Huffington Post echoing the sentiments of several great speakers from The UP Experience.
David Pogue who spoke to us in 2010 took on the controversy surrounding Microsoft’s purchase of Skype on his blog this week.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on these stories! Are you a Skype user? What do you expect the impact of Microsoft’s purchase to be? Do you believe math and science literacy is the way forward? How is your social network impacting you or vice versa? Let us know what you think in the comment section below.
Labels: Aditi Nerurkar, Blue Zones, CNN, Dan Buettner, David Pogue, Health, Huffington Post, math, Microsoft, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Diamandis, Qualcomm, science, Skype, Social Networks, Soledad O'Brien, The UP Experience, Tricorder X-Prize, UP 09, UP 10, X Prize
Categories: 2009 Speakers, 2010 Speakers, Current events, Speakers, UP Speakers In The News, Uncategorized, conference
