Ignite Portland
About this original series
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Category
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# Episodes
21 episodes -
Rating
TV-UN
Episodes of Ignite Portland
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Amber Case - An Introduction to Hyperbolic Geome...
Traditional geometry is something we all learned in school. Some of us like it, and the rest of us don't. In traditional geometry, parallel lines stay parallel, and triangles are always 180 degrees. Theses are the rules, and they cannot be broken. Enter Hyperbolic Geometry. It's not new, but it is an AWESOME field of mathematics. Basically, it breaks all the rules. In this presentation, I'll demonstrate some of the history and implications of this field, a field that has inspired Escher and se...
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:22
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Maxwell Radi - How to be Unemployed
During this tough recession many of my employed friends have asked me: How are you able to stay unemployed? Do you have what it takes? Simply answer these questions: Do you have access to your Parent's basement? Are you free of dependents? Do you enjoy the taste of top ramen? If you answered yes to all of these questions, you are fit to be unemployed. Some key points I will be going over: How to lose interview opportunities. How to bomb the only interview you've had in a month. How to make a s...
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:12
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Sarina Rodrigues - This is your brain on people
I'm gonna talk about what happens to your body and your brain when you freak out and when you feel all warm and fuzzy. ;)
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:20
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Steven Walling - Why Wikipedians are the Weirdes...
Wikipedians. They're the people who actually write that free online encyclopedia you use every day. But who are they? Wikipedia isn't written by the staff of a company or paid experts. It's written by thousands of unpaid volunteers. Though anyone and everyone can make an edit to the site, there's an elite (read: obsessed) cadre of people who regularly give up their free time to write an encyclopedia. If you thought 4chan was weird, wait till you meet the Wikipedians.
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:26
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Kristin Webb-Tomson - Ugly is the New Beautiful
Ignite Portland allows all kinds. Last time we had funny talks and serious ones and also different kinds of speakers, Experienced ones, not so experienced ones. I liked watching the audience reaction because of it. Sometimes we humans expect only beauty, permit only perfection. But what about Ugly? By ?ugly? I mean the non-beautiful. Charm is deceitful and beauty is fleeting. What if we were all Barbies and Elijah Woods with piercing blue eyes? Something would be missing. I think Profoundness ...
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:15
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Gene Ehrbar - Dr. Seuss and his Secret, Evil Min...
The information we feed our children's developing young minds is as important as the food we choose for them. For the last four years, my wife and I have navigated a sea of children's content, sometimes stumbling upon hidden gems, often enduring bad, stilted verse, and frequently being infected with the most vile of children's-music ear-worms. We took notes. All too often, reading between the lines in our children's books and videos, we found not-so-well-concealed agendas, and attempts to poli...
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:19
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How to Write Sketch Comedy
Bob and Scott will provide instruction on how to write sketch comedy from brainstorming a premise, putting it through its paces with improv and finding the right POV for the sketch to setting up the jokes, finding the characters and knowing when to drop the curtain. They will do this without the benefit of a licensed pyrotechnican or pants.
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:31
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Beverly Fields - 5 Behaviors That Will Keep My H...
Exactly what the title says. Approximately one minute each on such things as:
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:18
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Liz Argall - How to Hit Writer’s Block in the Fa...
What size shovel should one get to beat writer's block?
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:25
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Jean MacDonald - The Beginner’s Guide to Psychia...
If you have the bad luck to find yourself in the emergency room of a psychiatric hospital, you'll be asked a standard series of questions in order to figure out if you are, well, crazy. I'll cover what to answer and what NOT to answer, so you can avoid being mislabeled as paranoid, delusional, grandiose or any of a number of other things that you obviously are not. I'll also have tips for those who still manage to get locked up, despite following my advice.
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Release date
Mar 4, 2010
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Runtime
05:01
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