August 21, 2011
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One hundred and fifty years ago, the Civil War tore apart North and South. For Gordon S. Wood, an author and lifelong scholar of the American Revolution, it had been a long time coming.
He will be the first speaker for this week’s theme of “The Path to the Civil War,” and at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater, he will lecture on “The Revolutionary Origins of the Civil War.”
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August 19, 2011
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George Kembel, executive director and co-founder of Stanford University’s d.school, presented a small gift to audience members during his 10:45 a.m. lecture Friday in the Amphitheater.
Taped to the backs of some seats in the Amp, small plastic bags hung. Inside each one were black dots smaller than grains of sand.
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August 18, 2011
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Perhaps some of you heard George Kembel’s lecture at Chautauqua in 2009 about design thinking inspiring latent creativity. Chances are some others are among the more than 370,000 who viewed his lecture at FORA.tv. Kembel will deliver “Nurturing Creative Potential: Developing our Full Capacity to Innovate” at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater.
Kembel graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor’s degree in engineering and later earned a master’s degree in design. He worked in several companies and worked alone as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist before he joined forces in his alma mater to form a unique school.
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August 18, 2011
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Joan Abrahamson’s eyes began to water as she ended her 10:45 a.m. lecture Thursday in the Amphitheater. She was about to share something very personal with the Chautauquans there.
“I’ve got to tell you,” Abrahamson said, “I don’t usually talk like this. I usually give an analytical presentation about a problem and how we’re going about solving it, but I feel here that what’s special about Chautauqua is that all these levels operate simultaneously.”
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August 17, 2011
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In a political world of black and white, Joan Abrahamson lives in the gray.
As the founder of the Jefferson Institute and former assistant chief of staff to President George H. W. Bush, Abrahamson looks not to elected officials to transform public policy but to creative thinkers who live and breathe the issues at hand.
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August 17, 2011
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Col. Casey Haskins thinks Americans today are bloody monkeys in a cage.
He presented a scenario to explain: Five monkeys are put in a cage with bananas hanging from the ceiling. There is one stool in the cage, and when one monkey tries to take one of the bananas using the stool, bystanders spray all five monkeys with ice-cold water. This happens about three times.
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August 16, 2011
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Col. Casey P. Haskins knew it was time for a change.
Haskins has commanded at every level of the Army from platoon through brigade and served in staff positions from battalion through Theater Army.
He now is the director of the Department of Military Instruction at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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August 16, 2011
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It was the late ’90s, and Dev Patnaik was still single. Some people invited him to a little get-together to celebrate the one-year anniversary of their company, an obscure search engine using technology he just didn’t understand. The real reason he went, though, was the free beer.
That company was Google.
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August 15, 2011
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Dev Patnaik, author and founder of hybrid strategy firm Jump Associates, will speak on the challenges of ambiguity in innovation at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater.
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August 15, 2011
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Gary Shapiro sat with a Chinese politician in Tsingtao, China. Their translators worked to convey their thoughts — after all, neither spoke the others’ language very well.
Shapiro soon learned that gestures don’t need to be translated.
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Greenhouse to take audience on her journey out of Christian Science
Hoffman fights for women’s rights inside secular Judaism, at Western Wall
Gergen: Millennials should learn from the World War II generation
President Roosevelt: ‘I Have Seen War. I Hate War.’
Audubon Quartet to perform final concert
Fish: Value of arts, humanities found in pleasure we take in them
Dybul: Eliminate preventable diseases for ‘a more perfect world’
Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
Writers’ Center workshops help Chautauquan get published
BTG seeks historical input for 100th anniversary in 2013
138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
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