"Honest Signals: How They Shape Our World (Bradford Books)
"How can you know when someone is bluffing? Paying attention? Genuinely interested? The answer, writes Sandy Pentland in Honest Signals, is that subtle patterns in how we interact with other people reveal our attitudes toward them. These unconscious social signals are not just a back channel or a complement to our conscious language; they form a separate communication network. Biologically based "honest signaling," evolved from ancient primate signaling mechanisms, offers an unmatched window into our intentions, goals, and values. If we understand this ancient channel of communication, Pentland claims, we can accurately predict the outcomes of situations ranging from job interviews to first dates.
Professor Alex ("Sandy") Pentland, is a leading figure at the MIT Media Lab and is a pioneer in the fields of organizational engineering, mobile information systems, and computational social science. He co-directs the Digital Life Consortium, a group of more than twenty multinational corporations exploring new ways to innovate, and oversees the Next Billion Network, established to support aspiring entrepreneurs in emerging markets. In 1997 Newsweek magazine named him one of the 100 Americans likely to shape this century.
This event took place on November 19, 2008
's 10-minute film school from Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player. This is an inspiring talk from the great film maker.
discusses his book "God Is Not Great:
How Religion Poisons Everything" as a part of the Authors@Google
series. The author of Why Orwell Matters and Letters to a Young
Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens is a Vanity Fair contributing editor,
a Slate columnist, and a regular contributor to The Atlantic Monthly.
He has also written for The Nation, Granta, Harper's, The Washington
Post, and is a frequent television and radio guest. Born in England,
Hitchens was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a
degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. He now lives in
Washington, D.C., and he became a U.S. citizen in 2007. This event took
place on August 16, 2007 at Google headquarters in Mountain View, CA. 
