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Anxiety Disorders and Panic Attacks: Alison Sommer at TEDxCarletonCollege

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Transcriber: Sadegh Zabiha Reviewer: Theresa Ranft My first goal here today is not to have a panic attack right on stage. I have an anxiety disorder called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or OCD. I have a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder that causes me to become anxious or frightened when something wrong or unexpected happens. Like, if somebody sits at my seat at the table. It also causes intrusive thoughts. These are thoughts that come unbidden to my head about things that I’ve done in the past or […]

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Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe | Genevieve von Petzinger

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  There’s something about caves, a shadowy opening in a limestone cliff that draws you in As you pass through the portal between light and dark. You enter a subterranean world, a place of perpetual gloom of earthy smells of hushed silence Long ago in Europe.   Ancient people also entered these underground worlds As witnesses to their passage.   They left behind mysterious, engravings and paintings, like this panel of human triangles and zigzags from Ojo Guare in Spain.   You now walk the same path […]

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A Philosophy of Software Design | John Ousterhout | Talks at Google

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  [MUSIC PLAYING] SPEAKER 1: OK. So, welcome. Good morning, everyone. It’s my pleasure to welcome Professor Ousterhout for this Talk at Google presentation. My name is [INAUDIBLE]. I work in the Technical Infrastructure Cloud. A very quick intro to John to get things started here– John is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He spent, before that, 14 years in industry where he founded two companies, Scriptics and Electric Cloud and, before that, 14 years as a professor at UC Berkeley. Anybody here who […]

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