Lectures - DanielTammet.NET Past schedule Daniel Tammet is represented by the JLA Agency (UK/Europe) and the David Lavin Agency (North America). He has spoken at a number of events, including: Idea Festival, Louisville, Kentucky, October 2010 TED, 'Different Ways of Knowing', Long Beach, California, March 2011 International School of Geneva, October 2011 Ciudad de la Ideas Festival, Mexico, November 2011 IBM Smarter Analytics, Paris, June 2012 Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2012 TEDxParis, Paris, October 2012 The Royal Society of Arts, London, November 2012 Agnes Scott College, Decatur Georgia October 2007 Shippensburg University President’s Lecture Series, Pennsylvania, October 2007 Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, October 2007 Lorain County Community College, Meeting Great Minds, Elyria Ohio, October 2007 Adrian College, Michigan, October 2007 Ways With Words Literary Festival, Dartington, Cornwall, July 2006 Edinburgh Book Festival, August 2006
An Essay by Einstein -- The World As I See It "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people -- first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving... "I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves -- this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. "My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities.
Internet Resources - Writers Resources - Writing Links & Writers Links for Writers For those who have asked and those who may, this collection of links for writers, researchers and the terminally curious is not, was never intended to be, and will never be the all-inclusive stash of every possible link fitting our slapdash criteria for what belongs here. We select sites with some consideration and thought for usefulness, depth, interest and je ne sais quoi and we try not to offer fifty different links to "manuscript submission." Sometimes we find a really cool site on a subject we already cover and mull over which link to keep and which to set free, sometimes we keep both and add a third. We lean toward linking to cool sites maintained by people we've met in the ether, but don't use a friend's site if there's a better site elsewhere. We don't link to just anybody and seldom link to commercial sites such as "Learn to Write in Five Days" or "We Will Publish Your Book" unless there is some -- no, make that a lot of -- free, useful content. Feel free to suggest links.
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