Thomas Sattelberger, Personalvorstand und Arbeitsdirektor der Deutschen Telekom AG und Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse, Geschäftsführer der nextpractice GmbH haben sich im July zu einem mehrstündigen Gespräch zum Thema „Enterprise 2.0 meets HR“ getroffen.

God Loves Only You

24. August 2010

Hurts at Luxor

22. August 2010

Wednesday, Oct 20 @ 8:00 PM

Wednesday, Oct 13 @ 7:00 PM

Friday, Sep 3 @ 8:00 PM

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices — and how we feel about the choices we make. She talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA, illustrates the hidden truths behind what really motivates us at home and in the workplace.

The Oatmeal is one of the top webcomics out there. Matthew talks about creating the site, his ideas and how he drove traffic to it. While sharing his favorite comic strips, he offers up some advice on how to create successful viral marketing campaigns.

The Fountain

31. Juli 2010

At 29, Darren Aronofsky catapulted to filmmaking stardom with a little independent film called Pi, a mind-bending thriller about a mathematician obsessed with a numerical code of grand-unifying proportions. Now, eight years later, after the creation of both Requiem for a Dream and a child (with actress Rachel Weisz), Aronofsky is back with The Fountain, a mind-bending thriller about a scientist obsessed with a life-saving experiment. Needless to say, Aronofsky himself is a little bit obsessed with crafting science-fictional universes.

The 37-year-old writer-director says he was always interested in science—his father taught the subject—but he was never particularly good at it in high school. He instead studied filmmaking and animation at Harvard University.

The Fountain, Aronofsky says, was inspired by a series of conversations he had with Ari Handel, his former Harvard roommate, who has a PhD in neuroscience from New York University’s Center for Neural Science. In 1999, Handel and Aronofsky began to discuss the search for the Fountain of Youth and how ideas can interconnect like a Russian doll, with one fitting inside the other.

“I think science is a very structured way to analyze the spiritual world. But sometimes there is a touch of magic that you can’t put your finger on.”

In the film, these multiple layers involve three parallel storylines revolving around a man (Hugh Jackman) searching for a cure for his wife’s terminal brain tumor. Past and future narratives interweave with the present: Weisz stars as both the man’s beloved and the Queen of Spain, and Jackman is a Spanish conquistador in search of the Fountain of Youth and a futuristic astronaut trying to hold onto eternal life and love. Rest assured, it all makes sense in the end—more or less.

After he swam the North Pole, Lewis Pugh vowed never to take another cold-water dip. Then, he heard of Mt. Everest’s Lake Imja — a body of water at an altitude of 5,300 meters, entirely created by recent glacial melting — and began a journey that would teach him a radical new way to approach both swimming and think about climate change.