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I was doing my taxes the other day, and I got to the point where I was listing all of the donations I gave, and I had an epiphany

I think it's quite apt

And I think that that is very troubling, and in a sense, I've been reflecting on turning that part of us off.

Right now, as Bill McDonough has pointed out, the objects that we buy and use have hidden consequences

Let's talk about film now. Film, it's an incredible medium, but essentially, it's the same now as it was then.

So, I'm going to show you a demo of a virtual reality film: a full-screen version of all the information that we capture when we shoot virtual reality

And that's where I think we just start to scratch the surface of the true power of virtual reality.

And I know there's some of you who say, "Well, wouldn't it be better, wouldn't the world be a better place if we all just spoke one language?

And you'll suddenly discover what it would be like to be unable to speak your own language.

Now, if you begin to look at the idea that these cultures could create different realities, you could begin to understand some of their extraordinary discoveries

So, what we're trying to do at the National Geographic, finally, is, we believe that politicians will never accomplish anything

A fact came out of MIT, couple of years ago

That hit me so hard, telling these people that had been through this experience.

The other thing: I wanted to give indigenous people a voice

So what I'd like to show you now, in the couple of minutes I have left, is a film that a student made in Guatemala

Climb Credit, a new entrant into the student lending market which just received a $400 million lending facility, is taking a different approach

Another twist on the traditional lending model is that

By distilling down to a single app feature, Google is not only providing a quicker way for users to access the best feature of an app

so that content didn’t show up in search results and Google wasn’t able to fully monetize from apps

While downloads might initially fall, user engagement and retention could increase once people are exposed to the value and usefulness of your app through the mobile web

Emails and other online communication

Learn from real emails how to arrange a meeting, naturally asking for help or advice, requesting information, follow up communications like a human. How to open and close emails formally and informally. Imagine starting an email with “Sorry to be a pain, but can you…, ”Sorry for delay in getting back to you" or "Let me know if it works for you but no hurry"

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Startups and apps

This collection is aimed at helping you present your tech startups or apps in English. You can memorize useful phrases for presenting, pitching, being interviewed on your product or service. Use the same clever collocations as successful startups used and still use in their interviews clipped from tech blogs. Such as: "Ping was born from a personal frustration with having a...", "Our Aim is To Bridge The Gap Between...", "At the core of the app lies a clever algorithm that allows" etc.

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