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Upcoming Events

	Mathematics Education for the Flat World - Dr. Keith Devlin, Author Talk Presented by The Tech Museum and Commonwealth Club at The Tech Museum May 27, 2012 Dr. Keith Devlin is a co-founder and Executive Director of Stanford University's H-STAR institute and a World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the... Mathematics Education for the Flat World - Dr. Keith Devlin, Author Talk Presented by The Tech Museum and Commonwealth Club at The Tech Museum May 27, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Charles Ferguson - 2011 Academy Award Winning Doc Filmmaker of Inside Job Presented by Commonwealth Club and Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center May 30, 2012 Charles Ferguson is the 2011 Academy Award Winning Documentary Filmmaker of Inside Job and Author of Predator Nation. Could the global economic meltdown of the last few years have been prevented? Ferguson believes the crisis was no accident. After Inside Job won the 2011 Academy Award for Best Documentary Film, Ferguson started his... Charles Ferguson - 2011 Academy Award Winning Doc Filmmaker of Inside Job Presented by Commonwealth Club and Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center May 30, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)
	It Worked for Me - General Colin Powell, Author Talk Presented by Commonwealth Club at Santa Clara Convention Center June 7, 2012 Throughout his decades of service to the country, Gen. Colin Powell has kept his private life out of the limelight. Now, in his new book "It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership" he is opening up to reveal the important principles that guided him from being the son of Jamaican immigrants to chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and... It Worked for Me - General Colin Powell, Author Talk Presented by Commonwealth Club at Santa Clara Convention Center June 7, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Gail Collins - OpEd Columnist, The New York Times Presented by Commonwealth Club at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center June 13, 2012 Gail Collins, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times; Author, As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda The first woman editor of The New York Times editorial page and a best-selling author, Collins reveals in her explosive new book that Texas has become the bellwether of a far-reaching national movement that... Gail Collins - OpEd Columnist, The New York Times Presented by Commonwealth Club at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center June 13, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Raj Patel - Activist and Author Presented by Commonwealth Club at Cubberley Community Center Theatre June 14, 2012 Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese. Why is there such a large discrepancy between the haves and the have-nots for what we all need: food? Patel conducts a global investigation to make sense of the world food crisis and finds that "the food system is filled with choices made by a handful of powerful people, in smoke-filled... Raj Patel - Activist and Author Presented by Commonwealth Club at Cubberley Community Center Theatre June 14, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)

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Past Events

	James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic Presented by Commonwealth Club at Cubberley Community Center Theatre May 16, 2012 James Fallows: China Airborne National Correspondent, The Atlantic; Author, China Airborne: The Dream of Aviation in Emerging China In 2011, China announced its five-year plan to spend a quarter of a trillion dollars to jumpstart the next phase of its aerospace industry. The country currently has many airports under... James Fallows - National Correspondent, The Atlantic Presented by Commonwealth Club at Cubberley Community Center Theatre May 16, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Subliminal - Dr. Leonard Mlodinow, Author Presented by Commonwealth Club and Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center May 3, 2012 Dr. Leonard Mlodinow: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior Professor, California Institute of Technology; Author, The Drunkards Walk and Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior To help us uncover and understand how the human mind works, Dr. Mlodinow explains why every aspect of our life plays... Subliminal - Dr. Leonard Mlodinow, Author Presented by Commonwealth Club and Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center May 3, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Tony DeRose - Senior Scientist, Pixar Animation Studios Presented by Commonwealth Club April 28, 2012 Tony DeRose, Senior Scientist and Research Group Lead, Pixar Animation Studios As a Senior Scientist, DeRose is responsible for helping create the technology behind Pixar's ground breaking animation. He takes us behind the scenes and explains how wide arrays of math topics are central to Pixar's film production process. To help... Tony DeRose - Senior Scientist, Pixar Animation Studios Presented by Commonwealth Club April 28, 2012 Event Rating (2 votes)
	Vino Vino Presented by Commonwealth Club April 9, 2012 Join us at Vino Vino in downtown San Jose's new San Pedro Square for an evening of "wine without attitude." Collin Cranor, winemaker for Nottingham Cellars will walk you through a tasty flight of wine in a casual relaxed atmosphere while you knosh on some delicious treats from Vino Vino's own kitchen. Vino Vino Presented by Commonwealth Club April 9, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)
	Imagine... How Creativity Works - Jonah Lehrer, Author and Contributing Editor for Wired Presented by Commonwealth Club and Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center April 5, 2012 Jonah Lehrer: How Creativity Works Contributing Editor, Wired; Author, How We Decide and Imagine: How Creativity Works Acclaimed science writer and popular blogger Jonah Lehrer helped us learn about our decision making process in his best-selling book How We Decide. Now he delves into the human mind to decipher the... Imagine... How Creativity Works - Jonah Lehrer, Author and Contributing Editor for Wired Presented by Commonwealth Club and Oshman Family Jewish Community Center at Oshman Family Jewish Community Center April 5, 2012 Event Rating (0 votes)

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Member Reviews

• Event Name: Scott Clark, Lead Animator, Pixar Animation Studios
  "this movie is great"
  Comment posted by: chris penn from Davidsonville, MD USA), Nov 19, 2010
  

  this movie was great i just got done watching it for my like 100 time......its alsom but at the beiging its sad.....they should make a second one id think it will be good

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  this movie was great i just got done watching it for my like 100 time......its alsom but at the beiging its sad.....they should make a second one id think it will be good

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• Event Name: Ralph Nader - Activist and Author of Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us
  "Can't Subsidize Hubris"
  Comment posted by: Sandy from San Jose, CA, Sep 30, 2009
  

  Mr. Nader did so much for America decades ago, but his hubris in 2000 is too much to bear. Many of us cannot bear to fund it.

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  Mr. Nader did so much for America decades ago, but his hubris in 2000 is too much to bear. Many of us cannot bear to fund it.

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