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A veteran in the film, TV series and commercials industries, Mark Simon worked with Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, and Antione Fuqua among others.  The number one question he is asked, “How did you get started?”  His insider stories will inspire and entertain you, and include job search mistakes most people make and three job search techniques that never fail. Provocate likes the “never” part … Hollywood, here we come! (more…)

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“Peter Kahn’s research on social and moral relationships between robots and people tells us as much about human nature, and our tendency to anthropomorphize, as it does about principles for designing robots in ethically-sensitive ways,” says IUPUI Informatics Professor MacDorman. (more…)

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Join NANA POKU, Lecturer of Politics at the University of Southampton and a prolific UN researcher, in a transglobal discussion of his book AIDS in Africa: How the Poor Are Dying (more…)

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Dan Coats had a very successful and distinguished public career, serving in the US 1981-1989, and in the Senate 1989-1999. His career may have become even more interesting after he left the Senate. After narrowly missing being nominated as the Secretary of Defense in 2001 (the world would be a different place if he had been in the Pentagon the past six years rather than Donald Rumsfeld!), Coats took the post of US ambassador to Germany just days before 9/11. He thus had one of country’s the most sensitive diplomatic positions, trying to hold alliances together through Afghanistan and Iraq. (more…)

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Part of the 2nd Annual American Indian Education Conference, this event features the storytelling artistry of Johnny Flynn, Jon Boyd, Juana Watson, Barbara Nolan and Helen Roy. (more…)

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David Mason in Hudson Review praises Mitchell’s “welcoming intelligence,” adding, “There are levels of mastery that don’t bang drums and raise a fuss. Mitchell is such a . . . writer, so unpretentiously devoted to alertness in words.” (more…)

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Can people with schizophrenia and other mental illnesses work? Recent findings may be surprising — a relatively new practice known as supported employment has been described as the single most effective treatment for severe mental illness and promises to be a win-win for those experiencing mental illness, for employers, and for taxpayers. (more…)

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While early attempts to estimate the number of serial murder victims in the U.S. varied greatly and were exaggerated, current estimates may actually underestimate the number of serial murder victims. IUPUI Professor Kenna Quinet will present an analysis of several data sources, including ‘the missing missing’, to develop a more accurate picture of the number of serial murder victims in the United States. (more…)

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“I remember when….” How many times have you heard a loved one start a sentence like this? Let’s assume you don’t doze off … Have you regretted not recording those words and preserving them for posterity? Regret no more. (more…)

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Disheartened by rampant consumerism and the downward spiral of both her finances and the trash-strewn earth, Judith Levine enlists her partner, Paul, in a radical experiment: to forgo all but the most necessary purchases for an entire year. (more…)

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