have naturally resulted in us typically not living more than 100, 120 years. I mean, people like, you know, David Sinclair who I've spoken to about things like this. Yeah, you know, I think we can forestoall the kinds of degradation.Now, if you're talking to me, I think on time scales that are so much longer than
And he said, love to. So Sinclair came back. And over a span of about a dozen years, he did sort of this first phase of work that asked a few general questions.
Because we can't get rid of a feeling, but we can learn to distrust it. Upton Sinclair has a great quote.
And maybe you wonder where it all goes. So Hugh Sinclair is here today to tell us where it goes. Hugh's stayed in some of the worst hotels on the planet, eaten some of the worst food on the planet, including the
changed and when I go back to many people in this room remember the when Computing came out um who had like a Apple 2 trs8 Sinclair the old computer you remember you brought a home you were so excited you plugged it in you popped it into your TV you turned it on and it did absolutely nothing at
actually give them this information uh and make it selling in their minds well how are we going to do that we can write about a guy named Gordon Sinclair uh Gordon Sinclair was the proprietor of a
I think that there will always be some kind of relationship there because you can't-- there are people who can create in a vacuum, all right? But not all of us are Paul Thomas Anderson or Upton Sinclair . We're not all these sort of self-reliant geniuses.
Let me show you a good photograph. This is a good photograph taken by a woman Stephanie Sinclair , who spent some time in the Yemen. She won a Pulitzer Prize for this photo essay on child marriage in the Yemen.
we met Eric Dovesburger who works here at Google. And Sundance New Frontier story lab with Bayete and Kamal Sinclair . Went, were at BAVC—this is Kamal, kind of being, kind of very efficient with our ideas.
And you know what word I'm talkin' about. And then Chris: We should say that Kamal Sinclair , our collaborator was really key in developing that curriculum.
Straight away you could do long complicated calculations very quickly and probably every single great invention of the last 350, 400 years required a slide rule. Right up until you can almost date it it's like August 1974 when Sinclair 's pocket calculator came out and no one needed them anymore. So nothing has been so dominate and then died so quickly. And actually I can remember and also from movies in the sort of '50s and '60s the slide rule was this sort of really quite boring like two sticks like really sort of dull people
have to chuckle a little bit because it's not your food is not really going to taste like my food even if you follow note hello Chef Keller my my name is Diane Sinclair I have a small Dairy Farm
class emblematic of yellow journalism in the-- not just the Pulitzer but the world model in the 1890s? Or is it like muckraking journalism, like Upton Sinclair 's "The Jungle." I mean, what's your sense of how it's treading that line? And as you see journalism move increasingly to digital, is it more susceptible to being yellow journalism than the muckraking variety it needs?
He has some good stories about that. So without further ado-- I always love saying that-- please welcome Hugh Sinclair . Lovely. Thank you very much.
very beginning of the Diary of a CEO, and I will not let you down. Please help us. Really appreciate it. Let's get on with the show. Dr. David Sinclair . I have waited many years to speak to you. And I've been so keen to speak to you for so many years because
I mean, not one person in particular, but when I was going through it, there were really no personal stories that were authentic to mine. Oh, absolutely. I actually share a birthday with Upton Sinclair .
Oh, no. I'm not working on that. And then in terms of 18th century novels of Americans and early 20th century, Sinclair Lewis is somebody that I really loved.
The disefficiencies of scale are actually pretty well understood, but as Upton Sinclair said, it's impossible to get someone to understand something
All of the accounts that I was reading-- there was a really helpful book called "The Door of No Return" by William Sinclair that took that took you
By the mid 1960s, within a few years, there were changes taking place in the Serengeti. And when this young undergraduate from Oxford arrived, Tony Sinclair , first came to the Serengeti in 1965, his intention was to study birds.
And this is like a total tangent, but there's an amazing sex scandal involving Upton Sinclair at Arden, Delaware.
we will cease to be and strangers you can love will move in behind our faces." That's from Jim Sinclair who has autism.
And so I approached Chris about how we could possibly apply to do a Question Bridge about black males. And so over and through that we wound up traveling with Bayete Ross Smith and then soon our fourth collaborator Kamal Sinclaire came on board. And then actors Jesse Williams and Delroy Lindow.
And one of the people who hung out in Arden, Delaware, a lot was Upton Sinclair .