IF Blog


Lessons from Frankenstein: Bad metaphors make for lousy science

Oscar night at the IdeaFestival!

Filming canyons on Saturn moon

Sidewalk Illusionist, Julian Beever - IF Conversation

Is intelligent life compelled to explore?

Dry Moon, barren idea: "Millions of tons" of water ice discovered

"Skinput"

Nimble minds

Lexington was the Gameboard

Alternate reality: Mile deep rubbish, mile wide fun

Tweets

ideafestival: Bring your 3D shades: Co-producer Jon Landau of #Oscars winner Avatar will speak at IF '10 to explore the making of the film!

ideafestival: Mo'Nique accepted #oscars gold last night for role in Precious. Louisville welcomes "Push" novelist Sapphire in September!

ideafestival: RT @FQXi: Einstein's manuscript of relativity goes on display http://www.independent.co.uk/news/a1917804.html

ideafestival: RT @iftf: @vdistler writes, "What if your scale told you what to eat, not how much you weigh?" - http://bit.ly/aF4LYU

ideafestival: RT @LeeBillings: Amateur visualization of Titan's liquid-sculpted terrain shows the value of public datasets: http://bit.ly/9wSkHI

IF Everywhere

Podcasts


Episode 60 - Vova Galchenko, Juggler - sponsored by the Paul Ogle Foundation

Episode 59 - Where's The Big Idea (Moderator: Joanne Lang, Panel: Emiliano Gandolfi,Sanford Goldberg, Jacques Heim, Jane McGonigal)

Episode 58 - Bridget Brennan, Female Factor CEO

Episode 57 - Arne Quinze – Belgian Artist/Designer – sponsored by Louisville Jefferson County Metro

Episode 56 - Bjarke Ingels – Danish Architect/Designer – sponsored by GLI

Episode 55 - IF Conversation - Richard Kogan, psychiatrist and concert pianist

IF Conversations


Lee Dugatkin
Professor, researcher, author


Amy Chua
Author, global politics and economics analyst


Bjarke Ingels
Danish Architect/Designer


Jane McGonigal
Game designer, future forecaster


David Mohney









The IdeaFestival is a world-class event that attracts leading and highly diverse thinkers from across the nation and around the globe to explore and celebrate innovation, imagination and cutting-edge ideas. And, the Festival is an “open source” experience, with many events free and open to the public.