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Jonah Lehrer: Do e-readers kindle understanding?
(Main Content/IF Blog)
... monitor is so bright and clear. For the most part, this technological progress is all to the good. (I still can’t believe that people watched golf before there were HD screens. Was the ball even visible? ...
Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Philippe Petit: Just "a long walk on a high path"
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Engaging choreographer Elizabeth Streb about whether movement "must be extreme" so "people will notice it as action," Philippe Petit took a different view of exercising suzerainty, of owning ...
Tuesday, 07 September 2010
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Being wrong: "Inseperable from our imaginations"
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... Guardian: What is most cherishable about this bumper book of other people's booboos is its insistence that to experience error is, at its best, to find adventure – and even contentment. Schulz takes ...
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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This is totally NSFW
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Taken from an evening newscast back when people watched the evening newscasts, this video of Philippe Petit pulling off the "artistic crime of the century" would be quaint if viewing it didn't ...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
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Innovation important? Half of Apple revenue came from products non-existent three years ago
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... since I can hear Rob May clearing his throat now - of executing on that creative vision. Exploiting its reputation for turning out easy-to-use products, must-have industrial design and putting people ...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
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Introduction
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... in exploring the concept of a “global brain” has accelerated. Think of the “global brain” as a metaphor for the worldwide intelligent network formed by people together with the ...
Monday, 09 August 2010
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Laurie Anderson on scientists: "They don't know what they're looking for either"
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... it that they had no idea what it was, so I just made it up' - she spent a lot of time with scientists. Just being a 'fly on the wall," as she says, for two years, meeting people and talking to people ...
Friday, 06 August 2010
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Robert Sapolsky: A vaccine for stress?
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... When people feel stressed, a tiny circuit in the base of their brain triggers the release of glucocorticoids, a family of stress hormones that puts the body in a heightened state of alert. The molecules ...
Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Daniel Tammet on "making himself heard"
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... books, beginning with "Born on a Blue Day." It's very difficult if the opportunities are not there and if they find it harder to interact, to relate to people, to knock on doors, to make themselves heard. ...
Thursday, 29 July 2010
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Diversity: That strange person might be telling you something
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... Lehrer makes the case that a diverse social network is a better predictor of success, going so far as to suggest, based on a study he points out, that business people with diverse networks are measurably ...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
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Paul Gilster has Centauri Dreams
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... the idea among people within the agency. Goldin said "We have to set goals so tough it hurts -- that it drives technology -- in semiconductors, materials, simulation, propulsion." My Centauri Dreams book ...
Monday, 19 July 2010
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Lost? Good.
(Main Content/IF Blog)
... like the most works in progress, require a patient flexibility and suppleness in thought and practice, and can end - or begin again - in complete surprise. 'People expect the math to be simplified, ...
Thursday, 15 July 2010
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Become a Friend of IdeaFestival
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... actually stretches people’s horizons and conceptions of what is possible. IF delivers much more than just a transfer of information from a roster of remarkable presenters. Year after year, the ...
Wednesday, 07 July 2010
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Dom Sagolla: "I'm always learning how to be an entrepreneur"
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... you make your idea, the easier it is... to understand the market and get it out there". Along with many other accomplished and talented people like "Born on a Blue Day" author and prodigious savant ...
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
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Born to Adorn? Desire, Display and Design
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The always interesting experience design blog Putting People First today highlights the "Premsela Lecture," in which Harvard Psychologist Nancy Etcoff connects fashion to her particular expertise, the ...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
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Does "Watson" meet the Nelson Mandela test?
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... for the enduring popularity of Jeopardy! Thought is also about creativity. Daniel Tammet, who will be at the 2010 IdeaFestival, has been said to be among the brightest people now on the planet, despite ...
Monday, 21 June 2010
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A.J. Jacobs cops to stoning adulterers: "I used pebbles"
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... That basic idea is indispensable, ironically, to one branch of philosophy - in robotics, where "embodied" intelligence offers context for decision making - to skilled craftspeople, whose experience lends ...
Wednesday, 09 June 2010
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Hugh Herr: Disadvantaged?
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Having lost his legs in a climbing accident, Hugh Herr is currently head of the Biomechanics group at MIT, which is working to put advanced bio-mechanical technology into the service of people in need. ...
Monday, 07 June 2010
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The stillness of Time
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... People grow older. Suns eventually exhaust their fuel. It's that passage from energy to lethargy to stillness that we perceive and clock on the way to the next business appointment. Among other reasons, ...
Thursday, 27 May 2010
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Daniel Tammet: Thinking in Puns, Daydreams, Similes
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... questions about his amazing mind. Make plans today to hear Daniel and all the fantastic and accomplished people who will be in Louisville this September! In your books you've talked about the synesthetic ...
Monday, 17 May 2010