May 10 2008
via Popular Science, a vintage 1878 piece by Charles Peirce on ‘How to Make our Ideas Clear’.
The article ends thus…“How to give birth to those vital and procreative ideas which multiply into a thousand forms and diffuse themselves everywhere, advancing civilization and making the dignity of man, is an art not yet reduced to rules, but of the secret of which the history of science affords some hints”.
May 09 2008
I’m looking forward to Pangea Day - a striking and timely concept in a fragmented and scattered world.
Starting at 18:00 GMT on May 10, 2008, locations in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro will be linked for a live program of powerful films, live music, and visionary speakers. The entire Pangea Day program will be broadcast in 7 languages to millions of people worldwide through the internet, television, and mobile phones.
The 24 short films to be featured have been selected from an international competition that generated more than 2,500 submissions from over one hundred countries. The films were chosen based on their ability to inspire, transform, and allow one see the world through another person’s eyes.
Pangea Day was conceptualized by Jehane Noujaim after she won the annual TED prize.
Mar 18 2008
70%Inspired by Vilayanur Ramachandran’s pioneering research on synesthesia and creativity (shown brilliantly in one of his TED lectures), this website created its own version of measuring your creativity through a quick-n-dirty synesthesia.
I also took the Apple addiction challenge and found that I was 26% addicted to Apple - and I don’t even own an iPhone or a Macbook Air yet!
