I ran across this great interview with Dean Kamen at OnInnovation.com. I hadn’t visited the site before but they’ve got a growing library of interviews with notable innovators. Thought I’d share in case you haven’t seen it (please note that this is just the first clip in a lengthy interview – see the link below the vid for the whole thing):
Here’s a link to the full interview page. Enjoy!
We had a lot of fun carving pumpkins today. Darth Vader was a hit with most of our trick-or-treaters:
Here’s a recent TED Talk from Tim Jackson. He has a great quote while discussing the role of consumer debt in the run-up to the recession: “it’s a story about…people being persuaded to spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to create impressions that won’t last, on people we don’t care about…” Well said Mr. Jackson!
Here’s an unfortunate update from CNN re: Greenland’s ice sheet:
“A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S. The 260 square-kilometer (100 square miles) ice island separated from the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland early on Thursday…”
Here are some of the podcasts I’ve been listening to lately. These are very enjoyable if you’re interested in science, skeptical thought, critical thinking, etc. Perhaps not so enjoyable if you’re into New Age healing, creationism, pseudo-science, etc. (but if you are, you should definitely start listening!)
Tim O’Reilly (@timoreilly) did a magnificent job at his keynote presentation at Drupalcon. You can download the slides here on Slideshare. Hopefully the video will be online sometime soon.
I’m at #drupalcon in San Francisco with @frogpod. Will be posting stuff throughout the conference. If you want to see more real-time updates follow me on Twitter
TED Talk from Barry Schwartz: Using our Practical Wisdom
Barry Schwartz delivers another great TED Talk re: the importance of developing and promoting wisdom rather than our current – and often disastrous – cultural tendencies to substitute rules, procedures, scripted processes etc. Here’s a link to a similar talk he delivered in 2009, and a link to his fantastic “Paradox of Choice” talk.