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The world is too big to know 14 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
We are drawn to edges, to our own/parapets and sea-walls. - Robin Robertson I wasn't going to blog this piece, but having run across a related post that helpfully makes a point I had missed earlier, ...
The IdeaFestival is a brain altering substance 12 Aug 2013 | 07:29 pm
The most interesting things come from people interested in things. - artist Hasan Elahi at IdeaFestival 2012 Is the IdeaFestival a brain altering substance? No, no. I don't mean that kind of alterat...
The IdeaFestival's one and only rule 8 Aug 2013 | 06:52 pm
I love meeting people who discover the festival and decide then and there that they just HAVE to be a part of it. I was once that guy. Yesterday, I took part in a couple of IdeaFestival meetings wit...
Mice and men and memory 6 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
NPR Cosmos and Culture reports that false memories have been successfully implanted in mice by observing the memory-forming areas of their brains. So why is this interesting? Two reasons stand out. ...
We know what we are, but not what we may be 2 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be. Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5 Beginning at the 15:45 mark in this video at RSA, Sir Ken Robinson discusses the generative dynamic of learning, compar...
There is a danger to search 30 Jul 2013 | 06:56 pm
If you've been following the latest Five Questions interview series - and if you haven't watched them, do so right after reading this post - you may have heard IdeaFestival 2013 speaker and Technology...
Awe, "opensure" and happiness: Five Questions with Oliver Burkeman 26 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
If someone handed you a piece of paper tomorrow that told you exactly how the rest of your live would unfold in every detail, you would hate it, even if what was on that sheet of paper was all good. ...
Wait. Warp drives may be possible?! 24 Jul 2013 | 06:19 pm
Wait, warp drives may be possible?! The New York Times yesterday: Harold G. White [ a physicist and advanced propulsion engineer at NASA] has been working on instrumentation with the goal of using i...
Peter Sims' IF Conversation: Creativity a series of "little bets" 22 Jul 2013 | 07:39 pm
A lifetime removed from an earlier education that focused on finding the right answers and high achievement, "Little Bets" author Peter Sims believes that "life is much more rich when you're doing cre...
Hacking Space - Five Questions for Ariel Waldman 18 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
Do particle collisions make a sound? Slated to speak at IdeaFestival 2013 on the "Hacker's Guide to the Galaxy," Ariel Waldman took a few moments to talk recently with us for our Five Questions serie...
