Posted on August 10, 2010 in Off Topic | No Comments
Jeff Bezos, Founder & CEO, Amazon.com sits down with Charlie Rose to discuss the future of the Kindle and the implications of Apple’s iPad.
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Posted on July 14, 2010 in Off Topic | No Comments
Filmmaker Brian Springer spent a year scouring the airwaves with a satellite dish grabbing back channel news feeds not intended for public consumption. The result of his research is SPIN, one of the most insightful films ever made about the mechanics of how television is used as a tool of social control to distort and limit the American public’s perception of reality.
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Posted on June 8, 2010 in Editing, Off Topic | No Comments
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled?
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Posted on April 29, 2010 in Off Topic | No Comments
In this TEDtalks Humorist John Hodgman rambles through a new story about aliens, physics, time, space and the way all of these somehow contribute to a sweet, perfect memory of falling in love.
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Posted on February 12, 2010 in Off Topic | No Comments
A PBS Frontline report on the digital revolution and how it’s changing our lives, with video stories, interviews, and user-generated video on relationships, information overload, education, the military, parenting, brain development, and more.
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Posted on February 12, 2010 in Off Topic | No Comments
“There’s a flip side to everything,” the saying goes, and in 2 minutes, Derek Sivers shows this is true in a few ways you might not expect.
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Posted on January 10, 2010 in Off Topic | 2 Comments
Here is a report on the 1983 CES show in Las Vegas, form the Nightly Business Report on PBS. I don’t know what’s more amazing, how much things have changed or how much they are the same.
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Posted on January 5, 2010 in Interviews, Off Topic | No Comments
The famed illustrator R. Crumb discusses his work with the art editor of The New Yorker, including his new book, an illustration of the “Book of Genesis”, from the Creation to the death of Joseph.
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Posted on December 19, 2009 in Off Topic | No Comments
You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I’m telling you why. Jack Bauer is going to bust in here and beat the snot out of you, so tell me: Is it safe?
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Posted on November 27, 2009 in Off Topic | No Comments
A quick scan of social media sites and one might take a doubtful view of the future of literacy. But those are merely growing pains – a generation ago, those very same people would have never composed a sentence outside of school. The truth is, we are in a new age of literacy…
…Andrea Lunsford isn’t [...]
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Posted on November 16, 2009 in Off Topic | 1 Comment
TIME senior writer Lev Grossman discusses some of the top choices for 2009 Best and Worst Inventions of the Year.
You can read the full article here.
2009 Best Inventions of the Year
Worst Inventions of the Year
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Posted on October 15, 2009 in Marketing, Off Topic | 1 Comment
Life lessons from an ad man: Advertising adds value to a product by changing our perception, rather than the product itself. Rory Sutherland at the TED Conference makes the daring assertion that a change in perceived value can be just as satisfying as what we consider real value — and his conclusion has interesting consequences [...]
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Posted on September 21, 2009 in Off Topic | No Comments
A panel discussion with some of today’s best brain researchers, sponsored by the NSF, The Franklin Institute, and DISCOVER magazine.
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The 12 Individual Videos:
The Ups and Downs of Forgetting
Why Do We Remember Old Pop Songs But Forget Where Our Keys Are?
Where in the Brain Is Consciousness Located?
Humans: Natural-Born Teachers
Are All of Us Potential Abu Ghraib [...]
Posted on September 16, 2009 in Off Topic | No Comments
Created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod; Globalization & The Information Age. It was even adapted by Sony BMG at an executive meeting they held in Rome this year.
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Posted on August 17, 2009 in Off Topic | No Comments
Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools — robotics, new software, cognitive research — to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer.
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