Tag: TED
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Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the Art of Roughness
Benoit Mandelbrot begins with a photo of Romanesco Broccoli. Ends with stock market and the Mandelbrot Set. Have I died and reparticulated in the epicentergy of a mathgasm?
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Audio Spotlight and Hypersonic Sound
We’ve been able to direct and focus light for a long time, but until recently we’ve not been able to direct and focus sound… YouTube: Joe Pompei’s Audio Spotlight TED: Woody Norris’ Hypersonic Sound Woody Norris’ 15th Invention, 44th Patent: Hypersonic Sound The ability to place sound! “…or you can whisper in the year of…
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TED: Aimee Mullins on Running
Paralympic sprinter Aimee Mullins talks about her record-setting career as a runner. She’s built a career as a model, actress and activist for women, sports and the next generation of prosthetics.
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TED: Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.” – Abraham Lincoln, December 1862…