Neuroscience has found an unusual ally in its mission to probe our cognitive machinery - magic. Featuring a picture of Teller, who appeared at the IdeaFestival in September to deliver a captivating talk about the "science of wonder of magic," Scientific American gets to the point, describing how …
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Neuroscience's latest ally: Magic
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Joy is a Business Strategy
http://ideafestival.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/joy-is-business-strategy.htmlIt has often been said that innovation and ideas are the currency of modern organizations. Without being able to take information and assemble and reassemble it to reach new conclusions, businesses can't hope to gain the strategic advantage that comes with a completely fresh and compelling take on an old problem. …
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Universe surrendering dark secret?
http://ideafestival.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/12/universe-giving-up-one-of-its-secrets.htmlDennis Overbye: Results from an assortment of experiments suggests to some that humans are getting signals from dark matter, the quarter of the universe that remains unseen.The last few weeks have seen a blizzard of papers trying to explain the observations in terms of things like 'minimal dark …
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Kris Kimel Gets It
http://theurbanophile.blogspot.com/2008/11/kris-kimel-gets-i...One of the things this has produced for the city is the IdeaFestival, a major international event attracting top international talent across a wide range of disciplines. To keep the excitement going year around, they publish an IdeaFestival blog. A recent article included a video featuring Kris Kimel, who founded the festival. This guy shows in about two and a half minutes exactly the way that cities need to be thinking in order to thrive in the 21st century economy. Among his points:
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Putting people first
http://www.experientia.com/blog, a think tank in Silicon Valley. He is also an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Science Technology and Society program at Stanford University. Read full story (via IdeaFestival)
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iMedia
http://imediakstc.typepad.com/imediaIn today's market, out-sized market moves can be devastating to the average investor. IdeaFestival speaker Nassim Nicholas Taleb was recently featured in a Bloomberg article, explaining how his ideas about the improbable have helped investors avoid - and profit from - the extreme market swings of late. Bloomberg:
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Tinkering as a way of knowing
http://www.experientia.com/blog/tinkering-as-a-way-of-knowin..., a think tank in Silicon Valley. He is also an Associate Fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School, and a Senior Research Scholar in the Science Technology and Society program at Stanford University. Read full story (via IdeaFestival)
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Hassenpfeffer
http://edwardwillett.blogspot.comBusiness flash: profits related to insight
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Housing, energy, sanitation: the Curry Stone Design Prize winner
http://www.lunchoverip.com/2008/10/housing-energy.htmlplus recognition at the Venice Architecture Biennale) were Luyanda Mphahlwa and Mphethi Morojele, two architects from South Africa for their design of energy-efficient homes made using timber and sandbags for infill for a Cape Town family. The other finalists were Shawn Frayne, inventor of the Windbelt, the world's first non-turbine wind-powered generator; Wes Janz, architect and associate professor at Ball State University, Indiana, whose work is inspired by the ingenuity of slum dwellers who build
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Bringing wind power down to size - the Windbelt
http://imediakstc.typepad.com/imedia/2008/10/bringing-wind-p...recently awarded at the IdeaFestival, is featured in BusinessWeek. From the article:
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way to go bloggin!
http://bikesharing.blogspot.comIdeaFestival
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Colony Worlds
http://www.colonyworlds.com(which may make an excellent blue print for NASA's future attempts at colonizing the moon). Wayne (from the IdeaFestival Blog) writes about J. Richard Gott's proposal that we (as a species) better take our space program seriously before time runs out. Alan Boyle of MSNBC's Cosmic Log publishes an article about the need to create an international organization to deal with the threat of incoming space rocks (that may wipe out our planet). Thanks for reading, and be sure to read the
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Carnival Of The Space Geeks! (Alice In Spaceland)
http://www.colonyworlds.com/2008/10/carnival-of-space-geeks-...(which may make an excellent blue print for NASA's future attempts at colonizing the moon). Wayne (from the IdeaFestival Blog) writes about J. Richard Gott's proposal that we (as a species) better take our space program seriously before time runs out. Alan Boyle of MSNBC's Cosmic Log publishes an article about the need to create an international organization to deal with the threat of incoming space rocks (that may wipe out our planet). Thanks for reading, and be sure to read the
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