Idea Festival

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• Reading a chimps mind

  
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  "Do chimps understand what Jon Stewart (or another chimp) believes?" Thats the title of a post from Dave Munger , who, pointing out that Stewart brings up the subject , uses the opportunity to ask to what extent chimpanzees possess object permanence , and more importantly, whether they can attribute thoughts to ...
  2 days ago

• Saturn equinox

  
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  With its famous rings edge on to its star, Saturn experiences equinox in this image taken by robotic explorer Cassini last August. Wayne NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
  2 days ago

• The good guys always wear White hats

  
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  In some cases metaphors are not mere rhetorical hacks, but point out something deeper in human nature. Would you believe that concerns about personal hygiene predispose people to seeing the world in black and white? Otherwise known as the Macbeth effect , some enterprising psychologists used one of the most famous ...
  3 days ago

• "Fractal forecasting"

  
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  With help from an orbiting meteorological spacecraft, scientists have found a atmospheric patterns that can be broken down into a series of cascading events, each of which in turn spawn smaller processes that follow " scale-by-scale simplicity ." If they are right, behind towering complexity lurks mathematical ...
  4 days ago

• Violins are magic onstage and in-world

  
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  Describing the value that the best violins have for their owners, and how they have appreciated at a 3.5 percent annual clip since 1850 (!), virtual worlds economist Edward Castronova writes that the status accorded the instruments in virtual worlds is equally impressive. Wayne
  6 days ago

• Friday links: An explanation for the Arrow of Time and the future of sin

  
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  Have a great weekend! Would a "complete understanding of everything" be boring ? Derived from a deeper understanding of human immunology, artificial immune systems can be applied to a range of engineering problems. As wolves age their killer instinct fades , and humans are an acquired taste for lions. ...
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• Documenting the truth about lies

  
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  Aiming to settle a long running debate on the nature of gossip, ethnographers have returned from a trek to elementary school with the truth about lies . Wayne
  1 week ago

• Educational games: Getting to whats worth knowing

  
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  Inviting parents to be a part of the process, the New York Times reports on how online collaborative games are being introduced in schools to go beyond "skills and drills" to teach concepts and solve problems in context. " Educational Video Games Mix Cool With Purpose ": After years of watching technology ...
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• Sensual reasoning

  
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  Can we simultaneously visualize sensory impossibilities, to see, for example, four spacial dimensions instead of three? David Hume famously described our imaginings as but faint impressions of the original sensation. Other schools of thinking, as Eric Schwitzgebel points out at the Splintered Mind , suggest that ...
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• Product placement in the Movies

  
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  Just how effective is product placement in film anyway?
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• The only existing film images of Anne Frank

  
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  These are the only existing video images of Anne Frank , taken during the wedding of a neighbor in Amsterdam in 1941. Off-topic: If youre not already following the IdeaFestival on Twitter , please consider it. There you will find daily bonus linkage - this video link was tweeted last week - as well as ...
  2 weeks ago

• Put some distance between you and the problem

  
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  Blogging Pop!Tech , Ethan Zuckerman writes about thinking like an outsider as described by IF08 participant and author of Proust was a Neuroscientist and How We Decide , Jonah Lehrer. Creatively solving a problem sometimes requires putting some distance you and it. Wayne Jonah Lehrer
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• Unexpected pairing: Astronomy and medicine

  
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  The Revolutionary Minds Think Tank series points out the unexpected and beneficial relationship between two seemingly different disciplines, astronomy and medical imaging. Pulling a quote from the Astronomical Medicine page at Harvard, it says While astronomy and medical imaging seem very different, both ...
  3 weeks ago

• Clay Shirky: Democracy has a biology

  
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  Clay Shirky, one of the most thoughtful analysts anywhere on the digital revolution, discusses the effect that instant access to information has had on society in this BBC piece . As a coordinating mechanism the web is transformative. But as for any democratizing effects, he is far less sanguine about its ability to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Long way down: Litter disposal

  
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  Brought to you by the same group the put the music into climbing the stairs : Making trash disposal fun could help reduce litter. Have a look. Wayne
  3 weeks ago

• Finding America in Main St.

  
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  In a post yesterday , IdeaFestival 2006 and 2007 participant Ethan Zuckerman blogged about a new media project, " Mapping Main Street ," which is documenting a history of the United States using its 10,466 "main streets." Of the many listed reasons for the project, this one appealed. Ethan: [Harvard PhD ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Plant Orchestra

  
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  Taking his cue from the fact that plants and viruses produce acoustic signatures that can be used, for example, in medical research artist Luke Jerram has constructed a plant orchestra (slide six). Wayne
  3 weeks ago

• Under the spell of Julian Beever, sidewalk planters fly

  
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  After three days work by Julian Beever , Louisvilles sidewalk planters threaten to float away. Wayne
  4 weeks ago

• Know it All: Think Less, act More

  
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  What do IdeaFestival presenters John McPherson and A.J. Jacobs share in common? McPhersons use of humor "Close to Home" and Jacobs willingness to experiment with new information and strange situations acknowledge that to know something truly, sometimes you just have to experience it. Humor, stories, film require ...
  8 weeks ago

• Indexing the IdeaFestival, photos

  
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  An open group at Flickr for photos taken during the IdeaFestival has been created . Once again, if youd like to blog the IdeaFestival or follow/tag it on Twitter, please use IF09 or #IF09, respectively, so that others can find your contribution. Wayne
  8 weeks ago

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