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At MIT, his office in Building 20 was crammed with books, most overdue from the college library. Dr. Lettvin claimed he did not return them because the library would send him the students who wanted those books, and he would interview them as potential assistants. Gaming the library | The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory (via…
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un: For their Freshmen week in October 2005, the University of St. Gallen organized a very special event: They invited architect Daniel Libeskind to design a sculpture the freshmen will work with in workshops. The sculpture consists of 98 “towers” that will form seven “cities”. The whole sculpure consists of 2000 different pieces – a…
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Before streaming video, TED was a conference — it is not named for a person, but stands for “technology, entertainment and design” — organized by celebrated “information architect” (fancy graphic designer) Richard Saul Wurman. Wurman sold the conference, in 2002, to a nonprofit foundation started and run by former publisher and longtime do-gooder Chris Anderson…
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smarterplanet: Law Firm Uses RFID to Track Every Page of Confidential Documents – RFID Journal RFID-based document-tracking solutions have become commonplace in such locations as legal and medical offices. But one law firm has taken that solution to a new level, by tagging and tracking every sheet of paper for its most sensitive files, in…
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alecshao: Jorge Mendez Blake – El Castillo (The Castle), 2008
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In our sun-down perambulations, of late, through the outer parts of Brooklyn, we have observed several parties of youngsters playing “base”, a certain game of ball…. Let us go forth awhile, and get better air in our lungs. Let us leave our close rooms…. The game of ball is glorious. Walt Whitman. From the July…
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There is something endearing about the way Indianapolis has embraced the Pacers, something so determined about how they link the fact that the entire city has sold its soul to the athletic-entertainment complex with their desire to remain small-town Hoosierland in their devotion to the team. (I’m not kidding about the first part, either. This…
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Applying Complex System Analysis to Soccer
csessums: “The winning goal of the Manchester City match occurred when a Queen Park Ranger fell down, leaving a two-on-two situation which is exactly the situation our research shows enables goal scoring opportunities.” Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and a co author of the study “Science of Winning Soccer: Emergent pattern-forming dynamics…
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Applying Complex System Analysis to Soccer
csessums: “The winning goal of the Manchester City match occurred when a Queen Park Ranger fell down, leaving a two-on-two situation which is exactly the situation our research shows enables goal scoring opportunities.” Yaneer Bar-Yam, president of the New England Complex Systems Institute and a co author of the study “Science of Winning Soccer: Emergent pattern-forming dynamics…
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dot-ed: Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset A growth mindset will help you achieve more, according to Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck. Challenges: embrace them Obstacles: persist in the face of setbacks Effort: see it as the path to mastery Criticism: learn from them Success of others: find lessons and inspiration in others’ success