TED of the Day: Creativity and Play

As we grow and learn about responsibility and darkness in the world, we often lose the ability to play at life, at love, and to take the kinds of risks that children take for fun every day. It’s an interesting paradox, because as our world gets freer and more prosperous, more of the jobs [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Autodidact, Creativity, Idle MusingsPosted on November 26th, 2008

TED of the day: The Story of Everything

Today, I bring you physicist Brian Cox discussing the Large Hadron Collider and what it means for our understanding of the universe. Chock full of wonder, delight, and beauty - join me in marveling at the magnificence of the universe, and the fact that we are able to understand it at all.

No Comments »Filed under: Autodidact, Idle Musings, SciencePosted on November 25th, 2008

TED of the day: Patient Capitalism

Your moment of thoughtiness for the day:
Jacqueline Novogratz discusses markets and foreign aid and underclass empowerment in Africa.  Worth every second.

No Comments »Filed under: Autodidact, Idle Musings, Public Policy, Unsavory ExcursionsPosted on November 21st, 2008
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