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As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.
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An oyster reef costs about the same amount of money – $1 million per mile – as a sea wall. So as an infrastructure investment, it’s a tie. But when […]
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We know that the dark matter has to be pretty cold – moving so slowly that its motion hardly matters – and that allows us to predict in great detail […]
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Eric Siegel never thought he would experience a machine acting in a way that he would subjectively consider to be intelligent. IBM’s Watson, however, changed all of that.
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Gardiner, author of the new book, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, has a unique perspective on Bach. He is both a historian and a world-renowned conductor who has […]
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Free always wins over something that costs something.
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In the United States we have shamefully convinced most high school students that they either need to go to Harvard or they need to go to McDonald’s.
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We are seeing students and teachers using technology-enabled tools that make learning more real time, more powerful, and it gives them access to things they wouldn’t have had access to […]
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Insurance is what you buy when you don’t know if something bad is going to happen. Maybe I’ll crash my car. Maybe I won’t. I don’t know. So I’m going […]
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Consider how much more beautiful and authentic and sophisticated and accurate our world would become if we could appreciate the key terminologies of all cultures.
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Why are we so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.
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The hacker Kevin Mitnick says he treated his fugitive status like a big video game.
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Bayes’ Rule is a formalization of how to change your mind when you learn new information about the world or have new experiences.
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Our phones are starting to know us better than we know ourselves. They’re starting to see patterns that we don’t detect on a day-by-day basis, but the phone sees this […]
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If we want to get serious about improving the quality of education globally, we need to improve the professional status of teachers. In a new study by The Varkey GEMS […]
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The sunk cost fallacy means making a choice not based on what outcome you think is going to be the best going forward but instead based on a desire not […]
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The more players that want to create original content and finance it the more exciting it is in the world of ideas.
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Lawrence Krauss describes quantum computing and the technical obstacles we need to overcome to realize this Holy Grail of processing.
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The basic technologies to enable us to look inside the brain and see its functioning are growing exponentially. And they’re at a point now where we can actually see individual interneural connections forming and firing.
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Elon Musk tends to be interested in industries that “a lot of people think are impossible or think you can’t succeed at – that’s usually where there’s opportunity.”
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You’re not going to walk into these big offices with 2,000 people in the future.
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How donut sellers in New York City, the rock band Radiohead and the country of Indonesia make breakthroughs by giving trust away.
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John Seely Brown talks about the need for organizations to create scalable learning in this recent commencement address at Singapore Management University.
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John Seely Brown receives an honorary degree from Singapore Management University.
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What do you want your brand to capture? And who knows about your brand? Is it just your immediate work team, is it people outside?
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Most people are conflict-averse, so if you express anger and use strong words, most people will back off.
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Thought experiment: can we communicate across species in a way that might facilitate a greater deeper relationship between us.
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Renowned psychologist and emotion-guru Paul Ekman describes how introducing conscious awareness to facial expressions can help one override and control their emotions.
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Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss explains the different types of nothing. Or something.
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