Archive for June, 2011
TEDxSMU Tuesday 6.28.11
Janine Benyus Biomimicry Institute Biomimicry Guild AskNature.org Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (book) E.O. Wilson’s Encyclopedia of Life Companies Using Biomimicry in Design Calera Corporation Sequestering CO2 in the Built Environment Sharklet Technologies Sharklet™ is the world’s first technology to inhibit bacterial growth through pattern alone. The antimicrobial Sharklet surface is comprised of millions [...]
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Rabbi David Stern Rabbi Abraham Heschel Abraham Joshua Heschel was a Polish-born American rabbi and one of the leading Jewish theologians and Jewish philosophers of the 20th century. Rabbi Heschel marched with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma in 1965. Heschel later wrote, “When I marched in Selma, my feet were praying.” Man’s Search for [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 6.14.11
Are You More Than the Sum of Your Parts? Sebastian Seung, PhD Professor of Computational Neuroscience Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Emergence In philosophy, systems theory, science, and art, emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. Emergence is central to the theories of integrative levels [...]
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Burt Rutan Burt Rutan is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important industrial designers, and his prolific contributions to air- and spacecraft design have driven the industry forward for decades. His two companies, Rutan Aircraft Factory and Scaled Composites, have developed and flight-tested more new types of aircraft than the rest of the [...]
Read moreTEDxSMU Tuesday 5.31.11
Eli Pariser The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You What the Ultra-Personalized Internet Is Hiding from You, Good, May 20, 2011 “Most of us assume that when we google a term, we all see the same results—the ones that the company’s famous PageRank algorithm suggests are the most authoritative based on other [...]
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