I'll post a March Meeting update later, but if you like your conferences a little more wide-ranging, Ethan Zuckerman provides extensive reporting from the TED Conference. The speakers range from Steven Pinker and Murray Gell-Mann to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, so there's a little something for everyone.
- Log in to post comments
More like this
FemaleScienceProfessor: The Five Stages of Proposal Writing
Six, if you live in a trailer park.
(tags: academia science economics)
slacktivist: Bacchanal
"I haven't seen Prince Caspian yet, but since it was the "No. 1 Movie" this weekend, let's revisit what that wonderful little book was about…
Murray Gell-Mann always makes me laugh. Via Asymptotia here is what Murray said while giving a Ted talk:
I won't go into a lot of stuff about quantum mechanics and what it's like and so on...you've heard a lot of wrong things about it anyway!
Which got me wondering: is more said which is wrong…
Peter Irons wrote a letter to Murray Gell-Mann.
Dear Dr. Gell-Mann,
You may (or may not) know that Stuart Pivar has included on the jacket and promotional materials for his new book, On the Origin of Form, a purported endorsement by you of the book, which reads: "This is the discovery of the…
My son (13) is in his physics phase. As a biologist, I don't know much about physics beyond college classes, but our home library is huge, so he managed to dig out a bunch of physics-related books. Some he read, others he skimmed, and now he wants more. He is interested in everything - gravity,…
For what it's worth, TED makes all their presentations available as video podcasts, released over the course of the next year.
http://ted.com/tedtalks/
I subscribe with iTunes, and some of them are really good. They certainly manage to collect a lot of the world's movers and shakers in one place.