I WANT IT NOOOOOOOWWWW!!!

Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?

“If youre not prepared to be wrong, you’ll never be creative”

my kind of hotel

At Manhattan’s urbane Library Hotel at Madison Avenue and 41st Street, guest floors and rooms are keyed to classifications of the Dewey Decimal System. The room you get determines the subject of the reading material on built-in shelves.

leading proponent of the multiverse intrepretation of quantum theory…yeah I Knooow!

The TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference is an annual event where leading thinkers and doers gather for inspiration. Be dazled and awed by the sheer brain power of this guy as he “weaves a complex and captivating argument placing the study of physics at the center of our species’ survival”

former enviro skeptic eats humble pie!

Ok, I’m busted. I saw Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” at the cinema last week.
If you havent seen it, get a grip and get it on dvd or visit
http://www.climatecrisis.net/

Mysteries of computer from 65BC are solved

A 2,000-year-old mechanical computer salvaged from a Roman shipwreck has astounded scientists who have finally unravelled the secrets of how the sophisticated device works. The machine was lost among cargo in 65BC when the ship carrying it sank in 42m of water off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera. By chance, in 1900, a sponge diver called Elias Stadiatos discovered the wreck and recovered statues and other artifacts from the site.

Scans showed the device uses a differential gear, which was previously believed to have been invented in the 16th century. The level of miniaturisation and complexity of its parts is comparable to that of 18th century clocks. (The Guardian)

Further confirmation of my thesis that The Wright Brothers were not the first to fly, merely the first to be photographed flying. Why did technology like this die out? Because in my humble opinion there was no medium through which inventors could share and build on each others discoveries. Communications change everything.

Books I’ll be reccomending to My local Politicians in the run up to the election…

Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Public-health advocate Richard Jackson argues that the way we build cities and neighborhoods is the source of many chronic diseases.

The Eagle has risen: Stellar spire in the Eagle Nebula

Undoubtedly my favourite of the Top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is the Eagle Nebula

 ”Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.

Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighbourhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas. The tower may be a giant incubator for those newborn stars. A torrent of ultraviolet light from a band of massive, hot, young stars [off the top of the image] is eroding the pillar. “

weirdly inspiring for some reason…where the hell is Matt?

ye olde U Tube serving up another delicious dish of eclectic

Al Gore grew a funny bone in the wilderness

Check him out at the TED Conference (brilliant!)
Or on Saturday Night Live