by Jared | Mar 10, 2008 | Learning & Education
“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” “Intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or...
by Jared | Mar 7, 2008 | Learning & Education
Randy Pausch delivered his Last Public Lecture, entitled ‘Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams’ at CMU on September 18, 2007. This talk was modeled after an ongoing series of lectures where top academics are asked to think deeply about what matters to...
by Jared | Mar 6, 2008 | Innovative Projects
The GATR-Com is the brainchild of engineer Paul Gierow, who spent 20 years developing large deployable space antennas for NASA. It’s an ultralight, ultraportable antenna tucked inside an inflatable shell that can pull down a superfast broadband satellite...
by Jared | Mar 5, 2008 | Learning & Education
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter takes a break from his epic round-the-world expedition to talk about the millions of genes his team has discovered so far, in their quest to map the ocean’s hidden biodiversity. (Quite a task, when you consider that there are tens...
by Jared | Mar 4, 2008 | Wildlife & Nature
The 150 million-year-old specimen was found on Spitspergen, in the Arctic island chain of Svalbard, in 2006. The Jurassic-era leviathan is one of 40 sea reptiles from a fossil “treasure trove” uncovered on the island. Nicknamed “The Monster”,...
