TEDWomen Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg looks at why a smaller percentage of women than men reach the top of their professions — and offers 3 powerful pieces of advice to women aiming for the C-suite.
TED2004 In James Howard Kunstler’s view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the common good. Instead, he argues, what we have in America is a nation of places not worth caring about. (An oldie but a goodie.)
TED2011 The Rediscovery of Wonder is coming up; February 28-March 4, 2011 in Long Beach. So this week, it’s all TED all the time. At TEDMED 2010, Thomas Goetz, the executive editor of Wired, redesigns your medical chart.
Naomi Klein and our addiction to risk. So what’s the backup plan?
The Botany of Desire – Trailer from Kikim Media on Vimeo.
Apples, Tulips, Marijuana and Potatoes and their evolutionary influence over us. The Botany of Desire examines this unique relationship through the stories of four familiar species, telling how each of them evolved to satisfy one of our most basic yearnings. Linking our fundamental desires for sweetness, beauty, intoxication and control with the plants that gratify them – The Botany of Desire shows that we humans are intricately woven into the web of nature, not standing outside it.
One major lesson: Monoculture = Bad. Who wants to live a place where everything is the same anyway?
Clay Shirky and Cognitive Surplus: the shared, online work we do with our spare brain cycles. His TED Talk looks at how we’re building a better, more cooperative world.
The Guardian reviews the book and Wired converses on the subject: the Great Spare-Time Revolution.
The shameless state of the incapable nation we call America.
My goodness, I think nothing will change, ever, until we finally and forever kill that very American notion of YOU TOO CAN BE RICH. You won’t because you can’t, this is America after all.
Designer Emily Pilloton moved to rural Bertie County, in North Carolina, to engage in a bold experiment of design-led community transformation. She’s teaching a design-build class called Studio H that engages high schoolers’ minds and bodies while bringing smart design and new opportunities to the poorest county in the state.
Re:Form School by The Masses from Redu on Vimeo.
“We have the ability to reshape what education is going to look like for the next 20 years.”
“When are you gonna demand from education what you demand from your remote control?”
TMF started out as a place for doers, dreamers, sketchers, crafters and mess-makers to congregate, get inspired and create. This current incarnation is a simple extension of that intent. A pathway from what is now, to what could be tomorrow. Onward!
