I don’t know if the “invention of the year” deserves its title (cool though it may be), but some of the other inventions on here are really incredible. I especially like the “Cars & Buses”, “Law & Order”, and “Environment” categories.
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From the monthly archives:
November 2007
Garr Reynolds from Presentation Zen (Yes, I read a blog about presentations. Big deal. It’s interesting, OK?) posted about a TED Talks presentation by Larry Lessig, a Stanford Law professor and authority on copyright issues. I’ve embedded the TED Talks video below:
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Thanks to my cousin, Brock, for this link. He especially liked the “Child and Youth Studies” shirts.
Did you know “Brock” means “badger”? Brilliant.
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This article was in The Onion recently. I liked it so much that I bookmarked it so that I could go back and re-read it every once and a while. In this way, I would be reminded of how the meeting of science and politics can be so painfully, frustratingly humorous.
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Because I don’t want to risk losing anyone by making you read this, the short version is: go here and sign up. Now the long version:
Many of you (if I can characterize the number of people who read this blog as “many”) have probably heard of the ONE Campaign before. But just in case you don’t know much about it, ONE is, in its own words, a “campaign to make poverty history”.
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Been listening to this one a lot, pretty much the whole way through.
This novel was published after the Chilean-Mexican author's death, and I'm not even sure if it was entirely finished or not. It is broken up into five parts which, while connected, stand pretty much on there own. I have not yet made it to the grim part about the murders of hundreds of women in Mexico, so I have so far found it enjoyable and even funny despite some dark underpinnings. It's had a ton of critical praise, and I like it much more than my last foray into the violent novel genre: Blood Meridian.