Chris Anderson asked me to give a three minute talk at TED, based on my blog post, 12 Good Reasons to Learn Mandarin. I just… Read More »180 seconds to say whatever you want…

Roger Mandle, the president of the Rhode Island School of Design, is talking about Asia’s role in new product design. China is frenetically building design… Read More »Roger Mandle on Consilient Design

Penelope Boston believes there’s life on Mars. Specifically, she thinks it’s underground. With this in mind, she spends lots of her time exploring caves on… Read More »Penny Boston may be a Martian

Evidently, one of the speakers at last year’s TED was a speaking parrot… which didn’t speak, as it had laryngitis. This year, Chris and crew… Read More »Neil Gershenfeld is not a grey parrot

Joe Derisi is an associate professor at UC San Francisco and a Macarthur grant recipient. He’s interested in viruses – specifically the detection of viruses.… Read More »Joe Derisi and virus detection

The morning’s session is entitled “Small Miracle” and promises a series of talks about innovation on microscale. We lead off with Ethel, an innovative string… Read More »Alan Russell – Regrowing by Thinking Small