Name of Speaker, name of talk and URL:
Jessa Gamble: Our natural sleep cycle
Brief description or summary of talk:
This was a short discussion on how people react to sleep in different many surroundings. She gives several examples of species and plants along with humans on how their sleep patterns evolve with day light and darkness. She discuss mostly about our inner clock.
Your impressions of the talk including a discussion of what was most significant to you and why:
The talk felt as if she wasn't done it felt incomplete. How we all plants, humans, animals alike all evolve in some way, whether it be our sleeping pattern to how he do or act a certain way.
Three links associated with the individual or talk with the following information of each
Name of Link: Dr. Shock
URL of link: http://www.shockmd.com/2010/09/17/our-natural-sleep-cycle/
Name of Link: Magma
URL of link: http://mag.ma/roid/786326
Name of Link:
URL of link:
Brief Description of Links You-tube, shockmd, mag.ma, and several other websites show this video. They all show the exact video of Jessa Gamble talking about sleep.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows
Name of Speaker, name of talk and URL
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows | Video on TED.com
Brief description or summary of talk
This talk confirms my worst nightmare. That crows know what they are doing.
Joshua talks about how crows and other species that are not extinct should be used for other things and not just to be killed like pesky creatures. Crows try to figure things out they don't give up easily. Joshua has studied crows for 10 yrs. and had an idea to make a vending machine for crows. It goes in stages to train them to use coins to get their peanuts.
Your impressions of the talk including a discussion of what was most significant to you and why
It just confirms what I have always thought. I am scared of crows because they intimidating me. I always felt that they knew what they were doing and had plans. The most significant thing to me is actually taking this intelligent creature and turning it into a useful tool. I never really thought about how smart they could be or what they could be used for. Because I always felt the urge to run away or stay clear of them.
Three links associated with the individual or talk with the following information of each
Name of Link:
Joshua Klein Shows What Crows Can Do
URL of link
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15322
Brief Description of Link
Looks like a blog with the same video on it and a brief bio.
information of each
Name of Link:
TED 2008: Crow vending machine maker Joshua Klein
URL of link
http://boingboing.net/2008/02/29/ted-2008-crow-vendin.html
Brief Description of Link
Another blog with pictures of himself and another of the crow vending machine.
Name of Link:
Welcome to Josh.is
Hacking the future, one day at a time
URL of link
http://www.josh.is/
Brief Description of Link this is Joshua's own website that has links to his stuff like projects and information.
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows
Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows | Video on TED.com
Brief description or summary of talk
This talk confirms my worst nightmare. That crows know what they are doing.
Joshua talks about how crows and other species that are not extinct should be used for other things and not just to be killed like pesky creatures. Crows try to figure things out they don't give up easily. Joshua has studied crows for 10 yrs. and had an idea to make a vending machine for crows. It goes in stages to train them to use coins to get their peanuts.
Your impressions of the talk including a discussion of what was most significant to you and why
It just confirms what I have always thought. I am scared of crows because they intimidating me. I always felt that they knew what they were doing and had plans. The most significant thing to me is actually taking this intelligent creature and turning it into a useful tool. I never really thought about how smart they could be or what they could be used for. Because I always felt the urge to run away or stay clear of them.
Three links associated with the individual or talk with the following information of each
Name of Link:
Joshua Klein Shows What Crows Can Do
URL of link
http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/15322
Brief Description of Link
Looks like a blog with the same video on it and a brief bio.
information of each
Name of Link:
TED 2008: Crow vending machine maker Joshua Klein
URL of link
http://boingboing.net/2008/02/29/ted-2008-crow-vendin.html
Brief Description of Link
Another blog with pictures of himself and another of the crow vending machine.
Name of Link:
Welcome to Josh.is
Hacking the future, one day at a time
URL of link
http://www.josh.is/
Brief Description of Link this is Joshua's own website that has links to his stuff like projects and information.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Name of Speaker, name of talk and URL
Mark Roth, Mark Roth: Suspended animation is within our grasp,
http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_roth_suspended_animation.html
Brief description or summary of talk
Mark Roth discusses the idea of suspended animation. The process of reanimating a living creature and then reanimating it at a future date with no harmful side effects. The way he does this is by having the subject breath in a chemical known as Hydrogen Sulfide, which binds to our cells instead of oxygen, which reduces our need for air and allowing subjects to live in areas of extremely low oxygen content. All the subject needs to do to reanimate is simply be put out in the open air at room temperature, no complex recovery techniques required.
Your impressions of the talk including a discussion of what was most significant to you and why
The ability to effectively make a person immortal is awesome. This talks about a different way of suspended animation of which the only other way I knew of was with cryogenics. The implications in the medical field are miraculous, but only so if in Mark's words, "they become more common".
Name of Speaker, name of talk and URL
Peter Molyneux, Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy,
http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_molyneux_demos_milo_the_virtual_boy.html
Brief description or summary of talk
Peter Molyneux demos Milo, an advanced AI character that exists within a video game. In the demo Milo shows the ability to talk to and understand the player, learn and adapt to the choices and decisions him and the player make in his world. In a previous demo, Milo also shows the ability to take an item from the real world and copy its image to use in the game world.
Your impressions of the talk including a discussion of what was most significant to you and why
The advanced nature of AI in games is becoming very good and Milo proves it. Milo really shows the power of the Kinect camera and the ability to take outside objects into the ingame world is remarkable.
Three links associated with the individual or talk wih the following information of each
Name of Link:
Rumour: Project Milo cancelled
URL of link
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-09-23-rumour-project-milo-cancelled
Brief Description of Link
Project Milo rumored to be canceled.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Sebastian Seung
Sebastian Seung: I am my connectomes.
Sebastian Seung gives a funny, deeeeep look at neuro-connections in the brain. He shows how single neurons and synapses and brain chemicals work to facilitate thinking and how the act of thinking changes the brain itself.
As we change through childhood and grow older through adulthood, our personalities and identities, morph. What causes these changes and how will it affect me personally? I am especially interested in brain function and more importantly... dis-function, because of the age group I occupy and the fact that there will be so few to support so many in the coming years. The world is coming when those in "The Boomer" group will be “dependent” upon so few others, that I personally want to avoid this situation as long as possible. Understanding brain function (and what's coming) might just help.
Sebastian Seung Homepage
Find conact info and good links on this page.
H. Sebastian Seung Publications
Lists of publications by Dr. Seung
About BCS Research Academics
"Seeing Connectomes" Dr.Seung discusses the need for mapping brain function and the reasons new machines need to be developed.
Sebastian Seung gives a funny, deeeeep look at neuro-connections in the brain. He shows how single neurons and synapses and brain chemicals work to facilitate thinking and how the act of thinking changes the brain itself.
As we change through childhood and grow older through adulthood, our personalities and identities, morph. What causes these changes and how will it affect me personally? I am especially interested in brain function and more importantly... dis-function, because of the age group I occupy and the fact that there will be so few to support so many in the coming years. The world is coming when those in "The Boomer" group will be “dependent” upon so few others, that I personally want to avoid this situation as long as possible. Understanding brain function (and what's coming) might just help.
Sebastian Seung Homepage
Find conact info and good links on this page.
H. Sebastian Seung Publications
Lists of publications by Dr. Seung
About BCS Research Academics
"Seeing Connectomes" Dr.Seung discusses the need for mapping brain function and the reasons new machines need to be developed.
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer on Strange Beliefs
He talks about “strange beliefs”, things like seeing the virgin Mary on toast as being something that we want to believe is there, and that we take whatever it is and almost twist it to suit what we would like to see.
I agree with him that some things people want to believe in are things that we look to hard at and almost fool ourselves into believing. He had some lyrics to a song that he played backwards. The audience only caught the word “Satan”, but when he played the song backwards again, but this time presented a whole set of lyrics, the words that didn’t make sense, suddenly seemed crystal clear. That, and things like wanting to, and perhaps because it’s wired biologically into us to, see faces in things that don’t have a face (like Mars). That part of his talk I agree with. Other things he’s skeptic of, I tend to think that while no science can back it up yet, it shouldn’t be discounted. While I personally agree with some of his views, I think that he has long since decided to close off a certain degree of open-mindedness many people still have.
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
The work of Michael Shermer
It is his website. Specifically, this link is to his about page and shows books he’s written, education, and television programs he has been a part of.
Skeptic Magazine
The online front page of Skeptic magazine that Michael Shermer helped start. It is probably a very good representation of the things he believes (or rather doesn’t) in.
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
It’s the amazon.com page to buy Michael Shermer’s book “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”. The book itself seems to be a longer, better articulated version of his talk at TED.
Michael Shermer on Strange Beliefs
He talks about “strange beliefs”, things like seeing the virgin Mary on toast as being something that we want to believe is there, and that we take whatever it is and almost twist it to suit what we would like to see.
I agree with him that some things people want to believe in are things that we look to hard at and almost fool ourselves into believing. He had some lyrics to a song that he played backwards. The audience only caught the word “Satan”, but when he played the song backwards again, but this time presented a whole set of lyrics, the words that didn’t make sense, suddenly seemed crystal clear. That, and things like wanting to, and perhaps because it’s wired biologically into us to, see faces in things that don’t have a face (like Mars). That part of his talk I agree with. Other things he’s skeptic of, I tend to think that while no science can back it up yet, it shouldn’t be discounted. While I personally agree with some of his views, I think that he has long since decided to close off a certain degree of open-mindedness many people still have.
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
The work of Michael Shermer
It is his website. Specifically, this link is to his about page and shows books he’s written, education, and television programs he has been a part of.
Skeptic Magazine
The online front page of Skeptic magazine that Michael Shermer helped start. It is probably a very good representation of the things he believes (or rather doesn’t) in.
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
It’s the amazon.com page to buy Michael Shermer’s book “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”. The book itself seems to be a longer, better articulated version of his talk at TED.
Srikumar Rao
Srikumar Rao
Plug into your hard-wired happiness
Srikumar Rao explained that people spend most of their lives learning to be unhappy, even as they strive for happiness. He teaches people how to break free of the "I'd be happy if..." its a mental model and how to embrace your hard-wired happiness.
My impressions with this video was that it was a good way to show that people are always trying to find better happiness, when in reality they have it right there in front of them. Rao explained that people come up with these mental models of the world, like for example people always use the if...than...model than they will be happy. Models are flawed, he says that your actions are within your control, outcome is outside your control, people think of how to define their life, here I am... ,here is where I want to go... , & if I succeed... You want to invest in the process of your life not In the outcome, because your outcome could be totally different of what you wanted to happen, or vise versa. A question he told everyone was to ask yourself " Is this a journey I want to take, does this take me to a place I want to spend my time?" If you do find this, you will find that people you meet, movies you go to, books you read, and places you go everything changes, so begin by focusing on the process and not the outcome...
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
"The Pursuit of Happiness" was 2004's conference theme, TED speakers over many years have continued this quest, and what actually makes us happy.
Sometimes the best way to reach the right answer is to be unafraid of asking the question sideways. Take Jonathan Haidt, who looks to psychology to explain our current political climate.
It's important to step back and consider the engine that creates them: the human mind. How exactly does the brain, a three-pound snarl of electrochemically frantic nervous tissue, create inspired inventions, the feeling of hunger, the experience of beauty, or the sense of self, and how reliable is it?
Rob Dunbar
Rob Dunbar
Discovering ancient climates in oceans and ice
Rob Dunbar hunts for data on the climate from 12,000 years ago, finding clues inside ancient seabeds and corals and inside ice sheets. His work is vital in setting baselines for fixing our current climate and in tracking the rise of deadly ocean acidification.
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
A Taste of Mission Blue Voyage
April 6-10, 2010 a group of 100 scientists, activists and philanthropists set sail on an epic adventure into the blue. During five days of cruising the Galapagos Islands, we developed a new model of radical collaboration that could significantly impact the way we protect our oceans.
Dive into TED's archive of ocean talks of jaw-dropping dives into the deepest deeps, and learn more about the science (and math) of the sea.
Jeremy Jack : Marine Ecologist
Jeremy Jack is a leader in the study of the ecology and evolution of marine organisms, he is known for his deep understanding of geological time. He is a Ritter Professor of Oceanography and Director of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Painting pictures of changing marine environments, particularly coral reefs and the Isthmus of Panama, Jackson's research captures the extreme environmental decline of the oceans that has accelerated in the past 200 years.
Ted for Two
Sebastian Seung:I am my connectome
Mr. Seung hypothesizes that human memory and thought takes place inside the connections between the brain cells, not in the genome, and not in brain cells. He debates the wisdom of cryonics, given the fact that brain damage occurs at death. Scientists, he says, may be able to resurrect the body, but the connectomes (memory, experience, self, may be long destroyed.
I find his theory plausible and even highly likely. Holy writ does not teach the immortality of the soul, but rather that “all thoughts do perish” at death. I hope that mr Seung can accelerate his mapping techniques so we can see more evidence in our lifetime.
Three links associated with the individual or talk
Full bio and more links
Brief synopsis of the theory of connectomes and the work it was based upon.
Sebastian Seung's Home Page
Basically a bio of mr. seung that details his accomplishments, publications and theories.
NEURAL CIRCUITS, BRAIN MAPPING, BRAIN ATLAS ...
The full meal deal including the connectome,Neural segmentation challenge,Fibre pathways,Connectomics software.
Henry Markram
Supercomputing the brain’s secrets
Mr Markram began by trying to describe how a brain creates reality. He goes on to discuss the logistics of simulating just one dendrite. “You need an entire laptop to recreate one dendrite, and there are 10,000 of them, so you need 10,000 laptops, or you go to IBM. He forsees a time in the furure when he will dispatch a fully sentient hologram to TED to deliver his recitation.
I appreciated the parts of his talk that actually dovetails with mr. Seung’s theories of connectomes. He has actually measured spikes in brain function BETWEEN the cells. Very interesting stuff!
Three links associated with the individual or talk
Full bio and more links
Describes Ted’s work and ambitions including the 3d modeling of human brain function and goals of contributing towards more humanesque robotics.
Henry Markram's page at EPFL
Basically a bio of mr. Markram that details his accomplishments, inventions and theories.
The Blue Brain Project homepage
Detailing the project from modeling rat brains to it’s lofty ideals of recreating a human brain independent of human life.
Bill Gross
Bill Gross (Feb. 2003)
Bill Gross on new energy
Talks about his dream to convert solar energy at a practical cost. His pursuit to capitalize on a pending California energy crisis in 2000 by building something that could give people back-up energy in case the energy crisis occurred. Demonstrates his "sunflower" collector design and explains that the ROI for most solar collecting systems is decades where as his hope is that his final design brings that down to @ 5 years. Revisiting old ideas, even discarded ideas, in a new light by applying new technologies, may result in practical results.
I found this talk very interesting. While I am ignorant regarding most of the technical explanations and references, there were times when they were brought into "laymen's" terms. The most interesting fact that I took from this talk and will stay with me, is that the most important catalyst to the creation of the "sunflower" collector design is the use of a genetic algorithm. Using what is found in nature and giving it a twist in the process of seeking improved technological solutions just makes sense.
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
Idealab
Link to 'Idealab', the company Bill Gross founded in March 1996 to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. Multiple links to interesting facts about the company. Particularly liked the 'Introduction' and 'Inside the Lab' sections.
Energy Innovations Home
Link to 'energyinnovations', which was also founded by Bill Gross based on an original concept developed at Idealab. Also with multiple links to interesting facts about the company. Hard sell on the 'Sunflower' HCPV with it being the main focus on sceen #1.
Vesta l Wind. It means the world to us. l Frontpage
Link to 'vestas', which relates to the talk in that there was a comparison made between solar and wind energy ROI, so I wanted to see statistically how the biggest local wind energy company rated. After searching for a time, I couldn't locate this data on the website. What I did find was, that for residential locations, it takes around 5 to 8 years for a return on investment.
Bill Gross on new energy
Talks about his dream to convert solar energy at a practical cost. His pursuit to capitalize on a pending California energy crisis in 2000 by building something that could give people back-up energy in case the energy crisis occurred. Demonstrates his "sunflower" collector design and explains that the ROI for most solar collecting systems is decades where as his hope is that his final design brings that down to @ 5 years. Revisiting old ideas, even discarded ideas, in a new light by applying new technologies, may result in practical results.
I found this talk very interesting. While I am ignorant regarding most of the technical explanations and references, there were times when they were brought into "laymen's" terms. The most interesting fact that I took from this talk and will stay with me, is that the most important catalyst to the creation of the "sunflower" collector design is the use of a genetic algorithm. Using what is found in nature and giving it a twist in the process of seeking improved technological solutions just makes sense.
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
Idealab
Link to 'Idealab', the company Bill Gross founded in March 1996 to create and build successful businesses that capitalize on innovations in areas with significant growth opportunities, including the Internet. Multiple links to interesting facts about the company. Particularly liked the 'Introduction' and 'Inside the Lab' sections.
Energy Innovations Home
Link to 'energyinnovations', which was also founded by Bill Gross based on an original concept developed at Idealab. Also with multiple links to interesting facts about the company. Hard sell on the 'Sunflower' HCPV with it being the main focus on sceen #1.
Vesta l Wind. It means the world to us. l Frontpage
Link to 'vestas', which relates to the talk in that there was a comparison made between solar and wind energy ROI, so I wanted to see statistically how the biggest local wind energy company rated. After searching for a time, I couldn't locate this data on the website. What I did find was, that for residential locations, it takes around 5 to 8 years for a return on investment.
Philip Zimbardo
Philip Zimbardo
How People Become Monsters…or Heroes
Zimbardo talks about how it seems so easy for some one nice to turn “evil”. He uses examples from Stanly Milgram’s experiments, his own Staford Prison experiment and the Abu Ghraib trials. How it isn’t necessarily the people are “rotten apples”, but that the situation they are placed in facilitates the “evil” actions.
I like Zimbardo and most of his viewpoints about psychology. In this particular subject, I agree completely with him. I think the most significant point he brought up throughout was that while in some cases the evil actions people took may have started from lack of authority and enforcement of rules from a higher structure of things, sometimes it’s the authority figures who start the evil actions and they use their authority to get normally “nice” people to cooperate. He used the Holocaust and Stanley Milgram’s experiment as examples of blindly following orders. Even what happened at Abu Ghraib to an extent (they were told to “take the gloves off”). While other situations like the Stanford Prison experiment, seemed to come out of a lack of higher authority. Either way, it suggests that the institution isn’t perfect and can be an opportunity for people to do evil things.
Three links associated with the individual or talk
Philip Zimbardo’s home page
Zimbardo’s own website with information about him and his works as well as links to things like interviews.
The Lucifer Effect
The website version of his book by the same name, the Lucifer Effect is the long, more elaborate version of his TED talk. He references The Lucifer Effect several times in his talk.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
The link to The Lucifer Effect book through Google books. It provides a portion of the book that you can read.
How People Become Monsters…or Heroes
Zimbardo talks about how it seems so easy for some one nice to turn “evil”. He uses examples from Stanly Milgram’s experiments, his own Staford Prison experiment and the Abu Ghraib trials. How it isn’t necessarily the people are “rotten apples”, but that the situation they are placed in facilitates the “evil” actions.
I like Zimbardo and most of his viewpoints about psychology. In this particular subject, I agree completely with him. I think the most significant point he brought up throughout was that while in some cases the evil actions people took may have started from lack of authority and enforcement of rules from a higher structure of things, sometimes it’s the authority figures who start the evil actions and they use their authority to get normally “nice” people to cooperate. He used the Holocaust and Stanley Milgram’s experiment as examples of blindly following orders. Even what happened at Abu Ghraib to an extent (they were told to “take the gloves off”). While other situations like the Stanford Prison experiment, seemed to come out of a lack of higher authority. Either way, it suggests that the institution isn’t perfect and can be an opportunity for people to do evil things.
Three links associated with the individual or talk
Philip Zimbardo’s home page
Zimbardo’s own website with information about him and his works as well as links to things like interviews.
The Lucifer Effect
The website version of his book by the same name, the Lucifer Effect is the long, more elaborate version of his TED talk. He references The Lucifer Effect several times in his talk.
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
The link to The Lucifer Effect book through Google books. It provides a portion of the book that you can read.
Sebastian seung
I am my connectome
Sebastian seung talks about connectomes which are like a roadmap for our brain.
connectomes are unique for every person just like or DNA.
It's possible that this is where memories are stored.
seung lab
linkIt's his departments home page at the university he teaches at.
it has links for publications and there research documents.
a short bio
linkSebastian Seung on connectomics
link
a blog entry about his video on ted talks
David Carson
David Carson (Feb. 2003) Blog entry by Michael McFarland
David Carson on design + discovery
Carson talks about how great design is a never-ending journey of discovery. He presented many of his own and discovered works of graphic design.
I was captivated from the first few seconds. What I found most significant was the notion and idea that there is great power and emotion in graphic design. In addition, the idea that you have to utilize who you are in your work. No one else can pull from your life experience and if you allow to happen, you'll create work that is not only unique but also the most satisfying. These concepts or ideas are important to me because I feel as though my past career experiences have been less about passion and personal satisfaction but rather more about fiscal stability and responsibility.
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
dcd
David Carsons' website. Bio, gallery and client lists. Screen #1 has one of my favorite quotes. It is 'THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID' quote.
Raygun - Live Action + Motion Design + Editorial
Link to 'raygun', which is a website based on the magazine first published in 1992 and led by Art Director David Carson. As to be expected, the site is very graphic and eclectic.
The History of Visual Communication
Link to a link within 'citrinitas', which relates to the talk in this site reviews not only the history of visual communication but also touches base on the emotional impact it has.
David Carson on design + discovery
Carson talks about how great design is a never-ending journey of discovery. He presented many of his own and discovered works of graphic design.
I was captivated from the first few seconds. What I found most significant was the notion and idea that there is great power and emotion in graphic design. In addition, the idea that you have to utilize who you are in your work. No one else can pull from your life experience and if you allow to happen, you'll create work that is not only unique but also the most satisfying. These concepts or ideas are important to me because I feel as though my past career experiences have been less about passion and personal satisfaction but rather more about fiscal stability and responsibility.
Three links associated with the individual or talk:
dcd
David Carsons' website. Bio, gallery and client lists. Screen #1 has one of my favorite quotes. It is 'THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID' quote.
Raygun - Live Action + Motion Design + Editorial
Link to 'raygun', which is a website based on the magazine first published in 1992 and led by Art Director David Carson. As to be expected, the site is very graphic and eclectic.
The History of Visual Communication
Link to a link within 'citrinitas', which relates to the talk in this site reviews not only the history of visual communication but also touches base on the emotional impact it has.
2 Ted talks, concerning gaming and how it could effect the world
I CAN BLOG!!!! badly....
Jesse Schell
When games invade real life
Jesse Schell when games invade real life
He starts by talking about some surprising games that have made a lot of money, the psychology behind them, and certain advertising strategies. He then goes into how games are important to humans, and how they might become an even bigger part of daily life.
One thing he said really resonated with me, because I've thought it myself many times in recent times. He talked about people wanting things that are real. How we deal with everything artificial in daily life, and couldn't survive in the wild even if we wanted to.
Jane McGonigal
Gaming can make a better world
Jane Mcgonigal gaming can make a better world
Jane believes that through gaming (mainly online) "gamers" (those who spend a lot of time playing) have actually learned skills that can be used to change real world issues, such as world hunger, and the like.
At first I was bothered when she said that worldwide we play about 3 billion hours a week, and she wants to bump it up to about. 21 billion hours a week. However, she makes a point that what gamers have gotten out of gaming, has made them into a resource that we can use. In a crazy sort of way she actually made a lot of sense. Definitely a weird idea that I'll have to keep an eye on.
I CAN BLOG!!!! badly....
Jesse Schell
When games invade real life
Jesse Schell when games invade real life
He starts by talking about some surprising games that have made a lot of money, the psychology behind them, and certain advertising strategies. He then goes into how games are important to humans, and how they might become an even bigger part of daily life.
One thing he said really resonated with me, because I've thought it myself many times in recent times. He talked about people wanting things that are real. How we deal with everything artificial in daily life, and couldn't survive in the wild even if we wanted to.
Jane McGonigal
Gaming can make a better world
Jane Mcgonigal gaming can make a better world
Jane believes that through gaming (mainly online) "gamers" (those who spend a lot of time playing) have actually learned skills that can be used to change real world issues, such as world hunger, and the like.
At first I was bothered when she said that worldwide we play about 3 billion hours a week, and she wants to bump it up to about. 21 billion hours a week. However, she makes a point that what gamers have gotten out of gaming, has made them into a resource that we can use. In a crazy sort of way she actually made a lot of sense. Definitely a weird idea that I'll have to keep an eye on.
Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
Exploring TED Talks
Live Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
This talk was about defining the area of objects that can’t easily be defined. I liked this TED Talk. I chose it because it was a subject I knew I would have a hard time understanding. The speaker was engaging and had a good sense of humor.
I didn’t think I knew anything about what the speaker was talking about, however near the end he showed something I have seen before. The Mandelbrot Curve is something they start to talk about when you watch shows about crop circles. I thought it was funny that he made fun of this fact too. Even though I still don’t really understand what he was talking about I still enjoyed the talk.
A few more resources about the speaker:
1. Yale Math- Benoit Mandelbrot
Yale Math Department
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics Department - Yale University
E-mail: benoit.mandelbrot@yale.edu
2. Benoit Mandelbrot Biography.
Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry. He showed how fractals can occur in many different places in both mathematics and elsewhere in nature.
3. Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007.
Art Contest using Benoit’s principals and continuing efforts to promote fractal and algorithmic art
Live Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness
This talk was about defining the area of objects that can’t easily be defined. I liked this TED Talk. I chose it because it was a subject I knew I would have a hard time understanding. The speaker was engaging and had a good sense of humor.
I didn’t think I knew anything about what the speaker was talking about, however near the end he showed something I have seen before. The Mandelbrot Curve is something they start to talk about when you watch shows about crop circles. I thought it was funny that he made fun of this fact too. Even though I still don’t really understand what he was talking about I still enjoyed the talk.
A few more resources about the speaker:
1. Yale Math- Benoit Mandelbrot
Yale Math Department
Sterling Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Sciences Mathematics Department - Yale University
E-mail: benoit.mandelbrot@yale.edu
2. Benoit Mandelbrot Biography.
Benoit Mandelbrot was largely responsible for the present interest in fractal geometry. He showed how fractals can occur in many different places in both mathematics and elsewhere in nature.
3. Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest 2007.
Art Contest using Benoit’s principals and continuing efforts to promote fractal and algorithmic art
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