To help push some boundaries, TED 2012 is opening their stage to public speakers with innovative ideas and ways to present them.
Redefining Apathy
Dave Meslin claims voter apathy is not about laziness or being selfish. It is a systemic web of obstacles placed before us that discourages political action.
Big History
Last month, I wrote about educator David Christian’s TED talk for GeekDad. Earlier this week, the video of this talk was released.
Being Human
The Web Ecology Project recently completed a two-week social experiment where Twitter bots tried to pass as human. This reminded me of a couple other projects related to fakery on Twitter, Truthy and Cyc AI.
The Periodic Table of Little 500
Larry Buchanan of the IDS adapts the periodic table of elements to a form more appropriate for this week of Little 500.
Sweet!
Kevyn Smith and Jeremy Johnson have been turning tweets into songs for six months, but it took a fake snake to clue me in to @wesingyourtweets.
Spies Like Me
The Geek Zodiac replaces all those Chinese animals with stuff that matters to Geeks. I’m jealous of Archie’s sign: Time Traveler.