Randall Munroe draws a picture of our future using Google searches for the next 90 years. I doubt I’ll live to see Gillette’s 14-bladed razor.
Open Mic Night for TED
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.
Ode to Jabberwocky
Carter memorized Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky this week, and then wrote a tribute:
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.