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Krossing the Bridge From Good to Great
Jun 23rd
Krossover Breaks Down Sports Video for Statistics and Game Improvement Athletics now has an easier way of tracking team statistics and reviewing video highlights with Krossover, who’s Sports Intelligence Platform is the first of its kind, allowing coaches to search through their video footage, and dynamically generate statistics, all in an online platform. “The big
The Best in Original Web Series
Jun 14th
Blip.tv takes online video to a new level by turning it into an industry User-generated content is still a good thing and it’s still going. But what about those users that are consistently generating quality videos, and have actually developed an audience around that content? Well, Blip.tv is the place for them. Blip.tv is the
Is There Something Called Plant Intelligence?
Oct 17th
What do I say – discovery has no bounds and Prof. Stefano Mancuso seems to have stumbled upon something very very intriguing. While plants have always been considered passive living beings, Stefano shows us why they are not passive and how this new found “intelligence” can be harnessed. How about a plant powered moon rover? Video after the break
The Ponzi Scheme Infographic
Sep 30th
Hey, seen that movie – “The Other Guys”?. The movie about busting a super ponzi scheme? The movie that was released a little too late to make some money? The movie itself is stupidly shot but the movie’s credits is something you should take a look at. The credits tell you how a ponzi scheme works and tells you how the economy collapsed about a years ago – all in classic infographic style. Video after the break.
It’s a “Hole in the Wall” experiment
Sep 9th
Just put a computer in urban slum and see what happens. That’s exactly what education researcher Sugata Mitra did. A computer, with internet access and a touch pad, was installed in a hole in the wall in a slum in New Delhi. It was about three feet above the ground, and a video camera was placed so Mitra and the other researchers could watch what the children would do. The result is nothing short of phenomenal: Even in the absence of any direct input from a teacher, an environment that stimulates curiosity can cause learning through self-instruction and peer-shared knowledge. This was further demonstrated when Mitra had 10-12 year old students non-English speakers find answers to questions on Google and learn biotechnology, in English. Just goes to show that we don’t give children the credit they are due. Video after the break.
Infovideo: Asteroids Discovered In The Last 30 Years
Sep 3rd
The last 30 years (1980 – 2010) have really been massive for the space science community. We have discovered and documented more heavenly bodies in the last 30 years than mankind has in documented history. Ted Bowell and Associates created the asteroid orbital elements database to precisely track every asteroid that we have discovers in the last 30 years. All this has culminated in a brilliant video that can be considered a time lapse video of asteroids and their movement within the solar system in relation to the planets. So, how many asteroids did we discover in 30 years? About 500,000 o them. Video after the break.
Video: The Empathic Civilization
Sep 3rd
Is self-interest an inherent characteristic in humans, or is it something we can move past? Political adviser Jeremy Rifkin argues for the latter, saying that over the course of human history, humankind has extended its circle of empathy as their day-to-day world got larger and larger. Or as Rifkin, the president of the Foundation on Economic Trends and the author of 17 bestselling books, posits, “Can we reach biosphere consciousness and global empathy in time to avert planetary collapse? He also says, “The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.” In a sense, it would be to our best self-interest to be interested in others. Video after the break
Keep it 100
Sep 3rd
Human consumption has skyrocketed since the 50s. How do we slow it down? World Wildlife Fund vice-president Jason Clay suggests that leveraging 100 key companies to move towards sustainable practices would help consumers consumer less and do more with less. Clay’s goal is to “create global standards for producing and using raw materials, particularly in terms of carbon and water.” Why these 100 companies? They control 25 percent of the production of 15 key commodities, like beef, salmon, cocoa, and palm oil. Such big shareholders of such markets want to remain so, and want product to be there so they could stay in business. Clay’s approach is pre-competitive, working with these folks from the beginning before products hit the shelves. He’s already worked with 40 of the these companies to come to an agreement. He’s going to work with another 40, and use that 80 to convince the other 20. This way, consumers don’t have to do a thing to go sustainable. They won’t have any other choice. Video after the break.
A picture is worth a 1000 bits of information
Aug 26th
In the midst of the information age, keeping track of it all can be very difficult to do, whether it’s on paper or in our heads. Well, journalist David McCandless has come up with something beautiful: infographs. These are visual representations of information, revealing hidden patterns and grouping different sets of information in ways that couldn’t be possible without his colorful pictures. McCandless’ work can be found at www.informationisbeautiful.net (as well as his two books. They are picture books for intelligent adults. A must buy). And be inspired with his recent
Video: Like ogres, our world has layers
Aug 24th
And the next layer in progress is the “game layer”, where game dynamics will be used to reshape education and commerce and drive our behavior and human interactions. Entrepreneur Seth Priebatsch demonstrates…
