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The Periodic Table Table

The Periodic Table Table: all the elements, in carved wooden glory. Some people collect stamps. Wolfram Research co-founder and author Theo Gray collects elements. Theo Gray is 2011 winner of the ACS Grady Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the … Continue reading

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Mike Rowe: America Has a Dysfunctional Relationship with Work

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Leo Buscaglia – Love Yourself, and the Magic Inside you is Released

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The Whitest Kids U’ Know – Pledge of Allegiance

This is not a form of brainwashing.

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Interactive Light Display Follows You

Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza’s Nervous Structure does anything but make me nervous. 144 lines projected on the wall move, bend and twist as people approach and play with them. Via Neatorama

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Leverage another person’s passion

If you are like me you don’t like preparing your tax returns. But you still have to prepare them. I don’t have a passion for preparing tax returns. Sandy Botkin does. So I leverage Sandy Botkin’s passion. As a result … Continue reading

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Solve for X: Neal Stephenson on getting big stuff done

Solve for X is a forum to encourage and amplify technology-based moonshot thinking and teamwork. For thousands of years the imagination of storytellers has been a guiding light for people trying to change the world. In the last decade or … Continue reading

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Everything is a Remix – Part 4

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A modest question or two or three…

Q: Why aren’t we energy independent and running our economy on 100% clean energy? A: It is not a matter of technical capacity. Its a matter of public will, political will, and financial will. Q: If we were energy independent … Continue reading

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Ben Lapps playing “The New Color”

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