by JAK | Aug 18, 2012 | culture
On a recent trip I got to spend just over a day in Los Angeles. Previously my entire experience was of the airport as a transit point for other places in the world. But of course LA has beaches too and I was delighted to find out that I would be staying near one of...
by JAK | Aug 9, 2012 | big ideas, culture
In 2008 the California Academy of Science building opened. It was designed by architect Renzo Piano and has a living roof. This roof is covered in plants and has two distinctive domes on the roof. In sustainable design terms “The Academy is now the largest...
by JAK | Jul 31, 2012 | culture, development, TEDx
At TEDxSydney back in May of this year one of the quiet understated surprises was this geopolitical assessment of the changes to China, Australia and US foreign policy and economics and the background thinking that can help us make more sense of what this means in...
by JAK | Jul 29, 2012 | culture, swimming
I have been swimming at Bondi Beach and the Bondi pool before in the summer like many others. However I have always wanted to swim there in the winter for the full ice bergs experience. So on Friday 21st at 7:30am I took the plunge and swam 1 km with a friend. He had...
by JAK | Jul 18, 2012 | industry futures, TEDx
Talks from TEDxSydney are now up. Two of the most exciting ones for me and anyone interested in education thinking are the talk by Evan Kidd. And the talk by Chris Anderson which starts out “Teachers are heroes..” “Evan (Kidd_ argues that we need to...
