by JAK | Jun 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture, music, TEDx
Yesterday New Zealanders had an extremely rare chance to watch the planet Venus in transit across the face of the Sun on Wednesday the 6th of June. This opportunity will not occur again for 105 years. “From 10:15am until 4:43pm, viewers will be able to observe a...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2012 | big ideas, music, TEDx
I heard Linh speak in Sydney a week or so back and she is now 21 and still going strong. Here she is at TEDxChCh – Linh Do – Defying Social Norms for Social Change – from Oct 2010. “In this talk, Linh Do asks some important questions: What is...
by JAK | Jun 5, 2012 | big ideas, TED
I have been waiting all my adult life for Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” book. Anyone who can link the world of psychology and economics is a hero to me. For Daniel to research along these lines for 40+ years – a Nobel prize doesn’t...
by JAK | Jun 2, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED
One way that newspapers and other media try to manage a lot of information is by making an infographic or diagram. This type of visual “map” often helps the media to convey complex ideas more quickly and makes it easier for most of us to process....
by JAK | Jun 1, 2012 | big ideas, TED
Last weekend besides TEDxSydney on the Sunday we had the delight to be part of TED@Sydney Talent Search. 20+ would be speakers did 6 minute versions of TED talks with the prize being a chance to do a talk on the main TED stage next Feb at the main event. What I loved...
by JAK | May 27, 2012 | big ideas, TEDx
Yesterday I was at TEDxSydney live at the Carriageworks and it was a completely mind-blowing, epic, energising and surprisingly musical day. Unusually for me I left my twitter off and instead plugged straight into the equivalent of an 829 brain mega parrallel organic...
