by JAK | Dec 21, 2016 | culture, music
Imagine if we lived in a country where 160,000 kids learned songwriting each week and a few hundred of them even got paid and made a living at it? Sounds far fetched? Apparently around 160,000 New Zealanders play rugby every weekend. I’m guessing most of them...
by JAK | Feb 27, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
The TED2013 Prize has been awarded to Sugata Mitra for his projects on self organised learning systems. The prize has just been awarded less than an hour ago so here are a couple of slides and links till the clip from today becomes available. Note: now updated with...
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...
by JAK | Mar 10, 2011 | big ideas, TED
Last week was the annual TED conference 2011 in Monterey. Would have loved to be there but lucky for us David Cowan was and he wrote up his TED Talks 2011 guide over here – David said “The 2011 speaker lineup lived up to prior years. You can never tell...
by JAK | Jun 16, 2007 | big ideas, culture, TED
We have been watching a DVD on the life of Leonardo da Vinci which featured animations of some of the machines that he designed about 500 years ago. A remarkable life for a remarkable man – full of amazing insights. My 5 yr old daughter recognised some of the...
