Talent
Periodic Table of Experts
If you are looking for interesting experts (or interesting websites), check out Make: Technology on Your Time, which has a series of experts explaining their passions. Watch Bruce Hood from the University of Bristol talk about the supernatural: or Fiorenzo Omenetto, a professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University who loves silk: or Theodore Gray [...]
How to Make Love to Adrian Colesberry
Adrian Colesberry is a biomedical engineer with a failed marriage behind him and a new career in front of him as a comedian, sexpert (he’s a volunteer sex ed teacher in high schools) and film extra (Spiderman, Entourage, Boston Legal and ER). Whilst not doing much on set, he wrote a “dirty, dirty book” called [...]
MacArthur Fellows
Every year 24 outstanding US citizens are awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants of $500,000 over five years that they can use at their discretion. Winners are confidentially nominated and know nothing of the process until they receive a call telling them they’ve been selected. This years lucky recipients include an ornithologist, an evolutionary biologist, a biogeochemist [...]
Top Twitterers in Academia
Current has published a list of the top 100 US professors who twitter, including: @sreenet: Sree Sreenivasan a journalism professor at Columbia who tweets technology and media news. @PaulLev: Paul Levinson NYC-based sci fi writer @alicejrobison: Associate professor at Arizona State who tweets about social media and video games. @urbanexus: H. Pike Oliver tweets about urban [...]
America’s Got Talent: Kaitlyn Maher, 4-yrs-old
After all the hand-wringing at Edinburgh International TV Festival about the pressures on children such as 10-yr-old Hollie Steel on Britain’s Got Talent, it might be time to revisit Kaitlyn Maher who was the 4yr-old top ten finalist in America’s Got Talent 2008. A year on, she’s got a debut album, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and [...]
Mad about Tools
Peter Atwood seems to be a man not affected by the recession, as his work is in so much demand that he has to hold a lottery for people on his constant waiting list. He’s a toolmaker, who makes custom knives, pocket tools and key rings. His philosophy is: “if you aren’t carrying it then [...]
Do Lectures
Do Lectures – If you feel like you need some inspiration to get off your arras and do something head down to Cardigan Bay in West Wales on 3rd September for five days of inspirational talks in a woodland setting. Well, actually you can’t because you have to apply in advance and go into a [...]
40 Farmers Under40
Mother Nature Network has published a list of 40 [American] Farmers Under 40: from sheep farmers, to a herb farmer and a truck farmer (yes, you read right). They all look very wholesome and smiley, and wear a lot of hats. Hat tip to PSFK
Damon Weaver Interviews the President
Damon Weaver got the interview many journalists would would give their right arm for: The President of the United States. What’s more remarkable than the scoop is that Damon is only 11-years-old. He was reporting for his school’s TV station and has now shot to fame courtesy of YouTube. He’s also received a scholarship offer [...]
Undercover theatre
In Washington DC, unsuspecting shoppers, diners or park goers can find themselves suddenly witnessing what appears to be a shoot out or someone being chased by federal agents, but it’s all part of a new kind of street theatre, dubbed ‘threat theatre’ in which the audience are extraneous. The point is not to entertain, but [...]
