Last week Richard Branson offered up $25 million to the scientist (or scientists) who could find a way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. (I tried to find a definitive link to the story, but all my Googling did was bring up op-ed pieces and blogs.)
It seems only fair. Since the Industrial Revolution we have been finding increasingly more efficient ways of polluting the planet, why not turn some of that human ingenuity towards cleaning up the place?
Which is not to say that we shouldn’t, you know, maybe stop doing a lot of the things we do that got us into this mess. Read More …
February 13th, 2007
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The TED conference is an annual showcase of ideas around technology, entertainment, and design. Speakers have a limited time, between 15 and 20 minutes for the majority, to get their ideas across. This time constraint means that most of them are remarkably concise and articulate.
Speakers range from Al Gore to Peter Gabriel to David Pogue.
The talks are available as podcasts from tedtalks. Because they’re so short, they don’t require a vast committment of time and from what I’ve seen so far, they’re thought-provoking and entertaining.
December 7th, 2006
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