This is an excellent talk by brain expert, Vilayanur Ramachandran. He gets a standing ovation at the end for good reason! He is a great speaker. In this talk he discusses the research being done using specific brain injuries to map the brain but also goes into some fascinating rehabilitation techniques that he has developed. [...]
Recently I was introduced to an amazing short video by Michael Wesch. Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impacts of new media on human interaction also known as Digital Ethnography. He is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. The video was created by using CamStudio for [...]
Larry Lessig did a talk at TED in 2007 entitled How creativity is being strangled by the law. This talk feeds right into the other post I am making today regarding Michael Wesch's great talk about how the web is taking creativity, copyright and many other things off into an unimagined direction. Larry Lessig is [...]