Hats off to Birke Baehr. The young man has courage, and convictions, and he displayed both talking to a huge crowd at an independent Ted event in Asheville, North Carolina. 1 So much so that he ended up featured on the mother ship at Ted.com, which is how I came to see his performance.
It was a great performance too. He had clearly rehearsed. He knew his stuff. He engaged with the audience. His graphics were clear. Heck, I have 2 colleagues who could use a lesson from Birke.
You can tell it‘s a quiet day in whatever personal blogosphere you explore when people start talking about the comments they‘ve had or, better yet, the search terms people used to find them. I should know; I‘m guilty. Next in importance, an irrelevance to most readers, is the “I get email” gambit. W...
Some time ago in an American airport a man came up to the man in front of me in a line. He had a packet of white powder in his hand. He showed the man in front of me a very official looking badge (although he wasn’t in uniform or anything) and asked the man to put the bag of white powder in his bac...
Here's a nice, sprightly, startling lede from the review of a new book about pandas.
It is one of the more startling revelations in Henry Nicholls’s sprightly history that we still have no idea how many giant pandas there are currently living in the wild. Fewer than 2,000? More than 4,000? Perh...
I was momentarily distracted while listening to Lord Bragg on Women in Enlightment Science trying to recall whether I had ever seen the famed double-portrait of the Lavoisiers. So as soon as I got to the desktop I went looking, and I don't believe I had. My original intention had been to just ni...
