“Have you ever wondered why, why the crime rate in Sandford is so low, yet the accident rate is so high? ”
NASA visualization contrasts all of Earth’s water with water on Jupiter’s moon Europa – by comparison, our planet is practically a desert.
(ᔥ Carl Zimmer)
City maps, deconstructed and rearranged by block size, reminiscent of Ursus Wehrli’s deconstructed famous art and a fine complement to The Map as Art.
The Most Passionate site has launched at last, with the first in a series of mini-docs on crazy, driven, and creative people.
My 4 minute passion doc on the owner of the Patrician grill in Toronto
6 Martian sunrises, as seen by the HiRISE orbiter. Once again, not artist’s renditions.
Michael Bierut in “Authenticity: A User’s Guide,” from Seventy-nine short essays on design, corroborating the idea that all creation builds on what came before, everything is a remix, and creativity is combinatorial.
(Source: explore-blog)
The word “tear-assing” was meant for Mikka. Here he’s moving too fast for the rolling shutter on my creaky old iPhone.
This is a few minutes into our three-hour epic journey, before we got completely lost in the Don Valley. Dog and human are now home and dry and recuperating nicely.
Another great guest – it’s been a couple weeks since we recorded, and we’re all still talking about the insights from Mike’s episode.
This week, White Rabbit Group CEO Mike Wagner joins us for a mind-expanding discussion of creativity, leadership, clarity, community, and his career path from pastor (“starting churches for people who hate church”) to brand consultant to professional speaker.
We mention:
- Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School
- Secret School of Business
- Clay Shirky
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
