Entertainment
LA Times: Hollywood is losing race with zeitgeist
The era of mass movie-going is over, says the L.A. Times. Hollywood is “in a losing race with the zeitgeist.”
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Technology
Steven Pinker on Jews and genetics
What to make of recent research positing that ‘selective breeding’ over the last two milennia has resulted in superior intelligence (and rare genetic diseases) among Ashkenazi — or Eastern European — Jews? The unpublished study has been backed up, shot down and certainly hyped. If you’re looking for insight — and you’re in New York […]
Go ahead: Judge them by their cover
Penguin released a line of gorgeous little paperbacks celebrating Great Ideas.
Design
Occasionally, you have to tip your hat…
Despair, Inc sells profoundly demotivating posters and placards
Architecture
Someone's thinking big…
Due to open Jan 1, the Grand Canyon Skywalk juts out about 70 feet into the canyon, 4000 ft above the Colorado River.
Art
Museum Watch: Darwin in NY, Comics in LA
Two highly anticipated museum exhibits open this weekend: Darwin in New York, and Masters of American Comics in LA.
Design
$100 (lime green) laptop unveiled
Nicholas Negroponte unveils his famed $100 (lime green) laptop for the developing world.
Entertainment
Earth to America
This Sunday, the comedy event “Earth to America” will air on TBS, featuring comedians Steve Martin, Robin Williams, Ben Stiller and others, raising awareness about global warming.
Architecture
The roots of green design
Following the thread of green design … today’s New York Times profiles Sim Van der Ryn, the Bay Area-based pioneer in sustainable architecture, whose work includes the solar-powered Guitar House, a 15,000 sq. foot “rammed earth” mansion, believed to be the world’s largest green residence.
Film
Great Entertainment … in a 60-second spot
Those of you who attended TEDGlobal will remember this mesmerizing TV commercial, directed by Spike Jonze for Adidas. A new Nike spot reminds us of it, somehow.
Art
Georgia O'Keefe: Software muse?
Was the Firefox logo influenced by the eerily similar Georgia O’Keefe painting, “Goat Horn with Red”?
Business
An astonishing sentence…
The Wall Street Journal reports that top Web portals are selling out their ad space months in advance.
Architecture
How green is your roof?
At TED2005, William McDonough dropped jaws with imagery from the world’s largest “living roof,” which he designed for the Ford Motor Company. This week, World Changing assesses the state-of-the-art in green roof technology.
Quantum genius
Legendary physicist David Deutsch, who gave a stunning talk at TEDGlobal, just won the $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize.
Invention
Changing the World One Cookie at a Time
Malcolm Gladwell writes a New Yorker piece on TEDster Steve Gundrum’s quest for the perfect cookie … a connection made at TED2004.
Technology
Oh, Woody!
Targeted soundwave used to thwart pirate attack on cruise ship; Woody Norris demo’d a gentler version of the technology at TEDGlobal