Recent Posts Tagged With 'science'

• Genius

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 08:06 in science, genius, biography, badass

  I’m a huge fan of brilliance. I want to hear about, and celebrate, any story of human excellence. The details don’t matter to me; I’ve never been into sports (and the notion that public school teachers are near the bottom of the e...

• Genius

  Posted on Wednesday April 29th, 2009 at 07:52 in science, library, genius, biography, badass

  I’m a huge fan of brilliance. I want to hear about, and celebrate, any story of human excellence. The details don’t matter to me; I’ve never been into sports (and the notion that public school teachers are near the bottom of the economic ladd...

• Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 08:00 in science, Engineering, futurism, synergy

  You’ve gotta love Buckminster Fuller. In many ways, he was a stereotypical coke-bottle-glasses, pocket protector engineer, using phrases like “applied synergetics” and designing cars that nobody would ever buy. Then again, Fuller ...

• Born Standing Up

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 07:58 in art, science, comedy, biography, experience, badass

  Growing up, in Iowa, in the ’70s (tell me about it), the family car had two 8-track tapes in constant rotation: The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour and Steve Martin’s Comedy is not Pretty. I remember being puzzled that other kids in...