Jan 17th, 2010
The vision of TED is “Ideas worth spreading”, so with disasters similar to the recent Haitian Earthquakes I thought I’d highlight and spread 15 talks presented at TED over the years that are of interest in disaster situations and useful in (somewhat) “disaster proofing” the developing world.
Oct 2nd, 2009
A 13 year old girl named Rekha in India has put her foot down on the shameful actions of her parents in trying to push her into an arranged marriage against her will because she wants an education.
Jan 24th, 2009
I’ve uploaded an introduction to motorcycle gear video on youtube. It’s got some quick tips on the gear needed for motorcycling. Nice and short (under 5 minutes).
Jan 22nd, 2009
VERY interesting development: Britannica to start allowing community contributions: Watch out Wikipedia, here comes Britannica 2.0 . I’ve been wondering how long before Encyclopaedia Britannica reaches out to widen their offering to compete with the massive volume (although no where near as high a quality as Britannica) of wikipedia.
That said, wikipedia has significant issues because [...]