November 2010
October 2010
20 Most Marvelous Markets Around The World
Toronto’s St. Lawrence Market makes the list!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/29/20-marvelous-markets-arou_n_775776.html
Did cooperative humans fare better than warriors?... →
Crazy Site of the Day #2: Jim Carrey! →
Crazy Site of the Day #1: Pee Wee! →
“Kelly: The musician Brian Eno invented a wonderful word to describe this...”
– Kevin Kelly and Steven Johnson on Where Ideas Come From | Magazine
Toronto’s newly elected mayor Rob...
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– As defined by Robert A. Heinlein in Time Enough For Love
Bees solve complex mathematical equations →
bees.
How Amazon works backwards
For new initiatives a product manager typically starts by writing an internal press release announcing the finished product. The target audience for the press release are the new/updated product’s customers, which can be retail customers or internal users of a tool or technology. Internal press releases are centered around the customer problem, how current solutions (internal or external)...
“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pantalone
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Reversible Destiny: Architecture Against Death →
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iced tea never looked so good. →
WatchCarleton team wins Dance Their PhD contest
“Almost 200,000 SMSs are sent every second”
– ITU
Quantum Life - Perimeter Institute Public Lecture →
Tickets are sold out, but the PI website posts vids of their lecture series, and this one seems super interesting…
SETH LLOYD, MIT Quantum Life November 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Recent experimental evidence suggests that living organisms are using quantum mechanics in a sophisticated fashion to enhance the efficiency of photosynthesis. Bacteria are essentially performing a quantum...
Gold: Video Catalog | Santa Fe Institute →
Cities - Radiolab →
WatchBenoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness | Video on TED.com
PATHS TO PRACTICE
Paths to Practice is a day long event hosted by the Waterloo School of Architecture and Co-operative Education & Career Services to bring together students, professionals, faculty, and co-operative education in exploration of current Architectural practice and employment opportunities. The event is sponsored by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and the Ontario...
