Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Femto photography: visualizing the motion of light!

Unbelievable! The nanosecond long motion of light thought a bottle is breathtaking!

http://web.media.mit.edu/~raskar/trillionfps/

Friday, August 19, 2011

Flapping wing bird

Absolutely awesome! Mechanical flapping bird. 
http://on.ted.com/9aX5


Monday, May 9, 2011

Secrets to success

Richard St. John's 8 secrets of success @ TED

One of the secrets is to PERSIST through failures and CRAP - Criticism, Rejection, Assholes and Pressure - Funny!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

The importance of being wrong!

Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for acknowledging our fallibility. She is also a very good speaker. Check her talk out on TED:

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Nature by Numbers

Amazing video starting with Fibonacci series and ending in Voronoi tessellation by Christobal Vila - a must watch!

Sunday, June 13, 2010

Non-linearity of problem solving

Rory Sutherland talks about the non-linear relationship between cost and effect of solving seemingly "big" problems.

A funny graphic he presented is reproduced here.