SciAm’s full coverage of the ’08 CES. From where surely you won’t miss the Bill Gates bits: Bill on the future of robotics; Bill giving a personal tour of MS’s new “surface”.
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To admire: Women through the ages
A treat for Saturday afternoon: creativity+ superlative art + modern technology=3 minute video overview of 500 years of female portraits in Western Art– with a most appropriate Bach’s ‘Sarabande”, interpreted by Yo-Yo Ma, in the background.
→ Read more The importance of cooperation in the production of knowledge… or of anything valuable, for that matter
Here’s a link to an older post I wrote on the importance of team building (particularized for Romania) and I paraphrased Graham Bell in the end of it, just as I had done here (in Romanian).
→ Read more Art moments: Photo-realist painting & Bio-design
For today very briefly about two of my favourite modern artists, active in completely different domains, and their fascinating work: Bert Monroy, a “photo-realist” painter, and respectively, Luigi Colani, a bio-designer. → Read more
Econlinks for 13-04-’07
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An interesting editorial in the NYTimes by Hal Varian, on the fashion industry and its laissez-faire attitude inasmuch copyrights are concerned. With conclusions valid for other industries as well… Link via Greg Mankiw’s blog.