Blogs

A 21-year-old engineer, Alia Sabur, shows CNN's Kiran Chetry the hand-drawn oil spill solution she presented to BP.

http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/06/07/am.int.prodigy.alia.sabur.cnn

I think this is a great idea. I think BP should have a design contest. 

 In the early naughties, it was only some municipalities that were ditching Microsoft's flagship product for half-baked alternatives.  Now, Google is following suit.  I just ordered a copy of this to replace the one I'd lent out.

Does rewarding a desired behavior yield more of that behavior?  Studies show this may not be the case.  In other words, what motivates people to do intellectually interesting and creative things?
 

It all started more than 6 months ago with 92 teams representing 15 colleges - whittled down to the final 16 just last week! All told, in its 12 years of existence, the Business Plan Competition, put on by the Center for Commercialization and Foster School of Business has awarded $812,000 to 78 startup companies!  
 
$25,000 Herbert B. Jones Foundation Grand Prize
YongoPal, UW

I would TOTALLY get locked in a box with you for 520 days! So many GAMES we could play!
 
So, wanna come with ME?

KTM and others starting to offer some real electric motorcycles worth looking at.
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/03/ktm-freeride-electric-motorcycles/
 

Darkness warshed over the dude...

 The beatbox I always wished I was

Can we have one?

A visually awesome animation of Dan Pink's research on incentivisation and motivation in organizations, specifically the impact of the profit motive on creative and cognitive output.  Dan Pink's TED talk can be found here.