October 2009
7 posts
10.18.09: A Cooking Ape
10.18.09: A Cooking Ape: “ I read a review of the book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human in the NYRB. As usual the article summarized much of the book’s ideas. The author, Richard Wrangham, argues that the eating of cooked food by early protohumans was, to a large and unacknowledged extent, what enabled them to walk upright, get brainier, become more social and even to verbalize. In a...
Human behavior: the key to future tech...
Bright ideas
Something similar happened with Nokia’s 1100 handset model, but on a much bigger scale. Its features make it ideal for the developing world, among them a long battery life, a rugged dust-proof construction, and a built-in flashlight. Once marketed as being “made for India,” the handset quickly proved widely popular in the developing world and beyond.
It now ranks as...
WatchBit of the Nokia 3G Booklet in there making a TV debut. With Balmer.
The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in... →
This is Los Angeles — the consummate infrastructural metropolis, famous for its networks of freeways and its dispersed, vehicle-based urbanism. This is also the departure point for The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles [ACTAR, 2008], an anthology of essays examining contemporary LA and contemporary urbanism. Today’s metropolis, as described above by volume editor Kazys...
Design and Innovation Education - BusinessWeek →
How best to educate the design thinkers and innovators of the future?BusinessWeek’s list features promising programs from design and business schools from around the world
