A l’origine de la vie, La marche des sciences, France Culture December 2009
- Some thoughts on Google DNS by David Ulevitch, OpenDNS Blog December 2009
- The human protein coevolution network by Elisabeth R.M. Tillier and Robert L. Charlebois, Genome Research August 2009
- "Big Bang" ou "Big Bounce" ? by Gabriele Veneziano, ENS October 2009
- AI Safety by John Langford, Machine Learning (Theory) November 2009
- La globalisation financière: état des lieux, La fabrique de l'humain, France Culture December 2009
- Where your money goes by Jérome Cukier, OECD: Spotlight Blog December 2009
- L'art du bien mourir by Bertrand Galimard Flavigny, Canal Academie October 2009
- Ars moriendi according to Wikipedia
- "two related Latin texts dating from about 1415 and 1450 which offer advice on the protocols and procedures of a good death, explaining how to "die well" according to Christian precepts of the late Middle Ages."
Climat, de Kyoto à Copenhague (2/2), Le dessous des cartes, Arte December 2009
Quelles énergies en 2200 ? by Michel Combarnous, Canal Academie November 2009
- Philosophie Cinéma Élise Domenach, Arte December 2009
- Quelle géographie pour le changement climatique ?, Planete Terre, France Culture December 2009
- L'odyssée du climat, La marche des sciences, France Culture December 2009
- Horizon: 2009-2010: How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? with David Attenborough, BBC December 2009
The Second Law and Quantum Physics by Charles Bennett, MIT World 2007
- Life, Plants with David Attenborough, BBC December 2009
- Massively collaborative mathematics, Nature 461 October 2009
- The polymath blog
- Nicolas Bourbaki "the collective pseudonym under which a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematicians wrote a series of books presenting an exposition of modern advanced mathematics, beginning in 1935." according to Wikipedia
- see also ReadingNotes.Hadamard
- "The working record of the Polymath Project is a remarkable resource for students of mathematics and for historians and philosophers of science. [...] It shows vividly how ideas grow, change, improve and are discarded, and how advances in understanding may come not in a single giant leap, but through the aggregation and refinement of many smaller insights."
- My Cultural Divide by Lutch Medial, 2006
- The Secret World of Shoplifting Doc Zone, CBC December 2009
- The Power of the Powerless directed by Cory Taylor, Agora Production 2009
- Retour à Dubaï, La-Bas Si J'y Suis, Francer Inter November 2009
- Hikikomori, Jovenes Invisibles
- The fall of the firm by Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine 2008
- ArtificialScarcity.com
- "endless competition to burn up all that abundance which threatens an economic religion built around scarcity"
- "Just because money is a collective fantasy does not mean it is not really shaping people's behavior"
- Le lambda-calcul : réductions, causalité et déterminisme (Informatique et sciences numériques) by Gérard Berry, College de France December 2009
- a computation doesn't change the value, only the presentation (~15min)
- lamba-calcul does not parallelize, its main (current) limitation (~20 and 40min)
- Do humanoid robots deserve to have rights? by Peter Singer and Agata Sagan, The Japan Times Online December 2009
- L'homme sociologique, La fabrique de l'humain, France Culture December 2009
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, un maître de la science du passé, La marche des sciences, France Culture December 2009
- 2009 AWS Startup Challenge
- Bizo: using MTurk as a gold standard for ML (~min9)
Healing Ecology: A 'New' Spiritual Perspective by David Loy, Vanderbilt University 2008
- 'Inside the Mind of Google' - A Peek Inside Google, Its Methods and Repercussions, on CNBC by Neil Genzlinger, NYTimes.com December 2009
- Interview With Alain Connes, Not Even Wrong 2005
- "allows talented young researchers to develop a long-term research program without too much pressure to achieve quick results"
- Studies Find Reward Often No Motivator by Alfie Kohn, reproduced by the Free Software Foundation, Boston Globe 1987
- The 6 Myths Of Creativity by Bill Breen, Fast Company 2007
- Creativity Comes From Creative Types
- Money Is a Creativity Motivator
- Time Pressure Fuels Creativity
- Fear Forces Breakthroughs
- "One day's happiness often predicts the next day's creativity."
- Competition Beats Collaboration
- A Streamlined Organization Is a Creative Organization
- Creativity and the Role of the Leader by Teresa M. Amabile and Mukti Khaire, HBR.org 2008
- "One doesn’t manage creativity. One manages for creativity."
- Blind Spot by Amanda Zackem, 2008
- simple remarks about technology as a miracle at 0h58 and 1h06 comparing it to a "religious hope"
- see also my page on Energy including definitions of concepts like Energy slave or EROEI
- talk Agenda for a New Economy: Why Wall Street Can't Be Fixed and How to Replace It by David Korten, August 2009
- Learn to Let Go: How Success Killed Duke Nukem by Clive Thompson, Wired December 2009
- Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On by Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle 2009
- The Web Is Your CMS by Christian Heilmann, 24 ways December 2009
- Les Medicamenteurs, Beau Comme Une Image 2009
- ASMR : Amélioration du service médical rendu (évaluation réalisée par l'AFSSAPS sur une spécialité pharmaceutique, et servant de base au calcul de son taux de remboursement)
- to move to Health
- Les horloges du vivant, Continent Science, France Culture December 2009
- Call this a recession? At least it isn’t the Dark Ages by Bryan Ward-Perkins, FT.com December 2009
- Cell Size and Scale, Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah 2008
- What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? by Bjarne Stroustrup, Communications of the ACM 2010
- Collapse with Michael Ruppert, 2009
- "You can not print anymore money than there is energy to back it up." regarding fiat currency at 38min20
- regarding the collide of the financial paradigm of infinite growth and the law of thermondyamics regarding compound interests at 40min00, see also Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and his The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (1971)
- When and how to innovate your business model with IBM Institute for Business Value study, IBM - Seizing the advantage 2009
- First Earth : Uncompromising Ecological Architecture with David Sheen, The Red Pharmacy 2009
- America's New Frontier - Angola, Journeyman Pictures 2007
- Le mythe de l’Atlantide, La marche des sciences, France Culture December 2009
- The Venus Project London Lecture - Q&A, City University of London October 2009
- no knowledge of the related project Auroville after question at min30
- The Venus Project Design
- database of Technical & Scientific professionals to enable us (When the time comes) to be able to connect teams of such professionals anywhere in the world instantly should a country decide to begin development of The Venus Project.
- How we eavesdropped 100% of a quantum cryptographic key by Ilja Gerhardt and Vadim Makarov, HAR 2009
Le pouvoir des mathématiques, Les Dossiers De La Recherche November 2009
- Hacking the Future of Science by Michael Nielsen, HAR 2009
- Michael Nielsen Wikipedia page
- The Future of Science Michael Nielsen blog 2008
- see also the polymath project
- OpenWetWare effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.
- UsefulChem an Open Notebook Science project in chemistry led by the Bradley Laboratory at Drexel University
- InnoCentive Open innovation community of smart, creative people who provide solutions to tough problems in business, science, product development, ...
- Bad decade to be a stock by Dan Goldstein, Decision Science News December 2009
- A l’école des glaciers, La marche des sciences, France Culture December 2009
- An Utterly Impartial History of Britain, BBC Radio Comic Documentary Series
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