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• A reply on Talk: Mark Shaw: One very dry demo

  Apr 1 2013: Great idea. Will we see Formula 1 racing that wont need changing to wet tires?

• A comment on Talk: Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers -- make it fun

  Feb 10 2013: Absolutely great! Not just science but, as far as I can say, even accounting, tax and law need this kind of approach. I tried to teach the purchase process in the conventional way, It dod not go well. Bit when I told a story of buying a pizza and paying for it every remembered it three weeks later!
  
  Way to go TyLEr (typos left uncorrected on purpose: :)

• A reply on Talk: Robert Gupta: Between music and medicine

  Nov 1 2012: Long ago I have read in the Reader;s Digest about music acting as therapy for diseases given up incurable. Indian folklore often claimed such powers for music. Now Robert Gupta and Gabriel Giffords seem to confirm the power of music to heal and bring solace.
  
  Best wishes in your quest. May you succeed!
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  A reply on Talk: Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

  Oct 21 2012: After I posted the above query I came across this "Q&A with Alberto Alessi"
  
  "It has to do with the theory of the borderline, a theory I have developed also some years ago. The theory of the borderline means that we, as an Italian design company we have a destiny, and this destiny is to live and to work as close as possible to the borderline. The borderline is dividing two very different areas: the area of the possible and the area of not possible. The area of the possible is being represented by new projects and ideas, that in the end people will understand, will like, desire, and then maybe buy. And the area of not possible being represented by new projects that people are not ready to understand. The problem is that this borderline is not clearly drawn, you cannot see it with your eyes. But having understood that, a serious mass production company will try to work as far away as possible from the borderline in order not to have to take any risks, but they are also producing the same car, the same television set.
  If instead, you are working very close to the borderline, as we do, then with every product you have the risk of falling into the not possible area, but on the other side, when you succeed, I mean to succeed is to produce a project which is very close to the borderline but staying on the right side, you create a kind of monopoly, a small monopoly, because you are the only company producing this novelty item which is a real innovation. The only way you can see the borderline, to have the flesh of the borderline, for a fragment of a second, is when you do a flop. Then in the flop, for one second you can see the borderline. It is then too late for this specific project, but very important for your future, to have a feeling of what happens at the borderline."
  
  http://www.iconeye.com/news/news/qa-with-alberto-alessi

• A reply on Talk: Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

  Oct 21 2012: "Let people make mistakes in a controled area and turn the mistakes into good ideas for a nice world to live in."
  
  Sounds very good in concept. But how do we implement this? I would imagine that one takes bigger risks when one knows failures are going to have limited consequences but the same person is likely to avoid them in real time with real and bigger consequences. Does not one's rsik preferences change when the setting changes from a controled area to an open arena?
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  A reply on Talk: Eddie Obeng: Smart failure for a fast-changing world

  Oct 21 2012: I agree. We seem to chasing growth for its own sake. And don't seem to have a plan or understanding of its impact on people, environment, society etc. Unless jobs lost to technology in the pursuit of productivity, speed and reach is treated as problem that needs to be addreesed and new skills are imparted so that people can find alternative means of earning a livelihood, we are going to face a huge social unrest with its deleterious consequences.

• A comment on Talk: Randy Pausch: Really achieving your childhood dreams

  Oct 14 2012: Unforgettable and magnificent talk. I am not tired of recommending this talk, nay life story, to so many people ever since I heard it in 2008 and read it in the book form too.
  
  Last two years every July 25th we get his talk played to the students in our institution as a tribute to a profile in courage and life of incredible inspiration.

• A comment on Conversation: Is "zero-latency learning" possible using Sugata Mitra's Self Organising Learning Environment?

  Oct 13 2012: Here is another experiment in SOLE
  
  http://www.ted.com/talks/john_hunter_on_the_world_peace_game.html?c=549149
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  A reply on Talk: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

  Oct 12 2012: Bravo! Way to go! I am gonna try something similar this Sunday with college kids. I did and it is working!

• A reply on Talk: Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education

  Oct 12 2012: The kids figured out that collaboration is way to learn it and the 'self organised' refers to the group of kids figuring out the method. Just my guess of course!