http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_mcdaniel_cheap_effective_shelter_for_disaster_relief.html

              Most of you guys probably noticed that today, we’ve experienced an earthquake. Luckily, no one got hurt in the disaster. As we are approaching the Mayan 2012, we might have more disasters. Even though we cannot accurately predict, we can reduce its damage fast. In the talk, Michael…

Throughout the last 3 three of their presentations, the Marshmallow team introduced the class the idea of Social Business. There was a clear structure throughout the semester. Starting from making the class aware of the social factor of business, through the garbage problem to the idea of helping the people, towards a concept of an actual product. I liked that you included the class in finding an idea for a product and finally put this idea to the next stage. I think you did a good job…

“Self-control is not a problem in the future. It's only a problem now when the chocolate is next to us”, is a statement for Shlomo Benartzi , which describes the message of his TED talk very well. It is very easy for us to image doing  things in the future. Examples might be next week I start doing physical exercises or I will eat healthier, etc. However when it is time to do it we probably won’t do it, or do something else instead. The difficulty is to put our imagination or thoughts…

http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_tilson_thomas_music_and_emotion_through_time.html…

This French artist has decided to change the world by his own way through a project called « Inside Out ». This project’s idea is very simple: “Glue poster of people in the street where it makes sense”. People send pictures to JR, he prints them and send back to the people. Then they glue it at the place where it makes sense: Mexico-USA border, Israel, Tunisia instead of Dictator’s portrait, Pakistan, Russia embassy to protest again homophobia, in reserve of Indian American, schools and in…

Alain de Botton is a writer and philosopher and in his last book “Religion for atheists” trying to answer to this question “what if religions are either all true or all nonsense” that fundamentalist believers and non believers discuses about it for centuries.  In his new book he introducing new religion for atheists and call it atheism 2.0, what is exactly atheism 2.0?

According to Alain, his new religion is something between religious and atheism. For many years we divided…

I watched the video by Thomas Thwaites: How I built a taoster from scratch because ever since I was a little boy I always was interested in building random objects. I was surprised I ran into this video because I was talking to a friend of mine about reverse engineering. The speaker decided to build a toaster from raw materials that he could gather. His inspiration was from a quote from the movie Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy "Left to his own devices he couldn't build a toaster. He could…

I originally received this video from Antonin, but I forgot to watch until the other day when Matthieu was watching it in the sofa of our apartment. I truly like this speaker, so good on the stage, so coherent, sagacious, so familiar and at ease when speaking. I would recommend all to at least watch the first of his lectures in the Harvard Open Courseware. I believe we all could learn from his rhetoric skills, or if not we would at least learn some positive psychology! …

We had our last presentation this tuesday (22/5), I believe our presentation was good, however I'm never truly satisfied with all of my work, I know I can always improve. This time I think I didn't put down enough effort behind my work, I slightly left the position as trying to lead the group through our (leading in as making sure everyone shared the same vision) work as I together with Poom instead focused on the book.  

However I just now read two reviews on toyhouse, those made me…

I took this video because I found it to be strongly related to what I've been doing for the last month: designing and calculating on the Marshmallows eco-friendly insulation material made out of PET bottles.

However I'm not sure I agree with everything through out this speech, a speech which actually was boring. However this guy with his company made a change, they challenged the climate problem with CO2 as the biggest threat. They reengineered the drywall, and reduced it's carbon…

The name Hans Rosling caught my eyes directly when I opened TED. As we all know, Hans Rosling is a professor from Sweden with the brilliant idea of so-called data visualisation. This time, he picked the topic of Religions and Babies in his TEDxSummit talk held in Doha, Qatar.

In this talk, Hans Rosling was trying to find any correlation between religion and number of birth per woman. First, he clustered countries based on the religion majority; Eastern Religion, Christian, Islam.…

After the presentation from the Marshmallow Team, I realized I view Beijing in a slightly different way. The reason why the trash never gets full and remains relatively clean. Why they were so many scavengers of plastic bottle and recyclables were all answered from the presentation.

In United States, the government contracts waste company that disposes your garbage and recyclable bin. You have a fixed cost per month for this service, for my house I remember it being around…

“The strive for a washing machine is stronger than the strive for democracy,” says TEDTalks star Hans Rosling at the beginning of this casual video, shot at TEDxSummit last week. On a sunny Tuesday afternoon, Rosling sat down with a group of fans to chat about presenting data with clarity and passion — using Legos, rocks and humor that reveals deep insight. He muses, too, on TEDx itself, the worldwide movement of people sharing…

I think the research made by the marshmallow team was very impressive. For example, to actually take the time and go to a garbage place and interview the scavengers was pretty impressive. They really took research to the next level. In other words, they didn’t just “google it”, but rather took a hands on research and went to do it themselves, giving them not only the data needed but a wide perspective on a scavenger’s environment. This gave the marshmallow team a broad understanding…

What I will write this week is not only a reflection on what I learned this week, but rather what I felt about our group this semester. This week, our group presented our last lecture. During the past 70 days, our group made amazing efforts. Starting from lecture one, Not only did I learn about social business, we learn the difficulties behind preparing a lecture. To see our days of preparation finally turn into something is very rewarding. Before the second lecture, we decided to go on a…

       從來沒有製作電影的媽咪們，竟然也那麼專業，真是太有才了！從腳本內容到剪接到配樂，一一聚精會神地討論。

       感謝尚絃媽媽提供舒適的地點，讓我可以放心的帶一個多月的寶寶來做事，真開心和你們這些大朋友小朋友同一組！…

可以出去玩好好棒！

The video I watched is a perfect introduction for us to get involved with the 3D printer our classmates are building. We are able to live with these new technologies thanks to the revolution of manufacturing that has made it possible. 30 years ago this printers where invented but until now we are actually hearing from them.  Because having on r or at least getting to print something was really expensive, but…

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This is part of a series of articles linking the work of MIT’s emeritus faculty members with the current state of research in their given fields.



When Woodie Flowers SM ’68, MEng…

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