John Wurdeman: Tradition: How The Ancient Becomes Cutting Edge
John Wurdeman discusses his life’s journey seeking out traditional folk music, dance and ways of life and argues that children of more “closed” cultures have more freedom of expression, and in the “freer” world often creativity is limited.
Nils Gums: Karmin, Complex, and the Purple Cow
Nils Gums gives us a glimpse into the world of pop music’s most viral videos, and explains that an artist’s ‘purple cow’ can replace a hefty marketing budget on the way to making it big in today’s entertainment industry. He also gives us an exclusive sneak peek into Karmin’s Saturday Night Live performance just one […]
Robert L. Peters: Solace House
Robert L. Peters tells us about Solace House, the low energy, passive solar home that he designed and built over thirty years ago. His story is also about living peaceably and sustainably on a stressed planet that seems fixated on fossil fuels. “What if we can embrace the sun? And move from being consumers to […]
Dr. Kate Moran: Connecting our Planet’s Oceans to the Internet
Ninety-nine percent of the life-forms on our planet live in the ocean. Dr Kate Moran says, “it’s really a much greater part of the planet than we realise. ” Dr. Moran is a world-renowned ocean engineer. Her research focuses on marine geotechnics and its application to the study of paleoclimate (the study of changes in climate taken on […]
Jeffrey Kluger: The Hidden Power of Siblings
Jeffrey Kluger makes the case that it is those brothers and sisters — our place among them, our rivalry with them — who make us who we are. Older siblings we are told, are those most likely to succeed, but younger brothers and sisters have a measurably quicker grasp of other minds, a writerly ability to intuit […]
