IdeaFestival

Jeffrey Manber on "branding randomness" - IF Conversation

Can randomness be branded? As Yuzoz CEO Jeffrey Manber explains, the company taps events in space - the Northern Lights and solar flairs, for example - and turns that information into certified random numbers that can be used for a wide variety of purposes, from architectural design and music composition to the choice of lucky numbers.

Wayne

IF Conversations - Laurence Gonzales describes "intelligent mistakes"

Laurence Gonzales, award-winning writer and author of Deep Survival discusses "intelligent mistakes" and his new book Vortex in a Bottle. One to two minute IdeaFestival Conversations feature answers to questions from participants in the IdeaFestival and may be found on this YouTube page.

Wayne

Richard Kogan on the versatility of Leonard Bernstein

Psychiatrist and world-class concert pianist, Richard Kogan, describes the versatility of Leonard Bernstein in the latest in the series of IF Conversations. Richard will be back exploring Mozart in September. 

Wayne

IF Conversation - Google's Craig Nevill-Manning

Google's engineering director in New York, Craig Nevill-Manning, is featured in the latest IF Conversation discussing the Internet titan's mission. As always, you may find all conversations on YouTube.

Wayne

IF Conversation - Cameron Sinclair on human-relevant architecture

In this brief conversation, Cameron Sinclair, co-founder and executive director of Architecture for Humanity, addresses the “Humanitarian Relevance In Architecture.” All "IF Conversations" may be found on the IF YouTube channel.

Wayne

Ethan Zuckerman on "blogging the world," IF Conversations

Ethan Zuckerman, who is the co-founder of Global Voices and someone I admire and have enjoyed meeting at the IdeaFestival the past couple of years, answers a question about "changing the world through blogging" in this installment of IF Conversations.

Wayne

Dirk Brockmann on "money circulation science" - IF Conversations

How might the spread of human influenza be modeled? By tracking the movement of dollar bills in the United States, of course! In this IF Conversation, Dirk Brockmann, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Germany talks briefly about “Money-Circulation Science.”

Like the study of the spread of infection diseases, the application of physics concepts to biology and biological systems is the focus of wide inquiry. One book written for a mass audience that touches on biophysical concepts - as well as quite a number of others - is Robert Frenay's, Pulse.

See this clip and other brief video of IdeaFestival participants at IFTV.

Wayne

IF Conversations - Ruby Lerner

President of the Creative Capital Foundation, Ruby Lerner describes how the IdeaFestival helps her business. Creative Capital is an arts foundation modeled on venture capital concepts.

The IdeaFestival Conversations series, featuring such people as Michio Kaku and Nicholas Kristof speaking on issues of interest to them, may also be found at IFTV.

Wayne

IF Conversations - Mindy Faber

Here, the founder of Open Youth Networks and Peabody Award winner, Mindy Faber, briefly comments on "Creativity, Democracy and the Media."

The entire series of "IF Conversations," which has included individuals like Nicholas Kristof and Michio Kaku talking about their favorite topics, may be found here as well as on YouTube.

Wayne

Nicholas Kristof: Why care about Darfur?

Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, answers the question, "Why care about Darfur?" in the latest IF Conversation. You may find this video along with other archived conversations on the YouTube IFTV channel, as well as the main IdeaFestival web site.

Wayne