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- Excited to see what #JELLY stands to do - Biz Stone's New Startup Jelly Raises Series A From Spark Capital, SV... http://t.co/6Gww7wU4ou
- I have never seen so much action. ever. Fast and the Furious 6. http://t.co/xZQuhkDijX via @youtube
- Interesting strategy youtube. Let's see how that plays out. http://t.co/TE3QA7N5QI via @youtube
- Next big thing. Mapping the indoors. - Indoor Mapping Startup Meridian Adds Notification Zones To Their Strategy http://t.co/flq8n1koBG
- Can't find the webcast link to #cmcw2013 ... not a happy camper. http://t.co/KQ7cSZ0AD8
- Wish I could go! Change your Mind. Change the World. with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama #cmcw2013 http://t.co/KQ7cSZ0AD8
- RT @brainpicker: "Scientists have another name for failure: data." The "tinkering scientist" approach to creativity & entrepreneurship http…
- Covered porch + rain = outside + dry. Warm weather I did miss you
- A leap for mankind: £13bn Iter project makes breakthrough in the quest for nuclear fusion. The Independent http://t.co/YM9oz60W48
- An end to our darkest secret? Scientists close to explaining dark matter - Science - The Independent http://t.co/6CLic1xrrL via @Independent
- I want an adult one. - App Maker Kidaptive Debuts “Parent's Pad,” A New Way To Track A Child's Educational... http://t.co/zqzGKmUNLN
- Interesting article on the balance between regulation and independence - Balancing the Technocrats by Kemal... http://t.co/wFMI81Cd6O
- Way to go! #Tesla Model S outscores every other car in Consumer Reports ratings | VentureBeat http://t.co/nATyu6Faa4 via @VentureBeat
- How Elon Musk Is Revolutionizing Two Major Industries At The Same Time http://t.co/30J0qOunK8 via @bi_gettingthere
- Stephen Hawking confirms he is boycotting Israeli conference http://t.co/K3I7w1oKDe
- Time: America's Real Deficit Crisis http://t.co/qwSpNMJXkN via @HealthyLiving
- The sensibility and dialogue that led to the end of the USSR http://t.co/Csh0KBj8oLMay 07, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Abstract thinking and problem solving - The Abstraction Method Helps You Solve Practical Problems http://t.co/T7Q84AwkaP
- #oregon you are amazing. Hopefully you, too, enjoyed my stay.
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Kyle currently works for Epic, a leader in healthcare software, where he implements the software at hospitals across the country. He graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in business management and specializations in entrepreneurship and sustainability.
Specialties: Project ManagementExperience- Jul 2012 - PresentProject Manager / Epic
- Sept 2010 - May 2012Undergraduate Research Fellow / Eli Broad College of Business
- Mar 2010 - Dec 2011Financial Rep Intern / Northwestern Mutual
Built a clientele from both personal markets and referrals
Created and implemented holistic financial plans with clients
Analyzed clients needs and matched with complex financial instruments
Worked with a range of investments and retirement planning
Consistently ranked as a top internship by BusinessWeek and Vault - Aug 2008 - Mar 2010Professorial Assistant / Broad Scholar Program
Recruited from top 10% of incoming class to participate in highly selective
employment opportunity.
Gained experience with academic research and developed relationship with mentor
Identified leadership qualities and actions through analysis of recorded team
interactions.
Worked with the Center for Creative Leadership
Education-
2008 - 2012Eli Broad College of BusinessBachelor of Arts in General Management; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Studies; Sustainability
Activities: Specialization in Entrepreneurship Specialization in Environmental Studies Specialization in Sustainability Beta Gamma Sigma General Management Association - Winston Churchill High School
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Honors:Undergraduate Research Fellowship, MSU 2011-2012 2010 Sustainability Champion, MSU Startup Weekend Winner, Lansing 2012
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Interests:Entrepreneurship, startup weekend, programming, web design, sustainability, reading, ice hockey, traveling, the outdoors
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Posts
Shrink: “What exactly are you joking about? You’re obviously not afraid that you’re boring.”
Roger: “What are the events in life? It’s like you see a door. The first time you come to it you say ‘Oh, what’s on the other side of the door?’ Then you open a few doors, then you say ‘I think I want to go over that bridge this time, I’m tired of doors.’ Finally, you go through one of these things and you come out the other side and you realize that’s all there are. Doors and windows and bridges and gates and they all open the same way and they all close behind you. Look, life is supposed to be a path and you go along and these things happen to you and they’re supposed to change you, change your direction. But it turns out that’s not true. It turns out the experiences are nothing. They’re just some pennies that you pick up off the floor, stick in your pocket. You’re just going in a straight line to you know where.”
Life. Beautiful.
Mad Men- Flatland by Edwin Abbott
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Flatland by Edwin Abbott brings what normally is left to the leading edge of mathematics and physics, to the everyday man. Abbott brings us to a world, literally, in another dimension. Flatland has squares, lines, and all sorts of polygons, everything that can live on the plane. An everyday square ends up exploring lineland (one dimensional) and spaceland (three dimensions, like our own), respectively above and below his own dimension. Through this Abbott takes the reader into theoretical worlds where the idea of higher and lower dimensions of space becomes lucid and accessible.
When the square asks his guide, the sphere, about dimensions higher than three, an attentive and open-minded reader will posit a dimension higher than what we experience in everyday reality. The sphere initially responds negatively, but comes to admit, that similar to the squares own ignorance of the third dimension, they too might be ignorant of a still higher dimension then three.
Written a century before modern physics seriously considered extra dimensions, this short story brings the reader to what modern day scientists are looking into in order to bring light to our sometimes uncertain perspective on reality. If and when we prove the existence of higher dimensions, this text will likely prove to still be one of the most accessible and lucid introductions to experiencing and imagining their possibilities.
Read this if you like: Roger Penrose’s Cycles of Time, Albert Einstein’s Relativity, or Brian Greene’s The Fabric of the Cosmos.
- Slaughterhouse - Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse - Five deserves the it’s spot among the very best. It is and will be a timeless classic for years, and dare I suggest centuries to come. Accessible to all levels of readers, Vonnegut quietly takes you to the depths of war, and you follow, almost happily.
A light read on a dark subject.
Pick it up and add this classic to your bookshelf. A great weekend read if you’re in need of one!
- DETROPIA
An attractive documentary on the struggles and lessons from Detroit. I was happy to see it focus not only on the ‘decay’ but the individual lives being touched as well as the forces at work (both working for and against Detroit).
Naturally I would have loved to see more on the plans for re-imagining the D, including the ability to create a post-industrial city, almost from the ground up. Of course, this is my deal, and I think the movie itself was brought together well without having this. Had they looked forward it might have taken away from the over arching view that what happened here can happen elsewhere because the root causes are in no way slowing down (and we’re not exactly adjusting well as a society).
Good flick, and worth the rental on amazon or iTunes.
Full Daily Show report on the new #Detroit Bridge. “One man owns the most important border crossing in N. America”
The United States new poilcy is to not prosecute those with enough power. That seems wrong. Seriously.
One of the best explanations about the importance and actual conception of the Higgs Boson. Sean Carroll, who has more than enough credentials to speak on the subject, speaks intelligently and lucidly about what IS the Higgs Boson, and where does that put us in context with regards to scientific discovery and the standard model.
His new book is on my wish list, and a number of his (I’m not sure if they’re his or inspired by him) videos on Youtube, also are great about explaining a number of interesting topics being discussed in science.
- Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
You’ve probably seen the trailers for the movie based off the novel. Read the book first, if you would.
The book grabbed me despite the fact I couldn’t see the story until halfway through the book. Mitchell takes the reader through time, on what first appears to be a random journey, but eventually plays out to follow what I still find impossible to define, but understand as a logical progression. An enjoyable read, the reader is placed into a number of settings, including a rather morally and culturally decrepit future.
Through a good amount of the book, you can gleam the author’s taste for the society at the time. This comes through especially in the future oriented settings, where technology has put us into new moral obligations with regards to clones, but also still are dealing with today’s responsibilities such as the poor and the environment. Loving this type of cultural critique, combined with having not read any fiction in some time (except the slow and never ending progression through Don Quixote) I probably enjoyed this one a little more then I otherwise would have.
Recommendation: If you want to see the movie, read it first, otherwise only if you’re lacking anything new to read.
So nice to hear this is going on. The link at the bottom of the article has a really scary graphic. This can’t be safe for the financial system. Not at all. Not to mention that these algorithms are controlled by the same selfish companies that wrecked the economy last time. Of course they will use this for the same purposes. Who loses and who wins here? Same as last time. And that nothing is being done about it. They are laying shorter cables across the Atlantic to gain milliseconds. And it’s all fair and legal. They are doing what it is their job to do. What is unhealthy for society, is perfectly fair, legal, and economically encouraged.
Our system can be wrong and we need to stop acting like it’s impossible to fix.
The answer is a system built on sustainability. Trying to say it’s not, is like saying 9>10.
#TheJump
Hopefully Felix will be able to jump this week, higher, faster, and longer than anyone else. But I can’t help but stand back and be amazed and incredibly proud of the steps our humanity is taking to push towards Outer Space. Sending one brave man up to the halfway to Outer Space, just to jump out and fall back to earth. So simple, yet so incredibly moving. Our species is leaping from the heavens with an incredible amount of technology. The data from the jump will be a cornerstone to space safety going forward. I can’t help but think back to one thing though.
The 1960 Excelsior III Jump by Joe Kittinger. The picture above is him jumping from 102,000 feet above the Earth’s surface. Just imagining doing that without the technology and knowledge we have now. To take that step out of the balloon, in much the same way Felix will, but without any public fanfare or press. You are simply pushing the limits, testing the body, hoping the technology will work. You are the first to jump, there is no ‘this has worked before’.
I envy both of these men for the opportunity they have. What an incredible experience it must be. I cannot wait until the day where space jumps become possible for the rest of us.
This is what zero of our elected officials (or those running for office) are addressing with regards to both our economy and future as a global society. The most clear thing to me was the graph showing the working age populations continuing to grow while the available jobs will not, even with conservative estimates of how technology will impact the job market. The economy has to change to provide for the masses because they will be out of jobs in the next generation. We will not be able to provide jobs for everybody, and without an economic reorganization of the current system, this will have detrimental effects on humanity’s well-being.
This is not a bad thing! We should be happy we no longer have to work six days a week pooring concrete, or nine hours a day in an office chair plugging numbers. People will choose what they want to do based on what they want to do and what they are good at. They won’t operate just to put food on the table, or to see the next paycheck come in.
Fix the economy? You must first acknowledge that we are in an incredible time of change, and the fixes that worked in the past will not work in the future. Until that simple fact is understood by those making the decisions in our world, we will continue to head for a future in which most everybody is stressed about the economy and must consider where their next paycheck is coming from. Not my idea of a happy mindset, but hey, who am I to point these facts out to a politician educated and brought up in a world with room size computers and paper mail.
This is a composite of a series of images photographed from a mounted camera on the Earth-orbiting International Space Station, from approximately 240 miles above Earth.
- As time passes, we always forget ...
And the people in charge know this.
Months ago, groups across the country protested in a way in which a majority of the nation approved of. They were met with fully armed police in riot gear. They were corralled, and in too many cases beaten and tear gassed. Protesters, which had the approval of a majority of the nation, where not listened to as one would hope, but instead made quite.
Sweet dissent. Your keen views frothed from the suffocating confines of an ignorant public.
Your voice is silent until you speak.
These should be some of the most important maps/videos/media to humanity. They hold incredible knowledge that is relevant to every man and woman. They should be treasured as the farthest we have mapped the universe, similar to when centuries ago, explorers were rounding Africa and exploring new seas. They simply should be shown to everyone with the knowledge that this is the most accurate data we have on the context of where we live. It is not just us and this planet, but much much more.
George even does a great job of avoiding any conflict with a dominating viewpoint of a creator. But that is not the important fact because the specifics and the deep questions of why and how are not important in this effort. These maps simply should be exposed to individuals as the progress through school. The context of humanity is no longer restricted to just this planet. We are reaching out into the stellar neighborhood, and with that our context has grown. Now we have access to easily digestible maps that can convey our context. This is not difficult to understand, and kids are not stupid. They can look at a world map and realize they are not the whole world. They can look at the Sloan Sky Survey and realize they are not the whole universe.
These two TED Talks might be appropriate as is for a send off for class for High School Seniors. A truncated/altered version tailored for specific age groups would be needed for other grades. The scale will always be nearly impossible to comprehend, but the underlying understanding that there is more out there, can still be conveyed.The bedrock of a scientifically literate society needs to be the overall context for where they stand. The Sloan Sky survey, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, and the Digital Universe Atlas all provide such context.
Education needs to adapt to new knowledge. It needs to inspire again. Teach Columbus sailing to the new world followed by the founding of the United States. Go through the decades leading up to the present time. And then cap it off with the ‘what we know today,’ that acknowledges we are on a beautiful blue speck in a vast, VAST universe.
This does not require any background, and can be included in classes as soon as 5th and 6th grade. Students should know the larger picture.
And this is not just in America, but across the world. Every individual of every background can connect to this because we are all in this together, as citizens of Planet Earth. For all the small differences we have, it is our shared planet that brings us together. This gives us a new broader context for life.It may not take hold in a fifth grader, but they will have at least been exposed to it. Then when they see it again in High School, and again in College, it may begin to take hold. Undoubtedly though, it will inspire a number of those to take aim for the stars. And these new ‘heavens’ are not unreachable. We are an incredibly young species relative to how long we have been knowledgeable of this outside world. In just a few generations we could be traveling to other stars, and making friends with whatever neighbors we may find. But only if those who will populate these later generations, are exposed to the possibilities.
Education does not need to teach the specifics of deep space and astrophysics, and a map is simple and easily digestible. We can show a world map without teaching eastern culture and still convey an understanding of our place on the planet. We can show a universe map without teaching physics, and convey an understanding of our place in the universe.
To be continued in the next post…
“… a commitment that Americans made to each other, and to their children, and to their children’s children.”
“In every age, where liberty and human progress have made notable advances, there comes a time when a brood of stragglers in the rear appear to denounce the progress made as nothing worth, and to demand the restoration of the Bourbons with all of the conditions which once restricted the greater part of mankind to less of freedom, to less of the comforts of life, and to less of intellectual individuality, but which gave to a stupid aristocracy political supremacy.”
80% of the world’s fish stocks are already fully exploited.
90% of predatory fish are gone.
Doesn’t sound like we are taking care of it at all. Typical. Wait until it’s gone to do something about it. Maybe we will put up a big expensive memorial to what used to be a Sea of life, and is now a lifeless Sea.
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- The Emphatic Civilization - A Deep and Insightful look at Humanity's Progress
The Emphatic Civilization by Jeremy Rifkin. A long book. 600 pages spanning from our birth as a cultural species to where we stand today, at the beginning of a new era. Rifkin takes us through our species advances through different paradigms, categorized by a group of dominate technologies and a dominate ‘consciousness’, characterized by how people view the world. This takes us from the days of myths to today’s hyper-connected, mass media world. The dominant technologies go from fire, early wind and hydro power, through the industrial revolution and end today on the cusp of a distributed renewable energy network.
Weaving the tale of humanity’s progress along the determining mile markers that are our sources of energy and culture, Rifkin points out that history can show us how past failures to grasp the enormity of our entropy debts have stifled civilization for centuries. This has happened before and all credible facts point towards it happening again. He leaves us questioning if we will act in time to keep our society moving r.
Overall, enlightening, and captivating enough if your like history. I was excited when it arrived in the mail, and I enjoyed reading it over what probably was four months!
Recommendation: Read (but take your time)
Especially if you like: Anthropology, Sociology, History, Psychology
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