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Every Tuesday I offer three (or so) contributions to the web that I found interesting. I hope you, too, find them inspiring. Enjoy!

This week (12/01/2009):

Well, here is the late Richard Feynman again, a Nobel Prize winner who can explain the wonders of our universe as good as they can be explained – in this case ‘jiggling atoms’ – and why its fun to ask questions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3pYRn5j7oI&feature=related

Born in Cameroon the fabulous singer/composer Richard Bona became known throughout the world for his incredibly fluent and effortless bassplaying, all done with a smile on his face. And every member of his band is excellent:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBR5GTzZIJY

Baroness Susan Greenfield speaks at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas about what she explores and is utterly eloquent about: brains! In this case she asks the question whether online networking hurts children’s brains :
http://tinyurl.com/ye4c4pw (55 min)

 


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