Mission Oriented Innovation | Jeffrey Sachs

Politics fractures when policy fails – as events of the last year have shown. Nine years on from the global financial crisis, policymakers are still struggling to find convincing answers to the economic problems it exposed. At the same time, the world faces many significant and complex challenges, from climate change to the problems of managing chronic health conditions, to the challenges of ageing populations, to meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. This special event marks the launch of a new collaboration between the RSA and UCL’s new Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose to develop mission-oriented innovation policy in practice.

Mooi openhartig gesprek van wetenschappers met een hart.
Link: Mission Oriented Innovation | Jeffrey Sachs

M&Ms and Skittles sorting machine

This machine sorts M&Ms and Skittles by colour. Unsorted candy is put in a hopper on the top. Sorted candy is put into six bowls on the bottom side of the machine.

It’s pretty quick and sorts about 2 pieces of candy per second. It uses Arduino microcontrollers and stepper motors for quick and precise movement. A TCS34725 color sensor performs the measurements. Furthermore, the device is equipped with LEDs in several spots which nicely complement the overall look of the machine.

Project page on my website: http://bit.ly/2kQNIKx

Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only a s a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker- with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell. POWERS OF TEN © 1977 EAMES OFFICE LLC (Available at www.eamesoffice.com)
Link: Powers of Ten™ (1977)

Ga lunchen met ‘die ander’.

Dialoog en discussie is een steeds moeilijker fenomeen aan het worden. We graven ons in en we versterken onze bubbel uit zelfbescherming. Aangewakkerd door de complexe wereld waar er altijd wel iemand is die via de (sociale) media je kop eraf bijt om je standpunt. Waar we onterecht focussen op het wat en hoe in plaats van het waarom.

In deze TEDtalk uit 2011 geeft Elizabeth Lesser aan wat je zou kunnen doen om uit deze modus te komen.

LTDR: Ga met ze naar lunch, zet samen een doel, maak wat regels en spreek 3 vragen af. Je gaat er achter komen dat er gewoon een mens zit aan de andere kant van de tafel. Geen duivel of ander bizar stereotype die je hebt gecreëerd.

Link: Elizabeth Lesser: Take “the Other” to lunch