This week on TED.com: Why design?

      About this Talk

Legendary designer Philippe Starck
<http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/197> -- with no pretty slides
behind him -- spends 18 minutes reaching for the very roots of the
question "Why design?" Along the way he drops brilliant insights into
the human condition; listen carefully for one perfectly crystallized
mantra for all of us, genius or not. Yet all this deep thought, he
cheerfully admits, is to aid in the design of a better toothbrush.


  About Philippe Starck

Philippe Starck designs deluxe objects and posh condos and hotels around
the world. Always witty and... Read full bio »
<http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/view/id/176>
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Maybe you did and this is redundant, maybe you didn't and you are
wondering why I would include it on a lunar-update list.
Hmmm, maybe because we are going to have to live here on Mother Earth
while we work at living on the Moon and having new ways to think about
problems can be helpful all the way around.

So how would you walk on the lunar regolith dunes with so fine a grain?
So how does a cockroach climb the walls and how would you run on a sand
dune?

Do you want to make a lunar base in a fractal design?

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latest ones below.
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*Philippe Starck:*
Why design?

Legendary designer Philippe Starck -- with no pretty slides behind him
-- spends 17 minutes reaching for the very roots of the question "Why
design?" Along the way he drops brilliant insights into the human
condition -- yet all this deep thought, he cheerfully admits, is to aid
in the design of a better toothbrush.

*Ron Eglash:*
African fractals, in buildings and braids

"I am a mathematician, and I would like to stand on your roof." This is
how Ron Eglash greeted one African family while researching fractal
forms across the continent. He talks about his work exploring the deep
fractal math underpinning African architecture, art and even cornrow
hair braiding and shows how one African tradition forms the basis for all modern
computing.

*Robert Full:*

Secrets of movement, from geckos and roaches

UC Berkeley biologist Robert Full shares his fascination with feet --
such as spiny cockroach legs that allow them to scuttle at full speed
across loose mesh, and amazing gecko feet that have billions of
nano-bristles, handy for running straight up walls. Also watch for
wonderful slow-mo video of cockroach, crab and gecko gaits.

*Larry Brilliant:*

The case for informed optimism

Google.org director Larry Brilliant uses a clip from an old Frank Capra
movie to show that we've known about global warming for 50 years -- yet
we've done almost nothing to solve it. He explores this and other
mega-trends that could easily inspire mega-pessimism. But, he says,
there is a more powerful case for optimism, and he tells us why.
Recorded at the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, Oxford,
UK.

*2008 TED Prize winners announcement!*

On November 21 we announced the three TED Prize winners for 2008. Each
TED Prize winner receives $100,000 to further his or her work -- plus
one WISH. A wish to change the world, with the help of the TED community
to grant that wish.

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Why design? Philippe Starck on TED.com
<http://blog.ted.com/2007/12/starck.php>

Legendary designer *Philippe Starck
<http://www.ted.com/speakers/view/id/176>* -- with no pretty slides
behind him -- spends 17 minutes reaching for the very roots of the
question "Why design?" <http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/197> Along the
way he drops brilliant insights into the human condition; listen
carefully for one perfectly crystallized motto for all of us, genius or
not. Yet all this deep thought, he cheerfully admits, is to aid in the
design of a better toothbrush. /(Recorded March 2007 in Monterey,
California. Duration: 17:07.)/

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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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