Just watched Dan Cobley: What physics taught me about marketing – Dan Cobley (2010) on Active Player. Physics and marketing don’t seem to have much in common, but Dan Cobley is passionate about both. He brings these unlikely bedfellows together using Newton’s second law, Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the scientific method and the second law of [...]

Just watched Seth Priebatsch: The game layer on top of the world – Seth Priebatsch (2010) on Active Player. By now, we’re used to letting Facebook and Twitter capture our social lives on the web — building a "social layer" on top of the real world. At TEDxBoston, Seth Priebatsch looks at the next layer [...]

Just watched David McCandless: The beauty of data visualization – David McCandless (2010) on Active Player. David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — [...]

Listening now: Nicholas Carr – What the Internet is doing to our Brains on Active Player. Dr. Moira Gunn sits down with author, Nicholas Carr, to discuss the weird, new, artificial world in which we now live, through the pages of his new book, The Shallows: What is the Internet Doing to Our Brains. Source [...]

Just watched Daniel Kahneman: The riddle of experience vs. memory – Daniel Kahneman (2010) on Active Player. Using examples from vacations to colonoscopies, Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy — [...]