I Am Seb

A great idea from Mitchell Joachim. Not sure meat houses are ready for the public, but growing wooden houses from vegetation is a radical and brilliant solution to ecologically-friendly communities.

Every now and then someone at TED presents a technology or an idea that’s so utterly amazing, or ridiculously simple that it can’t help but change the world. David Merrill shows off an MIT project called Siftables in this talk, and even though I’ve been messing around with computing for 25 years my jaw is still dragging along the floor. Check it out.

Elizabeth Gilbert wrote the 2006 best seller Eat, Pray, Love, and in this year’s TED talks gave a fantastic talk on the nature of creative genius. In a room full of scientists, this talk on being possessed by a creative muse, a spirit of genius, raised a standing ovation. This utterly enthralling talk is an interesting perspective on creativity.

Don’t save the world, just learn to listen. Starting with John Francis, who didn’t use any form of motorised transport for 30 years, and didn’t speak for 17 of them.