“The three organizers have seen the event grow and hope to keep it an annual event. Last year’s TEDxBroadway attracted some 200 people; this year it is expected to double that.”
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Booker Judge Admits He’s Never Heard Of Some Of The Finalists
“Good God they’re obscure. Many of the names are people who 18 months ago I’d never heard of.”
Human Creativity Encoded In DNA
“At the storage density achieved, a single gram of DNA would hold 2.2 million gigabits of information, or about what you can store in 468,000 DVDs. What’s more, the researchers also added an error correction scheme, encoding the information multiple times, among other tricks, to ensure that it could be read back with 100% accuracy.”
Six-Second Videos – The Next Big Thing?
“One of the things we know about creativity is that constraints are essential for getting people to do creative stuff. If you come up with the right constraints, that’s a benefit, not a drawback.”
Netflix Stock Soars After Earnings Report
“The company’s stock climbed $43.60 to close at $146.86 as investors celebrated a fourth-quarter earnings report highlighted by accelerated growth in Netflix’s Internet video service.”
The Art Mikhail Baryshnikov Collects
“Baryshnikov’s first two purchases set a course for his collecting, which has tended toward small, elegant pieces, often with some connection to the world of the theatre, easily transportable, intimate in scale.”
A Real-Life Billy Elliot Of Modern Dance
Stuart Shugg, at 25 the youngest member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, grew up as the son of a carpenter and a nurse in an isolated Australian town (6 hours from Melbourne, 11 from Sydney).