J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address (via), “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,†at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure…. I think it fair […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
fast food as confectionary
A while ago I had a chat with one of my friends who is a fake doctor* about fast food. He suggested as a meal or a whole diet fast food is nonsense, and this is pretty much the message everyone has received over the years. He also made another point however. He suggested if […]
internet lecture
| View | Upload your own Here is the the powerpoint of the guest lecture I gave a few weeks ago. In the little embedded image above it is too hard to read some slides. The lecture was delivered in front of a ‘cinematic’ lecture theatre projection screen. Literally, the screen is bigger than some […]