Creativity, NOT Knowledge! || Carl Sagan On Eratosthenes

How a man calculated the circumference of the Earth with two stick... pic.twitter.com/hRbGDsVt7T

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Being Human Is About Growing. Growing Is Learning!

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GravityLight || Made in Africa

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You Are Not Smart, You Are Not Important… This Kid Is

via theLoop:

15 year old Kenneth Shinozuka lives in New York City with his parents, aunt and grandfather. He’s one smart kid.

Kenneth’s grandfather suffers from Alzheimer’s and tended to wander out of their apartment at night, getting out in the streets of New York City, causing a number of accidents, not to mention a lot of worry.

Kenneth’s solution won him one of the 15 finalist slots at the 2014 Google Science Fair. Watch the video. Incredible work.

Thomas L. Jennings

From leseanThomas:

Thomas L. Jennings (1791–1856) was an African-American tradesman and abolitionist. He was a free black who invented & operated a dry-cleaning business in New York City, New York, and was the first African American to be granted a patent. Jennings’ skills along with a patent granted by the state of New York on March 3, 1821, for a dry-cleaning process called “dry scouring” enabled him to build his business. He spent his early earnings on legal fees to purchase his family out of slavery, and supporting the abolitionist movement. In 1831, Jennings became assistant secretary to the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which met in June 1831.

Jennings’ patent resulted in a considerable amount of controversy. The U.S. patent laws of 1793 stated that "the master is the owner of the fruits of the labor of the slave both manual and intellectual," thus slaves could not patent their own inventions, the efforts would be the property of their master. Thomas Jennings was able to gain exclusive rights to his invention because of his status of being a free man. In 1861 patent rights were finally extended to slaves.

Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge • Albert Einstein || Now, Atari Founder On ‘Finding The Next Steve Jobs’

Bushnell famously hired the young Jobs in 1974, a time when the future Apple founder was in his heavy spiritual exploration phase, shaving his head, traveling to India. Not the button-down corporate type by any measure.

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The book is less about Jobs, and more about what Bushnell thinks companies need to do to rethink their hiring practices.

“One of the big concerns I have is that most of the HR departments in a lot of companies are hiring away from creativity and they don’t know it,” Bushnell said in an interview. “For instance, they are requiring everybody to have a college degree. The most creative people I know couldn’t deal with college.”

via loopinsightDOTcom