Jochen Schweitzer

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Tim Brown on: Design renews its relationship with science …

Posted on March 18, 2011March 15, 2013 by Jochen Schweitzer

I have noticed a growing conversation recently concerning the relationship between design and science. Adam Bly, founder and editor of Seed magazine, did much to get this conversation started, aided and abetted by Paola Antonelli, Curator of Desig...

Deb Roy: The birth of a word

Posted on March 15, 2011March 15, 2013 by Jochen Schweitzer

via ted.com Amazing research on social structures and behaviour. Thanks Ariane for sharing ...

David Brooks: The social animal

Posted on March 14, 2011March 15, 2013 by Jochen Schweitzer

via ted.com David Brooks on us humans and how we behave socially at all times and how we learn from people we trust.

Google???s 8-Point Plan to Help Managers Improve

Posted on March 14, 2011March 15, 2013 by Jochen Schweitzer

IN early 2009, statisticians inside the Googleplex here embarked on a plan code-named Project Oxygen. Their mission was to devise something far more important to the future of Google Inc. than its next search algorithm or app. They wanted to build...

Playmobil Stop Motion – Joy Division – Transmission

Posted on March 14, 2011March 15, 2013 by Jochen Schweitzer

via youtube.com this had to be on my blog ...