» culture http://www.catboant.com Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:08:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Can We Learn To Applaud Each Other? http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/22/can-we-learn-to-applaud-each-other/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/22/can-we-learn-to-applaud-each-other/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:05:56 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=479 This is Joy Tang’s most important question! I love it! And I hope we can …

I’ve met Joy this year in August at Makers Faire in Accra, Ghana. Together with 10 students from Taiwan, who spent a month in Winneba (about 50 km west of Accra), Joy was working for oneVillage Foundation. oneVillage Foundation, founded by Joy, is a global nonprofit organization using innovative approach to deliver the power of technology and information to people in the developing countries, giving them valuable tools for building better lives. She is active in sustainable education and development, promotion of indigenous culture heritage, creation of ecotourism as social enterprise and designing appropriate information and communication technology (ICT) devices and solutions to facilitate collaboration and learning.

We had a lot of fun in Ghana as you can see here and here and I felt like I have met Joy before. Without knowing each other but having common friends and interests within our virtual network we were immediately connected. And I am very happy that Joy is joining our “conversation” …
We did the entire conversation vis SKYPE, it was early afternoon in Germany and 9 pm in Taipeh, Taiwan.

]]> http://www.catboant.com/2009/12/22/can-we-learn-to-applaud-each-other/feed/ 1 Lee Smolin, Physicist, about Ethics and Physics http://www.catboant.com/2009/04/01/lee-smolin-physicist-about-ethics-and-physics/ http://www.catboant.com/2009/04/01/lee-smolin-physicist-about-ethics-and-physics/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:20:25 +0000 ulrike http://www.catboant.com/?p=147 Lee Smolin is an American theoretical physicist, a researcher at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo.

Smolin is best known for devising several different approaches to quantum gravity, in particular loop quantum gravity. He advocates that the two primary approaches to quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity and string theory, can be reconciled as different aspects of the same underlying theory. His research interests also include cosmology, elementary particle theory, the foundations of quantum mechanics, and theoretical biology.

Here is his impressive talk @ TED.

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So please enjoy this interview with Isaac!

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She will be definitely someone to have a conversation with!

Here is her remarkable acceptance speech:

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