It is warm here as we wait to get into the ampitheatre
It is crowded in the ampitheatre and we are pretty much all seated
Plans have been foiled! In order to use smartphones you need to sit in the back
Couldn't get a seat in the ampitheatre so I am in the overflow room but can live blog!
Cesar hidalgo is up on simplifying economics development
Diversity is man made but thus diversity is not distributed evenly in the world
The "putty" theory: but does diversity matter? Putty is putty!
A country with a large diverse pieces of Legos can make more products
Comparing putty and legos is like GDP and products
How do countries get more Lego pieces?
Economic development is about diversity
Alex Bok on renewable energy and batteries
Wind is at It's highest when energy usage is at it's lowest east for chichago
Electric cars is only as good as it's original power source is
Need for energy storage to offset energy use during the peak hours
Felice Frankel uses pictures to represent ideas
1. Clarification of ideas 2. Collaboration 3. Teaching
Representation images as a metaphor esp. For science
None of the images work without text
Using data but represented as images
Look up ferrofluids... Hint! Magnetic fluids make structures
Picturing to learn to explain what science is about as a learning tool
Cultivates critical thinking
Muhan Zhang is now going to play music
Using body inflections to carry music to another level
Such talent and raw passion from a high school student
Po is having some Mac issues
They will be coming back after the break
John Werner and MacCalvin Romain are up
MacCalvin took apart a hair dryer and made a flashlight... When he was 10
He didn't know that what was labeled as a distraction, was engineering
Education is all of us... Using our skills to change the game
9 million scientist but only 100k science teachers... everyone needs to open up
Bill Walczak on community healthcare
Everything is determined by healthcare percentage and not how healthy people are
These used to be 1 house fire a day in 1973 in Dorchester
Giving people a reason to hope with a community health center
It isn't diabetes or obesity but poverty as the major disease
Creation of charter schools to help kids and to start at the home
There is no quicker way to go from poverty to middle class than with healthcare jobs
Kurt Eng
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