Apr 18 2007
7 Links - Enjoy the disconnection
Here a a couple of interesting links.
- Scientists at NIST show DNA wrapped SWCNT of 200nm or less enter ex-vitro lung cells where longer ones don’t. Not sure if this is like saying 200nm DNA stands enter lung cells, while longer DNA stands don’t? Another confusion in the the debate on the safety of “nanomaterials”. How does your company deal with EHS and nanotubes?
- I had a long drive this past weekend and was listening up on Phil McKinney’s Killer Innovations Podcasts from 2006. This one on “Listening Skills and Rules of Future Forecasting” was one that I enjoyed.
- Ditto on the Podcast “Observation Skills and Contradictions” deals with a quick exercise for improving observation and the most concise and true-ringing explanation of TRIZ I have seen anywhere.
- So how do you really test how building behave in an earthquake? You build one on top of a giant shaker table and deck it out with sensors. Pretty Amazing.
- Inkblot Earth has a post about The first person killed by a robot. Not the science fiction of Asimov, but interesting.
- Endless Innovation has a post from Design Sojourn about 7 ways to unleash your creativity originally from IDEO. (three level link action). Those IDEO guys are great, I got to meet a few through work.
- Again with IDEO, The 10 Faces of Innovation changed my outlook on how people work and what drives them.
