Favorite quote from this TED Talk with teacher John Hunter: “Spontaneous compassion.” From TED: John Hunter puts all the problems of the world on a 4′x5′ plywood board — and lets his 4th-graders solve them. At TED2011, he explains how his World Peace Game engages schoolkids, and why the complex lessons it teaches — spontaneous, [...]
If they can, so can we. From TED: Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Rodriguez’ son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi’s son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence. In hoping [...]
Ralph Langner helped discover the intended target of Stuxnet, a computer virus directed specifically at shutting down Iran’s nuclear program. Because of its sophistication, he speculates Israel and the United States collaborated on the attack.
I don’t know much about the intricacies of Wall Street and the world of subprime mortgage bonds, collateralize debt obligations (CDOs) and credit default swaps, but Michael Lewis’ The Big Short does a excellent job of highlighting what went wrong in the last decade that led to our economic crisis.
“Anonymous Extraordinaries are people who work selflessly and vigorously for what they believe in. People who are motivated by conviction and not recognition.”
Retired Army four-star general Stanley McChrystal gives an excellent TED Talk on leadership, especially as it relates to leading in the military in the age of new media.
Just finished watching Restrepo, a National Geographic documentary that chronicles the experience and camaraderie of soldiers stationed in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley, “one of the most dangerous postings in the U.S. military.”
The latest animation from RSA Animate features Evgeny Morozov, blogger and author of the recently-published The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom, and his talk The Internet in Society: Empowering or Censoring Citizens?
I interviewed U.S. Department of Justice Chief Information Officer Vance Hitch during FedScoop’s Cybersecurity Summit, where he discussed cybersecurity priorities and cloud computing security.
This week at FedScoop we’re featuring Donna Dodson, Division Chief of the Computer Security Division and the Deputy Cyber Security Advisor at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as FedMentor of the Week. I interviewed Dodson during FedScoop’s Cybersecurity Summit in February. Full playlist:
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