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19 October 2009 | Posted inBlog News & Updates

The Cutting Edge of Knowledge

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I was chatting with one of my colleagues today (via email), and without getting into any detail as to the specifics of our conversation, I want to springboard this post off of a thread where TED came into the conversation. As we chatted, it occurred to me that not everybody knows about TED, and if they have perhaps heard of it, they may not be exactly sure what it is.

Sure, TED has been referenced in a few HOKlife posts, but the big picture of its significance has been understated.

So what is TED? My response to my colleague was, “TED is an enterprise that hosts talks by those who are on the cutting edge of research and …

Science is beautiful

Good morning!

If you have 20 minutes to spare, love particle theory and pretty pictures by nature’s design, enjoy this lecture at TED by Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything. After this you might not want to take the triangle and the circle for granted ever again!

Before entering the architectural academia, I studied genetics, physics, and geology. I loved the formulas, the graphs, the connections. Later, through a desire to translate theory into the built environment, I engaged architecure. These theories are still a source of inspiration to me.

“Nature’s grand book, which stands continually open to our gaze, is written in the language of mathematics. Its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, …