Fat Agnus

Have you ever thought about where stuff comes from and where it ends up?

In this short documentary by Annie Leonard, she gives you the insight into how the process goes and how we could improve it.

Randy Pausch (October 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) is a 47 year-old Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In September 2006, he was diagnosed with metastatic pancreatic cancer. He pursued a very aggressive cancer treatment that included major surgery and experimental chemotherapy; however in August of 2007 he was told that the cancer had metastasized to his liver and spleen. He then started palliative chemotherapy intended to extend his life as long as possible, which was then estimated to be three to six months.
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Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

This is probably one of the most interesting things I have come across on the internet in quite some time.

Each year, TED hosts some of the world’s most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. The talks they deliver have had such a great impact, we thought they deserved a wider audience.
- TED

They recommend that you at least see three videos to get the full effect but I just had to see one, before I was hooked.

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Barry Schwartz is a sociology professor at Swarthmore College and author of The Paradox of Choice.

Ross Lovegrove is an industrial designer, perhaps best known for his work on the Sony Walkman and Apple iMac.

David Pogue is the personal technology columnist for The New York Times, an Emmy award-winning tech correspondent for CBS News, and one of the world’s bestselling how-to authors.

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