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Wired:
J. K. Rowling
Author
Train car between Manchester and
London, UK
“It was extraordinary, because I had never planned to write for children. Harry came to me immediately, as did the school and a few of the other characters such as Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost whose head is not quite cut off. The train was delayed, and for […]
JoshauSaunders:
The best way to think of an idea is to consider things that upset you or cause problems in your daily life. Don’t think of products, think of problems.
Come up with answers to the following:
- What frustrates you?
- What things slow you down or cause bottlenecks?
- In your everyday life, what bothers you?
Answers may be […]
Wired:
Shawn Fanning
Founder of Napster
Kennedy Hall, Northeastern University,
Boston, Massachusetts
“My roommate had a bunch of friends from back home come visit. They asked him how he got this insane music collection — he was particularly into obscure rap–and there was no easy way to describe how to do it. It was pretty remarkable how difficult it was […]
Wired:
Arthur Fry
Researcher at 3M
Choir loft, North Presbyterian Church
St. Paul, Minnesota
“I was singing in the church choir, and I would often put little pieces of paper into the music on Wednesday night to mark where we were singing. Sometimes, before Sunday morning, that little paper would fall out. It was during the sermon that Sunday morning […]
Wired:
Philo Farnsworth
Inventor
Rigby, Idaho, 1921
While plowing a field at age 14, Farnsworth — who had been studying electrons and vacuum tubes — looked out across the even furrows and was struck with an idea. He could project moving images line by line, and the eye would stitch them together: “I have abandoned the old idea of […]
The Wall Street Journal:
Jerry Knoblach wants to bring wireless service to millions of rural Americans. His plan: Beam it down from balloons hovering at the edge of space.
This isn’t just hot air. His company, Space Data Corp., already launches 10 balloons a day across the Southern U.S., providing specialized telecom services to truckers and oil […]
The New York Times:
I am thinking of proposals because it is almost Valentine’s Day — the most depressing or the most romantic of holidays, depending on your view — one of the big four holidays to propose. The others, according to Anja Winikka, associate editor of the WeddingChannel.com, are Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. An […]
Bspcn.Com:
Albert Einstein was an amazing physicist. He figured out so many universal principles and equations that he was way ahead of his fellow scientists at any point of time. But he is also remembered for another thing; a quality which made people call him a genius: his words.
Here are 10 things out of the numerously […]
Mashable.com:
We all need to organize our thoughts sometimes, and there seems to be no better way to do it than in a visual fashion.
A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, […]
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