Project Polymath

05/16/2019

In today's freezer meals video, I show you how to make 40 freezer meals for new moms in ONE evening! I used all the freezer meal recipes and big batch cookin...

03/14/2016

Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Black Death.

03/26/2015

A practical application spanning multiple domains of knowledge with a real world benefit, that may produce a paradigm shift. Brilliant!

Two engineering students at George Mason University have found a way to use sound waves to quash fires and have built a type of extinguisher using what they have learned that they hope will revolutionize fire fighting technology. Viet Tran a computer engineering major and Seth Robertson, an electric…

07/07/2014

It can and it will!

Maker Faire has catalyzed a global interest in tinkering to understand. Is it only a matter of time before this approach to learning makes it into mainstream classrooms?

06/05/2014

Schmidt criticises division between science and arts and says UK 'should look back to glory days of Victorian era'

01/09/2014

RiseEarth : This Is What Happens When A Kid Leaves Traditional Education

12/17/2013

Some of the most exciting advancements in computing right now come from the field of deep learning, and companies such as Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are all involved because frankly, this kind of interdisciplinary approach isn’t happening in academia. Where are all the generalists, anyway?...

11/05/2013

Our age reveres the narrow specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things

10/21/2013

The world is getting closer!

The co-founder of Urban Outfitters is helping to build a new campus in Pennsylvania where college students will spend an entire semester innovating.

10/04/2013

Have you ever found institutional education interfering with your own efforts to learn?

A perplexing fate awaits a reader in an elementary school. There is no place for this strange child in classroom, library or playground. Watching my daughter caught in this predicament I find myself troubled by the paradox of an institution charged with teaching children to read that seems unable to...

09/18/2013

Ella Saltmarshe is a screenwriter, journalist, strategist, campaigner and entrepreneur. She is one of the founding directors of The Point People, a company t...

09/11/2013

This is why we hope to one day set a fund aside for independent student-driven research projects, pursued without an agenda except to advance knowledge.

Here is a mind-blowing text that was sent to all EPFL researchers (presumably) by a doctoral student during the week-end. It expresses feelings that are worth to think about.