lecturefox

I love Google TechTalks. The newest nugget I’ve watched today is “On Getting Creative Ideas“. It was held on March 14, 2007, the length is 1 hour 10 minutes. This talk is great. The abstract on the Google video site gives information about the speaker: “Murray Gell-Mann is one of the largest living legends in physics. He’s also been described as The Man With Five Brains, and it’s no puzzle why: He was admitted to Yale at 15, got his PhD from MIT at 21, and is an international advisor on the environment. He speaks 13 languages fluently (at last count), and has expertise in such far-ranging fields as natural history, historical linguistics, archaeology, bird-watching, depth psychology, and the theory of complex adaptive systems. Oh yeah… he also coined the term ‘quark’, after developing key aspects of the modern theory of quantum physics… for which he earned an unshared Nobel prize in physics in 1969. His ideas revolutionized the world’s thinking on elementary particles. In this talk, he gives his thoughts on getting creative ideas. Murray Gell-Mann is a Distinguished Fellow of the Santa Fe Institute, and author of the popular science book The Quark and the Jaguar, Adventures in the Simple and the Complex.”