Podnosh

These are my links for January 27th through February 4th:

• Peter Levine: a critique of expertise, part 1 – “Although I acknowledge the value of expertise, we can identify several important general reasons why it is never enough and we always need citizens’ participation to tackle social problems.” Thanks to Paul Evans for spotting this.
• ColaLife principle: local determination : ColaLife – Simon working through the principles behind Cola Life – interesting.
• Thriving too: The Impact of Isolation on Leadership – It is lonely at the top. We are coming to realise exactly how loneliness effects our brain and our behaviours.
• Link “Scientists” -
• The Young Commentators « Stan’s Cafe Theatre Company – Stans Cafe teaching school children the art of commentary : sometimes silence says more than words ever can
• Danny Smith: Tag nuts – Birmingham: It’s Not Shit – Umh

These are my links for April 21st through to April 22nd:

• Coca-Cola say ‘Yes’ (probably) to trials this year : ColaLife – “Yes, we are planning to run trails of the ColaLife idea before the end of the year.” Is the response Simon Berry got from Coca Cola last night for his plan to use crates to coca cola to alwo trasnport essential medecines etc in Africa.
• Obama’s People by Nadav Kander » The Opening Day… – People who campaigned for Obama in Illinois, Frank and Julie, who had come to Birmingham on work, found the exhibition by accident, and had their photo taken next to John Podesta who was once one of their students.

Wonderful video of Simon Berry rather nervously showing Bob Geldof his colalife carton.  Slow-ish start but please keep watching, it turns into two dads talking about condoms.

Find the original film here.  Update – for Lloyd’s view of the same please click this link.