I share links to the Giant Jump, a massive simultaneous jumping event involving millions of UK students to test seismic activity, and what I consider the funniest experimental project currently on the web.
I'm sharing a link to the results of a scientific study conducted by LaughLab to find the world's funniest joke, based on a global survey of over a million people and thousands of submissions.
I'm tracking how China surpassed Japan to become the world's second-largest PC and internet market. They already lead in mobile users, making their rapid growth across all digital platforms quite remarkable.
The project was not just an assignment but a live experiment in how students perform on analytics versus design tasks in an AI era, revealing both strengths and gaps.
This talk proposal frames live, on-stage collaboration with ChatGPT as an experiment in outsourcing the full data-analysis and storytelling pipeline to an LLM.
I noted that Wal-Mart has become the second largest company by revenue globally. Looking at the Fortune 500, it is striking that only IBM and AT&T represent the IT industry within the top ten leaders.