{"id":7324,"date":"2012-04-27T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devwp.davison.com\/blog\/?p=7324"},"modified":"2025-03-07T08:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:21:26","slug":"creationeer-extraordinaire-lucky-talks-ted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/blog\/creationeer-extraordinaire-lucky-talks-ted\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationeer Extraordinaire, Lucky, Talks TED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7329 photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/TED.png\" alt=\"TEDTalks\" width=\"308\" height=\"67\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watch TEDTalks:\u00a0 Smart people will distill their life\u2019s work down to 20 minutes for you.<\/p>\n<p>This is advice from David Eagleman, neuroscientist, <em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling author and, himself, a TED Fellow.\u00a0 TEDTalks actually started back in 1984, just two years before George Davison started work on his toothbrush sanitizer that, ultimately, led him to found Davison Design.\u00a0 [TEDTalks] brought together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment and Design. They were started by Richard Saul Wurman, who, at the time, saw a convergence between the three fields.\u00a0 Originally, the talks were heavy on technology and design, evidence of its Silicon Valley roots.\u00a0 Today, the talks span the worlds of science, medicine, art, design, invention, transportation, music\u2026 the list goes on and on.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7327 photo\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/TED-Ed-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"Technology News\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/>Recently, Adam Savage, of <em>Mythbusters<\/em> fame, gave a talk entitled, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F8UFGu2M2gM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries<\/a>, in which he discusses some of the most important scientific discoveries of all time and how they were arrived at through simple, creative methods that anyone could have followed.\u00a0 Let\u2019s start at the beginning or at least the beginning of simple solutions being posited as the most effective ones.\u00a0 In [a] 14th century England town called Occam, lived a logician Franciscan friar named William, who has most commonly become associated with the law of parsimony.\u00a0 He wrote the following:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate [Plurality must never be posited without necessity]<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2013 Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora [It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer]<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7326 photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.davison.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/TED-Trash-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Innovative Thinking\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" \/>What it boils down to is: other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one.\u00a0 And, sometimes, that\u2019s just what the problem calls for.\u00a0 In Arvind Gupta\u2019s TEDTalk, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/arvind_gupta_turning_trash_into_toys_for_learning\">Turning Trash into Toys for Learning<\/a>, which I recommend watching, he demonstrates how the problem of providing educational experiments for children in developing countries [could] be solved with trash and things found around the house:\u00a0 rubber tubing, matchsticks, drinking straws, stick pins, bicycle tubes, even a pencil.\u00a0 Simple items can be used to teach scientific principals, physics or mechanics.<\/p>\n<p>TEDTalks continue to be a driving force for creative thinking in innumerable fields. Their over 1,000 videos have been translated to 86 languages, with another seven in [progress].\u00a0 They can be viewed for free at any time throughout the world, on any number of mediums:\u00a0 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/\">TED website<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TEDtalksDirector\">YouTube<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/ted\/id376183339?mt=8\">iPhone or iPad<\/a>, or any <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.ted.android&amp;hl=en\">Android\/Google device<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you\u2019ll find inspiration for a simple idea that can change the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lucky<br \/>\n[Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2011\/10\/19\/an-interview-with-david-eagleman-neuroscientist.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Occam%27s_razor\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/duns-scotus\/\">Stanford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/math.ucr.edu\/home\/baez\/physics\/General\/occam.html\">University of California<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch TEDTalks:\u00a0 Smart people will distill their life\u2019s work down to 20 minutes for you. This is advice from David Eagleman, neuroscientist, New York Times bestselling author and, himself, a TED Fellow.\u00a0 TEDTalks actually started back in 1984, just two years before George Davison started work on his toothbrush sanitizer that, ultimately, led him to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,65],"tags":[214,260,97,215,261],"class_list":["post-7324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventor-stories","category-videos","tag-creative-technology","tag-entertainment-news","tag-george-davison","tag-innovative-design","tag-tedtalks"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Creationeer Extraordinaire, Lucky, Talks TED! - Davison<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Davison confidentially works with people to develop their new product ideas. 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