Quite Interesting

Here is an entertaining/educational 10-minute talk about invisible stuffs: gravity, consciousness, genes, atoms, electricity, radio waves, galaxies, etc. John Lloyd, comedy producer and writer, poked fun at this fascinating world we cannot see, and raised some interesting questions. But really, there are only two questions worth asking:

1. Why are we here?
2. What should we do about it while we are here?

The answers he offered are funny but illuminating.



John Llyod created Quite Interesting (QI), a BBC television series. I’ve never heard of QI before watching this TEDTalk. After having a good look around the QI website, I like what I found. QI was created to “find undiscovered connections, see hidden patterns, and satisfy human curiosity”. Everything can be QI when you look at it in the right way.

The QI shop features books too, such as The QI Book of the Dead, released recently in November 2009. It is about what we can learn - about life and what we are here for - from the lives of people who lived before us.

Happy New Year

Last Calvin and Hobbes strip on 31 December 1995