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One of the topics I care about is engineers making a real difference in the world. I lived in Singapore and Nigeria while I was growing up and traveled widely. My father was a professor of engineering (chemical, industrial), statistics and business. He was very interested in applying technology and human knowledge to help people have better lives, and I share that interest.
People like William Kamkwamba are the people that are worthy of respect. I wish the USA was more focused on people that are worthy of attention, instead of who the news media choose to show and people choose to read about. At least a few of you seem to like reading about those I do, based on the traffic this blog receives (well actually that would be a pretty poor metric, let say the attention popular science sites, magazines, podcasts, TV shows… receive).
Another video with William at TED. I posted about William previously: Make the World Better and Home Engineering: Windmill for Electricity.
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April 12th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I really resonate with this post; I think American kids far too often worship and adore people who are nice and shiny on the surface….but have virtually zero substance where it counts….
July 5th, 2008 at 10:03 am
The boy is from my country, Malawi.I am impressed with his ingenuity. I just hope that now that he is back to school, he will be able to acquire the scientific theories with great speed so that his full potential can be unleashed
July 30th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
“Morris Mbetsa, an 18 year old self-taught inventor with no formal electronics training from the coastal tourist town of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean in Kenya, has invented…a mobile phone-based anti-theft device and vehicle tracking system…”