A scientist from england, harry croto, applied for time to go on a lazer that was down at rice university. And he worked with a scientist there, richard smalley and robert curl to do this experiment. They were studying carbon clusters in space when they got the same results every time. So what could it be? The scientists thought maybe it had something to do with dome. But actually smalley went back and made a cardboard model and figured out a truncated icasahedron was the shape.
In this episode, we chat with inventor, writer, producer, and educator Kurt Przybilla on American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, critic of work, and futurist R. Buckminster Fuller.
Kurt Przybilla invented Tetra Tops, the world’s first spinning top with more than one axis of spin, which were inspired by the works of Buckminster Fuller and have been featured in the New York Times, Popular Science, Baby Einstein, Child and Discover Magazine, as well as at the Smithsonian Institute. He is co-creator, writer and producer of the Molecularium Project at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he has produced and co-written Molecules to the MAX!, a 3D animated film for Giant Screen IMAX theaters, Molecularium, an award winning digital dome feature, and NanoSpace, an game-based online theme park to teach kids about atoms and molecules.
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Hilaritas Podcast
Host/Producer Mike Gathers
Engineer/Producer Ryan Reeves
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“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”
“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it's a different kind of life.”
- R. Buckminster Fuller.