Platonic solids were known in china long before that as well. The words used to describe them are not the shapes themselves, but the concept of them. For some reason, they don't teach us about three dimensional space very much. But when you ask people if they know what a tetrahedron is, you get a small number of people raising their hands,. It a deatrhedron. And i think fuller had a huge impact for reaching a lot of people who then goy, this should be taught. Our society doesn't understand them much.
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.