Happenings:

• For your viewing pleasure, we released videos from our Science Salon in DC. So sit back, relax, and immerse yourself in science, living systems and the edge of change.

• We got the scoop that at PopTech 2010, OK Go will probably look and sound like friendly robots on a goodwill mission demonstrating ways in which they are helpful and make for good friends.

• We also learned from OK Go that, “oftentimes the accidents, the failures, and pushing an idea so far that it breaks into something you had never thought about that ends up being the inspiration you weren’t even looking for that drives your idea home.” FAILURE QUOTES

• We caught up with The Future of News and learned how new initiatives are helping news organizations adopt new technologies.

• We were inspired by Ira’s Glass’s thoughts on Being Wrong. FAILURE QUOTES

• We spent the best $8 of 2010 on Zoe Keating’s newly released album, Into The Trees.

• We’re pleased to share Meet Your Farmer, a series of short videos about farming in Maine that offers peak into one of the many reasons that we’re proud to host our annual conference in Camden.

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• The PopTech crew is looking forward to the long weekend. We’ll be catching up on magazines (some of our staff favorites are the New Yorker, New York, Economist, Vanity Fair), some of us will be indulging in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest by Steig Larsson, Anthony Doerr’s new collection of short stories called Memory Wall, and Graham Greene’s End of the Affair. What will you be reading this weekend? Let us know in the comments.

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