Our guest this week is the marvelous Maddy Maxey. Maddy is a Thiel Fellow (2013), hardware and software technologist, Maker enthusiast, resident entrepreneur at General Assembly, and founder of CRATED. She’s also something of a stellar conversationalist, which you’ll certainly glean that from this here session.

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• Nitinol
  

Nitinol is, in fact, thermodynamic nickel–titanium, which is used as orthodontic wire. Maddy and Mik were referring to the same metal! It was developed in the 1960s for the space program at the Naval Ordnance lab in Silver Springs. Can’t find anything about it being tested as something for injured veterans. But the timing lines up a bit..Perhaps Mik’s orthodontist was privy to some insider knowledge–or was pulling his leg (better alternative to his teeth) [source]

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• Biosuit rendering
  
• Museum of Math
  
• man vehicle lab
  
• Bot Factory
  
• Fritzing: friendly
  
• Eagle: …not friendly
  
• theCrated.com
  
• Goldman Sachs elevator tweets
  
• GS Elevator tweets - the Herpes/Hermes
  
• Tangential Topics (dot com)
  
• “Resonate†by Nancy Duarte
  
• Big Data
  
• Brain Pickings a blog by Maria Popova
  
• Brain Pickings: How to avoid work
  
• Alan Watts
  
• Daniel Kahneman author of “Thinking fast and slowâ€
  
• Elle Luna’s blog post, The Crossroads of Should and Must
  
• Insurance companies charging less for active customers
  
• Carrot eyesight myth origins. Carrots as propaganda? Also, dark green vegetables are higher in lutein and vitamin A
  
• Fruits and vegetables that are sources for lutein and zeaxanthin: the macular pigment in human eyes also on livestrong
  
• Oatmeal Comic about Nikola Tesla
  
• Game Gossip Forums
  
• Glimpse
  
• JSpot