At first I thought this was just going to be another standard tech hype video, but the Rwanda part is amazing. Dropping maternal mortality rates by 88%(!) should be front page news worthy
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At first I thought this was just going to be another standard tech hype video, but the Rwanda part is amazing. Dropping maternal mortality rates by 88%(!) should be front page news worthy
The drones carrying blood to hospitals are so impressive. It reminds me of the “Rabbit Line” at UBC.
At first I thought this was just going to be another standard tech hype video, but the Rwanda part is amazing. Dropping maternal mortality rates by 88%(!) should be front page news worthy
Yeah, I remember hearing about Zipline about 2 yrs ago on a podcast when their CEO was interviewed.
What was interesting to me was how the United States airspace had older and far more complex legislation and regulations due to years of air travel, but these same laws and regs were extremely inhibiting to the business. Rwanda was far younger in its airspace laws and regulations which enabled Zipline to get up and going far quicker there. The original idea for the founder, too, was when he visited Rwanda and he saw how because of the delay in access to medical supplies by trucks, tons of medicines were expired or unusable by the time the deliver occurred and hence, they thought of the idea of Zipline.
A year or two ago when he was interviewed, he was talking about the heavy work ongoing with US regulators and lawmakers to adjust things and enable their business to get launched, and it sounded like it was working. Would be great if Canada could follow suit on this.
Strip club bouncer stops a potential mass shooting. Guy in the devil mask had a gun, flashlight, and extra mags, but luckily is a fat piece of #### who can't fight
Not a picture or video, but a very cool transcript of an early brainstorming session between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Larry Kasdan on what was to become Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Quote:
G — We'll just talk general ideas, what the concept of it was. Then I'll get down to going
specifically through the story. Then we will actually get to where we can start talking
down scenes, in the end I want to end up with a list of scenes. And the way I work
generally is I figure a code, a general measuring stick parameter. I can either come up
with thirty scenes or sixty scenes depending on which scale you want to work on.
...
One of the main ideas
was to have, depending on whether it would be every ten minutes or every twenty
minutes, a sort of a cliffhanger situation that we get our hero into. If it's every ten
minutes we do it twelve times. I think that may be a little much. Six times is plenty.
S — And each cliffhanger is better than the one before.
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L — Is it necessary that he really be trained?
G — It's not absolutely necessary. I just thought it would be amusing if people could call
him a doctor.
S — I like that. The doctor with the bullwhip.
G — It's such an odd juxtaposition, especially going around. The first sequence is in the
jungle and you see him in action. You see him going through the whole thing. And the
next sequence after that you see him back in Washington or New York, back in the
museum. Where he's in a totally academic thing, turning over this thing that he's got.
Then in the rest of the movie you see him back in his bullwhip mode. You understand
that there's more to him. Plus, it justifies later things that he... the fact that he's sort of
an intelligent guy. Peter Falk is one way of looking at him, a Humphrey Bogart character.
The fact that he's sort of scruffy and, not the right image, but...
S — Peter's too scruffy.
G — Yes. We'll figure a way of laying that out in his personality so it's easily identifiable.
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