Project Polymath

A practical application spanning multiple domains of knowledge with a real world benefit, that may produce a paradigm shift. Brilliant!

Engineering students use sound waves to put out fires Two engineering students at George Mason University have found a way to use sound waves to quash fires and have built a type of extinguisher using what they have learned that they hope will revolutionize fire fighting technology. Viet Tran a computer engineering major and Seth Robertson, an electric…

Anyone can learn to be a polymath – Robert Twigger – Aeon Our age reveres the narrow specialist but humans are natural polymaths, at our best when we turn our minds to many things