{"id":29008,"date":"2016-03-04T00:59:01","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=29008"},"modified":"2016-03-04T00:59:01","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:59:01","slug":"thursday-night-david-sengeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/03\/04\/thursday-night-david-sengeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; David Sengeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just had the pleasure to hear MiT Media Lab guy and recent PhD grad David Sengeh speak on comfortable prosthetics.. and \u00a0local innovation. He had some great messages about the engineering requited to make comfortable prosthesis &#8230; he did some very cool modeling and 3d printing to make some of the worlds most comfortable artificial legs. He also told us about a program he started celled &#8216;global minimum&#8217;.. (the holy grail if you&#8217;re \u00a0into optimization ) \u00a0that helps promote local talent, skills nd materials for young inventors in africa.. It was really inspiring !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8019.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8020.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8021.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_8024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had a few moments to speak with David after his talk and found out that he&#8217;s collaboration with friends of mine in Kenya.. a lucky small world coincidence..<\/p>\n<p>David is also a rapper.. he made this about some of the struggles in his home country of sierra leon<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.vevo.com\/assets\/html\/embed.html?video=QMZFQ1500001\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>pretty good !<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just had the pleasure to hear MiT Media Lab guy and recent PhD grad David Sengeh speak on comfortable prosthetics.. and \u00a0local innovation. He had some great messages about the engineering requited to make comfortable prosthesis &#8230; he did some very cool modeling and 3d printing to make some of the worlds most comfortable artificial &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/03\/04\/thursday-night-david-sengeh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night &#8211; David Sengeh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29018,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29008\/revisions\/29018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}