驭风男孩
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
William Kamkwamba、Bryan Mealer、Korey Jackson · 初版 2009 年
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William Kamkwamba 出生于马拉维，一个魔法盛行而现代科学如同谜团的国度。那也是一片饱受干旱和饥荒摧残的土地，希望与机遇难觅踪迹。但 William 曾在一本名为 Using Energy 的书中读到过风车，他梦想建造一座风车，为村庄带来电力和水源，并改变自己和周围人的生活。他的邻居们或许曾嘲笑他，骂他是 misala（疯子），但 William 决心让他们看到一点毅力与巧思所能创造的奇迹。为电力的运作原理所深深吸引……
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……那些身处极其不利的条件下却依然成功创新的故事，比如 William Kamkwamba 在马拉维利用风车的经历。他还专门就此写了一本书：《驭风男孩》（The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind）。欧美任何 STEM 研究生科研项目里，都充斥着推动基础科学进步的人，而他们正是来自那些自身在推进基础……方面表现极差的文化背景。
…stories of people who have succeeded at innovation despite finding themselves in the most unfavorable conditions, like William Kamkwamba's application of windmills in Malawi. He wrote a book about it: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Any STEM graduate school research program in the US or Europe is full of people who are advancing foundational knowledge, but moved there from cultures that are doing very poorly at advancing foundational…
……Coders at Work The Mousedriver Chronicles Leaving Microsoft to Change the World The Soul of a New Machine Startup The Hypomanic Edge Small Giants Small is the New Big Four Hour Work Week The Boy who Harnessed the Wind Four Steps to the Epiphany Pour your Heart into it Beyond Software Architecture Setting the Table --- DESIGN / UX --- On Writing The Design of Everyday Things Understanding Comics The Elements……
…Coders at Work The Mousedriver Chronicles Leaving Microsoft to Change the World The Soul of a New Machine Startup The Hypomanic Edge Small Giants Small is the New Big Four Hour Work Week The Boy who Harnessed the Wind Four Steps to the Epiphany Pour your Heart into it Beyond Software Architecture Setting the Table --- DESIGN / UX --- On Writing The Design of Everyday Things Understanding Comics The Elements…
让我想起了 William Kamkwamba 的那本书《驭风男孩：创造电力与希望的潮流》（The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope）。很值得一读。
Reminds me of the book "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope" by William Kamkwamba. Good read.
《驭风男孩》（The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind）
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
很有意思的帖子，让我想起最近读过的一本类似主题的书——《驭风男孩：创造电力与希望的潮流》（The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope）(http://amzn.com/0061730335)
Interesting post, reminds me of a book that I read recently on similar topic - "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope" (http://amzn.com/0061730335)
让我想起了《驭风男孩》（The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind）。非常酷的一本书，我强烈推荐。
Makes me think of "The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind." A very cool book, I would highly recommend it.