On May 20, 2010 I caught a neat episode of Charlie Rose on PBS featuring an interview with Nathan Myhrvold of Intellectual Ventures.
(Maybe you remember Nathan; he has been 'everywhere' the last couple years describing everything from IV's "mosquito-zapping laser" to their proposed "water hose in the sky," theorized to minimize global warming.)
IV has been compared to "Davos...in Birkenstocks."
Whether you're creative, love people who are or fancy yourself a polymath, you'll totally dig Nathan. (Pun intended, given his fascination with paleontology and archaeology.)
It's fun, if only for a few minutes, to imagine how someone like him -- and his "lab crew" -- see the world.
Here's a great article about Nathan by Malcolm Gladwell, along with a giddy presentation at TED.