Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold on taking the world's highest-res snowflake photographs and more ...

NEXT with John Koetsier · Nov 21, 2020 · 34m

Former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold spent 18 months building a custom 100MP camera to take pictures of snowflakes. We chat with him about why :-) and how, which includes equipment from Japan and Canada and trips to Alaska and Yellowknife and Timmons, Ontario.

Myhrvold also chats about what drives him to continue inventing and learning.

He's a polymath, and while best known for being the CTO of Microsoft, he's the founder of Intellectual Ventures, has more than 850 patents to his name, and has written 1000s of pages of recipes for his cookbook series … published peer-reviewed research on…