Tag: psychology
CiteTag: Thought-Tree
A line-by-line analysis of the therapist scenes.
Tag: politics
CiteTag: Gessen
"Surviving Autocracy," makes the case that Trump's presidency has endangered American democracy and the world's faith in it.
Tag: consent
CiteTag: british-police
The problem of "proving" consent: Coffee Consent - the other half of the consent argument
I will always want tea! Tea Slut - Consent Parody
Tag: survival,camping
CiteTag: Outdoor-Boys
Tag: bread, cooking, science
CiteTag: Ragusea
By Adam-Ragusea.
Interesting. They may be next to regular bread-crumbs, or look in the
Asian food aisle.
Tag: math
CiteTag: Veritasium
Tag: algorithms, youtube
CiteTag: Galloway
By Paddy Galloway
1) good thumb-nail images with text
2) hook to make you want to watch
3) keep you on for at least 10 min
Tag: science
CiteTag: Mould
By Steve Mould
Tag: science, math, engineering
CiteTag: Veritasium
Tag: math
CiteTag: Veritasium
Cool story about Bayes' theorem and how it is applied.
Tag: culture
CiteTag: Desnick
By Anthony Desnick
Tag: culture
CiteTag: Sustainable-Human
Tag: science
CiteTag: DoS
by DoS - Domain of Science
Tag: engineering
CiteTag: Technology-Connections
A 1980's microwave that has more and better features than current microwaves.
Tag: space
CiteTag: NASA
Soyuz rocket launch as seen from iss. Alternate link: Astronomy Picture of the Day
Tag: space
CiteTag: McCarthy
By Andrew McCarthy.
Archive links:
Short link
Long link
Tag: politics, covid
CiteTag: Johnson
by Carla K. Johnson, Hannah Ingerhut and Pia Deshpande
Tag: politics
CiteTag: Robinson
By Nathan Robinson
Tag: politics, book
CiteTag: Ghitis
Fox news polling indicates voters want universal healthcare, abortion rights and a pathway to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. Florida voters, even as they selected Donald Trump, also opted to increase the state's minimum wage to $15 an hour. The democrats do not need to propose insipid half-measures when the data indicates that the public are fully on board with a progressive agenda.
Book: listen, liberal, or, what ever happened to the party of the people?
Tag: culture
CiteTag: York
Tag: politics, culture
CiteTag: Khan
by Dr. Imtiaz Khan and Ali Shahaab
Citizens of Estonia, a small nation in the Baltic region, will perhaps be particularly perplexed: since 2005, Estonians have been able vote online from anywhere in the world. Estonians log on with their digital ID card and vote as many times as they want during the pre-voting period, with each vote canceling the last.
Tag: photos, images, copyright-free
CiteTag: pexels
Here a website with 100% free photos. Googling for free sites doesn't find completely free sites. I found this through wordpress.com
What's The Appropriate Way To Give Credit To The Photographer
Tag: archive, webcite
CiteTag: archive.is
WebCite is now inactive. Here is a replacement: archive.is
Tag: science, culture
CiteTag: Shultz
By David Shultz
Tag: politics, culture
CiteTag: Males
By Mike Males
Tag: copyright,video
CiteTag: Scott
by Tom Scott
Tag: video
CiteTag: Veritasium
by Veritasium
Watch Time (currently an average of 10 min is best)
Title and Thumbnail are key - it affects CTR, click threw rate
Tag: programming
CiteTag: Rodgers
by Travis Rodgers
Answer: Time (duh)
Tag: fiction,scifi
CiteTag: MetaBallStudios
Tiny ships all the way up to Ring World
Other size comparisions: MetaBallStudios
Tag: culture
CiteTag: Veritasium
Luck plays the biggest part.
Tag: science
CiteTag: Veritasium
Longer life:
To counter this decline, we can activate the body's own defenses against aging by stressing the body. Eat less, eat less protein, engage in intense exercise, experience uncomfortable cold [or hot]. When the body senses existential threats it triggers longevity genes, which attempt to maintain the body to ensure its survival until good times return.
Scientists are uncovering ways to mimic stresses on the body without the discomfort of fasting. Molecules like NMN also trigger sirtuins to monitor and repair the epigenome. This may slow aging.
Tag: science,physics
CiteTag: u-of-arkansas
The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman's well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work.
According to Kumar, the graphene and circuit share a symbiotic relationship. Though the thermal environment is performing work on the load resistor, the graphene and circuit are at the same temperature and heat does not flow between the two.
"This means that the second law of thermodynamics is not violated, nor is there any need to argue that 'Maxwell's Demon' is separating hot and cold electrons," Thibado said.
Tag: theremin,music
CiteTag: Eyck
At age 16, Carolina Eyck invented a method for reliabably playing the Theremin.
Tag: culture
CiteTag: Piper
by Grant Piper
A mysterious apocalypse brought down nearly all of human civilization three thousand years ago
Tag: science,sound,speaker
CiteTag: Gene
by Mean Gene
Description has the parts list.
Tag: covid,science
CiteTag: Tufekci
by Zeynep Tufekci in The Atlantic
It is not average transmition rate. It's the clusters.
Tag: humor
Cute.
Tag: humor, trivia
This is a great series of podcasts. They do deep dives into trivial things. For example GPS time should be going slower than on Earth surface, because their relative speed is greater, but wait their relativity gravity effect is less so time is going faster than the surface of Earth. So the net result: GPS time is faster by about 38 microsecond/day. See Relativity section at: Error analysis for the Global Positioning System
Festival of the Spoken Word -Home: A Podcast of Unecessary Detail
Tag: math, engineering
Tag: EU, strange
Lights on the moon, Air Force says UFOs are not earth craft, big push for mining on the moon--huh? Well, the "lights" can be explained by the EU theory.
Tag: culture
by Colin Horgan. Why shutting down Twitter accounts or limiting Facebook groups won't solve our problem.
My comments: Could a "voting" system such as stackoverflow.com help? Also signed text with authenticated key will probably be needed.
Tag: humor, culture
by Angela Volkov. An open letter to humanity on getting its collective act together. Funny.
Tag: photography, engineering
CiteTag: Smith
by Thomas Smith. And what it says about the problems with trusting your smartphone camera.
Tag: video,smoke,fire
CiteTag: rafnel
This was taken around noon Wed 2020-09-09 at Redwood City, CA.
The air quality was "Moderate" (64) because the smoke is luckily trapped above an inversion layer. The temperature is only 66F because the sun is blocked so much. It was 105F on Monday.
Tag: politics, culture
CiteTag: Doctorow
by Cory Doctorow. (109 min read) Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism - with surveillance. Here's how to beat it.
Tag: politics, culture
by Lauren Martinchek. If our lawmakers won't look out for us, it's time to take matters in to our own hands.
Tag: culture
CiteTag: YanisVaroufakis
He makes a great point that the large corporations (Google, Amazon, Walmart, etc) are not examples of capitalism; they are examples of monopolies.
Tag: science
He describes some very real problems with wind and solar. So, go nuclear. Well, there are safer and cleaner nuclear designs. But of course he doesn't address those. The issue of long-term storage of spent fuel was not addressed. The issue of meltdowns, with "active" fail-safes, in the current designs were not addressed. ("Passive" fail-safe designs are way more reliable.)
Also, in his descriptions of the problems with "renewable", he only talked about "centralize" renewables, i.e. large scale projects; he quickly brushed aside decentralized options as being more expensive. He also characterized lots of smaller renewable plants as being more fragile. Huh?! He truly does not understand redundancy in providing fault-tolerant systems.
Others pointed out, he didn't really address other storage options that are being developed. For example, liquid air.
Tag: culture
Jan 30, 2017
US incarceration rate from 1925 to 1975 was quite "stable", 100 per 100,000. After 1975 it rapidly climbs to 700 per 100,000 (over the last 40 years). The U.S. is 7 to 10 times higher than in European countries.
Crime moves in sync with, better policing, better social conditions, not incarceration.
He highlights German prisons. What a sane system!
Article 1 of the German Constitution: "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority."
He went to Germany to "learn". How does a society go from such inhumanity to being humane?
Quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
Tag: politics, culture
Oct 20, 2015
"I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to to the nominating."--"Boss" Tweed
Solutions:
1) Get rid of "private" money from the party system. I.e. neutralize Tweedism.
2) Get rid of gerrymandering. (See the next link for a solution)
3) Get rid of voting limits.
True representation does not happen, ever, until equal representation is addressed first.
Also by Larry Lessig (Aug 10, 2017): How the Net destroyed democracy | Lawrence Lessig | TEDxBerlinSalon Mainly the talk is about the change in media control. It gets really interesting around 15 min.
Tag: politics
Gerrymandering solution.
Here's a link to Brian's site that shows how federal and state districts are drawn with his algorithm. Don't like his algorithm? His suggestion is that any group tasked with redistricting needs to use algorithms that are reviewable by the public so that "special" biases can be identified. Have maybe 5 different algorithms define 5 district maps, then have the state or federal legislators vote on the ones that will be used for the next 10 years, i.e. until the next census. Impartial Automatic Redistricting
Another good rant by John Oliver (Apr 9, 2017): Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Here's another talk on algorithmic solutions: Data Science Can Solve Gerrymandering | Frank Evans | TEDxUCO
CiteTag: Seely
Tag: humor
May 4, 2015
I'll bet this is still possible. Wow!
Tag: politics
Excellent analysis.
Tag: space
This is a wonderful tour. You really get to see how they move around. I liked one of the comments on the video: take a drink for every time he says "storage".
This is another tour done 4 years later. The interior is more cluttered. Grand tour of the International Space Station with Drew and Luca | Single take - Jan 26, 2020
Tag: culture
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Several college students in an Alabama city organized "COVID-19" parties as a contest to see who would get the virus first, officials said.
Tag: culture
Permaculture--biodiversity, Bison for grazing the plains, sustainable fishing with no bi-catch... Using proven methods that regenerate, not deplete. Decentralized vs centralized solutions.
Tag: culture, politics
How narcissists use the double-bind to control people. It is often used by organizations too.
His personal story is sad. He shows how to break double-binds.
Tag: space
Here's the web site link: Spote The Station
Tag: culture
Former cop, Paul Manning, shared a story detailing how he was treated when he attempted to call-out officer misconduct.
Don't rat-out your buddies. They behave exactly like a gang. "Force" requires external checks and balances.
Lots of good political commentary videos on this channel: The Rational National
Tag: culture
He gave a good view of how police think. Mainly they have no patience for the time needed to de-escalate problems.
Tag: politics, culture
By the guy who describe the double-bind dilemma.
TurboTax and other tax prepares hide their free sites.
If you have Netflix, see Patriot Act: Volume 6, Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard
Tag: engineering
This is cool. He has lots of other videos about motors.
This is part 2 of a good discussion about Engineering Principles. (Unfortunately part 1 does not work in a browser anymore--weird.) Engineering Principles for Makers Part 2; Material Properties #067
Tag: food, recipe
The answer: salt 1 hour or 1 day before cooking. Also, cook in oven first then shear.
I'm definitely going to try this recipe.
Very cool. An app that will connect blind people with sited people who can describe to them what they see with there phone.
Here's the link to the app site: Be My Eyes
Tag: music
Those are big drums!
You need to play this on your stereo, with sub-woofers.
Tag: music
Really nice, if you like bag pipes.
Tag: science
This channel also has a number of video about how to use a microscope.
* Are these thoughts useful?
* How do these thoughts behave?
The order doesn't matter.
Tag: culture
This is a good summary of his Coranation essay. ( The Coronation )
This is a good interview where he covers many of the points in "The Coronation": An Epidemic of Control, Charles Eisenstein
Another related video: The Goal Of Life Is Not To Survive It
Tag: culture
What a world he pictures. Beautifully described in only 4 minutes!.
Tag: culture
Wow, this is powerful! This took them years. Again, *time* is needed for humane solutions.
The Q&A section is worth reading too. (link at bottom of page)
Tag: politics
John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.
Great rant! He ends with viral video by Kimberly Jones.
Here Trevor Noah interviews Kimberly Jones on June 19: Kimberly Jones - Speaking Out About Black Experiences in America | The Daily Social Distancing Show
Tag: politics
Cops respond to protests against systemic racism and police brutality with military tactics, macing and more of the same violence that protesters are working to shut down.
Let us not forget this, this time!
Tag: music
Here is more from them: BookStock2020 (Fendrick & Peck with Scout & Morgan Books)
And here is there web site with CD's for sale: Fendrick and Peck
Tag: politics, music
ObamaGate. Cute.
Squirrels are amazing. Actually this a squirrel obstacle course.
Tag: science
Bizarre!
In long-term relationships, we often expect our beloved to be both best friend and erotic partner.
So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide. Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one. Give me comfort, give me edge. Give me novelty, give me familiarity. Give me predictability, give me surprise. And we think it's a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that.
So if there is a verb, for me, that comes with love, it's "to have." And if there is a verb that comes with desire, it is "to want." In love, we want to have, we want to know the beloved. We want to minimize the distance. We want to contract that gap. We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness. But in desire, we tend to not really want to go back to the places we've already gone. Forgone conclusion does not keep our interest. In desire, we want an Other, somebody on the other side that we can go visit, that we can go spend some time with, that we can go see what goes on in their red-light district. You know? In desire, we want a bridge to cross. Or in other words, I sometimes say, fire needs air. Desire needs space. And when it's said like that, it's often quite abstract.
Book: Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, by Esther Perel
I hope we can realize this beautiful story. It will take some work to make a new "normal".
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I went to Safeway this morning to buy some things. A reporter interviewed me (live) when I came out.
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This is so cute.
CiteTag: Moore
https://www.thesolarnerd.com/blog/planet-of-the-humans-debunked/
This is a typical enviro-angst show. Doom and glum with no reasonable solutions or a root cause. They only gave a glimpse of a root cause at 49:34 (https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE?t=2974) our culture's denial of death.
It's easier to fool the masses than to convince them that they are being fooled. -Mark Twain
So rather than focusing on the problem, how about solutions? For some examples, check out Charles Eisenstein at https://charleseisenstein.org/ "...the issue is not whether our current civilization is sustainable. Do we even want to sustain it? Can't we do better than this?"
Or dig even deeper with: Tamera at https://www.tamera.org/ We need to stop this "war" on the "other"; we are part of nature, and need to see how to be a lot more cooperative.
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Actually this is more about being a good movie director.
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"The problem with playing tricks on highly intelligent people is that the time it takes for them to realize what exactly has happened from the moment they see something wrong is too short to provide any pleasure." He said this after a prank he played on Teller (with Teller's desk drawer).
At 5:48 Richard Feynman at Princeton meets great men (Richard learns that great men remember and argue fast)
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Donald Trump's approval rating has not move below 40 to 42%.
...the past few years have shown us is that the already difficult task of admitting you are wrong is even harder for conservatives, because it will also require recognizing the unthinkable possibility that liberals were right.
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...from a book called The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the
Perfect English Phrase. Adjectives, writes the author, professional
stickler Mark Forsyth, "absolutely have to be in this order:
opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose Noun.
So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver
whittling knife. But if you mess with that order in the slightest
you'll sound like a maniac."
Basics on how cells work
Amazing!
Wow the lack of U.S. government inaction for Covid-19 is criminal!
Author Max Brooks became an expert on disaster preparedness - from pandemics to nuclear war - through researching for his books, "World War Z," "Germ Warfare" and the forthcoming "Devolution." He spoke with Terry Gross about how the federal government is designed to respond to crises like COVID-19 - and what is preventing the tasks forces from being deployed. He will also explain why "panic is not preparation," and how to have good "fact-hygiene."
Go home! - Mel Brooks and son Max share a comedic PSA on the coronavirus.
Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explores the dynamic history-and future-of ice at the poles.
I grep'ed through the full transcript. There is no mention of the Gaia Theory. The climate descriptions are all a result of inorganic processes. Disappointing. However the photography is stunning."
My own video.
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CiteTag: Petranek
Hidden in democratic countries.
Accurate and funny. Want more?
See: https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads/
Honest Government Ads
Authorized by the Department of Genuine Satire.
Produced by the Patrons of The Juice Media.
Interesting. But what about rocks, bugs, or birds?
Source:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/03/15/2236209/new-supercar-technology-does-away-with-windshields
Good, but probably too late
What happened 13,000 years ago?
It improves the survival of the community.
More: WillPotter.com/CMU - notes
The solution is transparency.
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We are living in the scenario he showed in the talk, 5 years ago!
A really nice visualization.
Sad.
A quote from him:
"I've been buying and selling things for 10 years now. There's been hot
product after hot product. But the thing is, there's always another one
on the shelf," he said. "When we did this trip, I had no idea that
these stores wouldn't be able to get replenished."
I think this is a very good summary of his misjudgment: Comment on this post: he has 17700 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sell them
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This is a great article, showing why we need to act sooner not later: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
WildX Speaker Filmmaker and Hypnotist Albert Nerenberg suggests there's something about sexuality the general public doesn't know. And it's potentially amazing. In this entertaining breakthrough talk Nerenberg explains he and Montreal hypnotist Dominique LaRoche stumbled on a largely unknown side of human trance behavior that opens up possibilities for sexual expression and healing. Humans can have orgasms without contact and with their clothes on. And they can \do it by simply achieving a specific deeply relaxed state. Nerenberg claims this may open up possibilities for sexual healing but there is a need for an ethical framework. Either way, the implications are considerable and new.
Compact animal herds are the key, with rotation.
Great details that describe the EU model.
Funny and sad.
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Dangerous because it is stupid.
Mandelbrot set and the binomial equation.
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Really funny magician.
"We have an archaic idea of what family is," says Brooks in a new episode of The Idea File. The nuclear family unit, Brooks argues, is a privilege of the wealthy. Across the world, 38 percent of people still live with extended family. And over the past half-century, the share of people living alone in America has doubled. The nuclear family is no longer the norm-and it should no longer be the ideal.
Very cool
Great speech about how humans treat the earth and life.
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The second potential danger is more troubling: in a world where the past haunts the present, young people may calcify their identities, perspectives, and political positions at an increasingly young age.
In 2017, Harvard University rescinded admission offers to 10 students after discovering that they had shared offensive memes in a private Facebook chat. In 2019, the university withdrew another offer-to Kyle Kashuv, an outspoken conservative survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. In Kashuv's case, it wasn't a social-media post that caused the trouble, and it wasn't an adult who exposed him. Back in 10th grade, Kashuv had repeatedly used the N-word in a shared Google document created for a class assignment. When Harvard accepted him, his peers recovered the document and shared it with the media.
There are reasons to applaud Harvard for refusing to take these students. Such decisions offer hope that future generations will be held accountable for racist, sexist, and homophobic behavior. This is a step in the right direction. But there is a flip side.
When Kashuv discovered he had lost his place at Harvard, he did what any digital native would do-he shared his reaction online. On Twitter, he wrote, "Throughout its history, Harvard's faculty has included slave owners, segregationists, bigots and antisemites. If Harvard is suggesting that growth isn't possible and that our past defines our future, then Harvard is an inherently racist institution."
Great video describing how speed of light is measured.
Too bad scientists are now making a big error by "assuming" constants really are constant. Good scientists will keep measuring.
This is a simple mindmap tool. Storyboards, assign "measurements", attach text boxes, publish and share, save pdf, save to your dropbox. It could be adapted to create quick DFD diagrams, because the levels can be collapsed, and the test attachments allow for pseudo code descriptions.
This is even simpler than MindUp. Just enter a text outline and it draws a very nice flowing drawing. This is good for really quick mindmaps.
CiteTag: semler
This is really important! A 30 year success story--this is not just a vision of what could be: it is a reality. Democratic companies: take vacation when you want, set your own salary, interviewed and hired by peers, leaders evaluated by subordinates every 6 months, etc. Education that is inline with what John Gatto talks about: no grades, no age grouping, flexible hours, no breaking up the day with multiple subjects, etc.
Food for Everyone, Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert - Yes Magazine article and video
These are fun.
CiteTag: Jakubowski
Alternate link: Marcin Jakubowski:
Another good one: Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music - notice: Europeans know they should hold their cell phones horizontal to take videos. Videos should never be recorded with a vertical orientation. Americans will argue that vertical is OK. Really? Would you turning a video camera sideways?
This is a remix that combines a number of separate postings. This is really good overview of what education should be.
John Taylor Gatto: Elite Schooling - Part 2 of 2 (A summary of the books he has written.
This is my own recording and edit of this talk.
Tamera - Benjamin von Mendelssohn - Part 2 of 2
"The Sacred Matrix: From the Matrix of Violence to the Matrix of Life, The Foundation for a New Civilization" - Book by Dieter Duhm. This book gives a pretty complete overview of the group's vision.
Tamera's main web site - web site
CiteTag: Suzuki
See also: Dr. David Suzuki - Message to The World_from Occupy Vancouver - 25min
CiteTag: Suzuki
part1 part2 part3 part4 - missing part5 part6 part7 part8 - missing
Another source: https://www.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com/a-planet-for-the-taking.html"
In the comments, the best alternative word, that others came up with was: activism
Tokyo railway optimal path design and slime mould... A single celled organism can do 'optimization' as good as hundreds of engineering minds put together... amazing video and amazing creature... just fascinating... look at the optimal railway paths of Tokyo created by the slime mould and be amazed...
Why people can't seem to get work done at work.
When asked, where got when you really need to get something done? Most people will answer with:
- A place, a location, or a room
- A moving object (e.g. train, plane)
- A time
No one answers with "the office".
The "day" is shredded in to "work moments".
Creative people need long stretches of time to get work done. Duh, this has been measured by many consultants (see Tom DeMarco): it takes 20min to get in a productive "flow" mode. Good metaphor: would you say you slept well if you were woken up once an hour, through the night? Work is like that.
The main problem: MM, Meetings and Manager.
Some things to try:
- No talk Thursdays, or maybe just no talk Thursday afternoons.
- Use passive communication (email, IM, etc.) - but you can not be required to answer right away.
- Just cancel meetings.
CiteTag: Rankin
Dr. Lissa Rankin: Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, Talks at Google - A longer talk given at Google. - 54min
Book: Mind Over Medicine, by Lissa Rankin
Site: HealHealthCareNow.com
Site: OwningPink.com
* Placebo happens when the body is relaxed. * The body can't heal itself on stress hormones. * The amygdala can't read. * No one knows your body better than you. * Meditation is controlling the looping nature of thought. * Relax!
CiteTag: Tulley
Book: Fifty Dangerous Things, by Gever Tulley and Julie Spiegler
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Repair damage.
CiteTag: Tulley
You can change people's brains.
Look at the brain, don't just treat symptoms.
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CiteTag: Herbenick
Image is powerful
Image is superficial
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Myth #1 - Education will change behavior
- How you present the information::
- Make information tangible, personalized, interaction
-Hearing what you are losing is more effective than hearing what
you are gaining
-Unique messages for different audiences.
Myth #2 - You need to change attitudes to change behavior
- Example: need to believe global warming to do things differently (Not)
- Attitudes follow behavior
- Set behavioral expectations
- Connect to values
Myth #3 - People know that motivates them to take action
- Social norms work better (example street musicians, seeding
with money is not enough, they should have friend put money in
their pot.
CiteTag: Milton
CiteTag: ted
Personalization - leads a "filter bubble" which can isolate you from the world, and you do not get to choose the filter.
CiteTag: Kawasaki
- "Experts" are clueless
- Customers can not tell you what they need
- Biggest challenges beget the best work
- Design counts
- Big graphics, Big fonts (in presentations)
- Jump curves, not better sameness
- "Work" or "doesn't work" is all that matters (don't be "religious")
- "Value" is different from "price"
- "A" players hire "A+" players (B players hire C players, C players hire D...)
- Real CEOs can demo
- Real entrepreneurs ship
- Some things need to be believed to be seen
CiteTag: Baker
What does "Freedom" mean to you?
Work less? Buy less.
CiteTag: Leipzig
People who were happy with their live knew these 5 things: 1. Who they were 2. What they did 3. Who they did if for 4. What those people wanted or needed 5. What they got out of it, how they changed as a result
Make other people happy, and taken care of, then you will be taken care of too.
CiteTag: Kaufman
CiteTag: Holman
Killing mosquito with lasers! All done with consumer electronics.
CiteTag: Lonsdale
This one has some for the same techniques: 5 techniques to speak any language: Sid Efromovich at TEDxUpperEastSide
CiteTag: Doctorow
Really excellent points. I think most of this can be used as a starting point by any New Culture type companies. It is better than the Democratic Corporation concept that I've read.
Complexity makes jobs very stressful and unproductive for everyone.
Simple rules for Smart Simplicity-
Understand what your people do (what is their real work?)
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Reinforce integrators (give middle mgrs the power to make others cooperate, remove layers, less rules, more discretionary power to the mgrs)
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Increase the total quantity of power (empower everybody, enough power so they can take risks and cooperate more, because they have more control)
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Extend the shadow of the future (create feedback loops to show consequences to actions, for example have design engineers follow their product through the lifecycle)
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Increase reciprocity (remove buffers that make us self-sufficient, so that we will have to cooperate)
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Reward those who cooperate (blame is not for failure, blame is for failing to help, or failing to ask for help)
The real battle is not against our competitors, it is against our own bureaucracies.
Home page Books: * The Sacred Matrix * Setting Foundations for a New Civilization * Tamera: A Model for the Future
Amazing.
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There are fewer than a dozen quiet places left in the United States. Even in our wilderness areas and national parks, the average noise-free interval has shrunk to less than five minutes during daylight hours."
"Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything."
Related: Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world - video
"I offer the wisdom of the African ancestors so that Westerners might find the deep healing they seek." - View Malidoma's Calendar
Mind blowing: Part One of an interview with Malidoma, conducted by Leslee Goodman in 2010
Malidoma Somé Interview Part 1 of 6 - video
VISIONS: Malidoma Some - Article, by D. Patrick Miller, Mother Jones, March/April 1995 Issue
CiteTag: Doctorow
Great sequel to "Little Brother"
Free download of "Little Brother"
But if you like it, buy a copy, ebook or paperback!
Release Engineers != Developers
developers build "products"
release engineers build "pipelines"
operation engineers keep it going
Single Track
The release schedule is as predictable as your riskiest project
Project branches
Completed projects ship on schedule
Late/risky projects slip to next release
To support project branches:
use the exact same servers and processes to build any branch.
www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Ken-Kramers-About-San-Diego
Local copy (slow link): Bill_Rafnel-Ken_Kramer_s_About_San_Diego-NBC_7
All good:
Jeanne Robertson "Don't Get Frisky in a tent!" ("Don't sleep in a tent with Left Brain!")
Jeanne Robertson "Don't send a man to the grocery store!"
Jeanne Robertson "Flight attendant deals with a bad potato"
Jeanne Robertson "Mothers vs Teenage Daughters"
Jeanne Robertson "Don't go rafting without a Baptist in the boat!"
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Published on May 24, 2012
Another video banned by TED. Wow, really shocking, but strangely honest.
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Published on May 17, 2012
Nick Hanauer on His Banned TED Talk & Why the Middle Class are the Job Creators - Published on May 30, 2012 - From the Majority Report, live M-F 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM:
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Banned TED talk: Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - blog.ted.com, video
02/04/2013 - Dr. Rupert Sheldrake talks about his banned TED talk on Skeptiko with Alex Tsakiris - audio
The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence - video
Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013 - "Science Set Free" (Part 1) - video
Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013 - "Science Set Free" (Part 2) - video
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Graham Hancock talks about his banned TED talk on the Lifeboat Hour with Mike Ruppert - 2013-17-03 - audio
The War On Consciousness: The Talk That Gave TED Indigestion, By Graham Hancock
JRE: Eddie Huang TED Conference Exposed - Published on Feb 28, 2013 Joe Rogan talks to Eddie Huang about his experience at the TED conference.
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Videos "banned" from TED
- "The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams."
- "When you prohibit failure, you kill innovation. If you kill innovation in fundraising, you can't raise more revenue. If you can't raise more revenue, you can't grow. And if you can't grow, you can't possibly solve large social problems."
- "We have a visceral reaction to the idea that anyone would make very much money helping other people. Interesting that we don't have a visceral reaction to the notion that people would make a lot of money NOT helping other people."
- Stop the maddness for constant group work. (More privacy and autonomy is needed).
- Go to the wilderness--have your own revalations<./li>
- Look at what is in your suitcase, and share them, but introverts be sure to at least occasionsionly share what is in your suitcase.
Astrophyists tell the EU people "Give us the math that explains the theory, then we will look at it." That is totally backwards--the math needs to model what is observed.
WebCite
Just about all of the Electric Universe vidieos are here.
The Thunderbolts Project - Home web site
Local copy: trance-formation.mp4 (1.5GB)
Local copy: The_Revolution_Will_Not_Be_Televised-Chavez-The_Coup.mp4 (385MB)
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Excellent overview of the main points in his book. Funny quote:
"Politics is that one domain of human existence in which behavior that
would otherwise be psychotic is actually effective."
Saved a local copy of this...
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Charlie Rose. 2006?
time banking - bay area link..
My problem with this libertarian view (From "The ecstasy of influence", below at 2012-04-10): "The power of a gift economy remains difficult for the empiricists of our market culture to understand. In our times, the rhetoric of the market presumes that everything should be and can be appropriately bought, sold, and owned--a tide of alienation lapping daily at the dwindling redoubt of the unalienable. In free-market theory, an intervention to halt propertization is considered "paternalistic," because it inhibits the free action of the citizen, now reposited as a "potential entrepreneur." Of course, in the real world, we know that child-rearing, family life, education, socialization, sexuality, political life, and many other basic human activities require insulation from market forces. In fact, paying for many of these things can ruin them.
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This is a great example of how the conservitives think and how liberals would probably agree. See: 2009-07-04 - TED: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives
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Good viewpoint on why internet freedom is so important.
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Most-popular TEDxCMU. Good points for anyone working.
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Most-popular TEDxSF
"It roots our fundamental capacity for connection."
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DARPA
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Even more relevant to our current culture.
Some quotes:
Empathy is not really possible in a hierarchy system--Riane Eisler
We institutionalize ignorance, then we go to war--Deepac Chopra
Domination - generates fear--Riane Eisler
Respect, in a hierarchy, is based on fear, [not admiration]. [paraphrase]--Riane Eisler
The meaning of life is not important. It is important to have an experience of the depth of life.--Joseph Campbell
Stop looking for the right person, become the right person.---Deepac Chopra
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Zappos.com
see also:
2010-06-26 - Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile
2010-01-03 - Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
2011-12-21 - Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability
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Closeup of the print
3 Gratitudes
Journaling
Exercise
Meditation
Random Acts of Kindness
CiteTag: Preston
Direct Democracy - video. This is a very good summary of a more humane society
Anarchists in the 1936 Spanish Civil War - The Catalonia experiment - video
Source: OWS New Year's Eve Festivities - comments - see user: struggleforfreedom80 (saved)
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Part 2/2 - video
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part 2/2 - video
Well the first 5 min. is the summary; the actual video is almost 2 hrs. See also: 2011-02-03 for another short summary (15min)
http://thoriumremix.com/act/ - main site, you can buy the DVD of this for $1.75. Spread the word. It has a Creative Commons copyright so it can be copied and shared freely.
The Chinese are building this technology ($1 billion for the next 8 years). So far the US is doing nothing, mainly because this will destabilized the current coal, gas, oil, and water-based nuclear companies.
For more links and discussions see: http://energyfromthorium.com/
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Watch Open Source Ecology Founder Marcin Jakubowski discuss the prospects for an open source, do it yourself civilization.
We have ordered one! The store: http://printrbot.com/
Sample Photos - Click on what you want in focus!
That's interesting... ...tell me more. ...why would you say that? ...why would you ask me that? ...why would you do that?
More communication tips: PowerDiversity
- Career Advice from Alan Watts
- Alan Watts on schooling
- Alan Watts - We are all basically nothing
- Are you really what you imagine yourself to be? Alan Watts
- Alan Watts - Seeing Beyond The Game
- Alan Watts: The Way of Waking Up
- The illusion of the Ego - ALAN WATTS
- Alan Watts On Who Are You
- YouTube Mix for Alan Watts - by elliotwitheart
Alan Watt - (not Watts!)
It would be really cool if this apparatus was added to Olympic gymnastics.
German Wheel
- Simon Knapp German Wheel Straight Line Exercise
- Roue Allemande, German wheel, Frédéric Lemieux Cormier
- Rhoenrad-WM 2011 in Arnsberg - Weltmeisterin Hoffmann 04 Juni 2010.flv
- Wheel Act Gymmotion 2007
- Rhönradturnen - World-Team Cup 2010 - Svenja Trepte (Germany) - Spirale
- Peinture et Roue
Cyr Wheel
- Cyr Wheel Robert Maaser
- Arnsberg freut sich auf die Weltmeisterschaften im Rhönradturnen 2011
- Cyr Act Gymmotion 2009 "The Ring"
- World Championships Wheel Gymnastics 2011 - Final "Cyr Battle" - wow
- Circonvolution improbable... Alexandre Lane Roue Cyr - Cyr wheel ImproCirque 9 juillet 2011 - wow
- Roue Cyr Moscow
- Angelica Bongiovonni Roue Cyr Demo
- Cyr Wheel Act - CORTEO (Cirque du Soleil)
Buy - also google for how to make your won
Local copy
Main source
Local video copy, if the original disappears
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A good summary of the movement.
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NEED TO KNOW | Are we slaves to debt? The history of spending more than we have | PBS - video
https://occupywallst.org/ - (WebCite)
Book: Debt, The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber - (WebCite)
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www.metablast.org
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Example: more density will reduce energy needs more than just changing to renewable energies. What we really want is "access" to what we want. Share more.
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Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV
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- many jobs are incompatible with family life
- Gov. and Corp. will not solve this problem. You should never put your life in the hands of a Corp.
- Be careful with the time frame for the desired balance. Not too short and not too long.
- Approach balance in a balanced way. physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual, etc.
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State legislatures and Corporations draft "template" laws
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Secretive Corporate-Legislative Group ALEC Holds Annual Meeting to Rewrite State Laws
ALEC Exposed -
New Exposé Tracks ALEC-Private Prison Industry Effort to Replace Unionized Workers with Prison Labor - The new slavery: prison workers
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Book: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, by Clay Shirky.
Interview by Rob Kall, Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast
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Patriarchy steals women's voices (at about age 15), and it steals men's hearts (at about age 5)
Cindy Sheehan: We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing.
Related: Jane Fonda: Life's third act - TED video
First Aired: 3/14/2011, 58 minutes
Bill Moyers examines the deteriorating and increasingly corrupt state of affairs that our government has devolved into and the accompanying divisiveness sweeping the country. Is there hope for things to improve? For the first time in his life, Moyers isn't optimistic.
Arthur Schopenhauer - philosopher
Recommended books:
* A Paradise Built in Hell, by Rebecca Solnit - study of people in disasters
* Spirit Level, by Richard G. Wilkinson
* Kabuki Democracy: The System vs. Barack Obama, by Eric Alterman
* Winner Take All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer--and
Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, by Paul Pierson
* The Atlantic, Article: "The rise of the new global elite", by Chrystia Freeland
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Yes! Positive eco. change with benefits, rather than the usual: look at all problems and extra costs.
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Personally I see it all the time in software creation. Making and using robust software libraries and languages is not supported--the assertion is that defect free software is impossible. Well too expensive, for the expected life of the software product, is the real reason when engineer's press the issue. Defective software is good, because you can sell fixes, if new features can't be convincing enough.
A bit at the end: getting off the "growth cycle". There can be jobs in repair and in closing the loop to eliminate waste.
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Like others, Food Not Bombs (FNB) volunteers have been bogusly called terrorists. Some have been arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned. Internal government documents suggest high-level concern that they're turning Americans away from militarism, instead advocating social justice, including quality education, universal health care, and good living wage/essential benefits jobs - the direct opposite of current US policy under either dominant party, each like the other, only pretending to be different.
As a result, FNB urges volunteers to stay focused, wary that infiltrators spread fear and disrupt constitutionally protected activities. Especially post-9/11, advocating peace and social justice are now crimes, engaged activists potentially facing charges of domestic terrorism and long imprisonment for supporting right over wrong. The reality of today's America is much different than its pretense, making it unsafe for anti-war, social justice advocates like FNB volunteers.
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Wow!
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"Trade" and idea transfer is the substrate for patterns...
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The video has been removed, but you can still buy the DVD (or google for other sources, it is 101 min long). It is really worth it! Buy it here. ($19.95 for 1, $60 for 5)
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Very wise. Rather than "write what you know", "write what you feel".
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This is THE best direction for change that I've seen.
TED: Eve Ensler: Embrace Your Inner Girl - video - Feelings get in the way of empire building.
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Fascinating.
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yes! look at the big picture
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Beautiful
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Fun
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cute, but it's only a start
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What they are doing is basic bio-feedback.
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Link to a number of interview videos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_Hill)
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Talk on Gross National Happiness (King of Bhutan)
The Internet mistake of "give it away for free, and you will be rewarded"
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, by Jaron Lanier - Read the book's Editorial Review section for a good Q&A with Jaron, that summarizes his initial points.
"Problems" are not allowed in corporations. It's a great form of social control.
CiteTag: medicallab
The New American Corporatocracy! A Special Comment - Part 2 of 2
Keith Olbermann Interviews Alan Grayson About The
Supreme Court Case of Citizens United vs. FEC - "103 years of
settled law overturned"
Save Democracy - Petition by Alan Grayson
CiteTag: Zeitgeist
Related: The Venus Project and The Venus Project: Bombastic Dream or Realizable Future?
The elite's wet dream.
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Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.
Great examples of the errors in the philosophy of "Utility".
CiteTag: Ariely
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counteractive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
See also:
2010-01-03 - Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code
CiteTag: Pink
Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. "Carrot/stick" rewards/punishments work for mechanical tasks, but fail completely for mental cognitive tasks. Yet businesses ignore this, tested fact.
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Balloonist view of life. Pushed through life by consistent winds. Change your altitude, drop ballast or let out air, to find new winds, new paths.
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See also: 2009-05-28 - Conservatives Live In a Different Moral Universe--and here's why it matters
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Delayed Gratification
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Excellent.
Alternate link -
YouTube
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Sterling engine, and dynamic mirrors
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Focused sound.
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