how fungi can save the world
Excellent TED Talk by Mycologist Paul Stamets. The breeding of mushrooms to save the planet. Fascinating stuff.
a history of multi-differential time
this is a great short animation portraying a few rocks perspective on the brief history of human development.
objects as consciousness at differing time intervals.
what do we do with our excessive cognitive capacity
Clay Shirky at the Web 2.0 Conference. Great talk on media, culture, and human potential. “Where do we find the time”?
abortion? the democratic race? oh my?
i think, at some time, you have to ask yourself… is this really the height of political debate that is needed in our country right now?
our country is being lost to those stuck on fundamentalism, bigotry, etc. It’s also being lost to those stuck on the throwing of “labels” in order to demonize and distract. I mean “bitter-”gate ?? Come on people. Hillary Clinton and her dysfunctional “team” are salivating at the heels of The Karl Rove Political Bible. Obama only continues to tell the truth, even if it sometimes has a faint air of arrogance.
remember ron paul?
where is he now?
well here he is today, in a “philosophic” discussion with with Bernanke:
these are our lives
“I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables—slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war . . . our Great Depression is our lives. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won’t. And we’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off.”
—Fight Club, 1999
Politics, Media, and Mr. Stewart
Jon Stewart once again shows us what journalism is and isn’t. The comments here on Karl Rove should be in all of our minds. The man at the center of one of the most serious crimes against America (the Valerie Plame outing), is now employed by Fox News.
America needs integrity. America needs justice. If the highest members of our society can get away with so much, how can we hope to ever maintain a peaceful and just environment for the society they represent.
Cultural Identification vs Geographic Proximation
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Hunter Lived His Dream
“Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.”
—Hunter S. Thomson, The Great Shark Hunt, 1979 (link)
