Brilliant lecture that should be essential viewing.

Please watch all eight clips. Each one has valid information about your future.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=related

Why don't we do this?

In a letter to Joseph Milligan on April 6, 1816, Thomas Jefferson explicitly suggested that if individuals became so rich that their wealth could influence or challenge government, then their wealth should be decreased upon their death. He wrote, "If the overgrown wealth of an individual be deemed dangerous to the State, the best corrective is the law of equal inheritance to all in equal degree..."

I wonder... as the republican/ conservative mindset continues to narrow, at some point does it become invisible, or pop right out of existence or relevance? Is there some sort of sideways gravitational pull in there? If so do too many "facts" cause narrow black holes? Maybe it's not a sideways gravity but a compression due to resisting the pressure of reality.

A note to the narrow minded

Attention zealots, republicans, fundamentalists, and all other right wing extremists. The more narrow minded you get, the closer you are to disappearing into your own black hole of ignorance and irrelevance.

Some cherry pickings from my fbook postings.

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/05/art-intrinsic-to-science-pendulums.html?spref=fb
http://www.ted.com/talks/sam_richards_a_radical_experiment_in_empathy.html?awesm=on.ted.com_SamRichards&utm_content=awesm-bookmarklet&utm_medium=on.ted.com-static&utm_source=twitter.com
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/04/impressive-balancing-act.html?spref=fb
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/05/in-defense-of-nontheists.html?spref=fb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KEaas1N71I&feature=player_embedded
http://www.care2.com/causes/environment/blog/bolivian-law-grants-nature-equal-rights-with-humans/
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/04/philosophy-referee-signals-explained.html?spref=fb
http://www.y100.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=8404920
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nndEZBQ9bds
http://www.buzzfeed.com/chrismenning/what-dr-suess-books-were-really-about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bwv1Ufulos
http://videosift.com/video/Para-skiing-down-Mt-Superior-in-Utah-Awesome
http://www.theonion.com/articles/embarrassed-republicans-admit-theyve-been-thinking,19248/
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/04/ted-talk-how-bacteria-communicate.html?spref=fb
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/04/ted-talk-how-bacteria-communicate.html?spref=fb
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/03/why-bottled-wat.html
http://www.gizmag.com/volkswagen-261-mpg-xl1-prototype/17682/
http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2011/01/humanity-hanging-from-cross-of-iron.html?spref=fb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbCtHQsOXe8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LA-S64QY3o&feature=share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJeHHGqSSw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yM9bU5FzT8&feature=player_embedded
https://www.facebook.com/notes/amy-lawrence/11-step-program-for-those-thinking-of-having-kids/488740192859
Don't watch this link unless you are concerned about overpopulation. Parents will be offended.

A tear for Stephen hawking

This made me shed a tear for Mr. Hawking, as I believe that heaven and hell are states of being.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/16/stephen-hawking-heaven-is-a-myth_n_862394.html

United Nations

Japan has over 50 nuclear plants that all have a high chance of contaminating on a global scale. The world needs to apply pressure on Japan to close all of them. Whose job is that? the United Nations?
As the situation in Fukushima is still not under control after all this time, we obviously are not in a position to control nuclear power installations. They are demonstrated unsafe time and time again.