Ram Dass is ready to die
In a NY Times interview , Ram Dass discuses age, the separation of the ego and the soul and answers still silly questions from the interviewer David Marchese.
Ethical and green living
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” ? Benito Mussolini
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power” ? Benito Mussolini
Real Americans by Joseph O’Neill
In the New York Review of Books, this essay Real Americans by Joseph O’Neill is noteworthy. O’Neill reviews two books, This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore and This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Suketu Mehta. O’Neill delivers a fine essay covering many points of the current state in … [Read more…]
Why you should KILL YOUR TELEVISION
Yet another reason why you should turn off the TV, it makes you stupid. How trashy TV made children dumber and enabled a wave of populist leaders, Washington Post, Andrew Van Dam July 20. By 1990, 49 out of 50 Italians could watch Mediaset — half of the country had gained access in just five … [Read more…]
The end of capitalism has begun – Guardian Econ 101
Without us noticing, we are entering the postcapitalist era. At the heart of further change to come is information technology, new ways of working and the sharing economy. The old ways will take a long while to disappear, but it’s time to be utopian. Paul Mason Fri 17 Jul 2015
Kim Stanley Robinson Built a Moon Base in His Mind
To write his new novel, Red Moon, the sci-fi author became an expert on lunar colony tech IEEE Spectrum – By Sally Adee But for Red Moon, which is set so close to the current moment, the underlying “really” is the same thing as the explicit plot—it’s about China taking over the moon. China and … [Read more…]
Arctic permafrost thawing
Scientists shocked by Arctic permafrost thawing 70 years sooner than predicted Ice blocks frozen solid for thousands of years destabilized ‘The climate is now warmer than at any time in last 5,000 years’ Reuters Tue 18 Jun 2019 12.02 EDT Last modified on Tue 18 Jun 2019 12.58 EDT A cemetery sitting on melting permafrost … [Read more…]
Rural Cooperatives Deliver High-Speed Internet for Less
24 May 2019 – IEEE Spectrum TELCOM By Lucas Laursen “Rural Cooperatives Deliver High-Speed Internet for Less,” tired of waiting, some rural residents are funding their own Wi-Fi networks to bring broadband to their homes.
A Brain Computer Interface for Tackling ADHD in Children
24 May 2019 A IEEE Spectrum article by Anouk Wipprecht “I Built a Brain Computer Interface for Tackling ADHD in Children,” or A playful headpiece called Agent Unicorn incorporates an EEG that detects P300, the neural signature of attention.
What could go wrong? The U.S. put nuclear waste under a dome on a Pacific island.
The Washington Post published an engaging essay about a nuclear waste depository on the Marshall Islands. Some good background and discussion of the meeting of two critical issues, climate change and nuclear waste. Beyond the comments from a shill or two from the pro-nuclear camp, the concerns of us common folk is quite clear in … [Read more…]