Researchers working on communication with dolphins came up with this list of 20 questions to ask our ceteacean cousins should we every be able to conduct a conversation with them: What name does your species call itself? What is the social structure of your pod? Of your general species? What species of Cetaceans are able to communicate with each other? Why do entire pods strand themselves? Are there environmental changes are that concerning to cetaceans? What are the most important things that we can do to help you? Do you have some way of preserving your knowledge, such as an …
An incredible moon rise this morning. A wizened old moon cleared Eagle Ridge beneath shimmering Venus. Purest light in the dark predawn sky. # "You don't hold space with a point…you hold it with a triangle or a circle." – Ginny Beiden-Charles on a call today. # RT @thuddz: Expecting one last shock before 11pm, any suggestions?? <– Who do U want playing in front of you thuddz? # Wondering if 'Arry is drafting up a contract or a press release explanation. Hoping for the former, fearing the latter. #coys # Bet Harry and Levy were surprised by the market. …
I see it all the time, where cultivated and well-raised people stumble in the wild land of chaos and open space. Whether it is the tourist in the forest who complains against the mud or the leader in an organization, community or country (like Egypt) who clings to the illusion of confidence and control and who cannot make friends with the wild and the chaotic. Thoreau: I would not have every man nor every part of a man cultivated, any more than I would have every acre of earth cultivated: part will be tillage, but the greater part will be …
200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes via JordonCooper.com. While this is a cool data visulaization, it strikes me as remarkable how hard it is for sub-Saharan Africa to catch the rest of the world. Stephen Lewis can tell you why.
From Kelly’s excellent new book “What Technology Wants”: “The technium contains 170 quadrillion computer chips up into one mega-scale computing platform. The total number of transistors in this global network is now approximately the same number of neurons in you brain. And the number of links among files in this network (think of all the links among all the web pages of the world) is about equal to the number of synapse links in your brain. Thus, this growing planetary electronic membrane is already comparable to the complexity of a human brain. It has three billion artificial eyes (phone and …