In Suppot of the Scientific Method

April 12th, 2010 § 1

This TED Talk’s video makes a few great points on why the scientific method should not be disregarded in favor of anecdotal beliefs.

Stewart on Beck

March 23rd, 2010 § 0

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Mesofacts

March 16th, 2010 § 0

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Mesofacts, facts that change slowly over times, so slow that to most they seem unchangeable.  This is the subject of Samuel Arbesman piece, Warning: Your reality is out of date.

The ideas and examples in this piece are thought provoking and carry some serious implications for how we view world event and the natural world in general.

Climate change is a mesofact, man made or not, it does not happen over night.  For a culture that has grow accustomed to instant gratification, consequences delivered decades later can present a real challenge.

Arbesman’s examples on how our understanding of dinosaurs lived and were like has changed, feathered dinosaurs instead of scaled ones, within a generation or two have a low impact on our society.  It will be interesting to see if he will address more high impact examples on his blog: mesofacts.org

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Photo: Column

March 11th, 2010 § 0

Great photo by Jeffphoto.

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A New Way to Fly

March 9th, 2010 § 1

Designer Damien Grossemy has a wonderful vision for how flying might look like in the future.

To Believe or Not to Believe

March 5th, 2010 § 0

Penn Jillette is not only one of the funniest guys in America, he is also a very well verse, none-bullshit guy.  He comedic routines alone with his Showtime Show Bullshit, are a refreshing does of sanity and common sense.

Back in November of 2005, Penn was asked to contribute to National Public Radio’s series, This I Believe.  Below is his piece on God and life.  Five years later I still find this inspiring and truthful to the spirit of what it means to be a human.

When the Republic Died

March 5th, 2010 § 1

I have often wondered where the Presidents got the notion that they could ignore the Constitution’s directive of War Powers, specifically that only Congress could declare war. The Atomic Energy Act of 1946 is the source. So read on and see when our republic died.

I came across this bit of information via the video below. It is a conversation with Garry Wills on his new book, Bomb Power.

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Google Buzz

February 12th, 2010 § 0

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Venture Beat discusses how Google scrambles to fix some of the privacy concernes raised by gmailers regarding the deployment of Buzz.

To be honest, Facebook’s approach has been one of get the product out there and then tweak it.  And while traditionally this has been frowned upon, for them it works.

This might actually be a shift in how we practice business and develop and deploy products.  You can actually learn more, faster by having folks work with it and tear it apart than by having your internal brain trust figure everything out before the release and then having a flopped product cause the brain trust got things wrong.

One point of caution might be that this approach might only work with behemoth brands like Facebook or Google, though. Regardless, the approach is agressive and clever in my opinion.

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Snowcopolis 2010

February 8th, 2010 § 0


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Hitler’s Ipad Rant

January 30th, 2010 § 0

The use of clips from the movie Downfall (which is an excellent film about Hitlers last days in the bunker) never gets old. But this one probably takes the proverbial cake. I have had one of the best laughs in a while with this.

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