So How Does Education Really Work?

SEE HERE  A Delancey Place article about some fascinating experiments in India among the very poor and why things in the future will be better than you expect.

I Wonder If He Does Crop Circles During Warmer Times

SEE HERE  Gotta see this ... great snow art.

The Science Before Science

Science is built on a foundation of Philosophy.

Drone Hijacking ... Aside From Impractical It's Called Stealing

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The Attack Of The Amazon Drones

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Instrument Conceived by Leonardo DaVinci Brought to Life

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Hitler's Stealth Aircraft

Build A Tiny Teeny House For $25 Grand ...

SEE HERE  An interesting idea ... I think I'd be incredibly claustrophobic and there's no place for my books at all.

Before They Pass Away ...

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I guess I'm a wimp but you could not get me doing any of this stuff. One strike and you're out and I'm a pretty cautious guy so maybe not ... still it is fascinating to watch and quite breathtaking.

I Love This Optical Illusion Stuff ... Here's Another

SEE HERE  This one is a car commercial but it includes some really awesome optical illusions.

Awesome Movie Promotion ... How Did They Do That?

  Worth a look!

Stained Glass Designs For The Lord Of The Rings

SEE HERE  Some things are too good not to want to share.  Click on the link and scroll through some very nice concept designs for stained glass windows based on the Lord of the Rings.

The Future Belongs To Those Who Seek It Positively

There are too many people who give up instead of rising to the challenge.

Where Is Education Going?

We live in a world that is in great flux because of the emergence of amazing technology that allows extensions of communications and analysis universally like the leveling of the six-gun in the old West. Change is coming and it is going to be extensive and amazing.

Hue Lights ... Pretty Neat

Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans

Pythagoras and Music from luciano2428

Controlling Everything On Your Own Internet

SEE HERE  Flutter for home applications and control and over a half-mile range.  What can you do with this?  Use your imagination!

Did Someone Say "Privacy"? Don't Be Silly.

The Music Of The Stars

This is just fascinating.

Did You Ever Want Your Own Cloud Chamber?

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Techies Are Badass! Georgia Tech Telling It Like It Is

Check out the faculty guy who looks bored at the beginning and gets more and more involved.  Nothing like Techies Turned On To Excellence!

I Can't Stand Time Travel Nonsense In Science Fiction

... but this is humorous.

Some Things To Think About

Global pseudo-science exposed ... great fun!

Great Fun In One Vehicle ... Honda Rocks!

Lessons Learned From Randy Pausch

SEE HERE  I'm a big fan of Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture" so this appealed to me.  I hope you enjoy it too.  If you have not seen "The Last Lecture" then WATCH BELOW.

The School of Athens

Philosophy's origins in Raphael's great fresco.  DETAIL

Cancer Tissue Classification On The Fly

SEE HERE  This is technology that could revolutionize cancer surgery and make it much more precise and hopefully that much less invasive.  One question of course is just how accurate it is, but it certainly seems like a step in the right direction.

84" Whiteboard Interactive Wall Sized Computer

Cool device.  Wonder how long before it's being sold for not much?

Another Stupid Health Myth Bites The Dust

SEE HERE  As a saltaholic I'm particularly thrilled to discover that there's no basis for all the gloom and doom that doctors have always been peddling about reducing your salt intake.  I've told them that I thought it was nonsense for a long time and they just write me off as incorrigible.  Now to have some actual references that make the point ... how good is that!?

Quantum Computing Around The Corner?

SEE HERE  Rather specialized so far but coming perhaps quicker than you think.

Grasshopper Test: Impressive Precision

Old And Too Funny ...

FUNNY  I've seen this video before a few times because it is so funny that even though it's pretty old it keeps circulating.  It's of a juggler who is also a stand up comic performing for an audience that includes Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil and other politicians as well as first lady Nancy Reagan.  Hilarious!!

Tablet With Built In DLP Laser Projector: Wave Of The Future?

Only 35 lumens but not too bad and definitely an interesting direction for the future.  LINK HERE

Star Wars ... Seen From The Elizabethan Viewpoint

Processing 2.0 Is Available

Go get it HERE. It's free and fun, what more could you want?

Helicopter Retrieval Of P-51 RC Model In The Trees

This is pretty cool. A helicopter pilot sees a model airplane crash into a tree top and goes and retrieves it for the modelers on the ground.

Amazing Pictures

LOOK AT THIS  Totally amazing surveillance footage ... a picture with so much resolution that you can scan the crowd for individual facial recognition.  Coupled with face recognition technology this is a step in the direction of total surveillance.

A Litany Of Liars

SEE HERE  Here they are lined up for all to see, a chain of liars lying.  It is time to hold politicians to a higher standard.  When they lie they should be called on it immediately and held to a record so we know.  Perhaps each elected official should have an objective score sheet complete with analysis graphs that give them a rating as to consistency and degree of lying.  It ought to be an objective standard and not muddied with alleged good intentions.  "By their fruits you shall know them," I think is the applicable standard.

Paranoia To The Max — Beyond Science Fiction

  If you're planning a dystopian science fiction novel this lady has a lot of ideas that you could use.  I watched it and it's mostly beyond paranoia to something resembling a kind of insanity ... but she's personally convinced and that's interesting in itself.  Put your tongue deeply in your cheek if you decide to watch.  Government conspiracy theories at the max.

Spitfire Over Germany

A great memoir of WWII recon over Berlin in of all things, a Spitfire. Most people would tell you a Spitfire can't fly that far. This fellow would tell you different.

Hard To Machine Read Text Font — Why Does This Make Sense

This may work for OCR but it won't work at all if you have the codes available since just changing fonts should get you to an intelligible one. It will work perhaps for automated screen shots but since there's no reason to believe that the codes that encode the text don't come across (afterall how can the screen be generated otherwise?) I don't see this as an effective technique.

Writers Of The Future Just The Place To Submit Your Great Stories

Orson Scott Card explains why "Writers of the Future" is the place to submit your stories.

Hilarious ... But BAD LANGUAGE ALERT!

Spiders, Spiders Everywhere ...

  SEE HERE  I guess I'm in no hurry to visit Brazil during spider season.

Hole In One In U.S. Open

Don't Assume You Know What's Underneath The Water

A cautionary video.

Chesterton's "The Ball and the Cross"

"The Dialogue with Atheism: Chesterton's The Ball and the Cross" a lecture by Ralph Wood from ND Center for Ethics and Culture on Vimeo.

The Fighting Lady

My dad had a damaged 16mm print of this film and used to show it to the whole family on many occasions. He was a Naval WWII aviator and loved the film.

Archimedes: The Greatest Science of Antiquity

The Giraffes ... Acrobatic Marvels

WATCH  Great computer graphics!

In The Prime ... Numbers That Is!

SEE HERE Breakthrough result in prime number distribution.

The World Is A Construction Kit ... It's A Matter Of Perspective

Let go of your judgment and just experience reality.

The Workmanship Of The Past

WATCH THIS It's very hard to find workmanship that rises to this kind of standard today. What we have gained in mass production has been lost in originality and craftsmanship. It's a wonder.

The Latest Flying Car

SEE HERE Flying cars keep coming around.  Most are horribly grotesque and impractical but this one is the latest and greatest apparently.  See what you think!

Wine Expertise Mostly Hype!

SEE HERE This is rather funny really.  Most very expensive wines are really not all that much better and likely worse than much less expensive wines.  Also the idea that particular wines must be drunk with particular foods, red wines with beef and red meat, white wines with fish or poultry have no particular basis in reality, just preferences.  It's all very amusing.

Technology: Transforming Education?

SEE HERE  I have reservations about the idea that technology "transforms" education.  But it is certainly an hypothesis that will be explored in the coming years.  Much of technology seems more of a distraction than a help and before one heralds it as a breakthrough or even a useful aid, one needs to have a better definition in mind of just what education is.  I believe that education is not the learning of facts or even principles, but rather the development in the human person of the faculty of being a good learner so that you can educate yourself effectively no matter what comes up.  You need to learn how to think and develop yourself and not what to think.  The former is education the latter is indoctrination.

C.S. Lewis on "The Laws of Nature"

This is rather like a lesson in pictorial notetaking.

Growing Human Organs From The Patient's Own Cells

SEE HERE This is certainly pregnant with possibilities. Science continues to amaze. If this technology moves forward rapidly it will be a revolution in health care in the area of organ replacement.  MORE HERE

PRIM 9

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Leonard Nimoy and The Origin of The Vulcan Salute

I've always found this an interesting story.  Enjoy!

How Much Technology Do We Need Before Humanity Begins To Break Down

SEE HERE Google Glass is cool everyone seems to suggest. I've had no experience of it but it sounds like it takes electronic connectivity up a big notch and we end up approaching the Borg and that gets to a point that starts looking rather inhuman.

Built Iron Man Suit

VERY COOL

More Drones With Interesting Capabilities

According to the comments the range is limited by the WiFi level to maybe 250' so don't get too excited. Although it couldn't be that big a feat to extend the range. The next likely limitation is battery life which can't be more than a few minutes.

Did Someone Mention Drones ... Little Drones

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Transparent Display In Phones Coming

The Hitchins Debate When You Have Two Hours To Spare

Rise of the Drones — Terminator Alpha Test

Watch Rise of the Drones on PBS. See more from NOVA.

CuBox Demo — A 3 Watt Linux Machine With a Gig of Memory

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Speaking of Drones

It's just amazing the things you can do with today's technology.  This is awesome!

Capability Drives Deployment: Of Course They're Watching You

SURVEILLANCE Check out this amazing video of the latest drone surveillance capability developed for DARPA.  Pretty amazing and pretty darn undetectable.

4th of July In Montana

A Moment of Levity

WATCH This little amusing song got my attention.  It was sent to me by a friend (no it wasn't a suggestion that I was getting old) and it was fun.  The bit about the refrigerator door caught me since I do that every morning, opening it up for the bacon, getting an egg, getting the bacon fat can to pour the grease into and I often find myself pausing ... now why did I open the fridge this time?  I suppose that means the senior moments will be increasing before long.

3D Printing With Something Like Marble

SEE HERE This is just an amazing idea.  Building a Moebius Strip building made with a 3D printer using sand and binder.  D-SHAPE

DNA for Archival Data Storage? Really?

SEE  HERE I've given up making technological predictions.  I've been wrong every time and the technology that developed has always been far more impressive than I could have imagined.  Does this make sense?  DNA?  On the face of it I'd say no, but no doubt someone will come up with a quick way to encode and decode DNA and then I'll be wrong again.

Speaking of James Bond

Now that's useful if you want to watch TV outside while lazing on the lawn.

Is Asteroid Mining In Our Future?

SEE HERE  I am working on a sequence of science fiction novels of the near future in a technological background I call "Sutter's Mill" which is a large asteroid processing plant in the asteroid belt.  One of the problems with near term science fiction is that there is always the possibility that you'll be overtaken by reality.  It should be interesting.

Revisiting "The Two Cultures" Fifty Years Later

Creativity In Action: Toy Story

The Abolition of Man — C.S. Lewis Saw Where It Was Going

Making the Hobbit — A Tremendous Orchestration of Effort