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.