No Legs. No Arms. No Worries
August 30th, 2011 No responses
No words that I have can do the following clip justice.
Go watch and feel inspired.
LOOK AT YOURSELF AFTER WATCHING THIS.mp4
Ending Hunger Now
August 28th, 2011 1 response
Josette Sheeran, the head of the UN’s World Food Program, talks about why, in a world with enough food for everyone, people still go hungry, still die of starvation. Her vision:
Food is one issue that cannot be solved person by person. We have to stand together.
In this excellent video she actually shows programs that are successfully used to combat hunger. And most importantly give them the self reliance and tools to break the dependency on aid and make them resilient against food shortages. Al this for under a dollar per child/person. They actually calculated that 10.3 Billion dollars per year would be enough to effectively end word hunger. And regain 260 billion of lost productivity due to hunger.
It will be quite the task to implement, but we have the tools, we have the money, we now just need to political will to implement it.
Josette Sheeran: Ending hunger now
Colbert Mocks Limbaugh, Carlson, Doocy Over Their Global Warming Denials
August 26th, 2011 No responses
On the show The Colbert Report host Stephen Colbert mocked Rush Limbaugh for claiming that the heat index is a government conspiracy, joking:
The heat index is just more big government numbers telling you how hot to feel — just like their time index tells you how sleepy to feel.
He also mocked Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson for claiming that a recent episode of SpongeBob SquarePants was “pushing a global warming agenda” and falsely suggesting that there is doubt within the scientific community about whether or not global warming is man-made.
The Feed Issues Have Been Resolved
August 25th, 2011 No responses
The issues on the feedburner servers have been resolved.
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The Marriage Of Skepticism And Wonder
August 24th, 2011 No responses
To me Carl Sagan was an unknown, as I grew up in a non-English speaking country, but I’ve grown quite fond of his writings and video productions when I discovered them online. And recently I found an essay of him on scepticism:
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes–an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive, and the most ruthlessly skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. The collective enterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking, working together, keeps the field on track. Those two seemingly contradictory attitudes are, though, in some tension.
The video rendition of this essay made by C0nc0rdance is a joy to watch:
Carl Sagan's "The Marriage of Skepticism and Wonder"
