Sir Ken Robinson 1950-2020

Sir Ken Robinson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU4Q17t4muY

Life is short but wisdom, values remain.

Sir Ken Robinson died Last August from an aggressive cancer, not from Covid, eventhough this is 2020.

I hope you'll listen to it all. 

"People love to learn he says."

What he says before and after that is really something. 

"There is an opportunity, it takes bravery and imagination and we have plenty of that in store."

You've heard of the boiling frog syndrom. Haven't you?

 

Carl Sagan .

"You Are Here on the  Pale Blue Dot ... on our tiny world, that small planet."

                                          This is a famous video by Carl Sagan

"Our posturing, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in this universe are challenged by this pale light, the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

Carl Edward Sagan (/ˈseɪɡən/; November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist , author, science popularizer, and science communicator. in astronomy and other natural sciences. He is best known for his work as a science popularizer and communicator. 

We are citizens of planet Earth

Call to Earth - A Message from the World's Astronauts to COP21

Obama's response to the Paris Attacks.

Extract: "France is our oldest ally." ... "Those who think they can terrorize the people of France, or the values that they stand for are wrong. The American people draw strength from the French people's commitment to Life, Liberty, Pursuit of happiness. We are reminded, in this time of tragedy that the bonds of Liberté, Egalité and fraternité are not only values of the French people I care so deeply about but they are values that we share and those values are going to (gonna) endure far beyond any act of terrorism or the hateful vision of those who perpetrated the crimes this evening." Indeed, Freedom, equality and fraternity are attainable goals.

Undersea cable: From sign language to the web.

"It's strange to think that so much effort on such a large scale is devoted to something the size of a human hair. But optic fiber allows the modern world to talk to itself."

Nice read about "How the first cable was laid across the Atlantic", back in 1858 http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-01/18/transatlantic-cables/viewall For Nerds only: A 35 mn conference about the history of it all. Nerd Nite SF: "20,000 Leagues Under the TCP: The Undersea Internet" by Chris Woodfield https://vimeo.com/29975179

Water is Life.

OFF THE GRID

 WATCH THE FIRST 21 secs and guess what the change could be.
 VIDEO Off the Grid
One family left everything they had behind to live without electricity, running water, or any means of communication in the backwoods of Eastern Idaho.

In Going Off Grid, Laura Ling examines how 180,000 Americans a year are choosing to live entirely disconnected from our modern internet-focused world in pursuit of a more sustainable, simple lifestyle.

Fashion VS exploitation

Come to think of it, this has been going on for quite a while.

Leonardo DiCaprio's 2014 UN Climate Summit Speech

A biology course and some.

The things you can find on the web... Even lectures from inspired Stanford professors.
It is both entertaining and invigorating.  I hope you enjoy it.
It's about ... hormones, boundaries, human biology and thinking.
Quite a journey for animals... and some tool!

Years of living dangerously

Indeed, the most needed- to be seen series ever. Gripping and mind-opening.
I hope you all watch it.
Learn more here http://www.sho.com/sho/years-of-living-dangerously/home with Harrison Ford, Don Cheadle and Thomas Friedman.

A young girl and her scientific experiment

A child's experiment turns into a lesson on the toxins in our food supply.  
 

Help Father Christmas

The arctic is in danger.

Truth is the 1st casualty of war.

British Soldier Slams fighting for Queen And Country                                                             Benjamin Griffin (born 1977) is a former British SAS soldier who refused to return to Iraq and left the Army, citing not only the "illegal" tactics of United States troops and the policies of coalition forces but also that the invasion itself was contrary to international law

 Here is how he ends Benjamin ends his truly heroic words.
"I am a human being. My allegiance is not to Queen and country but to the whole of humanity.
I no longer accept the lies that perpetuate war.
I no longer accept that violence can lead to peace.
Never again will I be complicit in the killing and torture of my brothers and sisters.
Never again will I accept the vile religion of patriotism.
I refuse to pull on that rancid uniform and I refuse to fight for Queen and country"

Thanksgiving 2013 #transparency

Grace': PETA's Banned Thanksgiving Ad                                                                                                                                  People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) ...
And a video to show you what she's talking about. That's #transparency
http://vimeo.com/73234721

Revelation: we're in the abyss

By now, you've all heard of the Edward Snowden and about the documents he leaked to the Guardian's journalists that proved the existence of an extensive  US NSA (National Security Agency)’s spying program called PRISM, which was designed to collect information about digital communications, allowing real-time online surveillance of US citizens.
That is of course absolutely unconstitutional and unacceptable. U.S. citizens can be disappointed.
This is sensational news in MSM (Main Stream Media.) Please learn more about it
and see how a Gallup poll shows most Americans oppose NSA surveillance programs, and are evenly split on the rightness of Snowden's actions:http://www.gallup.com/poll/163043/americans-disapprove-government-surveillance-programs.aspx

The following video is as worrying as the news because this is Orwellian double talk. 



There was this very interesting series by the Washington Post in 2010 that I had reported here:
http://bilien.blogspot.fr/2010/09/top-secret-america.html
And I suggest you also read this http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/general-keith-alexander-cyberwar/all/ and this http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10067

Better food = more food

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/audioslideshow/2013/feb/15/india-rice-revolution-audio-slideshow

Heatwave down under

Indeed, it's very hot in Australia: 122°F = 50°C.

Life in the Arctic sea. Ex: Marrus Orthocanna

This is not a UFO! Just an example of Life in the Arctic sea.
Have a better look and read what we know about it here: http://www.arcodiv.org/watercolumn/cnidarian/Marrus_orthocanna.html

We have a nice saying in French: La réalité dépasse la fiction.
In English, you can say "Facts are stranger than fiction." or "Truth is stranger than fiction!".
 

Global warming ok, but what now?

Transparency. Not bad for a start. Einstein said, (he died in 1955): "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." See what the rational mind did?