We've had similar experiences here. The best advice I can offer was already offered by Sal Kahn recently being interviewed by the president of MIT. Interested? Go find it on youtube.
First find the basic youtube explaining MIT Scratch. Then open it on a browser. Then start an discussion where you try getting ideas of things people can try.
Go to Wikipedia and search for "lobbying by industry". You'll see the "communications industry" spends more money on politicians than the energy industry (which adds together all of oil, nuclear, and coal). Darn right he doesn't want to battle with them!
Their editors consider valid sources to be paper media, not the web itself, not my free on-line text books, so I stopped contributing. I thought I'd provide a few obscure lines of freshman calculus often used in predicting "peak oil" but they didn't want "original research".
The Afghanis did a good job of getting Russian soldiers heroine addicted, likewise US soldiers, according to a lady friend of mine doing charitable work in Kabul. Just outside Bagram air base are many little shops where you can purchase a wide variety of US military gear.
Snowman starves and lives in a tree even though the world is full of empty houses and the supermarkets are full of canned goods. To create a convincing science catastrophy it would be more fun if the basic science were not so obviously bogus. First, Crake would do what every creature does, destroy the creatures that are NOT LIKE HIMSELF. Second, his utopian creation could never be anything other than a short-lived peaceful society because of basic Darwinian principles. The author should have read the basic (not difficult) books like Jared Diamond's Third Chimpanzee or, Robert Wright's Moral Animal.
The love triangle is unconvincing. The ending not coherent. For a more entertaining end of humanity try Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
FYI, this book was reviewed in the bio-geeky prestige journal Science who have never before (in my memory) reviewed sci-fi. They screwed up choosing this one.
It's a subject though where there is lots of room for good authoring work.
Snowman starves and lives in a tree even though the world is full of empty houses and the supermarkets are full of canned goods. To create a convincing science catastrophy it would be more fun if the basic science were not so obviously bogus. First, Crake would do what every creature does, destroy the creatures that are NOT LIKE HIMSELF. Second, his utopian creation could never be anything other than a short-lived peaceful society because of basic Darwinian principles. The author should have read the basic (not difficult) books like Jared Diamond's Third Chimpanzee or, Robert Wright's Moral Animal.
The love triangle is unconvincing. The ending not coherent. For a more entertaining end of humanity try Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
FYI, this book was reviewed in the bio-geeky prestige journal Science who have never before (in my memory) reviewed sci-fi. They screwed up choosing this one. It's a subject though where there is lots of room for good authoring work.
I wanted to rent Carl Sagan's famous TV series, "Cosmos". Well, Netflix hasn't heard of them. The Carl Sagan foundation will sell them to me for $150.00 (ack!!!) but I did find if I join "greencine.com" I can rent them. I say, a TV channel is too much to hope for. Let's hope somebody starts a good science-nature DVD rental club.
Why only science, why not include engineering? Everytime I drive down the road and see a factory I feel it contains all kinds of magic I'd like to know more about.
Make a treaty with the Russians to
internationalize an island between Russia
and the United States.
That makes it easily watchable and easily
guardable (accessible too).
For the last 60 years we have been broadcasting TV signals. It's pretty obvious what they are. A bunch of scan lines side by side makes a picture.
A picture is worth a thousand words. That's what I'd look for. Not equations or binary arithmetic.
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We've had similar experiences here. The best advice I can offer was already offered by Sal Kahn recently being interviewed by the president of MIT. Interested? Go find it on youtube.
First find the basic youtube explaining MIT Scratch. Then open it on a browser. Then start an discussion where you try getting ideas of things people can try.
If I give a lecture, it's easy to record and distribute my face, voice, and slides, but the pointer position is lost. And that's half the drama!
by keeping a lot of information secret. Transparency is more powerful than regulation.
Easy: One child family for 5 generations, population drops a factor of 32. Revert to burning wood.
Go to Wikipedia and search for "lobbying by industry".
You'll see the "communications industry" spends more money on politicians than the energy industry (which adds together all of oil, nuclear, and coal). Darn right he doesn't want to battle with them!
Their editors consider valid sources to be paper media, not the web itself, not my free on-line text books, so I stopped contributing.
I thought I'd provide a few obscure lines of freshman calculus often used in predicting "peak oil" but they didn't want "original research".
Would be nice if Silverlight didn't break Hotmail's attachment handling on my wife's Mac Firefox.
High definition big screen vacation video will make everybody sea sick. Who wants to lug along a tripod on their vacation?
The Afghanis did a good job of getting Russian soldiers heroine addicted, likewise US soldiers, according to a lady friend of mine doing charitable work in Kabul. Just outside Bagram air base are many little shops where you can purchase a wide variety of US military gear.
Solve the problem of domain-name squatting, as well as spam email, by taxing both.
Let's try once more to get that link correctly.
http://www.geh.org/ne/str114/m198503951170.jpg
I saw vertical-axis windmills when I passed thru western Afghanistan in 1964. Google images turns up an older more decrepit version of what I saw ahref=http://www.geh.org/ne/str114/m198503951170.j pgrel=url2html-21303http://www.geh.org/ne/str114/m 198503951170.jpg>
---jon claerbout
right thumb to the rightmost thumb position
on my classic. Just right of the Enter key.
Kinesis works for me, 11 years now. Details at
http://sepwww.stanford.edu/sep/jon/sorehand.html
I use vim.
Snowman starves and lives in a tree even though the world is full of empty houses and the supermarkets are full of canned goods. To create a convincing science catastrophy it would be more fun if the basic science were not so obviously bogus. First, Crake would do what every creature does, destroy the creatures that
are NOT LIKE HIMSELF. Second, his utopian creation could never be anything other than a short-lived peaceful society because of basic Darwinian principles. The author should have read the basic (not difficult) books like Jared Diamond's Third Chimpanzee or, Robert Wright's Moral Animal.
The love triangle is unconvincing. The ending not coherent.
For a more entertaining end of humanity try Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
FYI, this book was reviewed in the bio-geeky prestige journal Science who have never before (in my memory) reviewed sci-fi. They screwed up choosing this one.
It's a subject though where there is lots of room for good authoring work.
Snowman starves and lives in a tree even though the world is full of
empty houses and the supermarkets are full of canned goods.
To create a convincing science catastrophy it would be more fun
if the basic science were not so obviously bogus.
First, Crake would do what every creature does,
destroy the creatures that are NOT LIKE HIMSELF.
Second, his utopian creation could never be anything other than
a short-lived peaceful society
because of basic Darwinian principles.
The author should have read the basic (not difficult) books like
Jared Diamond's Third Chimpanzee or, Robert Wright's Moral Animal.
The love triangle is unconvincing. The ending not coherent.
For a more entertaining end of humanity try Kurt Vonnegut's Galapagos.
FYI, this book was reviewed in the bio-geeky prestige journal Science
who have never before (in my memory) reviewed sci-fi.
They screwed up choosing this one.
It's a subject though where there is lots of room for good authoring work.
I advocate that each district must be bounded by a convex curve. This would not wholly eliminate it but would make it much less blatant.
I wanted to rent Carl Sagan's famous TV series, "Cosmos". Well, Netflix hasn't heard of them. The Carl Sagan foundation will sell them to me for $150.00 (ack!!!) but I did find if I join "greencine.com" I can rent them. I say, a TV channel is too much to hope for. Let's hope somebody starts a good science-nature DVD rental club.
I miss a lot of good shots because my camera is "warming up". I need an "instant on".
Why only science, why not include engineering? Everytime I drive down the road and see a factory I feel it contains all kinds of magic I'd like to know more about.
Google hasn't heard about it.
Make a treaty with the Russians to internationalize an island between Russia and the United States. That makes it easily watchable and easily guardable (accessible too).
For the last 60 years we have been broadcasting TV signals. It's pretty obvious what they are. A bunch of scan lines side by side makes a picture. A picture is worth a thousand words. That's what I'd look for. Not equations or binary arithmetic.
The author of that NYT piece is a Geologist, not a Biologist. For that, and other reasons, I wouldn't take it seriously.