DONATIONS: A Necessity or Seasonal Headache? No doubt you too have been flooded with donation requests this season. Personally, I hate this seasonal rush of requests for cash, sometimes accompanied by the most heart throbbing (and excessively manipulating) pictures. I handle this by keeping a list throughout the year of groups that support my views […]
Archives for November 2017
Mastering the Learning Pyramid
The static world of skills – We’re focusing on the wrong thing. Focusing on skills betrays a static view of the world. The assumption is that if we acquire certain skills, we will be protected from the onslaught of the robots and the rapidly changing world around us. It ignores the fact that the average half-life […]
A New Hedonism: A Post-Consumerism Vision
Introduction Consumerism is the major cause of global warming and wrecking the planet for future generations. It is driven by a growth economy that favors the ever-expanding consumption of the already very affluent and has allowed the gap between the richest and poorest to grow to inflammatory proportions, both within the nation-state and globally. Today […]
Albert Einstein
“Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren’t these the same questions as last year’s [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.” . ― Albert Einstein
Life goes deeper
The Earth is not a solid mass of rock: its hot, dark, fractured subsurface is home to weird and wonderful life forms The living landscape all around us is just a thin veneer atop the vast, little-understood bulk of the Earth’s interior. A widespread misconception about the deep subsurface is that this realm consists of […]