Here is an 11 minute video which will either leave you with a headache or keep you thinking all week about it. Straight out of the Matrix, this video noodles through the various folds and bends in moving from the 3rd dimension we live to the possible scenarios strewn out across time and multiple possibilities of you. You’ll be lost but it’s cool nonetheless and a creative piece of thinking.
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Living Well, Thinking Rationally, and Combatting Daily Ordinariness
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Space
I am always amazed at images from space. I particularly like galaxies and trying to grasp the sheer insanity of the numbers involved in virtually every aspect of describing pretty much anything that has to do with space. You can get a great look into some incredible images from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Click on some of the podcasts for something you don’t see everyday. The image above is an illustration of the size of the Sun and the Earth side by side.
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Project 10^100
Google recently announced a project soliciting ideas from everywhere and anyone on changing the world for the better. The best 100 ideas will be posted will go to the web for the public to review. The top 5 will go to an advisory board that will select the winner. Google is committing $10,000,000 to the idea. There are 8 basic categories and the criteria is clean:
- Reach: How many people would this idea affect?
- Depth: How deeply are people impacted? How urgent is the need?
- Attainability: Can this idea be implemented within a year or two?
- Efficiency: How simple and cost-effective is your idea?
- Longevity: How long will the idea’s impact last
You can check it out here:
Sam Harris
Last year I read Sam Harris’ book The End of Faith which is simply brilliant. Last week I finished a second of his books called Letter to a Christian Nation which is equally as insightful. I overwhelmingly recommend both pieces of work. Nobody lays out in such a beautifully devastating way just how truly implausible religious dogma is. Check out this excellent presentation by Sam Harris at the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Galaxies and Belief
Look at this picture and ask yourself why people insist on living their lives according to (and committing atrocities in the name of) ancient scripts written by men who by today’s standards would be complete simpletons. There are an estimated 250 billion to 500 billion galaxies in our known universe and we are hardly but a half of a half of a half of a grain of sand in this image. What makes people think it all started here?
