Rumors that Ferguson Residents are Arming-Up
Law enforcement in the Ferguson area are preparing for potential protests and riots following the grand jury’s decision in the Michael Brown investigation, which is expected sometime this month.Talking...
View ArticleAsteroid Awareness Day slated for June 30, 2015
A central focus of the event was the release of a 100x Declaration, calling for the hundredfold increase in the detection and monitoring of asteroids. Lord Rees read the declaration, which resolves to...
View ArticleTrue Motivator – Our Quest for Mastery, Purpose, and Self-Direction
I first spotted this on The Tiny Life. It’s a presentation by RSA Animate that explains what really motivates people. In a nutshell it explains why punishment and reward are not a good motivators for...
View ArticleCould Modern Humans be Suffering from a Form of Zoochosis?
We took Katie to the Sacramento Zoo this past weekend and while we had a good time, I came back with the general impression that we’re doing a terrible disservice to the animals there. Seeing the...
View ArticleEnvironmental Sustainability = Economic Sustainability
Truth be told, if any piece of a system is sustainable it has a natural sustaining effect on the other parts. By sustainable I mean the true definition of the word, the capacity to endure. This can be...
View ArticleTen Commandments – Food for Thought
This is what is sounds like when people value balance higher than acquisition. Not knocking the other ten commandments – just saying.
View ArticleDo What You Love
This is good advice for teaching us to support our children’s strengths but also our own strengths. When we do what we love and we do our best we succeed and thrive without the need for competition or...
View ArticleAlternate Explanation for Extreme Weather
I like the logic the fellow at Suspicious0bservers presents. Here’s what I make of it all. Climate change is not entirely manmade. Pollution is all bad, but it’s not the whole story. Space weather is...
View ArticleThis Short-term Earthquake Uptick Predicted – It’s the Sun
The folks at Susupicious0bservers have found a significant correlation between activity on the Sun and earthquakes. They can’t predict the location of earthquakes but when the Sun shows certain...
View ArticleBalance over Acquisition
In 2007 I woke up. I remember the exact moment. I was driving to work on a 100 mile commute and was stuck in traffic. The weight of mortgage debt and a crashing real estate market is what shook me from...
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