Archive for May, 2009
machine motivations: elite college edition
The typical college student focuses on one of many set career paths instead of understanding that our human existence is a beautiful gift we can give to the world. As we’ve become disconnected from this understanding, university graduates have focused ever more on exterior metrics of success. Removing the internal motivation that results in byproducts [...]
hope for the future of the emotional psyche
Recently I am challenged to distill the most important aspects of my mind and persona, to detail what my assets are as a human being. At this turning point in my life and career I must ask what I can give to the world, for on this I can base a long successful career not [...]
where does our electronic waste go?
Having become more and more connected with University of British Columbia (because I’m starting school there in the fall in Materials Engineering) I’ve fallen in love with the International Journalism program at the school. I love what I’m doing but if I wasn’t interested in the materials sciences, I would definitely enroll in a class [...]
the most important philosopher you’ve never read
Perhaps I was simply messed up as an early adolescent. While others around me sought speaker system upgrades for their cars or moments of numb bliss through substances, I was slowly building a small library of P.D. Ouspensky, G.I. Gurdjieff and Jiddu Krishnamurti. The rationale escapes me for why I decided to pull the trigger [...]
can information tell us what is real?
A new physical principle: Information Causality. In recent years physicists have discovered an entire class of theories that do the same kind of thing. The question is which one do we choose?
A few can be ruled out because they simplify various computational tasks in implausible ways. But the rest have seemed more or less equivalent. [...]
more evidence for the failure of civilization
From the American Association of Physical Anthropologists,
Civilization’s Cost: The Decline and Fall of Human Health
Ann Gibbons
Agriculture and cities made human life better, right? Wrong, say archaeologists who presented stunning new evidence at the American Association of Physical Anthropologists meeting.
Kuntsler tells it like it is
Jim Kunstler, author of a ton of great books on New Urbanism and weekly guest on the Kunstlercast, posted a writeup on his blog today that ended with a fantastic summary about how things have to change to stave off utter societal collapse. Read the whole post! But to summarize, I wanted to post his [...]
my new neighborhood
Now I’m even more excited to move this July. Say hello to 36th St. in Vancouver! It looks gorgeous!
maybe I’m just lucky, or ahead of the curve
This recent article from Canada’s Globe and Mail is spot on,
the coolest biology you’ll ever see
the coolest biology you’ll ever see, courtesy of 1stAveMachine,
