my thoughts on the Bloom Box

Over the last few days, I’ve received emails from several friends requesting my thoughts on Bloom Energy. The Bloom Box looks interesting but the piece from 60 Minutes was incredibly misleading. The celebrities, the press releases and all the hype has looked like little more than just posturing for social capital in a competitive silicon [...]

Tom Brokaw explains Canada to the United States

In this short video, Tom Brokaw explains Canada to the United States. Plenty of great shots of Vancouver in there too. Some might say a Canadian is an American without a gun but I would say this video presents a slightly more complex view of the people of Canada. I especially liked that at the [...]

thanks @mysteriousuniv for playing my voicemail

Thanks to the Mysterious Universe podcast for sharing my recent voicemail on some similarities I noticed between @azzwright’s past-life regression experience and an experience I had using psilocybin tea. This is an area of my spiritual practice that I don’t talk about a lot because its very personal but I thought the @mysteriousuniv podcast gave [...]

how can I… OMG

omg,

unfortunately, this is a real billboard in Minnesota

Miss me yet? is an actual billboard in Minnesota. Yes, the US economy is that bad right now.

last man standing

This month’s Museletter from Richard Heinberg at the Post Carbon Institute provides a valuable synopsis of where China and the US are at in avoiding an increasingly inevitable societal collapse,
Increasingly I am forced to conclude that the object of the game that world leaders are actually playing is not to avoid collapse; it’s simply [...]

Chris Anderson’s Free is Gee Whiz economics

Chris Anderson’s follow up to his revolutionary The Long Tail (2006, Hyperion) has me reminded of Thomas Friedman for geeks. Stuff that people younger than 25 get naturally but that CEOs and VCs can read and say, “wow, that internets is so amazing!”
Free (2009, Hyperion) sets out to cover new ground in describing [...]

on India

From Lord Macaulay’s speech in the British Parliament on 2nd Feb 1835:
“I have traveled across the length and breadth of India and I have not seen one person who is a beggar, who is a thief. Such wealth I have seen in this country, such high moral values, people of such [...]

go white blood cell!

This video shows a neutrophil (a type of white blood cell) chasing a staphylococcus aureus bacterium. The video was recorded by biochemistry professor David Rogers of Vanderbilt University in the 1950s.

[via Neatorama]

the latest on peak oil

Today I was listening to this great rundown of the global oil supply situation on the Financial Sense Newshour with guest Jeffrey Brown VP of Global Oil Supply Analysis for Logi Energy (featured on the first 48 mins of this audio track.
Some key facts I learned from the podcast and elsewhere:

25% of the worlds oil [...]