Traveling through the states in May 2015 in an aging campervan exposed us to many sides of America. Many generous, gracious and open minded people. But the dark side of America is never far; billboards pleading for money to send needy American children to hospital, warnings to stay out of certain parts of town after dark, an …
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Icon for waste
The plastic water bottle. We burn fossil fuels to create a container that will probably only get used once, and will exist for hundreds of years after it’s been formed, all so we can make a profit from something no organism on Earth can live without
These guys go home to their families at night
Source for the following: https://www.quora.com/ Since 1989 there have been multiple efforts to convince the public that measures to mitigate global warming are urgent, yet Gallup finds that, if anything, the public is becoming somewhat less concerned about it. Why is this? Same reason it took 40 years to ban lead from paint and gasoline …
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NASA releases data projecting climate change to 2100
Excellent visualization here.
Millennials?
“The insomniac mind…shuts off the intellectual urge to problem-solve, and seeks comfort in a low-grade, profoundly (and chicly) disinterested, reflex nihilism.” R.M. Vaughan … here
Spring Ride in Ohio
Coming back from a tour of Tornado Ally on my R1200RT. Last day of the ride between Nashville Tn and Hamilton Ontario I detour in Ohio – letting the Garmin Zumo 590LM take me on curvy roads. Here is what it looks like! Stans Bakery
Without losers, there is only entropy
Stage upon stage upon stage, of ambitious anxious permutational fiddling drawn out by an empty void of such collosal dimension Its great nothingness being at the soal of all creation until one thing pops up and twitches to life and by definiton maddly multiplies until it overcrowds and driven to mutation now competes So without …
Recently Read
Books I have recently read and recommend: College (Un)Bound by Jeffrey Selingo – An interesting look at world of US post secondary education; how it has evolved in the last 40 years and how its compounded failings are about to be undone by the Internet. The short of it is that US colleges and universities have as …
Humility
Radical self awareness from a distance. David Brooks. The Road to Character;
First human head transplant planned
What next? A body transplant?