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Comment on two short essential comments on reconfiguring the economy by bruce

bruce — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:41:49 +0000

Via Business Insider: “As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don’t actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject. National Journal reports today that TED officials decided not to put Hanauer’s March 1 speech up online after deeming his remarks “too politically controversial” for the site…”.

Comment on two short essential comments on reconfiguring the economy by bruce

bruce — Mon, 21 May 2012 17:32:03 +0000

banned Ted talk? Banned by Ted? Meaning not on their website, or by whom?

Comment on may mutants by AndyMac

AndyMac — Wed, 02 May 2012 09:39:07 +0000

Great link on baby cognition, I often wonder about our bairn is thinking and perceiving the world. Something I should look more into.

Comment on left brain vs right brain by tatjna

tatjna — Wed, 02 May 2012 02:52:14 +0000

It’s about bloody time. I remember getting into a very heated discussion during my training as an adult educator (many years ago) because they were teaching oversimplified left-brain/right-brain theory as a means of developing learning and I was all BUT THIS ISN’T HOW IT IS and they were all YES SIT DOWN WITH YOUR RIGHT BRAIN and it was not very much fun at all.

A bit like evo psych really.

Comment on mutants mutants everywhere by billy

billy — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:34:32 +0000

Mike: aha, cheers. Your Google-fu is strong. I had not found much more confirming it other than an ancient post on Cannes’s site.

Comment on mutants mutants everywhere by billy

billy — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:33:50 +0000

Scott: IIRC that came from a conversation between Pearce, the goth, and me, while we were all living at Upland Rd. It originally had a more… direct name.

Comment on mutants mutants everywhere by michael

michael — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:46:39 +0000

Wow, looks like Dau is real (but not finished still).

http://www.ioncinema.com/news/id/5802/top-100-most-anticipated-films-of-2011-ilya-khrzhanovskys-dau

… then some other links saying it was delayed and didn’t make Cannes last year, but:

http://rt.com/art-and-culture/news/landau-lev-atomic-khrzhanovsky-685/

Comment on mutants mutants everywhere by Scott Kendrick

Scott Kendrick — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:35:55 +0000

I have heard about Black Mirror, but have no as yet no sound on computer to watch it – will get there though. The porcine episode reminds me of a reality TV show Chris Gilman once suggested called ‘Pig in the House’. Say no more, guvnor, say no more…

Comment on sunday mutants 14/4/12 by Jez

Jez — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 09:10:12 +0000

Nils Gilman is missing the obvious solution – a Dyson sphere lets us capture the entire energy output of the Sun.

If economic growth continues for that long, then the average person will be worth one thousand times the current wealth of the entire world, so being able to afford a Dyson sphere seems easy. Being able to afford several seems feasible.

Of course, the real lesson here is that scaling exponentially leads to silly conclusions.

Comment on local mutants by bruce

bruce — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 08:44:06 +0000

human study: brilliant