It seems unbelievable to me that every time a SJW video goes viral, you have people on the right saying “SEE? The far left are the intolerant, want you to believe like they do; they are fascists”. Then (more…)
Why Mars?
Carl Sagan said it best: https://vimeo.com/108650530 tl;dr – we’re finite, the earth is finite, and we’ve evolved to survive at all costs. It may look like an odd step, going to another planet in our (more…)
We will spread like a virus, slingshot across the depths of space time….
http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/emdrive-news-rumors/ Spacecraft equipped with a reactionless drive could potentially make it to the moon in just a few hours, Mars in two to three months, and (more…)
Time Crystals are fairly novel, if not easily practically important.
http://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/09/floquet-time-crystals-could-exist-and.html Time Crystals in their ground state are moving through time, not space, breaking quantum time translation symmetry. more (more…)
Will in utero targeted genome editing, like Crispr, wipe out genetic “issues” like alcoholism, or propensity for violence?
I am speaking about the ethics involved, not just the science, ie where is the fine line of gene editing in utero? Everyone gets hyperbolic about Crispr allowing people to tailor children to their exact (more…)
Convenience erodes our ethical compass…. Uber & AirBnB are capitalist endgame of pure selfishness.
Most of you know I have problems with Uber. Of course, idealism is out the window when there’s savings or convenience (even if you risk some insurance company not paying a claim)… just like privacy is (more…)
Some thoughts on health and fitness, ie so you want to be and eat healthier?
Fast weight loss does not stay off, because science: http://fortune.com/2016/05/02/biggest-loser-weight-study/ I turn 40 this year. I am 6’6″. I weighed 270 in 2002. I weigh about 225lbs 15 years later, (more…)
Magnetic Gearing
Printing magnets in complex ways that create polarity that has breakthrough applications. This stuff is relatively untouched. The spring in the 2nd video is absolutely mind blowing. But the gears in the (more…)
Design abstraction to produce re-rendered physical objects, stripping down current styles… including a car.
United Nude’s design style goes without saying, having replicated a sense of geometry from existing design styles…. glassware, shoes, etc. But this is curious… and not street legal. It’s a polygon (more…)
Why we’re so polarized, why it will get worse, and no tl;dr
I want to add…. confirmation bias and selective perception from the online algorithms that act as news editor, that show you what you want to see, reaffirming your belief system https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles Increasing (more…)