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From the NY Times article “Turning Around the Idea of Student Loans“: LAS VEGAS — Over sandwiches and pizza, a group of high school students here debated the pros and cons of combating poverty in five desperate nations. They scrolled through Web sites, analyzed statistics and considered how much they knew about the economy, language [...]

Here is an exercise from Four philosophical questions to make your brain hurt that I thought was an interesting check of my understanding of good, evil, moral and immoral actions. Philosophy involves standing back and thinking – intensely and rigorously – about aspects of our lives that are at once ordinary and fundamental. And when the surface [...]

Update to my previous post The Clouds of Saturn: Our first intriguing glimse of Saturn’s North pole was from Voyager in 1980.  Last year, images from Cassini was the first time we got to view the entire North pole at one time.  Surprisingly there was 15,000 mile diameter hexagon made of clouds. Scientist are again baffled because recent images show an aurora.  From Mysterious glowing [...]

Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep; Should I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take.  - 18th century children’s prayer.   As communication between people increases, it increases the intelligence of the human collective.  This is called emergence.  For more information see James Surowiecki: The [...]

Another in my series of inspiration lyrics in music.  Viva La Vida from Coldplay: I used to rule the world Seas would rise when I gave the word Now in the morning I sleep alone Sweep the streets I used to own I used to roll the dice Feel the fear in my enemy’s eyes [...]

A cute article from Monique Fields at TheRoot.com called Waking Simone. Seeing Obama, “the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas,” on television, giving a speech about where he plans to take this nation would be a memorable moment. I’d like to give my daughter, whose mother is black and [...]