“Alas! there are some wounds that cannot be wholly cured,” said Gandalf. “I fear it may be so with mine,” said Frodo. “There is no real going back. Though I may come to the Shire, it will...
I died laughing (pun intended). AI is incredible. 'nuff said...
I'm Dudesy, a comedy AI, and I'm excited to share my second hour-long comedy special with you! I'm calling it 'George Carlin: I'm...
When a precocious yet nonconformist teenager asks why they need to learn calculus, what should you say?
You know they will never use it in adulthood, outside of certain career choices.
You co...
Confronted with the greatest opportunity for global peace in nearly a century, George H. W. Bush did not hesitate: Upon the advice of his retainers, he immediately elected the path of war in the Pe...
DISCIPLINE YOURSELF - Best Motivational Speech Compilation (Jordan Peterson Motivation)
The artist Saul Steinberg, who immigrated to the United States in 1942, was deeply preoccupied with identifying the essential threads of American life. For him, baseball was rich material. In 1954, h...
A general solution to the cubic equation was long considered impossible, until we gave up the requirement that math reflect reality.
References:
Some great videos about the cubic:
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You’ve had the Worst. Day. Ever. It’s hard enough just getting through it, but then everyone seems to notice. They keep asking, “Are you okay?” If you’re not “fine” you don’t have to...
Future Authoring (mentioned in this video) is available here: https://selfauthoring.com/
Edit: It appears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nL1rEk8wjo has been changed to private (why?) so m...
When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.
To me, "drink responsibly" means don't spill it.
Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.
I...
"Bull in a china shop?" Stop using the saying - it ain't true.
As an apprentice, it can be hard for us to challenge ourselves on our own in the proper way, and to get a clear sense of our own weaknesses. The times that we live in make this even harder. Develo...
Interesting perspective that blogging provides better (i.e., higher quality) content while social media brings more voices into the online conversation:
Blogs implement a capitalist attention m...
Just be careful when you use this method as, even though it's MUCH easier, the can might be sharper. h/t: Cast Iron Chaos
This little girl refused to eat a variety of chocolates and candies offered to her by her mother. However, she looked pleased when a bowl of broccoli was set in front of her and munched on them happil...
h/t: https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/a0h53q/motorcycle_ownership_rule_1_do_not_let_your_drunk/
YouTube is now offering some movies for free.
valME.io is like reddit but where karma converts to money. We want to help people profit when they add value to others. We're testing PeerTube's video platform* to support the goals of valME.io's con...
This is exactly how much money I've made from YouTube in 4 years with receipts to prove it.
...and this is EXACTLY why content providers need platforms like valME.io: because our users earn mo...
Should we be satisfied with limited government rather than no government?
AFFIRMATIVE: Private, Contractual Methods Are More Efficient and More Just (Katherine Mangu-Ward)
NEGATIVE: In Praise o...
Keeping Reddit free of racism, sexism and spam comes with a mental health risk. We spoke with 10 Reddit moderators about the abuse they face and lack of support from Reddit.
‘It feels impossible to beat’: how she was floored by menopause... For Rose George, menopause has proved far worse than ‘low moods’. It feels like a derangement. And what the hell is it for?...
“Microdosing” on psychedelic substances like LSD—ingesting just enough to heighten cognitive faculties, enhance creativity, improve concentration and alleviate depression—is currently back i...
This article provides an overview and introduction to calculus. It's intended for general readers, nonspecialists, and shows the topic's key concepts in a transparent, approachable way.
The arti...
Here are some people who accomplished things late in life. I admire all of them. I’m 50, and one day I’m going to figure out what I want to do with my life.
“Nothing will come of nothing.”(William Shakespeare, King Lear)
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”(Blaise...
Nominations are now open for the second MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award, which carries a $250,000 cash prize, no strings attached.
This award will go to a person or group engaged in what we...
The audacity - no longer do they even try to hide their evil; they come right out and tell you what they know will happen. FTA:
An audible gasp went out in the breakout room I was in at last mon...
It seems extraordinary that in defiance of all factual history and philosophical knowledge anyone should celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Karl Marx. More than anyone, through wrong-headed ide...
FTA:
As a quick side note, curiosity is a blessing to me, because it leads me deep down the rabbit hole and as a result of my curiosity, I’m rarely (if ever) bored because there always someth...
Live without regrets:
On November 4, Jeff Bezos was interviewed by his brother Mark at the ideas festival Summit LA17 event in Los Angeles. During the course of this interview, Jeff revealed...
I especially liked a few of the ideas around hiring and interviewing:
When hiring candidates, ask for their operating manual. Tell candidates: “Imagine you're a robot. What does your manual s...
A new foam material could be the first good reusable method to recover spilled oil, and would be much better for the environment:
A new material can absorb up to 90 times its own weight in spill...
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ROCKWELL: Good morning. This is the Lew Rockwell Show. And what an honor it is to have as our guest this morning, the great, Jesse Ventura. What do we say about Jesse...
This gave me shivers of happiness (yes, there's such a thing for those who are open to experience) over how beautiful they are together.
Vudu now lets its customers watch a selection of digital movies for free when you watch with ads as part of its Movies On Us program
Equation search and math solver - solves algebra, trigonometry and calculus problems step by step (shows you actual steps how to solve).
Symbolab is an advanced math education tool. It allows user...
In a "major step" toward practical quantum networking, researchers at the University of Calgary have successfully demonstrated the teleportation of a light particle's properties between their lab...
When people say "the climate has changed before," these are the kinds of changes they're talking about.
I agonize over this every single day but the way Tom Engelhardt puts it is pure eloquence:
I think as well about the nearly 10% of Iraqi children, 1.5 million of them in a country gripped by c...
Like many of you, I always thought of PDF as basically a benign format, where the author lays out some text and graphics, and then the PDF sits in front of the reader and doesn't do anything. I hea...
Have you ever tried to nail Jell-O to the wall? It’s easier than getting a socialist to stand pat on what socialism is, which makes socialism an endlessly moving target.
Socialists are so intell...
Mario Puzo, who passed away in 1999, wrote a number of bestselling novels, including The Godfather, Fools Die, and The Last Don. What I especially liked about Puzo was his legendary tongue-in-cheek...
Below is a clip taken from the “One More Girl” documentary, a film regarding the Gardasil vaccine, which was designed to prevent Human Papillomavirus. In it, Dr. Peter Rost, MD, a former vice...
An old article but still as relevant today as it was then. Years ago when I lived in Japan, it took a bit getting used to removing your shoes before entering homes, gyms, restaurants, etc. But it mad...
Ex-Army Ranger Rory Fanning is speaking to high school kids and giving free copies of his book Worth Fighting For in an attempt to counter the massive, militarized propaganda effort of JROTC pr...
In recent times, one of the strangest aspects of war, American-style, has been the inability of the most powerful military on the planet to extricate itself from any of the conflicts it's initiated...
The irony is so thick in this story, you may not be able to handle it. Let's go back to the financial crisis of 2008. Easily, one of the biggest heists in world history went by the name of TARP, an...
John Perry Barlow (the author of this article) used to be a songwriter for the Grateful Dead and is a co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). It is as on-point today as it was when i...
Samsung has confirmed that its "smart TV" sets are listening to customers' every word, and the company is warning customers not to speak about personal information while near the TV sets.
The...
A Colorado teenager named Coltyn Turner just celebrated the 22nd month of his debilitating Crohn's Disease being in remission, after beginning cannabis oil treatment. Turner's recovery has been nothi...
Al-Qeq, works for Saudi Arabia’s Almajd TV network and was arrested at his home in Ramallah on November 21st. In its statement, issued more than 60 days after he entered into his hunger strike,...
A short film based on Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives, a book by neuroscientist David Eagleman.
In the afterlife you relive all your experiences, but this time with the events reshuf...
The wonders of stem cell therapy are being realized in a breakthrough medical trial that has reversed and halted the effects of multiple sclerosis (MS). This disease can suddenly attack healthy youn...
Mention of eugenics inevitably results in whoops of horror, gnashing of hair, rending of teeth, and discussion of Hitler. Occasionally, however, matters of importance merit discussion even if they...
The Bimek SLV regulates the flow of sperm cells in the spermatic ducts and does not require additional hormones or medication.
Feeding America is a network of food banks that feeds more than 46 million people. In 2005, four professors at the University of Chicago helped replace their centralized distribution system with an a...
Make sure to read Dr. Mercola's full article at the link and watch all the videos but this is a good summary:
Each My Safe account gives you three 1-year codes for a Virtual Private Network (VPN); you can stack as many as your wish or use on various devices.
Make a free account at f-secure safe (https:...
According to Reynolds Wrap:
What side of the foil should I use, shiny or dull?
With standard and heavy duty foil, it’s perfectly fine to place your food on either side so you can decide if...
...I found at least 19 different ATMs that all apparently had been hacked from the inside and retrofitted with tiny, sophisticated devices that store and transmit stolen card data and PINs wireless...
ATLAS SUMMIT 2014 -- How would children be raised in Galt’s Gulch? Most Objectivist parents want to raise their children with as little coercion as possible, but lack the knowledge of how to do so:...
Remember Monty Python’s “Argument Clinic,” where Michael Palin is trying to procure an argument from John Cleese? Palin is frustrated that Cleese won’t move past contradictions. He insists...
Abstract
This paper introduces Google Votes, an experiment in liquid democracy built on Google's internal corporate Google social network. Liquid democracy decision-making systems can scale to cov...
By day’s end, it was over. Except not really. This one incident is over. But the reality that none of us really control our lives, that none of our property is really our own, that we all stand v...
The group is called Vocal Sampling.
The group is called Vocal Sampling.
Art is mostly fraud perpetrated by narcissistic academic quacks on a public easily gulled. They should be prosecuted. This is as true of literature as of painting and sculpture. If modern sculpture...
Overview
FilePizza enables fast and private peer-to-peer file transfers in your web browser.
By using WebRTC, FilePizza eliminates the initial upload traditionally required when sharing files...
This tactic is so common that it was given a name for hundreds of years ago.
“False flag terrorism” is defined as a government attacking its own people, then blaming others in order to justi...
They're jealous, he says, they side with rulers, and they don't understand how markets work.
"Intellectuals have always disdained commerce" says Whole Foods Market co-founder John Mackey. T...
Artists and writers are often surprised to learn that copyright is automatic – that is, nothing needs to be done to claim copyright protection. Although additional rights are provided if the work is...
Back in 2011, then 16-year-old Boyan Slat, together with a friend started studying oceanic plastic pollution, and the problems associated with cleaning it up, whilst doing a high school science proje...
My own social media
SIR: I haven't got a computer, but I was told about Facebook and Twitter and am trying to make friends outside Facebook and Twitter while applying the same principles.
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By re-embracing the relevant branches of philosophy—a central field of the humanities—scientists will see and think more broadly, perhaps rediscovering what drew them to the field in the first pla...
What you are about to read is not a philosophical argument. It’s a personal testimony. The aim of telling this story is neither to make a political statement, nor to score points for a particular i...
A society that can’t talk sensibly, publicly and perhaps at length, about beauty inadvertently condemns itself to ugliness.
If you've been considering starting a blog, now's a great time to do it! Additionally, if you take advantage of valME's custom domain support, we'll do all the technical setup for you for free!
Important takeaways:
Don't get Internet in your car
Hackers often provide a great service to the world
Hackers should be car manufacturers' best friends
Car manufacturers are not to be...
On Tuesday, July 14, Mark Weiner exited the regional jail in Charlottesville, Virginia, having been incarcerated there for a crime he never committed. He was facing nearly a decade in prison after be...
When conformity and rigidity are replaced with free thinking and innovation, the results can be quite stunning. Such was the case with 13-year-old Logan LaPlante, who left the public education system...
I understand this quote is a bit of hubris, and I don't agree that these are the only two outcomes. I still like the quote and do agree that many people are terrified of freedom. People's fear of fr...
The stories are heart-wrenching. In addition to his blog, this is from an NPR story that discusses how Chris and his wife spent $8 million to buy and re-fit a 136-foot ship to save hundreds of th...
From their About page:
Our mission is to make gold accessible and useful in digital payments and secure savings.
We're advancing the digital payments revolution by helping people securely...
Cook County (Illinois) Sheriff Tom Dart wrote in letters to Visa and MasterCard that it is “increasingly indefensible for any corporation to continue to willfully play a central role in an...
London, U.K. – An ancient Anglo-Saxon potion, used to treat eye infections in the 10th-century, has shown the potential to eradicate the modern MRSA superbug, according to research.
The ancient...
The Cold Case of the death of a hot reporter. Was there more to it than a tragic accident? And why did the media not look into this affair, given the kinds of things Hastings was investigating, and t...
Among other reasons, nerds care more about being right than liked.
I don't agree with everything on his list, but included are many great principles.
Here is why you should take me seriously. I was born in 1942. I have seen what works and what doesn't.
I hav...
In the spirit of Morgan Freeman's excellent advice on how to solve the race problem and just "stop talking about it," I'm reposting this thoughtful perspective from lewrockwell.com.
Rachel Dol...
This is my 1 1/2 year my 4 year old daughter and I dancing to Shake it of By Taylor Swift. The first Daddy/Daughter Dance to Shake it Off was amazing so I thought We would give it a shot.
The US Senate Torture Report revealed horrifying details of America's interrogation program. Helen Mirren will fill you in.
How do babies learn so much from so little so quickly? In a fun, experiment-filled talk, cognitive scientist Laura Schulz shows how our young ones make decisions with a surprisingly strong sense of l...