Tag: humanity

10 interesting futuristic materials. The best insulator is also the lowest density solid, aerogel. Also, nanotubes, metamaterials, amorphous metal, and so on. With all the fancy stuff we humans can do wouldn’t you think we’d be better able to solve our problems? TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious

What kind of bunch are these Pachamama people to be making such an audacious statement? They admit it’s audacious themselves, but they also firmly believe that now is the time for such a mission. I agree with them. The documentary Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream, expresses a reality that many of us already know, […]

Two-bit Guru | Money & Equality | Photo of a roll of dollar bills.

Today I’m thinking about money and inequality. Since the material choices of life without money aren’t very attractive, most of us would like to have more, preferably lots more. But if everyone had lots more we’d still all be in the same boat, except everything would cost more, including the boat. To be better off […]

William Morris [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This is what I think I am: Good, honest, fair, peaceful, loving, helpful, trusting, euphoric, joyful, accepting, generous, forgiving, and more. This is what everyone is, at the core. Why, then, is there so much chaos in the world, so much evil, so much crap when it comes to human behavior? I suggest that it’s […]