Holding two opposing thoughts in your mind is genius, or crazy.

The Daily Show - Exclusive - William Cohan Extended Interview Pt. 2
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How to Play both ends against the middle.

Gravity may not exist any more than matter.

One of my greatest failures, is my inability to communicate the basic concepts about the nature of reality without loosing people who are less educated or more prone to mystical beliefs. Gravity is not a 'force', it is an apparent curvature in space-time, and according to this string-theorist may be an illusion, or a marriage. The concept is that, similar to temperature, the appearance of gravitational effects may come from the averaging of subatomic effects of the uncertainty-principal at the macroscopic level. This is a fundamental shift from the description of a phenomenon to an understanding of how or why it exists. This doesn't reject our traditional understanding or science, it simply deepens our knowledge about the nature of reality and energy. Similar to how we now know that matter is just patterns of energy and force fields in essentially empty space.

Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization

How do you get someone to be self-sufficient? Teach them to fish, farm, or work. Independence comes from interdependence, not codependency. Open source hardware from Marcin Jakubowski, Polish Nuclear Fusion Expert and 21st Century Organic Farmer.

New Bicycle Discovery

TMS Bicycle, front mass falls "more quickly" thus steering into the fall. The front wheel gyro-effect, and wheel caster are not as important as we thought.

New Bike Stability Discovery! No Gyro, No Castor. Bicycles steer into their fall. (To prove try pushing a bike backwards, or locking handlebars)

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution = LAUSD

Watch this clip and you'll never eat "Processed" meat again.
NEVER EAT GROUND BEEF UNLESS YOU GRIND IT YOURSELF!

Caroline Casey: Looking past limits

Born with Ocular Albinism which limits what she can see beyond 1-meter, Caroline Casey was never told she couldn't see. Irrational Faith in oneself may be necessary to reach your full potential. Such belief in oneself inspires actions that one would not attempt from an attitude of self-pity. Society may be artificially limiting the potential of physically disabled people (1-billion world wide) via labeling. Solution: expect the same level of accomplishment from everyone, regardless of any 'dis-ability', and don't discriminate. (my question here is if everyone had Ocular Albinism would we create technology to adapt our eyes, just as elephants have larger ears and noses, or would we evolve better eyes?)

The Primary Dealer Credit Facility = $9-Trillion+

The Primary Dealer Credit Facility - according to CNN Money and ProPublica, the total extent of this UNDISCLOSED Federal Reserve 'Emergency' (no-interest) Loan program between May 2008 & 2009, was $9-Trillion, and although $7-trillion of the PRINCIPAL has been 'repaid', this represents an increase in the money supply of ~$90-T. Meaning the US$ is worth 1/3 less today than in '08. Has your salary, home equity, or the value of investments risen by 33% in the last three years? If so, you are a winner of this game. Also, the Banks gave bonuses as a result of this 'increase' in capital and lend the money to corporations at interest, creating debt of nothing, and that expense is passed on to the consumer as a cost of business. If they had failed to pay back these 'loans' the US Taxpayer would have been responsible, via an increase in US National Debt. (so much for pocket change of the $700-B TARP, and $800-B 'Stimulus')

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/01/news/economy/fed_reserve_data_release/index.htm
http://projects.propublica.org/tables/treasury-facilities-loans