It does almost no good to keep looking at only global statistics, or even national stats… The object of the game is to ferret out what works where, and try to avoid the places that turn out to be quicksand.
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Base Operations, a company I have invested in, does threat analysis through map visualizations. They are now making their real time COVID-19 map free and accessible to the public, in hopes their technology can support you or the organizations you are involved with.
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Nostalgia is nice, but keeping one's eyes on the forward path is a necessity these days. Follow the folks.
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How convenient to point the finger of guilt at everyone else. But as my uncle used to tell me, every time you point your finger at someone, three of your other fingers are pointing back at you.
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I was once served a piña colada by the bartender at the Caribe Hilton in San Juan, who claimed that he invented the drink. Of course I did not believe him at the time. I thought it was a line. Turns out to be true.
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Why shouldn't we just stash our cash in the mattress and be assured to getting $1 back for every $1 we “deposited” in the mattress? Gesell thought that too, so he came up with a solution.
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“The world" is not a legal entity, and one cannot legally become a citizen of it. Yet, on some levels we all are already, by virtue of the fact that we live and breath on this planet.
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It turns out that kindness is one of the most powerfully beneficial forms of “connectivity.”… I have always thought this to be one of the most wonderful mysteries of life.
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The first important thing I ever did was something I didn’t know how to do: play an old, beat up Stella guitar which had been sitting behind some clothes in the family closet.
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Like many (most) philosophical debates these days, socialism versus capitalism is a circus of false choices. In this article, William Taylor suggests what we should REALLY be talking about, and I couldn't agree more.
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What is it about this era that we lack confidence in humankind's ability to do good and prosper, in spite of such evidence of our positive headway?
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One’s skill becomes a craft when soul and destiny are tied to it. Often, this skill seems like something found, when in reality skill is a blossom made visible by the fertile soil of necessity. While necessity may be the soil, the rain which draws the bloom into our world is one’s proclivities.
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You don’t have to be a tourist when you Travel. Tourism tends to put guardrails on one’s mind because of the expectations we often pack along with our Bermuda shorts. Here are just a few of the things Mark Twain had to say on the subject of Travel.
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SXSW never fails to put on a show for the ages. Who knew science, technology, cutting-edge social issues, and the like could be so much fun? These tech dudes and dudettes are really party animals, and it appears they have the money to make it happen in an increasingly flashy and outrageous way every year.
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Scientists believe that we all, in fact, descended from a single pair of humans, a kind of Adam and Eve who lived in East Africa a million years ago. Since then, the species grew in numbers, split up, formed tribes, cultures and nations, and we convinced ourselves that “we" now consists of "us and them". This article rudely reawakens us. Our human genome is widely shared, to the point that we are descendants of the same folks and thus, are all related in some very fundamental ways. Let that sink in for a moment. We don't just inhabit the same planet together, we also we built with the same living stuff. We are, literally, brothers and sisters, all of us. Now, let's start acting like it.
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The concocted language of Esperanto was a mix of many different languages and sentence structures designed to be easy to learn and understand, no matter what your native tongue.
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A powerhouse of innovation, this tiny country embodies the future of farming.
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Globalization has brought us closer together, but to many, there’s the feeling that we are on top of one another, furiously competing in a zero-sum game with jobs exported, terrorism and drugs imported, and everyone’s traditional values being trampled. In this dystopian view, the smiling faces of Disney’s vision of the world’s children have been replaced by snarling zombies eyeing their next meal.
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