May 14 2013: personally I think college/university is a bit overrated. I work at a power plant and we have issues with engineers who have only done the schooling without doing the labour they are designing for. I think the far more important thing is to have the insight into the type of work you want to do/create that only working the base job can do.
May 2 2013: I think a large part of the problem is the business model that 'curing' diseases produce and the ability to make huge amounts of cash on it. The best thing to reduce this would be to reduce patents on drugs to a year lifespan or something
May 2 2013: IF we evolved to that point, it would not be of one mind, it would be basically identical to the internet. This ability would be immensely valuable to the scientific community though
May 2 2013: Money cannot buy happiness, it can buy faux-happiness but that fades rapidly.
Often it seems like those who live Spartan lives are the most happy, it seems to me because the things you own, eventually own you, as you try to keep up with trends and always seeing something a little better, a little sleeker, a little cooler than what you have.
May 2 2013: I believe that much of humanities issues is a lack of connection to the natural world. We live in a world that is basically 'human only' where nature is carefully groomed, pets and pests are the only animals seen. This disconnect causes a sort of mental drift where we are becoming more like our machines than we should be.
May 2 2013: Post ted talk, I like to believe there is a one hell of a party, where intellectuals gather and shoot ideas off each other and discuss the talks, elaborating upon points and arguing over the validity of others. In essence distilling the experience to its core and taking it to the next level. *NOTE* this is my imagination, no idea in reality.
May 2 2013: I believe that chemicals and such are not a good idea to throw around in an effect to fix things, biological solutions are best. Number one way I think would be to pump air into 'dead' algae ponds and use something we destroyed to help fix our issues.
May 2 2013: I consider myself an atheist since I actively abstain from religion but to me this quote isn't about religion, it is about thinking of the possibilities and believing them possible or not. The human mind is the most powerful force in our lives, if we truly believe something impossible it will make it true, believing it possible it will work to make it true.
Mar 27 2013: you define placebo effect wrong, placebo effect is a result of medical testing of drugs, where people who where sick (in some way) where given sugar pills without them knowing it is not actual drugs. These people then started seeing improvements. So the placebo effect is totally in the unconcious part of the brain.
Mar 27 2013: Although this is not relevant, I think we as a society (I am in Canada) are far too reliant on drugs and other such technology too 'fix' us.
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Often it seems like those who live Spartan lives are the most happy, it seems to me because the things you own, eventually own you, as you try to keep up with trends and always seeing something a little better, a little sleeker, a little cooler than what you have.
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