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  A reply on Talk: Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

  Aug 13 2010: "The democratization of information will be the end of the conspiracy theory."
  Would be very nice if this could happen one day.

• A comment on Talk: Julian Assange: Why the world needs WikiLeaks

  Jul 30 2010: More accountability is welcome and Wikileaks makes this possible.
  Take care Julian.
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  A comment on Talk: Carl Safina: The oil spill's unseen culprits, victims

  Jul 12 2010: "Energy is always a moral issue". This pretty much summs it up for me.
  A very truthful and 'in your face' talk. Just the way it should be.

• A comment on Talk: Benoit Mandelbrot: Fractals and the art of roughness

  Jul 6 2010: Truly breath taking. When I was forst confronted with fractals as a child I was spellbound by them. Fractals are one of the best examples (alongside the evolution of species, etc.) of how complexity can arise from very simple rules.
  
  P.S. The "roughness" BM is talking about is actually the Fractal dimension of the object.
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  A comment on Talk: Michael Sandel: The lost art of democratic debate

  Jun 7 2010: Here's more food for thought from Michael Sandel:
  http://athome.harvard.edu/programs/jmr/

• A comment on Talk: Johanna Blakley: Lessons from fashion's free culture

  May 26 2010: Great food for thought! This talk is one of the most refreshing takes on the ongoing IP, copyright debate I've heard in a long time. Take note RIAA and Co.
  
  One minor thing. Actually the free software people use copyright (GNU GPL license and the likes) to enforce the kind of freedom Johanna is talking about. But the way the software world functions is (sadly) very different from the examples of copyright free markets talked about here. You need the protection of licenses like GNU GPL.
  So FOSS people didn't ditch copyright. Still, the FOSS example still holds in its essence, just a bit inaccurate :)
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  A comment on Talk: Douglas Adams: Parrots, the universe and everything

  May 17 2010: Thank you for everything Mr. Adams. Including this wonderful talk. RIP

• A comment on Talk: Michael Specter: The danger of science denial

  May 7 2010: "Everyone's entitled to their opinion... but you're not entitled to your own facts. Sorry, you're not."
  Very well put Mr. Specter.
  
  Any technology, even the most primitive examples, can be used for either good or evil (whatever that means). Consider an axe: it can be used to chop up firewood and it can be used to kill a man. With advancing technology (nuclear, biotech) our ability to do good as well as our ability to do harm increases a lot.
  You can not stop technological progress, something invented, discovered can not be undiscovered! Instead with our increasing tehnological sofistication we also need to evolve on a moral level. We are significantly behind on this front!
  
  And please don't go bashing GM crops, but bash Monsanto et al. for their awful business practices!
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  A reply on Talk: Carolyn Porco: This is Saturn

  May 6 2010: Please, just for one second compare the US national debt to the NASA budget:
  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%2818.724+billion+dollars+%2F+national+debt+usa%29+*+100
  
  It's 0.15%.
  
  There is nothing more to say on this matter.

• A reply on Talk: Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

  Apr 28 2010: A nice talk overall, but a bit longwinded due to the reasons you say. I found he is a bit overconfident, which annoyed me a little.