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  A comment on Talk: Moshe Safdie on building uniqueness

  Apr 25 2009: "He who seeks truth shall find beauty,
  he who seeks beauty shall find vanity,
  he who seeks order shall find gratification,
  he who seeks gratification shall be disappointed,
  he who considers himself the servant of his fellow being shall find the joy of self expression,
  he who seeks self expression shall fall into the pit of arrogance.
  Arrogance is incompatible with nature, through nature, the nature of the universe and the nature of man we shall seek truth, if we seek truth we shall find beauty."

• A comment on Talk: Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

  Apr 1 2009: Ah, and the guys are from Finland...

• A comment on Talk: Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

  Apr 1 2009: Just to let you know that there has been actually an old invention showing the power of hands and is patented in USA here: http://marisil.com
  No idea if they are making a product but they certainly came up with the idea of using hands to dial numbers and use projective displays long time ago...

• A comment on Talk: Robert Lang: The math and magic of origami

  Mar 17 2009: @ Rachel Henderson
  
  If your students are into "Hannah Montana" you've got a lot of work to do.
  
  Start by showing them 1984

• A comment on Talk: David Keith's unusual climate change idea

  Mar 17 2009: Creepy talk.
  
  The way this guy keeps requesting global governance to solve the problem of global warming. His use of weasel words, and lack of empirical attitude. It's creepy.
  
  Sounds like an excuse for fascism to me.
  
  To my mind, it is reasonable to simply dissolve governance entirely (in keeping with natural systems of order, requiring no enforcement or hierarchy) and allow the public to address this question themselves.
  
  Some people will continue to use fossil fuels, until they are either economically irrelevant, or the supplies run out (I believe the former will be a more likely event).
  
  Some people will immediately switch to "renewable" energy sources.
  
  As society begins to emerge more freely, without government intervention, there will be a proliferation of lifestyles and accompanying levels and types of energy use.
  
  This diversity would be "healthier" for the environment.
  
  Whatever course you think is right: 1. do it 2. don't insist that others follow you.

• A comment on Talk: Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

  Mar 17 2009: Everyone is stupid, no one is bright.
  
  At the very best we are all slowly decaying meat-sacks subject to the orders of our dna.
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  A comment on Talk: Bill Gates: Mosquitos, malaria and education

  Mar 17 2009: Here is a subject Gates didn't expound on. How do you measure teacher effectiveness? I would have to assume that he is using student retention of lesson content as his measure. But that is not real learning, human beings evolved systems for learning, chief amongst these is play.
  
  Anyone who attended public school would have to concede that school is a slog of boring lessons interrupted by brief periods of play (recess). Effectively we as a culture has instituted massive retardation of natural learning processes.
  
  I'm not saying that stuff like maths, science, language, history, and such are not worth learning, but the means we use of trying to educate our children on these subjects are ineffective. You wouldn't need a teacher to enforce attentiveness to a lesson if they lesson were effectively design. That is if math, science, language, and history were learned through free play.
  
  12 years of enforced attendance in a state run education camp? What are we doing to the children? We are conditioning them for serfdom.
  
  Cameras in the classroom? I'm glad Orwell isn't alive to see the public voluntarily building the surveillance state of the future.
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  A comment on Talk: Capt. Charles Moore on the seas of plastic

  Mar 10 2009: I fvcking hate plastic !!!! I wish it never existed

• A comment on Talk: Bill Gates: Mosquitos, malaria and education

  Feb 16 2009: "...Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow Me." -Luke 18:22

• A comment on Talk: Bill Gates: Mosquitos, malaria and education

  Feb 6 2009: Bring back the frakkin' DDT! Nets? Really?
  
  At the beginning of the video it said, "Remarkable people...".
  
  I'm still waiting to see any.