Members David Scholz

Apr 26 2010: Breathtakingly beautiful. I am absolutely in awe of this display of collaborative effort and the art piece it resulted in. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Feb 22 2010: A very emotional talk, and he's making a very valid point. It's happening everywhere, too. If only there were a way to counter greed and foster trust... *sigh* but I am straying from the issue.
I have to admit I had to laugh very hard when I heard Philip's remark on the idiots. Hahaha. Sadly, that's so true.
Thank you for sharing this, Mr. Howard.

On a related note: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html Barry makes similar points... we have to wake up.

Feb 21 2010: I agree with the notion that this was rather distasteful.
That's not to say there were no good points in this talk, but from my perspective, the huge amount of hypocrisy involved in that 'power to the people' statement made by a representative of a government (which, like other govs, is using the boiling frog strategy to strip the citizen of their last bit of privacy) disgusts me.

Ironically it's this information revolution that exposes on a daily basis just how hypocritical these puppets, pardon, politicians are.

Edit: @Peter: "do you really think everybody can decide whether for instance the war in afghanistan is a good plan?" See, the question is whether it's better to have those few who profit from it decide [e.g. the arms industry] or those who pay for it [i.e. the citizen]. Townhall meetings are attended by a small sample of the population, and a very select sample at that, so they're not representative. Besides, even less are hellbent on sending their children off to war.

Feb 16 2010: There was a column recently in our monthly faculty newspaper about the poor availability of data due to the researchers' unwillingness to share (only 16% did... I'll dig up the reference for anyone interested). If the patients themselves share...
Of course there are some methodological issues with this way of doing things, but I think this is a wonderful step forward. The more information is made available to the public, the better. If only one company were to be able to see and get to play with the data, I'd worry about privacy issues, but this way people know what they're doing and receive immediate feedback. Thumbs up, Jamie.

Feb 11 2010: "Religion is not the only path to morality."
I doubt religion is a path to morality.
Either you adhere to certain moral or ethical standards, or you don't.
At best, it's the community around you that en- or discourages this.

I'll quote Christopher Hitchens and pose this challenge:

"…can you name me a single moral action performed or moral statement uttered by a person of faith that couldn’t be just as well pronounced or undertaken by a civilian?"