We are learning more about our links to the rest of Nature...
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/76
g.
Fantastic links g.
I'm a big fan of the Tedtalks format, although they are often too short (IMO)
Scientists etc need to find more and more ways to engage the general public.
Reliable information is hard to come by only because it seems to get shouted out by more extreme or entertaining information that is not based on fact. This only causes confusion, which might promote skepticism but also allows frauds and zealots etc to take advantage. Empower people with reliable sources which are also entertaining seems like a good strategy to me.
I'm a big fan of the Tedtalks format, although they are often too short (IMO)
Scientists etc need to find more and more ways to engage the general public.
Reliable information is hard to come by only because it seems to get shouted out by more extreme or entertaining information that is not based on fact. This only causes confusion, which might promote skepticism but also allows frauds and zealots etc to take advantage. Empower people with reliable sources which are also entertaining seems like a good strategy to me.
QUOTE (Sinister Utopia+May 16 2008, 10:44 AM)
Fantastic links g.
I'm a big fan of the Tedtalks format, although they are often too short (IMO)
Scientists etc need to find more and more ways to engage the general public.
Reliable information is hard to come by only because it seems to get shouted out by more extreme or entertaining information that is not based on fact. This only causes confusion, which might promote skepticism but also allows frauds and zealots etc to take advantage. Empower people with reliable sources which are also entertaining seems like a good strategy to me.
I think the 'general public' just needs to engage itself - towards understanding the scientific method. This is not especially about 'science', per se, but a method of extracting the truth from our observations, and that needs to apply to ALL of us, if we are ever to communicate in ways that are non-contradictory, 'war-like'.
We can expect a struggle between old ideas and new. It was ever thus, and guess what...new always wins because we exist in the new and therefore have to find new ways of existing within it!! The jazz is in the moment!
Glad you like this stuff. Thought you might!
g.
I'm a big fan of the Tedtalks format, although they are often too short (IMO)
Scientists etc need to find more and more ways to engage the general public.
Reliable information is hard to come by only because it seems to get shouted out by more extreme or entertaining information that is not based on fact. This only causes confusion, which might promote skepticism but also allows frauds and zealots etc to take advantage. Empower people with reliable sources which are also entertaining seems like a good strategy to me.
I think the 'general public' just needs to engage itself - towards understanding the scientific method. This is not especially about 'science', per se, but a method of extracting the truth from our observations, and that needs to apply to ALL of us, if we are ever to communicate in ways that are non-contradictory, 'war-like'.
We can expect a struggle between old ideas and new. It was ever thus, and guess what...new always wins because we exist in the new and therefore have to find new ways of existing within it!! The jazz is in the moment!
Glad you like this stuff. Thought you might!
g.
QUOTE (Gorgeous+May 16 2008, 11:11 AM)
I think the 'general public' just needs to engage itself - towards understanding the scientific method. This is not especially about 'science', per se, but a method of extracting the truth from our observations, and that needs to apply to ALL of us, if we are ever to communicate in ways that are non-contradictory, 'war-like'.
We can expect a struggle between old ideas and new. It was ever thus, and guess what...new always wins because we exist in the new and therefore have to find new ways of existing within it!!
Glad you like this stuff. Thought you might!
g.
Yes! I would definitely agree. I guess in some measure that is me (general public) taking an interest. I am not a schooled Scientist, but I want to know more about myself, others and our environment. My search inevitably led me to Science after exhausting Religion and other sources. A seamless transition when you honestly just want to know more about reality but are none too smart
...And our 'Lug-holes'
We can expect a struggle between old ideas and new. It was ever thus, and guess what...new always wins because we exist in the new and therefore have to find new ways of existing within it!!
Glad you like this stuff. Thought you might!
g.
Yes! I would definitely agree. I guess in some measure that is me (general public) taking an interest. I am not a schooled Scientist, but I want to know more about myself, others and our environment. My search inevitably led me to Science after exhausting Religion and other sources. A seamless transition when you honestly just want to know more about reality but are none too smart
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The jazz is in the moment!
...And our 'Lug-holes'
I've never heard of Ted...
I shall have to investigate this resource further once I get home from work... Or as soon as my boss has a meeting to attend. (Whichever comes first.
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I shall have to investigate this resource further once I get home from work... Or as soon as my boss has a meeting to attend. (Whichever comes first.
)QUOTE (Sinister Utopia+May 16 2008, 02:47 PM)
Yes! I would definitely agree. I guess in some measure that is me (general public) taking an interest. I am not a schooled Scientist, but I want to know more about myself, others and our environment. My search inevitably led me to Science after exhausting Religion and other sources. A seamless transition when you honestly just want to know more about reality but are none too smart
...And our 'Lug-holes'
It is the cross-over points between apparent 'extremes', where progress is most often made. There is very good and valid existential reason for this...
Think of 'man' and 'woman' producing 'offspring'. This analogy works for all things, if you simply observe it in a action. 'Balck' + 'white' does not = '2 blacks' or '2whites', but an altogether different kind of third thing...'grey'.
When waves of differing frequency meet, another frequency is formed that is a more complex amalgamation of the original two. Why do they 'meet' in the first place? - Because they are mutually attracted to each other, OR are forced together by a greater previous motion ('explosion', for example).
SU, the key word in your post was 'honesty'. This is also the 'key' to all kinds of understanding. Without it, there is no hope of ever understanding the Nature of Reality...because? - You are 'it'! And this is also why the position of some kind of 'exterior being', having created a world of 'separate' parts that 'magically' all work together, is a gross error of judgment.
It is not 'magic', nor 'supernatural', but the sheer beauty of existence in all its glory - with nothing 'added' or taken away, but in a state of 'motion'.
g.
...And our 'Lug-holes'
It is the cross-over points between apparent 'extremes', where progress is most often made. There is very good and valid existential reason for this...
Think of 'man' and 'woman' producing 'offspring'. This analogy works for all things, if you simply observe it in a action. 'Balck' + 'white' does not = '2 blacks' or '2whites', but an altogether different kind of third thing...'grey'.
When waves of differing frequency meet, another frequency is formed that is a more complex amalgamation of the original two. Why do they 'meet' in the first place? - Because they are mutually attracted to each other, OR are forced together by a greater previous motion ('explosion', for example).
SU, the key word in your post was 'honesty'. This is also the 'key' to all kinds of understanding. Without it, there is no hope of ever understanding the Nature of Reality...because? - You are 'it'! And this is also why the position of some kind of 'exterior being', having created a world of 'separate' parts that 'magically' all work together, is a gross error of judgment.
It is not 'magic', nor 'supernatural', but the sheer beauty of existence in all its glory - with nothing 'added' or taken away, but in a state of 'motion'.
g.
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