Carbon Neutral
Climate change is all around
Creeping on us, makes no sound
Always something else to do
The cars, the wars, a bank or two
The answer: easy! has been found!
Leave that carbon in the ground.
Can we resist these fuels so useful?
And live each day carbon neutral?
Commentary
Cut off her hand
If {two} men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals,
then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity.
Deuteronomy 25:11-12, New American Standard Version (1995)
On average
It's like having your head in the freezer and your butt in the oven. On average, you're comfortable
Scruples
Moses Pray: I've got scruples too, ya know. You know what that is... scruples?
Addie Loggins: No, I don't know what it is but if you've got 'em, it's a sure bet they belong to somebody else!
Ben Ferencz
This video is a recent interview from 60 Minutes with a Ben Ferencz, an extraordinary person who has now turned 100. As a young man, he was a prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials in Nuremberg just after WWII. I should warn you, there is a brief moment of film from the war, showing actual brutal murders. I hesitated posting it because that part is so difficult. Avert your eyes, or don't watch at all, if you must. Just know: evil doesn't go away just because we don't look. Quite the opposite. It only grows stronger when we don't look.
But the overall message is optimism. Despite the horrible things this man has seen, he's stunningly optimistic. Some would call him naive, and he talks about that. I think you may find something here to inspire you. I did.
Do not lose your optimism, your hope that things can improve. Especially in these times when our own country is being so evil. If this man can remain optimistic, we all can have hope.
Just be braced for some of the worst of humanity too. And have courage.
Commentary
Repeat the past
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
1905, The Life of Reason
Bohm-Aharonov Effect
The first reaction to this work is that it is wrong. The second is that it is obvious.
Comment on the Bohm-Aharonov Effect in: Weisskopf, V. F., Selected Topics in Theoretical Physics, The Boulder Lectures in Physics III , Interscience, New York, 1961.
Reasonable man
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Man and SupermaSuperman
Fusion reactors
We do not yet have (nuclear) fusion reactors. One day, quite soon, we may.
Cosmos (1980), Episode 8, aired 19801126