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
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
Mumblety-peg
For work, if you love that best... For education, for beauty, for art, for pleasure... For mumblety-peg, if that's where your heart lies.
Cheaper By The Dozen (1948)
In reply to the question “But what do you want to save time for? What are you going to do with it?”
The purpose of human life
The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it,Is to love whoever is around to be loved
In Cat's Cradle
20250730 Tsunami (?) At Drayton Harbor
2025-07-29 an 8.8 magnitude earthquake off the Russian Kamchatka Peninsula, triggered tsunami warnings covering much of the Pacific Ocean, including Blaine, WA where I live on Drayton Harbor. The NOAA US Tsunami warning system estimated the first wave would reach Bellingham, WA (25 miles south) at 01:10am PST on 2025-07-30 with a maximum height of less than 1 foot.
I sat in my front yard looking out over Drayton Harbor, towards White Rock, BC and took videos in case there was anything to see. The harbor was very calm with stretched out reflections of shore lights. In the shots below note particularly the bright tower near the center, the Oceana PARC building in White Rock, BC some 5.5 miles from my viewing spot. I estimated the tsunami would arrive at Blaine some 16 minutes after Bellingham.
What I saw and recorded was a gradual disappearance and then return of the reflection of lights in Drayton Harbor, which I can only suppose is somehow due to the tsunami.
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