They might tell the House [of Representatives] that there’s a 1.5 percent failure rate, but most Americans don’t understand what that means. I mean, 1.5, what is that? Is that a lot? You have to relate it to something that means something to somebody. Otherwise, people have the perception that space flight is safe, and when there’s an accident, they’re shocked. It’s like, “We gotta stop flying.” If we want to add additional safeguards because now we’re feeling emotional about it, okay, we can do that. But if we’re still meeting our design specs for loss, why would we stop flying?
Just Be And You Are
I typed in “japan earthquake” in Google to find out more details about the location and the magnitudes of the recent earthquakes. Google had organized US Geological Survey data in way that told me exactly what I was looking for. As if the search engine were reading my mind.
It’s what makes Google so creepy and fantastic.
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Who profits off you being unhealthy v. healthy?
Jay Parkinson, MD 
16 hours ago in reply to fran
- Coca-Cola makes a direct profit off you behaving unhealthily. What are the companies that make a direct profit off your everyday behaviors that optimize health?Like Reply
Jon Christianson 13 hours ago in reply to Jay Parkinson, MD
- This is a good question - much of the US economy clearly benefits from promoting unhealthy behavior (e.g, mainstream food industry, energy, health care, retail, etc.).
I suspect most facets of tourism make a direct profit off of behaviors that optimize health.
Inspired by Ray Oldenburg’s “Third Space” concept which states that society needs a place away from home (First Space) and work (Second Space). Third Spaces are “Anchors of Community Life and facilitate and foster broader, more creative interaction.” Societies across the world have third spaces that manifest themselves as coffee houses, pubs, plazas, etc. The Summit is the ultimate Third Space.
I’ve loved the idea of a “third space” since I learned of it only a year ago. I can’t wait to go here.
siddhartha
I shall no longer be instructed by the Yoga Veda or the Aharva Veda, or the ascetics, or any other doctrine whatsoever. I shall learn from myself, be a pupil of myself; I shall get to know myself, the mystery of Siddhartha.” He looked around as if he were seeing the world for the first time. - in Siddartha
There’s no space for the extra space. By Farhad Manjoo on Slate.
I saw this piece earlier in the day and loved it. We don’t need two spaces after the period. It’s just a convention that can be changed. Although, as I typed this I found myself double-tapping the space bar after periods and corrected it after the fact. Ugh.
Also, why do people put their hats on AFTER they get outside? You lose all that heat off the top of your head and then trap cold air inside. Put it on before you get out the door and you won’t even feel the transition into cold weather.
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What a revealing graphic. Practice Fusion continues to impress.
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about useful ads, good ads, value-filled ads that inform us and motivate us. Ads about community events, blood donation, clean sidewalks, and healthy living. Ads that communicate the variety in our culture, the foods, the music, the arts, the people and their ways of thinking.
Ads that don’t have to sell.
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Why, despite all the evidence to the contrary, do so many people remain adamant in their belief that vaccines are responsible for harming hundreds of thousands of otherwise healthy children? Why was the media so inclined to air their views? Why were so many others so readily convinced? Why, in other words, are we willing to believe things that are, according to all available evidence, false?
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