Scott Rickard has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and MA and PhD degrees in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University. At University College Dublin, he founded the Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory, where biologists, geologists, mathematicians, computer scientists, social scientists and economists work on problems which matter to people. He is passionate about mathematics, music and educating the next generation of scientists and mathematicians.
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
Ellison as himself and Jeffrey Coombs as "HP Hatecraft."
Monologue by L Ron Hubbard's great-grandson. ("My grandfather coming home to photographs of his children in his mailbox, playing on playgrounds alone and unguarded, to remind him the eye of the pyramid never blinks.")
This is a short episode from The Twilight Zone series - 1985. It shows The Matrix almost 15 years before the movie.
and it seems there are most episodes of "the first revival" on youtube. so, in keeping with the Ellison streak... (I never watched the first revival twilightzone, so these are all new to me. had no idea they'd filmed a version of shatterday! enjoy)
By 1964 there were 1.5 million mobile phone users in the US
Chemistry On Mars — The Curiosity Rover’s Mission to Uncover Martian Habitability
[YOUTUBE NOTES.] After an epic 354-million-mile trek through space, the Mars Curiosity Rover is zooming along at 13,000 miles per hour toward a scheduled Aug. 6 landing on the Red Planet to search for evidence of extraterrestrial life.
^ Video by Kirk Zamieroski American Chemical Society produced
We took a visit to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to talk to the Mars Science Laboratory Deputy Scientist, Ashwin Vasavada, who gave us a look "under the hood" of the rover, explaining the role of the analytical chemistry instruments found onboard Curiosity.
Curiosity’s primary mission goal is to determine the habitability of the Gale Crater, which scientists believe was once filled with water. Curiosity is basically an entire chemistry lab packed into a one mobile unit, equipped with the tools necessary to test the chemical composition of soil. Test results from these instruments will pave the way for future Mars missions, and may provide insight in the search for life on other planets.
POST 2504
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
He's been stuck under that Mountain for hundreds of years!
I bet he'll be stiff when he gets out.
Monkey: Hey Buddha! Hey you, Kuan Yin. Let me out, I don't like it, I don't like it, I don't like it! Buddha!
Narrator: But Buddha waited for the time to fulfill itself, preaching in his library at the temple of the great thunderclap.
Buddha: Fellow buddhas and boddhisatvas, the Great Vehicle! Sutra, Shastra, Vinaya! Sutras save all these souls lost in illusion. Shastras tell of affairs of earth. Vinaya speak of the nature of heavenly blessings. These are the scriptures. By them men may be delivered from suffering, through life after life after life. Monkey nature turns them from the Buddha within, the jewel at the heart of the lotus, that dwells in the breasts of all men equally. Words can show a way to illumination. Thus the scriptures should be given to mankind. They should not be given too easily, however, lest no one values the gift. Will one of you go to find a Holy Man to come here for them?
Kuan Yin: It may not be easy, but Kuan Yin will go, Lord Buddha, to try to find a Holy Pilgrim.
Buddha: You, Lady Compassion? Kuan Yin, she Fairy of Heaven?
Kuan Yin: Yes, in this manifestation.
Narrator: If the Buddha could stay in female aspect, thought the Goddess Kuan Yin, why should she not manifest herself as male, for such a dangerous task?
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Sandy: Boddhisatva, could you say a word to Tathagata Buddha? I want so much to get back to Heaven.
Kuan Yin: Back to Heaven?
Sandy: I'm not a real monster. But I broke the Emperor's cup, and he expelled me from Heaven for doing it. I don't know how to earn a living, because I never studied. I'm not qualified to be anything really, except an Angel. So I had to start eating people.
Kuan Yin: Well, all your troubles are over now, so just listen to this; I appoint you a Holy Disciple, Sandy.
Eric Whitacre | conductor and composer in the classical tradition — A virtual choir 2,000 voices strong
^ TED talk | March 2011 | Long Beach California USA
TED Notes. Eric Whitacre began his music career singing in his college choir, with no previous musical experience. By 21, he had completed his first concert work, Go, Lovely Rose, and soon advanced to Juilliard where he studied under Oscar-winning composer John Corigliano. Today, his 44 published concert pieces have sold over a million copies, he has conducted choral music in some of the most esteemed halls in the world and his music has been featured on dozens of commercial recordings. His album Cloudburst and Other Choral Works earned him a Grammy nomination in 2007.
Most recently, Whitacre has been noticed for his cutting-edge work, Paradise Lost: Shadows and Wings, a musical that combines electronica with choral and operatic traditions. The musical has earned him the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award, received 10 nominations at the 2007 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards, and performed to a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall in 2010.
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Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________
You're welcome, Allegro. And thanks for the beautiful Whitacre video. I just finished Deep Green Resistance and am more impressed than ever with Keith's analysis and vision: Power in all it's versions - the arrogant, the sadistic, the stupid - is poised to kill every last living being. If we falter, it will win. Gather your heart and all its courage; fletch love into an arrow that will not bend; and take aim.
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