I downloaded this manual after reading a very interesting article in the New York Times, “For Activists, Tips On Safe Use of Social Media.” The manual was created “for citizens in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond” by Access Global Movement for Digital Freedom. Access doesn’t appear to be a group of hackers with [...]
Transcript available here. This week the President made his third trip to the Louisiana coast in lieu of a trip to Australia and Indonesia, to check on the lack of progress of BP’s next move on capping the oil pipe as well as the lack of confidence in the administration’s ability to bring BP to [...]
This is the live feed from BP of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve restarted the “top kill” process of shooting heavy drilling mud into the hole to essentially “plug it up.” The video source and ticker is from PBS’s Newshour. The live feed was ordered by the U.S. Government. What a [...]
Meet Nexi. I was introduced to her via a CBS News special report on American Creativity and innovation – “Where America Stands.” Nexi was born in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. She is part of an on-going project to develop robots that can help out in the home and probably a few [...]
For me origami has been more than just paper folding. Once you get the hang of the basic folds, it’s pretty calming for the head and the hands. I’ve used origami to center myself, to step away from the multi-tasked brain. I’ve also used it to calm tweeners. As I said, once you get the [...]
There was a time a “space cadet” was just some nerdy kid (like me) who joined a space club, got a badge or membership card from school, and a little kit to make your own lunar module. You watched every “splash down.” Then mushrooms and LCD clouded the picture, and eventually “space cadet” and “air [...]
When I was growing up, I was a bit of a science geek. You start out with the basics — bringing the outdoors indoors in jars. Mom saying, “make sure that lid’s on tight.” Having your aunt and uncle catch the bigger specimens for you. Then came space club. No one told you how to [...]
…part of what we want to do is to open up the White House and, and remind people this is, this is the people’s house. There is an incredible bully pulpit to be used when it comes to, for example, education. Yes, we’re going to have an education policy. Yes, we’re going to be putting [...]
