The Chrysler Peapod, The Reason Innovation Gets a Bad Name
I believe the time of the electric vehicle is drawing near. It makes a lot of sense: we already have the ubiquitous infrastructure for “fueling” – any electric socket -, can be recharged with renewable energy, and does not have the fear factor some people have about driving around with a tank of hydrogen in back of them. (BTW, hydrogen as fuel is as safe as standard gasoline using modern storage methods). The major issue is energy storage: batteries. They are heavy, take a long time to recharge, have a limited lifespan, comparatively expensive to make and very unfriendly towards the environment at the point of disposal. There is also a weight vs. energy issue, the reason

Ok, this is just for amusement, and pretty good at that.
Most people reading this blog will be unaware of my past as a European style clown, street performer, juggler, musician and well… all the odd eclectic things you learn on the road over about a decade of wandering. Without those years I would not have the thought process I have today, one that I like than you kindly. I still love it when I see something new, that I have not seen before. Thanks to another old friend on facebook, I bring you Peruvian mime, Hugo Suarez. I don’t know the Title

The ethnography of a stroke
I first heard of Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor during an interview on Fresh Air, it is a great conversation (Listen to the interview, not just the text, it is more in depth than the TED talk you see here). Thanks to my friend Mariflora for bringing the TED link to my attention. How often do we get the emic on such a matter? Well worth watching and forming your own ideas from. Her very interesting TED talk:

Sept 11th is seared into my brain
I have met people that where at ground zero. I can no more watch the replay of the towers crashing than I desire to remember some things I saw in Iraq. You protest war? Oppression? Imperialism? It suddenly occurs to you, that these things are wrong? Good for you, you get a lollipop. Welcome to the last 100,000 years of history. Humans are remarkably resistant to learning in this topic it appears.