A real human interface. I love creative people.

I watched this about a year ago...so it's not exactly new. But it sure did make me smile.

It's another of those simple but very cool little movies that inspires me so, mostly because any of us could make something like this, no film crew necessary. Love it!!

Hi from Multitouch Barcelona on Vimeo.

The Esther Benjamins Trust. Doing some real good work in Nepal.

Driven to Rescue. from Vicki Lines on Vimeo.

Very poor parents are being promised their children will receive education and money, when in truth they are being trafficked into Indian circuses, or brothels.

These families are poor, undernourished, covered in lice. They think they are sending their children to a better life. Most often they can't read or write so they make their mark on the contracts that they can't read.

Fortunately for the kids in this video (who live in at-risk areas) they were driven away to a better life through Esther Benjamins Trust.

http:///www.ebtrust.org.uk/

What really matters is how smart the collective brain is.

Imagine what you'd need to do if you had to create your own reading light to read a book tonight?

Fascinating (as Ted always is) here is a talk about innovation through collaborative thinking... ideas that are born of many other ideas. Or as British author Matt Ridley puts it, what's happening is that "ideas are having sex with each other."

An intersting take on how society is as it is...

Trade is older than farming. Exchange caused specialisation. Does lack of exchange reverse innovation?

So we, society, are neurons in a bigger collective brain. Another exmaple of the spiritual wisdom that tells us we are part of the whole. A part of the matrix of totality.

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Is it true we learn from the challenges we face?

The most beautiful stones have been tossed by the wind & washed by water & polished to brilliance by lifes strongest storms.

I wanted to share this quote. I heard it recently whilst listening to an audio book by Dr Wayne W Dyer. He got it in a card from a friend.


...Lovely. True.

Information graphics... and the worlds diseases

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/05/05/science/20080506_DISEASE.html 

This is fascinating. Mapping human disease and showing graphically depending on the number of genes affected. Hmmm.

the human brain may be a trillion times more capable than we imagine

Wow. Scientists never cease to amaze me. Check out this article in New Scientist discussing the intelligence, and ingenuity of cells. Single cells. Sentient beings with their own intelligence, will and drive. It's mind-boggling in some respects but in others, it makes sense. A red alga can "work out" how to solve problems, an amoeba construct a stone home with all the "ingenuity" of a master builder...

Anyway, it could be that the brain’s power might well derive from data processing within each neuron (cell) rather than the electrical sparks between or communication between them.

University of Cambridge research biologist Brian J. Ford says “Each individual neuron is itself a computer, and the brain a vast community of microscopic computers… the human brain may be a trillion times more capable than we imagine."

Here he talks about the current way science studies cells parts, rather than cells as a whole. "Reductionism has us peering ever closer at the fibres in the paper of a musical score, and analysing the printer's ink. I want us to experience the symphony."

Nice.