Silver And Light

SILVER & LIGHT from Ian Ruhter on Vimeo.
This project was created with the same spirit that america was founded on. Our intentions are to connect everyone in america through the lens of this camera and social networking sites. We can't do this without you. We want to tell your story and show your city or town through photographs of you, and people you know. As we travel around america looking for people and places to shoot you will be able to keep track of where we are going and help us decide where we go next. Join us in our journey by liking our facebook to get yourself photographed by us.

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more on the process after the break

transatlantic telecommunication cables

Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor

this is fast so pay attention!



you got it? ok
lets get rid of coal now.

why movies generally suck

Has Hollywood Lost its Way? | Short of the Week
The loss of great inventive and imaginative movies is due to the guaranteed revenue from the latest prequel, sequel, or adaptation that have flooded the theaters

Rad

http://i.imgur.com/xa8Y4.jpg

new glasses

5 simple logical fallacies

The high cost of free parking

Economic View - Why Free Parking Comes at a Price - NYTimes.com

The high cost of free parking
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/03/EDGFGD1VQ61.DTL&ao=all

Which foods keep you full longer: the satiety index

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I love these technical animations that explain the inner workings of gizmos.  

Death am I, and my present task Destruction

Nuclear disarmament is a task that should be readily taken heart. What possible military target requires the use of forces that levels a city in an instant. Nuclear weapons exist as weapons to burn innocent  civilian populations.

A thousand simultaneous suns
Arising in the sky 
Might equal that great radiance,With that great glory vie.
Amazement entered him; his hair Rose up; he bowed his head;
He humbly lifted folded hands, And worshipped God. . . .
Death  am I, and my present task Destruction. 

Rad documentary: cassowary dissection

Watch "Inside Nature's Giants Episode 12/15 The Dinosaur Bird (Channel 4)" on YouTube

Dissected a pigeon in vertebrate zoology lab on Monday and noticed some similar things. This documentary highlights some good points on the similarities between dinosaurs and birds.
I think it is so rad that this show exists to actually show a dissection of some amazing creatures. I look forward to watching more of this program.

Deep self compatibilism

Freedom comes from acting on the deep desire that we hold as individuals. We are not genuinely free when we are indifferent about conflicting desires. Introspection of what desires are truly important to us as individuals and acting on them will allow us to be as free as possible.

the universe in us

Motivation

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I find it so funny sometimes the choices I make. Often I make choices that have consequences that I had not intended or foreseen. if only I truly knew what would lead me to happiness.

Happy Valentine's day

Agency

"Man it is free to what he will but he cannot will what he wills." Schopenhauer

The Habits That Crush Us
Have not blogged in a while but hopefully I will get something posted soon. In the meantime enjoy this link which describes that most of our bad habits are actually manifestations of boredom or stress.

Souls as harmony

"The soul, if she is a harmony, will never have any vice; because a harmony, being absolutely a harmony, has no part in the inharmonical." - Socrates

Or in other words the essesnce of a soul is perfection. Anything less and it would lose the quality of being a soul.