#764: A Century Of Changes Is A Century Of Challenges
Saturday • November 20th 2021 • 9:24:09 pm • 3KB
Three quarters to go before the new century arrives,and looks for advice in previous century's archives. That bright new generation can't connect with Socrates,time makes it so that they won't be able to understand him with ease. An examined life, and...
#763: A Road Towards Authentic Education
Friday • November 19th 2021 • 9:20:04 pm • 5KB
Subject divisions in schools are perfectly broken,they reflect nothing about education. A room labeled Calculus,that imbues students with calculus, is a stupid fantasy. It comes into being on the wings of people that either,pretend to have an education, or...
#762: On The Future Of Education
Thursday • November 18th 2021 • 8:25:00 pm • 5KB
One of the biggest mistakes schools make,is teaching things in a way that requires other things. This is similar to the madness of "Balanced Education",it sounds reasonable, but it is just another crazy thing. When children ask what math is for,that is...
#761: A Book Divided: On Truly Understanding Powerful Books
Wednesday • November 17th 2021 • 9:34:29 pm • 2KB
I've only tasted knowledge,and I've not heard of a real College. I've been to plenty of schools,and better than most I know their tools. Bullies, Grades, Punishment, Shame, Threat,and above all, Debt. While you remained seated,you have been and lied to,...
#760: The Source Of Art And A Question To Start
Tuesday • November 16th 2021 • 7:14:10 pm • 1KB
A work of art,will grant great might. By subtle analogy is a fine way to learn,and grow wise in turn. What we gain from art,adds to make us smart. Painting is not just about the masterpiece,it is also about a mind at peace. The song we compose to our own...
#759: Of Constellations, Superluminal Galaxies, And The Future Of Humanity
Monday • November 15th 2021 • 7:17:22 pm • 5KB
Perhaps our consciousness,comes from a copy of our talent for navigation. Hence the constellations,there are places that we must visit in out thoughts. One of the early ones is why are we here?,we are an emergent element of the infinitely complex universe...
#758: The Winter Adventurer
Sunday • November 14th 2021 • 6:28:46 pm • 4KB
冬景色／森 麻季 (Winter Scenery) アナと雪の女王主題歌 (Anna and the Snow Queen) Yetis Come To The Rescue | The Mummy, Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor Snowball Fight in Lyon, France 1896 20 kilograms of red hot steel vs. frozen lake Fireworks under ice! Kids on frozen lake play...
#757: A Little Observation About Music Composition
Sunday • November 14th 2021 • 3:02:45 pm • 3KB1
I have noticed that low pitched sounds are rare,and high pitched sounds more frequent. In a musical composition Bass Drums,are a lot less frequent than cymbals. I think this observation can be very valuable,to people that just started learning music. If...
#756: School Independent Tutors, Audio Books And Video Lectures: On Getting A Real Self Directed Education, Early On
Saturday • November 13th 2021 • 8:25:18 pm • 6KB
Sometime around 8th grade we should be able to program, paint, compose music, and write poetry,and you can kind of see that is what school classes hint on. I can't even imagine what a horrible mess introduction to music composition must be,the the...
#755: The Firewall: A Fine Internet Business Idea For High School Students
Friday • November 12th 2021 • 5:21:56 pm • 10KB
Christmas is coming around and internet hackers are buying expensive electronics,injecting malicious software into them, and selling them online where companies don't care to verify their authenticity Focusing on expensive electronics,is a way of filtering...
#754: Maple Tree Mischief At Nordhouse
Thursday • November 11th 2021 • 3:49:22 pm • 2KB
I always enjoyed driving to Nordhouse at night,arriving in Ludington by the morning light. I'd park at the supermarket and nap,and later plan my day with my trusty map. The lake town atmosphere is different somehow,an infinite horizon just makes me dream...
#753: Art Is Where It Is At
Wednesday • November 10th 2021 • 8:45:26 pm • 2KB
We must all take to art,do not wait too long to start. But before you get started,know that the world of art is completely uncharted. The only rules that people make,are for their own sake. People that lie about being smart,will try to push you away from...
#752: High School, College, And Real Knowledge
Tuesday • November 9th 2021 • 9:25:37 pm • 8KB
During my first and last internship,a brainless CEO walked up to me and asked. Who do you want to be?what do you want to do. While I still had difficulty speaking,I could have answered. But instead,I mumbled something about cutting paper. The woman in...
#751: You May Be A Travel/Adventure Writer
Monday • November 8th 2021 • 9:05:17 pm • 2KB
You may not know until you try,so don't be shy. Think to the funny things that happened to you,and write them down without further adu. A book is just a collection of stories,and you don't even need to divide them in categories. Just make your readers...
#750: The Decepticon
Sunday • November 7th 2021 • 5:04:46 pm • 3KB
DEF CON DEF CON (also written as DEFCON, Defcon or DC) is one of the world's largest and most notable hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. The first DEF CON took place in June 1993 and today many attendees at DEF CON include computer...
#749: This 18-Year-Old Changed The World: Announcing End Of Poverty Markets, The Next Generation Of Non Fungible Tokens (NFT)
Sunday • November 7th 2021 • 2:24:12 pm • 3KB
It took 5,000 years for us to understand,that global poverty can only lead to the world's end. At 18, a clever lady without any aid,saved the world in less than a decade. She started buying poverty before the world worsened,for 3.5 million dollars per...
#748: Wisdom Everywhere
Saturday • November 6th 2021 • 9:45:14 pm • 2KB
Wisdom is always close,sometimes as close as a snowflake on your nose. But it takes,abut a hundred winter snowflakes. And just about as many narrated books at the library,and perhaps a small dictionary. A hundred snowflakes that beautifully branch,is all...
#747: Life After High School: Become A Great Being
Friday • November 5th 2021 • 6:50:42 pm • 2KB
Erica was right,grades and graduations, bite. The integrity of your mind must come first,and you must rise and rise, or you'll end up cursed. What teachers didn't know to tell you,is it is not just knowledge, but wisdom, and your greatness too. Thus, live...
#746: Full Of Stars
Thursday • November 4th 2021 • 9:26:20 pm • 4KB
Poetically speaking our minds are full of stars,the stars represent things that hold some kind if a meaning for us. Unique curiosities that we each have,are just that kind of thing, a star. There will be some gravity around it,and we will be gently pulled...
#745: Integrated Minds
Wednesday • November 3rd 2021 • 5:53:32 pm • 2KB
Ayn Rand says solve your contradictions,check your premises and convictions. But I think this is just a start,even as a teenager I used to say that life is art. I think it is all about an integrated mind,in which all our knowledge is perfectly aligned. ...
#744: A Poem Of Complaint: The Incredible Curse Of The Freight Train
Tuesday • November 2nd 2021 • 8:24:03 pm • 2KB1
I am always cheerfully up to something artistic or smart,only for a train to toot the horn and ruin my little art. I lived most of my life next to train tracks,and the loud noise the horn makes, sucks. More than train tracks, the train crossings are awful...
#743: Education Must Lead To Wisdom
Monday • November 1st 2021 • 9:46:50 pm • 2KB
While the world is still growing up,and is yet to end poverty and stop repeating its own mistakes. The ongoing the disagreements, suspicions, divisions,are just about levels of education. Real schools are hard to build,they may even be impossible. Forcing...
#742: Lady Liberty And I
Sunday • October 31st 2021 • 11:19:37 pm • 1KB
I immediately made New York my home,I even took the subway to the Far Rockaway Beach a couple of times. I felt most comfortable sitting quietly on Brooklyn Bridge,with Lady Liberty as my company. There was an old broken down bench,on the Manhattan side,...
#741: The Muse
Sunday • October 31st 2021 • 4:12:42 pm • 4KB9
Muses: The 9 Inspirational Goddesses of Greek Mythology - Mythology Dictionary - See U in History Οὐρανία (Urania) The Muse Of Astronomy Urania, 4th century BC The most detailed map of galaxies, black holes and stars ever made | Juna Kollmeier A stellar...