I watched this video about the history of hip-hop and its growth rooted in the ghettos of New York to having a website, Rap Genius (which has a million monthly visitors), started by a Stanford law school graduate, Mahbod Moghadam in Silicon Valley and becoming a force for social change. Mahbod, via Facebook, told me that he [...]
The Greatest Misquote In UFO History
Turns out the first people to ever have a credible UFO sighting, whose sighting launched the flying saucer UFO craze in America according to the History Channel. Kenneth Arnold a prominent business man and pilot, didn’t see a circular disc or a ‘flying saucer’ like the idea that permeates science fiction culture, but a crescent shaped [...]
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We Used To Have 307 Kinds of Corn
Guess How Many Are Left What Happened? Thanks Upworthy
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Steve Blank: Disrupting Education
Steve Blank, (#2 on my cool people list), prolific educator at Stanford/Berkeley, author & Silicon Valley heavyweight, ahd an interesting quote on of his recent blog posts called Why Innovation Dies about the times we are truly living in and just how much impact the internet is having on our global way of life. Here [...]
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Henry Rollins: Letter To A Young Person
Was skimming through The Dangerous Minds blog when I came across a Big Think post on the Henry Rollins’ Letter To A Young [Person] No matter how old you are, watch it.
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Wait, What?
According to a study done at UC Berkeley, highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than non-believers
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Leonardo’s Anatomic Drawings Were 500 Years Ahead of Their Time
According to those recently interviewed by the BBC, Leonardo Da Vinci‘s layered drawings of the human anatomy, mainly of the hand & spine, from 500 years ago, are accurate, even by today’s standards. “Sad is the disciple that doesn’t surpass his master” (Forster codex III, f. 66 v.) “Tristo è lo discepolo che non avanza il [...]
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The Ides of March
The controversial movie ‘Ides of March’ produced & released by George Clooney in late 2011 chronicle’s a politician’s scandal that resulted in the untimely pregnancy of one his aides during a run for a Presidential campaign. I’ve wondered what the story was behind the movie, and last week, on Anderson Cooper 360, I found out [...]
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Rwanda Has More Female MPs Than Males
After the Rwandan genocide, it became the first country in world history to do so, with encouragement from government policy makers. As a result, these women are transforming their society. Harvard Primatologist Richard Wrangham argues that more powerful women = less wars. And women are more democratic in leadership roles than men are. Hopefully, this [...]
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Nietzsche On Reincarnation
“The knowledge of rebirth is the turning point in the history of mankind.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
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