Since The Time I Was In Elementary School I Wanted To Become A Marine Biologist To Study And Swim With

Teaching

The importance of play

Play is more than just fun (TED video)

Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play (article)

foggy columbus circle

Aliens and Encryption

HOW SCIENTISTS SEARCH THE COSMOS FOR ENCRYPTED ALIEN SIGNALS (AND OTHER ONES TOO) via The Intercept

Star Wars, Kidneys, and PT

I just signed up for the Star Wars Virtual Half Marathon and created a campaign to raise money for the American Kidney Fund :)  

Dialysis saved my life.  Help me raise some money to help the AKF make a difference to others in need.   

I experienced Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) when I was in the hospital this past fall.  I had double pneumonia and sepsis.  I was kept sedated and placed on an ECMO machine while receiving dialysis.  I spent 6 weeks in the hospital.  I am very fortunate that I've regained kidney function and no longer need dialysis.

Right now, if your kidneys fail you the only options are dialysis or transplant.  Dialysis is very expensive and the current waitlist for a transplant is about 7 years.  

During the rest of February and the month of March, I will combine the miles I do with my love of Star Wars and a campaign to help support others still on dialysis.    

I’ll be sharing updates on my progress here and on Flickr & IG...  

If you’d like to contribute to my campaign, please visit my AKF page.  Thanks!!

The World Wide Web, AR, VR, and MR

 “Technologies like Magic Leap’s will enable us to generate, transmit, quantify, refine, personalize, magnify, discover, share, reshare, and overshare experiences. This shift from the creation, transmission, and consumption of information to the creation, transmission, and consumption of experience defines this new platform. As Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz puts it, “Ours is a journey of inner space. We are building the internet of presence and experience.”

We haven’t yet fully absorbed the enormous benefit that the internet of information has brought to the world. And yet we are about to recapitulate this accomplishment with the advent of synthetic realities."

The Untold Story of Magic leap, the World’s Most Secretive Startup by Kevin Kelly via Wired. This is a looooong article, but a must read.  

On a side note, Kevin Kelly (founding editor of Wired) is one of my favorite futurists.... check out some of his other stuff:

We Are the Web (Wired timeline/feature)

The Next 5,000 Days of the Internet (TED talk)  

One more must read from today’s surfing (much, much shorter!) is a piece from the NYT:  The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It.  

See also The Internet Part II from my wiki for related info and articles as well as my page on Privacy.

Keep a list...

Week 10: Experts in authoritarianism advise to keep a list of things subtly changing around you, so you’ll remember.

Amy Siskind posts her list each week on Fb and shares it on Medium.  She is the Co-founder of The New Agenda, organization “dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls by bringing about systemic change in the media, at the workplace, at school and at home.”  

If you’re not keeping your own list-- this is one of the best I’ve seen online that you can follow.   Want to catch up on the other weeks?  Amy has them all listed at the bottom of her post.

It’s pretty chilling.... but, even as:  We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump 

"Hoar frost on fence, Dunfermline, Fife - 1" flickr photo by SwaloPhoto  shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license

Adding to the reading list...

Uncertainty and Our Search for Meaning: Legendary Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom on How We Glean Our Sense of Purpose  by Brain Pickings

Education Reform

Dear Karl, Scott, Daniel, and John : The Future You Predicted Seems Right On Schedule

What If They All Took Art?