"Millions Of People Together Have Made The Web Great. So, During The Web’s 25th Birthday Year In 2014,

What emerging technology will most redefine what it means to be human?

Neil Harbisson, who dons an electronic eye that enables him to hear color and is the world's first government-recognized cyborg, has famously said, "I don’t feel that I’m using technology. I don’t ...

Physicists propose identification of a gravitational arrow of time

Is It Time to Accept That We're Alone in the Universe?

Fermi

I’ve been meaning to post these links together for a while now, fascinating stuff!  

Where are all the aliens via Quartz

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” II: Questioning the Hart-Tipler Conjecture via Universe Today (Paul Patton)

Beyond “Fermi’s Paradox” I: A Lunchtime Conversation- Enrico Fermi and Extraterrestrial Intelligence via Universe Today (Paul Patton)

11 of the Weirdest Solutions to the Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky) The 7 Least Plausible Solutions To The Fermi Paradox via io9 (George Dvorsky)

This Animated Explanation Of The Fermi Paradox Is Fantastic via io9 (George Dvorsky)

Where Are All The Aliens? This Short Video Offers Some Solutions via io9 (George Dvorsky) this is part two to the previous link

Side note...  George’s posts on io9 are awesome, if you like science, I definitely recommend you check them out!

update: The Surprisingly Obvious Way We Could Hunt for Alien Life

another update:

The Fermi Paradox

Playlist: Videos that will blow your mind

290 Seconds That Will Blow Your Mind

4 Information Ages

Changing Educational Paradigms

How Schools Kill Creativity

Juan Enriquez:  The Next Species of Human

The History and Future of Time

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Visual Notes

Boston Dynamic

 (Big dog, Pet man etc)

What’s going on?

Trending on Twitter today... #OATHKEEPERS ferguson

What???

Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason via Mother Jones

Oath Keepers: The heavily armed white vigilantes in Ferguson, explained via Vox

Long Hiatus

I’m slowly getting back online...  Over the last 6 months I haven’t been online much other than posting to IG and infrequently on Fb with the random moment on Twitter.   I am very lucky to be here and I’m very thankful to be on my way to a full recovery...  I’ll be sharing more on that in a future post and in the introduction to my next book... 

I’ve spent the afternoon making a few updates to my site:  kristen.education.  You’ll see a new header and I’ve also added some of my “secret” pages to the “Curation” page.  

My next project is going to be signing up for Star Wars Virtual Half Marathon.  I’m going to ask friends and family to sponsor me and donate the money to a Kidney Charity.  

Stay tuned! 

Wikipedia event 10/26/16

Shooting Data

Guns Are Cool sub reddit that tracks mass shootings

Gun Violence Archive

Shooting Tracker

Two Redditors Are Changing the Way the Media Counts Mass Shootings

Gun Deaths vs Terrorism Deaths (video)

America’s gun problem has everything to do with America’s masculinity problem

Campaign Zero

long hiatus

IT Holiday Party Playlist

link to Spotify playlist for IT Holiday Party