Think the Show

Help Video Tests from Christopher Dick on Vimeo.

Pasquini from Underground Planet on Vimeo.

Here is an amazing shot of us and our friend the Moon taken from the orbit of Mars from a thing called HiRISE which is an experiment in High Resolution Imagery from the University of Arizona's Dept. of Planetary Sciences. HiRISE is flying on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and allows high res views of the surface of Mars up to 1metre in scale... That is what you get when you LAND on the damn thing. So you can look at the images here and soon will be able to submit requests to check out certain features on the surface. It is known as the peoples camera, and will hopefully generate public interest in what is exactly out there and on the "messenger of the gods"

I am so happy that E.O. Wilson's dream is live and on the intertubes. The Encylopedia of Life is online and it is a very ambitious undertaking. Check out the video...

As far as youTube is concerned I think we all go there to check out the latest viral vids and what interesting things kids are saying these days but it is an excellent resouce for knowledge seekers thanks to Princeton University. I am not the biggest fan of private education... especially elite schools that reward the parents bottom line not the students efforts or achievements but U Channel is an incredible effort by the school to put information out there for those looking for it.
They have 127 videos so far on everything from income inequality to the genocide in Darfur and computing in the cloud. What caught my attention was an interesting podcast you can get here
was an incredible podcast by Dr. James Flynn and his Flynn Effect on the nature of intelligence.

here is a brief video I made to illustrate what I want to do about Thinking and our lack of it haha
Enjoy

This is a great little video to help us think about what and where the future is going. It is from the kids at Shift Happens and it is amazing how it forces us to re-think conventional notions about our assumptions such as what the largest English speaking country is going to be... (answer CHINA!) and exactly how fast technology and technological penetration is occuring (answer EXPONETINALLY).
If one looks at the mess that the planet is dealing with in Iraq, courtesy of Bush and his corporate cronies in the white house one realizes how important it is to THINK ! PS click on the link and rent the film, amazing!

This is my kinda stunt. The kids at Improv Everywhere recently played a hoax on our senses.

This is the first posting, welcome to what I hope to be a long-time experiment in what it is to think about the issues, ideas, and concepts that we use everyday. What they mean, how we use them and how that shapes our world. A bit of philosophy, a lot of science, some politics and a dash of punk rock should round out the discussion.

I hope that this will include lots of video, as I see this as more of a video podcast rather than just a blog and I hope there is a lot of interaction. If you want to think about something else, comment on what somebody else thinks or want to get your idea off of your chest and out for discussion please post a comment or video and we will get the ball rolling.