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If we tend to think things are going from bad to worse, this video is clearly the antidote. Hans Rosling’s global health video — “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes” — plots lifespan on the vertical axis, and income/wealth on the horizontal axis, animating data in realspace.
Did you know the world is ending tomorrow? Just thought you’d like to know. So what that means is… END-OF-THE-WORLD Party TONIGHT! Here’s what you need: Party hats. What’s a party without the hats? All your best party friends. Fill the house! Booze, and plenty of it. Rockin’ dance music blasting out the windows. A […]
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You give donations to a few of your favorite charitable organizations, and the next thing you know you’re on hundreds of mailing lists. The flood of postal spam is ridiculous. We have a box on the front porch where we toss most of it, unopened. Here’s a way to turn that junk into useful stuff. […]
Few know it now, but we stand at the leading edge of one of the greatest cultural and spiritual renaissances the world has ever known. We have emerged from the greatest financial calamity our country has seen in nearly a hundred years. We appear to be as divisive as ever — some would say more […]
Big adventure: The Bear is going to the annual Burning Man festival out on the salt flats of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. Here in home-town Goshen Indiana, it’s surprising how few people seem to know anything about Burning Man. Or maybe it’s not so surprising? That picture above is the city that springs […]
You all know me — Tame Bear — a fun-loving, philosophy-talking, techie-science-spiritualist brown bear of the Internet. Most of you are surely aware that I am not a real bear. After all, how many bears do you know that talk, that write updates on their WordPress blog, that tell life stories on their own podcast? […]
Is Chevrolet ashamed of their new plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle? Their marketing slogan is “More car than electric.” It seems an odd way to sell a car to people interested in buying an electric vehicle. The Chevy Volt is a powerful, stylish sports car. Clearly they opted for performance over energy efficiency. “More muscle than milage.” […]
Eventually, everything that can happen, does happen. The Bear learned this evening that it’s important to be sure the fermentation process is completely stopped before bottling a new batch of wine. Treesh and I make our own wine. This summer we made a wonderful batch of cherry wine, from sour cherries we picked from the […]
NBC is working all the angles on its new show, “The Event.” Here’s a brief “passenger video” of events on the plane prior to its disappearance. This comes from the blog at truthseeker5314.com. One commenter on the blog says it would take a lot of energy to snatch that plane out of the air, and […]
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The Pumpkinvine It’s national Bike-To-Work Week, and The Bear wonders what a work-at-home webmaster does to participate. Well for the past four days I’ve hopped on Sky, my trusty Trek of 29 years, and I’ve ridden to the end of the Pumpkinvine Nature Trail and back — a round trip of about 13 […]
