The application of "reason to subjects of central human importance."
Judith Gardom, Cambridge, Cambridgshire
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
sarah losh
The Pinecone: The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary. by Jenny Uglow.
Archaean
She wrote Lunar Men
web of connections--family friends ideas and influences
makes riches out of everything at hand
Archaean
She wrote Lunar Men
web of connections--family friends ideas and influences
makes riches out of everything at hand
3d printer
U washington students used polyethylene from milk containers that they cut up to create a single person plastic boat for Seattle's Milk Carton Derby. They plan to use the technology to build composting toilets and rainwater collectors. Boats may be just as grand an idea for societies that use trees to make small vessels.
A law student at Austin's UT is trying to make ubitquitous 3d printer plans for pistols. The guvment is breathin heavy on him--apparently there are lots of rules about making guns. He reminds them that he is only making the plans--the idea.
The milk drerby team used a 3d printer built around a plasm cutter that is computer controlled. So the extruder's movement is controlled as it melts the plastic flakes and squirts the liquid out. the result is limited to the dimensional movements of the extruder. If the extruder prints fast, the plastic is more likely to cool at once, reducing the stress the object incurs when the cooling plastic shrinks at different times.
A law student at Austin's UT is trying to make ubitquitous 3d printer plans for pistols. The guvment is breathin heavy on him--apparently there are lots of rules about making guns. He reminds them that he is only making the plans--the idea.
The milk drerby team used a 3d printer built around a plasm cutter that is computer controlled. So the extruder's movement is controlled as it melts the plastic flakes and squirts the liquid out. the result is limited to the dimensional movements of the extruder. If the extruder prints fast, the plastic is more likely to cool at once, reducing the stress the object incurs when the cooling plastic shrinks at different times.
Monday, November 12, 2012
Gay Rights Strategy
Here is a thought. Instead of letting hate-mongering con-christians determine the language of the debate as it is being played out politically and legislatively, why not take charge? After all, the discussion of whether an adult can marry another adult is a completely private question. So any other person's expression of rejection of such marriage is committing an act of inequality, unfairness, and invasion of privacy that that bigot does nothave the foundation or right to commit. And, when those that support the right of others to marry whomever they wish, among other very personal life choices, engage in a discussion of the benefits foregone by prohibiting others from marrying, those supporters are missing a golden opportunity to reinvent--and distract, the non-supporters.
Instead, what should be discussed and made into tv soundbites are the contrary religious beliefs. The discussion should be strictly limited to the religious fanaticism that it is, and not be given any sense of "social" or "values" legitimacy. In other words, just by countering the "anti" privacy and fairness factions with talk of benefits, values, etc, the Pro-privacy and Pro-fairness peeps are going down the wrong path.
Imagine, if religious privacy haters were constantly confronted with other self-professed educated "faithful", like religious leaders and ministers, etc, who consistently expressed and cited religious text that supported privacy (and, for example, gay marriage), and loving your neighbor no matter how different he or she is from you. Imagine if the rhetoric was moved to preclude discussion of values. This would have the wild and significant benefit of removing the scrutinizing "lense" of social morality from "gay". At the same time that it limits the discussion as it relates to gays, it broadens the discussion as it relates to the religious, as it turns the "burden of proof" from the gay to the religious.
So, groups like HRC should only make media spots that have other religious people talking about how accepting religions like christianity are, how those that express hostile and hatefilled religious-based sentiments are not really acting upon religious fundamentals, etc.
Instead, what should be discussed and made into tv soundbites are the contrary religious beliefs. The discussion should be strictly limited to the religious fanaticism that it is, and not be given any sense of "social" or "values" legitimacy. In other words, just by countering the "anti" privacy and fairness factions with talk of benefits, values, etc, the Pro-privacy and Pro-fairness peeps are going down the wrong path.
Imagine, if religious privacy haters were constantly confronted with other self-professed educated "faithful", like religious leaders and ministers, etc, who consistently expressed and cited religious text that supported privacy (and, for example, gay marriage), and loving your neighbor no matter how different he or she is from you. Imagine if the rhetoric was moved to preclude discussion of values. This would have the wild and significant benefit of removing the scrutinizing "lense" of social morality from "gay". At the same time that it limits the discussion as it relates to gays, it broadens the discussion as it relates to the religious, as it turns the "burden of proof" from the gay to the religious.
So, groups like HRC should only make media spots that have other religious people talking about how accepting religions like christianity are, how those that express hostile and hatefilled religious-based sentiments are not really acting upon religious fundamentals, etc.
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