The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Iceland Rejects Deposit Repayments to British, Dutch
Wall Street Journal, 10 April 2011
For the second time, Icelanders voted down a deal to repay Britain and the Netherlands billions of euros lost in the island nation's 2008 financial collapse—at once a bold popular rejection of the notion that taxpayers must bear the burden for bankers' woes and a risky outcome that will complicate Iceland's efforts to rejoin global markets.
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The post Search: errors that resulted in great ideas and especially the comment on need to fully integrate women and minorities reminded me of Ellen Swallow Richards. She was one of the first publicly acknowledged female heavy-weights in intellect and values in the USA, in my opinion. See especially her later books, The Cost of Food, The Cost of Shelter, The Art of Right Living, The Cost of Cleanness, Sanitation in Daily Life (1907), and Euthenics, the Science of Controllable Environment (1910). I had forgotten that she was also responsible for introducing the word “ecology” into the English language.
Wikipedia/Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (December 3, 1842 – March 30, 1911) was the foremost female industrial and environmental chemist in the United States in the 19th century, pioneering the field of home economics. Richards graduated from Westford Academy (2nd oldest secondary school in Westford, MA). She was the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its first female instructor, the first woman in America accepted to any school of science and technology, and the first American woman to earn a degree in chemistry.
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It can safely be said that most great ideas result from errors (including accidents), because the real break-throughs occur when the prevailing paradgim (“business as usual”) is so demonstrably unfit as to call into question its further utility OR something really sensational is discovered that is totally inconsistent with the prevailing paradigm. PERSISTENCE rooted in INTEGRITY is the key. That is a definition of sanity. Persistence rooted in LACK OF integrity–continuing to do the wrong thing, even the wrong thing righter–is insanity. Dissent is an “error” of the system. Repressing dissent is a crime against humanity and refuses the commensurate discovery that dissent offers. The lunacy continues.
Although there was nothing specific on this site directly focused on your tremendous inquiry, here are a few things we have found that address your question and also add to the value of this public intelligence blog.
Great quote: “A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.”
Key historical assertion: “…Bacon devised the trial and error method of finding knowledge while cataloguing very carefully all the circumstances of these trials.”
Great Scientific Discoveries of the Twentieth Century
9 things invented or discovered by accident
Our greatest error has been to repress women and minorities. Women have smaller egos and better intuition than men do, and are hard-wired for open-ended compassion instead of closed-mind “justice”, which makes all the difference in humanity. Minorities bring diversity of experience, need, and low-cost solutions that the Industrial Era Empire refuses to consider because it treats humans as a commodity to be exploited, not as the co-owner and co-creater of all that we might enjoy.
Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance — Carol Gilligan Speaks at MIT
Review: Mapping the Moral Domain: A Contribution of Women’s Thinking to Psychological Theory and Education
Review: All Rise–Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity
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Sorry for the machine short-falls. The photos you are looking for originally apppeared as Egypt: Public Combat Helmet Work-Arounds, here is one photo and a direct link. Hail to the Human!
Egyptian Battle Kit (Non-Standard)
This is the TOP SECRET OSCAR SIERRA Intelligence Analysis Orientation created to deal with the shared problem of CIA and DIA. It is so real it scares the most hardened veterans years after retirement.
This one is funny sad. For funny hysterical see the colliding sexual fantasies between pilots and intelligence officers:
Forget art history and calculus. Most students need to learn how to run a business, says Scott Adams (Creator of Dilbert)
Wall Street Journal, 9 April 2011
I understand why the top students in America study physics, chemistry, calculus and classic literature. The kids in this brainy group are the future professors, scientists, thinkers and engineers who will propel civilization forward. But why do we make B students sit through these same classes? That's like trying to train your cat to do your taxes—a waste of time and money. Wouldn't it make more sense to teach B students something useful, like entrepreneurship?
“Why do we make B students sit through the same classes as their brainy peers? That's like trying to train your cat to do your taxes—a waste of time and money. Wouldn't it make sense to teach them something useful instead?”
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By the time I graduated, I had mastered the strange art of transforming nothing into something. Every good thing that has happened to me as an adult can be traced back to that training. Several years later, I finished my MBA at Berkeley's Haas School of Business. That was the fine-tuning I needed to see the world through an entrepreneur's eyes.
If you're having a hard time imagining what an education in entrepreneurship should include, allow me to prime the pump with some lessons I've learned along the way.
Combine Skills .. Fail Forward .. Find the Action .. Attract Luck .. Conquer Fear .. Write Simply .. Learn Persuasion
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That's my starter list for the sort of classes that would serve B students well. The list is not meant to be complete. Obviously an entrepreneur would benefit from classes in finance, management and more.
Remember, children are our future, and the majority of them are B students. If that doesn't scare you, it probably should.
Dominic Basulto on April 4, 2011, 9:57 PM
bigthink
Whether consciously or not, most of us subscribe to a PC-centric view of the Internet, in which everything revolves around content that is created or accessed via a PC or Mac. However, that is about to change as mobile increasingly becomes the new paradigm for both creating and consuming content. Quite simply, the Web is about to experience a Copernican moment. Before Copernicus, it was widely believed that everything – including the Sun – revolved around the Earth, rather than the Earth revolving around the Sun. In the same way, it might be quaint one day to believe that everything once revolved around the PC rather than the mobile device.
The easiest way to understand this Copernican moment is to understand the extent to which mobile is becoming the new paradigm for the way we use the Internet. In terms of hours of usage, total content consumed and amount of data created, 2010 was the year of the mobile device. Keep in mind that the average teen now sends more than 3000 text messages each month! And that trend is only accelerating in 2011 as social networking rapidly migrates to the mobile device.
