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A very concise and salient, 213 word essay on wisdom, by Alan Nordstrom:

What Wisdom Requires

eight high points:

1. regulate our behavior sanely and rationally

2. comprehend the consequences of our decisions and customs

3. practice kindness toward others who are similarly struggling to thrive

4. practice humane behavior and transcend the brute instinct to conquer and dominate

5. act according to the principle of kinship and reciprocity: treat others as one wishes to be treated

6. act according to the principle of cooperation and partnership rather than conquest

7. cultivate the higher-order intellectual potential that human beings possess

8. manifest truth, beauty, and goodness

2013/04/25

Paul C. Hoffman: Upcoming Classes on “The Art of Appreciating ~ the Courage to Receive”

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The Art of Appreciating – The Courage to Receive

• Do you have trouble letting in the good around you?

• When someone says or does something nice to you, do you get all squirmy and suspiciously nervous? Do you uncontrollably and immediately go to standard cultural programming [“Deny. Minimize! Deflect!!”] even when there's no need for it? You see yourself ending up invalidating your friend's experience and making community building that much harder, when in fact it's clear this actually serves no one?

• If your “nutrition barrier” is hyper-active and preventing you from letting in to metabolize the very things that you want and need most? Yet even knowing this does not stop you from invoking it?

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2013/04/25

Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns

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Information overload? • Wearable sports technology raises safety concerns

Howard Rheingold‘s insight:

If you think the desktop Web and the smartphone were occasions for info-overload, get ready for wearable computing, which isn't waiting for the 2014 release of Google Glass. On ski slopes and on the roads, we're about to embark on a societal experiment regarding the dangers of fragmented attention. How many people will master multiple streams of incoming information while racing down a hill or driving on a freeway? And how many will crash?

Safety advocates say the concept of high-tech displays for goggles — and for other sports eyewear — is information overload run amok, particularly when people are using them at high speeds. Yet Oakley, based in Foothill Ranch, Calif., is one of a handful of sports eyewear companies betting that thrill seekers and athletes crave the equivalent of a cockpit dashboard while skiing, snowboarding, cycling and running. The companies are in the vanguard of the next wave of personal technology, called wearable computing, which promises to further shrink the barrier between users and the information they seek.”

Read full article.

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DIY Wind Turbine Project Goes Open Source

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DIY Wind Turbine Project Goes Open Source

This DIY, vertical-axis wind turbine uses easily attainable parts, can be built by anyone and yields impressive power output. As a bonus, it's open source.

Applied Sciences, which did the work, notes that the intention of this product was to provide supplemental water heating. The result is this wind turbine made of materials that you can find at Home Depot and online. Applied Sciences provides what you need to know to build one yourself, including some videos of the turbine and its parts in action and some other valuable resources that will help hopefully get the turbine connected to your home and operating.

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