What Was I Looking At? #2
My ongoing attempt to keep track of interesting things
Don't Be a Sucker
Scope & Content: Dramatizes the destructive effects of racial and religious prejudice. Reel 1 shows a fake wrestling match and "crooked" gambling games. An agitator addresses a street crowd; he almost convinces one man in the audience until the man begins to talk to a Hungarian refugee from Germany. A Nazi speaker harangues a crowd in Germany denouncing Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons. Reel 2, a German unemployed worker joins Hitler's Storm Troops. SS men attack Jewish and Catholic headquarters in Germany, and beat up a Jewish storekeeper. A German teacher explains Nazi racial theories; the teacher is dragged away by German soldiers.
Replace "Jews, Catholics, and Freemasons" with the real divide and conquer strategies of today Example: Women vs Men
Aesop's Fables - Father and Sons
A certain man had several Sons who were always quarreling with one another, and, try as he might, he could not get them to live in harmony. So he determined to convince them of their folly by the following means. Bidding them fetch a bundle of sticks, he invited each in turn to break it across his knee. All tried and all failed: and then he undid the bundle, and handed them the sticks one by one, when they had no difficulty at all in breaking them. "There, my boys," said he, "united you will be more than a match for your enemies: but if your quarrel and separate, your weakness will put you at the mercy of those who attack you." - Union is strength.
This Week in Tech 651: Occupy Fiber
Elon Musk's great ideas: Tesla, SpaceX, flamethrowers. Apple HomePod arrives next week. Google Clips camera is not at all creepy, we swear. Nobody won the Lunar X Prize. Amazon Go officially opens. Montana, New York, AT&T, John Deere, and Burger King take up the Net Neutrality battle. Intel's Spectre patch is a garbage fire.
I thought this was a great talk They covered the environmental and economic impact of some "green" technologies and many other points that I found interesting
Genetic Engineering Unicorns & Designer Babies - Prof. Jennifer Doudna
A gene editing technology called CRISPR could allow us to change DNA, not just in individuals, but in all their future children and grandchildren.
Jennifer Doudna is an American biochemist based at the University of California, Berkeley. Together with the French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier, she led the discovery of the revolutionary gene-editing tool, CRISPR.
Stepping Up Climate Action
Key quote of this talk
Climate change is in fact the next century's biggest financial and business opportunity
I have already shared some thoughts on this point
To be continued...
