Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Andorra
Anguilla
Antigua & Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bonaire
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Ter
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Canary Islands
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Channel Islands
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos Island
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Cote D Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Curacao
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
East Timor
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern Ter
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guinea
Guyana
Haiti
Hawaii
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea North
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Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macau
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Midway Islands
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Nambia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherland Antilles
Netherlands (Holland, Europe)
Nevis
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau Island
Palestine
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn Island
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Republic of Montenegro
Reunion
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Saipan
Samoa
Samoa American
San Marino
Sao Tome & Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
St Barthelemy
St Eustatius
St Helena
St Kitts-Nevis
St Lucia
St Maarten
St Pierre & Miquelon
St Vincent & Grenadines
Sudan
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Tahiti
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad & Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks & Caicos Is
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Vatican City State
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands (Brit)
Virgin Islands (USA)
Wake Island
Wallis & Futana Is
Yemen
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe
S.W.O.T. analysis of humanity as a whole
Things that might be a strength from the perspective of me personally, could be a weakness from the perspective of humanity as a whole. Eg. my personal selfishness.
S.W.O.T = Strengths Weaknesses Oportunities Threats ... ie. good and bad , individual and collective.
SWOT analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SWOT ANALYSIS
Take a #Journey round this sphere
What are humanity's major #strengths ?
#Strengths
#Education
Highly advanced #technology , #medicine ,
Quite a lot of us are #compassionate , #forgiving ,
Lots of us are really #clever
There's a lot of us... #7-billion and counting,
Inquiring minds , curiosity , resilience , persistence , courage
Self-creation , self-design , entrepreneurship (ie. being able to design ourselves and our destiny / destinies)
Wow that's cool
PoetBay.com, the poetry webpage where you can publish your poems and short stories
Merkel, the great procrastinator, could be Britain's saviour
My favourite books
Six-year-old offers Syrian boy a family - BBC News
Yes I can #lyrics
I feel the Paralympics is having a positive (inspirational) impact on my life.
Learn meditation from this Buddhist master.
The girl, 7, who tweets from Aleppo - BBC News
Tourists take Edinburgh street beggar to Sweden for Christmas - BBC News
1992 Scent Of A Woman | Al Pacino speech
What are humanity's major #weaknesses ?
#Weaknesses
Inequality of opportunity ...
"Cults" large and small ... islamism , nazism (and it's descendents) ,
Societal in-cohesion
Individual psychological weakness - #selfishness , #cowardice , #hatred/fear , #stupidity , #being-towards-death (ie. living in death's shadow)
Selfishness (at whatever level - individual, family-based, community-based, nationalist, )
Wasting resources fighting amongst ourselves (instead of using resources constructively for the betterment of humanity)
Short-term-ism : planning and acting on the basis of what gives us short-term benefits but at the cost of long-term disasters in the making.
History ... rememberances of past wrongs inflicted on "my tribe, my family" etc.
Ray Comfort on the Banana, in context [HQ] - YouTube
Propensity to resort to violence instead of resolving conflict
Celebrity isn’t just harmless fun – it’s the smiling face of the corporate machine | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
What are humanity's major #opportunities ?
#Opportunities
Advanced #medicine , eradicate disease and illness, 1000-year life-spans, end physical suffering (ie. "pain"), biological enhancement, etc. etc. etc.
#Space exploration and #colonisation, #S.E.T.I. (would alter human perspective on itself), ...
Artificial Inteligence, Robotics, "The End of Work", Leisure Society, (but all that will require unlimited cheap energy, Solar? or Nuclear Fusion? or what?)
Unlimited very cheap energy ... Solar? Nuclear fusion? ... or what?
#Education
Science, Technology, Engineering, Design ... etc...
Robot arm wins Amazon's tech award - BBC News
'You can make anything better than it is today' - BBC News
Pokemon Go 'transformed teenager's life' - BBC News
What are the main #threats facing humanity ?
#Threats
Loss of #Bio-diversity (extinction of vast numbers of species)
Global #Economic breakdown
Global #Political breakdown - eg. Islamism, Fascism , Nato vs. Putin , Syria , Europe ,
Nuclear war , global conventional warfare , biological warfare , global pandemic
#Climate destabilization
There's #too-many of us to be sustainable without destroying the ecosystem on which we depend and wiping out 90% of biodiversity.
BBC News - Climate change explained in six graphics
Social breakdown , #crime
#Nato and #Russia 's tense relationship - BBC News
Being Honest About #Trump - The New Yorker
Send Chelsea #Manning a message of support | Blogs | #Amnesty International UK
Britain's Completely Batshit Week Since #Brexit , Explained For #Americans
Prof #Brian-Cox: Being #anti-expert is the way back to the cave | #Guardian
#Satire rules
Tectonic shifts under the #Republican-Party
Core Europe To The Rescue: A Conversation With Jürgen Habermas About Brexit And The EU Crisis
#Putin Warns of #Nuclear War (VIDEO) - Fort Russ
Nato and Russia's tense relationship - BBC News
If the breakdown in the relationship between nato and russia continues, the decline of the UK economy following Brexit may be the least of our troubles.
Amnesty highlights 'disturbing rise' in global executions - BBC News
Russia's missile deployment in Kaliningrad ups the stakes for Nato - BBC News
#World-War-Three , by #Mistake - The New Yorker
"If you assume you are right, you have to have explanations for all the people who disagree with you:
A series of unfortunate assumptions
(1) They are ignorant - they don't have the facts
(2) They are idiots - they aren't able to put the facts together
(3) They are malevolent - they are deliberately distorting what they know is the truth for their own selfish purposes."
UK scientists speak about Brexit pain - BBC News
Brexit throws 'spanner in the works' of global growth - BBC News
ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech - BBC News
EU models for a post-Brexit UK | PunkFT - YouTube
700,000 fewer jobs posted since Brexit
Professor Michael Dougan, the leading EU lawyer whose criticism of the referendum campaign's industrial dishonesty went viral, has assessed the UKs position following the vote to leave the EU.
Lehman anniversary: The five most surprising consequences - BBC News
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | TED Talk | TED.com
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker - YouTube
Join the revolution against FGM and Child Marriage | Amnesty International UK
Racism on a tram in Manchester - Streamable
UK faith leaders unite in condemning post-referendum rise in xenophobic abuse | Politics | The Guardian
Mullah defends 'beat your wives lightly' advice - BBC News
Georgia politicians fight during TV show - BBC News
Texas students can now bring guns to class - BBC News
BBC iWonder - Should I have a big family?
Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone | WIRED
Learn meditation from this Buddhist master.
How to Remain Calm With People - YouTube
#Wikiplomacy and Brexit | Medium | Doug Morrison
Habitry - We've all been wrong about #willpower
It turns out that willpower may in fact be an unlimited resource, even though it doesn't feel like one. As usual, to understand how this is possible, we probably need to start thinking about it in terms of our actual experience of being here, rather than the common sense and what Everyone knows.
Philando Castile death: Aftermath of police shooting streamed live - BBC News
Identity fraud up by 57% as thieves 'hunt' on social media - BBC News
Global Peace Index 2016 - YouTube
Vision of Humanity
What does Global Peace look like in 2016? - Medium
2015 Global Peace Index - YouTube
Life Is Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zyklon B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
#Internal / #Individual
#External / #Collective
#"Good"
#"Bad"
Solutions
#Solutions to problems work by #connecting human #strengths and #opportunities up to #weaknesses and #threats that those strengths and opportunities can make a difference to.
Paralyzed Man Regains Use of Arms and Hands After Experimental Stem Cell Therapy at Keck Hospital
For the first time ever, neuroscientists have treated a total quadriplegic (a 21-year-old young man) with stem cells, and he has substantially recovered the functions of his upper body only two months into the process. The patient himself thinks there is reason to believe (or he is at least hopeful) that there will be further positive developments. What this means is that, using pluripotent stem cells, the scientists have been able to not only help this patient’s severed nerves repair themselves, but they have also demonstrated the potential to accomplish the same sort of regenerative healing in every organ in our bodies.
Google plans to make it harder to find extremist propaganda.
the khawatir movement
Why Japanese Kids Can Walk to School Alone - The Atlantic
Chelsea Manning | Amnesty International UK
Robin Cook's Resignation Speech (in full) - YouTube
Benign violations... hmmmm.
BBC iPlayer - Horizon - Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter
Jimmy Carr is irritating, but he tries hard.
Living Maths Interview with Prof Marcus du Sautoy - YouTube
The fantastic Marcus du Sautoy - currently on 191 views ! - He really deserves more than that.
Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality riddle - YouTube
Killer comebacks to win every Christmas family argument – from Brexit to Bowie | Life and style | The Guardian
Facebook U-turn over 'Napalm girl' photograph - BBC News
In the latest film in the Guardian's series on refugees in Australia, he tells his astonishing story: how he went on to Christmas Island, spent 10 months in a detention centre and now carries out pioneering reconstructive surgery in Sydney.
Simon Lewis: Don't take consciousness for granted | TED Talk | TED.com
Stephen Fry's Emotional speech in a debate, with Christopher Hitchens. - YouTube
Amazing talk from "on the court" perspective.
Top spot 'just reward' for Andy - Judy - BBC News
#Perseverance
Tarragona, Spain human tower competition - YouTube
Yes I can | We're The Superhumans | Rio Paralympics 2016 Trailer - YouTube
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | TED Talk | TED.com
Julia Galef: Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | TED.com
A series of unfortunate assumptions
"If you assume you are right, you have to have explanations for all the people who disagree with you:
(1) They are ignorant - they don't have the facts
(2) They are idiots - they aren't able to put the facts together
(3) They are malevolent - they are deliberately distorting what they know is the truth for their own selfish purposes."
your unconscious motivations can either make or break your judgment.
When the rich rub our noses in their wealth, we get angry. But they go ballistic - LA Times
"The patterns the air rage studies reveal go far beyond the satisfaction ratings we give to the airlines and the general misery of air travel. They show us, for example, that when social inequality drives up rates of crime by the poor, it's overwhelmingly going to be the poor victimizing the poor. "
Humans Are Great at Arguing but Bad at Reasoning. Julia Galef Explains Why. | Heleo
"What you resist persists." But what did Jung really mean by this?
Teenage Audi mechanic 'committed suicide after colleagues set him on fire and locked him in a cage'
Casual evil
Hitler house: Austria moves to stop Neo-Nazi 'cult site' - BBC News
Islamism vs. Islam
Brussels attack survivor: 'We have to live, we have to go on' - BBC News
Attack on #Nice : My brother the #jihadist Mohamed Merah - BBC News
#Maajid-Nawaz: A global culture to fight #extremism | TED Talk
Why Anjem Choudary appealed to me - BBC News
How Anjem Choudary's mouth was finally shut - BBC News
#MAAJID-NAWAZ | THE GLOBAL JIHADIST INSURGENCY | 2016 - YouTube
Fundamentalists are breeding significantly faster than moderates.
Kaufmann's Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century | EVOLVING ECONOMICS
BBC joins fighters closing in on #IS stronghold - BBC News
Turkey withdraws child rape bill after street protests - BBC News
Syria
The English Hour with #William-Morris on ANN TV - Guest #Martin-Bell
Pokemon Go is a monster mobile hit - BBC News
Identity fraud up by 57% as thieves 'hunt' on social media - BBC News
Chinese poverb: Every #blessing becomes a #curse , every #curse becomes a #blessing .
Demonizing Tony #Blair , regardless of the role that he played and irrespective of how bad he is or is not, seems to me to be a mistake.
What is missing are structures of power that are #resilient to #manipulation .
UK military deaths in Iraq - BBC News
The #Iraq #war #killed 179 UK service personnel, 4424 US service personnel and about 150,000 Iraqis.
'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper | World news | The Guardian
Why Do the Poor Make Such Poor Decisions? - Medium
Being poor uses up masses amounts of mental bandwidth, leading to a downward spiral of poverty and stupidity...
So if you want people to make better choices, the solution is to give them a great big wadge of cash.
Children for Sale Chicago 1948
Man evicted from hospital for blocking bed for two years - BBC News
What Meerkat Murder Tells Us About Human Violence : The Two-Way : NPR
Amnesty highlights 'disturbing rise' in global executions - BBC News
1,634 people were executed in 2015.
10 Times Richard Feynman Blew Our Minds - YouTube
BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance
Agnotology
The Most Depressing Discovery About the Brain, Ever | Alternet
"Nyan and his collaborators have been running experiments trying to answer this terrifying question about American voters: Do facts matter? The answer, basically, is no."
"People who said the economy was the most important issue to them, and who disapproved of Obama’s economic record, were shown a graph of nonfarm employment over the prior year – a rising line, adding about a million jobs. They were asked whether the number of people with jobs had gone up, down or stayed about the same. Many, looking straight at the graph, said down."
"what these studies of how our minds work suggest is that the political judgments we’ve already made are impervious to facts that contradict us. "
The Backfire Effect: Why Facts Don't Win Arguments | Big Think
The Key to Rational Argument: Reframe It as a Partnership | Big Think
#World-Poetry-Day 28 of poetry's most powerful lines ever written | The Independent
MIT nuclear fusion record marks latest step towards unlimited clean energy | Environment | The Guardian
Very cheap energy
Low-cost saltwater battery wins $500,000 award
Sustainable salt water battery won't corrode and can power your home for 10 years
ReGen Villages is building off-grid, self-sufficient neighborhoods - Business Insider
Bill Gates On Clean Energy, Donald Trump, And Stocks (Full Interview) | Squawk Box | CNBC - YouTube
Billionaire Tom Steyer’s Mission to Save the Planet From Trump | WIRED
Alex Honnold foundation
Education
Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You | Mic
Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music | TED Talk | TED.com
This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.
The Imperative to Engage Youth to Meet Development Goals 2030 - Medium
Goldieblox launches a coding app for girls
Design Kit
Bridging the gap between problem and solution – Medium
Perspectives that #transcend and #include all the other perspectives
Oxford University to launch first online 'Mooc' course - BBC News
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness | TED Talk | TED.com
Psychology Is in Crisis Over Whether It's in Crisis | WIRED
Punk protest: Sex Pistols manager's son sets fire to collection - BBC News
"We can't let the bullies win": Elizabeth Loftus awarded 2016 John Maddox Prize | Science | The Guardian
Teaching kids philosophy makes them smarter in math and English — Quartz
Why StudyBloc Exists – Harrison Lo – Medium
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ | Culture | The Guardian
SKYGLOWPROJECT.COM: KAIBAB ELEGY on Vimeo
How to Start a Speech - YouTube
Artificial Inteligence
Barack Obama on Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity | WIRED
Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China’s Go Master - WSJ
Brryan Jackson: My father injected me with HIV - BBC News
'I cannot hate my wife's Bataclan killers' - BBC News
'A changed man': One year on from surviving the Paris terror attacks - BBC News
A phenomenology of effective problem-solving - Medium
Problem-solving methodologies
History Tells Us What Will Happen Next With Brexit And Trump | The Huffington Post
Where is the world heading? What's going to happen next?
End of nations: Is there an alternative to countries? | New Scientist
We cannot yet imagine there are no countries. But recognising that they were temporary solutions to specific historical situations can only help us manage a transition to whatever we need next.
Transcend countries
Eliminating poverty
Canadian province to give every citizen $1,320 income boost to overcome poverty | The Independent
Which Anti-Poverty Policies Work? by Bjørn Lomborg - Project Syndicate
Republican USA and Trump
Chomsky: Trump's win puts government in the hands of the "most dangerous organization in world history"
A bleak-looking sea ice graph has Twitter in a frenzy - The Verge
External cognition: how do graphical representations work?
External Cognition - #Crowd-thinking
Thinking with external representations | SpringerLink
One possible source of effective action is thinking-in-the-world - Medium
External representation of argumentation in CSCL and the management of cognitive load
Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization - IEEE Xplore Document
Cognitive Science Approaches To Understanding Diagrammatic Representations | SpringerLink
Lifeboat News: The Blog
TruthSift
Auckland rest home stumbles upon something remarkable to help people suffering from dementia | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ
Health and wellbeing
"We can't let the bullies win": Elizabeth Loftus awarded 2016 John Maddox Prize | Science | The Guardian
Derek - YouTube
Triumph of the human spirit
The farmer who built her own broadband - BBC News
How one man built a $51m theme park for his daughter - BBC News
Science and Technology
This invention helped me write again - BBC Stories - YouTube
Boston Dynamics unveils Handle Robot 2017!!! - YouTube
Device could make washing machines lighter and greener - BBC News
Five robots that are changing everything - BBC News
Walking Assembly on Vimeo
The tiny car that runs on hydrogen and emits only water - CNN
Riversimple UK Based Hydrogen Fuel Cell Eco Car Company
Goggles 'give back' sight to Maisy so she can read again - BBC News
What Bill Gates is afraid of - YouTube
Art, Architecture, ...
Architect Turns Old Cement Factory Into His Home, And The Interior Will Take Your Breath Away | Bored Panda
Choose Pussy over Pain on Vimeo
I have been saying this same thing for years. The phrase "gratuitous sex and violence" makes it sound as though there is some equivalence between sex and violence. Whereas in fact gratuitous sex is close to being the opposite of gratuitous violence.
Another issue related to this is that the significance of #consent gets lost and forgotten. Possibly people who want to play violent games should be supported in playing them with other people who also want to play violent games. Violence against people who have not given their consent is truly the worst.
Meet Ian Grillot, The Man Who Took Bullets To His Chest To Save 2 Indians In Kansas Shooting
US teacher donates her kidney to save pupil's life - BBC News
Courage
Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen - BBC News
#Seven-year-old returns to school with #prosthetic aid - BBC News
Sometimes kids just break your heart.
Poole amputee soldier makes history on Matterhorn summit - BBC News
Free Solo | National Geographic Documentary Films
Emily Harrington becomes first woman to free-climb El Capitan in a day - BBC News
The only thing that makes any difference is taking action.
What’s Causing the Sharp Decline in Insects, and Why It Matters - Yale E360
Facts on Child Casualties
Escape
How tech's richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse | Technology | The Guardian
2018 World Press Freedom Index | RSF
United Kingdom | RSF
"Both the Conservative and Labour parties restricted journalists' access to campaign events ahead of the June 2017 general election, and BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg received extensive online abuse and threats, resulting in her being assigned bodyguards to cover the Labour Party conference."
"Offshore law firm Appleby sued the BBC and The Guardian for breach of confidence over the Paradise Papers source materials, making them the only two media outlets out of 96 in 67 countries to have analysed the Paradise Papers and taken to court."
Appleby settles Paradise Papers litigation against Guardian and BBC | News | The Guardian
Freedom of the Press
Ordered to amputate limbs of deserters from the Iraqi army or be shot, Dr Munjed Al Muderis hid and fled.
Andrew Bindon on PoetBay.com
S.W.O.T. analysis of humanity as a whole
Things that might be a strength from the perspective of me personally, could be a weakness from the perspective of humanity as a whole. Eg. my personal selfishness.
S.W.O.T = Strengths Weaknesses Oportunities Threats ... ie. good and bad , individual and collective.
SWOT analysis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
SWOT ANALYSIS
Take a #Journey round this sphere
What are humanity's major #strengths ?
#Strengths
#Education
Highly advanced #technology , #medicine ,
Quite a lot of us are #compassionate , #forgiving ,
Lots of us are really #clever
There's a lot of us... #7-billion and counting,
Inquiring minds , curiosity , resilience , persistence , courage
Self-creation , self-design , entrepreneurship (ie. being able to design ourselves and our destiny / destinies)
Wow that's cool
PoetBay.com, the poetry webpage where you can publish your poems and short stories
Merkel, the great procrastinator, could be Britain's saviour
My favourite books
Six-year-old offers Syrian boy a family - BBC News
Yes I can | We're The Superhumans | Rio Paralympics 2016 Trailer - YouTube
Yes I can #lyrics
I feel the Paralympics is having a positive (inspirational) impact on my life.
Learn meditation from this Buddhist master.
The girl, 7, who tweets from Aleppo - BBC News
Tourists take Edinburgh street beggar to Sweden for Christmas - BBC News
What are humanity's major #weaknesses ?
#Weaknesses
Inequality of opportunity ...
"Cults" large and small ... islamism , nazism (and it's descendents) ,
Societal in-cohesion
Individual psychological weakness - #selfishness , #cowardice , #hatred/fear , #stupidity , #being-towards-death (ie. living in death's shadow)
Selfishness (at whatever level - individual, family-based, community-based, nationalist, )
Wasting resources fighting amongst ourselves (instead of using resources constructively for the betterment of humanity)
Short-term-ism : planning and acting on the basis of what gives us short-term benefits but at the cost of long-term disasters in the making.
History ... rememberances of past wrongs inflicted on "my tribe, my family" etc.
Ray Comfort on the Banana, in context [HQ] - YouTube
Propensity to resort to violence instead of resolving conflict
Celebrity isn’t just harmless fun – it’s the smiling face of the corporate machine | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
What are humanity's major #opportunities ?
#Opportunities
Advanced #medicine , eradicate disease and illness, 1000-year life-spans, end physical suffering (ie. "pain"), biological enhancement, etc. etc. etc.
#Space exploration and #colonisation, #S.E.T.I. (would alter human perspective on itself), ...
Artificial Inteligence, Robotics, "The End of Work", Leisure Society, (but all that will require unlimited cheap energy, Solar? or Nuclear Fusion? or what?)
Unlimited very cheap energy ... Solar? Nuclear fusion? ... or what?
#Education
Science, Technology, Engineering, Design ... etc...
Robot arm wins Amazon's tech award - BBC News
'You can make anything better than it is today' - BBC News
Pokemon Go 'transformed teenager's life' - BBC News
What are the main #threats facing humanity ?
#Threats
Loss of #Bio-diversity (extinction of vast numbers of species)
Global #Economic breakdown
Global #Political breakdown - eg. Islamism, Fascism , Nato vs. Putin , Syria , Europe ,
Nuclear war , global conventional warfare , biological warfare , global pandemic
#Climate destabilization
There's #too-many of us to be sustainable without destroying the ecosystem on which we depend and wiping out 90% of biodiversity.
BBC News - Climate change explained in six graphics
Social breakdown , #crime
#Nato and #Russia 's tense relationship - BBC News
Being Honest About #Trump - The New Yorker
Send Chelsea #Manning a message of support | Blogs | #Amnesty International UK
Britain's Completely Batshit Week Since #Brexit , Explained For #Americans
Prof #Brian-Cox: Being #anti-expert is the way back to the cave | #Guardian
#Satire rules
Tectonic shifts under the #Republican-Party
Core Europe To The Rescue: A Conversation With Jürgen Habermas About Brexit And The EU Crisis
#Putin Warns of #Nuclear War (VIDEO) - Fort Russ
Nato and Russia's tense relationship - BBC News
If the breakdown in the relationship between nato and russia continues, the decline of the UK economy following Brexit may be the least of our troubles.
Amnesty highlights 'disturbing rise' in global executions - BBC News
Russia's missile deployment in Kaliningrad ups the stakes for Nato - BBC News
#World-War-Three , by #Mistake - The New Yorker
"If you assume you are right, you have to have explanations for all the people who disagree with you:
A series of unfortunate assumptions
(1) They are ignorant - they don't have the facts
(2) They are idiots - they aren't able to put the facts together
(3) They are malevolent - they are deliberately distorting what they know is the truth for their own selfish purposes."
UK scientists speak about Brexit pain - BBC News
Brexit throws 'spanner in the works' of global growth - BBC News
ARM founder says Softbank deal is 'sad day' for UK tech - BBC News
EU models for a post-Brexit UK | PunkFT - YouTube
700,000 fewer jobs posted since Brexit
Professor Michael Dougan, the leading EU lawyer whose criticism of the referendum campaign's industrial dishonesty went viral, has assessed the UKs position following the vote to leave the EU.
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | TED Talk | TED.com
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker - YouTube
Join the revolution against FGM and Child Marriage | Amnesty International UK
Racism on a tram in Manchester - Streamable
UK faith leaders unite in condemning post-referendum rise in xenophobic abuse | Politics | The Guardian
Mullah defends 'beat your wives lightly' advice - BBC News
Georgia politicians fight during TV show - BBC News
Texas students can now bring guns to class - BBC News
BBC iWonder - Should I have a big family?
Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It’ll Be Gone | WIRED
Learn meditation from this Buddhist master.
How to Remain Calm With People - YouTube
#Wikiplomacy and Brexit | Medium | Doug Morrison
Habitry - We've all been wrong about #willpower
It turns out that willpower may in fact be an unlimited resource, even though it doesn't feel like one. As usual, to understand how this is possible, we probably need to start thinking about it in terms of our actual experience of being here, rather than the common sense and what Everyone knows.
Philando Castile death: Aftermath of police shooting streamed live - BBC News
Identity fraud up by 57% as thieves 'hunt' on social media - BBC News
Global Peace Index 2016 - YouTube
Vision of Humanity
What does Global Peace look like in 2016? - Medium
2015 Global Peace Index - YouTube
Life Is Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zyklon B - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
#Internal / #Individual
#External / #Collective
#"Good"
#"Bad"
Solutions
#Solutions to problems work by #connecting human #strengths and #opportunities up to #weaknesses and #threats that those strengths and opportunities can make a difference to.
Paralyzed Man Regains Use of Arms and Hands After Experimental Stem Cell Therapy at Keck Hospital
For the first time ever, neuroscientists have treated a total quadriplegic (a 21-year-old young man) with stem cells, and he has substantially recovered the functions of his upper body only two months into the process. The patient himself thinks there is reason to believe (or he is at least hopeful) that there will be further positive developments. What this means is that, using pluripotent stem cells, the scientists have been able to not only help this patient’s severed nerves repair themselves, but they have also demonstrated the potential to accomplish the same sort of regenerative healing in every organ in our bodies.
Google plans to make it harder to find extremist propaganda.
the khawatir movement
Why Japanese Kids Can Walk to School Alone - The Atlantic
Chelsea Manning | Amnesty International UK
Robin Cook's Resignation Speech (in full) - YouTube
Andrew Bindon on PoetBay.com
Benign violations... hmmmm.
BBC iPlayer - Horizon - Jimmy Carr and the Science of Laughter
Jimmy Carr is irritating, but he tries hard.
Living Maths Interview with Prof Marcus du Sautoy - YouTube
The fantastic Marcus du Sautoy - currently on 191 views ! - He really deserves more than that.
Marcus du Sautoy: Symmetry, reality riddle - YouTube
Killer comebacks to win every Christmas family argument – from Brexit to Bowie | Life and style | The Guardian
Facebook U-turn over 'Napalm girl' photograph - BBC News
Ordered to amputate limbs of deserters from the Iraqi army or be shot, Dr Munjed Al Muderis hid and fled.
In the latest film in the Guardian's series on refugees in Australia, he tells his astonishing story: how he went on to Christmas Island, spent 10 months in a detention centre and now carries out pioneering reconstructive surgery in Sydney.
Simon Lewis: Don't take consciousness for granted | TED Talk | TED.com
Stephen Fry's Emotional speech in a debate, with Christopher Hitchens. - YouTube
Amazing talk from "on the court" perspective.
Top spot 'just reward' for Andy - Judy - BBC News
#Perseverance
Kathryn Schulz: On being wrong | TED Talk | TED.com
Julia Galef: Why you think you're right -- even if you're wrong | TED.com
A series of unfortunate assumptions
"If you assume you are right, you have to have explanations for all the people who disagree with you:
(1) They are ignorant - they don't have the facts
(2) They are idiots - they aren't able to put the facts together
(3) They are malevolent - they are deliberately distorting what they know is the truth for their own selfish purposes."
your unconscious motivations can either make or break your judgment.
When the rich rub our noses in their wealth, we get angry. But they go ballistic - LA Times
"The patterns the air rage studies reveal go far beyond the satisfaction ratings we give to the airlines and the general misery of air travel. They show us, for example, that when social inequality drives up rates of crime by the poor, it's overwhelmingly going to be the poor victimizing the poor. "
Humans Are Great at Arguing but Bad at Reasoning. Julia Galef Explains Why. | Heleo
"What you resist persists." But what did Jung really mean by this?
Hitler house: Austria moves to stop Neo-Nazi 'cult site' - BBC News
Islamism vs. Islam
Brussels attack survivor: 'We have to live, we have to go on' - BBC News
Attack on #Nice : My brother the #jihadist Mohamed Merah - BBC News
#Maajid-Nawaz: A global culture to fight #extremism | TED Talk
Why Anjem Choudary appealed to me - BBC News
How Anjem Choudary's mouth was finally shut - BBC News
#MAAJID-NAWAZ | THE GLOBAL JIHADIST INSURGENCY | 2016 - YouTube
Fundamentalists are breeding significantly faster than moderates.
Kaufmann's Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century | EVOLVING ECONOMICS
BBC joins fighters closing in on #IS stronghold - BBC News
Turkey withdraws child rape bill after street protests - BBC News
Syria
The English Hour with #William-Morris on ANN TV - Guest #Martin-Bell
Pokemon Go is a monster mobile hit - BBC News
Identity fraud up by 57% as thieves 'hunt' on social media - BBC News
Chinese poverb: Every #blessing becomes a #curse , every #curse becomes a #blessing .
Demonizing Tony #Blair , regardless of the role that he played and irrespective of how bad he is or is not, seems to me to be a mistake.
What is missing are structures of power that are #resilient to #manipulation .
UK military deaths in Iraq - BBC News
The #Iraq #war #killed 179 UK service personnel, 4424 US service personnel and about 150,000 Iraqis.
'Extreme surveillance' becomes UK law with barely a whimper | World news | The Guardian
Why Do the Poor Make Such Poor Decisions? - Medium
Being poor uses up masses amounts of mental bandwidth, leading to a downward spiral of poverty and stupidity...
So if you want people to make better choices, the solution is to give them a great big wadge of cash.
Children for Sale Chicago 1948
Man evicted from hospital for blocking bed for two years - BBC News
What Meerkat Murder Tells Us About Human Violence : The Two-Way : NPR
Amnesty highlights 'disturbing rise' in global executions - BBC News
1,634 people were executed in 2015.
10 Times Richard Feynman Blew Our Minds - YouTube
BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance
Agnotology
The Most Depressing Discovery About the Brain, Ever | Alternet
"Nyan and his collaborators have been running experiments trying to answer this terrifying question about American voters: Do facts matter? The answer, basically, is no."
"People who said the economy was the most important issue to them, and who disapproved of Obama’s economic record, were shown a graph of nonfarm employment over the prior year – a rising line, adding about a million jobs. They were asked whether the number of people with jobs had gone up, down or stayed about the same. Many, looking straight at the graph, said down."
"what these studies of how our minds work suggest is that the political judgments we’ve already made are impervious to facts that contradict us. "
The Backfire Effect: Why Facts Don't Win Arguments | Big Think
The Key to Rational Argument: Reframe It as a Partnership | Big Think
#World-Poetry-Day 28 of poetry's most powerful lines ever written | The Independent
MIT nuclear fusion record marks latest step towards unlimited clean energy | Environment | The Guardian
Very cheap energy
Low-cost saltwater battery wins $500,000 award
Sustainable salt water battery won't corrode and can power your home for 10 years
ReGen Villages is building off-grid, self-sufficient neighborhoods - Business Insider
Bill Gates On Clean Energy, Donald Trump, And Stocks (Full Interview) | Squawk Box | CNBC - YouTube
Billionaire Tom Steyer’s Mission to Save the Planet From Trump | WIRED
Education
Science Just Discovered Something Amazing About What Childhood Piano Lessons Did to You | Mic
Benjamin Zander: The transformative power of classical music | TED Talk | TED.com
This school replaced detention with meditation. The results are stunning.
The Imperative to Engage Youth to Meet Development Goals 2030 - Medium
Goldieblox launches a coding app for girls
Design Kit
Bridging the gap between problem and solution – Medium
Perspectives that #transcend and #include all the other perspectives
Oxford University to launch first online 'Mooc' course - BBC News
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness | TED Talk | TED.com
Psychology Is in Crisis Over Whether It's in Crisis | WIRED
Punk protest: Sex Pistols manager's son sets fire to collection - BBC News
"We can't let the bullies win": Elizabeth Loftus awarded 2016 John Maddox Prize | Science | The Guardian
Teaching kids philosophy makes them smarter in math and English — Quartz
Why StudyBloc Exists – Harrison Lo – Medium
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘Homo sapiens as we know them will disappear in a century or so’ | Culture | The Guardian
SKYGLOWPROJECT.COM: KAIBAB ELEGY on Vimeo
Artificial Inteligence
Barack Obama on Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Cars, and the Future of Humanity | WIRED
Humans Mourn Loss After Google Is Unmasked as China’s Go Master - WSJ
Brryan Jackson: My father injected me with HIV - BBC News
'I cannot hate my wife's Bataclan killers' - BBC News
'A changed man': One year on from surviving the Paris terror attacks - BBC News
A phenomenology of effective problem-solving - Medium
Problem-solving methodologies
History Tells Us What Will Happen Next With Brexit And Trump | The Huffington Post
Where is the world heading? What's going to happen next?
End of nations: Is there an alternative to countries? | New Scientist
We cannot yet imagine there are no countries. But recognising that they were temporary solutions to specific historical situations can only help us manage a transition to whatever we need next.
Transcend countries
Eliminating poverty
Canadian province to give every citizen $1,320 income boost to overcome poverty | The Independent
Republican USA and Trump
Chomsky: Trump's win puts government in the hands of the "most dangerous organization in world history"
A bleak-looking sea ice graph has Twitter in a frenzy - The Verge
External cognition: how do graphical representations work?
External Cognition - #Crowd-thinking
Thinking with external representations | SpringerLink
One possible source of effective action is thinking-in-the-world - Medium
External representation of argumentation in CSCL and the management of cognitive load
Distributed Cognition as a Theoretical Framework for Information Visualization - IEEE Xplore Document
Cognitive Science Approaches To Understanding Diagrammatic Representations | SpringerLink
Lifeboat News: The Blog
TruthSift
Auckland rest home stumbles upon something remarkable to help people suffering from dementia | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ
Health and wellbeing
"We can't let the bullies win": Elizabeth Loftus awarded 2016 John Maddox Prize | Science | The Guardian
Derek - YouTube
Triumph of the human spirit
The farmer who built her own broadband - BBC News
Science and Technology
This invention helped me write again - BBC Stories - YouTube
Boston Dynamics unveils Handle Robot 2017!!! - YouTube
What Bill Gates is afraid of - YouTube
Art, Architecture, ...
Architect Turns Old Cement Factory Into His Home, And The Interior Will Take Your Breath Away | Bored Panda
Choose Pussy over Pain on Vimeo
I have been saying this same thing for years. The phrase "gratuitous sex and violence" makes it sound as though there is some equivalence between sex and violence. Whereas in fact gratuitous sex is close to being the opposite of gratuitous violence.
Another issue related to this is that the significance of #consent gets lost and forgotten. Possibly people who want to play violent games should be supported in playing them with other people who also want to play violent games. Violence against people who have not given their consent is truly the worst.
Meet Ian Grillot, The Man Who Took Bullets To His Chest To Save 2 Indians In Kansas Shooting
US teacher donates her kidney to save pupil's life - BBC News
Courage