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Funding Math and Science Projects For Young Women
In prior years, this community has participated in the Donors Choose Bloggers Challenge during the month of October. We've won the Bloggers Challenge in the tech category three years in a row with...
View ArticleVideo of the Week: Peter Thiel and Garry Kasparov
Tyrone sent me a link to this video sometime in the past week and I watched it yesterday morning. These are two fascinating guys talking about fascinating things. I enjoyed it very much. It's about 50...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: String Theory
This past week, my son Josh asked me to explain String Theory to him. That was a tough task because I don't know much about String Theory myself. But with the help of Google and Wikipedia, we worked...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: How Large Are The Planets And The Stars?
A friend sent this video to me this week. I enjoyed it and I suspect you all will too. Best of all, it is only 2 1/2 minutes so it won’t take up much of your day to watch it. USV TEAM POSTS:Albert...
View ArticleThe Limits of Capitalism
I am a capitalist. Contrary to the occasional community members who call me a socialist or a techno communist, I believe wholeheartedly in the power of markets to efficently determine what's best in...
View ArticleVideo Of The Week: Simon Singh on Confirmation Bias
My friend Mark Ghuneim sent me two books last week, Simon Singh’s The Code Book and Bruce Schneier’s Secrets and Lies. I am reading The Code Book first and really enjoying it. So I went on YouTube this...
View ArticleExperiment and Scandal
We are living in a time of great experiments. They are not happening in the lab. They are happening in the real world. And they are being financed by real people. We are witnessing the...
View ArticleProtecting The Right To Speak And Write And Blog
I stayed out of the public debate and discussion of the Gawker lawsuit because while I privately came down on the side of Gawker, the specifics of the case made me uncomfortable and I don’t think it...
View ArticleDecentralized Self-Organizing Systems
Mankind has been inventing new ways to organize and govern since we showed up on planet earth. Our history is a gradual evolution of these organization and governance systems. Much of what we are using...
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Sunblock
From roughly 1pm ET to roughly 3pm ET today there will be an eclipse of the Sun by the Moon over the US. I like this map which shows when and where the eclipse will take place: I spent a half hour this...
View ArticleAudio Of The Week: Mythology Was The First Science Fiction
I loved this A16Z podcast featuring Adrienne Mayor who recently authored “Gods & Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology“. Early in this podcast Adrienne states that mythology...
View ArticleFunding Friday: Planetary Blocks
I backed this project to make a block toys for kids based on the planetary system a few weeks ago. I am into anything that makes learning fun for kids and this definitely does that. You can back it...
View ArticleWhat Will Happen In The 2020s
It’s 2020. Time to look forward to the decade that is upon us. One of my favorite quotes, attributed to Bill Gates, is that people overestimate what will happen in a year and underestimate what will...
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