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Old Man’s River: Genghis Blues

January 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Films, Music, Old Man's River

Richard Feynman was a genius. He did many amazing things. One of the more unusual things he did in his life was to make gargantuan efforts to visit the Soviet republic of Tuva. Even more unusually, he failed to do this, held up by the politics and bureaucracy of the Cold War; papers permitting him [...]

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What have you changed your mind about?

January 8th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Generation M, Opensource, Social software

That’s the subject of a very powerful set of essays published recently in the Edge World Question Center. I haven’t read all of them yet; I was working through them sequentially when I received an e-mail from Pat Kane of ThePlayEthic, pointing me at the answer given by Kevin Kelly. [Thanks, Pat, and I look [...]

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