When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with [...]
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Living in the Future: Driverless cars, Bridging longer spans, and negative temperatures
Driverless cars – also called self-driving cars – are now legal in three states – Nevada, Florida, and California. As a result, testing by the major automakers has been going on to make these vehicles safe, and auto makers Toyota and Audi are ready to reveal their driverless cars next week at the Consumer Electronics [...]
Daily Quote: Richard Feynman
“The only way to have real success in science, the field I’m familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what’s good and what’s bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind [...]
Daily Quote: James 3:13
Do you want to be counted wise, to build a reputation for wisdom? Here’s what you do: Live well, live wisely, live humbly. It’s the way you live, not the way you talk, that counts. -James 3:13 (The Message)
Living in the Future: Silk-Steel, Spray-on Skin, and Commercial 3d Printing
First up: Genetic modification on silkworms creates silk stronger than steel. This strength has long been part of Spider silk, but spiders don’t spin enough of it for industrial production. So, a year ago, scientists and researchers at the University of Wyoming announced a hybrid silkworm that uses spider proteins for stronger silk. This silk [...]
Daily Quote: Rita Levi Montalcini
”Above all, don’t fear difficult moments, the best comes from them.” – Rita Levi Montalcini
Daily Quote: John H. Jackson
BONE TIRED Nature Bone tired weary From our Industrial assaults Ravenous greed The trees Have migraines John H. Jackson, Ocala FL 1993
Christmas Play 2012: Elements of Christmas
Since Dayneé and I worked together to produce this year’s Christmas Play, it is only fitting that we should upload it to the Morning Show Blog! “Elements of Christmas” follows the KNOM Volunteers as Eva’s twin sister, Sarah, wreaks havoc across Alaska and the North. Each volunteer discovers a special power, and are aided by some unique [...]
Daily Quote: Philip Gilbert Hamilton
In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing. Philip Gilbert Hamilton
Daily Quote: Walter Bruggeman
“The Christ Child is about to be born, the one promised by the angel. Mary’s “fullness of time” has arrived. Except that the birth is scheduled according to the emperor: A decree went out that all should be numbered. Caesar decreed a census, everyone counted; Caesar intended to have up-to-date data for the tax rolls; [...]
