tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46315412229783978582024-03-05T22:24:18.459-08:00live from ted aspenguru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-15670328311676588812008-03-01T11:19:00.000-08:002008-03-01T11:35:36.726-08:00John Francis "planetwalker"What an amazing man and great storyteller. Spent 22 years walking an sailing around the world. He started when he saw 1/2 million gallons of oil empty into San Francisco Bay he swore off using a vehicle or anything that required oil. He spent 17 of those years he didn't say a word. He stopped speaking so that he could stop arguing. He felt it could help him learn to listen. Although he reevaluated his vow of silence on his birthday every year. That lasted 17 years during which he earned a BA, MA and PHD. It took him 7 yrs and a day to walk across the country. The best thing, he says, is learning to listen. What started him talking again was when he realized that we, people and how we treat each other is truly part of our environment. He became a UN Ambassador (though i'm not sure what kind). He felt that he had a responsibility to help change others and he felt it was the only way he could have significant impact. We have to leave behind our security and go to the place we must go. We have to do something now, we have to change now.<br /><br /><a href="http://planetwalk.org">website</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-43112190505352667322008-03-01T11:13:00.000-08:002008-03-01T11:49:39.126-08:00Al Gore Activist "How dare we be optimisticI'll start with the end where Al quoted an African proverb when ask what he will do next:<br />If you want to go quickly, go alone.<br />If you want to go far, go together.<br />He announced the launch of the Alliance for Climate Protection scheduled to launch worldwide in April 2008.<br /><br />I took reams of notes, there was so much value in what he said, but bottom line you really have to watch the video when it comes out. His key messages were about activism and the link between climate change and poverty, It's not just about changing out lightbulbs or adding solar panels, but it's about being active as citizens in our democracy as citizens of the world. In a way I think he was talking about accountability. We are accountable to our planet, it's people and the environment. He calls it a unified earth challenge. More than a local challenge, more than a regional challenge, it's a global challenge and we are able and in fact we MUST get engaged and do something big now. Our generation CAN be the one to force change, our generation CAN be the one to change the cycle, CAN be the one to make a difference, but only if we hold ourselves accountable. We need to initiate a worldwide mobilization effort. We did it after WWII we can do it now. We can change the world.<br /><br />We have to force the media to engage, to ask the tough questions, to make sure we know where the candidates stand on the issue. Less than fraction of a percent of the questions relate to global warming. We have the will, we have the technology, we just need a commitment to hold ourselves accountable. he cited the example of Australia where the citizens forced the Kyoto accord to be an issue and shortly after Australia became the second to last to sign the accord. The only remaing hold out is the USA.guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-78932136053858335932008-03-01T08:44:00.000-08:002008-03-01T09:01:44.440-08:00Paul Collier economistIt's all about ideas for creating opportunities for the worlds poorest people.<br />He's focusing on one of his 4 big ideas wrapped around what he calls the "commodity boom".<br />He says that the revenue from commodities in countries where the "bottom billion" live far exceeds the funding for aid to those same countries, so how can we make this "change the world".<br />Currently the "bottom billion are experiencing the fastest economic growth rate ever. The key is to sustain it and according to Collier is how do you sustain it. He cites Canada, Australia and Finland as doing it right. It requires very strong checks and balances and these countries simply don't have them. He feels a key component is transparency, creating interest concern and effective action to ensure that there is indeed long term benefit. If society is uninformed, they can't act. he challenges us to help figure out:<br />How to extract resources our of the ground and benefit the country. He infers that what happens now is that big traders and government ministers carve deals that benefit them but not the long term economic health of the populace. If we could establish standards we can support the reformers who are struggling, and ensure transparency so that the general populace knows what is going on and can prevent the backroom deals that benefit big corporations and insiders.<br /><br /><a href="http://csae.ox.ac.uk">website</a><br />Book: The Bottom Billionguru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-34058484049233625412008-03-01T08:41:00.000-08:002008-03-01T08:44:20.931-08:00johnny lee what can you do with a Wii?OMG, an electronic whiteboard, 3d head tracking, all with a Wii. unbelievable stuff, and johnny offers free downloads on his website. you gotta see it to believe it.<br /><br /><a href="http://johnnylee.net">website</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-41237381880788100572008-02-29T18:31:00.000-08:002008-02-29T19:03:17.773-08:00Benjamin Zander ConductorAmazing speaker. Passionate, funny, brilliant. By mid way through I'm dying to go hear some classical music, and that's a hell of an accomplishment. Funny, he just said that he will not continue his talk until every single one of us loves classical music. So he starts playing piano...<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">chopin</span> is his first choice. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">OMG</span> this man is fabulous. I though about cutting out an I'm so glad I didn't. He, in 15 short minutes has 1600 people listening for the E and loving every moment. This is the TED video <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">you</span> have to share with your kids and parents. Your parents will cry, your kids may embrace it in a way you hadn't thought possible. he says we all love classical but many of us just don't know it yet. He said something dramatic that will stick with me and applies to many aspects of life. He says that as a conductor, he can't make a sound. His mission is to draw the best out of his orchestra. To get the listeners and players to have "shining eyes". He says success for him is about how many shining eyes I have around me. More than any of the talks, I see shining eyes all around me.<br /><br />After he was done and the longest and loudest ovation so far, he had everyone singing <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"></span>Ode to Joy. As he was trying to motivate the crowd to engage....He made a comment the meaning of which I hope I never forget...paraphrased...A true leader finds ways to get things out of people that they didn't even know they had in them!<br /><br /><a href="http://benjaminzander.com/">website</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-16033458835106555602008-02-29T18:15:00.000-08:002008-02-29T18:27:40.236-08:00Chris Abani writerPublished since he was 16, in jail in Nigeria soon thereafter (i think i got that right!). After two more imprisonments he turned to poetry. His stories are amazing, he talks about the horrors he saw and heard about as a child. Some are simply horrific. He's an amazing story teller and some of his stories, not the most horrific but the ones about cultural issues, like a few of those he told remind me of my time teaching in the jungles of Sumatra. Some things just didn't make sense. I remember being in the midst of a cholera epidemic that killed hundreds every day. Ironic that the front page of the Bengkulu Sumatra paper was about 14 (or so) Americans who died of legionnaires disease, a new thing at the time. A tiny paragraph on the last page was dedicated to the latest death toll in their own province. I deduced that the financial impact of the death of those Americans far exceeded that of the Indonesians, but i couldn't understand, nor could they explain why the 18 Americans dying was more newsworthy than the deaths of their neighbors.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://chrisabani.com">website</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-6000413881244354542008-02-29T17:46:00.000-08:002008-02-29T18:15:21.735-08:00David Griffin Natl Geographic Director of Photographyas one would expect, incredible images....photographs emulate our minds...it's not just about capturing an image, it's about connecting with the viewer as if they were there, not just visually but emotionally. they've added a section to their website a "your photo" for reader submissions. "you need to know how to create a visual narrative".guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-72118623218384137602008-02-29T17:24:00.000-08:002008-02-29T17:41:46.248-08:00helen fisher anthropologist (of love)college students were asked:<br />have you ever been rejected by someone who you really loved?<br />have you ever dumped anyone who really loved you?<br />95% said yes to both<br />"romantic love is one of the most powerful sensation" on earth she says and so she studies it's "biochemical foundations and its vital importance to human society". she's studying data now on<br />people who had suffered a romantic loss. she has learned that romantic love is a basic drive (not the same as sexual drive). it's an addiction and it's <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">great</span> when good and horrible when it's not going well. you crave, you distort reality, you take enormous risks you wouldn't normally take.<br />indeed she says "romantic love is one of the most addictive" things on the planet. her newest experiment is testing people who are still in a long relationship and say that they are still deeply in love to try and determine the origins of love and why we can walk into a room full of people who may be similar and be romantically attracted to one.<br /><br />closing: "love is in us and deeply <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">embedded</span> in our brains."<br /><br /><a href="http://helenfisher.com">website 1</a><br /><a href="http://chemistry.com">website 2</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-39195793814987062812008-02-29T16:17:00.000-08:002008-02-29T16:23:01.883-08:00decided to take a break from blogging and absorbI decided to take some time to just absorb...here's who you missed, but keep an eye out as ted.com will be posting them soon. For more info now, just check the websites listed:<br /><br />Walter Isaacson Aspen Institute CEO (our amazing conference hosts) <a href="http://aspeninstitute.org">website</a><br />Sue Goldie Public Health Scientist <a href="http://healthdecisionscience.hsph.harvard.edu">website</a><br />Peter Schwartz Futurist <a href="http://gbn.com">website</a><br />Nassim Nicholas Scholar of Randomness <a href="http://fooledbyrandomness.com">website</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-46808289606457275772008-02-29T12:41:00.000-08:002008-02-29T13:01:51.436-08:00Richard Preston science writerIncredible author, he's written some scary stuff on everything from ebola to cobras to bioterror to.....redwoods! so what up with that? it seems that he tired of the horrific nature of his other work, though that's not clear.<br /><br />he spent much of the time talking about redwoods, which are near and dear to me having spent 7 years of my life living amongst them. that being said, i never would have actually thought about climbing one, yet he's climbed the tallest. he has found berries, mosses, lichen and all kinds of interesting other life.<br /><br /><a href="http://richardpreston.net">richardpreston.net</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-19452602780039614852008-02-29T12:07:00.000-08:002008-02-29T12:41:35.615-08:00Paul Stamets mycologist/mushroom scholara man who spends all his time with mushrooms. he has 22 patents and rails against mushroom prejudice. he thinks that there are thousands of uses and applications for mushrooms, from antibiotic and other medicinal uses to terraform planets "by sowing a mix of fungai spores and other seeds." ways to address global issues:<br />1. using mycellium to absorb oil (think oil spills!). the mushroms absorbed the oil, killed the smell and attracted other life forms<br />2. a rare fungus that grows in US forests is being used for flu viruses, defense purposes..........problem these guys only grow in old growth forests<br />3. used against insects and could revolutionize the way we deal with this..<br />people are giggling, openly asking if he's a nut or not...did he eat too many of the wrong kind?<br />4. econol, a mushroom derivative which could be used for energy<br /><br />"I believe engaging mycellium can save the world"<br />really really, out of the box stuff in one way, but in another way so cool in its simplicity and the potential!<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://fungi.com/">www.fungi.com</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-90260448401546367602008-02-29T11:45:00.000-08:002008-02-29T12:05:30.082-08:00Robert Ballard Ocean explorertalking about how little we really know about our oceans. 50% of USA lies under water and he says we know more about mars than our own oceans. 15% (whoops, did he say 25%?) of our planet is a 42,000 mile long underwater mountain range we didn't even explore until after we hit a golf ball on the moon. one of the things he talks about is how much of the worlds natural resources lie under the sea. they discovered bacteria that emulated photosynthesis where no light is available, creatures never before seen, all kinds of life, hydrothermal vent systems, etc.<br />he's totally frustrated at our lack of knowledge, he knows that going to the unknown on our planet we may find many answers. he's beginning to disseminate information and motivate children to explore and dig for knowledge earlier than any one else. he ended with comments about how we have great opportunities with existing technology to learn so much more, to use so many things to our benefit.<br /><br /><a href="http://mysticaquarium.org">mysticaquarium.org</a><br /><a href="http://jasonproject.com">jasonproject.com</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-63936143570348575442008-02-29T11:25:00.000-08:002008-02-29T11:39:17.182-08:00Brian Cox british rocktsar physicist100 billion suns in our galaxy and 100 billion universes, 13.7 billion years old. an attempt to recreate the conditions 1 billionth of second after the birth of the universe. what is particle physics and cosmology? in an attempt to understand who we are and where we come from, he's driven to understand what happened in the very first billionth of a second after the birth of the universe. although insanely complex he is a great presenter and is able to demystify it just enough to make one think they understand. we'll see if i really do.guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-30589773678178767602008-02-29T10:13:00.000-08:002008-02-29T12:06:28.497-08:00Tod Machover composer inventorWhat an amazing thing this man has done to enable people who had no hope of playing an instrument to do so and express their creativity in a way not possible before. Personal instruments..what a concept. Incredibly moving performance by Dan, a cerebral palsy patient. Just the look on his face during the performance was enough to jerk a few tears.<br /><a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/-tod"><br />web.media.mit.edu/-tod</a><br /><a href="http://brainop.media.mit.edu">brainop.media.mit.edu</a>guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-15845371061615603522008-02-29T09:16:00.000-08:002008-02-29T09:47:16.380-08:00Amy Tan How do we create?Amazing, engaging, powerful, funny, creative. Taking about all the different sources of creativity. Seizures, psychosis, past lives, angst, sacrifice, thinking about death, childhood experiences, family and cultural influences. Makes me think about how our designers are constantly under deadlines to deliver "great creative". In fact the more we hear from these incredible minds, the more I think about how my efforts may be misdirected in the bigger picture. She talks about how the universe gives us clues and we often don't see them. There are never complete answers, rather, if there is one, remind oneself that there is uncertainty. If there is an answer it is to imagine.....Imagination is the closest thing to compassion. become the story<br /><br />amytan.netguru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-5176802127778607492008-02-29T09:01:00.000-08:002008-02-29T09:16:55.203-08:00Robert Lang Origami????? How do we Create?He took an ancient art form and, by applying mathematical principles took it to another level. Using computers to help design, it ain't the origami we remember. Showed and amazing commercial for Mitsubishi that was ALL origami except the car. Livermore labs uses origami to help understand how to bring large lenses, up to 100 meters, into space. Stents, airbags, etc., use the mathematical formulas originally developed for an art form.<br /><br />Langorigami.comguru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-42648112340191117662008-02-29T08:42:00.000-08:002008-02-29T09:00:41.703-08:00Yves Behar DesignerAnother <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">incredibly</span> talented person, an amazing group of accomplishments, most recently the XO laptop for the One Laptop Per Child program, the jawbone headset, the leaf lamp and the reinvention of numerous brands like Birkenstock. very cool unpretentious presentation talking about design and how it can tie to a relationship with social responsibility, value and as he says "the values we put into our design work" that is the big differentiator. He says design is the glue that brings everything together. He fuses values and design. Tackling the One Laptop Per Child<br />was an amazing effort that is changing the world. He wraps with the NYC Condom program a mindblowing totally different approach to a huge challenge. We can change our values, we can change the companies we work with, we can change the world....sure makes me think about my client base!<br /><br />www.fuseproject.comguru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-23919848933486147292008-02-29T08:33:00.000-08:002008-02-29T08:42:17.704-08:00John Knoll visual effectsBig deal, a few Oscars, Star Wars, Pirates, oh and he invented (with his bro) some little program called <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">photoshop</span>. He's sharing the visual effects "secrets" showing how much goes into effects. Makes it seem like <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">nothing is</span> impossible, helps us to see how things that seemed impossible just a few years ago are not today. As I listened, sure I was entertained, but now I think, at least for me the relevance is that the impossible is not necessarily so.guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-73271149028331092832008-02-28T18:58:00.000-08:002008-02-28T19:15:36.779-08:00Changed my mind....Karen ArmstrongShe's so good and her talk so near and dear to my heart.....<br /><br />Religion has been hijacked she says. We have a talent as a species for messing up wonderful things. You cannot confine your concern to those of your religion. You must open up your mind and think more about Universal Outreach which she feels many religions no longer do. Religion is a kind of fault line and when a country has armed conflicts, religions tend to fall into line and are also impacted and take advantage of opportunities like armed conflicts, to grow when they have the opportunity to do so. After 9/11 her work on Islam has thrust her into prominence. She says the world is yearning for a change. Thousands of Pakistanis came to her recent talks. She says religion should serve to bring people together not tear them asunder. We should not treat other nations in a way we wouldn't want to be treated ourselves. Sh talks about how the mosques in this hemisphere reached out to Sinagogs and communities to begin to communicate and generate understanding. Personally I've always been of the belief that it's hard to hate those with whom you are familiar and she seems to support that. It is the "otherness" of our enemies that allows us to hate them. Her wish is that we help with by developing a charter of inspiration and based on the fundamental principle of the golden rule. To connect all of those who wish to reclaim their faith, to remember the ethos of love and charity. She wants to see the major religious leaders, at least a thousand all sign a charter that we can get to everyone on the planet. Archbishop Desmond Tutu has already offered his support as has the UN alliance of civlizations. we need to avoid the escalation of extremism. The UN gives it validation that it's not driven by single religion. Make relgion once more a source of peace rather than conflict.<br />Amazing, inspiring woman...read the books and get involved! This is why I haven't been able to subscribe to any religion and now I have a reason to dig in and see if there's a way to help. She has the potential to be a bridge to a new world.<br /><br /><br /><br />Books:<br />The Great Transformation<br />The Beginning of our Religious Traditions<br />The Bible: A Biography<br />A History of Godguru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-71005930606656676072008-02-28T17:32:00.000-08:002008-02-28T17:34:48.719-08:00lazy jackI'm going to watch this session, since you can do the same at:<br />http://www.ted.com/liveevent/watch/guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-18985287497750156592008-02-28T17:12:00.000-08:002008-02-28T17:17:52.682-08:00personal observations about TEDTruly amazing experience. Wonderful ideas and creative thinking. Could be better with more opposing viewpoints. Seems more value could be generated with a little more interaction and questioning of the speakers. It may be that the environment is too intimidating or that organizers are focused on specific outcomes. It's hard to sustain something as earth shattering as this event for 20some years, and it's easy to throw stones, but I certainly plan on being a part of it as long as I'm allowed and as long as it continues to generate great ideas and attract ao many amazing people. It would be great if the entire conference could be viewed by anyone/everyone!guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-20381196721661299042008-02-28T16:06:00.000-08:002008-02-28T16:31:09.021-08:00Samantha Power politcal scientist and journalistCurrently an advisor to <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Barack</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Obama</span> (she manages to slip a few comments in about him every few minutes), she's the one who wrote the famous memo that basically said the the US must return to human rights centered foreign policies or it will continue to lose prestige and influence in the world at large.<br /><br />She makes an interesting point. With all the trouble in Uganda, very few Americans even inquire or have any awareness of the challenges there, but the phones ring off the hook for people who want to save Gorillas.<br /><br />Samantha talks about some of the organizations who are having some success raising awareness of some genocide, particularly in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Darfur</span>. She clearly thinks that a change of presidents isn't going to make much difference unless it's <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">Obama</span>.<br /><br />So how do we prevent evil from prevailing?<br /><br />Be adaptive, don't just denounce, be in the room, talk to your adversaries but don't check your <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">principles</span> at the door.<br /><br />Espouse dignity, no holier than thou stuff.<br /><br />Don't hype the threat, focus on the legitimate challenges and threats, but don't lunge into reactive mode. calibrate your response and approach.<br /><br />Increase your awareness of the complexity of the issues. increase your involvement, don't let fear scare you. If we want change we have to become part of the effort.<br /><br />Evil will not prevail she says, not unless we let it!<br /><br />website: ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/samantha_power<br /><br />book: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocideguru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-23840968529919328012008-02-28T15:15:00.000-08:002008-02-28T15:41:41.236-08:00Irwin RedlenerHe's a Public Health Doctor with a deep understanding of disaster medicine and medical care. He's also a founder, with Paul Simon of the <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Children's</span> Health Fund.<br /><br />He talks about the danger of nuclear holocaust and how lucky we were to have survived the cold war. What is really scary is that most of those weapons are still around! His point here was that virtually every scenario of a nuclear holocaust showed a total destruction of life as we know it. the fact that we told people to hide under desks or build fallout shelters. Every single plan the government suggested was ludicrous. One depended on 4 days notice which obviously would never happen. The point he says is there was a total disconnect with reality.<br /><br />The really scary thing is what he calls chapter 2 which we're in the midst of now. The idea of an all out war is unlikely, but nuclear terror threats DO exist.<br />1. The nuclear stockpile is not secure, they can be bought or stolen easily. 18 cases of theft have already been documented. 1300-2100 metric tons of highly enriched uranium are in the global stockpile. Amazingly enough, it takes only about 75 pounds of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">HEU</span>. Plutonium is no less scary, it takes much less plutonium.<br />2. The information is readily available on how to build a bomb.<br />3. Evil-doers are organized, dedicated, "stateless" and "retaliation proof". Al <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">Queda</span> operatives have specifically stated that they have "the right" to kill 4 million Americans, including 2 million children. we, as a country are totally unprepared this kind of attack, both from a prevention perspective and a treatment perspective. Just a small suitcase is all that's needed to carry a bomb. He basically showed us how easy it would be to do.<br /><br />He feels it's almost inevitable thought there's much more we have to or can do. So what does it mean and who would survive? A bomb in NYC would be insanely devastating. His description of what would happen, from the "nuclear storm" or hurricane, was so scary that almost everyone in the room gasped. You would have 10-15 minutes, IF you survived the blast, to get away from the lethal radiation which will come straight down. If it ever happens, get the hell out of dodge the moment it happens. Get in shelter and stay there if you can't get away. It's critical you find as much information as possible. The really really scary thing is that not one single American city has an evacuation plan. It's not futile, and with some planning we can dramatically impact the survival rate. The key is to get away from the blast as fast and as far as possible. NEVER STARE AT THE CLOUD, DUCK AND COVER, GET AWAY <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">FROM</span> THE <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">INITIAL</span> FALLOUT, MOVE DOWNWIND/CROSSWISE, KEEP YOUR MOUTH OPEN SO THAT YOUR EARDRUMS AREN'T SHATTERED, DECONTAMINATE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, STAY INSIDE SHELTERS FOR AT LEAST 48-72 HOURS.guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-81381300934930586122008-02-28T15:11:00.000-08:002008-02-28T15:12:59.430-08:00live feed free at 5:15 pacific time 2/28Check out the live feed tonight at 5:15 Pacific Time at this url:<br />http://www.ted.com/liveevent/watch/guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4631541222978397858.post-47474165911184519942008-02-28T14:37:00.000-08:002008-02-28T15:03:45.238-08:00Phil Zimbardo What makes People Go Wrong/Will Evil PrevailKnown by the public primarily for an experiment where Stanford Prison Experiment. He is now asking "what pushes some people to become perpetrators of evil while others act heroically on behalf of those in need?". He says that it's ultimately about power. His first example was the outrage of <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">Abu</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">Ghraib</span>. He says he was disappointed but not surprised after his experience as the prison superintendent for the Stanford study. He showed many of the startling and frankly <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">disgusting</span> images of the abuse, worse than anything I'd seen before, including the smiling images of Americans standing by those they abused. Truly sick stuff. He pointed out that some of the prisoners were mentally ill and should never have been there. What makes people do this kind of thing? Dispositional (bad apples), situational (bad barrel), systemic. He then talks about the lucifer effect, the human minds infinite capacity to be evil AND to be good. He asks, would you electrocute stranger if Hitler asked you to? The study he then talks about is one many of us have seen or seen analogs to where one of the subjects is the teacher and the other is the student. Every time the student makes a mistake the teacher shocks him with steadily escalating voltage. The test was to see how many people would go all the way to 450 volts which could kill someone. Even when the "students" screamed and said they had heart conditions, nearly 90% went all the way to 450 volts. The "teachers" were noral folks form every walk of life.<br /><br />Next he described the Stanford test "Quiet Rage". 75 students signed up for the 1-2 week study.<br />They were "arrested by local police, which was a surprise. They were picked up and jailed as if they were under arrest. They were forced to do degrading activities from cleaning toilets with their bare hands to various kinds of punishment and harrassment...the study had to be abandoned when so many of the subjects literally "lost it". More at lucifereffect.com.<br /><br />He describes 7 social processes which cause the lucifer effect and one of the stronget was power without supervision. That's what happened at Abu Ghraib. The guards knew that no one was going to come down and see what they were doing.<br /><br />A paradigm shift is needed. Heroism is the antidote to evil. Promote heroism to kids. Reficus attention on heroes as opposed to evil. We want kids to realize that heroes are every day people not caped superheroes. They can be and should be heroic, we need to share examples of the good things people do, the heroic things more than the bad things. Teach them skills to be heroic. Act when others are passive....a great quote from one of the heroes he talked about: "I did what Anyone could do and Everyone ought to do".<br /><br />The point he leaves us with is that we too will have the opportunity to be heroic and we should be prepared to be so.guru bengkuluhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05313472384342909161noreply@blogger.com0