As we grow and learn about responsibility and darkness in the world, we often lose the ability to play at life, at love, and to take the kinds of risks that children take for fun every day. It’s an interesting paradox, because as our world gets freer and more prosperous, more of the jobs available to us – indeed the jobs that are most exciting and profitable – require the ability to play as well as the ability to work diligently.
Losing the ability to play is one of the more tragic things that can happen to a person. It’s at the root of a lot of the unhappiness in the world I’ve seen, and (from personal observation) it comes in play heavily during quarter-life and midlife crises.
The TED video below talks about the evolving state of play with regards to play, learning, economic innovation, and human flourishing. It’s worth the 18 minutes. Trust me
Today, I bring you physicist Brian Cox discussing the Large Hadron Collider and what it means for our understanding of the universe. Chock full of wonder, delight, and beauty – join me in marveling at the magnificence of the universe, and the fact that we are able to understand it at all.
This week, we follow Jim to the commune of the Children of Light, while Ali makes a decision about the future of the business.
It’s a long one this week – 40 minutes – I hope it makes up for my protracted absence due to post-convention illness. Watch my blog in the coming weeks for posts about my time at Steamcon a.k.a. Steam Powered, and other fun things coming up here very soon. I’m back in the swing of things, and intend to keep swinging. Thank you all so much for your supportive emails – they’ve been much appreciated.
Feedback show this week – a thanksgiving present for you.
This week’s in-show promo is for Erotica A La Carte, Phillipa Ballantine’s current foray into the racy and disturbing. Excellent stuff she’s producing over there – definitely worth a listen.
Part of my research over the last year has been on nanotech/biotech/AI convergence and how all three of them effect medicine and ethics. As of now, I’m going to start blogging my thoughts on the topic and links to interesting articles as I come across them.
Well, I’m back. Voice functioning, body seems to be healthy again finally.
Here’s what this means for you all, my loyal readers:
I’m going to fix and drop Episode 13 of Antithesis tomorrow, probably late, assuming the congestion clears.
I’ll start blogging again, with reports from SteamCon and some other interesting updates, later this week.
The feedback episode will record Wed and drop on Thurs or Fri, after which I’ll slide back into my regular production schedule.
I have a backlog of other blog posts to write, particularly more from the Steampunk Education series and the Entitlement Mentality series. Those I’ll be hammering out between commissioned articles (which I now have a backlog of).
Soon, very soon, a calender will be available for purchase featuring my fine art photography. There will be two versions available – one worksafe and one definitely not.
So, if the Creeks don’t rise, I’m now back in circulation. Thank you all for your well wishes.
I’ve been gone a while, and I’m afraid I’ll be gone another few days at least. Seems that I caught a really nasty flu at SteamCon that not only laid me flat for a week, but it has completely robbed me of my voice, thus rendering me unable to podcast. My voice is barely starting to return now, so hopefully another few days will see me back in full form. Thanks for bearing with me, everyone, and for the support you’ve sent over twitter. It’s much appreciated!
