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Extraordinary Relationships
“What percent of your relationship are you responsible for?” “50%!” “But what if you were responsible for 100%, not because it’s true but as a place to stand?”
Posted: 21 December, 2010 in Australian Values, Culture, Life, values.
Tags: Australian Values, cause, causing, contribution, extraordinary, extraordinary relationships, human, humanity, intention, Life, love, making a difference, possibility, relationship, responsibility, value, values, world
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2010 – Google’s Short Version
Google has released the results of its zeitgeist survey of the most popular search terms for 2010. This is the video.
Posted: 11 December, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, Computing, Culture, Economics, History, Internet, Iran, Iraq, legal, Life, Media, Medicine, politics and government, Racism, Religion, Science, Sex, Sport, Technology, US Politics, values, Video.
Tags: 2010, Culture, Economics, events, Google, History, keywords, law, legal, Life, politics, popular search, search terms, Sport, Video, war, world, world trends, youtube, zeitgeist
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Stewart Brand – Whole Earth Hero – on TED
In the Whole Earth Catalog my first words were, “We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”
The first words of Whole Earth Discipline are, “We are as gods and have to get good at it.”
Posted: 18 April, 2010 in Australian Politics, Australian Values, environment, Immigration, Life, Literature, politics and government, Science, values, Video.
Tags: climate, coal, development, Divine Right's Trip, Earth, environment, future, global warming, GMO, nuclear power, poverty, renewable power, solar power, Stewart Brand, sustainability, TED, TED talks, third world, urbanisation, Whole Earth Catalogue, Whole Earth Discipline, world
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It’s a Beautiful Thing. But Why?
The Golden Section turns up in art, nature, science and maths. Its “rightness” seems to be organic, built into how we see the world.
Posted: 22 September, 2007 in Art, Australian Values, Computing, Culture, environment, Life, Maths, music, mystery, Religion, Science, Sex, values.
Tags: Art, Balance, beautiful face, beautiful thing, beautiful women, beauty, blog, Cate Blanchett, coalition, composition, computer, conversation, curve, Dan Styer, design, Einstein, esprit d’escalier, Fibonacci, Fibonacci Sequence, Fibonacci spiral, focus, game, Golden Mean, Golden Ratio, Golden Section, harmonious, Hudgens, inverse ratio, Kate Moss, Labor, local determinism, Los Alamos, magic, magic number, Majority, mathematics, Maths, Matt Damon, Mean, mechanics, Mona Lisa, Moss, National Laboratory, nature, Naughty, Nautilus, New York, Nude, Oberlin College, organic, perfume, Phi, photograph, photographer, picture, pineapple, politics, probability, proportion, quantum, Quantum Mecahnics, quantum physics, quantum theory, Ratio, Religion, rightness, Science, Scientologist, Scientology, SpaceTime, suicide, sunflower, surfing, swing, Theresa Duncan, unit square, Vanessa, Vanessa Hudgens, website, Wit of the Staircase, world
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