Nassim Haramein is a swiss scientist who is trying to unify current scientific understanding of universe and the nature of reality, with the understanding of ancient civilizations. He came up with really holistic approach. Looking for holy grail of physics somewhere, where we stoped looking probably sometimes around the times of Platon and Aristoteles… in geometry.

Follow this link to Barry´s website.

http://www.leftycartoons.com

American writer of science fiction literature Isaac Asimov may be known mainly for his mind-bending novels from far future worlds, but he never really abolished his “real world” scientific work neither. Writing tons of articles on many subject during the course of decades of his successful career.

In the video series following this article you can see, that he was a great speaker and political and social evangelist as well. His vision of  ”threats to humanity” may be considered really prophetic 20 years after the speech was recorded.

I find the idea of some federal planetary government a bit scary from today’s perspective, but Asimov’s argument about the necessity of great space exploration projects to guarantee international peace just can´t be argued with. We need something to unite humanity in one common endeavour and then we will be more open to settle our arguments in peaceful way, instead of spreading nationalist and religious hatred.

“Life Running Out of Control” is one of  those great documentaries, that will make you to understand the wast scale and the enormous dangers of  contemporary genetic engineering. I was aware about those dangers even before I saw this particular movie, but I think only now I truly understood the full scale of it. And I think everybody should, before it’s too late.

Click here, to watch the document on Wide Eye Cinema

But of course my aim is to inform about everything I consider to have a positive effect in process of  forming a new paradigm and changing the overall belief system of current global population. WideEyeCinema.com,definitely is one of those things. A very nice collection of documentary movies that will indeed open your eyes.

I really recommend to start wit this little link. I is a fairly mind-blowing speech of  Michel Chossudovsky, explaining the mechanics of current global economic depression. http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=865

I’m just a bit afraid,that now that you know about WideEyeCinema you will not come back to Utopia Crowd.

Rather than seeing human history from typically human anthropocentric  viewpoint we can see ourselves integrated into planets natural biosphere. It is a story of  natural history of  man. A story that as we can see may not have an happy ending. This is definitely one of those great movies, that every human being should see to understand his place in this world and  to become aware of ones responsibility  to it.

As mentioned many times during the course of the movie; “There’s no time to be a pessimist !” We have got a very short time to stop and reverse the human impact on this planet. And as also mentioned in the movie; “We still have a lot of resources to do so!” The clock is ticking on and our time is shorter everyday. I am one of those rare optimists and dreamers who think that we can still do it. We can still turn around and start acting, not only intelligent, but also wise and compassionate. But we have to start acting together and now! Most of our social and ecological problems are caused by inappropriate technological solutions and unethical business practice. And solutions to those problems does not only exist, but they are already implemented. It depends on us, how wide spread are those solutions going to be implemented and if they are going to make the necessary difference. Every one of those little ant-like creatures that you can see in the movie can become a part of change. Everyone can add up to the equation with his creativity and his behaviour.

The movie is freely available on Youtube. Just one click away.

First of them is the well known TED Conference. The annual conference  brings together the world’s most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes). TEDs website is packed with great inspirationa speeches made by interesting personalities from all walks of life. And you can get lost on the site for hours and days. Definitely worth checking if you dont know about it already.

www.ted.com

Second of them is a similar annual project held in Amsterdam.

“PICNIC brings together and disseminates the ideas and knowledge of the world’s best creators and innovators, through a top-class conference, a broad selection of participative sessions, interactive experiences, matchmaking events wrapped in a festival experience.”

Again, the website is just bursting of great content and positive energy.

www.picnicnetwork.org

I got to say I really like the idea of this kind of branded conferences/festivals, which are in the end of the day inspiring not only the participants that are present in the conference hall, but thousands ( and hopefully millions) of people around the world. I hope there will be more stuff like that coming in the near future. One for every significant town and the city on this planet.

www.worldchanging.com

Despite the fact that P.U.M.A. (Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility) looks a bit like Steve Urkel’s BMW Isetta I got to say that I really love the concept. I completely understand the rain of negative comments that appeared all over the net after General Motors and Segway announced that they teamed up for PUMA Project. Without any doubt the safety of the vehicle is definitely an issue to consider. Mainly if  you realize that its speed is 3 times higher than that of original segway and that it is expected to run alongside more traditional (bigger) vehicles.

I do understand all that moaning and reasoning! But still!  P.U.M.A  is  a great alternative to traditional vehicles for two reasons:

1.It protects the driver from exposure to weather conditions (Well not yet, but I believe soon we will get a machine looking more like the original  concept and less like a dune buggy), unlike other car alternatives like Bicycle and small motorbikes.

2.Segway works! And you can moan and argue as much as you like to, but I just can’t see all that flashy urban mobility vehicles around our towns and cities as much as I do see segways.

To go around the question of security of this type of vehicles forever is frankly getting trapped in chicken and egg situation. We cannot have lighter, more practical and more ecological vehicles, becouse there is no infrasturcture and safe roads to drive them. And there is not enough infrastracture, becouse there is not enough lighweight  vehicles. So what’s  next?

PUMA is a nice concept adding to ever increasing  spectrum of similar personal mobility solutions and unlike many others it is not just a CAD animation, but a working machine.

And talking about the security; “Do you prefere to be hit by a traditional car or by this little thingy?”

In his book, Pale Blue Dot, Sagan wrote:

“While almost everyone is taught that the Earth is a sphere with all of us somehow glued to it by gravity, the reality of our circumstance did not really begin to sink in until the famous frame-filling Apollo photograph of the whole Earth — the one taken by the Apollo 17 astronauts on the last journey of humans to the Moon.”

In a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996, Sagan related his thoughts on the deeper meaning of the photograph:

(Parts of this article are taken from Wikipedia)