Interrelativity

Category: Media

  • The Health of our Nation: CodeBlueNow

    The Seattle Times printed an opinion piece today from two former governors on "Re-creating our health care system".  Arne H. Carlson, a Republican and former governor of Minnesota, and Booth Gardner, a Democrat and former governor of Washington, highlight the instability in our current health care system in the US and the risks such instability…

  • Will Pat Robertson be kept out of the UK?

    Pat Robertson recently made some remarks condoning the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: "If he thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it … We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability." If…

  • Failure, Persistence and Heroism

    NPR’s Morning Edition aired a segment this morning called "The Aftermath of Movie Flops", introduced by Steve Inskeep as "a chronicle of failure, [part of] a series on flops, about what happens when the next big thing isn’t." Kim Masters interviewed a number of movie people, who had some gems to share: Laura Zisken (producer…

  • Practically Creative

    The first issue of Practically Creative Quarterly was published recently: "a free webzine and creative community on the grow, exploring the creative process ~ increasing creative productivity ~ enjoying the creative life."  There are many inspiring short articles throughout the magazine, with sections focusing on process, craft, practicalities, creations, practice and practices, crackles and preferrals. …

  • Just Tasing

    Laura Sullivan narrated a report on Taser International’s new personal stun guns on NPR’s All Things Considered tonight.  Given that it is April Fool’s Day, at first I thought this was some kind of a tease, but as the story went on, I realized it is true.  [The next story , on "New England Suffers…

  • Philips Polymer Vision: A Realization of Phineas J. Whoopee’s 3D Blackboard

    Philips Polymer Vision recently announced a new rollable display for use with mobile devices and applications: The Polymer Vision PV-QML5 is an ultra-thin (100µm) featherweight QVGA (320 x 240 pixels) active-matrix display with a diagonal of 5 inches. When not actively used, the display can be rolled up into a small housing with a radius…

  • iWorld vs. weWorld

    Andrew Sullivan writes that "Society is dead, we have retreated to the iWorld" in a recent comment in the Sunday Times, lamenting the isolation created by the MP3 cocoons that surround so many iPod people.  One definition of "pod" in Merriam Webster’s dictionary is "a usually protective container or housing".  I suspect that Apple was…

  • Boxing and Belly Dancing, Boldness and Dreams

    I rarely watch television, but I was captivated by the Ken Burns documentary film, “Unforgivable Blackness”, profiling the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, shown this week on PBS. I regularly listen to NPR (and yes, I’m a member of both KCTS and KPLU), and Wednesday…

  • Socially Responsible Investing: Making Money vs. Making Meaning

    Paul Hawken, founder of the Natural Capital Institute, recently asked “Is Your Money Where Your Heart Is? (The Truth about SRI Funds)” in an Evergreen Monthly article criticizing many of the so-called "socially responsible investment" (SRI) mutual funds for a lack of standards, definitions and [social] accountability.  Investors who want to put their money where…

  • Oprah on The Joy of Connecting (and Disconnecting)

    The December issue of O: The Oprah Magazine has a special section on the benefits of connecting with and relating to one another … and (of course) a number of suggestions for ways that people can connect — or disconnect — with others.  I felt more than slightly self-conscious going through the checkout line of…