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A Reason to Think, and Think AgainTED Tuesday: Civil Rights Parallels of Today
This TED Talk explores the challenges of fighting for LGBT rights in the context and connections to the Civil Rights Movement. "For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson...
TED Tuesday: Medical Research Fundamentally Improved
Now We're Talking. These chip-based testing environments are a fundamentally different approach to medicine -- and science itself. Western scientific thought is based on compartmentalization, differentiation, and control. Eastern (Chinese) scientific thought is based...
“Merry Christmas” Part of Larger, Unecessary Social War
I wish everyone a Blessed Holiday Season. I don't specifically say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know because I don't know their preferred tradition. That is MY choice. It's not trying to be "politically correct", just polite. If you say Merry Christmas, I will...
The ‘Matternet’: Drones as Infrastructure
This TED Talk explores the use of drones to transport medical supplies and tests in regions where there is a lack of usable transportation options, creating a network of autonomous delivery vehicles connected in the same way as data (and voice) in Africa went to...
Planned Parenthood Cuts Are a Bone Tossed to Conservatives
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, March 16, 2011} The House has voted to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood, a group I enthusiastically support. Both my parents did volunteer work for Planned Parenthood, and in the course of my life I have...
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