Khan Academy is the most effective and efficient school on Earth, featuring mastery learning. It offers a free, world–class education to anyone, anywhere. Now they're adding GPT-4 as a tutor!
Wikipedia: 100 times the scope and timeliness of any previous encyclopedia. $1,000,000 value, yours free!
Lumosity: Use it or lose it! Brains are like muscles. I try to exercise every day, both physically and mentally. The free Lumosity games are diverse and engaging. I've started a no–sugar, no–flour diet, inspired by the example of my friend Moshe Molcho.
Congratulations to the folks at DeepMind! They created an artificial intelligence program that predicts the 3D structures of proteins from their amino-acid sequences. Proteins are the key to biologic activity. Knowing the structure will revolutionize drug discovery and the understanding of diseases. Like Deepmind's game-playing programs AlphaGo, AlphaZero and AlphaStar, the protein folding program AlphaFold2 is significantly better than human experts or software competitors. They have published the structures of 200 million proteins. This is one of the major discoveries of our lifetimes.
You know how crazy kids are for TikTok? Well, I'm that way about YouTube! Their reommendation engine is terrific! I can't stop!!
"There is more good than evil in the world, but not by much." – Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
"Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself." —Elvis
My Most Influential Teachers:
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Pantheon of Heroic, Brilliant, Beautiful Women:
I'm proud to be a docent at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, a wonderful collection of 20th century art. At this time, we're closed for repairs. When we re-open, call (310) 277-5321 to make an appointment for a free tour. Ask for me!
My favorite activists, because they are so loving, are the folks at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker soup kitchen, "the Hippie Kitchen".
The PLATO Society is the original retirement learning group; we organize our own study/discussion groups. Take a course every semester for the rest of your life! We're studying different kinds of strategies from a big book The New Makers of Modern Strategy: from the Ancient World to the Digital Age, edited by Hal Brands.
Nuclear War, by Annie Jacobsen chronicles the two hours of a nuclear war. This is enough to make a believer out of you, according to the reviews.
Storyville - The Trials Of Oppenheimer, is a thoughtful 90-minute biography of Oppenheimer from the BBC. He's my hero for campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons and for international control of nuclear technology. It's too late to give him a Nobel Peace Prize.
Night Watch (season 4 episode 22 of Madam Secretary on Netflix) vividly depicts the insanity of relying on land–based missiles which could destroy civilization. Surprise cameos from Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton underline the significance of this message.
The Button, by William J. Perry and Tom Z. Collina, 2020; we can take away the President's nuclear "football" when we take away the land–based ICBMs that tempt us to risk launching them on warning. Land–based missiles are insanely dangerous for that reason.
122 nations have signed a UN treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, similar to the prohibitions on chemical and biological weapons, antipersonnel landmines and cluster munitions. We should too.
This is an informative, interactive presentation on the Rohingya refugee crisis. Young American Buddhists speak out against oppression of the Rohingya.
Sign this open letter to ban lethal autonomous weapons (killer robots).
WikiLeaks gives whistleblowers exactly what they need: anonymity. It lets us focus on the facts not on the leaker. Viva la información!
Thank you, NSA whistleblowers William Binney, Tom Drake, Diane Roark, Kirk Wiebe, Ed Loomis, Edward Snowden and Reality Winner!
Thank you, CIA whistleblowers John Kiriakou and Jeffrey Sterling.
Thank you, GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun.
Thank you, Russian anti–corruption blogger and candidate, Alexi Navalny, R.I.P.
Thank you, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, for publishing true information about misdeeds. Congratulations, Julian, on your freedom. Thanks to the Australian government and to the supporters who campaigned for you for 14 years.
Joseph Nacchio served four and a half years in prison in retaliation for his Feb 2001 refusal to let the NSA spy on Qwest customers.
comp.risks publishes computer screw-ups and bizarre stories about computers.
Adbusters shows how we are manipulated by advertising.
YInMn Blue, or "Oregon Blue," a beautiful new nontoxic high-performance pigment. Crayola has created a "blutiful" crayon, inspired by, but not actually containing any YInMn Blue! There are four blutiful crayons in the big box!
Western Governors University is an outstanding, low–cost, online–only university featuring accelerated competency–based programs for bachelor's and master's degrees. You should start your search for college here!
Scholarship Region announces international scholarships around the world. They're popular on social media channels.
Gapminder illustrates economic and health advances.
Jane Fonda, too, says sex is good for you. Here's Wikipedia's article on masturbation. Michael Ventura, right on! Masturbation is healthy, relaxing, hygienic, makes no demands on other people, and is available as often as desired. What's not to like?
MacTech magazine has put some of my old Computer Store articles online:
First magician: "Who was that lady I sawed with you last night?"
Second magician: "That was no lady, that was my half–sister!" —Walt Kelly
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