a day down into CAVES

Join me in a day down into CAVES. Helmet on, buckle up ... and don't forget your headlamp!

visiting other worlds

Leaving aside the very well known fact that we are all spacefarers, being tied to a planet that makes revolutions around a star, which itself goes around an arm of a galaxy, I've just discovered that our own planet is hiding worlds that we do not know. And I am not talking about the worlds we can find in microscopes, the little particles and energy beams that make up the void that shapes us.

I am talking about worlds that we humans can experience with our senses. But not understand. Yet. New worlds, hidden from the eye of most humans for millions of year, and shaped by the forces of nature: chemistry, physics, but also biology.

I like to say "I've been to the house of gods, and I've seen things that you humans cannot even imagine". 

But how do I describe that world? My soul is still impregnated with the overwhelming sensations of its colours, its shapes, its sounds, its silence, its contrasts, its peacefulness ... and I have no words. I want to share the pictures, which I yet do not have, and the infinite awe that engulfed me. I'm in need of a poet, an artist, a musician, which is not in me. 

Privileged: that is what I can easily say. I feel privileged to have been amongst the 20 people who have ever left their footprints in that place. Carefully placed footprints, trying to always step on the previous ones, realizing to be an elephant in a christal shop, wanting to be able to fly over the thousands of speleothemes, all new to science. Those formations will help rewrite the science of speleology.

My mind is flying back there ... meeting my fellow explorers ... 

playing demiurge

Systematical use of trial and error (evolution) has made us, stubborn beings, interested by displays and keyboards, curious and addicted to bricolage. Some more stubborn and perseverant than others, some more systematic, some just better organised. And of course, we all love LEGO. And alchimia.
You mesh it all up, and a web of intricate logic sprouts into existence. And we play demiurge, with life as the coach, and topic, of the lesson. Isn't that fantastic ?
With open source, and a growing registry, it's all out there for artisan biologists and computer addicts to play with http://partsregistry.org/.
The outcomes ? I'd say ... 42 !

A glimpse here: http://documentaryheaven.com/playing-god/

loving documentaries

l'Abisso

Short of doing things myself, the next best option is learning and becoming smarter about the world. Other than TED, and some online courses, the best way to learn about the world for somebody as visual as myself are documentaries. Amongst them the ones I find consistently good are the BBC documentaries. And amongst those, the ones presented by professionals who know the topic seem the best.
I thrive for knowledge and understanding, and I'm always looking for new sources of good information. I'm wondering what would be of me if the internet wouldn't exist ...

Some of my sources:

http://documentaryheaven.com/
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/
http://science-documentaries.com/
http://www.richannel.org/
http://watchdocumentary.com/
http://www.documentary-film.net/
http://www.documentary-log.com/
http://www.online-documentaries.org/
http://freeonlinedocumentary.com/
http://www.documentary24.com/
http://www.documentarywire.com/