if you aren't worried yet, consider starting now

We can get worried about our projects, our salary, or our romances, but somehow we do not get worried about our specie, and other forms of life on Earth. Dan Gilbert says that it's because things change too slowly with climate: we do not "see" the impact, and because climate change does not have a face, and we LOVE to associate evil with faces.
Truth is, if we do not start acting upon our daily behaviours, we're doomed to kill ourselves, maybe slowly, but we'll sure loose face in this universe.
Forget about Terraforming on Mars, we need Terrapreserving in here !

too good to be true?

It was just an evening chat, trying to find good topics for a dinner discussion, avoiding work and potentially conflicting issues.

The first potential topics introduced were italian mafia, european politics, football ... yuk! I introduced my preferred topics: psychology, neurology, cognitive sciences, innovation, closed cycles ... and the light was ignited.

Can it really be true? Will we really implement a sample self-sustainable building, and have our engineers operate it, learning how to autonomously maintain a settlement? Will we finally set ourselves as models of real sustainable behaviour?

the power of arithmetics

I have forgotten maths ! I used to love maths, even when it was explained to me as a purely theoretical endeavour. It was structured, regular, predictable, and if you followed the rules, the results were stunning. Now, had it been taught with real life examples, I believe I would have chosen to dwelve into it for the rest of my adult life.
Back to the video. A fantastic metaphora on video n.3 on the bottle full of bacteria, and our inability to realise when we are 1 minute before 12.