PlantSense, which just raised a $3.5 million first round, makes soil sensors that collect data about the soil, and then makes suggestions for what you can grow.

Gets kids off the couch and play outside!

a rotating cabin is an interesting idea. I still like the idea of having an interchangeable cabin on a standard platform, so one day I can drive an SUV, and the next day, I can drive a convertible.   

There should be urgency around A) global warming and B) the economy and C) geo-political reasons, including reducing the power of the Hahmoud Ahmadinejad  (Iran generates $60 billion a year in oil revenue) and Hugo Chavez (Venuzuela generates perhaps $55 billion in oil revenue) regimes.The Manhattan Project cost $24 billion in 2008 dollars. 

Every president since Nixon has advocated trade and engagement with China, with the prevailing belief that engagement will lead to democracy.

Why then do we have a different policy towards Cuba?

Does the Bush/McCain doctrine of isolating and closing channels of communication with our enemies (Iran, North Korea etc.) have any basis in psychological theory, as a valid mechanism to achieve our objectives?

“Negotiating with terrorists” is different than having dialogue to defuse anger and incentivize change, and does not necessarily connote weakness. A large stick can and should be wielded.

As the Tao says,

Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are brittle and dry.

Plants are born tender and pliant;

dead, they are brittle and dry. 

Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death.

Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life.

The hard and stiff will be broken.

The soft and supple will prevail.

Also, by calling our involvement in Iraq a “War,” we are empowering our enemies.  Acts of terror and violence against peace, freedom and democracy should not be legitimized by the language of war. 

wow, this is powerful: