http://matus1976.blogsome.com Philosophy, Science, Politics, Ethics, the future, inventing, technology, progress, immortality, Ayn Rand, Aristotle, Eudaimonism... Sat, 04 Jun 2011 15:42:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Not at all surprising to me.  According to this article in Business Week, only 16 percent of Innovations come from large companies. Large established corporations are notoriously conservative and short term focused. Not to mention the corporate culture which emphasizes conformity and bureaucracy.   "We studied sources of innovation in 25 ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/06/04/hire-entrepreneurs/ Kickstarter www.kickstarter.com Peerbackers http://peerbackers.com/ http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/06/04/crowd-funding/ For fellow Entrepreneurs - CrunchBase - a Wiki of Investors, Funds, Companies, and Entrepreneurs… Interesting. http://www.crunchbase.com/ http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/06/04/crunchbase/ For the IT crowd, DropBox is a useful site that gives you 2GB for free and 50GB for $9.99 / Month online storage that automatically synchronizes locally with any computer you install DropBox on and is available through a web portal on any system AND shows up as a regular ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/06/04/dropbox-online-storage/ Some economic theories believe that wealth is created through labor, that creating jobs will therefore create wealth. The reality is that wealth creates jobs, and not vice versa. In China we see the extreme logical consequence of this idea - millions are put to work building vast cities and malls ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/04/19/chinas-ghost-cities/ Platonic idealism is a common philosophical concept that is readily embraced by a large portion of the population but is in reality an idea that makes psychological fulfillment nearly impossible. Platonic idealism attempts to define concepts by some abstract perfect notion of their essence that all material manifestations of objects ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/03/22/what-is-platonic-idealism-and-why-it-matters/ "Structuralism argues that a specific domain of culture may be understood by means of a structure—modelled on language—that is distinct both from the organisations of reality and those of ideas or the imagination—the "third order" (wikipedia) Huh??? Understanding can be had by using a means of structure that is ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/03/22/structuralism/ A few reasons and comments to have children   1) fulfilling life   I think having children has the potential to produce a more fulfilling life for myself than not having them, although I certainly believe a fulfilling life is possible without children. The increasing marginal utility from interactions with children and a loving ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/03/15/selfish-reasons-to-have-children/ The terrible quake in Japan should remind us to prioritize the actual threats civilization faces. In 1923 a smaller earthquake in Japan killed over 100,000 people. The safety standards that prosperity and wealth have enabled has made a stronger earthquake in a land with more than double the population kill ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2011/03/12/prioritize-real-threats/ Anyone interested in Architecture be sure to check out this excellent online Yale course dedicated solely to Roman Architecture http://oyc.yale.edu/history-of-art/roman-architecture/content/downloads   http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/roman-architecture-yale-course/ Open Yale courseshttp://oyc.yale.edu/ http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/link-open-yale-courses/  Free Online Courses from Top Universitieshttp://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/link-free-online-courses-from-top-universities/ FloEFD includes Computational Fluid Dynamics and Thermodynaimic simulation and analysis, integrated with Solid Works.  FloEFD Pro 9  http://www.mentor.com/products/mechanical/products/floefd/ http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/floefd-mechanical-analysis/  Integrated 3D CAD/CAM/CAE Solutions for Any Size Design Challenge http://www.ptc.com/products/proengineer/ http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/ptc-pro-engineer/ Solitude and Leadership By William Deresiewicz If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October of last year. http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/article-on-solitude-and-leadership/ Interesting and thoughtful article by David Horowitz about his friendship with Christopher Hitchens and their mutual travels through the political landscape.  Second Thoughts On the complexities and contradictions of Christopher Hitchens http://article.nationalreview.com/437551/second-thoughts/david-horowitz?page=1 http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/david-horowitz-on-christopher-hitchens/ Interesting article on telomeres and aging Meet Bill Andrews: The Man Who would be Immortal http://www.my-wellness-coach.com/2010/07/the-man-who-would-be-immortal-.html http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/article-on-telomeres-and-aging/ Aristotle gets the whole range of guilt applied to him. Usually he is blamed for the dark ages, because everyone believed Aristotle had all ready figured everything out, so didn’t bother to try to figure out anything new. Aristotle himself would have been disgusted by ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/more-rebuttals-to-aristotle-bashing/ Lets take a critical look at aspects of ’sustainability’. Lots of small communities producing locally only what they need is a recipe for disaster. The first drought, hurricane, or tornado that swings through will basically condemn all those inhabitants to certain death. Neighboring sustainable villages do ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/sustainability-and-running-out-of-resources/ Why is the Electric car not more popular? Many attribute this to some conspiracy by the oil companies. The simple fact is that physics killed the electric car, not any conspiracy, because the ability of batteries to store energy is about one thousandth that of ... http://matus1976.blogsome.com/2010/07/12/physics-killed-the-electric-car-not-a-conspiracy/