“When We Build” is a lecture by Wilson Miner that shows how our evolving tools respond to and shape our world.
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This was created by 'Frugal Dad' and posted at one of my favorite business sites, Fastcompany.com
My son just saw this on Yahoo News. Crazy!
Flying down the mountain has never been so precise.
Zeal Optics has combined blue tooth technology, GPS tracking and of course their backcountry knowledge to design the most useful goggles we've ever seen, and they're just getting started.
With the Z3 goggle you can monitor your speed, altitude, air temperature and receive phone call and text notices from your Android phone though a small screen in the corner of the goggles. With the integrated GPS you can find yourself and your friends on the mountain, which is perfect when you inevitably separated on a run, especially on mountains with spotty cell service.
But the Z3 is just the beginning. Next year Zeal Optics is releasing the iON goggles, which builds on what they've achieved with the Z3 by adding an HD camera, with a 170-degree wide-angle lens, and an 8 megapixel still camera.
All of the controls for the goggles are managed through a blue tooth enabled remote that you can wear on your wrist like a watch and allows you to easily switch through all the functions.
These goggles aren't cheap, however. A pair of the Z3's will cost you $550. Fortunately the price of the iON's will be less, at $400.
If you haven’t watched Forks Over Knives you should make it your evening viewing tonight.
What does it have to do with the elimination of sugar and alcohol from our diet? Not much … but it will give you some surprising insight into the relationship between corporate interest and food policy in the United States.
The conclusion, to eat a low fat diet primarily of plants, is based on what some hail as “The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted.” The New York Times referred to it as “the Grand Prix of epidemiology.”
Dr. Caldwell Esseltyn, who bases his dietary advice on The China Study, goes so far as to say …
“If the truth be known coronary artery disease is a toothless paper tiger that need never, ever exist and if it does exist it need never, ever progress.”
Is it true? Can a plant based diet not only prevent, but even reverse heart disease? And if it is so, why aren’t doctors everywhere giving this advice? And why does our “food pyramid” reflect something else altogether?
Some believe that the Department of Agriculture and even the National Academy of Sciences are not above the corrupting influence of corporate interest.
Whether you agree with the conclusions or not, the film will get you thinking more about what you put in your body, and about who is influencing those decisions. Given the dramatic rise of diet related diseases over the last few decades, isn’t it about time we take this seriously?
I was just told about this diet/Forks Over Knives 2 days ago!
Mike
