Ted Talks

I have to first off say that i don't keep up with the news. In addition to that I do not know much about the military as in how things have changed and how they operate on the inside. I personally liked the presentation by Thomas Barnett. In the lack for words I have to say it was very entertaining. His views are very new to me but I can see were he was coming from. I think the military would be much better off if they took a little advise from him and made some inside changes. Now I have to admit most of what he said didn't mean a whole lot to me. The one thing that did stick out was about having the marines not handing out aid they should be ready to go in and kill. I think he is right. Shouldn't other country fear the marines. I sure seeing pictures of them handing out aid to people doesn't invoke fear in anyone.

Artificial Intelligence and computers

The article I found was called AI beyond Computers. The article was really really long so I choose the Artificial Progress section to summarize. This part of the article talked about how PC games have progressed over the years of gaming. Now they have come out with Artificial life, which has been described as "one of gaming’s hottest new frontiers" by Next Generation, a popular computer and video gaming magazine. Not that sure what Artificial life actually is but i would assume its like the Sims PC game just way more realistic.


http://www.lggwg.com/wolff//aicg99/stern.html

Ted talks

I watched a few videos and they were all pretty much boring. I found Jills Sobules video called A happy song about global warming. I personally thought it was great. Its good to see someone take the lighter side for a change instead of talking about how bad global warming is. I think by now everyone gets the point. Al gore even liked the song he was standing and clapping at the end. Everyone should watch it; it is truly funny.

Al Gore

I choose to watch the talk for Al Gore. First off i didn't know he was so funny. The restaurant story he told was pretty funny; how before he got back from Africa the story had been changed around and was already in the media. I also learned that building emit more global warming pollution than cars even though we have the lowest emission standards for automobiles in the world. At www.climatecrisis.net there is a carbon calculator that is user friendly to find out how much carbon you use. I think this is a helpful tool in showing someone individually how they can cut back on how much carbon they use.

Google Reader

Non of the atomic learning links worked for me this week. I watched the You Tube video and just did what it said. so here is the link to my reader.


http://www.google.com/reader/view/?tab=my#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Fhowstuffworks.com%2Ffeature-article-feed.htm

Ted Talks

I watched the talk about William Kamkwamba building his family a windmill. William said he learned how to build the windmill just from reading a book on windmills. I don't think i could build a windmill after just reading a book on them. This is a amazing thing that William has done. The windmill he built made enough electricity to power 4 lights and 2 radios. I think William is a very very very intelligent person with a extra strong drive to better himself and the people around him.