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Ig Nobel Prize 2009 winners

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There are great winners of the lg Nobel Prize this year, here link: Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2009

They are all fantastic this year, but I especially like the veterinary medicine prize which went to Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson of Newcastle University, UK, for showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless…

For those who are unfamiliar with the Ig Nobel Prizes, here a description from the founders, Improbable Research:

Ig Nobel Prizes honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the unusual, honor the imaginative — and spur people’s interest in science, medicine, and technology.

http://improbable.com/

the venus project and the zeitgeist movement

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It came to me that when I know highlight development of high tech solutions to society’s problems (see post from this morning), I almost have to link to one of the really grand visionaries in this matter: Jacque Fresco and his Venus Project. The Venus Project is also closely connected to the very interesting Zeitgeist Movement – I might write some more about this movement in the future.

Peter Joseph, who started this movement and made the enlightening films Zeitgeist: The Movie and Zeitgeist: Addendum, also published this film here below in March this year. It describes the basic ideas of The Zeitgeist Movement and the Venus Project:

The Zeitgeist Movement: Orientation Presentation

you’ll find more on Peter Joseph incl interviews @ zeitgeistmovie.com

I remain unconvinced about that these people offer the right solutions to our problems, although they have some interesting and bold ideas. But they are definitely asking the right questions and thus they have good idea about what our main problems are. And I love the fact that they aim for finding solutions and getting other people involved in that mission, instead of just pointing out what is bad in the world.