Friday Music Video - Just a Band

It's Friday, and I am in Kenya, so that means it is time for an excellent Just a Band music video:



(as a reminder, here is a link to my last trip to Kenya)

Walter Isaacson talk on sciences and the humanities

Last week, I listened to Walter Isaacson give a speech entitled The Intersection of the Humanities and the Sciences (*). Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, is also the biographer of Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, and Albert Einstein (the Jobs book, by the way, is superb). If you have the time, I highly recommend this hour plus talk - it is full of awesome anecdotes and stories. Check it out.


(*) By the way, I am always amazed that so many people still feel very strongly about either the humanities or the sciences. Like other debates, I tend to expect people to find the mutually-beneficial middle ground. Either way, this talk explains why you need to be cognizant of both sides.

Travel Advice

Few young men of your age have the opportunity of seeing so many countries. Learn, get about, ferret things out, see everything, make people talk but talk little yourself. Take care who offers you a drink; don't give the girls more money than they're worth, and be careful to take your hat off to religious processions.

A little travel advice from Maurice Druon's "The Iron King," first book in the Accursed Kings trilogy, historical fiction about 14th century France (which George R. R. Martin calls "the original game of thrones")