Turtles all the way down

From Stephen Hawking’s 1988 book A Brief History of Time:

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: “What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.” The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, “What is the tortoise standing on?” “You’re very clever, young man, very clever,” said the old lady. “But it’s turtles all the way down!”

Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak

Losers: A film about bullying. Made by Everynone everynone.com.

Losers from Everynone on Vimeo.

We live in public

On 7 November I was one of the speakers at TEDxUHasselt. I used the platform to collect feedback on a number of have-baked ideas on identity, privacy, and reputation online. Here's the video:

The accompanying slides are up on Slideshare:

We live in public

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A collection of starlings is called a murmuration

Murmuration on Vimeo: "A chance encounter and shared moment with one of natures greatest and most fleeting phenomena."

Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo.

I'm not sure if I would have been able to keep the camera that still if you see a thing like that while canoeing.