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Why Should You Become An Affiliate?

What is an Affiliate Marketer?

  • An affiliate Marketer is an individual who promotes and sells corporation products for a certain commission without being employed by the said establishment.

How would I use affiliate programs with my talent?

  • 1st, It’s never about the product but what the product can do for the customer.

  • 2nd, Create a work of art, a story, a song, a video, a comedy skit. (Click here to learn how to properly promote a product within your content without turning it into a commercial)

  • 3rd, Go over it, are there any particular products you naturally shout out?

  • 4th, If yes, find out where one can purchase that product online. (Click here to learn some of the best products to promote)

  • 5th, Sign up for the free affiliate program and acquire the affiliate link or code

  • 6th, Go back to your content, place the link in the content or below it. If it is below it, say, dress like, character’s name. Or, feeling said character’s style or behavior you can get something similar.

  • 7th, Place a one or two sentence call to action at the bottom of your post. (Click here to see an example of this.)

  • 7th, Upload Content

  • 8th, Attract People to your site

 What do I need?

  • An updatable site, also known as a blog. (Learn why indie entertainers need to have a blog or website)

  • You can do this with a free blog platform

  • Or purchase the Empower Network vlogging platform for $25 a month. (See list of features here)

 What is the Empower Network?

  • It is an educational company that teaches small-business owners, entrepreneurs,and opportunist how to maneuver the internet in order to acquire more customers/fans/followers through a series of products.

  • It is an Affiliate Based Program that pays 100% commission.

  • Click here to see my Empower Network Blog and  learn about the compensation system.

 Why would I pay for a blog platform if I can get one for free?

  • This one comes with an affiliate program.

  • Not only can you garnish an income from the products that you promote in your content

  • You can also get an income from selling the vlogging platform that you are using to someone else who is interested in changing their life.

  • It is an authority site, therefore your site will have the ability to rank high on the search engines page. The more visible you are the more of following you acquire. (Learn how to set your site up for SEO, search engine optimization,here.)

  • Many of the other product affiliate programs pay you once a month, but with Empower Network you get paid as soon as the purchaser’s payment goes through. The funds will go into your e-wallet account, which you purchase for 19.99 a month, and then you can extract it straight to your bank account or pay card. Whatever works for you.

    • This is not a magical program you do have work in order to make money. Look over the income disclaimer.

What if I don’t have a talent? Would the affiliate life still work for me?

Of course.

  1. Your content can be anything you like to write about, talk about, bitch about, or anything you see on the internet

  2. You can be a reporter, a commentator, a critic, a journalist

  3. (Just to get started) Find an article that someone else wrote

  4. Copy it

  5. Paste it to your site

  6. Place a link in the content with a one line reference back to the original site.

  7. Does the content have a product that you can promote and reap a commission from?

  8. If yes, sign-up and place the affiliate link within or below the content

  9. Upload it

  10. Attract People to your site.

  11. Again you need a blog why not use one that can garner you an extra income?

This sounds too easy. What’s the catch?

  • There are a million or more people on the internet every minute and most of them are hunting for the next best thing.

  • However, getting in front of them is a difficult task for a beginner.

  • This is the bread and butter of Empower Network, they teach you the secrets to building an audience or following, but it takes work.

    • Once you sign-up the fast track training will teach you just how to gather a following.
    • Click here to learn how I attract followers.

You'll make more money if the people who are supporting you can also acquire a way or product that will improve or maintain their life. 

Good luck and don't hesitate to ask questions. I'll do what I can. 

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WILL YOU JOIN ME AND BE PART OF THE SOLUTION?

 

This is a serious matter needing close attention. There are many things going on in our society that are very wrong these days as we well know. Will you be part of the problem or part of the solution? There is a saying by Edmund Burke, “All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.” Our communities have been doing allot of nothing in some respects and I want to challenge you to stand up and be the change we seek and do something.

 

I am sure you are aware this is hard for me to do. It’s hard for me to ask for help on anything. I’ve always been a self-reliant, do it yourself type of guy.  In this case I will make an exception because that is just how much I believe in this project.  As you may or may not know after over 20 years of working on multimedia projects for others I finally decided to make one of my dreams a reality. I have always dreamt of the day when we can have heroes and sheroes that look like us and are the stars of the show rather than just stereotypes in movies, TV, comics and books.  We all know the damage that has been done by the constant repetition of negative images in the media. This is your chance to be part of a positive change in toward rectifying this injustice.

 

I need your help with developing our digital production facility pipeline to make this first 3D animated feature length Sci-Fi action film, “Earth Squadron” a reality. Earth Squadron is a film about what happens when planet Earth's rejects are the only ones that can save them from an unknown alien foe bent on world domination. The short story was originally published in Genesis Anthology Book I in 2010. This full-length film showcases a positive and uplifting multicultural cast of characters.

 

I am asking for your support by making a donation of what you can afford toward getting this movie done.  Our team is fired up and ready to make this film a reality! Our community and children in particularly deserved more positive images and role models to emulate. Be a part of making that happen now.  Click here for more info and to support today:

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/earth-squadron-movie-project

 

Sincerely,

Jarvis Sheffield, M.Ed.

Administrator

 

 

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Dear. Mrs. Flynt..


I came across this note from you in an incredibly over-packed memorabilia album. Mom managed to cram K-12 report cards as well as my undergraduate physics transcripts! Thankfully, my graduate ones are in PDF form...Sadly, she's no longer here to hoard them. The unique spelling of your married name (you insisted upon, and now I see why) is the Old English word for "stream."



I found this note from you Mrs. Flynt, your last encouragement to me before I embarked on the journey to the big unknown: middle school, which at this time in most of the country was after the 6th grade. I only regret that I never in this life thanked you for your support and encouragement; encouraging my curiosity with our school science experiments - in and outside of the classroom; correcting my writing, grammar and spelling; making sure I was OK as I faded in-and-out of consciousness after a bully head-butted me "for a place in line" ahead of me, as I recall. I also clearly remember waking up in the school nurse's office - ice pack on face; you by my side as my parents came to school to see about the matter.



I think of you now as education "reform" in this Internet age you never lived to see is taking the shape of computer-delivered lessons replacing teachers; drill-baby-drill to standardized tests that didn't exist in your time. The human species has always best learned via the format of craftsman: journeymen; teacher: students; master: disciples. There is a dearth of critical thinking skills that used to be expected and encouraged. It is instead becoming germane and replaced with national reflection only on the superficial. When I briefly taught high school math and physics, I saw teachers that are just like you were: passionate about their subjects and dedicated to their students. I hope in my tenure I measured up to that as well. The teachers now are blamed for the problems in education by those who can't teach (won't ever teach), but make laws adversely affecting teaching, and ultimately this democratic republic. Another important role of teachers is to prepare the citizens to be informed, and critical of authority and holding it accountable when it wields the reins of power to adverse effects. Some things I wish had not so modernized. Human interaction is in our DNA, and this "reform" is making us more distant, more...cold towards one another. 



You along with my parents have exited this stage. I'd like to think, though it be wishful, that you are still reading over my shoulder; correcting my syntax and grammatical errors; and hope you still think I have some talent at writing.



Sincerely,



Your "little scientist" (...humbly, thanks you)

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Other Questions, Please...


John Pendry wishes J.K Rowling had written about superlenses.
Photo by Cirone-Musi/Festival della Scienza/Flickr Creative Common

John Pendry is a physicist at Imperial College London who laid the theoretical foundations for the invisibility cloak and superlenses capable of producing the sharpest ever images. He talks about the profound physics obscured by his invisibility cloak and how metamaterials could help realize the perfect lens.

John Pendry: It's when I give talks, particularly popular ones. Of all the things I am interested in, I am always asked about invisibility cloaks. I think, "Oh God, not another invisibility cloak lecture." I still enjoy giving them, but there are many other things I'm working on that are more profound; they just don't have that fertile soil which J. K. Rowling prepared for us.



VJ: What topics do you wish were better-known?



JP: The concept of a perfect lens is profound. A lens is a complicated thing that takes every point in an object and reconstructs it in the image—with no loss of detail in the case of a perfect lens.

It is ironically, National Nothing Day (some science teachers hate me right now).



New Scientist/Slate: The Physics Hidden by the Invisibility Cloak

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Something From Nothing...


A discussion between Lawrence M. Krauss and Richard Dawkins. Admittedly, both are enthusiasts of scientific, critical thinking and, ahem..."not friendly" to theistic viewpoints, to say the least.

I personally don't think there is a Venn diagram intersection between science and faith. I think both have helped society - Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Civil and Voting Rights - and both have contributed to errors and wrongs, e.g.: The InquisitionSalem Witch Trials; Eugenics; the atomic bomb. I don't think either professor is willing or able to absorb the intrinsic needs of society into the halls of science. I think both pursuits should endeavor to "stay in their lanes" and not intervene with/demean the other.

Meanwhile: enjoy their discussion. It is enlightening.
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Sci-Fi Short, Genesis!

Genesis (2013) Short Film from CJ Johnson on Vimeo.

Set in an alternate present day, people with super abilities known as "genesis subjects" are hunted down by the government as a larger political debate is happening worldwide. When a "hunter" comes face to face with an old friend who refuses to go quietly into the night, he's faced with his toughest mission yet. Discovering that he may just be a pawn in a much larger game. This is a gritty take on a world filled with people with super abilities. No costumes. No capes. Just a simple question… if someone you knew had special powers, does that mean that they still have the same rights as everyone else?

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Dating Methods...

Image Credit: Huffington Post

Similar to "Flat Earth Society" conspiracy theorists (they ironically have a web site and a Facebook "info" page, go figure), I hear a lot of "young Earth" enthusiasts that confuse, or blatantly obfuscate the distinct differences between Carbon 14 dating and Radiometric dating. Both are related to the decay of isotopes over time as measured by the half lives of the materials read to date it. However, the difference is where the elements are found, how they occur in nature, and what they tell us. This short primer hopefully, clears up any misconceptions and clarifies the inaccuracy of holding onto the notion - sometime propagated by our elected officials - of an Earth only a few thousand years old. Or, for that matter after the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle and International Space Station is flat or an oblong Frisbee-like disk (though it's not "round," it's not a flying saucer).



Carbon 14 dating


Essentially called so because it involves us "carbon-based life forms," to use a Trek techno-babble phrase. It has a limit of around 50,000 years and uses things like wood, bone, cloth, hair, plant fibers. (1) Page 2 of the "How Stuff Works" link has an excellent graphic on the natural  manufacture of the phenomena. Cosmic rays collide with energetic neutrons creating Nitrogen-14, eventually turning into Carbon-14 that is absorbed by plants, that are then consumed/used by animals or humans. Following death and burial as the link implies, word and bones change from Carbon-14 to Nitrogen-14 by Beta particle decay. The key to understanding this is Carbon-12 is considered a stable, i.e. non-decaying isotope, whereas Carbon-14 is unstable. (2) C-14 decays over time, and tells us how long ago an organism died and stopped producing it. This rate, or knowledge of how long this process should take, is how scientists date something using this method. However, it is not without some controversy as decay rates may have been accelerated, or at least different in the distant past. More info at "The Straight Dope" link below, discussing some assumptions in the process and thereby limits to the accuracy. (3) However, the key to this method is what's measured originates from living things.



Radiometric dating


This is on the order of larger and longer time scales,  billions of years, starting with the destruction of a distant star by supernova, which gave us the elements in our own bodies ("We are made of 'star stuff' - Carl Sagan) as well as what I'm about to discuss next. The death of distant stars gave us for better or worse: uranium, as such a heavy metal has to be manufactured in an atomic fusion process. (4) Some of that expended material finds its way to forming accretion disks, proto-solar systems of dust and rock that attract one another. The center will eventually become hot enough to become a sun itself and the outer, less thermally energized rings will coalesce into eventual planets. The Earth was initially in a molten state; uranium, silicon and zirconium form ZrSiO4 (Zircon). A faux diamond popularly sold is based on Zirconium (non-radioactive, I might add to alleviate any worries). Once locked into the lead-free crystal, 238U can decay in a similar fashion to C-14 dating, with a half-life of 4.46 x 109 years. The decay eventually leads to 210Pb (Lead). Moon rocks brought back from the Apollo missions are even older, and used as a comparison to the oldest rocks found on Earth, thus 4.54 billion years is the usual time scale given for the age of the globe, give-or-take a few million years (4). Geologic time is admittedly an approximation, and not as precise as any notion of "exactness" (5), but it is the best estimate of how old the planet is that's reported. Dr. Roger C. Wiens gives a primer on radiometric dating "from a Christian Perspective," his concern stated here:

Radiometric dating--the process of determining the age of rocks from the decay of their radioactive elements--has been in widespread use for over half a century. There are over forty such techniques, each using a different radioactive element or a different way of measuring them. It has become increasingly clear that these radiometric dating techniques agree with each other and as a whole, present a coherent picture in which the Earth was created a very long time ago. Further evidence comes from the complete agreement between radiometric dates and other dating methods such as counting tree rings or glacier ice core layers. Many Christians have been led to distrust radiometric dating and are completely unaware of the great number of laboratory measurements that have shown these methods to be consistent. Many are also unaware that Bible-believing Christians are among those actively involved in radiometric dating. (6)

That is an admittance that may disturb some on both sides of a politically contrived "debate." However, this Tweet from Bill Nye (a bit off-color, I will admit), says the point succinctly in less than 140 characters:







Adherence to the Scientific Method produces tangible, often profitable results - for the theist or skeptic alike - and it doesn't discriminate.


Sources:
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Wright Burger

Ingredients

2 lbs. 80% lean ground beef

4 slices multi-grain bread

One pound black beans

One medium onion

One Green pepper

One Red pepper

adobo

pepper

garlic powder

cumin

2 to 3 tablespoons of melted butter

A dozen Kaiser rolls

 

Directions:

Prepare beans according to directions on package. When drained, mash into a paste or use food processor. Season meat and mix well, set aside. Toast multigrain bread and drizzle with butter, garlic powder  and cumin mixture. Cut each slice into sixteens. Finely dice onion, and peppers. Combine bread and onion and peppers with meat and mix well, folding over itself repeatedly.  Use same large spoon to form into patties and cook on medium high heat for five minutes a side. Then place on Kaiser roll. Should make twelve patties. Serve with Russian or Thousand Island dressing.

 

Bon Appetit

 

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Hello BSFS! The team Incus Interactive Productions are proud to present "Fated By Chain" coming soon for the Nintendo Wii U. This is a brand new action-adventure/RPG that pushes the Wii U technology to the limit, while going through locations that go beyond the boundaries of time and space. This game application is being made by William P. Smith Jr. "Technical Artist" and David M. Smith "Graphic Designer". This game is also a Wii U exclusive, and will be lunched on Nintendo's eShop for sale on Wii U.  Be cool BSFS!

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Vortex Whiplash...

Image Source: B&N

My first B&N link, like...ever! I saw a lot of this image on the way to work in Winter Storm Hercules (that was ahem: after digging my car out). NOTHING in New York, or should I say nothing rarely, stops for snow.



I sincerely hope we're over it.



I earlier posted a widget from 4hiroshimas.com (see original link at "we're over it" above). You can see it below my Facebook badge. It's quite impressive.



Like I said, I'm sincerely hopeful we're over it. It snows in the northeast regularly enough. That cold was biting! My Labrador gained 10 pounds according to the vet. "She's not walking very far," I replied. To put it bluntly, she became...extremely efficient in very short distances. As I personify her: "...1!...2! OK, let's go back in!" (She's a Texas gal, after all.)

This is a good link on it with a very humorous title:
What Is The Polar Vortex And Why Is It Doing This To Us? So personal I know, but that's how one feels at -8 degrees Fahrenheit (reread the Lab's personification).



CNN gives a primer on it as well, walking the delicate line of whether it's global warming or not - can't upset the armchair experts too much, or Donald Trump. [Personally, I tend not to trust billionaires tied to reality shows that can't purchase a decent toupee or hair implants from "Hair Club for Men."]



I'm not holding my breath that my widget nor the fluctuating temperatures will change anyone's mind. The irrational, made-up mind is beyond logical discussion. Besides, climate denial makes for good ratings when preaching to the convinced choir.

Related links from Science blog:

Yes, it was a remarkable cold snap, but in what way? posted by Coby
Go home Arctic, You're Drunk, Greg Laden
More on weather whiplash and the Polar Vortex, Greg Laden
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Layered Cake...


Marie Antoinette never said it, but cake nonetheless, its stratification, its 99% base and crowning glory of 1% sugar and lard personification of our inequitable "education" system:





By DAVID FIRESTONE

December 18, 2013

“Americans do not support an egalitarian society.”



That was the response of one reader, Jay David of New Mexico, to the final editorial in our series on science and math education, and in many ways it summed up the bitterness that many others expressed when the American school system was compared to those of other countries.



The editorial looked at some of the reasons students in Finland, Canada and Shanghai do much better in science and math than American students, and concluded that those places care more about preparing teachers and elevating the cultural position of education, while ensuring that more resources go to the neediest schools. In this country, teachers are poorly paid, poorly prepared and generally disdained, while the richest schools and students get by far the most money.



Scores of readers blamed that disparity on this country’s more libertarian culture, and on an outlook toward learning that if not overtly anti-intellectual is at least non-intellectual.



“Canadians’ acceptance and indeed pride in their more egalitarian society contrast with Americans’ acceptance of having an underclass,” wrote Blair P., of Palm Desert, Calif. “It’s an Ayn Rand philosophy.”



We are allowing sociopaths to abuse our intellect and common sense; we're dumbing down our curriculum to fit a dogma best left in constitutionally separated voluntary places of worship for Sunday school lessons:


This lunacy is confirmed on Snopes (its made its rounds on the web); what we do to ourselves is child abuse and cultural psychopathy. Our elected officials encourage this for the electorate to vote for them against their own interests. WHAT OTHER COUNTRY ON THE PLANET DOES THIS TO THEMSELVES?



We are non-intellectual. We attack nerds-cum-intellectuals-cum-engineers-cum-teachers-cum-professors and expect to advance as a nation. We celebrate replaceable athletes and "reality shows'" family dysfunction exacerbating a writ large dysfunction of a democratic republic originally designed for its citizens to be educated, involved, curious; questioning. CRITICAL THINKING skills, not magical thinking is what our competitors excel in:

America’s stature as an economic power is being threatened by societies above us and below us on the achievement scale. Wealthy nations with high-performing schools are consolidating their advantages and working hard to improve. At the same time, less-wealthy countries like Chile, Brazil, Indonesia and Peru, have made what the O.E.C.D. describes as “impressive gains catching up from very low levels of performance.” In other words, if things remain as they are, countries that lag behind us will one day overtake us.

The United States can either learn from its competitors abroad — and finally summon the will to make necessary policy changes — or fall further and further behind.



The link for the 2nd excerpt is below. We're headed for the "Hunger Games."

NY Times: Three Reasons Students Do Better Overseas
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 I have created a short six minute video featuring the Alien Ambassador aka Nathan Turner.  This is the beginning of my effort to raise last minute funds to complete my movie which will be released in the summer of 2014.  I wanted everyone to see that we can have a black superhero on the TV, internet and big screens.  I have the actors, screenplay, location sets, but what I need is last minute funds to put everything together.  We as black people have been complaining about the lack of black characters in comic books and movies for a long time.  Nothing is going to change unless WE do something about it.  I'm not producing a blockbuster Hollywood event like The Amazing Spiderman, Man of Steel or the The Dark Knight. What I'm doing is producing a good sci-fi movie for 90 minutes that features a black superhero.  I got a bunch of nerds to help me with editing and special effects because we want to see that a black man and woman can save the day like any one else. All I'm looking to raise is at least $500.00 dollars.  It's relatively small amount of money compared to other budgets.  I have put in my own money and time so  you don't have too.  I can use additional funds to carry me over to the finish line.  Tell others about my project.  Watch the short video and pass it along to see what my vision is.  See if my project is worth helping.  My project is on kickstarter.com at THIS ADDRESS.  I have some cool reward prizes, but 5 bucks and can start it off.

Enjoy the short video and help me put a black superhero on the screen this summer.

Thank you  

   

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Review of Mothership Anthology from Analog

FROM: ANALOG SCIENCE FICTION AND FACT


REVIEW: Mothership: Tales From Afrofuturism and Beyond


BY: DON SAKERS
This article was originally published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact 

Edited by Bill Campbell & Edward Austin Hall


Rosarium Publishing, 350 pages, $19.95 (trade paperback)
ISBN: 978-0-9891411-4-7


Genre: Original Anthology

Mothership is billed as presenting “just a part of the changing face of speculative fiction,” and features thirty-nine stories by forty writers of color. Some are familiar names (Tobias Buckell, S.P. Somtow), while others are up-and-comers.

As you might expect from the term “speculative fiction,” not all of these stories are science fiction—there’s fantasy, steampunk, and horror as well. And despite the term “Afrofuturism,” these stories aren’t limited to the concerns of Africa or African-Americans. Frankly, what we have here is simply an anthology of good stories.

Market realities dictate that it’s not enough to have good stories by relatively unfamiliar writers—there has to be a gimmick. In this case, readers need to look past the gimmick at the stories themselves.

Mothership’s keyword is “diversity.” If these stories share anything, it’s that they spring more from the tradition of literary SF than from the Campbell era. To put it in magazine terms, you’d see most of these stories in Asimov’s or Fantasy & Science Fiction before you’d see them in Analog. Not surprising, really—the editors come from academia. Don’t let that deter you.

Among the standouts in this volume are Thaddeus Howze’s “Bludgeon,” a Twilight Zone-ish tale of alien invasion with a surprise ending; Carlos Hernandez’s “The Aphotic Ghost,” in which a father comes to terms with his talented son’s death on Mount Everest; and Nisi Shawl’s “Good Boy,” a parable of virtual reality.

If there’s anything missing from this volume, it’s background on the contributors. Yes, one can always turn to the Internet—but I kept wishing there was an “about the authors” section.

For readers who want to see more diversity in SF, Mothership is definitely worth the price.

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Open Letter...


Open Letter to Animal Planet and the Discovery Channel

To Whom It May Concern:



Even though it's an old story, I see you chose to run your faux documentary on Mermaids, replete with interviews from faux oceanographic scientists, faux CGI representations of evolved-from-Africa mermaid-hominids with a fake "discovery" by children at a beach, and the ubiquitous claims of a "government cover-up." The NOAA made an official statement on its web site the last time this was attempted. The off-hand scripted involvement of children got my attention.

Here is a video of a whale sighting I participated in last summer:

Yes, it's amateurish and not shot with CGI as your hominid tribe of mer-men. The jiggles are from my breathless sprinting back and forth to each side of the boat with my mobile phone where the sightings happened. I'm quoting my You Tube page for this blog:



"Sighting 1 of 2 Finback whales, a Minke and an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola). More videos to follow of 2nd and rest of sightings. All in all, a good day!"



That was FOUR non-mythologized sea creatures. There was no need for fake effects for the thrill of adventure. It was a good day, and a good time enjoyed by all, young and old and a diversity representing many countries that launched into the deep from Nantucket. I assure you, if a mermaid had been sighted off the bow, stern, port or starboard of our boat, there would have been even more excitement, and a lot of interviews by major networks like yourselves.



On other channels, we get schlock, crap, faux news and faux "reality shows," and as a nation we're rapidly losing our grip on critical thinking skills, healthy skepticism, scientific reasoning and the thrill of adventure for young people to seriously think about exploring a career in the sciences. In my opinion, we're just making our young people "good consumers" and not good thinkers or producers. Other nations are not doing this to themselves.



TLC: it stands for "The Learning Channel," yet hosts "Honey-Boo-Boo," and its current lineup is not too far removed. The competition for viewership in the universe of hundreds of options for consumers must be fierce, and I appreciate the struggle for viewership in a sea of options. However, we will not be a functional democracy for much longer if the only thing you can produce does not inform the citizenry, but instead dumbs down our most vulnerable via manipulation - of the very young and the very old - propagates "magical thinking" and its hand-in-hand cousin conspiracy theories.



I grew up watching Mr. Wizard (Bill Nye in the 90's thankfully carried on this tradition); the Apollo Moon Landing;  Marlin Perkins' "Wild Kingdom"; "The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau" and as a young adult in college, Carl Sagan's "Cosmos." THESE shows of actual events ignited the thrill of discovery in me, as I spent many a Saturday hunched around test tubes, testing electrical circuits, viewing human hairs and amoeba or peering through a refractor telescope. With respect to Cosmos, it spurred me to complete an undergraduate degree in Engineering Physics; it thrills me to go further. Surely your discourse could rise to this level, and elevate rather than insult the intelligence of and debase our nation's youth.



What you practice in these faux schlock-umentaries is frankly on the level of national child abuse. As a former high school math and physics teacher, I formally protest your actions, and ask you to reconsider broadcasting this pseudoscience ever again. I usually reserve these types of posts for Sunday, but it is a new school year, and impressionable minds should be guided in the correct way to view science: as an attempt to get at deeper truths; not propagate fiction.



Both official retractions and apologies are in order if you are mature enough to make them.

For branding yourselves under the name "Discovery Channel," ratings should not be your only criteria. Thank you.
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Kaizen Text Webapp.


 One of the goals of Moorsgate Media is to provide tools for content creators. In addition to blogging and writing about interesting sci-fi topics, we strive to develop simple apps and programs that hopefully help creators and dreamers to get their ideas down in a concise, readable form. 

To that end, today we released a small Text Analysis WebApp called Kaizen (found here Kaizen Text App). The App can also be found at the top of our blog banner. It is a client based JavaScript program, so it should work on most desktops and advanced feature portables.  The App is a straight forward readability / grade level analysis tool using the FOG Index as a base. Additionally, we have included word complexity / uniqueness metrics, to help you identify if you are overusing (or under using) your dictionary. 

The Kaizen Text App is a part of a larger Kaizen Scripter Program we are developing that incorporates the Kaizen Text technology and provides a more full featured word processor and text analysis tool. Hopefully, people find it useful and provide feedback if they don't. 
Twitter @moorsgate
Moorsgate Media (c)2014 
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Exomoons...

Image: NASA/JPL and article link

Exoplanets are almost old hat to astronomers, who by now have found more than 1,000 such worlds beyond the solar system. The next frontier is exomoons—moons orbiting alien planets—which are much smaller, fainter and harder to find. Now astronomers say they may have found an oddball system of a planet and a moon floating free in the galaxy rather than orbiting a star.



The system showed up in a study using micro lensing, which looks for the bending of starlight due to the gravitational pull of an unseen object between a star and Earth. In this case the massive object might well be a planet and a moon. But the signal is not very clear, the researchers acknowledge, and could instead represent a dim star and a lightweight planet. “An alternate star-plus-planet model fits the data almost as well” as the planet-plus-moon explanation, the scientists reported in a paper that was posted this week on the preprint site arXiv. The study has not yet been peer-reviewed.



The thrill is obvious, but tampered with skeptical caution: a moon discovered circling an exoplanet with the presence of comet-carried water in the planet's early stage could give rise to the conditions similar to ours for intelligent life. I expect peer-review will be necessarily rigorous as the Scientific Method is about illuminating truth from fiction; facts from error to corroborate this finding.



Scientific American: First Exomoon Possibly Glimpsed

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Never Late

It’s bath day.

My wrist itched from where my voidwatch had been part of my flesh. I rubbed it, missing the tech beneath my skin. Once a transtemporal connection to my voidship, now only flaking skin remained.

I don’t remember the last time we had a bath. I refuse to even attempt the mad rush. Eighty inmates in this section alone, six sinks, we get herded in, naked, filthy and play russian roulette with sinks, each sink may distribute water, this time, maybe not.

Just another psychological ploy, like keeping us dirty, introducing lice into the facility, food just shy of being spoiled and completely unedible.

The real goal is to break us.

To anchor us in time. To make us atone for our sins. To remind us we were not God.

Here away from voidships, away from temporal loci, we were just men subject to the irreversible hands of causality. I remember so many lives being at the center of a temporal locus, so many experiences, cheating the rules of reality.

Sitting on the event horizon of a black hole, I have just this one timestream. Crushing. Heavy. Inescapable.

I know where the nooks and crannies are and I hide when the gulag’s guards come around for bath day.

My guard came and left. I climbed back into the window and waited. Waited for the trail. Waited for the sign the Venture had come for me. She always came for me. But she didn’t come today. Or tomorrow. Or for many days after.

Years passed. I looked less and less. I did what I could to stay physically fit. But conditions in the gulag meant I spent more time sick and more than once I nearly died. But I never stopped looking. Then I realized, without my voidwatch, they would never find me. They needed a sign.

After a decade as a model prisoner, which meant selling out others, killing bastards who tried to kill me first, and providing favors to people I couldn’t kill outright, I became the head of the ship fueling detail. Today, thirty years after arriving in this gulag, I would leave here or die.

No one asked what I was doing onboard the warden’s yacht. It was my job. No one knew what I did before I came here, so reprogramming its navigation was child’s play. I waited until the fuel depot was completely full before enacting my scheme. The fuel was stored beneath the prison.

I watched the warden take off, he and most of his administrative detail were taking a vacation to someplace warm and beautiful. I had forgotten warmth and eschewed beauty. I had forgotten having been the master of my fate and the captain of my voidship.

I had become mean and petty. The truth was I had given up on rescue. This was now, just revenge. I watched the yacht arch into the heavens, its drive supplementing its antigrav, then I imagined their inability to control it as it dived toward the fuel depot.

I laughed maniacally as I saw them plunging into the atmosphere, heating up, knowing they would survive until impact.

I thrilled to the fuel explosions as they spread across the prison faster than they could be suppressed. I tossed the fire suppression module out the window of my cell.

My vanity fell away. We weren’t gods. We hadn’t the right to change reality to our whims. I made peace with my end.

As the fireball consumed the prison below me, I saw the arc of the voidship Venture as it fell from the heavens. Not in time enough for me. Fire became my world.

At this distance, I could hear her in my mind, again. That familiar song as she bent time and space. “You came.”

“I will always be there for you.” Her voice soothing, filled my consciousness, became all consuming, my death fell away.

“You’re late.”

“A timeship is never late, my love. Regulations notwithstanding, I will rescue you.”

“I know.”

I fall away into the darkness, away from her light, and I died. Again.

But not alone this time.

It’s bath day. Its been a month since I’ve been clean, but I know she will come for me.

She would move a universe.

Never Late © Thaddeus Howze 2014, All Rights Reserved

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