This talk gets at something I was deeply affected by in 2015 when making the archive of Dr. Helen Caldicott’s extraordinarily relevant Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction convened at The New York Academy of Medicine. Speaking on Artificial Intelligence and the Risk of Accidental Nuclear War: A Cosmic Perspective, Max Tegmark touched on […]
Month: June 2019
Good To Be Alive Today
Michael Franti: Good To Be Alive Today (Acoustic Remix, 2016) what if this song was number 1? Would it mean that love had won? Would it mean that the world was saved And no guns are bein’ drawn today? What if everybody had a job? And nobody had to break a law? What if everyone […]
“… not merely peace for Americans…” Banning Nuclear Weapons and Retrieving the Legacy of President Kennedy’s Last Year
56 years ago on 10 June 1963 President Kennedy gave the Commencement Address at American University. His focus was “the most important topic on earth: peace” and includes the inescapable reality of our species’ oneness: …in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe […]