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Homepage for TeamHumanhttp://teamhuman.org/
It's been a static page for years. Will put a link to this hub site when ready. 
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In Hot Pursuit of Fusion (or Folly)NYTimes science section in the 26 May 2009 issue featured as the main article a $3.5 US billion project in Livermore, CA known as the National Ignition Facility, or NIF. "Bringing Star Power to Earth". For more than half a century, physicists have dreamed of creating tiny stars that would inaugurate an era of bold science and cheap energy, and NIF is meant to kindle that blaze. Good quote from the project's director, Ed Moses on the difficulties and uncertains of the success of the project: "Taking on big projects that challenge the imagination 'is who we are as a species.'" |
These are blog posts from everyone:
What do I mean by threats to well-being that are "most readily under our control"?
What drove Steve to do TeamHuman.org
Create translations of the main pages (home, about, faq, donate, etc.) to support the different languages in the locale menu (upper right of each page).
Migrate this website to the stable 0.7 release of Pinax when it is available (sometime in May probably).
This site is currently using a snapshot of the 0.7.0dev pinax trunk checked out from SVN on 3/31/09, the last day before they switched to github.
Potential issue: database schema changes. Does pinax have a way to migrate an older schema to a newer one? (perhaps this is what syncdb does). Just worried about potential incompatibilities at the db level.
Pinax doesn't provide a way to search the whole site using a user-supplied query string. I added a google-based search that appears at the bottom of each page, but this is just a stop-gap until something built-in to pinax comes along.
Is something like this in the works?
There is a really cool project underway called the Genographic project that is working on figuring out how we humans spread across the globe using "computer analysis of DNA contributed by hundreds of thousands of people from around the world:"
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
They state: "DNA studies suggest that all humans today descend from a group of African ancestors who—about 60,000 years ago—began a remarkable journey." In evolutionary terms, sixty thousand years ago is quite short, not enough time for significant genetic or physiological changes to accumulate within the extant set of all humans.
So the data from the Genographic project underscores how we are pretty much one large, widely dispersed clan. Spreading this message is one of the goals of TeamHuman.org.
Today's NYTimes Science section had an interesting piece about human behavior:
Stumbling Blocks on the Path of Righteousness:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/health/05mind.html
It may be of interest to think about my TeamHuman.org project from this perspective. I like to think of TeamHuman.org as assisting all of us affirm and stay true to the values that benefit us all. And this website is intended to serve as a social network-powered "morality crutch."
Here's an excellent guide for what is involved in becoming a non-profit organization in California (where TeamHuman.org HQ is based):
http://www.cafcc.org/cnonprofit.html
It's probably too early to deal with this yet (board meetings would be quite dull with just one person there ;). But it's useful to see what all's involved, once we have more critical mass.
Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)
Key question: Does it make more sense to be a 501(c)(3) or a (4) or a (6)? Being a (3) would attract more donations, but the other options would permit involvement in other areas (political lobbying, which might be of interest).
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