Episode 3 Launch Coming Up THIS WEEK! Cynthia Chung discusses her documentary series ‘Escaping Calypso’s Island’ with Matt Ehret on TNT’s Connecting the Dots. The trailer to Episode 2: The Curse of Game Theory is played within the first few minutes of the video. Watch episodes 1 and 2 of Escaping Calypso’s Island below:
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Escaping Calypso’s Island Episode 2 The Curse of Game Theory Trailer
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The 5000 Year Suppression of the Dodecahedron (RTF Lecture with Chuck Stevens)
Fusion Energy Foundation co-creator Chuck Stevens delivers a presentation on the topic of ‘The 5000 Year Suppression of the Dodecahedron’ (and science more broadly) which will tackle the importance of the most important Platonic solid and the golden section which were integral in the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, celestial astrophysics, and even…
The Dynamics of Nuclear Power Diplomacy: Russia and China vs the Neo-Malthusians
In 1975, an influential Stanford biologist named Paul Ehrlich (author of the misanthropic 1968 Population Bomb) stated that in his view, humanity’s acquisition of fusion energy was “like giving an idiot child a machine gun”. Ehrlich’s views were shared widely among the peculiar sect of scientists that have come to be known as neo-Malthusians. Ehrlich’s colleague John…
A Dialogue Between Tagore and Einstein on the Nature of Reality
On July 14 1930, an incredible platonic dialogue occured in Berlin between two great minds representing both cultures and fields of study which many have falsely presumed to be polar opposites of each other. On the one hand the scientist Albert Einstein, representing western civilization, had attained some of the greatest accomplishments by revolutionizing humanity’s…
Poe’s Metaphysics: Rediscovering Eureka
By Matthew Ehret What I here propound is true: — therefore it cannot die: — or if by any means it be now trodden down so that it die, it will “rise again to the Life Everlasting. Nevertheless it is as a Poem only that I wish this work to be judged after I am dead.” –Edgar…
The 120 year British French Plot to Enslave Mexico and How Franklin Roosevelt Ended It
EVery year Mexico celebrates ‘Revolution Day’ – the overthrow of the fascist puppet Porfirio Díaz in 1910. Sadly many of the legacies of the Anglo-French imperial intrigues of the 19th century that led up to Porfirio’s achieving power still haunt Mexico as it is pulled between two very different visions for the future: One vision…
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Mary Stuart and the Geopolitical Realities of 19th Century England
In this Rising Tide Foundation lecture, Nicholas Jones explores the universal method of analysis and transformative artistic composition of the great poet of freedom Friedrich Schiller. Nicholas begins by setting the stage of the period in time in which Schiller himself lived and worked. This was a late 18th century Europe clamoring for liberty from…