Volunteers For Sept. 5th '06 Oakland Elementary School Talk

Tuesday 9/5/06 we've been invited back to a gifted but "financially challenged" classroom to share stories about our paths going to Harvard. The teacher said there was a positive impact on the students when we visited last year. In Oakland, it will be 9-11 AM. Anyone interested?

Regards.

Perry

Top 10 Technology Questions

Help me out here. If we wanted to define the "Top 10 Technology Questions" & challenges, what would they be? Delete, change, correct and adjust the following and send your take to the Harvard Technology Forum list as a member; sign up at http://harvtechforum.org . Or send your comments to me pg@harvtechforum.org and I'll post what you say verbatim. What are the problems where technology plays an important role?

1. Are there 11 dimensions, or X many more than we have established by experiment today, and what is the interaction with the world we perceive of those dimensions?
2. Are the current tools in play on Earth destroying it and making it unlivable and what are we going to do about it?
3. If we can redefine the building blocks of life what world will we build and what methodology will govern our choices?
4. With more and more data accessible can we make it useful?
5. Is there life elsewhere in other dimensions or in the Universe we perceive and can science establish that this is so?
6. What is going to be done about weapons development and use?
7. What is going to be done about human suffering and disparity between population centers in this regard?
8. When will we leave this planet and populate elsewhere; where, and how will we go?
9. What is life? I almost made this one 5(a).
10. Can technology help us resolve disputes better?

How will the necessary components to go after these questions be funded? I made these up. Many of you are experts in the areas where I am treading so please do not hesitate to comment and redefine what I am saying. And my question for the group is if we were to agree on a top 10 list (and that is a big if) what are we going to do to help in these areas, why or why not? And if we had to put the list in priority order what order would that be, and why?

Perry

Black Harvard Alumna Astronaut Might Fly on Next Shuttle

From: David L. Evans 
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 11:16 AM
To: Gregg, Perry
Subject: Black Alumna Astronaut Might Fly on Next Shuttle

Perry,
 
         Click on the following link and read about an alumna astronaut who, many think, might fly on the next Shuttle:

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/wilson.html



Best regards,


David

[Support Women For Women International] Next Thursday 6/22 Harvard-Stanford-Cornell-Brown All Ages All Programs Hat Party

Bring your favorite topper. Holly the owner has a discount for us all night. Please invite friends. RSVP to http://xrl.us/m82b .

All ages and programs and everyone else for that matter, see you at Tonic on Russian Hill in San Francisco next Thurs. 6:30 PM 6/22.

Julia Lau http://julialau.net will sing for us. Original songs and stories from her family and China, all are welcome. You do not have to be a graduate of the featured schools to attend. We packed this SF Russian Hill location 2360 Polk St. at Union two years ago. Cornell grads run the bar.

Julia donates a portion of the profits from CD sales and these events to organizations that work to create a better, more peaceful and just world. A portion of the proceeds from her album "In The Wildflowers And Weeds" will be donated to Women For Women International in support of
women around the world who are surviving the atrocities of war www.womenforwomen.org .

Perry

[From David Evans] Taunting of Black Soccer Players

From: David L. Evans [Harvard FAS]

Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 5:04 PM

To: Gregg, Perry

Subject: Taunting of Black Soccer Players

Dear Perry,

With increasing frequency I have read about the racist taunting of African and African-descended soccer players at games in Europe. This is often (but not always) the work of traveling bands of thugs and it sometimes includes physical assault. Even more, it is done with relative impunity.

After reading a detailed article last Sunday about the upcoming World Cup competition in Germany and how black soccer players had been harassed in that country, I was fed up.

Maybe it is time for the greater world to hold the hosting countries responsible for this barbarity as we did Southern segregationists and South Africa for its apartheid policy. I expressed this view in a letter that is published in the Sports Section of today's New York Times (see below).

Best regards,

David

The New York Times

June 11, 2006

Letters to the Editor

Accountable to the World

To the Sports Editor:

Re "Surge in Racist Mood Raises Concerns on Eve of World Cup" (June 4): When Jim Crow laws existed in parts of this country and black citizens were set upon by racist hooligans, pickets often greeted officials from those regions when they traveled.

Moreover, companies doing business in those areas and their products were boycotted. Those tactics were effective, as were similar actions taken against South Africa during the era of apartheid.

Perhaps countries that are unable to quell egregious racist violence and major sponsors of events where patterns of violence persist should be reminded that they, too, are accountable to the world.

David L. Evans

Cambridge, Mass.

Copyright 2006 The New York Times Company