Kaleo - the blog of Erick Cobb

"Conception to Birth" Video for My Nutrition Class

Wednesday's lecture in my Nutrition 101 class was on the nutritional needs of pregnant women and infants. I got to used this amazing TED Talk video.

And Now For a Little Perspective (video)

"Lift Up Your Eyes...and See: Who Created These?" (video)

"Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these?"  Isaiah 40:26a

(watch it in full screen)

HT: JT

A Willing Subject

It funny how friendly (?) these dragonflies can be, he seemed eager to be photographed.

Cholla in Bloom - From The Retreat Pictures

I have been to the desert countless times, but this is the first cholla in bloom I can remember seeing.  The rest of the Kaleo retreat pictures are on Flickr.

Emergence

My profession demands a lot of drive time, so an iPod is a must to redeem the time (550 hrs last year in the truck).  I recently found a podcast that is making my time in the truck enjoyable, it is called RadioLab.  Both the content and the production of the RadioLab podcast are amazing.  I just listened to the one called "Emergence":   

"What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies, all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. How? That’s our question this hour. We gaze down at the bottom-up logic of cities, Google, even our very own brains. Featured: author Steven Johnson, fire-flyologists John and Elizabeth Buck, biologist E.O. Wilson, Ant expert Debra Gordon, mathematician Steve Strogatz, economist James Surowiecki, and neurologists Oliver Sacks and Christof Koch."

It will blow your mind.  God's creation is much more amazing than we are aware.  You will see this, surprisingly, when you take a closer look at ants in this episode.  You don't need an iPod or even iTunes to enjoy this, you can just download it or listen to it online - here.