http://www.teedeepee.com Tales of an accelerating future Sat, 17 Sep 2011 10:46:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/12/07/teilhard-de-chardin-and-the-human-effort/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/12/07/teilhard-de-chardin-and-the-human-effort/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:41:58 +0000 teedeepee http://blog.teedeepee.com/?p=98 September 1917. World War I has been ravaging Europe for three years when a 36-year old infantry medic by the name of Teilhard de Chardin takes part in the battle of Douaumont, France. There, knee-deep in the cold mud, exhausted from months spent on the battlefront, starved from weeks of short supplies, hundreds of thousands of men from both sides are waging the most epic and bloody battle of the Great War. 300,000 will lose their lives on this killing field over a matter of days, in a frenzy of deafening noise, blinding light and burning shrapnel. Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/12/07/teilhard-de-chardin-and-the-human-effort/feed/ 0 http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/02/02/just-because-you-can-does-not-mean-you-should/ http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/02/02/just-because-you-can-does-not-mean-you-should/#comments Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:53:10 +0000 teedeepee http://blog.teedeepee.com/?p=60 Unless you have been spending the past week spelunking in a deep, uncharted cave, you most likely heard about a 33-year-old Southern California mother of 6, Nadya Suleman, who thought it would be smart to have six additional crotchfruit frozen embryos implanted in her clown car womb last year (at least that one deep cave has been well charted). By the magic of fertility treatment that raises the odds of having multiple pregnancies, she gave birth last week to eight reasonably healthy babies, raising her kids count to a staggering fourteen, close enough to forming a rugby team (if shrimps had such a thing as rugby teams). Continue reading →]]> http://www.teedeepee.com/2009/02/02/just-because-you-can-does-not-mean-you-should/feed/ 0