Contagion 2: The R Naught

In a scene in the movie Contagion, the character played by Kate Winslet writes on a dry erase board:                 R–O                                                                        – reproductive rate of the virus Flu   –   1 Smallpox  –  3 Polio  –  4-6 Winslet explains, “What we need to determine is this: For every person who gets sick, how many…

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Contagion: The Epidemic

I rented Contagion recently. It’s a movie about the rapid spread of a virus that’s taking the lives of people all over the world. I started reading the Bible twenty-two years ago and I read in the New Testament about the rapid spread of a “virus” that gave life to people all over the world.…

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Conferences….

We’ve done our Vault Conference two times now. And each time we’ve had tons of people say it was the best conference they’ve ever been to. These are people who have been to all the big conferences. And that has really shocked me. I think part of the reason is that we talk about things…

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Like Sundance?

I’ve had the opportunity to go to the Sundance Film Festival two years in a row. It intended to be a festival for independent film makers. There are movie makers who have budgets of $10 million to $200 million and make movies that remind you a lot of other movies you’ve seen. And there’s nothing…

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Be You-Nique (2)

Damien Hirst is one of the most prolific artists in the world, probably the richest artist in the world, and perhaps one of the most scorned artists in the world. He’s put down for lots of reasons – many critics blame him for the decline of contemporary art (Hirst’s art includes dead animals, and lots…

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