Equal Reality: Brennan Hatton and Rick Martin creating level playing fields

“What an unbelievable honour to be listed as Forbes 30 under 30 social entrepreneur with Rick,” Brennan Observed ...

5 Books Every Young, Aspiring Entrepreneur Needs to Read

Social impact integral to entrepreneurial success, say young

Australia's top 100 young entrepreneurs - Business News Australia

These young business men and women are our future business leaders fuelling the nations vibrant business culture, making our local economies tick and inspiring us with their drive and innovation.

They are well informed risk-takers who think outside the box. They have worked hard at building their empires and are prepared to act on ideas and implement new technologies to create thriving businesses.

From those working in new technologies like artificial intelligence and data, to those inspiring a generation online as influencers and others making a killing in online retail, every entrepreneur on this list has that something special that sets them apart from the rest.

Entrepreneurs are never content, always pushing forward, and breaking new ground in industries ripe for disruption.

Wollongong startup innovators Brennan Hatton and Rick Martin take the world by storm

Wollongong startup founders Brennan Hatton, 25, and Rick Martin, 28, are not only celebrating a recent move to Washington DC.

Overnight they were named in a prestigious list by being included in Forbes 30 Under 30 Social Entrepreneurs 2019.

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The two young innovators co-founded a business called Equal Reality which recently launched in Australia. They were then invited into the Halcyon Incubator with their US based team in September. b

Halcyon is an organisation that runs a program focused on supporting and growing national and international social enterprises in Washington DC.

Equal Reality is bringing diversity and inclusion training into the 21st century.

The virtual reality training provides an experience that enables users to see the world from the point of view of other genders, races and ability-level.

Brennan Hatton, 25, and Rick Martin, 28 - Forbes

Cofounders,Equal RealityThe team behind Equal Reality is bringing diversity and inclusion training into the ...

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Brennan Hatton - Founder, CTO - Equal Reality | LinkedIn

Brennan began building virtual worlds and communities 10 years ago, and has since founded several social impact companies in augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), game development and education.

Stories Brennan Hatton clapped for – Medium

Discover all stories Brennan Hatton clapped for on Medium. CTO and Co- founder at Equal Reality, building diversity

Brennan Hatton (@BrennanHatton) | Twitter

 

The latest Tweets from Brennan Hatton (@BrennanHatton). Global Ambitious Adventurer, Teacher, High Tech dev ...

10 Questions From Young Entrepreneurs About Startups

The Science Of Attraction Actually Does Make Two Hearts Beat As One

The Science Of Attraction Actually Does Make Two Hearts Beat As One

How can that be real? Chemistry, biology, physics … “The real measure of whether two people hit it off is how much they synchronise internal bodily functions, like heart rate and sweating.” – New Scientist

Underground knowledge. Plants have the capacity to remember and to learn — is that enough for us to consider them intelligent? Native Stories 

2. More than a place to cool off, these swimming pools are the lifeblood of Australia

The Pool

Pools are a defining part of our national identity. Evoking deep nostalgia and childhood memories, this two-part documentary takes a look at the Australian identity through the prism of the pool.

Machu Picchu: Ancient Incan sanctuary intentionally built on faults Science Daily 

Cats Like People! (Some People, Anyway)NYT. So everything’s gonna be OK

How Ann Patchett Threw Her Entire Book Away (Parts Of It A Few Times) Before Getting To The Right Voice

Patchett, author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder (and the newThe Dutch House): “It was a funny thing to throw a book out. People seemed much more upset about it than I was. Some people said, It must be like a death! It was nothing like a death. It was like burning a cake. You know that feeling? Oh, hell, I burned the cake. Then you cut the cake open and eat the little pieces in the middle that aren’t completely ruined, then you bake another cake.” – LitHub

How a 'little Aussie digger' brought Lady Elliot Island back from the brink

ABC NEWS

When miners left Lady Elliot Island, on the southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef, all that was left was a herd of imported… More

Kim Hair and Music on Saturday Afternoon

Kim Hair and the Jazzhoppers

Kim Hair (vocals, percussion) ... Michael has been performing in musical groups for over 30 years, performing in ...


Illawarra Jazz at Unanderra Hotel

Kim Hair and The Jazzhoppers play a vibrant mix of jazz and blues with a smattering of music theatre to both entertain and envelope an audience, drawing them in to become part of the experience. Kim’s background in theatre and visual arts combines with powerful vocals aimed at taking the audience on a journey with her

The hot-to-trot Local Band working with Band Master Rafael Karlen: Kim Hair (singer/performer), Peter Lavelle (Guitar), Hans Kieft (Bass), Ian (Drums), Jen Williams (Clarinet)

Photo: Heidrun Lohr 

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A RABBIT HOLE FULL OF LSD:  Do ‘Ya Ever Feel Like You’ve Fallen Into the Rabbit Hole?

Blue Mountain Randy Rabbit Climb ...

Illustrator Marjorie Blamey, Who Just Died At 101, Had 10,000 Wildflower Paintings To Her Name

Blamey was an utterly prolific illustrator of wildflowers. She “contributed all the colour illustrations, amounting to many thousands of paintings, for a succession of distinguished field guides” – all without formal botanical training. “Her watercolour illustrations opened people’s eyes to the beauty of wild flowers at home and throughout Europe. … Her pictures captured the essence of a plant in a way that photography rarely can, and made identification much easier than was previously the case.” – The Guardian (UK)

CL on Randy Rabbit Ridge The Blue Mountains

280m, 11 pitches. Starts 20 metres right of Bunny Bucket Buttress

Randy Rabbit Ridge", Blue Mountains, Australia: An interesting look at what goes into developing a new multi-pitch sport route

First Australian on Everest summit predicts 'major, major fatality'

Greg Mortimer, one of the first two Australians to conquer Everest 35 years ago, is calling down from halfway up a sheer rock face. He got up there in about five minutes.

With fellow mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape they did Everest the tricky northern face way without oxygen, reaching the summit on October 3, 1984.

By comparison, the sandstone west face of Upper Shipley near Blackheath in the Blue Mountains bathed in sunshine is a stroll in the park.

Everest veteran Greg Mortimer scales the western face of Upper Shipley in the Blue Mountains.

Photo: Wolter Peeters

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Almanac: C.S. Lewis on the moral threat of “insiderism”

“To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does come, in no very dramatic colours. Obviously bad men, obviously threatening or bribing, will almost certainly not appear. Over a drink, or a cup of coffee, disguised as triviality and sandwiched between two jokes, from the lips of a man, or woman, whom you have recently been getting to know rather better and whom you hope to know better still—just at the moment when you are most anxious not to appear crude, or naïf or a prig—the hint will come. It will be the hint of something which the public, the ignorant, romantic public, would never understand: something which even the outsiders in your own profession are apt to make a fuss about: but something, says your new friend, which ‘we’—and at the word ‘we’ you try not to blush for mere pleasure—something ‘we always do.’”
~ C.S. Lewis, “The Inner Ring” (lecture, King’s College, University of London, 1944)

       Günter Kunert (1929-2019) 

       German -- first East, then West -- author Günter Kunert has passed away; see, for example, the (German) Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung piece 
       He wrote an extraordinary lot -- and a lot that was very good. Among his recent publications is the novel Die zweite Frau, which he wrote 45 years ago but could not publish in the GDR; see also the Wallstein Verlag publicity page. 

LEXUS:  A million miles.

  

NEWS YOU CAN USE: “Craft Whiskey” Sucks. Here’s Why.

       A blast from the past as George Murray has revived his long dormant Bookninja weblog -- great to see one of the literary blogs from the early days back up again. 

Winston Smith was unavaliable for commment …

… My Book Defending Free Speech Has Been Banned - Quillette.

Well, some publisher ought to pick it up. It's already getting a lot of pre-publication publicity. 

The world seems to going nuts.

  Like a child insisting that onions make you beautiful, Freud's Interpretations of Dreams, kept telling lies till they became true.  And like a child convinced that eating fish makes you a good swimmer, he grew up thinking that crossing the Iron Curtain would help overthrow the government.  That is why he behaved as he did.? 

He was staying in a friend’s cabin; he’d been there a month.  It was after what people called ‘his breakdown’, or what those closer to him called ‘one of his breakdowns’.  He just thought of it as ‘normality’.  It was a feeling he always had, hovering, just out of reach.  Every few years it would swoop down, grab him by the shoulders and carry him away

Graffiti That Helps You See Through Walls

Jason Kottke   Sep 16, 2019

For some of his latest street art, Portuguese graffiti artist Vile has been creating optical illusions of his name “cut” into the walls of buildings.

 Inspired by the sping weekend - John Irving of The Cider House Rules fame: “He had in abundance youth’s most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.” 

Want to be a writer? Have I got the workshop for you: renowned chef, massages, inspiration, camaraderie, and quiet. Oh, it'll cost $3,500...  Price of Imagination  

It’s Only 2019, But The Guardian Has Made A List Of The 100 Best Books Of The 21st Century

Agree, disagree, tick off the ones you’ve read on a list … whatever, here they all are, from nonfiction to poetry to doorstop novels to graphic novel memoirs to everything else that won the approval of the British newspaper’s reviewers. (We hesitate to imagine the epic meetings and battles that took place to decide on number one.) – The Guardian (UK)

You heard it from a publican: Cormann was decisive in the putsch against Turnbull

Writing in Fairfax media, Max Koslowski gives another perspective  of the Dutton – Morrison ousting of Turnbull, namely the decisive role played by Mathias Cormann. He draws his article from former frontbencher and colleague of Turnbull, the publican Craig Laundy, who was launching David Crowe’s book Venom: Vendettas, Betrayals and the Price of Power.

Steal This Book? There’s a Price 

The New York Times – I have about 400 offers to buy illegal copies of my own work. Something is very wrong – “Most of them, it turns out, are phishing scams, asking gullible users to hand over credit card information before proceeding to their ostensibly free copy. The real theft happens elsewhere, though, according to publishing industry experts who track the rapid growth of book piracy. It happens in a bewildering assortment of venues, including “piracy libraries” that turn up in Google searches, illegal PDFs on eBay, counterfeit physical copies on Amazon, private file-sharing groups on Facebook, and person-to-person sharing via thumb drive. “There are people out there that just want everything to be free,” says Mary Rasenberger, the executive director of the Authors Guild (where I am a member), “and it’s like a religion to them.” Some piracy sites, she says, even advise users how to buy a digital copy of a book, strip out the digital rights management (D.R.M.) intended to protect the author’s rights, upload the book to a file-sharing site, and then return the book for a refund, “so they don’t even have to pay for the original.” Some sites are so insanely bent on copyright piracy that they offer their followers wedding vows, in which the couple solemnly commits to support the copying culture. “They don’t understand that writers need to get paid, and publishers are not going to publish books if they can’t make money on them.”..