NOBELITY

I'd wanted to see this movie since I first heard about it back in March. After confirming with someone who'd seen it that it was suitable viewing for kids, Christian and I headed out tonight to be inspired.

Filmmaker, Turk Pipkin, was present to introduce the movie and for Q&A at the end. Quite a guy, quite an honor, quite an experience. For anyone who has kids, or for anyone who cares about how we leave this world for the next generation, this film is packed with warnings but also inspiration and optimism from eight Nobel Prize winners:
* the late Rick Smalley - Energy. Rice Professor; Nobel Prize in Chemistry; developer of nano technology, an alternative energy; visionary of seas of nuclear panels throughout many of the world's deserts
* Harold Varmus - Disease. Nobel Prize for Medicine; developer of cancer fighting technology
* Jody Williams - War/Peace. Nobel Peace Prize; founder of the ICBL International Campaign to Ban Landmines
* Ahmed Zewail - Religion/Peace. Nobel Prize for Chemistry; self professed Egyptian, Middle Easterner, Mediterranean, European, African, American, with no internal identity crisis
* Wangari Maathai - Poverty. Nobel Peace Prize; initiated the Green Belt Movement in Africa
* the late Sir Joseph Rotblat - Peace. Nobel Peace Prize; one of the original developers of the nuclear bomb, and the longest surviving member of the original signatories of the Russell-Einstein Manifesto, an anti-nuclear policy
* Amartya Sen - Poverty. Nobel Prize for Economics
* Desmond Tutu - Peace. Nobel Prize for Peace; idealist

The credits rolled to Willy Nelson's rendition of Rainbow Connection, which was the perfect conclusion