Thomas Schelling

"[Y]ou're standing at the edge of a cliff, chained by the ankle to someone else. You'll be released, and one of you will get a large prize, as soon as the other gives in. How do you persuade the other guy to give in, when the only method at your disposal – threatening to push him off the cliff – would doom you both?"

"Answer: You start dancing, closer and closer to the edge. That way, you don't have to convince him that you would do something totally irrational: plunge him and yourself off the cliff. You just have to convince him that you are prepared to take a higher risk than he is of accidentally falling off the cliff. If you can do that, you win."

The Strategy of Conflict, which Schelling published in 1960

ABSCAM 1977 - FBI investigation and sting of Congress

This is a good time to do what we did before.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/11/30/the-real-life-fbistingbehindamericanhustle.html

Money plays a much bigger and more important role in Congress than in those days. It's become so egregiously escalated since Abscam that we are ripe for another scandal.

Craig Holman

government-affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen

This wasn't the way the government was supposed to work. I didn't realize it was this bad. Sometimes when you catch a murderer, for example, you are elated. This was different. I wished it wasn’t happening. There were tears in the room

Francis 'Bud' Mullen

former FBI assisant director

Genetic Complexity = Writing Idea

A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA -- the genetic instructions for living organisms that is composed of four bases (C, G, A and T) -- is more open to unnatural letters than had previously been thought. An expanded "DNA alphabet" could carry more information than natural DNA, potentially coding for a much wider range of molecules and enabling a variety of powerful applications, from precise molecular probes and nanomachines to useful new life forms.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120603191722.htm

Teleforce

Tesla's claim (bluff) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleforce
(writing idea)

Seven Styles of Overtone Singing (Tuvan Throat Singing)

Tuvan Throat Singing

Red Bull Stratos FULL POV - Multi-Angle + Mission Data

Believe it or not I had this same idea in 2002, but was unable to raise the $100,000 to become famous. If I had a $Million I would break this record within a year.