We also see a big DIY movement.

RB He's a wonderful enthusiast, which is why I love him. But ...

We just had an issue on space exploration, DIY space exploration.

This is what the DIY and maker movements really look like.

And it has become a wild success, tapping into the enthusiast photography community.

And here is some eye candy for you, from a range of DIY scientists and artists from all over the globe.

Tech enthusiast Kevin Kelly asks What does technology want? and discovers that its movement toward ubiquity and complexity is much like the evolution of life.

A greater distribution of the means of production, environmentally sound supply chains, and a newly relevant DIY maker culture can hope to transcend artificial scarcity.

Then we set out to create an open source, DIY, do it yourself version that anyone can build and maintain at a fraction of the cost.

As a matter of fact, DIY people from all over the world, America, Europe, got together last year, and we hammered out a common code of ethics.

Aphorism enthusiast and author James Geary waxes on a fascinating fixture of human language the metaphor. Friend of scribes from Aristotle to Elvis, metaphor can subtly influence the decisions we make, Geary says.

Thatcher herself was not an enthusiast for credit, once famously saying, I don t believe in credit cards. Indeed, she espoused a rigorous philosophy about borrowing The secret of happiness is to live within your income and pay your bills on time.

After a recent martial arts match between an American and a Russian, Putin, a judo enthusiast, stepped into the ring to congratulate the Russian victor, a member of his United Russia party. The audience screamed wildly, Putin, go home! until he did.

Some famous ones like the Open University, which has 110,000 students, the University of the Third Age, which has nearly half a million older people teaching other older people, as well as strange things like DIY garages and language lines and schools for social entrepreneurs.

America was built by makers curious, enthusiastic amateur inventors whose tinkering habit sparked whole new industries. At TED MotorCity, MAKE magazine publisher Dale Dougherty says we're all makers at heart, and shows cool new tools to tinker with, like Arduinos, affordable 3D printers, even DIY satellites.

Britta Riley wanted to grow her own food . So she and her friends developed a system for growing plants in discarded plastic bottles researching, testing and tweaking the system using social media, trying many variations at once and quickly arriving at the optimal system. Call it distributed DIY. And the results? Delicious.

So it all comes down to Putin, who enjoys a degree of autonomy in Kremlin decision making not seen since the Stalin era. Putin is widely known to be a martial arts enthusiast, and his action in Syria is entirely consistent with many of the discipline s principles, including the importance of the decisive thrust that neutralizes the opponent s strengths and exploits his weaknesses.