Here's what you saw "above the fold" on the world's four biggest news websites on the 25th of April.

Can you spot the coverage of the most historically significant event of the day?

Give up?

Hint: it's not there.  (maybe I missed it, but given that Anna Nicole was "above the fold" for weeks, I would have thought this might get some prime coverage for at least a few days ...  and yes, this historic event did get some cutesy "human interest" coverage on TV ...)

Also in today's news: scientists discovered what is potentially a "second earth."

OK, it's 20 light years away, we don't even know if it "hold's water" (literally), and our technology isn't even close to taking us there.

But still ... Why aren't we all focused on the news that is propelling us forward?

Science is advancing at such a rapid rate right now (perhaps mostly thanks to the Internet), that a profound invention or discovery happens daily.

So why are we focused on struggle and conflict?

Well, partly because it's there.  It's hard to look at the stars when death is at your door.  Only a tiny fraction of the population is free enough, and interested enough, to pursue scientific advancement.

What if that percentage were boosted even fractionally?

That could in fact happen if technologies that enhanced freedom were available on a mass scale.

You could wait for that to happen, or you could free yourself and then get directly involved in making it happen.