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Gas pump prank turns couple into Internet sensation

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Leno struck viral gold with a gas station prank featuring the talented Will and Monifa Sims.
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JOYFUL!  Charismatic does not even begin to describe this talented couple. This will bring a big smile and a deep soul song...ENJOY!

The BioSync Team's comment, May 11, 5:07 PM
And their equally awesome appearance on the Jay Leno Show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8E1DeS_JzM
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In Love With My Planet

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Dominique Browning speaks with Sebastião Salgado, the documentary photographer and author, about his forthcoming book “Genesis.”
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We are living in a very special moment, when the effect of everything we are doing to our world is accelerating. If we do not pay attention now, we will be facing catastrophe. A big red light should be blinking in all our brains.
— Sebastião Salgado

Read More:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/opinion/sunday/in-love-with-my-planet.html


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Inspiring Thoughts

An inspiring collection of interesting people whose influential thoughts are woven into a visual gallery of John Eagle's paintings. To contact Mark and Leah ...
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Why I'm Walking Every Single Block in New York City

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In a sense, this is the goal of my quest to walk every block of every street in all five boroughs of New York City: to know nothing. To tear down all the generalizations about the city and its people and its neighborhoods that I’ve absorbed without thinking during my time here. To learn firsthand that this wildly multifarious collection of 8 million human beings can’t be known, not by newspapers or blogs or public officials or loudmouths at dinner parties or anybody else.

 


Via Cathryn Wellner
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"All journeys have secret destinations of which a traveler is unaware!"
-Martin Buber

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http://www.good.is/posts/why-i-m-walking-every-single-block-in-new-york-city/


Cathryn Wellner's curator insight, March 21, 7:07 PM

Anyone could do this - in a small town, on a country road, along the streets of a major city. 

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What most schools don't teach

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Learn about a new "superpower" that isn't being taught in most schools
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Code.org is a non-profit foundation dedicated to growing computer programming education.

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The 50 Most Amazing University Libraries in the World

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If there’s anything the editors of BestMastersPrograms.org love more than classes and books, it’s universities and libraries. It’s no surprise, then, that university libraries rank right up there among our favorite places.

Via Professor Jill Jameson
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I love libraries and these are beautiful!

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Jean Butler, ‘Riverdance’ Star, Makes Her Own Work, ‘Hurry’

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Jean Butler rose to fame in “Riverdance,” but in her 40s she is unassumedly reinventing herself as a choreographer and performer of contemporary dance.
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"Everything could go wrong. But also something beautiful could happen."
~ Jean Butler

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Musicians On Call: MOC Homepage

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Delivering the healing power of music to patients in health care facilities
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How To Solve Problems Like Sherlock Holmes

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Are you a Dr. Watson or a Sherlock Holmes?If we could choose between a Watsonian and Holmesian mind, I’m sure most of us would prefer Holmes. He’s brilliant and perceptive: the consummate problem-solver.
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Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years

Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years | READ | WATCH | LISTEN | Scoop.it
Gardener David Latimer, from Cranleigh, Surrey, first planted his bottle garden in 1960 and finally sealed it tightly shut 12 years later as an experiment - and it's still going strong.
SIN JONES's comment, February 15, 12:39 PM
amazing!
lei su's curator insight, February 21, 11:00 PM

is that a possible way to set up closed ecosystems for journey to Mars?

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Why You Should Work From A Coffee Shop, Even When You Have An Office

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A change of environment stimulates creativity. Even in the most awesome of offices we can fall into a routine, and a routine is the enemy of creativity. Changing your environment, even just for a day, brings new types of input and stimulation, which in turn stimulates creativity and inspiration.

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The coolest music in the world: Listen to Siberian ice drummers use frozen Lake Baikal as an incredible musical instrument

The coolest music in the world: Listen to Siberian ice drummers use frozen Lake Baikal as an incredible musical instrument | READ | WATCH | LISTEN | Scoop.it
In minus 20C, they found by pure chance that the one metre thick ice has a distinctive and haunting rhythm all of its own, the coolest music on earth.
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Some of our most magical moments involve drumming.... beautiful African evenings spent listening to the language of drums and in the streets of Manhattan witnessing Babatunde Olatunji talk with his hands...

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The Creative Secret Sting Uses To Write New Songs

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Does Sting have a creative secret for writing a hit new song? Is there a trick Neil Simon uses to get ideas for plays?
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7 billion people on 1 page

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7 billion people on 1 page

Via Sakis Koukouvis
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This AMAZING visual represents an extraordinary moment in history --- a snapshot of the exact instant when we reached 7 billion people on earth!

Read More:  7 Billion World

Sakis Koukouvis's curator insight, April 22, 1:45 PM

That webpage serves as visual representation of the moment in time when there was exactly 7 billion people in existence, which was on October 31, 2011 at 5:49:16 GMT. It represents human beings as they relate to the planet earth, and all the philosophical and symbolic attributes that entails. Click over to 7 Billion World to find yourself. Each stick figure has a number on it, so you can see how far down the list you are as you are scrolling. All I can say is wow!

Jayne Fenton Keane's comment, April 22, 5:49 PM
great find Sakis, thank you for sharing
Sakis Koukouvis's comment, April 22, 5:52 PM
You 're welcome Jayne
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The National Digital Public Library is launched

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Robert Darnton: The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans — and eventually to everyone in the world — online and free of charge.


Via Luca Baptista
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Great article on the vision, infastructure and depolyment of DPLA.


Read More:  http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/apr/25/national-digital-public-library-launched/?pagination=false




 

Cathryn Wellner's comment, April 6, 3:51 PM
Oh, my - your mother was well ahead of her time!
Melaina Borchert's comment, April 7, 10:51 AM
Well this will be nice too have in college. It will make getting information easier. But I don't understand how they are going to make this free of charge for everyone. How will the people who write these books get paid.
Cathryn Wellner's comment, April 7, 1:28 PM
New models are going to have to be developed. Newspapers are facing this as well, but few people these days want to rely on only one news source. So perhaps a prescription service that allows access to multiple sources. I'll bet people are working on the models as I type.
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FedEx Is Shipping 2 Pandas Across The Globe Today. Here's How

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On March 25, two very unusual passengers will take a flight from China to Canada. And among other concerns, the passengers have very specific dietary restrictions for their in-flight meal.
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Animals aren't the only unusual "package" to be shipped via FedEx....imagine 500 thousand bottles of wine, 100 thousand Christmas tress, 70 thousand turtle eggs, a windmill, etc.  David Lang, managing director of FedEx charters, says “It could be race cars one day, rock bands the next.”

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Biological Benefits of Drumming: Affecting DNA with Music

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DNA switches turned on by stress reverse with creative musical expression. By doing something as simple as drumming, benefits occur at the cellular level.
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The Drum Circle is a huge jam session. The ultimate goal is not precise rhythmic articulation or perfection of patterned structure, but the ability to entrain and reach the state of a group mind.
- Mickey Hart

Read More:  http://www.biosync.com/2013/the-biological-benefits-of-drumming/

The BioSync Team's curator insight, March 20, 12:08 PM

"Drumming is also one of those rare physical activities that can have both profound and subtle effects on the entire person."
- Linda Buch

Read More:  http://www.biosync.com/2013/the-biological-benefits-of-drumming/

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Shane Koyczan: "To This Day" ... for the bullied and beautiful

By turn hilarious and haunting, poet Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and ... different. "To This Day," his spoken-wo...
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Teacher | Preacher | Slam Poet Shane Koyczan talks about bullying and being bullied in this powerful and poignant TEDtalk.

Watch the VIdeo:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=sa1iS1MqUy4

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World Trade Center High Wire Artist Philippe Petit's Colorful Advice For A Career On The Edge

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On a summer day in 1974, a 24-year-old Frenchman stepped onto the world stage with one of the most astonishing performances in modern history--walking back and forth on a wire illegally rigged across the void between New York’s World Trade...
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  1. Let life be your teacher
  2. Court disaster
  3. Make your art a joyful adventure
  4. Be a madman of detail
  5. Improvise
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This Is Your Brain on Body Language - Forbes

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The limbic brain plays a key role in all nonverbal communication.
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This is inclusive of all communication. The modern day Emerson quote "What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say" captures an understanding of body language, energetics and the limbic brain.

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OVERVIEW

On the 40th anniversary of the famous ‘Blue Marble’ photograph taken of Earth from space, Planetary Collective presents a short film documenting astronauts’ life-changing…
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Overwhelming, beautiful, dynamic, alive ... the EARTH!

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The Untold Story Of How The Aeron Chair Was Born

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After the great dotcom bust of 2000, there was one lasting symbol of the crash: Herman Miller’s Aeron chair.
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As Cliff Kuang says "Beguiling in its perfection, but necessary only because of a waning, deadly habit."

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Research—You’re Doing It Wrong. How Uncovering The Unconscious Is Key To Creativity

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That’s because neuroscience is now telling us that consumers, i.e., humans, make the vast majority of their decisions unconsciously...The truth is the unconscious mind, the seat of our motivations, communicates in feelings, not words.

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24 Places That Look Not Normal, But Are Actually Real

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Prepare to have your mind blown. We tip our hats to those who see things differently. . NOT NORMAL.
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How Lytro’s Weird Design Tells A Story About Revolutionary Tech

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If you had to give an award for the year’s most breakthrough piece of consumer tech, there’s a good chance it would go to Lytro, a camera company which recently unveiled its first product. Unlike other cameras, you never need to focus it.

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