March 13, 2010
30 Hour Famine: Teens Fast For World Vision Campaign
Alex Ferrand and other teens in Roswell duct taped cardboard boxes together to make shelter for themselves to sleep in during the night. Ferrand felt cold and hungry as he tried to sleep and said, "I'm happy for the things I have and for [my] friends and family."
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March 12, 2010
If Your Brain Is A Quantum Computer, Can It Connect You To The World?
To understand how our brain could communicate with a natural information field that embeds us and all things around us, let's explore how our brain developed, and how it functions. How did it evolve its precise and stupendously complex architecture? And how did it grow into a quantum computer?
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Goddess Of The Week: Filmmaker Vicki Abeles
1. one of a group of superstar female beings who uses her feminine wisdom and supernatural powers to heal the collective consciousness and create good in the world.
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“Brothers In Arms”: One Son’s War & Peace Playlist As We Prepare to Enter “The Pacific”
To put myself in the proper mindset to enter The Pacific, I've come up with a playlist of great songs that -- at least for me - speak powerfully to the very big subject of war & peace from a variety of perspectives and eras. Though I'm no expert on history, I'm fairly certain they did not have iPods on Naval ships during World War II. Yet if they did, here are a few songs I might load onto one for Dad as he shipped off to serve this country and help try to save the world.
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We’re All In This Together
I can't remember living through a period of such uncertainty in my lifetime. I'm not talking so much about the uncertainties in my own life - there are always plenty of those - but about everything that's going on in the world around us.
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Art Therapy for Alzheimer’s: “I Remember Better When I Paint”
"I Remember Better When I Paint" follows the progress of Alzheimer's patients who are introduced to the creative arts. Once disconnected from the world, these Alzheimer's sufferers are suddenly brought back-- be it by a discussion of a Seurat painting or a debate over what color to apply for their Renoir reproduction. One of my favorite parts of the film was when one elderly gentleman was asked to draw Honolulu; rather than white sand beaches and shiny hotels, he drew a war-ship with 'Destroyer' on its bow. He was a late-stage Alzheimer's patient having a very lucid memory of his days in the service. Amazing.
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March 11, 2010
The Evolution Will be ooVood
In the last decade, however, a profound change has occurred in the larger perception of globalization across the Muslim world. Led by young people adept at both writing computer code and code-switching between their own and Western cultures, this more positive and proactive utilization of the technologies, concepts, and promise of globalization is epitomized both by burgeoning youth music scenes across the region and by the use of Facebook and other social networking technologies to organize activities that challenge their societies' autocratic elites.
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Where Do Things Stand on International Efforts to Address Global Warming?
It is almost 3 months after the Copenhagen Accord was hammered out by 28 of the world’s key countries that represent over 80% of the world’s global warming pollution and some of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change (as I discussed here). Given the state of the Accord just after Copenhagen with some calling it a failure, some outlining the foundations in the Accord for international efforts (and as my colleague discussed here), and others…well not quite sure what to make of it, where do things stand on international efforts to address global warming?
If you just picked up the paper, watched TV, listened to the radio, or read blogs you might think that things aren’t really moving as there is very little coverage of international global warming discussions (especially compared to last year when every 5 seconds some news story or analysis emerged). But that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening on the international front. In fact, despite the lack of regular coverage, things are moving forward – albeit tentatively, behind the scenes, and without a big splash. Here are four things that are occurring that are worth following.
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8 Of The World’s Most Popular High-Speed Trains (PHOTOS)
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