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I Love You Boston. Ask Amy. Ep. 20 (by smartgirls)
Poehler for President.
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Richard Florida: Want Job Stability? Get Creative. (by bigthink)
“The main message of my work over the past decade or more has been a fairly basic message and that’s that every single human being is creative. But then as with anything one has to put statistical parameters around what that means, and what I’ve found, is that in the United States and around the world our society is really divided into people who are principally paid to use their creativity at work and those who may be quite creative but they’re principally paid to use their physical labor or they’re involved in low-skill service work.” - Richard Florida
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Ash Beckham at Ignite Boulder 20 (by igniteboulder)
OH SWEET JESUS, MARY AND JOSEPH. THIS IS SO FUCKING BRILLIANT. Use all the various pejorative words, they’re just begging to be used!!!
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High ResolutionLetters of Note: America is like that second kind of Christmas
In November of 1959, as a shocked American public were hit with the news that a number of their favourite quiz shows had in fact been rigged for some time, author John Steinbeck wrote the following letter to his friend, politician Adlai Stevenson, and spoke of his concern at such a morally bankrupt turn of events occurring in his increasingly gluttonous country.
My favorite parts:
Adlai, do you remember two kinds of Christmases? There is one kind in a house where there is little and a present represents not only love but sacrifice. The one single package is opened with a kind of slow wonder, almost reverence. Once I gave my youngest boy, who loves all living things, a dwarf, peach-faced parrot for Christmas. He removed the paper and then retreated a little shyly and looked at the little bird for a long time. And finally he said in a whisper, “Now who would have ever thought that I would have a peach-faced parrot?”andSomeone has to reinspect our system and that soon. We can’t expect to raise our children to be good and honorable men when the city, the state, the government, the corporations all offer higher rewards for chicanery and deceit than probity and truth. On all levels it is rigged, Adlai. Maybe nothing can be done about it, but I am stupid enough and naively hopeful enough to want to try. How about you? -
RSA Animate - The Power of Outrospection (by theRSAorg)
“Empathy isn’t just something that expands your moral universe. Empathy is something that can make you a more creative thinker, improve your relationships, can create the human bonds that make life worth living. But, more than that, empathy is also about social change — radical social change.”
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Henry Rollins: Education is the End of Disaster Capitalism (by bigthink)
[…] So you have a country that is undercutting itself for the cheap, quick buck. They are after the fast high. They are after the gift rather than going all in on America, the long term goal and investment.
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Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Augh. Incredibly depressing.
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Founder of a free school for slum children Rajesh Kumar Sharma, second from right, and Laxmi Chandra, right, write on black boards, painted on a building wall, at a free school run under a metro bridge in New Delhi, India. At least 30 children living in the nearby slums have been receiving free education from this school for the last three years.
Incredible.
(via topheriskris)
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Able Parris: Focus Means Ignoring
I haven‘t always loved New York.
I first visited New York City in 2002. It was, coincidentally, the 8-month anniversary of 9/11. Julia’s brother Joel and I had been in Providence scoping out jobs and apartments so we took the train to NYC for a couple of days, and we walked everywhere during…
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thedailywhat:
Game-Changing Music Video of the Day: At long last, a big-name rapper blatantly in support of gay rights. This mini film is seven minutes of beauty.
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’ ”Same Love,” featuring Mary Lambert, is from The Heist, out October 9.
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Lester Brown on ‘How the battle for water will reshape our world’
By 2025, two-thirds of people worldwide are expected to face water shortages as businesses, agriculture and growing populations compete for the ever more precious commodity.
Map source: Water for Life Decade (UN)
Lester Brown (PopTech 2006), preeminent environmentalist and founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, warns that consumption habits must change to maintain a healthy social, economic and environmental balance in the world.
Water shortage means food shortage. Get educated.
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How to Win Over the Chinese Consumer (by bigthink)
Fascinating. Really well put! Tom Doctoroff of JWT pretty much says everything I’ve spent a lifetime trying to decipher.
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On Empathy and Apathy: Two Case Studies by Whitney Hess
- The suffix -pathy means “feeling” or “suffering”
- The prefix em- means “within” or “inside”
- The prefix a- means “not” or “without”
By definition, empathy is the opposite of apathy.
Empathy is defined as “the ability to understand and share the feelings of another” —within + feeling or inside + suffering.
Apathy is defined as “a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern” — not + feeling orwithout + suffering.
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I believe it is the empathy-apathy disposition spectrum that is, at the very core, responsible for creating organizational and communal culture. And it only takes one person to plant the seed.
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The Recycling of Souls – moving short film about a Polish recycling plant that employs people with learning disabilities and mental health issues.
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Atlanta.
Hedonist.
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