The tragedy of dying languages
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The death of the last speaker of an
04:24 pm | The 2010 World Humanitarian Day project is a collaborative film shot in over 40 countries in under 9 weeks, on a shoestring budget – with the goal of showing the enormous diversity of...
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06:18 am | What you see you become. What you see is a selective act of attention and interpretation. Although you are inundated by billions of bits of sensory impulses every moment, you selectively filter out...
August 27 2010 / View Comments / Read More »10:04 pm | David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best...
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07:36 pm | Michael Oher was one of twelve children born to Michael Jerome Williams and Denise Oher. His mother was addicted to crack cocaine since her pregnancy with him. As a result, he received little...
August 19 2010 / View Comments / Read More »09:37 am | Episode 01 Episode 02 Episode 03 Episode 04 Episode 05 Episode 06 Episode 07 Episode 08 Episode 09 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12...
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12:52 pm | One of the most difficult but necessary skills we need to develop as meditators is learning how to be judicious without being judgmental. An as a preliminary step to developing that skill, it’s...
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Love Stories
The couple in their caravan »
10:12 am | Waking up is always an adventure when you live in a caravan. The Couple just loved that feeling of getting away from it all; living on the road ...
Miracle by chance »
12:23 pm | This is a "true story" about how I met my husband on a dating site on the Internet. It's the unbelievable story behind it that's truly amazing! I...
Life Stories
Challenges keep us alive »
06:34 am | The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many...
June 24 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Willing to Experience our Suffering »
01:19 pm | A few weeks ago someone gave me an interesting article on suffering, and the first part of...
May 7 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Death: the Key to the Door of Life »
07:10 am | There is no need to be afraid of death. It is not the end of the physical...
April 14 2010 / View Comments / Read More »The Builder »
02:30 am | An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the...
April 12 2010 / View Comments / Read More »Action without result »
01:06 pm | An anonymous reader of these reminders was inspired to write the following after reading some essays by...
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