I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban, she stated in her memoir. She won 2014 Nobel Peace Price. She is only seventeen years old. Therefore, she is the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Just saying upfront: I don’t believe in the Nobel Prize (nor in the majority… View Post
Quote of the day You’re spending a lot of effort to just staying there, when there are other ways to make the learning more efficient, fun and interesting. The brain wants variation. ~BENEDICT CAREY FREEDOM Give Catalonia its freedom to vote, The Independent TECHNOLOGY Comedy club uses facial recognition to charge by the laugh, CNBC PSYCHOLOGY To better learn, the… View Post
Fred Rohe was a regular runner for more than four years when he wrote The zen of running. This short book, published in 1974, combines beautiful black and white photographs with poetic prose. In short, it reminds us that running can be fun, and a way not to get somewhere but to find yourself. Lao Tzu wrote the book Tao… View Post
Quote of the day Email recipients only identified seriousness or sarcasm 56% of the time–not much better than chance. ~JUSTIN KRUGER BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE Why it’s so hard to detect emotion in emails and texts, FastCo PEOPLE Seeking identity, ‘Hong Kong People’ look to city, not state, NYT HEALTH Is Meditation really worth it?, Time TIME MANAGEMENT Why more time… View Post
The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs. John Gardner, author and creative writing teacher and also professor of medieval literature, presented The Art of Fiction, a classic on the craft of writing fiction, in two parts: 1. Notes on Literary-Aesthetic Theory. Albeit writing is a way of organizing experience and life, so it implies… View Post
Quote of the day A wandering mind is an unhappy mind. ~DANIEL GILBERT & MATTHEW KILLINGSWORTH BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS Buy experiences, not things, The Atlantic MANAGING YOURSELF Stop believing that you have to be perfect, HBR PHILOSOPHY Understanding philosophy through jokes, MC’s Blog APPLE Is this Apple’s next iPad Air?, The Verge SOCIAL MEDIA How to use Google + Hashtags… View Post
TASSO: Atlas stands on the back of a turtle. DIMITRI: But what does the turtle stand on? TASSO: Another turtle. DIMITRI: And what does the turtle stand on? TASSO: My dear Dimitri, it’s turtles all the way down! Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar is a clear example that learning is not at odds… View Post