Live life with abandon … make others happy … see the beauty.
Thank you Zach.
(20m video; My Last Days: Meet Zach Sobiech via soulpancake)
Five Things I Wish I Knew at 22
Online Course Providers Reach Out to Wary Professors - WSJ.com
Mailbox - Put Email In Its Place
hilker:
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Daniel Dennett
True of science, and almost everything else we do.
Our worthiness to possess freedom corresponds to our willingness to fight for it.
To the men and women in red, white, and blue…thank you.
This new album and music video shoot looks pretty cool – if you’re interested to back this Kickstarter project, just head on over to the page for “The Symphony & The Static”
So glad to see continued innovations in this arena - and just cool stuff, you know. ;)
carlboygenius:
Printable A3-sized solar cells hit a new milestone in green energy
Imagine a future where solar panels speed off the presses, like newspaper. Australian scientists have brought us one step closer to that reality. Researchers from the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) have developed a printer that can print 10 meters of flexible solar cells a minute. Unlike traditional silicon solar cells, printed solar cells are made using organic semi-conducting polymers, which can be dissolved in a solvent and used like an ink, allowing solar cells to be printed. Not only can the VICOSC machine print flexible A3 solar cells, the machine can print directly on to steel, opening up the possibility for solar cells to be embedded directly into building materials. “Eventually we see these being laminated to windows that line skyscrapers,” said David Jones, a researcher at University of Melbourne who is involved with the work. “By printing directly to materials like steel, we’ll also be able to embed cells onto roofing materials.” Printing 10 meters of solar cells in a minute means good things for solar. (via Printable A3-sized solar cells hit a new milestone in green energy | Ars Technica)
When you are drawing your weapon for the purposes of clearing a room, a SEAL will tell you, “slow is smooth; smooth is fast.” In other words, if you try to draw your weapon too quickly, chances are, in your attempt to be fast, you’ll fumble or drop or mishandle the thing your very life depends on. But if you can focus on slow, deliberate movements, then your smoothness will translate to getting the job done faster and safer.
Now I have absolutely no occasion to draw a weapon. None whatsoever. But, here’s where this SEAL-ism hits home for me. I can tend to think that frenetic and frenzied and crazy-brained is how I must live to keep up with this world, technology, my schedule, others’ expectations of me, etc. What if approaching life with deliberate calm, a sense of intention, and measured movements would, in the end, yield greater productivity and efficiency?
—A good lesson.
(via dostendorff, via Leeana Tankersley)