Enjoy the beauty of the mother nature while listening to comments from one of the great scientists of 20th century Richard Feynman.
See here how the idea of meshing Feynman’s views with beauty of nature, curious world and and even honors came by.
Enjoy the beauty of the mother nature while listening to comments from one of the great scientists of 20th century Richard Feynman.
See here how the idea of meshing Feynman’s views with beauty of nature, curious world and and even honors came by.
Admittedly, 160 words.
There are many theories of aging (hormonal, wear-and-tear, etc.), but only the overmineralization theory (video) explains why humans age at three different speeds:
Harvard research postulates that “root cause of aging” are sirtuins.
Brave bystanders lift a burning car and save a man trapped beneath.
Flight passenger leaps onto a burning man to prevent him from detonating explosives.
As the train arrives, a 50-year-old man jumps on subway tracks to save a youth.
These men/women were ordinary people who decided in an instant to do something heroic.
Dr. Zimbardo thinks everyone can be a hero.
Hero:
4.5 billion years of evolution taught nature what works and what lasts.
We’ve been increasingly distancing ourselves from nature: agricultural revolution – grow stock and abandon hunting/gathering; scientific revolution – “torture nature for her secrets;” industrial revolution – machines replace muscles.
Biomimicry is the study of nature for solutions to our problems. Having 96% of our bodies built upon carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, nature can teach us how to:
Honey is the only food including all substances necessary to sustain life, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and water; and it’s the only food, containing pinocembrin, an antioxidant associated with improved brain functioning.
Bees are the only insects that produce food that humans eat.
Like ants, honey bees communicate with one another by “dancing.”
Like rats, bees use their advanced olfactory, stamina and flying abilities to detect explosives. A hive of 40,000-65,000 bees costs USD $100 and can be trained in two hours. Bees can also signal environmental anomalies, and bee-hive samples (wax, honey, pollen) can highlight environmental contaminants in an area.
Heaven will last, earth will endure. How can they last long? They don’t exist for themselves and so can go on and on. So wise souls leaving self behind move forward, and setting self aside stay centered. Why let the self go? To keep what the soul needs.
Colorblind, sociable, strong, smart, fast (from meetup to hookup to breakup lasts two seconds), a rat can go longer than a camel without water and fall 15 meters without being injured. Rats have the most developed olfaction of all mammals.
In Western cultures, rats stand for dishonesty and cunning, but in Eastern cultures, rats are associated with honesty, hard work, intelligence and good luck. Rats are very clean. In Eastern spirituality, the Year of the Rat is the first year of the Chinese zodiac.
These talents of rats are now put in good cause. APOPO trains rats to detect landmines, tuberculosis,…
Modern diplomacy origins trace to 13th-century Milan. Sforza’s Milan saw many modern diplomatic traditions begin (ambassador credential presentation,…) and was first to practice balance of power.
One of first American diplomats was Franklin, who secured French support against England, leading to Treaty of Alliance, a turning point in Revolutionary War.
But nowadays, Obama’s America is less popular in MENA than Bush’s. In Turkey, its popularity plummeted from 52% in 2000 to 10% in 2011.
Obama-style solution? E-diplomacy: US State Department operates 230 Facebook accounts, 80 Twitter feeds, 55 YouTube channels, according to this research, leveraging tools like Klout, Facebook Insights,… for influence and measurement.
Did you know that music can teach about life and history?
A native of Trinidad and Tobago, pan, was originally used for communication between enslaved Africans during the British colonial rule and acquired its modern form in the guise of used oil barrels made of steel.
To quote from the launching event of Pan Camp 2011 (during which participants were also taught spirituality and conflict management)
…learning pan… develops qualities of persistence and consistency… for achieving anything in life that is worthwhile.
P.S. Steel-pans are the only instruments in the world that follow the musical cycle of fourths-and-fifths calculated by Pythagoras.