Watch a team of kite flyers control 30 kites in different formations for more than 12 minutes of high winds. The video is from the Cerfs-Volants Berck 2013. Incredible control!!!!!!!
Month: April 2013
Tears in Heaven [Video]
No, not the song by Eric Clapton. This is a demo by Cdr Chris Hadfield on the International Space Station whose only job – it seems from his Internet activity (and also a very wrong notion if you do feel that way!!) – is to post on social media!!. He explains in this video what happens when (if) you cry in space.
Giving meaning to work [Article]
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote “If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment … all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.” Maria Popova shares the wisdom on How to find fulfilling work by the philosopher Roman Krznaric (a prize if you can pronounce that on the first try!)
…The message of the ‘grin and bear it’ school of thought is that we need to accept the inevitable and put up with whatever job we can get, as long as it meets our financial needs and leaves us enough time to pursue our ‘real life’ outside office hours. The best way to protect ourselves from all the optimistic pundits pedaling fulfillment is to develop a hardy philosophy of acceptance, even resignation, and not set our hearts on finding a meaningful career. I am more hopeful than this, and subscribe to a different approach, which is that it is possible to find work that is life-enhancing, that broadens our horizons and makes us feel more human.
Guantanamo prison library books for detainees [Photoblog]
A photoblog by Pulitzer prize winning journalist Charles Savage – about the library in the Guantanamo bay prison. Charles’ blog was part of his report into the hunger strike by the Gitmo prisoners – now numbering 93 inmates on strike.
..both military officials and lawyers for the detainees agree about the underlying cause of the turmoil: a growing sense among many prisoners, some of whom have been held without trial for more than 11 years, that they will never go home.
Hop, skip & win [Video]
The coolest chick in the world [Letters]
Robert Fulghum is one of my favourite authors – and this letter he wrote to a friend of his who recently lost a child recently proves why.
PS: This is the Em he talks about, if you are interested.
A letter to his daughter from William James [Letters of Note]
Where do we bury homeless people [Article]
A balanced perspective – [video]
“Effort, not comfort, is what gives the most tangible sense of satisfaction”
Tiny Details Exaggeration Syndrome [Article]
One of the stranger patterns that I’ve noticed ever since reaching adulthood, is the tendency of humans to zoom in on increasingly irrelevant details as their material wealth increases. Despite their advantaged position, people seem to become unaware of the wide variety of conditions in the world and their own ability as a human to deal with them. The results are both tragic and amusing.