Category: healthy
Is Better the enemy of Good?
To some, the answer to this question is “no”. The same ones who believe better is always the goal, always, at all costs. There is a time and place for that, surely. Nonetheless, good has been under attack for far too long by the ones who perhaps misinterpreted the message. The same ones who are…
The Perfect City
David Byrne is spot on with his thoughts for a perfect city: A Talking Head Dreams of a Perfect City The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2009 By David Byrne There’s an old joke that you know you’re in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it’s the other way…
Michael Pollan and The Botany of Desire
Author Michael Pollan says: The tulip, by gratifying our desire for a certain kind of beauty, has gotten us to take it from its origins in Central Asia and disperse it around the world. Marijuana, by gratifying our desire to change consciousness, has gotten people to risk their lives, their freedom, in order to grow…
Royal de Luxe – LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE BERLIN, DAS WIEDERSEHEN VON BERLIN
Royal de Luxe – LE RENDEZ-VOUS DE BERLIN, DAS WIEDERSEHEN VON BERLIN from Nina. on Vimeo.
Humans Swimming
Are you a human? Do you like to swim? How about free-diving? How about static free diving?
Joie de vivre
I read this today in the Business Insider: A new survey from UBS has shown that the French continue to work the least amount of hours per year in the world. Once again, the French have blown away the competition. People work an average of 1,902 hours per year in the surveyed cities but they…
one example of a music video
surely most of you have seen this before but i still watch it from time-to-time:
Salt
From Wikipedia: Chloride and sodium ions, the two major components of salt, are necessary for the survival of all known living creatures, including humans. Salt is involved in regulating the water content (fluid balance) of the body. = c
Frankie : 3 weeks
Puppy! This is Frankie, Meta’s little sister. She turned 3 weeks old today. Same mother and father, too. Frankie will be joining us soon. Reposted from metapup.com = c
Above and Beyond Alaska hosts Andy Summers
Our pals, Sean and Becky Janes, gave Andy Summers and his son the tour of Southeast recently via their outfit Above and Beyond Alaska. That’s Sean on the right in the picture below. Highly recommended if you’re thinking about making it out to the Last Frontier – but of course, we’re biased: = c
Tapped
In late 2008, Switchblade’s Adam Condal edited “Tapped,” a 90-minute documentary that in July of 2009 premiered at the Long Island and Maine International Film Festivals. The film illustrates the impact of the global water crisis on America and what we can do as individuals to enact change sooner rather than later. “Tapped” examines the…
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
I just cannot seem to get enough of this band lately: I’ve been sleeping for forty days and Yeah, I know that I’m sleeping cause this dream’s too amazing She got gold doorknobs where her eyes used to be, yeah One turn and I learned what it really means to see, yeah It’s the magical…
Cranies (sic)
I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today. Is that how we say SMS in the plural? Doesn’t really matter. Case in point: “I received one of the most beautiful SMS’s ever today.” It was from my father, who’s never cared much about his spelling, only about the message: Cheers, Pop. Happy Birthday,…
Wind Power Will Save Us All
Wind power has already sparked a clean energy revolution, however, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science finds that wind power could provide for the entire world’s current and future energy needs. In order to estimate something like the planet’s capacity for this, researchers first sectioned Earth into areas of…
Raise your hand if…
…you need to want more. One thing a recession is good for is reminding us how much we need. Raise your hand if you’ve been doing a lot of talking about the economy and the lack of growth and the rise of unemployment and the worry and the poor attitudes and the general malaise about…