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Human Potential

Culture Is Your Operating System

January 5, 2008

I think this is a great meme – culture as an operating system. You can choose what ever plug-ins work best for a given context. Even switch operating systems if the need arises to run a particular program – such as when learning a new language in a foreign country, you’d also need [...]

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Lightheart: A Symbol That’s Important To Me

January 5, 2008

Some people may carry around images of their family. Other people may wear crosses or get tattoos. I have this:

This is an image that I have had in my head and heart for a long time. It’s like a personal icon and for me and represents what I would like to see in the world. [...]

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A Girl Named Kai

December 10, 2007

Tagged as: Asian, identity, lgbt, videos

Kai Ling Xue – A Girl Named Kai
This is hands down, one of the most moving pieces of media I have ever seen. Poetic, profound, inspiring and beautiful. I live to see things like this created in the world.
This piece (taken from YouTube obviously) was created by Kai Ling Xue and submitted to [...]

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an idea

September 8, 2007

A city designed and built so people don’t have to use phones.
+people engage each other more
+friendly statues
+no litter
+sun
+trees
+animals

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Saving the World One Click at a Time

September 8, 2007

The idea is brilliant. And simple. You click one of four buttons on the iRipple website:

Water:

Food:

Education:

Money:

You are shown an advertisement. A fraction of revenue generated by your clicking and viewing the ad goes to a charity that attends to one of the world needs you clicked on. Brilliant.
I like this one:

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evolution

August 20, 2007

in a hundred years, no matter how enlightened you became in this life, no one may care or even know. think of all the people who you never knew who came before you. they lived their life and then they passed. we, like anyone else, are part of the evolution of those who will come [...]

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Children Question Borders

July 10, 2007

I found this post off of Chris Csikszentmihalyi’s blog, Associate Professor at MIT. I thought this video was awesome – inspiring to see people of such small stature rising up as a group against Minutemen supporters.

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12 Sustainable Design Ideas From Nature: A Lecture from Janine Benyus

July 4, 2007

I came across this talk from a podcast via my friend Jared. Being exposed to the ‘design ecology’ she spoke of was truly inspiring.
Taken from the TED page of the above post:
” With 3.8 billion years of research and development on its side, nature has already solved problems that human designers and engineers still [...]

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The Best Deal We Can Make

April 21, 2007

Tagged as: conservation, E.O. Wilson

“…conserving biodiversity is the best economic deal humanity has ever had placed before it since the invention of agriculture”
I read an article by E.O. Wilson here.
we really need to stop fighting.

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In My Language

February 26, 2007

I found this video after watching the CNN special on Amanda Baggs. I thought it was one of the more profound statements about humans I’ve ever seen. I was attracted first to the noises (being the sound artist that I am) but after watching it through to Amanda’s final commentary, I was left [...]

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