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British author Jon Ronson explores the world of mental illness in this funny, but sad, TED talk. The more we define people as victims of various mental disorders, the more apt we become to shove folks into a predetermined box. See video of his talk HERE.
Forget all the doomsday news you keep reading in newspapers and seeing on TV. The last 10 years decade has been the best decade in human history. British writer Matt Ridley says fewer people are going hungry, people are polluting less, using less energy, living longer, and getting healthier. Forested areas are beginning to expand, especially in developed countries, and once endangered species are making a comeback. It’s all good news, if it’s true. Read More HERE.
2020 VISION is a book of 12-poems – one for each month of the year – by George Lee Cunningham. The poems are about the joy of life, the state of the world, getting older, and coming to terms with your own humanity. You can get a PDF copy of the poems by clicking HERE.
British physicist Derek Price is famous among other things for being the author of Price’s Square Root Law, a general observation that 50% of the work in any organization is done by the square root of the total number of people who participate. In other words, if 100 people participate in an project, about 10 of them will do 50 percent of the work. Read More HERE.