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07/24/2013

Vote! **First Descents** They're on an incredible and worthy journey..

www.thenorthface.com

01/09/2013

Here's to another year of bad-ass women skiers!

90 local women are taking to the mountain and finding their inner DIVAS. This specialty adult clinic combines great instruction with motivation & big fun.

01/08/2013

A sensory approach to our world around us...
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/110/mapping

Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way — by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses.

12/04/2012

Unlock your creative potential

http://www.ted.com/talks/david_kelley_how_to_build_your_creative_confidence.html

TED Talks Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few. Telling stories from his legendary design career and his own life, he offers ways to build the confidence to create... (Fr…

11/25/2012

Source: New Yorker

11/17/2012

A great resource for policymakers, researchers, development practitioners, funding organizations, and switched on individuals.
http://capacity.org/capacity/opencms/en/index.html

Welcome to Capacity.org, a resource portal for the practice of capacity development and the home of Capacity.org journal, published two to three times a year. Building on the topics covered in the journal, this website aims to facilitate access to a broad range of related online resources that pract...

11/16/2012

For the adrenaline junkies out there... What happens to our brains during a cliff jump? How do wingsuits work? And does time really slow down when we're scared?

http://sciencefriday.com/video/10/26/2012/plunge-into-the-science-of-base-jumping.html

BASE stands for the objects the practitioners of the sport jump from: buildings, antennas, spans, earth. We look into the physics and neuroscience of the sport.

11/09/2012

Check out these amazing photographs of BUGS(!) in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique. Can you figure out who is the observer and who is the observed?

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/09/02/magazine/mozambique-bugs.html?hp

Judgmental insects in Mozambique.

11/01/2012

Where does the US stand globally?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_reckoning/2012/11/01/should_the_us_be_ranked_number_2_in_the_world_on_health.html

As anyone who has every tried to create a foolproof system for anything will tell you, the perfect machine – the flawless economic model – simply does not exist. Ask the boys at Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund of the 1990s led by two Nobel winning economists that...

10/24/2012

How will the upcoming election impact America's energy future? Find out here...

http://burnanenergyjournal.com/burn-radio-special-the-power-of-one/

BURN Radio Special: The Power of One | The Public Radio Energy Project

10/19/2012

Catch a meteor shower this weekend!

http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/when-is-the-next-meteor-shower-2012

The 2012 Draconid meteor shower, earlier in October, held some surprises. What will happen at this year's Orionid shower, which peaks on the morning of October 21?

10/17/2012

Are we destroying one of the country's greatest food resources? How do we build a sustainable system of farming?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/californias-central-valley-land-of-a-billion-vegetables.html?hpw

California’s Central Valley is our greatest food resource. So why are we treating it so badly?