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My year by saying yes to everything TED talk by Shonda Rhimes
via TED talk Hans-Peter´s comment: Thank you Maja for sending it in from NY. Maja takes part of a project called BLiSS and recommended it as an exceptional talk. Find out. Shonda Rhimes, the titan behind Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With...
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Spiritual Technologies 2.0-Explore the neuromore – the Software for Biosensors
via Spirit Tecnologies 2.0. website Co-Founder and CEO of neuromore, Patrick Hilsbos is a serial entrepreneur who sees technology´s potential to catalyze self-awarness, self-love, and meaninfull connection. He´s a software engineer with a background in...
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Learning by Doing_U.LAB:Transforming Business, Society, and Self
via MIT by Otto Scharmer and Team Since 2015, over 75,000 people from 183 countries have taken part in u.lab. As of this writing, the current cohort includes approximately 20,000 participants. Some of us have 30 years of work experience; others are in...
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Looking Into Someone’s Eyes For Longer Than 10 Minutes Induces Altered State of Consciousness
A psychologist in Italy has figured out how to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by asking 20 volunteers to sit and stare into each other’s eyes for 10 minutes straight. Not only did the deceptively simple task bring on strange ‘out of...
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What's a Passive House? Here's a good simple explanation
via TreeHugger by Lloyd Alter What is a a Passive House? One critic of Passive House design called it “a single metric ego driven enterprise that satisfies the architect's need for checking boxes, and the energy nerd's obsession with BTUs.” But over at...
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Jump Studios convert a 19th-century factory in Madrid into a colorful co-working space for Google
via inhabitat / dezeen Behind the brick walls of this 19th-century battery factory in Madrid lies a vibrant co-working space for entrepreneurs and start-up companies. After designing the first Google Campus in 2012, London-based firm Jump Studios were...
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Why Does Your Passion Matter?
By Kimberly Carter Gamble Producer of the film THRIVE Recently I was invited to talk about anything I wanted at the Architects of the New Paradigm Conference in Marin. It was a welcome opportunity to consider just what I had to say now, four years after...
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Open Source Blueprints for Civilization. Build Yourself.
via website open source ecology We’re developing open source industrial machines that can be made for a fraction of commercial costs, and sharing our designs online for free. The goal of Open Source Ecology is to create an open source economy – an efficient...
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A futuristic vision of the age of holograms by TED
via TED Talks Alex Kipman Inventor Hans-Peters Comment: Cool With his latest invention, HoloLens, Kinect creator Alex Kipman has opened a virtual holographic universe for users to explore — and he may have changed the face of computing forever. Explore...
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Effekt ReGen Villages Self-sustaining Eco-communities
via Effekt Hans-Peter´s comment: It is the second post about that project see the First . The project is called RegenVillage is a Tech-Integrated and Regenerative Residential Real Estate Developmentnon profit. It also runs the ReGen Labs - a non-profit...
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An old coal mine was turned into a vast universe made out of plants and stones
via inhabitat by Michelle Kennedy Hogan That better use for an old coal mine than a whole new universe? This is just what the Duke of Buccleuch and architect Charles Jencks did with an open cast coal mine located within Scotland’s Lowther Hills. The 22-hectare...
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Germany is on track to get a third of its electricity from renewable resources this year
by Katie Medlock Via Clean Technica The country of Germany has reached some impressive landmarks when it comes to its use of alternative, renewable energy sources. The country reached an incredible record for most energy from renewable sources in one...
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GIThub_Where software is built
source websiteGitHub GitHub is how people build software. With a community of more than 12 million people, developers can discover, use, and contribute to over 30 million projects using a powerful collaborative development workflow. Whether using GitHub.com...
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The Future Of College? This MIT Drop-Out Creates System Where Students Only Pay When They Get a Job
via Educate Inspire Change check out Make School College has become a wasted effort for many people who spend sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars on a degree that doesn’t even guarantee them a job when they get out. Especially in today’s economic...
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I just LOVE IT: Albert Frey’s tiny Palm Springs house makes the desert an extension of his living room
Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building When you're an architect, you have the unique ability to make sure that your own house rocks as much as your clients' homes do. For Albert Frey, that meant building a home in the rocks—well, in the boulders,...
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Plans unveiled for recycled plastic roads in the Netherlands
July 15th, 2015 by Lara Lopes via Interesting Engineering Paving streets and roads with asphalt can – in a not so distant future – become a thing of the past. The alternative? Recycled plastic. And the Netherlands could be the first country to use this...
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Dr. John Hagelin - Hacking Consciousness at Stanford University
John Hagelin Phd (Harvard-trained, renowned quantum physicist) Hacking consciousness investigates the nature of consciousness as a field of all possibilities, as the source not only of the human mind and our ability to experience, know, innovate and create,...
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If Everyone Lived in an 'Ecovillage', the Earth Would Still Be in Trouble
by Samuel Alexander / theconversation.com We are used to hearing that if everyone lived in the same way as North Americans or Australians, we would need four or five planet Earths to sustain us. This sort of analysis is known as the “ecological footprint”...
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It’s Not Technology That Will Save Us: It’s The Consciousness That Operates It
By Christou (Source: Collective Evolution; June 19, 2015) via ANP The bard Robert Anton Wilson said, “Anybody who tells you that we’re running out of resources or that we’re in a terrible mess–they are idiots. We can’t run out of resources. Resources...
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Biocentrism / Robert Lanza’s Theory of Everything
by Robert Lanza with Bob Berman Every now and then, a simple yet radical idea shakes the very foundations of knowledge. The startling discovery that the world was not flat challenged and ultimately changed the way people perceived themselves and their...
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History:May 1968 events in France_ just a revolution?
via Blog Martin Armstrong That year was a tremendously volatile period of civil unrest in France. May 1968 was highlighted by demonstrations and massive general strikes. Students, not the elderly, staged occupations of universities and factories across...
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Sweden Is Shifting To A 6-Hour Work Day – Why The Rest Of The World Should Consider It Too
via CE by Mark DeNicola. You might wonder why Sweden shows up so often...Leon my grandson and his parents live in Sweden. But I think it is worth to see how other countries approch livework balance. Be more focused, have fewer meetings—and then go home...
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Paradigm and Paradigm Shift
V. Shanker via Fourth Dimension One of the most commonly used clichés in the corporate world by senior level executives is “Taking the Paradigm Shift”. However, how many of us really understand the meaning of this? What is a Paradigm? A paradigm is a...
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The Power of Community - How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half and food by 80 percent people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity...
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Researchers Think Portals May Link Our Visible World With The “Dark Sector”
via Futurism Blog References: ScienceAlert - Latest, ScienceDaily, picture pixabayhypnoart Long ago, physicists identified and categorized the components of the visible universe. Up until recently, 16 particles formed everything in the known universe....