A Quantum Revolution will create a world of peace; a world with a sane health care system that focuses on healing and wellness; a world of sustainable living; a world that focuses on the greater good; a world where people help one another without thinking, what’s in it for me; a world that measures economic growth by the happiness quotient of a nation’s citizens; a world where people live to their fullest potential; a world where people can … [Read more...]
Archives for November 2013
Happy Thanksgiving!
How are you planning to give thanks? … [Read more...]
Does reading fiction make you a better, less self-absorbed person?
According to Mark O'Connell, you read because you are interested in the broad sweep of human experience, and because you want to gain access into the narrow sanctum of specific otherness—to feel Anna Karenina’s recklessness and desperation, or know the shape and weight of Ahab’s obsession, and thereby something of humanity itself. But in order to make any headway with a novel, you need to grant yourself a leave of absence from human affairs, to … [Read more...]
Think Blue.Factory.
Volkswagen is making considerable progress in its efforts to further improve the environmental compatibility of automobile production. This is confirmed by the second "Think Blue. Factory." annual meeting in Wolfsburg, which was attended by more than 350 environmental experts from 27 plants of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands. It was in 2011 that Volkswagen launched the "Think Blue. Factory." program under … [Read more...]
Have a Good Week!
Wise Words For The Weekend…
Toys From Trash
Arvind Gupta, the man who showed that a cycle tube can be used to teach how pumps work, who used straws to teach centrifugal force, and taught geometrical structures using nothing but a rubber tube and a few matchsticks… is silently carrying out a revolution in education through his ‘toys from trash’. He has shown that Science can be made exciting using almost any object under the sun. Arvind translates with passion books from English to Hindi. … [Read more...]
Wise Words For Wednesday…
Quote of the Day-11/19
“Meditation isn’t about attaining altered states of mind. It’s about being a better person in normal states of mind when you’re not meditating.” – Ted Meissner … [Read more...]
Urgent Relief Efforts Needed To Help The Typhoon Haiyan Survivors
No one can fail to have been moved by the utter devastation that has hit the Philippines. Flattened cities, parents cradling the bodies of their children, survivors’ reports of loved ones washed away from their grasp – our natural human response is empathy. The people who survive devastating events such as typhoon Haiyan need assistance. Relief agencies that provide it deserve public support. Typhoon Haiyan affected a total of 9.5 million people … [Read more...]