Wise Words For Tuesday…
Positive thinking…
An interesting article from relax kids reminds us of the Victorian style of teaching where we would have to repeat one hundred lines – I will not…. I will not…., after a bout of indiscretion. This system of repeating a thought was meant to drive deep into the child’s psyche. I’m sure there were few re-offenders as sore ink-stained fingers were a good deterrent. The theory goes that our bodies almost listen to our thoughts and whatever we think … [Read more...]
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...]
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...]
World Kindness Day: a day dedicated to kindnesses, big and small.
World Kindness Day — observed annually on Nov. 13 — is exactly what it sounds like: The holiday is the project of The World Kindness Movement, and can trace its start to the birth of the WKM in Tokyo, in 1997. The day is observed in several countries around the world, according to Wikipedia, including Australia, Italy, Singapore, Canada, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. This year's World Kindness Day falls not even a week after Typhoon … [Read more...]
Floating Bamboo House
Integrating disaster resistance along with local building traditions, Vietnamese H&P Architects' have designed an affordable bamboo house that floats when it floods. A real-life prototype of the modular design has since been constructed, using locally abundant materials like bamboo and coconut leaf, along with more engineered stuff like fiberboard. Intended to withstand floods of up to 1.5 meters (4.9 feet), the 3.3 by 6.6 meter (10.8 by … [Read more...]
Singapore Kindness Movement
Each week, Elisa Ng trawls the streets of Singapore picking up rubbish discarded by her fellow citizens. She is not searching for treasure hidden in the litter. Her only goal is to leave the city a little cleaner than before. "I want to encourage other people to pick up a piece of litter every day," she says. Recently, she chased an errant lorry driver who had thrown a plastic bag from his window. "He looked quite apprehensive and … [Read more...]