Sunday
07Mar2010

quote of the day

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.

Henny Youngman

Sunday
21Feb2010

quote of the day

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. - Michel de Montaigne
Sunday
14Feb2010

quote of the day

A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
--George Moore
Saturday
13Feb2010

Quote of the day

Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate.

Ambrose Bierce

Saturday
13Feb2010

How I held my breath for 17 min

 

In this highly personal talk from TEDMED, magician and stuntman David Blaine describes what it took to hold his breath underwater for 17 minutes -- a world record (only two minutes shorter than this entire talk!) -- and what his often death-defying work means to him. Warning: do NOT try this at home.

Thursday
11Feb2010

Your health depends on where you live

Where you live: It impacts your health as much as diet and genes do, but it's not part of your medical records. At TEDMED, Bill Davenhall shows how overlooked government geo-data (from local heart-attack rates to toxic dumpsite info) can mesh with mobile GPS apps to keep doctors in the loop. Call it "geo-medicine."

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Sunday
24Jan2010

How to live to be 100+

To find the path to long life and health, Dan Buettner and team study the world's "Blue Zones," communities whose elders live with vim and vigor to record-setting age. At TEDxTC, he shares the 9 common diet and lifestyle habits that keep them spry past age 100.

Sunday
10Jan2010

Quote of the day

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. - Nikola Tesla
Monday
04Jan2010

do what you love – and keep doing it

Sunday
27Dec2009

Damien Rice - The Rat Within The Grain (LIVE)

I know this should be under my music journal, but this sums up my thoughts right now!

Wednesday
23Dec2009

Quote of the day

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  - Hannah Arendt

Thursday
17Dec2009

Double Quotes of the Day

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Aldous Huxley

 

 

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

Archimedes

Wednesday
16Dec2009

Quote of the Day

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein
Monday
14Dec2009

Quote of the Day

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

George Bernard Shaw

Sunday
13Dec2009

Quote of the Day

If you aren't living on the edge, then you are taking up too much space.
--Anonymous
Sunday
13Dec2009

Escaping the Khmer Rouge

Saturday
12Dec2009

Last Quote of the Day

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. - Bernard Berenson
Friday
11Dec2009

Quote of the Day

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Dean Martin

Friday
11Dec2009

Another Quote for Today

 

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

- Don Marquis

Thursday
10Dec2009

Quote of the Day

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Horace