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-- Recommended Resources --  Today, I'd like to recommend 3 different TED.com lectures that share the same theme - innovation in design and technology. The first one offers you the chance to feel wonder at the amazing nature-inspired buliding designs that Danish architect Bjarke Ingels shares in this talk.  His buildings not only look like nature — they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy, water, creating nature-scapes — and stunning views. Check it out at: http://www.ted.com/talks/bjarke_ingels_3_warp_speed_architecture_tales#t-975521 The next lecture is a brief, but fun look at how inspiring children to love science can lead to wonderful environmental solutions: http://www.ted.com/talks/cesar_harada_how_i_teach_kids_to_love_science and last, but not least: Check out this inspiring discussion below about providing Internet access to more than 4 billion people living in places where the infrastructure ...

Quote of the Day  © BrummetMedia.ca "Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: So many times do I love again." ~Thomas Lovell Beddoes http://www.facebook.com/lillian.brummet   http://www.linkedin.com/in/ldbrummet http://www.consciousdiscussions.blogspot.com

One Of Us   I find it so fascinating that we have gathered enough global knowledge, some of it compiled now, ( via scientific studies, wildlife specialists, rehabilitation centers, etc.) to understand that there are incredible bonds, emotions, protectiveness, caring and kindness going on in the realm of wildlife. Take the elephant for instance, who is able to feel compassion for another less fortunate animal, and not always of the same species. I heard a lecture recently where the focus was on one band of elephants, which had a disabled and stunted member in their group. One day the group was observed leaving a watering place where there happened to be a steep cliff. The leader took some time finding a safe route, when she could have run up wherever she wanted. They all left the area slowly, much more slowly than other bands have been seen to do. As they retreated the disabled one tried twice to climb the same route picked out by the leader, but she just couldn’t do it...

Quote of the Day  © BrummetMedia.ca “To practice any art,  no matter how well or badly,  is a way to make your soul grow.  So do it.”  ~ Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. http://www.facebook.com/lillian.brummet   http://www.linkedin.com/in/ldbrummet http://www.consciousdiscussions.blogspot.com