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35 Surprisingly Useful Websites You Never Knew You Needed

35 Surprisingly Useful Websites You Never Knew You Needed
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300+ Mind Expanding Documentaries Source: www.diygenius.com | Original Post Date: January 12, 2014 – I watch a lot of documentaries. I think they are incredible tools for learning and increasing our awareness of important issues. Watching documentaries is one of my favorite methods of self-education. I hope you find these documentaries as enlightening as I did! [1] Life In The Biosphere Explore the wonder and interconnectedness of the biosphere through the magic of technology. 1. [2] Creativity and Design: Learn about all the amazing things that people create with their imaginations. 1. [3] The Education Industrial Complex: The modern school where young minds are moulded into standardized citizens by the state. 1. [4] The Digital Revolution: The Internet is now the driving force behind change and innovation in the world. 1. [5] A New Civilization: We are at the dawn of a new golden age of human inventiveness. 1. [6] Politics: Explore the politics of power and control and how it affects your life. 1. [7] Biographies of Genius: 1. 1.

Traveling To The Third World Is Great And Also It Sucks The thing about visiting the Developing World when you live in the Developed World is that it’s a rich, eye-opening, perspective-building cultural experience and the other thing about it is that it sucks. You know that upsetting person who posts pictures on Facebook of themselves doing some delicious- or beautiful- or wild-looking activity in somewhere like Tanzania or India or Peru? And even though they’re posting for their own purposes as part of a skillful weave of Image Crafting and Jealousy Inducing, it makes you yearn anyway as you sit there in whatever shitty life you’ve chosen for yourself? The thing you need to remember is that they did some careful cropping on the photo—they cropped out the misery. Misery is a government requirement when you visit a country like Tanzania or India or Peru and your body is totally unaccustomed to the ecosystem, but that’s easy to forget when you’re not there. You should still be jealous—just not that jealous. 1) The Place. 2) The People. * Here

The Time In Between — Read on Oyster Synopsis The inspiring international bestseller of a seemingly ordinary woman who uses her talent and courage to transform herself first into a prestigious couturier and then into an undercover agent for the Allies during World War II. Between Youth and Adulthood… At age twelve, Sira Quiroga sweeps the atelier floors where her single mother works as a seamstress. At fourteen, she quietly begins her own apprenticeship. By her early twenties she has learned the ropes of the business and is engaged to a modest government clerk. Between War and Peace… With the Spanish Civil War brewing in Madrid, Sira leaves her mother and her fiancé, impetuously following her handsome lover to Morocco. Between Love and Duty… As England, Germany, and the other great powers launch into the dire conflict of World War II, Sira is persuaded to return to Madrid, where she takes on a new identity to embark upon the most dangerous undertaking of her career.

COLECCION BIOS Y ETHOS El texto aquí propuesto, Salud y Neoliberalismo, del profesor Víctor de Currea- Lugo, recoge los aspectos centrales presentados por el autor en los cursos de Especialización, Magíster y Doctorado de Bioética en la Universidad El Bosque durante 2009, cursos que significaron su regreso a Colombia y a la academia. Parte de su periplo incluyó el estudio de las dinámicas económicas en las últimas décadas y su impacto en las reformas en salud. Este libro llena un vacío al poner el debate sobre las reformas en salud en un contexto más amplio, con una perspectiva menos inmediatista. El debate, por ejemplo, sobre la ley de salud colombiana (ley 100 de 1993) no se limita al problema de su financiación, para la cual el Estado declara la emergencia social al mismo tiempo que las empresas de salud aparecen en las listas de las empresas más grandes de Colombia, sino que el autor toma distancia para examinar un proceso que nace en los años 1970 y se prolonga hasta nuestros días.

The Brainstormer - The Brainstormer by Andrew Bosley The Brainstormer9/16/13: Brainstormer Facebook Page Read reviews of the app and see what others are doing with the Brainstormer! Visit, "like it", and pass it along! 9/16/13: More wheels! New features! Fully customizable! When I was in school at SJSU, studying visual development and illustration, I was always trying to give myself little concept projects to keep myself sharp and thinking. 20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea Well that was weird. I was only in North Korea for five days, but that was more than enough to make it clear that North Korea is every bit as weird as I always thought it was. If you merged the Soviet Union under Stalin with an ancient Chinese Empire, mixed in The Truman Show and then made the whole thing Holocaust-esque, you have modern day North Korea. It’s a dictatorship of the most extreme kind, a cult of personality beyond anything Stalin or Mao could have imagined, a country as closed off to the world and as secretive as they come, keeping both the outside world and its own people completely in the dark about one another—a true hermit kingdom. A question, then, is “Why would an American tourist ever be allowed into the country?” Allow me to illustrate what I believe is the reasoning behind my being let in: High Level Government Meeting And so, I was allowed in, along with a small group of other Westerners, accompanied (at all times) by three North Korean guides. 1. 2. 3. This is it.

APP | Create animated GIFs with your iPhone/iTouch or Webcam GIFYO iPhone & iTouch App Login or Register 1 Gifs 0 Likes Gonzalo-Del-Cant 11hr ago suidgasdsa Gonzalo-Del-Cant Follow Message Statistics Recent Gifs About me Followers Following About|Guidelines|Contact|Terms Of Service|Privacy Policy|Online Safety|Advertise Gifyo © 2014 Coffitivity - Increase Your Creativity! How to Set Up a Beautiful Blog Today: Step by Step A new year is here. Why not resolve to create something meaningful? Why not start a blog? Creating this blog is one of the best decisions Ryan and I ever made. After all, our blog is how we earn a living. It’s also how we add value to other people’s lives. So, let’s say you’ve thought about starting a blog to communicate your thoughts and express your feelings. Since creating this blog three years ago, we’ve garnered an audience of more than 2 million readers, and we’ve learned a lot about blogging along the way. Because we receive so many questions about how we specifically set up our blog, we decided to provide our readers with a soup-to-nuts, comprehensive guide for how to start a blog. Video: Joshua Discusses How to Start a Blog Can’t see the above video? Step-by-Step Instructions: How to Set Up a Blog After much experimenting and endless tinkering, we discovered the best way to set up our blog. Step 1. Before you get started, you’ll need two things: Step 2. We Use Bluehost. Step 3.

60 segundos que cambiarán tu vida 60 segundos que cambiarán tu vida Escoge una industria y entra en la vida de un animal por solo un minuto: 1. Circos Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on email 2. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on email 3. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on email 4. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on email 5. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on email 6. Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on google_plusone_share Share on email Ahora que sabes la verdad detrás de estas industrias, ¿qué harás y con quién compartirás esto? Entradas relacionadas Publicar un Comentario Tu dirección de correo electrónico no será publicada.

CLP - Vanity Cards Your Family: Past, Present, and Future This post was originally published about a year ago. Back with new posts soon. I have one living grandparent—my father’s mother, who’s 89. Nana. I visited Nana recently and went through the usual activities—talking about myself in a loud voice, fixing her “broken machine” by unminimizing the internet browser window, being told to slow down Timothy and get in the left lane, even though the turn is still a half mile ahead. But I also used the visit as an opportunity to do something I have not done nearly enough in my life—ask her questions about our family. I don’t know you, but I can almost guarantee that you don’t ask your grandparents (or older parents) enough questions about their lives and the lives of their parents. During my visit, Nana referred to herself as “the last of the Mohicans,” meaning basically everyone she spent her life with is dead—her husband, siblings, cousins, and friends are all gone. So on this visit, I started asking questions. She was annoyed. I knew none of this.

Manga en PDF Un excelente Manga, sin nada de gore ni peleas, en donde la trama gira en la vida de dos jóvenes chicas que se llaman "Nana", que es "siete" en japones, y es el número de la buena suerte. Ambas compartirán experiencias, amores, y desamores. Sus personalidades son como la noche y la luna, una es extrovertida y la otra introvertida, pero en este manga que es una especie de culebrón-cómico-dramón, pasaran muchas situaciones para salir adelante. Ha sido todo un fenómeno este manga hace unos años en Japón, sobre todo en el publico femenino ( y masculino también).

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