Kiva.org
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Smart thinking, Taking a stand | No Comments »Micro-finance organisation Kiva recently passed the $100.000.000 mark: 100 million dollars loaned by people all over the world to people all over the world. I love it that I can lend 50 bucks to some guy in Togo who starts a ...
Braille on stamps
Friday, November 27th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »Joseph Braille who developed the Braille alphabet was born in 1809. The Dutch post office issued these beautiful Braille stamps recently: (front) (Back) (Click for large pics that show the actual Braille details) The texts 'miss' characters, these are replaced bij Braille letters. But ...
Darius goes west
Thursday, November 26th, 2009 Posted in Taking a stand | 2 Comments »The opening film for the European Summit for Global Transformation last weekend was Darius goes west. It is the documentary about 15 year old Darius Weems and eleven of his friends traveling from Athens, Georgia to San Francisco, California with the intention ...
Tweetsgiving 2009
Monday, November 23rd, 2009 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »With Thanksgiving coming up, Epic Change organizes for the second time Tweetsgiving (this Tuesday and Wednesday): TweetsGiving 2009 from LittlePurpleCow Productions on Vimeo. I was at the European Summit for Global Transformation in Rotterdam this weekend (more about that in a next ...
White House star party
Thursday, November 19th, 2009 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »Last October, president Obama had a bunch of amateur and professional astronomers over at the White House to show his family and a group of school kids the night sky: I love the way he challenges the kids: "Are you gonna find ...
Reinventing the syringe
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Over a million people a year are killed by reusing syringes. Marc Koska tells the story and comes up with a very smart way of preventing this: (The consequence is of course that we will now have to distribute/buy more ...
Cell size and scale
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Posted in Creativity | No Comments »The Genetic Science Learning Center of the University of Utah made this neat visualizer of the scale of things from a coffee bean to a carbon atom. User the slider at the bottom to dive into the microscopic universe.
‘Charter for compassion’ unveiled
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Posted in Taking a stand | No Comments »The Charter for Compassion (earlier post), that people worldwide have been working on for the past year, has been made public: For me, this one clause says it all: ... even those regarded as enemies. Please go visit the website to read more, ...
