Laughter infects Berlin Train – the power of others and place

People often wonder just how powerful the people and spaces around us can be. Well, it turns out they can be pretty dang powerful! Just check out the video. Thanks Guy Kawasaki for sharing this out: Giggles spread through an U-Bahn train in Berlin after one woman starts laughing. Happiness: the best infectious thing you […]

Lunar eclipse: YouTube to broadcast today’s astronomical event live – latimes.com

Lunar Eclipse on YouTube right now! Go see! YouTube will be broadcasting on the Web a red-glowing lunar eclipse today at 11:20 a.m. PDT that otherwise will only be visible in the skies of South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. Sorry, North America. The lunar event will last about 100 minutes and be live-streamed […]

Using the Internet as a Learning (and play) Tool

Great article from Cory Doctorow and BoingBoing: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/02/how-i-use-the-intern.html …my 2.5-year-old daughter and I use my computer as part of our imaginative play and storytelling, using YouTube searches, Flickr image searches, paper story books, toys, and trips around town to play and explore. Now that she’s more active, she usually requests something – often something from […]

YouTube – RSA Animate – The Secret Powers of Time

Professor Philip Zimbardo conveys how our individual perspectives of time affect our work, health and well-being. Zimbardo argues in this lecture that time influences who we are as a person, how we view relationships and how we act in the world. I love the Silician Poet’s comment. I’d also be interested to hear what people’s […]

Building communities through online tools

It used to be considered sketchy to combine our online and offline worlds. With programs like Meetup and Foursquare, however, those days are long gone. Lisa Gansky an author, instigator & entrepreneur, wrote a book about it, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business is Sharing. She also wrote an article for Boing Boing about 100k Garages […]