Acceptance

> Happy Friday Everyone. We at Bioness are continually blown away by the strength and power of the people we meet... http://t.co/5pOsXy8Xhn — Bioness (@BionessLiveOn) May 2, 2014 [https://twitter.com/BionessLiveOn/statuses/462266152765624320]…

Best Not to Lose Track of This

> Gr8 point. RT @MattDeeg [https://twitter.com/MattDeeg]: Ever notice how we always say "At least we're not as bad as...", but never "Sadly, we're not as good as..."? — Jeffrey Cufaude (@jcufaude) May 2, 2014 [https://twitter.com/jcufaude/statuses/462264159518732288]…

More about chocolate

The New York Times has more good news for chocolate lovers [http://nyti.ms/1jRqjk4] today > In recent years, large-scale epidemiological studies have found that people whose diets include dark chocolate have a lower risk of heart disease than those whose diets do not. Other research has shown that…

Darkness

A preview of Men Explain Things to Me. The adaptation at The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2014/04/virginia-woolf-darkness-embracing-the-inexplicable.html?utm_source=tny&utm_campaign=generalsocial&utm_medium=tumblr&mbid=social_tumblr] makes me want more of Solnit and Virginia Woolf.…

Who Knew?

> Then, people remembered Mountain Man Jim Bridger’s tale of the “Two Ocean Pass,” a place on the headwaters of the Yellowstone where creeks crossed the continental divide. Explorers had documented the existence of the pass, but it wasn’t until 1891 that the U.S. Fish Commission sent…

From Brains on Fire

Robbin Phillips over at Brains on Fire shared this observation in a post titled Love, Work, and Wisdom [http://www.brainsonfire.com/blog/2014/04/21/love-work-and-wisdom/#sthash.zYQt9ZX4.dpuf] > The other day I was in a meeting with Cordell and he tossed a thought out I want to…

Chocolate, Passover, and More

Observations on Passover from yesterday's New York Times [http://nyti.ms/1hXT9RM]. > I am a vegetarian, and it’s Passover. So until Tuesday night I am abstaining not only from all kinds of meat — beef, chicken, fish — but also from my usual low-fat alternatives, like bread, cereal…

Expedition Hope

Here's another polar traveler to keep an eye on. > Another day spent 'fumbling around'... It's like living inside a glass of milk! @arcticmarch [https://twitter.com/arcticmarch] #expeditionhope [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23expeditionhope&src=hash] pic.twitter.com/rdPlWPayEA [http://t.…