First, Ben Saunders, on completing the Scott Expedition > "With each step, try to reach a bit further forward than you think you can" - @polarben [https://twitter.com/polarben] #inspiration [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23inspiration&src=hash] #QuoteOfTheDay [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23QuoteOfTheDay&…
Powers of 10 The Once and Future King From The Once and Future King [http://www.ipad-ebooks-online.com/228/text/part1.html] > "Do you all come here from different places?" > "Well, in parties, of course. There are some here from Siberia, some from Lapland and…
Simone Dinnerstein played Kennedy Center on February 9. I've seen her before (her performance in 2008, I think, was the first I remember walking to instead of going in a wheelchair). This performance provided a healthy mix of traditional and recent music, and I liked the Muhly and…
Too good to leave neglected in the detritus of the Twitter stream. > The Isolator, a helmet invented in 1925 that encourages focus and concentration pic.twitter.com/GmaEZozgwy [http://t.co/GmaEZozgwy] — History In Pictures (@HistoryInPics) February 9, 2014 [https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/statuses/432373546489483264]…
The On Being broadcast this morning contained this observation by the late Rabbi David Hartman. > I was a nice religious boy until I began to read and that all changed. Just goes to show you'd better watch what you read. Rabbi Hartman's "dangerous"…
I'm being drawn more deepy into Eliot's Daniel Deronda and was pleased to read this in Chapter XIX. > under his [Daniel's] calm and somewhat self-repressed exterior there was a fervor which made him easily find poetry and romance among the events of every-day…
What should have been a routine doctor's visit yesterday created a stir when the elevator to the first floor went out of service. The last few patients of the day gamely walked down three flights of stairs. This doesn't have the resonance of Senator Kirk on…
I just had a stroke a lot later in life. > After a #stroke [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23stroke&src=hash] before birth, 14 y/o’s continuous goal: “keep getting better.” http://t.co/5odRYmvP7B — Natl Stroke Assoc (@natlstrokeassoc) February 6, 2014 [https://twitter.com/natlstrokeassoc/statuses/…