Bits and Clips for April 2014
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Here are the articles, blogs, podcasts and videos from this month that I felt were worth sharing:
Art:
- 365 Days of Drawing and Painting
- The 6 Most Common Mistakes Artists Make When Approaching Galleries
- Apps for the Arts
- Arts Education Lacking in Low Income Areas
Photography:
- Tree Photos
- An amazing little nature video
- Earth Day Photos: Celebrating the Beauty of Our Planet
- 16 Children and their Bedrooms from Across the World
Spirituality:
- An Article by Gabby Gifford’s Mother: Church was There for Me
- The Doubter and the Resurrection
- How to Have a Fulfilled Life
- I Was Addicted to Gambling; Here’s How I Overcame It
- On Listening: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Advice to Christians
- Trying to Quit…
- Refuge from the Cross
- Are Moments of Prayer Beneficial to Our Health?
Ideas:
- Teaching Adolescents How to Evaluate the Quality of Online Information
- What You Don’t Know About Financial Aid (But Should)
- The Essayifacation of Everything
- 30 Simple things You Do That Impress Everyone
- 10 Things to Know About Education Around the World
- 15 Things You Didn’t Know Your iPhone Could Do
- Non-Conformity and Creativity Now Listed as Mental Illness by Psychologists
- Virtual Homeschool Group
- The American Middle Class is No Longer the World’s Richest
- Sustainable Food in the Desert? Take a Dip in the Garden Pool…
- Complexity of Human Intelligence (a Correlation between Dyslexia and Creativity?)
- Why Kids Need Schools to Change
- Rankings of World Priorities
- Getting Into the Ivies
Books:
- Serious Reading Takes a Hit from Online Scanning and Skimming
- Women Writers Dominate Children’s Books, Right? Wrong.
- The Tale of One Woman’s ‘I Built it Myself’ Life
Movies:
‘Fed Up’ Film Examines Food Industry
Food:
Hope:
- We Want Good Thinkers Over Good Students
- How to Get a Job at Google, Part 2
- Yellowberry: Meet the Teen Titan that is Taking on the Youth Bra Industry
- Fairfax Program Seeks to Close the ‘Excellence Gap’
- Diving off the Deep End: an Interview with Eben Alexander, MD
- No Courses, No Classrooms, No Grades– Just Learning
- 5 Environmental Wins to Celebrate
- Key to College Success: Involved Dads
- Vermont Will Label Genetically Modified Food
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