Bits and Clips for December 2014
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Here are the articles, blogs, podcasts and videos from this month that I felt were worth sharing. I hope you find something enjoyable, inspiring, intriguing, helpful or enlightening:
Art:
- Val Kilmer Art
- Major Exhibition Considers the Colorful Legacy of Sonia Delaunay
- Top 20 Animal Artworks of the Year 2014
Photography:
Spirituality:
- How Can I Pray Effectively and Get Results?
- Simplicity as a Spiritual Practice
- Mary Baker Eddy Had Chutzpah
- Lessons I Learned After Losing My Mom
- Everything Works Together for Good
Ideas:
- Bring on the Dark: Why We Need the Winter Solstice
- It Only Takes 5 Minutes to Become a Morning Person
- Addressing the Real Threats
- 9 Chivalrous Habits of a True Gentleman That Make Women Melt
- How ‘DeProgramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning
- 19 Clean Jokes to Tell Your Kids
- Why America’s Middle Class is Lost
- Einstein on Fairy Tales and Education
- 100 Amazing How-to Sites to Teach Yourself Anything
- 6 Things Optimists Do Differently
- What Students Really Need to Hear
- Why Understanding Obstacles is Key to Achieving Goals
- Stop Saying ‘You’re so Smart’: 3 Better Ways to Praise Kids
- My Rear Window
- Map Reveals What Languages to Speak
- How to Begin to Rebuild Your Life and Make it Ridiculously Amazing
- Woodie Gurtherie’s New Years Resolutions
- Google’s Year in Searches 2014
Books:
- 7 Prize Winning Books From 2014
- Best Cookbooks from 2014
- New York Times: 10 Best Books of 2014
- 51 of the Most Beautiful Sentences in Literature
- 9 Favorite Vegetarian Cookbooks
- NPR’s Guide to Great 2014 Reads
Movies:
Food:
- Recipe for Chai Oatmeal
- Comparing Commercial and Locally Produced Honey
- Ginger Beer Recipe
- Delicious Recipes to Beet Your Winter Blues
- The Truth About Cast Iron Pans: The Truth You Need to Know
- 6 Fascinating Facts about the Evolution of Food
- What to Do With All those Sweet Potatoes
- What I Learned From a Month of Eating Vegan
Hope:
- Grace in a Trader Joe’s Parking Lot
- Sweden Runs Out of Garbage: Only 1% Ends Up in Landfills
- Warren Can Win
- Danny’s Dumpster turns 40 Ton of Food Waste into Profits
- Shonda Rhimes Delivered the Most Inspiring Badass Speech Today
- Milkweed Touted as Oil-Spill Super-Sucker with Butterfly Benefits
- NASA’s Spacecraft Wakes Up Near Pluto 2.9 Billion Miles From Earth
- A Comet You Can See With the Naked Eye
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