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And 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:
- Why Museums Hide Masterpieces
- Video: Artist Walks into Physics Department
- How California Schools are Using Art to Boost Achievement
- Kandinsky on the Spiritual Element in Art and the Three Responsibilities of Artists
- How Art Can Help You Sharpen Your Mind
Photography:
- Snow’s a No-Show: 8 Images of the Roughest Iditarod Yet
- Hiking 2,600 Miles from Mexico to Canada, This man Took a Selfie After Each Mile
Spirituality:
- My Mother-in-Law
- Persistence Brought Healing
- The Needed Silence in Prayer
- How Martin O’Malley Begins His Day: Prayer, Solitude, and Some Very Non-Political Reading
- Love Reaches Us
- Video: A Positive Role For Religion
- It’s Not What We Say but What We See That Heals
Ideas:
- 9 Houseplants That are Basically Impossible to Kill
- How to Survive the College Admissions Madness
- The Cost of Relativism
- Keep Calm and Parent On
- The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered and it is Not What You Think
- Video: Fourth Grader Speaks out to School Board About Testing
- Ted Talk Video: Monica Lewinsky: The Price of Shame
- Goodbye Math and History: Finland Wants to Abandon Teaching Subjects in School
- Giving People Advice Rarely Works. This Does.
- In the Name of College! What are We Doing to Our Children?
- Research Shows These Four Things will Make You a Peak Performer
- 20 Things I will not Regret Doing with my Kids
- Study Finds More Reasons to Get and Stay Married
- Why Our Children Don’t Think There are Moral Facts
- TED Speaker Coach Shares 11 Tips Right Before You Go Onstage
- Three Myths of Student Engagement
- The Life of the Party is Closer Than You Think
- 10 Things I want my Gifted Daughter to Know
- Video: Tree Change Dolls
- The Case for Free Range Parenting
- 10 Behaviors of Genuine People
- Save Us From the SAT
- Video: Obama’s Talk About Young Minorities
- How Parents Create Narcissistic Children
- Two Women Who Left Their Mark on Healthcare
- 5 Things Teaches Wish Parents Knew: Your Children Can Do More Than you Think
- A Modest Janitor Built an $8 Million Fortune. You Can Too.
- You are Not Born to Know What a PhD is
- Dare Small Things
Books:
Movies:
- Downton Abbey is Reportedly Ending After Its Sixth Season
- Our Downton Abbey Theory will Blow Your Mind
- 24 Movies to Show in Your High School Art Room
Food:
- Four Simple Elegant Frittatas
- Which one of These Egg Yolks Looks Most Normal to You?
- USDA is on Board with Shipping Chickens to China for Processing and then Re-entry to States for Human Consumption
- 15 Delicious Reasons Western Massachusetts Deserves some Serious Food Credibility
- Twice Baked Yams with Feta and Hemp Seeds
- 15 Connecticut Restaurants that Will Blow The Taste Buds Out of Your Mouth
Poetry:
Hope:
- Germans to Green the Autoban
- French Parliament Debates Weight Standards for Fashion Models
- This Car Runs a 100 Years Without Refueling: The Thorium Car
- US Wind Power Quadruples as Texas Leads Installations
- Video: She’s 91 and Just Landed Her Dream Job in Silicon Valley
- Video: 100 Year Old Eileen Kramer Dancing
- Prepare for Joy: Even Darkness Must Pass
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