VIA Business Insider by Tony Manfred Milwaukee Bucks forward Larry Sanders has walked away from basketball after five years in the league, agreeing to a buyout with the team after the trade deadline. Sanders had three years remaining on a $44 million contract. He left around $21 million on the table in the buyout. Sanders, age […]
VIA “trueactivist.com” by Sophie McAdam Lasqueti is a secret Canadian island where the vast majority of residents are completely off-grid. Lasqueti is a small island between Vancouver and Vancouver Island, twelve miles long and three miles wide. It is home to a little known community of off-gridders who take pride in their isolation from both mainstream culture […]
VIA Spirit Science by Andrea S Yet again, another year passes and we all think (at least a little bit) about what the new year will bring. While losing weight, eating healthy, and quitting smoking are all fantastic resolutions to have, there is one thing that you could do that would make ALL of your […]
VIA “themindunleashed.org” If I have learned something from Socrates is that you cannot teach people anything; you can only make them think. You can only draw out of them the wisdom which is latent within them. And by doing so, you help open their eyes, making them realize that they were born with wings and that they […]
VIA Higher Perspectives On any given night in the central Oregon city of Eugene, there are about 3,000 people who don’t have a home to return to. Opportunity Village Eugene, a nonprofit organization based in that city, has a big plan to end it. Tiny houses. The mission of Opportunity Village Eugene is simple but impactful: they […]
VIA Pulptastic In 2007, inventor Kenton Lee was walking to mass in Nairobi, Kenya when he saw a little girl in a white dress wearing shoes so small for her feet, her toes were sticking out. He thought, “Wouldn’t it be great if there was a shoe that could adjust and expand — so that kids always […]
VIA Spirit Science and Metaphysics The story was originally featured on Life News| Martin Pistorious was just 12 years old when the doctors diagnosed him with what they believed was Cryptococci Meningitis, a sever fungal infection of the brain. This news completely devastated his parents. His conditioned worsened until he was in a vegetative state, unable to […]
VIA “expandedconsciousness.com” by Sean Suddes Expanded Consciousness As my 30th birthday quickly approaches I thought it would be an original idea (sarcasm) to write 30 lessons I’ve learned in 30 years living on this Earth. In no particular order: 1) Don’t take life too seriously, it’s not like you’re getting out alive. Learn to laugh […]
VIA “pulptastic.com” Pulptastic Derek Mitchell may have 577 pounds to carry, but that’s not stopping him from participating in a 5 kilometer run each month. In fact, he recently finished a 5k run with his best friend. He came in last, but definitely won the crowd’s heart. Backed by 10,000 supporters on Facebook, Derek pledged […]
VIA “the-open-mind.com” by Jade Small The Open Mind Known as “the last man from Fukushima“, 55-year-old Matsumura is the only person still living in the exclusion zone around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which suffered a meltdown after the major earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011. He lives in the small […]
