Why Poverty Video

Waste - Why Poverty? (2:47 min - English Subtitles) from Why Poverty? on Vimeo.

Allegory of the Cave

Opinion | A slow burn for worthy state students snubbed by the University of Washington

 Opinion | A slow burn for worthy state students snubbed by the University of Washington | Seattle Times Newspaper

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry

I don’t think I’ve ever said “I want to go to there” about a hospital, so I think this is a first. Check out these great photos courtesy of World Architecture News (WAN) of Frank Gehry’s newest project, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. My brain sure is healthy enough to know that this is an incredible building. The building officially opened on Friday.

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Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas by Frank Gehry

Keeping the “Social” in Social Media: How to Interact with Your Customers Online

Companies are increasingly turning to the Web to reach their customer bases, in part to get in on the hype surrounding social media. Unfortunately though, using social media tools isn’t enough for effective PR or social media marketing. You have to use them well. (more from Directory Journal.com)
http://www.dirjournal.com/guides/keeping-the-social-in-social-media-how-to-interact-with-your-customers-online/

Office Politics

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Zen Habits

 The No. 1 Habit of Highly Creative People

“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for contructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.” ~Rollo May
Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow on twitter or identica.

http://zenhabits.net/creative-habit/

Corporate Content Control...A Social Medium Without Conversation...

"Do not attempt to remove critical; even defamatory comments and do not try to shut down “negativity groups / spaces” – you will immediately be branded a “controller” and it will always backfire, as more than one organisation told us." .H. Andreasen
http://www.jboye.com/blogpost/from-control-to-conversation-corporations-and-social-media/

Chef Boyardee Print Campaign

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Art and Medicine at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (Part 2)

 

Gilles Barbier, L'Hospice (The Nursing Home), 2002. Detail

When American superheroes get too shabby, they are sent to vegetate in Gilles Barbier's Nursing Home. The work refers quite straightforwardly to our societies' obsession with eternal youth. Should medical research be geared towards the fight against the loss of youthfulness? Or isn't medicine's most noble mission to provide us with better lives? Will our society ever revert to respecting old age?
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Health Care Hell

It's the end of the month and you can't pay for your medical bill so you are placed on collections. Free market healthcare Sci Fi movie features Repo Men out to get your organs.
Repo Men Posters Price Out Your Organs

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Chemical BPA Linked to Heart Disease

You might want to consider an alternative the next time you store your food in those plastic containers. A recent study found high concentrations of BPA, a man made chemical used in everyday plastic containers linked to heart disease. Read source

David Lynch to Get Gehry Design in Lodz, Poland

Frank Gehry is to build a very large cultural center in Lodz, Poland. A very interesting addition to the rest of the renovations that Lodz is going through. This is the first time that Gehry will design a building in Poland.

The interior is going to be made up of a large projected screen and it’s roof will complement the gothic cathedral in Lodz.

There will be 4 movie theaters, 1 large concert auditorium, 1 small auditorium and a large courtyard.

Polish Architecture, Frank Gehry and Lodz, Poland
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Vampire buzz takes bite in Kirkland

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Amidst a vampire buzz in popular culture, local author Richelle Mead has taken the furor by storm.The New York Times and USA Today bestselling urban fantasy author for both adults and teens recently launched her fourth book, "Blood Promise," in her young adult series “Vampire Academy.” And fans are talking.
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By CARRIE WOOD
Kirkland Reporter Editor
Dec 21 2009, 3:17 PM · UPDATED
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Creativity Lost in Education

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we’re educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types…
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Holiday Reading List

The folks on your shopping list are likely an eclectic mix, with various interests and opinions and points of view. But all of them have some interest in some aspect of health -- if not their own, certainly a loved one's. By no small coincidence, the Health staff is made up of a similar list of people.
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Recycling Chris Jordan's Video

Local ex corporate lawyer turned Katrina photographer, Chris Jordan talks about his work. Supersized photos of Barbies and papercups. Watch this archived video from TED.

Flu of 1918

Flu of 1918 Pictures

Million Dollar Babies

SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - Think your children are costing you a lot? You're right, with an Australian study finding that the average child now costs $1 million (US$917,000) to raise, taking into account toys, holidays and other activities. Read article.