Thursday 23 May 2013

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stray baseball turns selfie into near death experience

Here’s a good reason you should take your t-ball coach and dad’s advice to keep your eye on the ball. Kelly Nash, a reporter for Fox’s Sun Sports, was attending the Astros-Red Sox game and decided to document the experience with some Instagram selfies using Fenway Park as her backdrop. But Nash …

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earth day 2013 – the face of climate change

Today is Earth Day! Over one billion people in 192 countries are participating from London to Sao Paolo, Seoul to Babylon City, New Delhi to New York, Rome

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google supports earth day with interactive doodle

This is Google's 13th Earth Day doodle. Today's elaborate animation shows the cycle of seasons represented by the rising and falling sun and moon. Users can play and

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earth day alert: 11 facts about our water

Water is a given for most of us.  When we turn on a hose or faucet not only do we expect the water to flow, but we expect

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5 life secrets from old people

A piece in the Harvard Gazette covers what Karl Pillemer of Cornell University learned from studying nearly 1500 people age 70 to 100+ for his book “30 Lessons for Living:

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10 things extraordinary people say every day

They're small things, but each has the power to dramatically change someone's day. Including yours. Want to make a huge difference in someone's life? Here are things you should

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your attitude determines whether or not you’ll succeed

The results of your actions have little to do with what you are actually doing and almost everything to do with your attitude. Which is ironic because we spend

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we are all clark kent, with promise of being superman

You will change history. That’s the core message of author Brad Meltzer’s TED-Ed talk. Even famous change-makers — like Martin Luther King — had concerns like everyone else. They worried

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109 year old holocaust survivor shares some powerful wisdom

You HAVE to watch this 1 minute video.  Alice Herz-Sommer is 109 years old and is the oldest Holocaust survivor in the world.  She resides in

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how to lock down your Facebook privacy before graph search strikes

Graph Search is Facebook's bold new way of browsing the social network, letting you call up photos of your family in California, restaurants your friends like in New York, or