Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.

Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.
~Bob Goff


Who is new White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci? Los Angeles Times. Read all the way to the end.
Why Trump’s New Hire Marks a Turning Point for the White House Time. We might remember that the go-to story for the Trump campaign was ZOMG!! Chaos!!!, and Trump kept firing people and firing people… ’til he won.
The media’s war on Trump is destined to fail. Why can’t it see that? Thomas Frank, Guardian. Certainly odd that Frank has to publish this on the other side of the Pond….
Measuring Uncertainty - Force Testing Made Easy





Fear is a universal experience. Even the smallest insect feels it. We wade in the tidal pools and put our finger near the soft, open bodies of sea anemones and they close up. Everything spontaneously does that. It’s not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being alive, something we all share. We react against the possibility of loneliness, of death, of not having anything to hold on to. Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.

If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.  When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation Through Difficult Times





Social Media Is More About The Connections Than The Information And Likes

81 drugs and personal-care products were detected in the flesh of salmon caught in the Puget Sound. “Salmon is purported to be one of the healthiest foods due to its high omega-3 content, protein, and essential fatty acids, but if the fish is obtained from the Puget Sound, it is anything but healthy. According to a recent study, up to 81 drugs and personal-care products were detected in the flesh of salmon caught in the Puget Sound. Some of the drugs include Prozac, Advil, Benadryl, Lipitoreven cocaine. 
 Years before Vladimir Nabokov proclaimed that “there is no science without fancy, and no art without facts,”marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson (May 27, 1907–April 14, 1964) arrived at the immensely fertile intersection of science and wonder, through which she would later catalyze the modern environmental movementwith her groundbreaking 1962 book Silent Spring.

Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to clear the mists and predict ahead. But the future is inherently uncertain - and the mist that shrouds our path an inherent part of our journey. The burning question is whether our societies can face up to uncertainty, learn to embrace it and whether we can open up to a constantly evolving future. Uncertainty is cunning. It appears at unexpected moments, it shuns the straight line, takes the oblique route and sometimes the unexpected short-cut


 Psychology is peppered with amazing bloggers who created  a big well of wisdom. You may find your sense of wonder refreshed if you locked in some time to drink deep from it...

The Beatles song “Eleanor Rigby” is a poignant vignette of loneliness in later adulthood. (“All the lonely people,” the singers lament. “Where do they all come from)




The updated ‘Bloomberg Way’ style guide focuses on best practices for data and multiplatform journalism


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How to choose an approach that resolves conflict

Community groups call for greater freedom to speak out
Australian governments must act now to safeguard and encourage vibrant debate on matters of public interest, 15 non-government organisations have said in a new report
Defending Democracy, to be released today (05 July 2017). More...


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