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"The Third Blood Moon" Streaming Live

Lunar Eclipse Online via NASA

Picture: The Third Blood Moon by @msanhuezacelsi ©2015

On Saturday morning, April 4, 2015 not long before sunrise, the bright full moon over North America should turn a lovely shade of celestial red during a total lunar eclipse.

Due to its reddish color, a total eclipse of the moon is sometimes referred to as a blood moon. In addition, in the 2010s the media started to associate the term "blood moon" with the four full moons of a lunar tetrad, especially the 2014-2015 tetrad coinciding with the feasts of Passover and Tabernacles. A lunar tetrad is a consecutive sequence of four lunar eclipses, spaced six months apart.

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Creativity & Intuition

Intuition as the Basis for Creativity

By Carla A.M. Woolf via Creativitypost

Conscientiousness is inefficient and subject to dullness without creativity, and creativity does its best work when it functions intuitively.

Recently, a parent who is also a teacher, asked me on behalf of a friend to offer some advice on how to ensure that her child will grow up to exemplify a sense of higher conscientiousness. In moments like these, past recollections come to mind of parents having inquired about methods, ideas or techniques that might assist them in raising their children’s aptitudes for one particular trait or another, which they believe to be of the utmost importance. Sought after advice comes in various contexts and requests, such as “I just want my child to be ~ smart and successful” or, “just be able to use good judgment in all matters”, or “have good manners and social behavior” or, “be happy and know the value of hard work”, “live his passion”, “be a good critical thinker”, “get along with everyone”, “contribute something to the world”, “use free will responsibly”, “make good decisions”, “have common sense”, etc.

Social innovation & labs

Understanding social and public labs

By Geoff Mulgan via nesta.org.uk

This note summarises a view of the field of innovation labs - and what might lie ahead. It looks at the ways in which labs need to be both insiders and outsiders at the same time – and the practical challenges of the classic ‘radical’s dilemma’. If they stand too much inside the system they risk losing their radical edge; if they stand too far outside they risk having little impact. It follows that the most crucial skill they need to learn is how to navigate the inherently unstable role of being both insiders and outsiders; campaigners and deliverers; visionaries and pragmatists.

This paper looking at the various social and public labs I’ve come across around the world.

It suggests a typology for understanding them and describes some of the challenges they face – in particular, the radical’s dilemma of having to work both inside and outside established systems.

Download Full paper via nesta.org.uk

Download The radical’s dilemma: an overview of the practice and prospects of Social and Public Labs. - See more at: http://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/understanding-social-and-public-labs#sthash.qNAKl8A1.5bEyPu89.dpuf

"The radical’s dilemma: an overview of the practice and prospects of Social and Public Labs."

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SOURCE: Understanding social and public labs By Geoff Mulgan via nesta.org.uk (CC BY NC SA).

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I’ve written a paper looking at the various social and public labs I’ve come across around the world.
It suggests a typology for understanding them and describes some of the challenges they face – in particular, the radical’s dilemma of having to work both inside and outside established systems.
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Geoff Mulgan

How Do You Design For Creativity?

by Bud Caddell CC BY NC SA

INSPIRE QUOTES

Jacob Schultz, Vice President of People of @Kiva

by IMAGINE.CC

Open Sustainability, Creativity & Innovation

"Make Every Day Water Day"

by Water.org

Millions of people around the world don't have safe water.

World Water Day is March 22nd — a day when the world turns its attention towards the 750 million people who lack access to safe water. But every day of the year can be a Water Day. When Rajamma opens her tap, or Grace hears raindrops filling her catchment system, or when Poppy is able to offer her children a safe drink of water — each of these is a Water Day.

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OPEN Sustainability & Technology

"Technology and Inequality"

by @DavidRotman via MIT @techreview

The disparity between the rich and everyone else is larger than ever in the United States and increasing in much of Europe. Why?

The signs of the gap—really, a chasm—between the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon Valley. On a bustling morning in downtown Palo Alto, the center of today’s technology boom, apparently homeless people and their meager belongings occupy almost every available public bench. Twenty minutes away in San Jose, the largest city in the Valley, a camp of homeless people known as the Jungle—reputed to be the largest in the country—has taken root along a creek within walking distance of Adobe’s headquarters and the gleaming, ultramodern city hall. The gap between the wealthy and everyone else is largest in the United States. The richest 1 percent of the population has 34 percent of the accumulated wealth; the top 0.1 percent has some 15 percent.

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"Effects of human exposure to hormone-disrupting"
Chemicals examined in landmark UN-Report

Many synthetic chemicals, untested for their disrupting effects on the hormone system, could have significant health implications according to the State of the Science of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals, a new report by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and WHO.

“We urgently need more research to obtain a fuller picture of the health and environment impacts of endocrine disruptors”

Dr Maria Neira, WHO’s Director for Public Health and Environmen

The joint study calls for more research to understand fully the associations between endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs)—found in many household and industrial products—and specific diseases and disorders. The report notes that with more comprehensive assessments and better testing methods, potential disease risks could be reduced, with substantial savings to public health. Via WHO

Open Movie Project

Sintel " The Epic Adventure"

#AnimatedShotFilm via sintel.org

"Sintel" is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender.
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With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film.

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OPEN Sustainability & Technology

"10 Technologies to help the world's poor"

by @NyshkaCNBC via @CNBC

While many of these products remain out of reach price-wise for the majority of individuals, most can be

purchased by governments or non-profit organizations.

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Sustainable Development

What is Clean Technology?

Video by Veolia Water

What does "clean" technology really mean? How can we make a shift toward a more ecological and low-carbon economy?

Investments in clean technology have grown considerably since coming into the spotlight around 2000. According to the United Nations Environment Program, wind, solar and biofuel companies received a record $148 billion in new funding in 2007 as rising oil prices and climate change policies encouraged investment in renewable energy. $50 billion of that funding went to wind power. Overall, investment in clean-energy and energy-efficiency industries rose 60 percent from 2006 to 2007. By 2018 it is forecast that the three main clean technology sectors, solar photovoltaics, wind power, and biofuels, will have revenues of $325.1bn.

Sustainability, Music & Creativity!

"Lollapalooza Chile 2015"

Follow Official Live Streaming via vtr

Lollapalooza Chile is a Santiago, Chile–based version of the popular music festival Lollapalooza. The annual festival launched in April 2011 in Santiago’s O'Higgins Park and features alternative rock, heavy metal, punk rock and hip-hop bands from both Chile and abroad.

Follow this Weekend "Lollapalooza Chile 2015" 14 & 15 march ONLINE via lollapaloozacl.com

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Creativity & Design

"ROCK is Attitude, ROCK is ART, ROCK is DESIGN"

via EcowR Rock on EcowR&Images

Like never before

Power Rangers the Dark Short Film

POWER/RANGERS By Joseph Kahn via AdiShankar

Adi Shankar Presents a Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers Bootleg Film By Joseph Kahn; James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff star. This Short Film is unaffiliated with any official Power Rangers franchise.

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Sustainability & Design

Can A Modern Bike Inspire More People To Ride?

Written by Oved Valadez via FastCoExist

Meet Solid, a bike design inspired by the streets of Portland that includes an app to help you navigate.

For the past eight months, we’ve been actively engaged in The Bike Design Project, a competition pairing five five bicycle craftsmen from five diverse cities (Chicago, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and our hometown, Portland). The directive given to each bike-building team at the onset of the competition was to create the ultimate urban utility bike. Given this charge, we took a step back. We knew we needed to create the right tool, provide inspiration for everyone, and remove all barriers for the everyday cyclist.

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Creativity, Inspire & Disrupt
What Forms of Creativity
Turn You On?
By Scott Barry Kaufman via Creativity Post

It’s no secret: creativity is sexy. People all over the world rank creativity as a highly desirable quality in a partner, and people who are creative across a variety of fields report more sexual partners (similar results have been found in specific fields such as visual art, music, and humor). But are all forms of creativity equally attractive?

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Creativity, Design & Disrupt

"LEGO Oscar 2015"

the best of all prizes

Oscar trophy made of Lego bricks

The Artist behind the Lego Oscar Statue is @NathanSawaya

This Creative Idea is great!

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Creativity, Innovation & Disrupt

The Most Innovative Companies of 2015

by Fast Company

In this report on the World's Most Innovative Companies, there are plenty of examples to make you a believer. The Fast Company staff has spent many months gathering and analyzing data. To generate this list of the 50 Most Innovative Companies—and the accompanying top 10 companies in various sectors. Risk of failure and collapse are always high, but the culture of innovation across the globe is more robust than ever, Fast Company thinks that's worth celebrating.

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