I would like to invite you to watch "The Story of Stuff".
Have you ever wondered where all this stuff comes from…and where it goes when we throw it out?
Created by Annie Leonard (and a team…) The Story of Stuff details exactly that - how stuff travels through our system! And it presents extremely complex [...]

Maxim of the ever-wonderful Danish mathematician and poet, the late Piet Hein - author of some of my favourite poems, Grooks. (Gruks).
See below for my two favourites - The Road to Wisdom and T.T.T. - though there are many more I enjoy!
Read some more here. And here. And a bit more about him [...]

"What is the Secret to Happiness?…
What "Every rabbi, philosopher, and grandmother has been telling us that for 2000 years"
The latest research from Harvard’s School of Psychology is on Happiness - by Daniel Gilbert, who has incidently just released a book: Stumbling on Happiness.
I read about it in today’s Boston Globe  (the quote in bold is directly from [...]

Ironically, living in NY has for the first time, made me conscious of my need to rest. And perhaps for the first time in a while I am understanding that rest (reflection, relaxation, breathing) is action, too.
I thought I would take a moment to reflect on this, after find rest a confluence for this week’s conversations.
It started with [...]

I have always loved the line from the Talmud "every person is a world". All of us have the power to change the world, and to be leaders - we are the leaders of our body’s world, we speak our world into being, and the questions we ask shape it!
And now for an image to match the [...]

Such a yummy site: full of cool maps, visually representing a number of complex things, simply.
For example:

This example is "Walrus - an interactive visualization tool that allows the analyst to view massive graphs from any position. The graph is projected inside a 3D sphere using a special kind of space based hyperbolic geometry. This is a non-Euclidean space…"
See, much [...]

"a generative painting system of imaginary colliding particles"
Check out more of the Bubble Chamber

"You don’t hammer nails with a screwdriver…When you have a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail…"
- Anthony Bucci 
I am stuck! I am sitting here attempting to do some work and my email is taking an incredibly slow time AND I am also waiting for emails that are still, seemingly due to same slowness challenge, [...]

How can we gain sight of the invisible?
Disclaimer: Below is version 1, the murky version of my thoughts. If you don’t like to get dirty, or you are expecting a clear paragraph please don’t. If you want to pick this apart, feel free, but don’t assume I have an argument/case fixed yet. I haven’t. That means if [...]

"Today we live in a chaos of straight lines, in a jungle of straight lines. If you do not believe this, take the trouble to count the straight lines which surround you. Then you will understand, for you will never finish counting." - Hundertwasser

I need to keep munching on this concept - while I don’t [...]