RelentlesslyOptimistic

Amazing painting made with colored plexiglass airplanes

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Live each day as if...

Fence? What fence?

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Tickling for science!

According to the BBC, researchers in the UK have essentially invented for themselves what might be the greatest job in the world: ticklin' for science. Their focus has been on how gorillas at a local wildlife park vocalize in response to some well-placed fingertip rub downs in order to learn more about how laughter may have evolved in humans. What they found were more similarities than differences, says Dr. Marina Davila-Ross of the University of Portsmouth.

The camel laughing above sounds just like Stuart from MadTV

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Cute Picture Break: Flight of the Panda

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Mornings on Maple Street: Attaching stories to Lewis Hine's Child Labor photos

UPDATE: Lewis Hine was a photographer who began working for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) in 1908 documenting working children.

Joe Manning ferreted out the stories behind this picture, and many others:

"As I type the opening words of this story, it has been five years to the month since I saw this picture for the first time, in August of 2006. It was posted on a photo blog I ran across while searching for information about Lewis Hine."

The children and families depicted in the child labor photographs of Lewis Hine were unwittingly caught in the act of making history, but we know almost nothing about them. The pictures were taken for a noble purpose, but a century later, they have become an enormous photo album of the American family. By finding out what happened to some of them, and by revealing the photos to their descendants (most descendants are unaware of them), we are dignifying their lives, and the lives of everyone that history has forgotten.

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Steve Jobs: Don't Settle. Change Something. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

"You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."

"If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

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The Lebowski Cycle: Joe Forkan creates beautiful "Old Master" style paintings using scenes from "The Big Lebowski"

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Waking Up Full of Awesome

"There was a time when you were five years old,

and you woke up full of awesome.

 

You knew you were awesome.

 

You loved yourself.

 

You thought you were beautiful,

even with missing teeth and messy hair and mismatched socks inside your grubby sneakers.

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Wouldn’t that be nuts, to tell my little girl...that in another five or ten years she might hate herself because she doesn’t look like a starving and Photoshopped fashion model?

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All I know is that if you aren’t waking up feeling like this about yourself, you are really missing out."

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Great Picture Break: Sex, drugs and rock & roll?

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"Why not do the thing that’s the coolest thing in the world to do?”

The New Yorker profiles David Eagleman, a neuroscientist who "has spent the past decade tracing the neural and psychological circuitry of the brain’s biological clocks."

David Eagleman has a talent for testing the untestable, for taking seemingly sophomoric notions and using them to nail down the slippery stuff of consciousness. “There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science,” he told me. “But we live these short life spans. Why not do the thing that’s the coolest thing in the world to do?”

In other words, as long as you are doing it you may as well have fun at the same time.

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Procrastination

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Life in Stormy Weather

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Choose your ant color!

Ants with a translucent abdomen (either ghost ants or Argentine ants) change color based on the color of the food they consume.

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Daniel Kish — The blind man who taught himself to see

Short version: blind people can be taught to echolocate well enough to ride bicycles, hike in the wilderness, and more!

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Cool picture break: Everything's a toy

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