Month: February 2018
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It all started in Africa, everyone was the same
Once upon a time, all Homo sapiens lived in Africa. The experts pinpoint the location to be at Omo Kibish in Ethiopia. It all started there. Every human alive today can be traced back to these first people through our DNA. Encoded in our genes is the evidence of the great migration, which eventually led the…
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Can there be peace in a world of disparity?
We always tell our children, the world has never been more peaceful than it is today. We think back to periods in history where the population of the world was smaller and wars were waged, with violence being felt around the globe. Surely, we are living in relatively peaceful times. The flaw in our thinking…
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Teenagers are teachers, if we listen instead of lecture
“Coming home with straight A’s is fine, I’ll accept that, but what I’d rather have you do is come home and tell me something amazing that you learned in the spirit of doing something good for someone else, come home and tell me some really dramatic failure that occurred as you were trying to solve…
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Are we lucky, logical or biased?
It was interesting to watch the public preparations for the Chinese New Year celebration. It was easy for me to assume I understood it all, for much of what I could see as a foreigner looked the same as the Western preparations for Christmas and New Year holidays. I have held this cognitive bias for…
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Hong Kong sky high elegance DIY
For anyone who is a frequent shopper, and by that I mean purchaser of IKEA furniture, you know the basic colour, look and feel of the pine or bamboo wood items. Every item in the store comes in this quintessential finish. It is the hallmark look of many indoor wood items, across Scandinavia. But there…
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crea.spa.treat. what do you think it means?
“People remember different in a way they don’t remember better.” -Christopher Lochhead Think about that for a minute. ‘Different’ versus ‘Better’. In contrast, most of what we are taught or the habits we model involve talking about or other wise proving the ways we are better than someone else. From the way corporations are…
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Birds don’t need paperwork to soar through the air!
“It’s impossible to explain creativity. It’s like asking a bird, ‘How do you fly?’ You just do.” -Eric Jerome Dickey I think the general feeling is that the cost to fly has never been cheaper. In fact, in the USA recent analysis on routes dating back to 1963 show that the cost of…
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Largest annual mass human migration in the world
And we think travelling for Christmas is a big deal! No, we have nothing on the global numbers who will reunite with friends and family on Chinese New Year. It is not surprising that communities all over the world are busy with preparations for the lunar new year, weeks ahead of the start. Why wouldn’t…