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“It has always seemed strange to me,” said Doc. “The things we admire in men — kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling — are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest — sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest — are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.” ~ John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

Choose your own adventure folks!

“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Thank you Hank Green! You’ve beautifully articulated what many of us are feeling about our political climate.

Kintsugi: The Art of Embracing Damage via Nerdwriter

Doing more with less.

Blend the genius of Damien Rice with the tender voice of Dallas Green and I think you get something close to Andrew Hozier-Byrne. I’m keeping my fingers crossed he captures the Grammy for Take Me to Church (parental advisory). Hozier will be in Vancouver on February 15th at the Orpheum. Until then, I’m enjoying his live session of From Eden.

Jason Silva from Shots of Awe and TestTube.com.

Oh how I wish my college English courses had been taught by the always entertaining Michael from VSauce. In this session he covers contrastive focus reduplication, verbal nouns, rebracketing, and unpaired words.