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Notes"We pride ourselves on having explored nearly every corner of this planet, but behind our world is a shadow world of microbes—and they are often calling the shots."Nathan Wolfe, founder of the Global Viral Forecasting Initiative, in National Geographic.
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Notes"If global warming were the work of an evil engineer, he’d deserve congratulations on a job well done."Adam Alter, author of Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape Our Thoughts, Feelings, and Behaviors, in The Huffington Post on why we should be more concerned about global warming.
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"You don’t have to go at it thinking, “How am I going to transform 16,000 school districts in the country?” Instead, you can spend an hour working with one child. Even itty bitty steps can make a profound difference."
Education speaker Ninive Calegari in Good Magazine.
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Notes"Videogames are indeed design: They’re sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars…Like well-designed cars, well-designed videogames are ways of taking your mind to different places."John Maeda, President of the Rhode Island School of Design, on why videogames should be admitted to the MoMA in Wired.
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Notes"To truly fix the oil sands, we need our government to actually govern—that is, to protect the public interest by regulating polluting companies….we need to put a price on pollution and demand higher royalties from Big Oil."Tzeporah Berman, environmentalist and author of This Crazy Time: Living Our Environmental Challenge, in The Globe and Mail.
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"Finding value from data is much more a process of cultivation than it is one of extraction or refinement…This re-framing of data into a human context is crucial."
Jer Thorp, Data Artist in Residence at The New York Times, in The Harvard Business Review.
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Notes"So maybe now all those people who have been playing “entrepreneur” will go get actual jobs making actual products and gain some actual experience. Maybe they’ll go back to university and study medicine, or engineering. Maybe they will realize that not everyone should be an entrepreneur - the Valley produces maybe 10 good companies a year - and that being an employee at a good company adds value too."Technology writer Dan Lyons, on the problem of “get-rich-quick” entrepreneurs, in ReadWrite.
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Notes"At this point in my life, I’m self-aware to realize that people’s affinities for a specific team, their hometown team…is the need to feel like they’re part of something bigger than themselves. But once you’re aware of that need, how can it still be there?"Chuck Klosterman, on the emotional connection sports fans have to their teams, in The Monarch Review.
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"It’s getting young kids to save, whether they’re in their 20s or 30s, and to live within their means. Living within their means is what financial planning is all about; it’s still what we struggle most with."
David Chilton, author of The Wealthy Barber series and co-host on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, in a recent interview with The Vancouver Sun.
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Notes"If our recently devised economic system endangers the air, water, land and biodiversity that we rely on for our health and survival, [then] we must come up with something better."Legendary environmentalist David Suzuki, from his blog.
