20 Sentences Every Grad Student Has Uttered. Leonardo da Vinci Quotations Compiled by GIGA (Page 1) Quakers in the World - William Tuke. William Tuke was born in York on 24 March 1732, into a leading Quaker family. He entered the family tea and coffee merchant business at an early age. Alongside his commercial responsibilities, he was able to devote much time to the pursuit of philanthropy.
When a Quaker died in the squalid and inhumane conditions of the York Asylum, Tuke was invited to visit and was appalled by what he saw there. In the spring of 1792, he appealed to the Society of Friends (as the Quakers were also known) to revolutionise the treatment of the insane. He collected sufficient funds to open the York Retreat for the care of the insane in 1796.
This was the first of its kind in England, and pioneered new, more humane methods of treatment for the mentally ill. William Tuke’s model of care was known as Moral Treatment. William Tuke died in 1822. Samuel's son James Hack Tuke (1819 - 1896) in his turn aided in the management of the York Retreat and later focused on famine relief aid to Ireland. "You are all going to die" Joss Whedon's Wesleyan Commencement Speech. Ah, but what if its not a computer simulation? What if its the scenario I put above, transferring our essence from clone to clone - each clone containing an echo of the whole that occasionally IS the whole? With the net being the interconnecting structure tying all these "selves" into a coherent being? There's going to be cybernetics. There's going to be computer images of the human brain, there's going to be nanotechnology and human enhancement.
Our world is going to fundamentally change. We will be immortal, not because of a computer or a drug or a God, but because life requires us to be. A TED Talk That Might Turn Every Man Who Watches It Into A Feminist? It's Pretty Fantastic. Mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn. Thought You Couldn't Hold Mr. Rogers In Any Higher Of An Esteem? Check Out These 6 Wonderful Facts.
3 Words I Wish I'd Heard When My Boyfriend Cheated On Me. Neil Gaiman, renaissance man and legendary novelist, once gave the best graduation speech I've ever heard. It was so good that they're making a book of it. Here's my favorite part, which happens to be the one I listen to whenever something awful happens (I wasn't kidding with that headline, people). Did I mention they're making a book of it? We called in a couple of favors, pulled a few strings, and promised a few of our first-borns, and now we have an exclusive page from this gorgeous upcoming printing, designed by Chip Kidd: Click image to Zoom Love it? Shop Indie Bookstores: Print or eBook. You Mattered, Chris. Christopher Peterson died yesterday.
We don’t know the details. We’ve just been touched by the shock wave going through a world-wide community that formed around his generous and productive life. Just five days ago, Chris wrote an article in his Positive Psychology Today blog, The Good Life, about the ways he might use the word “awesome.” Along with the 1000 statues of the Buddha at the Sanjūsangen-dō temple in Japan, all looking alike from a distance but different up close, his examples included the Vietnam Memorial and the Virginia Tech Hokie Stones memorial for the people who died in the 2007 shooting.
He concludes the article this way: “The sort of awe I am describing is a bit different but incredibly important. Chris was our teacher during the first MAPP program, teaching us how to read and write about research in the first semester and exploring character strengths and virtues in the second semester. In the comments, please add any Chris stories that you are moved to tell.