A Game of Hope. WNYC/NPR's Radio Lab presents Parabolas (etc.) Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com - Rolighetsteorin.se Amazing domino video for Restless Legs Theo Jansen's Strandbeests - Wallace & Gromit's World of Invention Episode 1 Preview - BBC One. Bird Photo Transcribed into Music. Watch. Keith Barry does brain magic. The Surprising Realities Behind What Motivates Us in Illustrated Form - Lifehacker. @Blueluck: Very true - I've seen other countries where people leave their family in another country to go find work, and then to manual labor for extremely cheap just to be able to send it all home to their family.
I guess that could be interpreted as their purpose, but the work is not purposeful in and of itself. I guess "pay enough to take money off the table" covers that, so we're only talking about how to motivate people after they're at the comfortable level most Americans that read this blog are at. Interesting results in India, though. I believe there is a threshold that once you're paid a certain amount, you feel on top of things like you deserve it, so you don't work hard to move up further. Worlds Biggest Ant Hill AMAZING.