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5 Steps Towards Doing Your Life's Work Every Day By: mdenisewb — March 27, 2012 Over the last 18 months, I transformed my career and life by taking 5 steps toward my life's work- to change the world, one relationship at a time. Not only did I change my life but I've built a profitable company in the process. I... Voting ends April 26, 2012 ( 133 votes ) The Naked Truth; Do We Really Hate HR?
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Since the beginning of recorded time, and probably since long before that, the human body has been highly politicized, particularly in the areas of sexuality and reproduction. With the emergence of biotechnology, genetic modification, and the further refinement of psychopharmacology, we can expect further political polarization around the ethical issues these new options will raise. For example: should we genetically enhance our offspring in accordance with our cultural values, thereby significantly shaping their future in unpredictable ways before they’re even born? In our time, many of the political battles over the body revolve around reproduction, and therefore the rights of women.
Open Culture
Today we’re bringing you a roundup of some of the great Science Fiction, Fantasy and Dystopian classics available on the web. And what better way to get started than with Aldous Huxley reading a dramatized recording of his 1932 novel, Brave New World . The reading aired on the CBS Radio Workshop in 1956. You can listen to Part 1 here and Part 2 here . (FYI: You can download Huxley’s original work — as opposed to the dramatized version — in audio by signing up for a Free Trial with Audible.com , and that applies to other books mentioned here as well.) Little known fact.
BIL Conference - Minds Set Free
BIL is an ad-hoc conference for people changing the world in big ways. It's a place for passionate people to come together to energize, brainstorm, and take action. We invite you to bring your world into ours.
Front Page - The Long Now
The Long Now Foundation was established in 01996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years. Read More... Next Seminar :Our Favourites - earideas - the best audio on the web
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Nuclear Aftershocks Encore Presentation April 10th FRONTLINE travels to three continents to explore the debate about nuclear power: Is it safe? What are the alternatives? And could a Fukushima-style disaster happen in the U.S.? James Murdoch Steps Down as Chair of BSkyB Murdoch resigns to shield the satellite television company -- which brings in "money, money, money" to the News Corp. empire -- from the widening phone-hacking scandal
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