How to Build a GeoDome Greenhouse - Northern Homestead When it comes to gardening in colder climates, a greenhouse is almost a must have. It extends the growing season and gives the plants a lot more heat. With a greenhouse, we can actually pick ripe tomatoes here and grow some plants that we would not be able to without one. A greenhouse can also be a great place to hang out on those cool spring days and summer nights. When we started to look out for one to build, our expectations were very high. Very unique, lightweight structure Stable in wind and under snow Optimal light absorption Has the most growing ground space A unique hang-out place An eye catcher The GeoDome greenhouse seemed to be just what we were looking for. What materials to use? We looked at dozens of how-to instructions and even bought a pricy e-Book (with very little value). Here we share our GeoDome building experience for anyone who wants to build a GeoDome -Wood. Acidome is one of the best Geodome calculators we were able to find on the internet. Finished struts: .
Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence by Maria Popova How top-down attention, feedback loops, and daydreaming play into the science of success. The question of what it takes to excel — to reach genius-level acumen at a chosen endeavor — has occupied psychologists for decades and philosophers for centuries. Groundbreaking research has pointed to “grit” as a better predictor of success than IQ, while psychologists have admonished against the dangers of slipping into autopilot in the quest for skill improvement. The “10,000-hour rule” — that this level of practice holds the secret to great success in any field — has become sacrosanct gospel, echoed on websites and recited as litany in high-performance workshops. Illustration by Vladimir Radunsky from Mark Twain's 'Advice to Little Girls.' The secret to continued improvement, it turns out, isn’t the amount of time invested but the quality of that time. Hours and hours of practice are necessary for great performance, but not sufficient. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
The Global Brain: Peter Russell (1983) Peter Russell’s award-winning video, based on a live audio-visual presentation in 1983. He explores the idea that the Earth is an integrated, self-regulating living organism and asks what function humanity might have for this planetary being. It suggests that we stand on the threshold of a major leap in evolution, as significant as the emergence of life itself, and the essence of this leap is inner spiritual evolution. Check out Peter Russell's youtube channel: Check out Peter Russell's Website: Check out Peter Russell on Facebook: Peter Russell is a writer and speaker who focuses on mind, consciousness, perennial philosophy, the core truth of spiritual traditions, science and environment. Biography: From the deep pools of Eastern wisdom, to the fast-paced rapids of the West, Peter Russell has mastered many fields, and synthesized them with consummate artistry.
The Ultimate Guide to Learning Anything Faster “If only I learned about investing when I was still in my early twenties…” If only. For many of us, there are more things we want to learn than we have time for. And as information becomes more readily accessible online, the number of things we want to learn has only increased. Related: 6 Practical Steps to Learning How to Build a Startup Shortening the learning curve is a topic that’s been studied for many years, and this guide will cover the fundamental core principles of learning faster. So, here are those principles: 1. Why reinvent a wheel that’s already been created? Think back to a time when you first learned how to speak a new language or obtain a new skill. In order to achieve mastery faster, our first step should be to consult the top players in the field, and model the path they have already carved out for us. "It doesn’t matter what your age, gender or background is," Robbins continues. To quote yet another wise individual, this time Pablo Picasso: "Good artists copy. 2. 3. 4.
Build Your Own Adobe Creative Suite with Free and Cheap Software Visual book review: The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything… Fast (Josh Kaufman) – The idea of learning a new skill can be overwhelming. If you break the skill down into specific things you can learn, it becomes much more manageable. Tim Ferris used this to hack cooking (video) by dissociating it from shopping for groceries or cleaning up. Josh Kaufman’s new book The First 20 Hours fleshes out how to rapidly learn, illustrating it with stories, examples, and practical tips for a wide range of skills. Feel free to share this visual book review! The biggest new thing that I don’t yet intrinsically enjoy is strength training, which (as the name indicates) is probably more about training – my body has to adapt to it, and that takes time. So, let’s pick another skill. Creating animated videos (and not cheesy fake-written ones, either)Programming speech recognition macros (NatLink)Visualizing data with D3.js or other visualization libraries Of the three, I think visualizing data with D3.js will be the most fun for me. I’m also interested in writing more effectively.
Do What You Love & The Money Will Follow. Here’s Why We live in a society where we are very used to doing something we don’t enjoy for long periods of our life so we can put food on our tables, partially see the world, have material objects etc. and so forth. According to a recent Gallup Survey, 70% of employed Americans either hate their jobs or are simply checked out of their work.[1] What does that say about how we ‘work?’ You can call it backwards or you can just observe it for what it is, the bottom line is we have the ability to do something our heart desires, we just have to make a few adjustments so we can make that happen. Before we go on, it’s not all about the money. All About Passion You may have heard me say it a number of times, I’m very passionate about other people’s passions and getting them to act on them. You may have heard the statement before “do what you love and the money will follow.” A Lifetime Of What You Don’t Enjoy You could say it’s a good enough reason depending on how you look at it. Taking Action “Do.” Sources:
What the world values, in one chart The more globalized our world becomes, the more we learn about similarities and differences that cut across all cultures. These things are sometimes easy to trace on a small scale. For instance, it's easy to chart the religious differences between, say, Indonesia and China. In 2000, 98 percent of Indonesians said religion was important to them compared to just 3 percent of Chinese citizens who said the same thing, according to WVS. Two professors, however, are finding ways to compare how our values differ on a global scale. Using data from the World Values Survey (WVS), professors Ronald Inglehart of the University of Michigan and Christian Welzel of Germany's Luephana University comprised this amazing Cultural Map of the World. The Ingelhart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World. What you're seeing is a scatter plot charting how values compare across nine different clusters (English-speaking, Catholic Europe, Islamic, etc.). What do those terms mean? What do those terms mean?
At First His Friends Thought He Was Crazy For Buying a Dirty Garage To Live In…Then He Remodeled It