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The Moral Bucket List

The Moral Bucket List
Photo ABOUT once a month I run across a person who radiates an inner light. These people can be in any walk of life. They seem deeply good. They listen well. When I meet such a person it brightens my whole day. A few years ago I realized that I wanted to be a bit more like those people. It occurred to me that there were two sets of virtues, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. We all know that the eulogy virtues are more important than the résumé ones. But if you live for external achievement, years pass and the deepest parts of you go unexplored and unstructured. So a few years ago I set out to discover how those deeply good people got that way. I came to the conclusion that wonderful people are made, not born — that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments. THE HUMILITY SHIFT We live in the culture of the Big Me. SELF-DEFEAT External success is achieved through competition with others. Related:  Mis marcadores de google 2Interesting

¿Huevos invertidos? Descubre cómo hacerlos en 7 simples pasos ¡Cuando sirvas estos huevos duros, tus comensales quedarán aturdidos! ¿Magia?, ¿una mutación genética? ¿o se trata de gallinas de Marte? Sólo necesitas: Huevos, una linterna, cinta adhesiva y pantimedias (panty de vestir). 1. Notas cuán brillante y translúcido se ve. 2. Aunque te parezca muy extraño estar haciendo este experimento… así es la ciencia. 3. Cierra uno de los lados con algo fácil de remover después, como un alambre para cerrar bolsas de pan. 4. Esto lo debes hacer con mucho cuidado, para no golpear el huevo contra alguna superficie, o podría quebrarse. 5. Retira la pantimedia y vuelve a revisar el contenido del huevo a través de la luz que produce la linterna. Ahora sólo tienes que introducir tu huevo en una olla con agua, dejar hervir por 10 minutos, al igual que harías con un huevo duro común y quebrar la cáscara para ver con lo que te encuentras en el interior.

A color-coded map of the world’s most and least emotional countries By Max Fisher November 28, 2012 A map of the world's countries by most and least emotional. Click to enlarge. (Max Fisher) Since 2009, the Gallup polling firm has surveyed people in 150 countries and territories on, among other things, their daily emotional experience. Gallup has tallied up the average "yes" responses from respondents in almost every country on Earth. Singapore is the least emotional country in the world. The Philippines is the world's most emotional country. Post-Soviet countries are consistently among the most stoic. People in the Americas are just exuberant. English- and Spanish-speaking societies tend to be highly emotional and happy. Africans are generally stoic, with some significant exceptions. The Middle East is not happy. What am I missing?

NaturaLista · Aves (Clase Aves) Descripción de Ver en Wikipedia (ES) → Las aves habitan en todos los biomas terrestres, y también en todos los océanos. El tamaño puede ser desde 6,4 cm en el colibrí zunzuncito hasta 2,74 metros en el avestruz. Los comportamientos son diversos y notables, como en la anidación, la alimentación de las crías, las migraciones, el apareamiento y la tendencia a la asociación en grupos. La comunicación entre las aves es variable y puede implicar señales visuales, llamadas y cantos. El ser humano ha tenido una intensa relación con las aves. Pitangus sulphuratus En America su grito agudo da origen al nombre común onomatopéyico que lleva pitogüé. Origen y evolución[editar] Origen dinosauriano de las aves[editar] La visión del consenso en la paleontología contemporánea es que las aves son el grupo más cercano a los deinonicosaurios, que incluyen a dromeosáuridos y troodóntidos. Teorías alternativas y controversias[editar] Diversificación cretácica de aves primitivas[editar] Taxonomía[editar]

A New Theory of Distraction “At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction,” the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, in 1839. Those were the days. Browning is still right, of course: ask any reader of Wikipedia or Urban Dictionary. She sounds anachronistic only because no modern person needs advice about how to be distracted. Like typing, Googling, and driving, distraction is now a universal competency. We’re all experts. Still, for all our expertise, distraction retains an aura of mystery. Another source of confusion is distraction’s apparent growth. The second big theory is spiritual—it’s that we’re distracted because our souls are troubled. A version of that mutual-reinforcement theory is more or less what Matthew Crawford proposes in his new book, “The World Beyond Your Head: Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). “The World Beyond Your Head” is insightful and, in parts, convincing.

EstiloDF » ¡Las 4 limonadas que adelgazan! ¡Las 4 limonadas que adelgazan! EstiloDF Martes 7 de abril de 2015 Pin It! El calor ya comenzó y eso sólo significa una cosa: ¡que también es temporada de limonadas! Te presentamos 4 bebidas que además de ser deliciosas y súper refrescantes, ¡te ayudan a desintoxificar tu cuerpo y a adelgazar! Relacionado: ¡Las 4 nail trends de la primavera! 1. Sólo mezcla dos tazas de agua con 1/2 de stevia o miel, 3 cucharadas de lavanda, 2 tazas de jugo de limón y una rodaja de limón. (Foto: Pinterest) 2. Para hacer esta delicia bebida corta la mitad de una sandía y licúala. 3. Sólo licúa 2 tazas de fresas. 4. Sólo mezcla el jugo de una toronja, con 1 taza de jugo de limón, y 1 de agua.

25 Greatest Austin Bands of All Time | Arts+Labor Magazine First a word about the elephant not in this room. I love the late Doug Sahm, the musician who best epitomized the Austin scene because he grew up in clubs and could play it all, but you won’t find his name in this list because his two greatest bands–the Sir Douglas Quintet and Texas Tornados–were based in San Antonio, not Austin. This is a ranking of bands, not solo artists and the musicians who backed them up, so although Sahm, guitar whiz Eric Johnson, songwriter Butch Hancock, and other true Austin trailblazers fronted some terrific groups, none made this 25-band salute. When you think about the thousands of bands that have made Austin home since the 1940s, a lot of very good groups did not make the list. While ranking these bands, innovation was an important consideration, as was national prominence. It’s different here when it comes to music. So there was a lot to mull. Great bands are the best thing about Austin and lousy bands are down there with traffic. 1. 3. “Number 3? 4. 5.

Citas textuales: ortotipografía de las citas largas | Nisaba La definición de cita larga, como vimos en un artículo anterior, es un límite arbitrario establecido según el manual de estilo bibliográfico que se esté utilizando. En APA se sitúa en cuarenta palabras; en MLA, se define como una cita superior a cuatro renglones; Roberto Zavala la traza en cinco renglones (1995: p. 301) y José Martínez de Sousa en más de seis líneas (Martínez, 2007: p. 72). Personalmente preferiría una medida en caracteres, así que recomiendo la propuesta de APA, por ser menos sujeta a cambio que el ancho del renglón o la línea de cada caja tipográfica. Las citas textuales largas se sacan del discurso principal, no se integran al párrafo, ni están sujetas a su puntuación: se convierten en un párrafo independiente, en donde aplican varios cambios tipográficos. Ausencia de comillas. En todos los casos, las citas se escriben sin comillas. Estas corresponden a variantes que a menudo encontramos en alguna publicación, pero cada vez se ven en menor cantidad. Me gusta:

Groundbreaking Idea Of Life's Origin Why does life exist? Popular hypotheses credit a primordial soup, a bolt of lightning and a colossal stroke of luck. But if a provocative new theory is correct, luck may have little to do with it. Instead, according to the physicist proposing the idea, the origin and subsequent evolution of life follow from the fundamental laws of nature and “should be as unsurprising as rocks rolling downhill.” From the standpoint of physics, there is one essential difference between living things and inanimate clumps of carbon atoms: The former tend to be much better at capturing energy from their environment and dissipating that energy as heat. Kristian Peters Cells from the moss Plagiomnium affine with visible chloroplasts, organelles that conduct photosynthesis by capturing sunlight. “You start with a random clump of atoms, and if you shine light on it for long enough, it should not be so surprising that you get a plant,” England said. England’s theoretical results are generally considered valid.

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The Brain on Architecture Looking at buildings designed for purposes of contemplation—like museums, churches, and libraries—may have positive measurable effects on mental state. At a particular moment during every tour of Georgetown’s campus, it becomes necessary for the student guide to acknowledge the singular blight in an otherwise idyllic environment. “Lauinger Library was designed to be a modern abstraction of Healy Hall”: a sentence that inevitably trails off with an apologetic shrug, inviting the crowd to arrive at their own conclusions about how well it turned out. Much of the student population would likely agree that the library’s menacing figure on the quad is nothing short of soul-crushing. I spoke with Dr. The nonprofit research center … interweaves private and public spaces with a strikingly formal, inward-looking plan that echoes the format of a medieval cloister.

Discrimination and Disadvantage: January 2015 (Post by Kevin Timpe) I want to go on record, here at the very start of this blog, and thank Thomas for all the excellent work behind the scenes to get this blog organized and running. As with Flickers of Freedom and the X-Phi blog, he does a lot of work to get these blogs set-up and to keep them running smoothly. The kinds of issues that we see the blog focusing on are not new to the sphere of philosophical reflection. Many of the issues raised by these and other discussions are issues of ethics or (inclusive) political philosophy. As is mentioned in the first post here, this blog began (if one can point to a 'beginning moment' at all) with a question posted on Facebook concerning the perceived need for a group blog or FB page for discussing the philosophy of disability. We decided to change the name to 'Discrimination and Disadvantace' in order to reinforce the following: we intend this blog to cover a wide range of issues. We're both very optimistic about this venue.

First Official Climate Change Refugees Evacuate Their Island Homes for Good Update: Please note that this story is from 2009. For more recent news & articles, follow us on Facebook. Thank you! The day has finally come, and a critical landmark in the saga of global climate change is occurring as we speak—and hardly anyone has noticed. The Carteret Islanders of Papua New Guinea have become the world's first entire community to be displaced by climate change. They're the first official refugees of global warming--and they're packing up their lives to move out of the way of ever-rising waters that threaten to overtake their homes and crops. On the Carterets, king tides have washed away their crops and rising sea levels poisoned those that remain with salt. That report comes from the Ecologist, one of only a handful of media outlets to cover the story, and the only one to have a reporter on hand to witness the evacuation. The men climbed silently from the boat and into the shallows.

¿Cómo y dónde adquirir el libro “Las amorosas más bravas” de Bénédicte Desrus y Celia Gómez Ramos? | Las amorosas más bravas ¿Te has preguntado qué sucede con las mujeres que dedicaron su vida al trabajo sexual al envejecer? “Las amorosas más bravas”, es una crónica imagen-texto, sobre las mujeres que habitan la Casa Xochiquetzal – albergue para trabajadoras sexuales de la tercera edad en la ciudad de México. Una apuesta por el periodismo de profundidad, con seis años de documentación fotográfica y dos de investigación y registro. El resultado es un entramado entre las imágenes de Bénédicte Desrus y la pluma de Celia Gómez Ramos, quienes a través de su mirada nos permiten conocer un poco de estas vidas extraordinarias. 152 páginas Fotografía y crónica Edición bilingüe (español e inglés) Encuadernación: Tapa dura Dimensiones: 29×22 cm Editorial independiente: Los libros del Sargento 1) Con las autoras. * Entrega personal en el Centro Histórico – DF. Contactar al celular: 044-5514769244 Precio de venta: $600 pesos. Contactar al celular: 044-5538946780

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