10 Mr. Rogers Quotes You Need to Read If you haven't seen it, Fred Rogers' acceptance speech for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1997 Emmys is a fascinating watch. After being introduced as "the best neighbor any of us has ever had," by Tim Robbins, Mr. Rogers takes the stage amidst uproarious applause. A humble, gray Presbyterian minister being heralded as a hero on television's flashiest night—he sticks out, not just by virtue of his age, but also a sort of sheepish grace. This man does not have a false bone in his body. What happens next is probably singular among award shows. At first people chuckle a little—is he serious? Eleven years ago today, Fred Rogers passed away quietly in his Pittsburgh home, and America lost its favorite neighbor. It's hard to know how to approach Mr. There's been a recent backlash against how frequently this generation has heard that it's "special," and maybe some of that is deserved. "One of the greatest gifts you can give anybody is the gift of your honest self" In His Own Words
Why Do Americans Stink at Math? Photo When Akihiko Takahashi was a junior in college in 1978, he was like most of the other students at his university in suburban Tokyo. He had a vague sense of wanting to accomplish something but no clue what that something should be. But that spring he met a man who would become his mentor, and this relationship set the course of his entire career. Takeshi Matsuyama was an elementary-school teacher, but like a small number of instructors in Japan, he taught not just young children but also college students who wanted to become teachers. Instead of having students memorize and then practice endless lists of equations — which Takahashi remembered from his own days in school — Matsuyama taught his college students to encourage passionate discussions among children so they would come to uncover math’s procedures, properties and proofs for themselves. Takahashi quickly became a convert. As soon as he arrived, he started spending his days off visiting American schools.
Can We Be Lovers & Not Have Sex? I want a life of a million lovers. I want to love you. I want to love you if you are male or female, young or old, single or married… When I see you we will embrace and hold a hug long enough to glimpse some insight from each other’s heartbeat. When we walk down the street we shall link arms, pause frequently, and turn our toes and noses towards the other to speak directly without modesty. I would like us to share the couch together, rather than creating a “do not cross” line where we may as well be sitting on brick blocks seated four feet away. I want to show up to you and look into your eyes instead of at your eyes. I would like you to leave our time together feeling loved and free and full of your most vibrant and luscious hue of you-ness. Please do not get confused: I do not want to have sex with you—whether you are male or female. For me, sharing sex with someone requires a certain alignment, and I do not take that lightly. For love is love is love is love, and that is what I want.
Math Game | Baseball Math Instructions | Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Algebra Funbrain has videos! Watch now! Advertisement One Player Pick the kind of game and level you wish to play. How to Play: FUNBRAIN will give you a math problem. Viewpoint: Five ways the world is doing better than you think Many people don't know about the enormous progress most countries have made in recent decades - or maybe the media hasn't told them. But with the following five facts everyone can upgrade their world view. 1. Fast population growth is coming to an end It's a largely untold story - gradually, steadily the demographic forces that drove the global population growth in the 20th Century have shifted. The demographic consequences are amazing. 2. Fifty years ago we had a divided world. There were two types of countries - "developed" and "developing" - and they differed in almost every way. So much has changed, especially in the last decade, that the countries of the world today defy all attempts to classify them into only two groups. 3. Fifty years ago, the average life expectancy in the world was 60 years. But today's average of 70 years applies to the majority of people of the world. 4. The greatest change for girls and young women in the world today is probably more education. 5.
Rap Analysis - Kanye West, "Monster" | The Composer's Corner Today's exclusive article will be on beats instead of rap. It's similar to one where I catalogued every instrument Dr. Dre uses on his beats between 2000 and 2009, which you can find here. Kanye never fails to blow me away. That chart describes the entrance and exit of different ideas in Common's "I Used To Love H.E.R." rap beat, which you can hear here This basic structuring of musical ideas to differentiate between different sections of the song is basically what Kanye does on "Monster," but he just takes it to an extremely complex level. This comes across in "Monster." All of this is encapsulated Kanye's production approach to Jay-Z's verse: 1. 2. 3. 4. That's 4 noticeably different layers of musical idea combinations that Jay-Z raps over in a single 20 bar verse, and 5 if you consider his a cappella rapping at the end. As much as it pains me to say it, what Kanye does is also similar to what Dr.
Disruptions: More Connected, Yet More Alone ‘I Forgot My Phone’ on YouTube. SAN FRANCISCO — Last weekend, I was watching television with a few friends, browsing the week’s most popular YouTube videos, when a piece in the comedy section called “I Forgot My Phone” caught my eye. As I was about to click play, however, a friend warned, “Oh, don’t watch that. I saw it yesterday, and it’s really sad.” The two-minute video, which has been viewed more than 15 million times, begins with a couple in bed. The subsequent scenes follow Ms. deGuzman through a day that is downright dystopian: people ignore her as they stare at their phones during lunch, at a concert, while bowling and at a birthday party. Ms. deGuzman’s video makes for some discomfiting viewing. “I came up with the idea for the video when I started to realize how ridiculous we are all being, myself included, when I was at a concert and people around me were recording the show with their phones, not actually watching the concert,” Ms. deGuzman said in an interview. Or not.
David Byrne - Gaza and the Loss of Civilization Ed note: I received this email last Friday morning from my friend, Brian Eno. I shared it with my office and we all felt a great responsibility to publish Brian's heavy, worthy note. In response, Brian's friend, Peter Schwartz, replied with an eye-opening historical explanation of how we got here. What's clear is that no one has the moral high ground. Dear All of You: I sense I'm breaking an unspoken rule with this letter, but I can't keep quiet any more. Today I saw a picture of a weeping Palestinian man holding a plastic carrier bag of meat. I suddenly found myself thinking that it could have been one of my kids in that bag, and that thought upset me more than anything has for a long time. Then I read that the UN had said that Israel might be guilty of war crimes in Gaza, and they wanted to launch a commission into that. What is going on in America? The America I know and like is compassionate, broadminded, creative, eclectic, tolerant and generous. I was in Israel last year with Mary.
No Social Media Required: 7 Tips For Meeting New Friends In Real Life. No Social Media Required: 7 Tips For Meeting New Friends In Real Life. In my late teens and 20s, meeting new people seemed easy. Relatively unencumbered, I struck up friendships and acquaintanceships with people I met in class, at work or internships, at bars and parties, in clubs and activities or at the gym. As I have advanced in both chronological years and wisdom (hopefully), I have found that developing a rich and vibrant social life has often taken a backseat to other important life responsibilities. People in their 30s have many draws on time and energy; we are employees, spouses, mothers or fathers, sons or daughters. I do know one thing: getting together in real life seems hellaciously hard, so much harder than it was a decade ago. I have been accused of being anachronistic, but I very much value the sweetness of occasional, real, in-person connection. Many people don’t agree with me, and that’s good. Then I shake a stick at them and sit back down on my rocking chair and read Thoreau. It is kind of funny; it is also a shame. 1.) This is a tricky one.
The Best ’90s Songs You Probably Forgot About Advertisment Several weeks ago, BuzzFeed ran a roundtable discussion of ’90s rock songs titled “38 Great Alt-Rock Songs You Haven’t Thought About In 20 Years.” The list was impressively thorough, covering the decade’s myriad fierce women and women-fronted acts (Juliana Hatfield, Poe, Letters to Cleo), musical obscurities (St. Johnny, Dig, Ammonia), oddities (Whale’s “Hobo Humpin’ Slobo Babe”) and great bands that should have been huger (Girls Against Boys). But it’s a testament to the depth and breadth of the ’90s modern rock explosion that there’s so much music from that decade alone that time somehow forgot: The Muffs, “Sad Tomorrow” L.A. trio the Muffs covered Kim Wilde’s “Kids In America” on the “Clueless” soundtrack, which gave them a permanent spot in the annals of ’90s pop culture. Dambuilders, “Shrine” Although perhaps best known today for being the first band of violinist Joan Wasser (a.k.a. Bettie Serveert, “Ray Ray Rain” Best Kissers in the World, “Miss Teen USA” Advertisment