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Less Work, More Living
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September 22nd, 2011
Working fewer hours could save our economy, save our sanity, and help save our planet.
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Seeds of Peace
June 9th, 2011
Bombay is a poem
A poem with no rhyme
Bombay is a painting
A painting with no lines
(+3 rating) Loading ...Sarah Kay: If I should have a daughter …
Ted 
March 22nd, 2011
“If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B … ” began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis — from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. — and gives two breathtaking performances of “B” and “Hiroshima.”
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
February 10th, 2010
A 19th century poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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(+22 rating) Loading ...What Will Matter
Josephson Institute
August 8th, 2011
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
(+8 rating) Loading ...Activism Through Art
The Corsair
May 13th, 2011
By Jennifer Ferrada On Thursday, May 5, an event at Santa Monica College called “Movimiento” served as a focal point for others to see how art is incorporated into messages of activism. The info session took place at the Pete and Susan Barrett Gallery of the Performing Arts Center, where Los Angeles based artists, activists, [...]
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TED
February 7th, 2011
Poet Suheir Hammad performs two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: “What I Will” and “break (clustered)” — meditations on war and peace, on women and power. Wait for the astonishing line: “Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.”
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