Via: The Guardian Of course, “curry” is shorthand for a vast, complex food culture, not a dish per se, but given the unique way it is enjoyed and eaten in Britain, it made sense to cover it as one. Choosing a Curry House: No, the supermarket won’t do. And who among non-Asians has ever cooked a satisfying […]
Via Buzzfeed: 22 Stunning Under-The-Radar Destinations To Add To Your Bucket List In 2014 We hope to visit Ipiales, Colombia in February! Let us know if you have been.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Nairobi is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also form the Nairobi County. The name “Nairobi” comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyrobi, which translates to “cold water”. The phrase is also the Maasai name of the Nairobi river, which in turn lent its name to the city. However, it is popularly known as […]
Street Art By Sika in Bassano del grappa, Italy Via STREET ART UTOPIA
There is only one breath. There is only one thought. There is only one emotion. The one you are having now. Your destiny is this moment. Your life, this moment. Via Tennet Semmes
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia – Average Daily Cost $32 Per Day After months of anticipation, this was it. 99% excited, 1% nervous. That was the sentiment I felt at JFK airport in NYC in the Fall as Brian and I had just said goodbye to our loved ones. It was a one way ticket without a […]
You’ve probably seen the cool wind map of the US, but there’s one for the whole Earth now. (via Kottke/df)
~Swami Vishnudevananda
Grand Teton National Park is a United States National Park in northwestern Wyoming. At approximately 310,000 acres (130,000), the park includes the major peaks of the 40-mile-long (64 km) Teton Range as well as most of the northern sections of the valley known as Jackson Hole. It is only 10 miles (16 km) south of Yellowstone National Park, to which it is connected by the National Park Service-managed John […]
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Via (Eye and Pen) 1. Go To Ubud- Yes, Ubud is touristy, but that is also where I found most of the healers to be. It’s also where I found other like-minded spiritual seekers to be. It was nice to find a community of people to be around who I could talk about the deeper things […]
Via (TIME) Our panel of millennials worked with TIME editors to select young digital moguls, health pioneers and teachers from around the globe. Arthur Zang: This Cameroonian engineer is the inventor of a medical tablet that could save lives across rural Africa and beyond. Arthur Zang’s Cardiopad enables patients in remote, rural areas to undergo heart examinations and […]
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“You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn’t wear a watch – it’s timeless. It doesn’t care how long you know someone. It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there […]
~Mother of Toshiko Takaezu
Bora Bora is an island in the Leeward group of the Society Islands of French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the Pacific Ocean. The island, located about 230 kilometres (143 miles) northwest of Papeete, is surrounded by a lagoon and a barrier reef. In the centre of the island are the remnants of an extinct volcano rising to two peaks, Mount Pahia and […]
The Noble Eightfold Path describes the way to the end of suffering, as it was laid out by Siddhartha Gautama. It is a practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions; and it finally leads to understanding the truth about all things. Together with the […]
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A Humble Cabin In The Desert Becomes An Art Phenom Mirrors, LED lighting, and Arduino programming turn a 70-year old home into a contemporary work of art. There is a great history of artists and architects messing with houses. In the ’70s, Gordon Matta-Clark famously took a saw to a New Jersey home and split it in […]
Here’s a great depiction of how wild salmon stacks up against farm raised salmon in terms of our health and the environment.
~Claude Monet
Zermatt is a municipality in the district of Visp in the German-speaking section of the canton ofValais in Switzerland. It has a population of about 5,800 inhabitants. (Wiki)
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Nikola Tesla was one of the greatest electrical inventors who ever lived. His technological achievements transformed America from a nation of isolated communities to a country connected by power grids where information was available upon demand. In the 20th century, it was Tesla’s technology that united the United States and eventually the world. Tesla’s life […]
Check out some amazing aerial shots of various cities and sites around the world. Enjoy! via BuzzFeed
~ Pascal
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/21/lebrons-odds-of-catching-jordan/?_r=2 Not the most lucid post in the world but fun nonetheless. Nate Silver has done fantastic work with prediction models over the past few years. “One can forgive Jordan, who did not have anything left to prove. But to match him, James will need to win two or three more titles over the next […]
Training for sport competition is rapidly changing. Fifteen years ago almost every team was using weights as their main training focus. Today, training is about explosiveness, hip flexibility, and sport-specific (in some cases, position-specific) training. Greg Bishop wrote a great piece for the NYT detailing Stanford’s world class training program that includes weights, hot yoga, […]