Kind of a cool way to look at things
Agreed.
KONY 2012: Part II - Beyond Famous (by invisiblechildreninc)
CoelhoOffice 07 - The meaning of life (by paulocoelhoTV)
Growing up my dad was a shipwreck buff, along with his passion for the Civil War and his teaching American Literature. When it came to fiction, Moby Dick loomed large in our house. But what we most often read aloud were tales of real ships going down off the Coast of Maine or real-life stories of open water survival for weeks and months.
Amidst the canon of shipwrecks the Endurance stands out as truly heroic. As in most cases, the tale began with arrogances and stupidity. Shackleton intended to walk across Antartica but never even got there because the ice locked his ship into place with winter coming well before landfall. But in shipwrecks, like in life, the most interesting and revealing part of the story is what happens after the catastrophic mistake.
Shackleton returned all 27 of his men alive after being frozen in place, hauling their boats across the ice, executing the most daring open water voyage in a life boat (600 miles in the roughest seas in the world with primitive navigation tools and no room for error in terms of heading) and then a climb across a glacial mountain.
good:
Is Sweden’s Classroom-Free School the Future of Learning?
Sweden’s Vittra Telefonplan says goodbye to the “conventional classroom” and focuses on creative design. This means in place of desks, there are “sitting islands,” and students can collaborate with peers in “the village”—a tiny house for group work.
