Ron Gutman reviews a raft of studies about smiling, and reveals some surprising results. Did you know your smile can be a predictor of how long you’ll live and that a simple smile has a measurable effect on your overall well-being? Gutman claims a smile is worth 1000 chocolate bars or finding $25,000!
If you’ve been sitting on a BIG business idea, why not start small? Though most of us imagine that business startups need a big chunk of dough, entrepreneur Derek Sivers — author of Anything You Want — will tell you otherwise. He’d say there’s no funding needed. “Starting small puts 100% of your energy on actually solving REAL problems for REAL people.”
Unmistaken Child follows the 4-year search for the reincarnation of Lama Konchog, a world-renowned Tibetan master who passed away in 2001 at age 84.
The Dalai Lama charges the deceased monk’s devoted disciple, Tenzin Zopa (who had been in his service since the age of seven), to search for his master’s reincarnation.
Tenzin sets off on this unforgettable quest on foot, mule and even helicopter, through breathtaking landscapes and remote traditional Tibetan villages.
Along the way Tenzin listens to stories about young children with special characteristics, and performs rarely seen ritualistic tests designed to determine the likelihood of reincarnation. He eventually presents the child he believes to be his reincarnated master to the Dalai Lama so that he can make the final decision.
A perfect partner who’s always happy and never complains is apparently now a reality. But there’s a catch – he or she will be made of plastic. From simple dolls to sophisticated robots, they seem to be winning the hearts and minds of people who’ve given up on finding true love. Here’s more from the freaky world of the synthetic spouse.
Could plants communicate with us, if we had the right way of listening? In this utterly bizarre excerpt from The Secret Life of Plants, the wife of a Japanese researcher gives her cacti a language lesson.
Here’s a short review of The Little Money Bible by Stuart Wilde. A small book with some big ideas about how to balance spirituality and material success. According to Wilde: “Moneymaking is not a serious business; it’s a game. At first it may seem that it’s a game that you play with forces outside yourself—the economies of the marketplace, so to speak. But as you proceed, you discover that it’s actually a game you play with yourself!”
Stuart Wilde has another excellent book on this subject called The Trick to Money Is Having Some.
In the new book Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, infinite computing, ubiquitous broadband networks, digital manufacturing, nanomaterials, synthetic biology, and many other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous two hundred years.
Trailer for a new book by Academy Award winner Pete Kuran detailing the techniques for photographing Atomic Bomb tests.
An ABC News report about Rupert Sheldrake, a British scientist who believes that dogs have a telepathic relationship with their owners.
Some bullshit happened today. Here’s the story…
An investigation into the long-obscured mystery of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), a molecule found in nearly every living organism and considered the most potent psychedelic on Earth.
Amusing predictions by American fashion of the 1930s that the well dressed man and woman would be wearing in the year 2000.
Harry Lee McGinnis could easily pass for 60 – he is, in fact, pushing 81. His secret? Never keeping still; a wander lust that impelled the American to set off on foot around the world.
“You want to live longer, go out and see the world. When you retire, don’t sit in front of the TV set and gain 20 or 50 pounds and drink the beer and eat the sandwiches and can hardly get out of the chair. Go see the world!”
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