click through and see the entire comic! Neil Gaiman’s brilliant graduation speech on living the creative life, made into a giant comic, from the same folks who distilled Neil deGrasse Tyson’s monologue on the most astounding fact about the universe into a comic.
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This is somthing! Congrats to this inspiring young man!
Jack Andraka (center), a 15-year-old student from Maryland, came up with a paper sensor that detects pancreatic cancer 168 times faster than current tests. It’s also 90% accurate, 400 times more sensitive, and 26,000 times less expensive than today’s methods. In short: It’s a lot better.
Andraka was inspired to focus on pancreatic cancer because a friend’s brother was killed by the disease. “I became interested in early detection, did a ton of research, and came up with this idea,” he says.
Do your work and share it with the world.
“You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution” - Robert F. Kennedy
If you didn’t sleep well last night this may be why. The eclipse was powerful and beautiful.
Picture of the eclipse on May 20, 2012 over China.
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Bayer’s neonicotinoid pesticides, which now coat upwards of 90 percent of US corn seeds and seeds of increasing portions of other major crops like soy, have emerged as a likely trigger for colony collapse disorder.
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I took this picture (among about a half dozen) of the Super Moon, as seen from my apartment in Rensselaer (Albany), NY, around 11:30 Eastern.
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Yay, we got Natalia’s loan fully funded! But there are so many unbelievably worthy causes on Kiva, and you can still give your first $25 loan for free, so here’s another one. Carmen Rodriguez is another woman entrepreneur in Colombia. She’s raising money to buy more washing machines for her laundromat. Get your first loan for free with this link and donate to Carmen (only 5% funded right now), or one of the thousands of other borrowers on Kiva.org!
-Jess
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