Third Thursday Links.
Hi! Here are my links that I hope you will find to be edifying, fun, and interesting conversation fodder. Or not.
I posted on this blog page cause I could add multiple links and photos, which you cannot do directly on facebook.
So! Read and learn. Talk. Hope to see you there! or maybe just have a conversation about one of these articles..
(Critical Thinking) Your Truth vs "The Truth"
Your deeply held beliefs influence your strategy, and everything you do. Are you hanging on to them too long???
(Tech) Ladislao Jose Biro invented a miraculous pen and changed the way we write
We all know computers are destroying handwriting... Or was it the ball-point pen?
It’s common these days to hear complaints that texting, typing, or Common Core are killing off kids’ ability to write cursive. But when the ballpoint pen first became popular, it faced a flood of similar arguments. People have been complaining about the decline of handwriting since the 1960s, when ballpoint pens became popular.
(Art) Evidence Mounts that Rembrandt Used Convex Mirrors for his self-portraits...
Rembrandts self portraits are large, and show his entire torso in a mind-blowing amount of detail. If he had used a flat mirror to make these portraits, he would have been too far away to see that much detail...
(Global Warming) Farm Grows Vegetables in the desert using Solar Power and Seawater
People all over the world are working on amazing ways to do things better. This project combines solar, desalinization plants, and farming to grow tomatoes in the Australian desert. Wow.
(History) 6,000 year old fabric shows Peruvians were using indigo to make blue dye long before the Europeans
And 1,500 years before the Egyptians too...
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