Rock Your Cortex

Believe in your vision.

“I can’t say it enough times: Stay true to your vision. Remember why you do it… What you do, who you are – that’s your art. That’s all you have.”

Flight of Passage – beautiful short film about perseverance and doing what you love, narrated by Beta Band Steve Mason and featuring skateboarder Ben Nordberg. Directed by James Gardner.

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emergentfutures:

Computer game helps rehabilitate stroke victims

Scientists at Newcastle University have developed a computer game designed to help stroke victims recuperate.

The Circus Challenge game, created with a computer game studio, aims to help patients recover motor functions.

Players use wireless controllers to perform virtual circus acts such as lion taming and plate spinning.

Full Story: BBC

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New data highlight that bicyclists in the United States save at least $4.6 billion a year by riding instead of driving…

The average annual operating cost of a bicycle is $308, compared to $8,220 for the average car, and if American drivers replaced just one four-mile car trip with a bike each week for the entire year, it would save more than two billion gallons of gas, for a total savings of $7.3 billion a year, based on $4 a gallon for gas.

A quote from the Forbes article, ‘Pedaling to Prosperity: Biking Saves U.S. Riders Billions A Year’.

(Photo credit: Bicycling Magazine)

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Makes sense

jayparkinsonmd:

Healthy food isn’t necessarily more expensive than junk food, according to a new government report.

Bittman was all over this months ago and I certainly agree.

via the WSJ

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Bruno rocking the #MindGroupe (Taken with Instagram at Ecole Normale Supérieure - Futur en Seine)

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The 22nd Century at First Light: Envisioning Life in the Year 2100

singularitarian:

When imagining the changes we may see by the turn of the next century, we might no longer find it very useful to look back to changes occurring in the same amount of time in the past. Eighty-eight years ago, in 1924, movies were silent, and the Great Depression was an inconceivable wild card. But change is accelerating exponentially, as The Singularity Is Near author Ray Kurzweil has argued, and the next 88 years could see the equivalent of the last 10,000 years worth of change.

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bitchville:

He’s a maths teacher by trade and a self-proclaimed “professional dad”, but Nathan Shield’s latest hobby is certainly no “flash in the pan”.

He took up the craft of “pancake art” after moving from the US state of Oregon to the tropical island of Saipan in the Pacific Ocean with the aim of impressing his toughest critics - his children.. (article Art in the pan)

Pancake Art by http://www.saipancakes.com/

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The 22nd Century at First Light: Envisioning Life in the Year 2100

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