It’s important for anyone to understand mental illnesses. It’s serious stuff. Look at this photo. I find it a melancholy example of what a mental illness can look like.
…staff members in the Sichuan branch of Bank of China try to splice the shreds of 50,000 yuan bank notes torn by a woman who suddenly falls ill. It took 6 hours for 12 bank clerks to successfully splice only one complete 100-yuan bank note. The money was originally meant for the woman’s mental disorder treatment.
Count Down Stop Light
This is a home-run.
Carve out 20 minutes to watch this, sometimes irreverent but spot-on, presentation about the role of creativity in an engineering-minded world. As an example, you’ll learn a bit about an innovative stop light!
Rory Sutherland is, as I understand it, a former advertising executive who understands psychology and sociology.
Yeah, this is pretty funny…
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Dr. Shaq earns his degree
If you weren’t already impressed by Shaquille O’Neal’s girth (7’1″, 325), or his NBA Championships (4), or him being an NBA All-Star (15 times), perhaps you’ll be impressed that Shaq now has a Doctorate Degree (not honorary, but earned!) from Barry University in Florida.
You see, Shaq was such a talent when playing basketball in college, he left early to go into the NBA. But he didn’t stop learning.
After leaving school early in 1992 to enter the NBA Draft, O’Neal went back to Louisiana State University eight years later and earned his bachelor’s degree in general studies, fulfilling a promise to his mother. In 2005, he earned a master’s of business administration through the University of Phoenix’s online degree program.
After leading the [Miami] Heat to the NBA title in 2006, O’Neal decided it was time to go back to school again and…decided to enroll at Barry in Miami Shores. He spent the past 4?1/2 years — including his final two seasons in the NBA — quietly working toward his doctoral degree in organizational learning and leadership with a specialization in human resource development. He studied before and after games, and between his work on television as an analyst, often staying up to the wee hours of the morning to get work done.
The big man didn’t just get by either. O’Neal achieved a cumulative GPA of 3.813 while completing 54 credit hours comprised of 16 courses and six credit hours of self-directed research. He did most of his course work via satellite, video conferencing and Blackboard.com. The title of his doctoral capstone project was “The Duality of Humor and Seriousness in Leadership Styles.”
Shaq is now, in my opinion, a great role-model. My respect for Dr. O’Neal is so much higher now.
Fry is right
Informative Indeed
Yup, it's what dogs do
Refreshing, isn't it?
Great idea for soon-to-be-moms!
What a beautiful blue....oh that's unfortunate.
This is Stiller's Night.
Remember this for the next party
Kids had it so awesome back in the day; and/or these parents weren't the brightest (yet)
Hunger Games Inspiration