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Dutch city of Utrecht to experiment with a universal, unconditional 'basic income'
via The Independent The Dutch city of Utrecht will start an experiment which hopes to determine whether society works effectively with universal, unconditional income introduced. The city has paired up with the local university to establish whether the...
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3 things modern managers can learn from decades’ old studies of human behavior
The field of social psychology has long grappled with questions inspired by real-world events. Here’s how half-century-old findings can teach today’s leaders. Often, articles that draw advice from psychology for people in business focus on exciting new...
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Four Reasons To Hire More Digital Nomads (Like Me)
This story reflects the views of this author, but not necessarily the editorial position of Fast Company. Source via FastCompany Newsletter by By Arianna O'Dell In October I worked from a Rio de Janeiro cafe, finishing up a PR campaign. In November I...
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A Higher Conscious Conversation
The “Real” Matrix Is Unveiled In This Enlightening Conversation A video segment released from the film “My Dinner With Andre” in 1981, shows a conversation with an incredible amount of foresight and parallels to what we are experiencing in current day...
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The 12 Celestine Insights: The First Insight . . . A Critical Mass
A new spiritual awakening is occurring in human culture, an awakening brought about by a critical mass of individuals who experience their lives as a spiritual unfolding, a journey in which we are led forward by mysterious coincidences. Noticing Synchronicity...
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Why is Denmark so successful at reducing food waste?
CC BY 2.0 US Department of Agriculture It's all about the culture. Denmark is a superstar when it comes to cutting down on wasted food. In 2015 the Agriculture and Food Council announced that the country had reduced the amount of wasted food by 25 percent...
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What Blockchains Could Mean for Transportation and Government
The World Economic Forum estimates that by 2027, 10 percent of global gross domestic product will be stored on blockchains. A blockchain is a digital, openly shared, decentralized log of transactions. Blockchains allow non-trusting members to interact...
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The Myth of “Natural Flow”
When teaching or facilitating, I often hear, “Can we have a meeting and just talk, without any special format? It feels more natural that way.” Sure, you can. But I won’t join you. Why? Because I am aware of what we are buying into when we promote “natural”...
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Thai soccer team’s secret of survival was meditation
Ekapol Chanthawong, left, is the 25-year-old coach of the trapped boys who taught them to meditate to stay calm in the cave. Credit: Thai Navy SEALS Cut off from the world, sitting hungry and isolated in a dark and damp cave for two weeks, how did a twelve-boy...
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Working from Home Makes Companies Greener and Saves a Bunch of Money
His company’s customers don’t know this, but when Darrel Stickler joins a video conference from his home in Mendocino, California, he does the “newscaster thing” — dress shirt and sports coat up top, a pair of shorts down low. “I admit to that,” says...
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Scientists show future events decide what happens in the past
by Stephen Morgan via digital journey An experiment by Australian scientists has proven that what happens to particles in the past is only decided when they are observed and measured in the future. Until such time, reality is just an abstraction. Quantum...
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We’re in the midst of a massive work-from-home experiment. What if it works?
While much of the news is scary, I’ve found a silver thread of hope in this pandemic: What if this is our chance to prove remote work, well, works? Life has changed enormously over the course of a few short weeks. Schools are closed, some cities have...
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How Mindfulness Completely Changes Your Life For The Better
via Spirit Science It’s official: the Western world has finally embraced long-held Eastern traditions regarding meditation and mindfulness. Now, advice abounds on how we can be more mindful at work, how our kids can be more mindful at school, and even...
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6 Brain Damaging Habits You May Want to Quit
Do twice as much as you should, half as well as you could 86 billion. That’s the number of cells your brain has. Without a doubt, the gooey mass between your ears is controlling your body like nothing else. It only makes sense to spend most of our time...
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London's legal high – 100% organic hemp milk is now being served
Source NexusNewsfeed website You can kiss goodbye to sleepless nights as a raw food café in London has just released a legal cannabis drink that’s designed to help sufferers of insomnia and anxiety. The 100% organic hemp milk that Rawligion has named...
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Open Enspiral: Lessons from a Participatory Network
Reflections about self-management, growing a network and scaling culture via Enliving Edge By Lisa Gill and originally published on medium.com Enspiral is a collective of people founded by a freelance developer called Joshua Vial in Wellington, New Zealand,...
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The Top Three Nonprofit Jobs Of The Future
Quelle Fastcompany by Amy Sample Ward The nonprofit world kicked off 2017 with a bang and, in some cases, a much bigger budget. That's creating some job openings. For many in the nonprofit world, 2017 kicked off with a bang. The American Civil Liberties...
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How To Lead in 2017
via Fast Company Blog by Robert Safian The central leadership question of 2017: What do you do when the unexpected arrives? I didn’t know what to do. A protester had just stood up in the audience, shouting questions toward the stage, where I was moderating....
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Your environment could be changing your IQ on a genetic level, study finds
This is a hugely important link. The nature-versus-nurture argument of intelligence just got a lot more complicated with the discovery that the environment can modify the expression of a key gene in the brain, affecting intelligence far more than we previously...
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How Your Leadership Skills Will Determine Your Company Culture
Think about the culture you want to build, then master these leadership skills. The rest will fall into place. Build a culture of teamwork. In 2012, chef Niki Nakayama was living her dream, preparing traditional Japanese kaiseki feasts at her Los Angeles...
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Ancient people farmed the Amazon 4,500 years ago ... and they did it better than we do
I spent a couple weeks with hunter-gatherers in the Amazon. While I was there, one Waorani man told me that his ancestors planted edible food in the forest. When they gather it now, they're just reaping what they sowed. At the time, I thought it was a...
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Embodied Leadership: From Knowledge To Knowing
Bild von runinspo auf Pixabay A great leader doesn’t just know a lot, they are a living, breathing expression of what they know. Their knowledge may be obtained in the pages of a text but their knowing is obtained through movement. Change doesn’t come...
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Be more efficient by working with your brain’s natural flow
You’ve probably had moments when completing a report feels tedious, or brainstorming new ideas seems like a chore. But you’ve presumably experienced times where the opposite was true–you got into the groove, and everything just came effortlessly. This...
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Death of Corporations Salim Ismail
Salim is the best-selling author of Exponential Organizations, a sought-after business strategist, and a serial entrepreneur. ExO Works was founded to transform global business by catapulting organizations into the world of exponential thinking. In his...
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Organic fertilizer alternatives: composted chicken litter promotes sustainable agro-ecosystems with minimal nutrient leeching
The idea of nutrient loss is a common but troublesome problem that plagues all kinds of soils. Efforts have been made by a number of institutions to combat this issue, to varying degrees of success. Yet, as a team of researchers has demonstrated, the...
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