Ten Rules For Being Human

by Cherie Carter-Scott
  1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
  2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
  3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
  4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson
  5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
  6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
  7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
  8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
  9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
  10. You will forget all this.

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See Gorgious Photos of a Quarter-Million Galaxies

Galaxy Zoo provides over a quarter of a million galaxies for ordinary people to look at and classify.  Scientists would like other human help identifying the shapes of galaxies and getting other input that computers are only so good at. See thousands of never before seen galaxies across the known universe.
The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer. More than 150,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries. Zoo 2 focuses on the nearest, brightest and most beautiful galaxies, so to begin exploring the Universe, click the ‘How To Take Part’ link above, or read ‘The Story So Far’ to find out what Galaxy Zoo has achieved to date.
Galaxy Zoo

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Concept of Future Internet Use

Aurora (Part 1) from Adaptive Path on Vimeo. This is a concept of what a future browser may look like from Mozilla, the people that make the Firefox browser.  This is just a CONCEPT, and like concept cars, is likely to be very different when the final thing rolls around if it ever does.

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Surgeon has License Revoked for Removing Wrong Lung

A surgeon in Trenton, NJ mistakenly removed part of a man's right lung.  There had been a tumor discovered in his left lung that was to be removed.  Ok.... Even as severe a mistake as this is, it's still a mistake.  Sure there will be a penalty, and we feel for the patient, but these things do occasionaly happen right?   Well the surgeon took it farther.  He lied to the patient and changed the records to show another growth on the right lung to cover himself.  There was no growth on the other lung.  This guy screwed up, cost the patient the possibility of the normality he may have still had with the procedure done corrected, then tried to cover it up to save himself.
The board determined that Perera's actions constituted gross negligence.The board said the "tragic error" could have been prevented if Dr. Perera had taken "the most basic and minimal of actions that should be taken by a surgeon in advance of surgery." ... Under the ruling, Perera can appeal for an early restoration of his medical license after six months.
Six months?  Falsifying records, lying to patients, after removing the wrong lunch, and he has the chance of getting his license back in 6 months!? STORY

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