Tag Archives: People

How to Find an Internship You’ll Value

It’s a good idea to start thinking about internships while at high school. What are the benefits and how might they benefit a college course?

Scott Jurek: Eat & Run

Scott Jurek is known for his major victories as ultramarathoner in some of the most challenging and competitive endurance races in the world. Read his bio to find out more about his life.

Two Perspectives: Description of the people in hiding

Read this interesting account of the eight people in hiding in the Secret Annex from the perspective of Miep Gies and compare it to Anne Frank’s account.

Interview With A Vampire Maker – The Face Behind The Horror

Abi Gordon-Cody is a self-taught UK special effects artist. The creative household she grew up in inspired her love of special effects make-up.

Too Consumed to Ingest the world around us?

What’s more important to you; actually enjoying the moment or taking a photo of the particular moment to show that you were enjoying it?

In the 1800s, a freed slave built bridges across the South

Horace King, a freed slave in early 1900’s was known for his sophisticated bridge-building technique. With the man who freed him, John Goodwin, he built covered bridges across what became the Confederate States of America.

Teenage Artist Donates $1 Million to Charity

Jeff Hanson has a visual impairment himself but has used his talent as an artist to hugely benefit those less fortunate.

Risk-takers are smarter, according to a new study

Researchers in Finland have found that high-risk-taking participants in a study displayed more white matter, which contains the brain’s neural superhighways. The experiment involved measuring the participants’ brain activity while they played a driving video game.

Michael Lewis on Princeton Speech: I Aimed To Give Something Unexpected

In a follow-up to his 2012 speech at Princeton University’s graduation ceremony, author Michael Lewis discusses success and luck with NewsHour journalist Jeffrey Brown in this video.

Saudi Women Still Can’t Drive, But They Are Making It To Work

In this radio piece, Morning Edition’s Deborah Amos profiles a start-up online advertising agency in Saudi Arabia with an all-female staff.

5 Qualities of Incredibly Heroic Leaders

What traits do the truly heroic among us have in common?

Pol Pot’s Shadow

In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge, led by the dictator Pol Pot, took over the southeast Asian nation of Cambodia. The regime uprooted and destroyed countless lives, killing nearly two million of its own people. Cambodians today have yet to come to terms with the horrors of that time.

How the Five Web Literacies Are Becoming Essential Survival Skills

Despite the hue and cry that technology isolates people, social sciences author Howard Rheingold argues that it in fact enhances our capacity to interact with each other and together build a better world.

Adapting to a New Culture

This is a story told by Yukiko Nishimura about the difficulties facing her and how she overcame them, having moved to the United States from Japan.

What’s it like to live without nature?

Miranda Andersen, a 13-year-old living near Vancouver, gave a TEDx speech on nature-deficit disorder in October 2012. In this article she talks about what nature means to her creativity, health, and well-being, and her passion and motivation to care for all living and natural things.

Tony Griffin and Karl Swan: Soar

SOAR is an organization in Ireland which provides programs for young people aged between 10 and 18 that focus on positive life skills, self-confidence and self-esteem. Gripped by the impact of a similar project in Australia, Tony Griffin and Karl Swan were totally inspired to realize the potential of this work for Ireland’s youth. Click the left-side links for more information.

I Wonder What It’s Like To Be Dyslexic

To give people an idea of what it’s like to have dyslexia, Sam Barclay, a UK graphic designer, produced a typographic visual representation of how he sees text on a page.

Stray dog Arthur bonds with adventure team

As a Swedish team endured one of the hardest races in the world, they had an unlikely participant join them through to the end of the grueling challenge.