With its unique jargon and format, Polo remains elusive for common mortals as royalty, army officers and new millionaires make up its swish crowd, discovers Kul Bhushan.
A sensitive portrayal of extraordinary women struggling to hold on to their extraordinary society filmed by Xiaoli Zhou and Brent E. Huffman, shown by PBS Frontline Broadcast.
Geoff Byrd of Radio Mysterium has a hard look at what really is normal in an upside-down, backwards world.
On TED, Yossi Vardi, legendary community-builder, connector and prankster, delivers a careful lecture on the dangers of blogging. Specifically, for men. And tongue-in-cheek.
Beethoven may have composed masterpieces to his own irregular heartbeat writes Carolyn Gregoire in The Huffington Post on January 11, 2015.
Julie R. Thomson reports in The Huffington Post on September 30, 2014.
Saclà, the Pesto pioneers and Italian foodies favourite brand, served up a great surprise at John Lewis Foodhall from Waitrose and staged an impromptu Opera in the food aisles.
You’ve heard a lot about the Pushkar Mela, often considered to experience it but haven’t managed just yet?
Rory Cellan-Jones writes on BBC on December 2, 2014.
There are words in the English language that we use often without any idea how a particular word evolved. Here’s some information of the origins of some of our strange customs.
Jennifer Viegas writes in Discovery News on December 18, 2014.
Jon Rappoport, investigative reporter and author, writes about the hypnotic use of color in television news on ZenGardner.com
Musicians Nimo Patel and Daniel Nahmod brought together dozens of people from around the world to create this beautiful song.
British cosmologist and astrophysicist Martin Rees’ lecture at the Harvard School of Government, published in the New Statesman on November 26, 2014.
Ian Sample writes in The Guardian that psychologists have found that people are distracted from the task at hand nearly half the time, and this daydreaming consistently makes them less happy.
Seek a Highway to Heaven, writes Tom Hancock (AFP) on December 18, 2014, posted on Yahoo! News Singapore.
Your sleep schedule says a lot about your personality, reports Jaqueline Howard in The Huffington Post on December 1, 2014.
Aditi Mittal, Indian writer, comedian, actor and stand-up comedian, comments on life as a woman in India.
Shown by BBC Earth on October 21, 2014 – a stunning geological formation, known as the Wave, captured on film as never before
For the first time ever, the Jewish Community Centre and Surrey India Arts in Vancouver worked on creating a Punjabi-Jewish fusion song and dance number.
Article published in Revolve Water, May 2014
By Leon Siciliano, video source Newsflare / tony1971, published in The Telegraph, UK, on November 6, 2014.
Why I’m Scared to Turn This Thing On — And You’d Be, Too
explains Michael Price at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, on October 30, 2014
Article published by BBC Future on August 21, 2014 explains why reprogramming tiny life could reap rich rewards.
Published on October 10, 2014, a passionate talk by Glenn Greenwald at TEDTalk Global, in Rio de Janeiro.
It’s not a bird. This parrot is in fact a female model who posed for Johannes Stötter, a fine art body painter. Using breathable paint, he spent hours painstakingly turning this woman into the image of a parrot, brushstroke by brushstroke.The model’s arm forms the parrot’s head and beak, and her legs form the wing
Inimitable John Oliver (English political satirist and comedian) takes on the sugar industry on HBO’s Last Week Tonight – just in time for tricks and treats come Halloween (Oct 27, 2014).
Markham Heid writes in TIME Magazine on October 8, 2014.
Finally it happened! Christopher Hooton at The Independent introduces an alternative to iPhone 6. Published on October 27, 2014.
Cyber security expert Gary Miliefksy explains how a popular smartphone application could expose your personal information to cyber criminals.
Jason Silver writes on October 10, 2014 on ideapod.
Aimee Raupp (author, acupuncturist, herbalist and women’s health and fertility expert) writes in The Huffington Post on August 20, 2014.
Hal Hodson reports in New Scientist on August 20, 2014 that Google is building the largest store of knowledge in human history – and it’s doing so without any human help.
Are there ways to stop yourself losing your memory? The latest brain research suggests there’s hope for the forgetful.
Dominique Mosbergen reports in The Huffington Post on October 2, 2014:
Dr. Terry Wahls speaks about her incredible healing journey at TEDxIowaCity
Actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson’s speech at the UN Headquarters in New York City, 21st September 2014.
10 Shocking Facts About Society That We Absurdly Accept As Normal – published by Joe Martino on August 25, 2014 in
Collective Evolution and in SOTT.
Ed M. Wood published on Babbel:
Tony Harris interviews internationally celebrated Greek composer Vangelis who talks about the role of music in times of chaos, crisis and uncertainty.
Syracuse University professor and contemporary artist Sam Van Aken spent nine years growing a single tree. At TEDxManhattan, he introduces his work and art, combining sophisticated technology with traditional modes of art-making.
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Published by BBC Future on August 12, 2014