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thefoush:

The Copenhagen philharmonic orchestra flash mobs passengers on a train. AWESOME. 

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Haiti: Where has all the money gone?

buildingmarkets:

Via Scott Gilmore on twitter

A fantastic post from CGDev on where all that money donors gave to Haiti ended up. Spoiler alert: we don’t really know where most of it ended up, but only 0.02% of USAID money went to Haitian firms and businesses.

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(Source: buildingmarkets.org, via tumblingfromthecave)

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(Source: nettra)

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Tate Watkins: Why is it taking so long to rebuild Haiti?

tatewatkins:

Today a sort of big-picture Haiti reconstruction piece I wrote for The American Interest ran online. The headline it ran under is, “Rebuilding Haiti: Why is it taking so long?”. Two years-plus isn’t so long in the context of the enormous task of rebuilding much of Port-au-Prince and its…

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Rocking out to a fab mix of Mizik Ayisyen (Haitian Music) this afternoon. Bon bagay.

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Nos vemos la proxima semana, Baja Sur! :) One of my favourite places in the world.  eastcapehomes: Los Frailes

Nos vemos la proxima semana, Baja Sur! :) One of my favourite places in the world. 

eastcapehomes:

Los Frailes

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"Fear of failing can hijack the working memory resources, a core component of intellectual ability. Fear of failing not only hampers performance, it can also lead students to avoid difficulty and therefore the opportunities to develop new skills. Because difficulty is inherent to most academic tasks, our goal was to create a safer performance environment where experiencing difficulty would not be associated with lower ability. Indeed, those who are smart succeed. This is what we often believe. But science tells a different story. Believing that success reflects higher ability and failure lower competence is not only wrong, but we show that it is detrimental to intellectual efficiency during challenging tasks."
-The researchers behind a new study that shows that kids fail less when they know failure is part of learning. (via invest2innovate)

(Source: abcnews.go.com, via tumblingfromthecave)

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nettra: Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw (via theberry.com)

nettra:

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

- George Bernard Shaw (via theberry.com)

(Source: amandaonwriting, via invest2innovate)

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thefoush: @iamjohnegan Captain of Confluences and King of the North (Taken with Instagram at Terminal 2)

thefoush:

@iamjohnegan Captain of Confluences and King of the North (Taken with Instagram at Terminal 2)

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