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Nigel Marsh: How Make Work-Life Balance Work

March 7, 2011 by  
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Work-life balance, says Nigel Marsh, is too important to be left in the hands of your employer. He lays out an ideal day balanced between family time, personal time and productivity and offers some stirring encouragement to make it happen.

Paper the World

March 4, 2011 by  
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“Is dedicated to spreading simple origami of models that focus on endangered animal species. Primarily it is to educate and teach children how to make origami animal figures so that they can enjoy the art and creativity of folding paper and making beautiful things from such common material.

Patricia Kuhl: The linguistic genius of babies

March 4, 2011 by  
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Patricia Kuhl shares astonishing findings about how babies learn one language over another. By listening to the humans around them and ‘taking statistics’ on the sounds they need to know. Clever lab experiments (and brain scans) show how 6-month-old babies use sophisticated reasoning to understand their world.

Christopher McDougall: Are we born to run?

March 4, 2011 by  
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Christopher McDougall explores the mysteries of the human desire to run. How did running help early humans survive — and what urges from our ancient ancestors spur us on today? McDougall tells the story of the marathoner with a heart of gold, the unlikely ultra-runner, and the hidden tribe in Mexico that runs to live.

Krista Tippett: Reconnecting with compassion

March 3, 2011 by  
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The term ‘compassion’ typically reserved for the saintly or the sappy has fallen out of touch with reality. Journalist Krista Tippett deconstructs the meaning of compassion through several moving stories, and proposes a new, more attainable definition for the word.

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